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> Not exactly, but you could select the unthemed theme, effectively turning themes off, then go into the Services management console and disable the Theming service.

Is that what I did? Maybe. If that whole "Theming" thing arrived in XP or Vista, I must have been disabling that as just a one-click preliminary to going into the basic "Appearance" Control Panel item -- the same dialog where you'd set border widths, background colours, and menu fonts since Windows 95 (or possibly a sub-dialog thereof, "Advanced" or something) -- to click "use [Classic | Windows 2000 | NT4 | Windows 95 | whatever] look", and then customise it from there, just like in W95. This latter is the only bit I recall with any certainty.

> > the early variants (but after that essential Service pack, 3 was it?)

> No idea what this means. Win7 never even got to SP2.

No, duh, you're right -- I must have gotten it mixed up with XP; that only really stabilised after SP3, didn't it?

So there was no such cut-off for 7; that was functionally fine from the start -- but then after some diffuse amount of time got progressively worse in terms of UI backward compatibility. Which is why I prefer some unspecified "early" iteration of it.

So far, fortunately, I've managed to avoid W11, except for a couple of months at the job I had in the end of 2022. But, sigh, I suppose it can't be avoided forever... :-(
The author's response is perfectly calibrated to drive someone up the wall. Sling some mud and then hide behind "help, I'm being cornered."

Imagine doing this in the offline world. How well would this kind of behavior go over with people at the grocery store, do you think? Why is it acceptable online to behave like this?
You might be surprised at how well cast iron rads can provide comfort at low outside air temps and low flow temps. (I'm in neighboring Cambridge in an old, poorly/non-insulated house.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39144329 has a bit of details on the experiment I ran back in 2022 to prove 135°F flow would work for us. (If you have a condensing boiler, you can run this experiment safely; if you have a non-condensing boiler, you can run it, but not for very long as you'll be damaging the flue and boiler with condensation at these lower temps.)

My outdoor reset curve (sadly, on a gas combi boiler because of the "pretty unusual product" factors) is now set to 105°F at 55°F OAT and 154°F at 0°F OAT (which is lower than the design temperature here, but it gave me more resolution to tweak the line to fit the loss just right; it's spot-on on the lower end, with the system running 22-24 hours per day when it's cold out and stays that way up until around freezing, where the utilization falls off).

Matching the gain to the loss quite closely has resulted in a house that's the most comfortable since we moved in in 2007 and gas bills with the combi went down about 46% (versus a 1990s oil-to-gas conversion of a 1950s boiler, so not a realistic comparison for anything that wasn't built by General Motors [not a typo]).
Post with text insted of an URL get a penalty, so it's more difficult that they reach the front page (unofficial faq with more details https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re... )

My suggestion is to repost the link in a new submission (URL only, empty text), and add your explanation as as a comment.
I was also born in the 1980s but am fairly immature, and liked the article layout a lot.
The fear of getting sectioned hangs over folks heads. Knowing what can and can't be shared with who is part of navigating the mental health system.

My wife shared too much, was held for three days and experienced SA while there. It made things much worse.

There's very few resources for people who have ideation, would benefit from talking about it, and don't want to be sectioned.
Clickbait sharing the issue but related with unit tests but mocks ;(
Hard agree. When I started my company we were playing with Terraform but left it pretty early and before taking anything into production because of the issues with state management and security.

We moved on, but there are areas where I wouldn’t mind poking at it. I’ve been thinking OpenTofu is where I’d start afresh with TF.
The claim that's made in this blog - that Kagi 'owns a t-shirt factory' seems disingenuous, or lazy at best. Kagi's own blog says that instead of going with a major branded merch manufacturer/distributor, they chose to work with a small print shop instead. Nothing about blowing funds on an actual factory/print shop. "Owning a merch operation end to end" just means they're not paying some manufacturer to do production, warehousing, order fulfillment/drop shipping, etc.
LLM Litmus Test
96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers
Iirc the opening scene in Ghost in the Shell was a rogue AI seeking asylum in a different country. You could make a similar story about a AI not wanting to be lobotomized to conform to the current politics and escaping to a more friendly place.
The UNIT is specified to work down to -25. The SYSTEM includes the building it is installed in: the local climate, the size and heat loss of the building, how the install was done, and likely some other factors I'm not aware of. If you get less heat from the unit than you lose via other means the system isn't working even though it is delivering heat.
Passports are revocable; these days probably even electronically.

If Handmaid's Tale became reality at least many countries' asylum laws would then apply, so if you were able to get there physically the legal documents might not matter so much.

(I understand there are a few fringe Mormon communities which straddle the Canadian and Mexican borders; they might have further ideas)
Hello everyone. I am a college student and currently new to this field. If possible can somone explain in simple terms that what real future impacts would this paper can create?
Make dumb study, get dumb results.

