MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by uncircle | 2025-09-18 14:49:05+00:00
VDG must be so busy that my #1 feature request for KDE, support for smart copy&paste in Konsole, has been stuck in bikeshedding hell for almost 5 years because the maintainer didn't want to merge an optional feature without the VDG go-ahead :(

I love open source and have been running Linux since 1999, but my experience of contributing to both KDE and GNOME is your PRs never go anywhere unless you're part of the inner cabal of maintainers, otherwise any small bugfix or feature goes into bikeshedding mode, and it's the reason I don't contribute any more.

That said, I run KDE now after two decades of GNOME. It's pretty good and has been looking good for a while now.
by ktpsns | 2025-09-18 14:49:34+00:00
This is exactly also my story. Was a long term XFCE user (this was long before lxde became popular) because Gnome/KDE felt too heavy for my old computers. These days, KDE still has the silly loader window (no other DM has it) but oh boy the features you get once it is running are outstanding.

This is not only plasma, but all the applications are top-notch quality. Just to name a few: Krita, Kate, the office suite.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-09-18 14:49:56+00:00
Atari ST GEM variants look pretty great on higher res video cards and newer hardware.

These days we've got a full open source stack of the whole ST OS, from the BIOS up to GEM. Including variants that offer Unix-like multitasking with protected memory, etc.

https://os-projects.eu/sites/default/files/2018-05/freemint....

http://myaes.lutece.net/images/beta7.jpg
by i7l | 2025-09-18 14:50:09+00:00
Feels like a discussion on game theory ought to have been included from the employee's perspective:

1. If you don't speak up, no one will ever know you had an idea or solution.

2. If you speak up and someone in power is offended, you may limit your career, end up PIP'ed, or even fired. It's also possible nothing will happen, in which case speaking up has no benefit.

3. If you speak up and you're heard, you might get praise or even a promotion in the long run. Likely, it'll just go unnoticed or with limited impact.

Not speaking up is the safest bet, especially in corporations.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-18 14:50:21+00:00
Maybe a really high budget VR shooter game could be successful, I don’t know.

I played some VR sword-fighting games and they were bad in a way that AAA budgets would not fix. Stuff like an attack animation being pre-scripted feels incredibly goofy in VR.

I think this is a general problem. VR worlds need to be more dynamic than typical games. AAA games tend to have higher quality assets, but arranged in a more restrictive and scripted configuration. More innovative indie work is needed to work out what the language of VR should be (it is a bit weird compared to the past because stuff like Quake was innovative, AAA-equivalent for the era, but also small and independent enough to be innovative).
by palmotea | 2025-09-18 14:50:31+00:00
> The opposed view is that decadence is a good thing: not making things is a natural consequence of being so wealthy and powerful that you don't need to make things. That things just get made, whether by machines or by less wealthy nations, and you just pay for them.

Except that's a fantasy. Eventually those "less wealthy nations" will realize the little green pieces of paper have no real value, that they actually control the real wealth, and then they should demand payment in something that's actually valuable, which the "wealthy" nation can no longer provide.

> I feel fairly confident that the long-term (within the next century or two, say) trajectory for human population is much more likely one of approaching an asymptote, rather than one of overshooting what is sustainable and then seeing billions of deaths.

It sounds like you're describing some kind of sudden Malthusian collapse due to mass starvation or something, which is not what I was talking about. I'm talking about a much slower process, where sub-replacement reproduction fails to replace, and you eventually get manpower shortages and too few people to care for the elderly without starving other parts of the economy.
by adamkf | 2025-09-18 14:50:32+00:00
I see these posts a lot, but this really does not match my experience. I find I run into many more bugs in kde than in gnome or other desktop environments. This bug made kde absolutely unusable for me: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365255

(I think this bug is still present in X11, but I've moved on to Wayland.)

