skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The dominance of Windows is crazy, even today, Mac desktops and laptops are comparatively niche

But for whom and to do what? People around me, like my wife and mother in law, are happy with an Android phone. If they use a computer, the only thing they need is a browser.

I wouldn't be surprised if 90%+ of all Windows users would use Windows for one thing: click on a browser icon.

That's why after one malware too many I confiscated my mother-in-law's Windows laptop and got her a Chromebook.

I'd say that's why the shit UI/UX doesn't even matter anymore for most users: the only use a browser anyway.
Met Police smash down door of Quaker meeting house to arrest activists
Interesting how France does add fluoride to the water (according to Wikipedia) while many other countries aren't.

US is an outlier there, so there is that.
Indeed, the problems of LLMs are not new. We just automated what people who have no idea what they are doing were doing anyway. We... optimized incompetence.
I'm sorry, but absolutely no. Fuck no. Nothing from Microsoft has even been in the same building as a copy of "The Design of Everyday Things", or as a copy of any old-school UX book from before UX meant "Electron". UX is just as much about the "how" as it is about the "what", and Microsoft has been failing everyone lately on this count.
Agree that "modern" OS user interfaces are objectively worse from a usability perspective. That's thanks to Flat UI, mostly.

In my opinion, nothing beats the 35-year-old NeXTSTEP interface (which W95 is a weak imitation of):

https://www.gnustep.org/carousel/PC_1300x650.png
The explanation is basically always the same: users flagged it.

Why? Who can say? One would have to ask them, and that wouldn't work anyhow.
It takes more than a few minutes, yes. But this one-time investment will prevent the next 10 migration-related bugs that he'll otherwise blog about.

Grab some representative data from production and keep feeding that into your migration tests. Keep updating those. Worth each minute if you care about quality.
> It is so annoying that it’s either "give access to ALL my contacts and ALL their information… […] I wish we could limit the number of contacts and the level of information we give.

iOS added fine-grained (at the contact level) access to contacts data last year.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/you-can-control-which-contacts-a...
When does the realization set in that sensationalism is really just reality?

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/a-visual-breakdown-of-who-o...

https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/press-releases/worlds-top...
Looks like it was completely successful. They willingly terminated the launch after achieving mission goals.
I totally agree. This post feels like gatekeeping to me, which is why I originally posted it -- I wanted to see if I was alone in those feelings or if it really is gatekeeping.
I love how you’ve decided that my property, because I chose to invest in a tax privileged account, is somehow in the scope for you appropriate/seize and hand off to some third party. Steal my meager savings to avoid currency devaluation and inconvenience some uber rich people.

I regret that I lack the vocabulary to express my position on this. “Go fuck off” doesn’t capture it.
Well, it is difficult and a lot of work.

Maybe _you_ can help.
And the defaults system is just registry by another name
For 4K monitors, why not just pixel-double? Integer scaling will solve many issues introduced by pixel fonts.
how am I supposed to notice and fix the myriad bugs produced if I'm not familiar with the framework or runtime?

and if I am familiar, how is prose literally ever more terse than the actual code?

to me it just comes down to which one is less typing and that's still Just Writing The Code Myself as far as I can tell

I mean maybe it'd be different if I spent hundreds of dollars on 4o-pro but trying the free models have made me want to pay even less, it's all a massive waste of time compared to just using Kagi to look things up
Pregnancy's true toll on the body: birth study paints detailed picture
Lost Frontier on mobile is good. Better than Wargroove imo. It really feels like the original Advance Wars in its simplicity. Just in a Western cowboy setting.
If you use windows trackerize is another good option:-

http://ravenum.com
I wouldn't say that's so "obvious". I for one would prefer the original pixel fonts, but size adjusted to fit my screen density. By hand, if required.
He's been saying this since his first term. I'm shocked at the number of people that still to this day don't believe that he's going to try it (including a large number of posters on HN).