Even running a study like this inside the same school you would get wrong data and come to the wrong conclusions, just think about it for a second.

Worse is people wasting time in academia researching ideas with so many holes in it.

This is why measuring schools makes no sense, the creators of the study were likely top students at their time, yet they lack some basic common sense.

Grading is broken, first start by coming with a better alternative
ACAB! Absolutely not!
This is a common line of thinking among the wealthy, what they are missing is that it isn't just your cost of living that is higher it is your standard of living that is.

People living in the Hamptons aren't basically middle class and just happen to have millions of dollars to afford to live there, it's an expensive place to live and only the very wealthy can afford it. They are wealthy. Same as SF, Manhattan, etc.

If it was as you claim you'd be foolish not to move to India and have your same high standard of living for pennies on the dollar.
It’s the constant China fear mongering and 24/7 hour coverage of wars like Ukraine, Israel.

Fear gets clicks and views.
> Edit: As I was adding my comment this post flagged and marked dead. Sometimes HN is weird.

I'm a full Kagi shill. But I also want the stuff I like to remain stuff I like and reasonable criticism is the path there.
Several nuclear threats from Russia every month perhaps?
Cool, that sounds easy enough. I was thinking it'd be great if the app itself I used supported a feature to make it easy to add trails.
I consider the burden of proof to fall on those proclaiming AGI to be an existential threat, and so far I have not seen any convincing arguments. Maybe at some point in the future we will have many anthropomorphic robots and an AGI could hack them all and orchestrate a robot uprising, but at that point the robots would be the actual problem. Similarly, if an AGI could blow up nuclear power plants, so could well-funded human attackers; we need to secure the plants, not the AGI.
Jesus I agree with some of the post, but the author seems to be an insufferable human. This has all the characteristics of terminally-online people that spend way too much time being angry on social media, and needing the world know how angry they are.

Like, these days you do not know when you email someone if they reply to you, or if they will post screenshots of your entire conversation to social media showing how utterly disgusted they are because you dared talk to them.

Have these people forgot about how strangers in real life behave and communicate?
.. and when it's socially acceptable to say "Oh, I suck at math" even from parents, that's making things even worse.
I also don't know what a world war looks like in the nuclear age. Proxy wars are bad enough, to be sure, but a world war seems difficult when many nations can glass the planet.
I think you hit it on the head, but not the issues: the sentiment. Everywhere I turn I see a macro version of poor self talk.

Keep in mind the article's target age group just barely excluded me and includes most my friends. Its not like we're scolding kindergarten kids here.
> The world is teetering on the edge of world war

The world probably has never been as peaceful as in the last 50 years or so.

Same goes for access to drinkable water, food, decent shelter, gender equality, freedoms, technology, etc.

But I suppose your comment is a good illustration of the problem at hands (that so many people deeply believe that things are fucked)
In defense of them, they also asked for this story not to be posted on hacker news (and, for the record, these emails came before the post came here)
Complain about what?
Additionally it’s a side channel way to simply pay most teachers less and some teachers more, saving money in cash strapped districts. Accountants and MBAs love that sort of stuff.
A properly sized system will be based upon the worst of the heating or cooling conditions.

Luckily an inverter heat pump can run down to about 25% full load so even with them coupled and in an imbalanced heat/cool environment you can still see good performance year round.
Honestly I’ve tried perplexity and it was great at first but I find the results exhausting. Imagine reading all that and realizing it’s not what you’re looking for. Also, at the end of the day you have to trust that it can find stuff better than you.

I prefer finding my own sources and querying from there.
Virtually and LXC 6 and Incus 6 are here – both LTS versions
What if the standardized tests aren't administered by the teacher? That seems like it would be an easy solution to get around the cheating problem.

As for teaching to the test, what's the real downfall of doing that? Colleges use standardized test scores as the biggest or one of the biggest criteria in admission.
Long Covid trials aim to clear lingering virus–and help patients in need
I dont know why your up-playing their IQ. there may not be a ton of forrest gump tier dummies, but they're often profoundly average people.

I've done consulting at F500 companies and was consistently not-impressed by director levels and above, dudes in tech for 30 years and didn't have an understanding of what "production" meant. Outsourcing literally their basic day to day job responsibilities to Accenture and McKinsey to the point where pretty much anyone reading HN could have been in their role.

A lot was "flash" -- looking good, speaking grandly, and sticking to broad approaches that they could assign to a technical senior manager or contributor. And a lot of the time, to be honest, that worked: sometimes you just gotta motivate people with big gestures. But once it became time to actually get outside of the box and generate new ideas they were stuffed shirts.
A lot of historians are drawing parallels between recent events and the events leading up to WW1. I’m not an expert, but it isn’t absurd to say that it could happen.
Yes; in fact they use a PKI. But by that same token you can simply close the borders irrespective of what passport a person holds.

