Zanni

Around the time of Windows 1.0, there were several competing multi-tasking windowing systems that were character based, notably DESQview [0] and TopView [1]. They got a lot of buzz at the time but never really took off.

I worked on a TopView clone (eventually released as Mondrian) for Dynamical Systems Research that had pre-emptive multitasking (years before Windows ever did) and was quite snappy on an 8086 processor running multiple apps. DSR was acquired by Microsoft for the TopView tech, but the big payoff for them was Nathan Myhrvold [2], who went on to become CTO, and David Weise, who figured out how to get Windows to run in protected mode [3], really launching Windows as a usable product (and ultimately inaugurating the split from IBM over OS/2).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold [3] https://www.wincustomize.com/article/63898/david-weise-the-m...

I was thinking revenge porn and, to a lesser extent, copyright violation. But, yeah, CSAM too.

I didn't see anything (maybe I missed it) about where they source their content, but unless they're producing their own content or sourcing it scrupulously, then, yeah, I could see it being way outside a bank's risk profile, even if they were cool with porn.

Actually, checking out the WaybackMachine, it looks like a standard thumbs site with random pics from all over.

You're straw-manning a bit with your "3rd smallest type available." Int was supposed to be the natural word-size for the system, which, despite C being "portable," you had to know for efficiency reasons. Memory access at the time was slow, and if you specified an Int that you couldn't load/unload with a single instruction or fit into a register, you would kill your performance.

This feels like the Kinect in that, if it works perfectly, seamlessly, responsively every time, it would be an amazing "the future is here now" gadget. But if it doesn't, it's just a tech demo with no real use.

The pin form-factor is awkward. At least with a watch, you have watch functionality to fall back on, making it immediately useful, and you can discover incremental functionality--health, message, alerts, etc. This is all or nothing (and I think it's going to land closer to nothing).

I think a better way to express this--that captures both perspectives--is that, if you have an iPhone, it's not your camera that's holding you back.

Not yet getting professional results? It's your skill level, it's your lights, it's your other gear, it's your talent, it's your script, etc. Not your camera.

I've had this happen exactly once in I don't know how many hundreds of nights of hotel stays. Yes, it can happen, but it's incredibly rare and not something I worry about.

I think the "time bomb" is in this sentence: "... some viral infections have been linked to an increased risk for the development of PD ..." with the context that we've all just been through a global pandemic.

It makes more sense if you realize that it's a reference to the Guide itself and not to the novels. The books are wonderful; the Guide (contained in the books) is obnoxious. There's a reason Arthur Dent is the main character and not Ford or Zaphod.

I feel like Python is getting ever farther away from "Explicit is better than implicit."

Why is that? My problem as a pedestrian is that cars 1) don't actually bother to stop at the red, sometimes barely slowing down, before turning and 2) if they do stop, they're looking left, to see if it's safe for them, and not right, to check for oncoming pedestrians.

Effective altruism (like most -isms) has sincere adherents but also tends to attract oddballs who make it look bad. Here's a great post from a well known EA who explains why he donated his kidney to a stranger: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-left-kidney

I think everyone should be proud of their country, despite its flaws. If you choose not to be, that's fine. I'm proud to be American, despite our internal strife and external belligerence. If I were born Chinese, I'd be proud of its incredible history, despite its current capture by the CCP and human rights abuses, etc. There's a difference between patriotism and nationalism.

I don't think SBF was a scammer in the Bernie Madoff sense. I don't think he set out to intentionally scam anyone. I just think he was so arrogant that he thought he could do whatever he wanted. He thinks he's smart and the rest of the world is dumb. He thinks the legal system is just something to "route around." Not because he wants to steal money but because, if there's money in "his" account, does it really matter if it technically belongs to a customer? He seeemed genuinely surprised at the verdict, and he's acted all along as if he were, not exactly innocent but undeserving of all this bother.

If you like that, you should hear what he had to say about Shakespeare:

"I could go on and on about the failings of Shakespeare ... but I really shouldn't need to: the Bayesian priors are pretty damning. About half the people born since 1600 have been born in the past 100 years, but it gets much worse than that. When Shakespeare wrote almost all Europeans were busy farming, and very few attended university; few people were even literate—probably as low as ten million people. By contrast there are now upwards of a billion literate people in the Western sphere. What are the odds that the greatest writer would have been born in 1564? The Bayesian priors aren't very favorable." [Going Infinite, p29]

Now I get that Shakespeare doesn't appeal to everyone and is definitely an acquired taste, but to judge his work on probability when the work itself is right there to judge on its own merits is like the joke about an economist who sees a hundred dollar bill on the street and says, "If that were a real bill, someone would already have picked it up."