The other bug I run into constantly is that "exposé" sometimes makes all the windows invisible. The only fix is logging out and logging in again. I've seen this across a number of different distros. Gnome is mostly boring and just works for me.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-09-18 14:51:25+00:00
Some tastes change but not _all_ tastes change. This is a common misconception in conversations about taste: “some of it is subjective therefore it must all be 100% subjective and meaningless”. Yet when this comes round to something you’re good at (music, painting, literature, cooking, sport, …) you immediately recognize that there are in fact timeless elements. Universal truths, which are characterized as subjective only by those who cannot see it.

Elements of taste are subjective. Not all of it. You recognize this yourself in your own area of skill. Everyone has one area where suddenly they agree not every opinion has equal merit, and can articulate why.

But move out of that subject and into one of their blind spots, and we’re right back to “that’s just taste, taste is subjective, taste changes over time.”

Subjectivity is the refuge of the tasteless, who can afford to let others do our thinking for us. GP was right on point in that regard.
by jmclnx | 2025-09-18 14:51:38+00:00
Very nice, I got a chuckle from the one that said "How do you want your eggs".

In the 80s where I worked, we had a large project to enhance the systems to our plant in Ireland. So for a couple of months a team from Ireland came here to the US to work with us.

The question "How do you want your eggs" at a breakfast place confused them to no end. Seems at the time in Ireland, eggs only were cooked one way, kind of like pouched. I do not know if that is now still true.
by Aldipower | 2025-09-18 14:51:44+00:00
Perl is not memory safe? Are there pointers directly to memory like in C? No, it is an interpreted language that runs opcode in the Perl virtual machine.

Sure, there are quite some safety concerns with Perl, but they can be mitigated. For example there is the taint mode with "-T" that prevents direct execution of system commands.

Would I use Perl for a new project? No. :-)

I would be interested in more details about the cmecf hack!?
by amalcon | 2025-09-18 14:52:27+00:00
> A shift from making things to not making them, as part of general enervation of the country.

This is not the shift that is happening. US manufacturing is currently very close to the record levels from before COVID right now (similar to the 2008 levels): https://www.macrotrends.net/2583/industrial-production-histo...

The manufacturing jobs have been going away because of automation, not because the actual manufacturing is gone.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-18 14:52:58+00:00
I'm glad you finally agree free speech under attack. Now that the president/party in power has changed, it seems the comments have shifted from being that "I must be left wing" to "I must be right wing".

Is there anything that will make you interested in free speech itself, or is it just an attack towards those you disagree with? People don't want to waste time in an internet debate with someone who starts off with an assumption of the latter, and you've already concluded you were being sarcastic in asking. The lack of interest in responding to you about it will only help drive your belief "the other people" are the only ones who claim to care about free speech.
by daveguy | 2025-09-18 14:53:07+00:00
Same. I already left windows because of the weird integrations, continuous cpu use, intrusive analytics, slow WSL, and forced reboots.

Linux doesn't do any of that or bug you about logging in. It's been a breath of fresh air. I have a windows VM in case I absolutely have to have Office365, but so far LibreOffice has been great.

No doubt that Facebook is losing people over it, but they're gaining what they care about most -- your data.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-18 14:53:14+00:00
I'm starting to kind of dig C.C. but you're right, it definitely feels like a very confident, very ambitious high schooler level developer with infinite energy. You really have to give it very small tasks and be constantly steering its direction. At the end of the day, I'm not sure I'm really saving that much time coaching Claude to do the job right vs. just writing the code myself, but it's definitely a neat trick.

The difference from an actual junior developer, of course, is that the human junior developer learns from his mistakes and gets better, but Claude seems to be stuck at the level of expertise of its model, and you have to wait for the model to improve before Claude improves.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-18 14:53:28+00:00
>leftist who enjoys the culture wars

Ah, here was a great place to substitute your coinage "identarian"-- Ime I can't distinguish the identarians who enjoy the culture wars in terms of left from right (unless we equate right with white, & that's something we have to amicably agree to disagree :) one could forgiveably id the killer of Kirk as a right-identarian, eg, but that still feels less correct than simply "identarian" (normal folks would not resort to moderately planned violence).. you can see by the shell engravings TR sort of took pleasure in the planning vs Luigi..