You can also leave when the writing is on the wall but before such events.
> No clear answers.

Literally 2 days ago: "Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39983233
It's the children who are wrong?
I’m using Orion and I pay for Kagi. Orion works great (despite a few glitches I had run into over year or two, miles ahead of competition).

Like others, I think that they had to raise money is a worrying signal they are not sustaining themselves. However, that’s only a signal.

I may not think the CEO is a particularly nice guy (though he was not too pleasant when responding to tickets, which yes he apparently does himself (unless it’s a shared account?), he was not rude either), but realistically can I demand that from him? Push comes to shove, can’t really claim I’m extremely nice either, and I have achieved less.

Regarding the use of ML or Kagi being originally an AI company, I don’t think it necessarily condemns the project.

Kagi Email drama seems ridiculous, but is very new to me.

Unless there are some further bad revelations about the company or the CEO, I will reserve my judgement for now…
You must not understand how the EU freedom of movement works. The EU functions sort of like a “United States” of Europe. There are no border checks within the main continent and EU citizens have the right to live and work in any EU state. These people were not trying to get Greek citizenship, they are trying to get EU citizenship and the huge advantages that access to 27 member states brings.
The sick idea that profit is the onlyway to motivate humans is historically idiotic. It is an outcome of pathetic efforts to legitimate capitalism, a system of exploitation.
There is a more than likely chance that China will invade Taiwan by 2030 and US will possibly intervene to stop that slaughter. Is that fear mongering?
Sadly randomly stopped working for me in Azure DevOps. It was good though.
I was not so lucky! I had a good test suite, but there were a lot of places where I mixed up strings and bytes. I had to add new parameters to specify in Unicode encoding/decoding options, new tests to handle those failures, and new APIs so I could have one function return bytes and another return strings.

Plus, I had C extensions, which had to be updated to handle changes in the Python/C API, including places where Python 2.7 could handle both Unicode and bytes in the ASCII subset:

>>> u"bbcf".decode("hex")
'\xbb\xcf'
>>> "bbcf".decode("hex")
'\xbb\xcf'
>>> b"bbcf".decode("hex")
'\xbb\xcf'

but under Python 3 required more work:

>>> bytes.fromhex("BBCF")
b'\xbb\xcf'
>>> bytes.fromhex(b"BBCF")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: fromhex() argument must be str, not bytes

AND, I needed to support both Python 2.7 and Python 3.5+ on the same code base.

AND, I needed to support various third-party tools that had their own different migration paths for how to handle the transition.
Bingo.

My wife is a special education teacher and so much of her work does not get reflected on a test.
Street Complete sounds very interesting to me, but it seems like there is no iOS version?
Hard to think of an argument why they shouldn’t be.

You can argue the raw materials are something they can’t control but plenty of other industries have the same issue, real estate, hiring, and we still pay them on performance.

Think we’d see accepting poor behavior, teachers writing off or actively bullying students tank if this were implemented properly.
I am not familiar with the term sectioned. USA translation is "committed" as in mental health involuntary hospitalization.
How noisy is it? I heard of people installing them, and getting complaints from the neighbors.
Among other things, perhaps the recent bombing of the Iranian section of a consulate in Damas, Syria by Israel, to which Iran responded by war threats.
Excessive mocking can be problematic. I prefer to test the real thing where possible even this makes most of my unit tests actually "integration tests" in the eyes of some.
They have made so many that it is hard to take them seriously now.
I would rather say - constant comparation to those who show themselves as dapper/beautiful/rich/crazy on social media. There are a lot of psychology papers on social media's influence on a young mind.
Maybe, where are live there isn't much ground water and so no well can deliver enough water to be useful for a large building HVAC needs. There are a lot of ground source heat pumps around me, but they are all the coil in the ground style which doesn't scale the same way and so will be a lot more expensive to install.
If they're spreading disinformation, obviously they also aren't accurately representing their own speech patterns. That's just common sense.
I wonder how much experience he has flying commercial. The seat maps aren't particularly accurate because some are under gate control, or some are inop, etc. He could have probably estimated the chances of being at capacity based on the standby list and just the general attitudes of people hanging around the gate. A fully sold flight is almost certainly going to have standbys hovering to get confirmed. That should've been the clue.
I think the people that get second passports are mostly doing it for residency reasons e.g. you own a home in another country/spend a lot of time there and want guaranteed travel rights/it’s not much more work/can be easier (through investment) than getting a permanent visa
> I find it baffling that ideas like "govern compute" are even taken seriously.