If he's still alive and even semi cogent in 2028, he's going to run for another term, whether or not the constitution allows it. He will do everything he possibly can to remain in power for as long as he's alive.
> Can we learn to live with them?

"We" don't have to. It's a uniquely Anglo problem to remove street cats and dogs. One that we could immediately stop. You would have a hard time finding a rat in Istanbul.
Every single essay is the same from this guy.

Make something amazing is not an insight.
Humans are notably bad at evaluating low probability, high impact risk. An ICE car burning in the street has lower potential for life threatening damage than a PHEV burning when in a garage of a house overnight (ignoring the difficulty fire crews have dealing with battery fires).

Besides, Volvo has safety at the heart of its brand image, so it makes sense that they would issue an overly cautious warning.
I think the cross team dynamics you describe works the same way in a monolith architecture.

One difference/advantage in a monolith is that you don't have to worry which version the other microservices are on.
> That's not a super helpful description, but the summary is that it's stack-allocated rather than heap allocated.

I’m pretty sure that this is not 100% correct, since one can also use other allocation methods and use a span to represent it. Only with stackalloc will the memory it points to be stackallocated.
What it basically means is that the type is stack allocated, always, but not the memory it points to.
50%+ people didn't vote for Trump because 89 million eligible voters didn't vote at all (myself included).
For some reason everyone likes to talk about Monads, but really the other types here are just as interesting. For example, Applicatives are less dynamic than Monads in that you can't `flatMap`/`bind` to decide on the "next" thing to evaluate based on the previous value, but in exchange you get a "static" tree (or graph) of Applicatives that lends itself much better to static analysis, optimization, parallelism, and so on.

IIRC Haxl (https://github.com/facebook/Haxl) uses Applicatives to optimize and parallelise remote data fetching, which is hard to do with Monads since those are inherently sequential due to the nature of `flatMap`/`bind`. My own Mill build tool (https://mill-build.org/) uses an applicative structure for your build so we can materialize the entire build graph up front and choose how to parallelize it, query it, or otherwise manipulate it, which is again impossible with Monads since the structure of a Monad computation is only assembled "on the fly" as the individual steps are being evaluated. "Parallel Validation" where you want to aggregate all failures, rather than stopping at the first one, is another common use case (e.g. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/validation or https://typelevel.org/cats/datatypes/validated.html)

Monads seem to have this strange aura around them that attracts certain kinds of personalities, but really they're just one abstraction in a whole toolkit of useful abstractions, and there are many cases where Applicative or some other construct are much more suited
Discussing is obviously fine.

But sometimes some innocent blog posts get criticised as if they claimed that they solved world hunger. They don't. They are often just some random thought in a rarely-read blog. Nobody intended to go convince a gang of seasoned hackers that they have undisputable wisdom.
Cats unfortunately also get rid of birds, extremely vital to our ecosystems.
This is textbook whataboutism and seemingly an example of the nirvana fallacy too. All of the above as well as euthenasia and abortion can be included under bodily autonomy and there's no reason we shouldn't support all of it.
I agree, thats bad. And for example the "icon only" thing follows a bad but hip UI pattern where designers assume the knowledge of the icon meaning of the user. They should not in my opinion.
I mean, in the end, you can decide.
1. To learn all this new patterns in windows.
or
2. Move on to another, more stable window environment like gnome or KDE or whatever.
In the end, its all about the effort for now and on the long run. And you get forced to calculate that because of the introduced change.
Bartosz Milewski argues that we can think of functions etc. as containers as well, if you check out his YouTube lectures on Category Theory for Programmers. Lists and functions "contain" a type.
I'm like yeah 2010, that's yesterday.
I wonder what the energy density of 100 year old batteries was.
Not really, defaults are stored in per-application plist files rather than in a singular database.
I think it's not quite simple though. For one, I think the opengl driver situation is complex, where I hear you need userland per-hardware libraries which basically require dynamic linking. From that perspective windows binaries are the de-facto most stable way of releasing games on linux.