(Yes, in other words, the economic left, or more precisely the nonpractising left, was too welcoming of identarians in precisely the same way the churchgoing center wasnt- 1970s to mid 1980s)

Now as for "leftist" in [3] I'd assume you mean "what passes for a classic leftist (like Bernie & 2000s Paul) amongst the millennials/gen z". More to say here, insurance over taxes is imho the correct Marxist valuation.. ? After all "from each according to his ability etc etc" is a succinct description of insurance

>due process is as much a problem as it is a solution

Now this is an interesting take, well, I can see Klein saying it in exasperation (in the podcast-to-be-read-- thanks!), but what is your emotional-valence here? (I can guess, but the guess would be more intricate than I can jot down from the hip :)

A mini-shot though.. if one truly enjoys hard work, problems would be as much of a joy as solutions. Centrists (like PG and "functional" Grothendieck) would be careful to tolerate schlep without seeing value in labor-in-itself.. schizos right+epsilon of center, or stoics* left+epsilon a-ways.. however..

*I would substitute "epicureans" here, but "stoics" would do fine for pedantry
by littlecranky67 | 2025-09-18 14:53:28+00:00
This is a death blow to the Intel GPU+AI efforts and should not be allowed by the regulators. It is clear that Intel needs the downstream, low-cost GPU market segment to have a portfolio of AI chips based on chiplets, where most defective ones end up in the consumer grade GPUs based on manufacturing yield. NVidias interest is now for Intel not to enter either the GPU market, nor the AI market - which Intel was preparing for with its GPU efforts in recent years.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-18 14:53:40+00:00
>I think people wouldn't have wanted to work with me or listen to my opinions.

If I was your co-worker, I wouldn't want to know your non-work related opinions, especially your political opinions. That assumes we're not working on someone's political campaign.

Your opinions that don't relate to your job are irrelevant -- at work. And as such, why would anyone, whether they agree with you or not, want to hear you (or anyone else) pontificate about how you "Like Ike" and that his Vice President would make a much better President than that (gasp!) Catholic, rum-runner/gangster's son from Massachusetts.

Yes, I'm deliberately using examples from 65+ years ago. Because it doesn't matter what the content of those opinions are. Unless you work for the RNCC or the DNC, etc. those opinions have no value or meaning in the workplace.

I'm not afraid to express my opinions, but I choose not to do so while I'm actively on the job. That you do it out of fear is, on the one hand, unfortunate but, on the other hand, a good thing as no one really wants to hear them anyway.

Keep up the good work!

>And I never voice any political opinions at work because I don't want to say anything my peers would perceive as "abhorrent".

Good. I'm sure that, regardless of how you think your peers would perceive your opinions, they are much less interested in those opinions than they are about the quality and quantity of your work, your opinions of the work and work environment, and how you interact on a personal level with others.

Edit: Fixed typo.
by hotgeart | 2025-09-18 14:53:52+00:00
- The site title shows 47jobs.xyz, but in the content it’s https://47jobs.com .

- All images are super high-res but displayed in a tiny 45px square.

- The URLs don’t include slugs.

- You’re loading jQuery for just a few lines of code: https://47jobs.xyz/static/js/main.js. Couldn’t your smart agent handle that without an extra library?

Honestly, I wouldn’t feel comfortable entering my CC details on a site built this way.
by JohnFen | 2025-09-18 14:54:16+00:00
I don't know about the details of this device, but in general, simply being high-voltage doesn't automatically mean it's dangerous. One of the machines I work with in my day job has probes that put out around a thousand volts, but it's totally safe to touch them with your bare hands. You won't even feel a tingle.

That said, it's always prudent to treat any live electrical line as dangerous unless you know for a fact that it isn't, of course.
by graemep | 2025-09-18 14:54:43+00:00
There is a problem with rigid medical definitions. There is a huge difference between the author of this, a young pregnant woman losing her husband, and say, something like a middle aged person losing an elderly parent (as I did earlier this year). Of course it will take her far longer to recover (if at all).

