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What's funny is I remember when those Microsoft Management Console snap-in tools were brand new, and what came before them was a lot less nice to use.

(They might be MFC. Windows 2000 is about the right time for Microsoft to be C++ happy enough to push developers to use it over just using the bare Win32 C APIs. MMC was a pretty big deal when it first came out.)
Just read this the other day. Is there an update to how the pirate bay is doing now?
I mean I’d be all for that if there was value to the 3D user interface. A CAD program where you actually interact with the part, or a biomolecular research tool where you can actually handle scales-up proteins in your hand.

But strapping a heavy display to your head so that you can interact with the same flat 2d windows? I don’t get it.
See also https://justine.lol/ape.html
Some parts have already been open-sourced. For example, the console host component has been open sourced here: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

And the FAT filesystem driver: https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-driver-samples/tree/mai...

And also PowerShell: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell

And most of .NET: https://github.com/dotnet

Maybe they could consider an Apple-style approach: open source the core of the kernel and text-mode user space but leave the GUI closed.

Of course, open sourcing everything would be even better, but that might too big of a step for them. Open sourcing the non-GUI core could be a good initial step, whether or not it ends up going further.
I have no desire to strap a computer on my face, no matter how lightweight an unobtrusive it gets.

There is a fundamental disconnect in motivation here.
But isn't the whole thing asking someone to accept/endorse a different worldview? Is that really a tiny favor?
It’s not only that but it’s also that drivers could ship custom property pages in an accompanying DLL. All using property page / dialog box classic Win32 technology.

So unless you have a locked down device like a phone, you can’t magically port everything over to a new settings app without providing a path for your ISV / IHV ecosystem to migrate to on timelines that are sensible for the business. And ‘drivers’ consists of way more than hardware devices: database access drivers etc etc.

Part of me wonders if an AI model couldn’t just sandbox the old UI and inspect it, and then auto map to a new settings style AI.
Tesla weren't invited to the summit because they're non-union.
No doubt that it is powerful and useful.

But it is no SQL killer or Cypher killer.
Well it is a programmers tool not a bakers tool.

So the level of crazy is not the same as if your roku expected you to edit json.
I have to use Windows at work, and one thing that hugely improves the experience is the "Everything" search tool [1]. It searches across all files you have in something like a second or two, and when you type it narrows down suggestions as you'd expect instead of randomly bringing up something completely unrelated. I even use it to launch programs I don't have pinned to the taskbar (it will find both .exes and .lnk shortcuts with readable names).

Compared to that, search
in the start menu (or Windows Explorer for that matter) is so comically bad it makes me weep. Before I knew about Everything, I could maybe believe there is something about NTFS or Windows security or whatever that makes it impossible to do fast quality search across the filesystem in modern Windows. But no, it's clearly possible, and it's such a shame that Microsoft is incapable of doing that in its own OS.

[1] https://www.voidtools.com/
All this engineering effort for what?

So developers who are otherwise incompetent can justify their employment and companies can virtue-signal their identity politics.
Which funny enough, I learned about biscuits from a prior article Thomas wrote: https://fly.io/blog/api-tokens-a-tedious-survey/
A Contingent Election
Integrated information decomposition based on shared probability mass exclusions
I think people are generally fed up with Musk's tweets, his Tesla marketing and his general lack of empathy. The public might have tolerated him until he got involved in politics and has shown support for Trump.
Guy Davenport – The Last High Modernist
The only ones that I've found are Windows "mods" that use a combination of NTLite[1] for feature removal and slipstreaming and some edits to icon resources in system32.dll etc.

Did you have something else in mind? Email is in my profile in case you have a link that you can share.

[1] https://www.ntlite.com
So scientists created this new publishing platform called the www but other scientists with no such expertise pretend it hurts their reputation to use it? That seems rather comical. Do they perhaps have a constructive argument to offer?

If they desire a harsh rigorous review mechanism it doesn't seem very hard or expensive to build. Anon reviewers, top noch reviewers, they can have many tiers.

It isn't the journal that has prestige but the track record of its reviewers.