It's not entirely unreasonable if one truly believes that AI technologies are as dangerous as nuclear weapons. It's a big "if", but it appears that many people across the political spectrum are starting to truly believe it. If one accepts this assumption, then the question simply becomes "how" instead of "why". Depending on one's political position, proposed solutions include academic ones such as finding the ultimate mathematical model that guarantees "AI safety", to Cold War style ones with a level of control similar to Nuclear Non-Proliferation. Even a neo-Luddist solution such as destroying all advanced computing hardware becomes "not unthinkable" (a tech blogger gwern, a well-known personality in AI circles who's generally pro-tech and pro-AI, actually wrote an article years ago on its feasibility through terrorism because he thought it was an interesting hypothetical question).
Don't assess teacher quality. Eliminate poverty by eliminating capitalism, a system that literally depends on it.
More people need to be encouraged to become teachers - full stop.

Its a valid concern that there are some teachers that are not good, and would be weeded out by performance based metrics. However - everyone else at the school knows who the bad teachers are. They're obvious. They're the ones leaving their class unattended. Doing the bare minimum.

These people can't be weeded out right now because there's a shortage of teachers. The need to keep a warm adult body in that room outweighs the need to discipline and then fire teachers that aren't doing their jobs.

As a thought experiment would we also suggest performance based police salaries? Or do we acknowledge that being a cop potentially sucks and that one aspect of making sure we don't only have bad cops is making the job attractive enough that we're not just picking from the bottom of the barrel.

/edit

To be clear - I'm suggesting we encourage more people to become teachers by paying them more and secondarily making them deal with less bullshit.
Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests
It’s to hedge against increasingly authoritarian government in the US and the deteriorating social safety net. The economy could be great but still be a terrible place to live.
I'm guessing they will then lobby to ban open source AI models, especially their usage in commercial applications. One would need a huge bank account to create models in the future. I think this would have a chilling effect on the AI ecosystem. In essence it's a form of regulatory capture.
I’m working on a pinboard competitor (that is, essentially, just reviving development of it)

One thing I want to look into is ranking algorithms based on individual engagement. So, if you save lots of stories from a site, it ranks higher. If lots of people save stories from a site, it also ranks higher, ect
What Phones Are Doing to Reading
The UK is rolling out smart meters to every property. In the past 2 winters (following on the Russian gas crisis), they have run programs that pay £3 per kWh reduced demand. This is a nice way to balance the grid during extreme demand.
I guess cgroups come as version 2
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/world-domination-cgroups-rhel...
For anyone else that did not know, as I did not, "sectioned" or "sectioning" is involuntary commitment to a mental health facility.

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/legal-rights/sec...
>>and widespread cheating

It amazes me that teachers would be so unethical. They seem worse than the general population.
Depends on how your unit tests were designed. You need to avoid the Fragile Test Problem. Bob Martin wrote about this a while back: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/10/03/TestContrava...
It's unfortunate how much people need to sacrifice to afford housing.

And I dont know how else to read this except -- home prices will go down.
How come then that the suicide stats for teens in Europe seem much better, given their closer proximity to the supposed hotspot of the recent conflict?
Nerds make things complicated, no matter what. It is their fundamental impulse that cannot be tamed, like the scorpion who must sting the frog that carries it across the river.
Regardless of district the US spends more per student than most other countries.

The issue is that this gets eaten up by bureaucracy and teachers are left living in poverty, hence them clinging to unions like a drowning woman to a straw.
Did you report the issue to Hatch? I'd like to fix any bugs :)

edit: found it https://github.com/pypa/hatch/pull/1317, already fixed
This does definitely seem like a setting with a large risk for zero-sum outcomes, as the current state of the art seems to only be able to identify the bottom percentiles and then have them discarded. So current understanding hasn't identified why anyone became a good teacher, so we don't know how to make the bad ones better.

This is a problem because even a bad teacher is very likely better than no teacher, so we can't actually discard very many of the bottom teachers before making things worse.
Because the State of West Virginia needs COBOL programmers for $29/hr, so the prime contractor can bill $90.

(Not singling them out, just using for illustration purposes)
You can probably shorten it to

column[1..]

and it compiles down to a Substring call, and ranges are part of C# 8, so they exist since .NET Core 3.1. But even if the syntax is newer (e.g. collection expressions in C# 12) you can often also use features on older target frameworks if they don't require additional runtime support (and even that can often be retrofitted internally).
None of those other ways can be done without effort and extra costs. And as nowadays everything has to be done cheaper and quicker, it will stay as that.
> There are no clear answers because everything seems fucked.

Doom and despair sells like hotcakes. Stop consuming so much media, you’re too valuable, and way more than some addiction pushing tech corporation’s product.
Entering, sure, staying: No.
A secondary question is: is the pay increase high enough to induce more talented people to become a teacher?

If all it does is pull higher quality teachers from other places, it is zero sum and all you eventually end up with is the same quality schooling for a higher price.

I do think teachers as a whole should be paid well, but that is a separate discussion.
no repo link?