I'm not sure about linux syscall ABI stability either, or maybe other things that live in the kernel?
when the market is what it is today... potato, potahtoh?

I mean, you will still have x and xai and the upcoming openAi-for-profit-corp, tesla and meme coin exchanges on your portfolio.
> I think they're saying that the logical conclusion of kebman's libertarian line of argument is that no-one is entitled to municipal water anyway

Oh, I very much understand the libertarian 'argument', and I dismiss it as childish anarcho-primativist horseshit.

Almost all (aside the rare Lefty libertarian types) libertarians utterly leave out the fact that helping each other and coming together collectively can fix problems in what amounts exponentiation, compared to the collective action problem of individualism.

If everyone generated their own power, then grids would be mismatched and slow everyone down.

If water grids were individual wells, we would tap out natural aquifers in short notice. By collectively coming together, desalination plants and mass water purification is doable.

Libertarian types will demand absolute indepenendence for everything, but also want the spoils of a framework of governance. But even when they get their own community, as I linked, they so overwhelmingly fucked it up.

Communism is a better idea than rugged right-wing libertarianism (the common one in the USA). Turns out, none of the richies want to pay for anything.
The author says he's not "putting down" the students he's describing, but the codescention is spread so thickly through every paragraph that it's hard to believe him.

I concur with the other commenters about him also being disconnected from costs. Textbook prices, like those of other expenses related to higher education, have skyrocketed over the last five decades. [0]

[0] https://myelearningworld.com/textbook-prices-vs-inflation/
Any idea on how it compares to std::span in C++.
.NET is indeed quite fast nevertheless, (at least since 6).
> leaving it up to the readers to make sense out of it

You should always be doing it.
People hake been saying variations of that since long before you were born. The generation and other details change but the root is the same. Ignore the fud and make small investmets when young and you too can have a nice nest egg.

i can't get you Gates level rich but you can do well strating young when it looks impossible.
I wish I had a company as mediocre.

(I'm not saying I don't agree with the complaints.)
Some call it “death by MBA”.
Ultra-powerful MRI study offers hope for people with hard-to-treat epilepsy
It has been tried in each generation of motherboard design but in an era where GPUs had a custom motherboard slot that normal cards could not occupy it made a sort of sense. And I know there have been times where the northbridge could not saturate as many PCIe devices as one might have motherboard slots. So even leaving the slot intended for GPUs empty or populated with a daughter card might be leaving performance on the table. But I suspect a riser card would fit handily into a 16x slot without blocking more than one or two 2x slots.
The First Year's Agency Owner's Manual
For solo agency founders validating service businesses without cold outreach.
Sure, my point was just that someone saying "trust me bro, my diode is legit" ain't enough.

Anyway, some links or keywords to such techniques would be appreciated.
The discussion way back when they interviewed executives about LCD patents/research being sold of was that they were just too low of a profit margin to bother pursuing. I believe it was a 60 Minutes piece but it may have been a nightly news piece at the time.
> I would love to see a multi-decade model of 4 scenarios measuring quality of life, economic growth, and wealth distribution

“Spending money studying quality of life is a waste of good money that could be making us wealthier.” - Private Equity

“Wealth distribution doesn’t need to be studied. Distribute your wealth to us, obviously.” - Private Equity

Claiming that those deserve studies is to suggest contradiction of those two beliefs, which I’m representing here as quotes based on my best-faith summary of their industry’s actions to date. People tend to react with hostility when someone suggests that their beliefs might be mistaken, especially when peacefully allowing debate to occur might reduce their future earnings.

> I’m not advocating for any specific outcome

Your question itself advocates for a reevaluation of the validity of those two beliefs, an outcome that you value as higher importance than complying with Private Equity’s values, so this declaration of “not advocating” is false. And since simply posing your question alone is enough to antagonize Private Equity, some of which is here on HN participating, any attempt to avoid doing so is impossible if you want to question their beliefs. (I support this!).