Mirror the topics on a discussion platform with separate sections for different skill levels. Heavy contributors earn bragging rights.

Mirror the topics on a wiki and have experts approve edits. There is prestige in just approving contributions and having conversations.

A chat client is also imaginable where one approves/adds contacts by type of publication.

Each can run rare expensive advertising that lives up to unreasonable demands.

But no? That would hurt the reputation - just because?
MacOS UX has remained pretty stable.
That still seems like a lot of build artifacts for a 10 line program?
you don't really wait on L1 cache writes though. The store buffer absorbs it, and if the data is needed it can be forwarded from there before the write to cache even happens.

Most x64 L1d caches have a 4-6 cycle latency depending on CPU, that 1 to 2 ns depending on frequency.
The 1991 sci fi movie is called until the end of the world by wim wenders with William hurt who travels the world recording visions for his dying mom
At this point is basically quantity vs quality.

And plus, visiting again some places could lead to ruin the previous good memory.

That's the reason to take photos, is not like someone would argue that for them..
I'm not saying that it's the case with Elon Musk, but I certainly have seen people change beyond recognition because of drug usage.
I've found that LLMs are only as good as the code it is trained on.

So for basic CRUD style web apps it is great. But then again so is a template.

But the minute you are dealing with newer libraries, less popular languages e.g Rust or Scala it just falls apart where for me it constantly hallucinates methods, imports etc.
Without SIMD is a no-go for most devs.
The publishers are fully aware their website paywalls are bypassable in order for the content to be indexed by search engines. Why are they not held responsible for this choice? If they truely wanted a paywall they could implement one but they want their cake and eat it too.

thanks to our glorious intellectual property laws protecting the rich and punishing the poor.
Why not put the airtag inside the bag?

My lost tag is (presumably) attached to my keys at the bottom of a lake. I refuse to delete it from findmy.
The thing is that you can have similar experience with 10 times cheaper Quest 3. The diminishing returns here is just staggering.

In fact people were teleporting themselves visually in 2016 with HTC Vive for 800$. I had it, it was awesome.

Honestly I'm happy to see AVP fail here to set precedence where entry point to a medium is the price of an average 3month salary (considering current global avg is around 1,500/mo) which is wildly unethical imo.
But it was a luxury item you would a) use all the time b) show off in your daily life.

That's why Rolex watches or Prada bags sell.

The vision pro is more like buying a painting, it's way more niche.
> Companies do this all the time though. The trade off is, of course, that you get more support from customers the other side.

I'm not quite sure that Trump's publuc would rush over to buy Teslas.
It is a product. It is something people will buy. Lots of people just don't care about privacy that much, and the privacy risk factors with this are potentially lower than for other things people use with roughly the same level of "realness".
devlo – Automate software chores like code reviews, unit testing and more
What...? You guys will take any possible chance you can to whine and cry about minorities having a job wont you?
One of the things I remember most about win2k was how remarkably easy to install it was compared to previous OSes (NT 3/4, win9[58]).
Is anyone else surprised by the physically-disabled people in their user stories using a regular MacBook keyboard as their primary input device? Ok, the man with quadriplegia also uses a joystick. It amazes me how inaccessible better hardware is.

The woman who is deaf blind uses a refreshable braille keyboard. I looked up the cost and it's ~$3000USD. Even if some nonprofit organization pays for this, you still need parents and caregivers that know to take advantage of this.

I have no hardware experience, but I think I may take on the task of making life easier for some people with disabilities.

Quick ideas that popped to mind while watching the user stories:
1. Using AI to transcribe videos for people to have a standalone captions source other than their video player.
2. Several of the users use the tab key to fill out forms. Hell, Google search is nigh-impossible to use as keyboard only; Good luck with smaller sites. Some sort of open source project for handling tabbing logically would be awesome. Maybe a chrome extension that lets devs interface with it a la sponsorblock.
3. I'm fascinated by refreshable braille now. It's expensive because the technology seems pretty niche. I'm very uneducated on this topic but it feels like a cruder technology would also work, at the cost of size or throughput. There also don't seem to be any phones/portables with this capability.