He also dismisses the "plot twist" in Much Ado About Nothing (when Beatrice asks Benedick to kill Claudio) as "illogical" and the province of characters who are "one-dimensional and unrealistic" because "I mean, come on—kill someone because ... his fiancée is cheating on him?" As if no actual human being had ever killed out of jealousy, when it's usually one of the main motives for murder. It's like he's visiting from another planet or something.

The most interesting part of this article is the brief mention at the end of Uniqlo's self-checkout, which reads RFID tags so you don't have to scan items individually. You just dump everything in a bag and it presents you with an itemized bill and total. Pay and go.

Link to the WSJ article on Uniqlo's self-checkout: https://archive.ph/CZmcF

That's exactly what's being banned. Pages and profiles you like (along with other personal data) is what drives "behavioral advertising."

Counterpoint: Wikipedia, by it's nature, strives to coalesce around a single narrative (there may be a lot of wrangling behind the scenes, but that's what they present). That puts them in line with much of the mainstream media, who have gotten several key events of the war fantastically wrong.

Twitter, by contrast, presents multiple points of view. This is a feature, not a bug. If you want to follow accounts cheering on Hamas, well, you're an animal, but go for it. If you want to follow IDF or particular sources you trust, you're probably much better informed than anyone reading, e.g., the New York Times.

Blue check marks have nothing to do with it. This reads like the last gasp of a gatekeeper trying to remain relevant in an increasingly distributed world.

I am baffled by Toyota's EV strategy. They should be Tesla's biggest competitor. Instead their faffing around with endless concepts, hydrogen cars and this thing.

For what it's worth, I loved driving manual when I drove an ICE car. And I relished the sense of accomplishment that came from mastering it. But when I switched to an EV, I realized that what I really wanted from a car was not control but responsiveness. I want my car to go when I tell it to*, and not at it's convenience (which is how automatics always feel to me). This is just a busybox, the kind of toy you give to infants to keep them amused. And fake engine noises? Good grief.

You're arguing something slightly different. The artist has copyright as soon as the work is published, whether they register it or not. You can't sue unless you've registered.

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/why-register-copyright/

A board (no need for scare quotes) is a legal requirement for tax exempt (501c3) status. And not sure what point you're making with the linked article which is about (relatively mild) board dysfunction, not scamming or illegal behavior.

I knew someone would make this comment. I love HN for this kind of pedantry when it's specific, accurate and doesn't dismiss the entire article for one inaccurate analogy.

Here's an explainer on "conflict points" [1] which seems central to the argument. Most folks intuitions are correct that roundabouts eliminate cross-traffic (major conflicts), but they also reduce merge, diverge and weave conflicts (minor).

[1] https://www.apsed.in/post/conflict-points-at-intersection

Human drivers "disengage" also, though we don't think of it that way. I have aging friends who refuse to drive at night. I'll stay home in bad weather. When I was younger, I'd sometimes ask a passenger to back out of tricky parking space for me.

Where are you getting that figure? $0.73/kWh is insane. Rates in Hawaii (known for expensive electricity) are like 1/3 of that.

I can't find anything close to that on this rate sheet (current as of June 1, 2023: https://www.pge.com/pge_global/common/pdfs/customer-service/...

If you just walk in off the street, hotels will quote you the "rack rate," which is going to be higher than anything you can find online, even on the hotel's own website.

Try again with "authentic." Several matches in the summary alone. Granted, OP should not have put "authenticity" in quotes.

If you have an iPhone (and iCloud), you can save a ton of storage space by enabling Optimize iPhone Storage. Your original photos will be moved to the cloud, but you'll get low-res proxies on your phone (good enough for the phone display).

Alternate, low-tech solution: my sister goes through her photos (print and digital), curates a decent selection and turns them into print-on-demand photo books. Much more compact than a physical album, yet more accessible than a digital frame (and giftable too). Does require quite a bit of time investment though.

Some advantages of the parenthetical time entry: 1) more granular control over time; I can easily enter (:02) or (:10) without going to a second-level menu to access the slider; 2) I can estimate times for all my tasks in advance, which makes it easier to plan breaks; 3) my workflow isn't interrupted by having to choose a time before moving on to the next task (admittedly, you've made this pretty easy with your 3 default buttons, but still, I find it distracting)

Suggestion: keep the buttons, but put them inline with task entry and also implement parentheses.

Regardless, I'm really enjoying this tool. Thanks!

This is fantastic! Just used it to knock off five quick tasks. I don't have ADHD (to the best of my knowledge), but I do love a running timer to help me focus.

It reminds me a lot of an old tool put out by Harvest (time-tracking software) called Harvest Gardener. I used that tool every day until they sadly took it offline.

The big differences: Gardener showed you the entire list at once (not just a single task), and let you enter times for each task in advance (not as the task popped up). One other slick feature: you could enter the estimated time right on the task by nothing it in parentheses, e.g. "Pay electric bill (:05)"