It’s plainly apparent that you have an opinion, or else you wouldn’t be interested in these questions at all. Consider reworking your approach to more clearly state why this matters to you personally and what you’re advocating for. For example, ‘I think private equity is operating under the false assumption that they benefit quality of life, aka trickle down, and that we should disprove that’. (My example is not intended as a valid expression of your opinion, it’s just a stylistic sample.)
I remember creating different extension sets using the built-in Extension Manager and the third-party tool Conflict Catcher. I had sets for gaming, video editing, and normal usage. It was a simple matter of selecting the correct set and rebooting. Or you could hit shift on startup and start into a minimal system without any extensions.

There's a good reason the third-party extension manager was called "Conflict Catcher," but the power and flexibility such a system grants users is unmatched.
If we're talking Windows 9x, the "original fonts" could also be TrueType, hence arbitrarily resized. Yes, the original Windows 95 included a pixel font for the UI but then TrueType fonts like Verdana and Tahoma were added soon after that and were commonly used.
This logic is so flawed. We. know the biological mechanisms in the body that makes use of salt and sugar. And we know both are safe in relatively large amounts too.

With fluoride, relatively small amounts in the drinking water is known to cause lower IQ.

But somehow even smaller amounts are safer?

Do you just not see the problem here or are you purposely blinding yourself to the reality because of your political biases? Is it an unconscious thing for you?

You are simply not being rational. You are making excuses and excuses for holding a belief you have had and probably defended for years. And now you are too invested to left the belief go. Just let it go already.
Is this rocket „dual use“?
He’s gotten away with literally everything he’s done so far. I don’t see why he wouldn’t get away with this as well.
> it’s first and foremost a policy problem

It's not though, at least at the scale that it matters, it's an economic problem brought on by a decrease in individual's relative capex. If in 1970 a person (let's say carpenter because I like biblical analogues) could purchase a truck for $2,600, even if their entire yearly salary was $10K, they had a 2/3 left over after a major life changing purchase. If in 2025, someone makes $50K, they may be in a higher income bracket in their relative area, but the truck costs 50k and must be financed over ~"time(indebt)", that's happening across all sectors and is the issue
> we're just seeing mass layoffs here

zero of those jobs have been replaced by AI though. We're seeing layoffs because of a one-two punch of insane overhiring during/after covid followed immediately by an economic pullback and return to "lean" operating strategies.
That link seems to have... an agenda. It's way too hand-wavy (e.g., it doesn't at all attempt to tease out the nuance of whether a rooted phone inherently has a broken security boundary by design, or whether [like on Linux] it's secure as long as the implementation is non-buggy) and seems laser-focused on convincing users that desire sovereignty over their own devices that they might as well jump off a cliff.
What is this dumb article? Gemini pro 2.5 is getting talked a lot about in AI circles. AI Studio team is cracked and has been able to avoid the committee virus.
Google has problems but this piece is written by someone who is not knowledgeable about this company and the space at all.
I, I, I. Empathy is a weakness.

Lots of limitations for you to not accidentally do something, maybe there is a way to not accidentally do those things and also help people that need them.
Only the first sentence is sarcastic. By sentence two it is abundantly obvious what GP meant in sentence one. This comment would be hard to misinterpret.
> Yes, it prevents you from setting the parking brake if your seatbelt is off, as you shouldn't exit the car while it's still on.

This sentence is confusing but doesn't seem to make sense either way it can be read. What is the antecedent of "it's" in "while it's still on"? The parking brake or the seat belt?

Why should you not exit the car when the parking brake is set? Alternatively, how could you exit the car while your seat belt is still on?
I couldn't actually figure out whether this TCO being done "fairly well" was a guarantee or simply like Rust (I am referring to the native support of the language, not what crates allow)
Nice conversation :)

I logically prefer than I had never existed, because existing is what exposes me to the cycle of suffering, and I cannot prevent suffering with any certainty. The opposite - this inability to prevent suffering is itself a source of chronic low-grade suffering known to all as "anxiety".