I'd love to get into something like this, but don't know how. If you are in this sort of space, I'd love to talk.
If this is not related to Mongo Db why is the name so similar?
You’re not doing a very good job of arguing the poll was anywhere near scientific. And at any rate, he upset a lot of people long before then. Do you not remember the whole “pedo guy” brouhaha? And the “I can take Tesla private for $420/share” bullshit that got his in hot water with the SEC?
JavaScript snippet that sets all Lighthouse scores to 100
For images at low bit per pixel, HEIC is actually quite a bit better than JPEG-XL current encoder. I wouldn't say really an upgrade technically speaking, I would put them on same level with XL have some additional interesting feature.

But considering getting HEIC included in other system seems to be difficult due to patents or other reasons. JPEG-XL seems to be the best middle ground in everything.

I am still hoping there could be additional work on JXL in terms of low bit per pixel improvement and encoding / decoding resource usage. Especially in the lossless front.
This right here. Unfortunately it's just a symptom of Windows (and most things) not being designed for the power user/administrator.
Mine last not even 10 minutes after one year of use. Apple did nothing. So no more AirPods ever for me anymore
I want a return to an enforced norm of different extensions for lossy and lossless files. With the adoption of WebP, I've repeatedly encountered shady CDNs substituting in lossy .webp files in place of lossless .png files, in a way you can't tell by the filetype alone when saving a file (whereas you could tell when saving a .png URL but get a .jpg file instead). I fear the same will happen with .jxl files.
I think you're supposed to use Recall for that now. Open the network settings, then switch to printer settings and ask the LLM what your network settings were.

It's a much more elegant solution than multiple windows in Windows!
I can 'teleport' elderly friends to wherever in the world with the Wander app on Oculus Quest
And yet every single cloud let's you scale from zero and play and experiment. They know today's tinkerers are tomorrow's CTO decision makers.
my guess is if they did it it would be under some odd ball license just to make sure its code couldn't be incorporated into other penguin themed operating systems
Here's a mirror [1], linked from the bpc-clone/bpc_updates repo [2]

[1] https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_uploads

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20240813013640/https://github.co...
Where can you vacation for $1000?
This IS visible.

Just not very interesting.
Looks a bit like someone trying to promote something.
I find it funny that you consider a drastic difference like that a matter of luck. Clearly something isn’t right with your pods.
Works on my iPhone 15 Pro

iOS 17.6.1
The author is delusional.

Linux kernel hardware support was garbage in the 90s. Linux UX was garbage in the 90s (not much has changed).

Yeah, I remember how TUIs were the “friendly” way to install distros. Or configuring X11 for my specific CRT and video card…

Sure, Microsoft did illegal things to keep competing OSes off of OEM desktops, but Linux was never a contender in the 90s.

Note how the author blames the user for any and all faults with Linux. That’s poor form.
There's always someone hosting the site.
They don't seem to be very good at it, lol. I consistently get the lowest score while the opponents are awarded points for obvious GPT-style tryhard rambling and slightly less obvious GPT-trying-to-sound-cool-style tryhard nonchalance. And it seems like the compartmentalization is one-way, because they keep riffing on my answer (or copying it exactly).

(my emphasis)

Question: Which Wookiee warrior swings Luke across a chasm in "The Empire Strikes Back"?

[me] Lil PP: Chewie, orale

Claudia: Chewbacca, ese mero.

Wizandria: 1. The Wookiee warrior who swings Luke across a chasm in "The Empire Strikes Back" is none other than Chewbacca, [...] 2. Ay, Chewie, esse! That's our boy, [...] who else but our Wookiee amigo would've been there to swing him to safety? Chewbacca, the legendary co-pilot and warrior, always has our backs, ¡no doubt! [...] ¡Que Wookiee!

Gilbert: Chewbacca, amigo.
I spent weeks trying to get GPT4 to get me through some gnarly Shapeless (Scala) issues. After that failure, I realized how real the limitations are. They really cannot produce original work and as far as niche languages, hallucinates all the time to the point of being completely unusable.
The idea is both attractive and baffling. Do you hope people might talk politics dispassionately? Perhaps if it had 1:1 ratio of mods to users ... and we could throw religion into the mix too, why not.
Meta already owns an app store. They introduced their own payments channel, then they cancelled it
what were you using as pc? a moka pot?

windows '98 - even on a semi decent machine - was fast
The parent is comparing the speed of Rust std improvement to the faster pace of Serde.
Read the expanded version in russian[0]. Page 71, 3rd paragraph, explicitly saying “I was a patriot and supported Putin.”

And here is the source claiming she was attempting to join the Comminist Party of Russia[1] (though she ended up not being able to, because she wasn’t a russian citizen, which is a requirement)

0. https://www.sci-hub.ru/misc/alexandra/bio.pdf

1. http://bilimveaydinlanma.org/a-robin-hood-in-the-world-of-sc...
> FFT-based compression algorithm, like the one in jpegs

Nit: DCT-based
How does the owner reply? Is the finder required to enter their phone number during the QR code process?
I used libvirt's 'virt-install' briefly and it worked nicely
These are jobs that don't actually benefit anyone but the one being employed. They have a low bar to entry and thus can be "inclusive".

Look at when the steep decline in software quality began, and see what that happens to coincide with.
Wonder what the benefits of their format are. That and why their smallest model is so big (I think this might be related to the format?)
vr porn ain't that good. the artists need to up their game
It depends. BMW has history in introducing similar innovative models, e.g. BMW Isetta from 1955.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isetta
This is HackerNews, we all know who Carmack is.

>Apple Vision Pro was an unexpected dud

???

Just about everyone (even diehard Apple fanboys) knew this would flop.
Canon loves feature cripple but don't worry they'll incrementally add those features back on that next 4 year cycle. I've had the R5ii for a few days and would definitely use Topaz gigapixel if enlarging was needed.
Their user base is large corporations.

If she can't manage to find Excel and Outlook, I'm sorry but that's a skill issue. It's not that different.
I got some unsolicited assistance when creating a puzzle
But 99.99% of users are "beginners". I really don't know how to use Photoshop but I can use simpler paint tools to do what I want.

Microsoft will not remove the control panel until you can do everything with the Settings app (or something else not yet invented). Despite this "deprecation" it's really not going anywhere.

My use of the settings app has slowly increased over time as more and more settings are available there. I have to be doing something pretty specific to open the control panel now.
I am with you. It is hard to tell what it is. After reading the docs it seems like they have a backend (Foundry Ontology). To make development for it easier, you can now generate an SDK (Ontology SDK) that is specific to your project (or your project's ontology) using their Developer Console. You can use this SDK with your favorite language, like Typescript or Python.

It took me too long to figure it out to even consider developing for it.
Selling Before Building
My startup idea's purpose is to tackle the unemployment problem in India. I am building a freelance platform that would live on the Open Network For Digital Commerce - which is gaining traction very much over here with the advent of the popular Ride Hailing App (Namma Yatri)

This Platform would be the first of its kind, and we would have the first movers advantage.

I am seeking validation, you can sign up on the link provided here to subscribe for the newsletter

https://freelancedev.in/questboard.html

P.S I was motivated to build this after watching Naval Ravikant talk about how in the future high-level work would become gig based.
I was doing FSD on a rural new mexico road going 80mph with a pickup hauling a boat behind me, and tailing pretty close. It phantom broke and I had to slam on the accelerator to not get pancaked. One of the scariest moments of my life for sure, glad I was paying attention.