But... I've found myself here anyway! Furthermore, having been born an animal, I find myself bound here by my self-preservation instinct. So, the ethical thing for me to do would be to try and reduce that suffering which I observe. Am I succeeding? Honestly, I don't think I am. (But it's a source of meaning regardless.)

Can I imagine a life without this background of suffering? Only vaguely. Being able to imagine it may itself be a source of suffering, even if I were to accept that it's in fact beyond reach.

I don't think it would be possible to set a threshold for "what counts as suffering", since suffering is an interior experience. It would be the same as attempting to measure consciousness; you can measure its external manifestations, but not the thing itself.

Besides, who would be doing the measuring? Who would be systematizing the results? Who will be interpreting them? None other than beings who are themselves part of the cycle of suffering. So, even if the measurement was to be possible, and communicating its results was to be possible, it's impossible to avoid the data to be biased -- such as by the measurers' self-preservation instincts. An objective measurement can only happen from outside, and... there is no outside.

(I'm imagining maybe dystopian but I would hope at least comprehensible scenarios, such as a state-level actor developing the science enabling them to establish a (purportedly) objective scale of suffering, but then forcing the measurers to publish biased results under duress, in order to promote that state's self-serving agenda.)

Hence, I work with a simple and abstract distinction: less preferable = more suffering. So, not between 1 and 2 -- which communicates exactly as much meaning as 0 and 1, only at a greater cost, think vacuum tube bias voltage -- but fractionally between 0 and 1.

Where the threshold lies for the self and others to recognize that suffering, much less to take it into account, is entirely up to the perceiver(s) in question, and not something that could be irrevocably defined by fiat.
The whole rewarding model for these institutions reads like pure scam if you apply any cynicism. Make money win or lose. Make even more money when "win" even if all that win is purely on paper. And if you lose just roll the stuff under some new name that happened to win. Record looks good. Even if other records were losers...

At least with publicly traded stocks you can have substantial market depth so valuations can be "real". But move to private equity and well even that little goes away...
The untold story is that most modern portable gaming happens at home.
RKaggle: Bring Kaggle Datasets Straight into the R console
Related,

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

ought to be mandatory reading for every adult in the Western world.

https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf
I don't know about NYC, but poor waste management in New Jersey gave us one of the best TV series ever.
> Calling Mormons socialist is inaccurate

I would say it's very accurate. They are forced to share their wealth to get into the Kingdom of God. The only choice they have is to not go to heaven. I'd say that's being forced, just by a different power.

> but becoming a baptized member of the church is not required

You don't get the BYU discount unless you're baptized.
Turkish Airlines did exactly that (partially disassemble the seat) on a flight I've been on a little while ago. (Someone lost their phone in a business class seat.)

The risks seem to be lower than the ones associated with landing with a device stuck somewhere.

What I don't understand is why they don't construct the seats for less chances of things getting lost in them. Some seats have huge holes to lose things in…
Thread success is hit and miss. You can post and there's crickets, or you can post and people pile in. If you click the "past" link under the title, there's a thread from 2 days ago, completely dead.
The article already showed it is detectable. But it is not detected by Google and I am unclear if F-Droid detects it either...
Thats not true. For example simple stuff like Toggles to the hole Windows management is derived from that. IMO the huge change in Windows 11 is how the Menu, App Starter and so on works (if you use the mouse).
> The company that once represented the pinnacle of innovation has devolved into a symbol of corporate indifference

Although they may have been slow to publicly launch anything worthwile in AI, Gemini 2.5 Pro is SOTA.

I mean: AI is the hot topic atm ang Google arrived and are already owning everybody on many metrics.

I wouldn't discount yet a company which powers 70% of the world's smartphones and which knows how runs millions of servers.

They just proved with Gemini 2.5 Pro that the old dog can still learn a new trick. And then teach some to other dogs.
Did this article really have no links to the tools?