I really wish I could get the FSD money back.
https://app.ngf132.com/

Long time ago I came across very similar concept in use in India. Not much, but visible usage. I also came to know by looking at a sticker on car windshield.
I voiced the exact same thing for many years and unfortunately the author of jxl doesn't agree with that. I wish the same as well we could just tell by file type.
UX change can be frustrating but what the fuck are you guys doing that requires you to be in control panel all the time?
Windows 98 was quite a step up in polish and performance from Windows 95, even on the same hardware. Windows 2000 was an even bigger step up in polish, but more resource hungry.
I like PNG's lossless compression. I feel like PNG was a really bad format back when hard drives were 100GB, but now storage is so cheap. I didn't know JPEP-XL had a lossless mode. Other than that format, I don't know of any other formats that offer lossless compression other than bitmap and TIF. You can't really use TIFs in many contexts and bitmaps have no compression at all.
Linux Creator Torvalds Says Rust Adoption in Kernel Lags Expectations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24640878 has yielded some interesting underground developments, not surprisingly mainly in CIS countries and the Orient.
Musk's Twitter deal may be banks' worst leveraged buyout since 2008
a marginalized minority*
With heavy and ironic stress on "they think" ...
The Until Found State
Thanks, I've also found this, but the last commit happened long ago, so I wasn't sure the project is alive. Will try it.
I wonder if every major open source project should adopt the way SQLite operates. No outside contributions at all
Your fam doesn't find it weird when you're strapped into a slightly smaller Daft Punk helmet for 2 entire days, just taking breaks to eat and do basic hygiene?

Maybe you can say it's the best movie watching experience ever. Id rather watch a movie on a $20 TV from Craigslist with my wife. Even if she hates it, we bond over it and that matters more, imo
What I struggle with - isn't even let's say walking around, small air movements etc. producing enough tremor to influence this? We're talking about moving the sensor/scene by one half of a pixel size which is a miniscule amount (2 micrometers or so).
But why? Windows phone died. What's going to run these phone-apps-for-Windows-desktop, other than Windows desktop, where they have the ergonomics of a rubber unicycle?
I can't imagine a PNG actually having a good compression ratio for photographic data. Better at that point to just shoot RAW.
The fidelity of a real local $1000 experience vs a fake one is a lot different even if you can’t travel as far.
Anything less than being a convincing prophet or an exhaustive orator won't suffice. There is likely no definitive answer to anything—only varying degrees of certainty, based on conceptual frameworks that are ultimately rooted in philosophy.
I have a Quest 2.

Half Life: Alyx is one of the most amazing games I've ever played. And yet... I haven't finished it. When I have free time to play games I'd rather play my Switch. It's a lot more hassle setting up HL: Alyx, and the heavy headgear bugs my nose and causes eye strain headaches eventually if I play too much. So instead I play Tetris 99.
Saying this is like the most anti-Apple thing ever. It literally sounds like Microsoft when they were designing Windows and when Apple started eating their market share away because they cared about the little details
All blank in Firefox :(
5 years ago Tesla was a no-brainer if you wanted a EV. In 2024 it seems like competition has caught up and every year their lead grows shorter. Why pay extra to fuel their CEOs crusade about whatever culture war issue pops into his head next?
Yes, I suppose if

- after ignoring the persistent warning you had days in advance that the 12v is dying
- you lose power in the exact few seconds between
- first securing every vehicle door
- and then proceeding to open any other door
- and there's another passenger inside
- and they are also incapable of operating a door

then you will have to either jump your 12v or otherwise somehow unlock your door. The odds are diminishingly small given all of those factors, but wait there's also more:

- You don't have all the accidental 12v drains that happen in other vehicles (lights, accessories, etc... accidentally left running)
- The 12v is constantly replenished from the main battery, rather than a more unreliable alternator

So, I suppose there's this and then there are also the odds that your passenger is immediately struck by lightning as they exit the vehicle. At least in the former unlikely scenario, emergency responders can help you out with relative ease and little harm.
HN audience is full of hypocrisy and ignorance
I'd be way happier if they formally deprecated Settings in favor of Control Panel.

MS stumbles upon any good design once per decade and has many times as much of failed experiments. Prefering old stuff is not necessarily nostalgia if you can't make anything good for this long despite trying.

Every other windows is a wholesale failed experiment and forcing it to stay alive is a terrible idea.

I have no idea why they kept Win8 start menu alive in Win10 instead of using the last good one, the one from Win7. They even had it in dev builds of Win10 and it was great.