I would guess her grief is not "disordered" though. As she says she functions - she works, she looks after her child, she looks after herself.

> We medicalize grief because we fear it.

Absolutely right. There is a certain cowardice in how we deal with death in the contemporary west.
by shermantanktop | 2025-09-18 14:54:45+00:00
> Also, just look at that markup. So clean. So shiny.

That’s the essence of so much of this obsessive bit-twiddling: irrelevant aesthetics. The functional aspect of this is a disaster, as others have noted, locking styling to page structure in a way that will require structural changes to the CSS just to move an element on the page.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-09-18 14:55:34+00:00
Like a LLVM but for type systems instead of compilation / interpreters / JIT. I don’t see why that couldn’t work.

My thinking in this space has always started from a type inferred MetaLanguage but starting from a dynamic language does enable some interesting options. I tend not to touch dynamic languages, even going so far as to use transpilers, but I definitely would be more open to the idea of working with them if they had TypeScript level of gradual type checking and tool support. As you mention such a bidirectional transpiler would work I guess for things that don’t translate it could just give up and that’ll be part of the gradual typing aspect.

I would love to have TypeScripts type system on a Lua runtime, so I’ve been keeping an eye on Luau.
by dingaling | 2025-09-18 14:55:44+00:00
Profit is surplus revenue, which means money that people paid you but which you didn't spend on improving your product, paying your staff better etc.

That's why making profit is sometimes seen as greedy, because it's money that could have been reinvested in the product.

Amazon in its early expansion phase never made a profit, because every cent was reinvested. And they didn't need to pay a cent of tax for that reason.
by joshfraser | 2025-09-18 14:55:55+00:00
I switched from Slack to Discord back in 2017 and I can't imagine ever going back. Their free offering is better than what you get for $$$$ from Slack.

Slack is designed for small groups of people that all know and trust each other. That security model falls apart when you scale to large low-trust organizations. Discord was designed for strangers and offers far more granular controls.

They offer infinite search. Unlimited users. And it's free! Can't recommend it enough.
by mbw234 | 2025-09-18 14:55:58+00:00
It persists data to disk in a manner that is easy to query. It allows observing changes to the data so that features update when necessary. It handles graphs of objects just fine thanks to recursive CTE's in SQLite. With a little bit of work it can handle historical edits with undo/redo. It seems to quack like Swift/Core Data to me, but bringing SQLite to the forefront instead of putting needless abstraction layers on top of it.
by tcoff91 | 2025-09-18 14:56:01+00:00
The web is not an application platform, it’s a document rendering platform that has been hacked together to be an application platform.

Without libraries it’s incredibly hard to be productive building applications. It’s only with dependencies that the web becomes an acceptable application platform.

Look at how much JS it takes to implement a material-ui textfield that automatically grows and shrinks. Building a date picker is a pain in the ass. Making sure those things follow all the arcane aria standards to be accessible is difficult. There’s no good reason why everyone should have to rebuild their own date picker.

Without libraries the web is the hardest application platform to use by far if you are trying to build actual apps and not just websites with content.
by cardanome | 2025-09-18 14:56:09+00:00
Teal compiles teal files into plain Lua just like TS does for JS. So all the advantages and disadvantages apply.

Luau is a backwards compatible superset of Lua that comes with it's own performance-tuned runtime. It offers more than just gradual typing.

So they are very different things. You can use Teal in cases when you don't control the runtime. Like write a Love2d game or your neovim config in it. Anywhere where Lua runs, you can use teal.

On the other hand Luau can offer superior developer experience because you don't have a separate compile step. They can do a lot more things that are impossible with teal as they have their own runtime and types do not get erased by compiling.
by Theodores | 2025-09-18 14:56:15+00:00
> let textString = `hello`

I think further obfuscation could be possible by uglifying the script and providing a SVG path that stores the text as some vector image.

Self modifying code could be useful too, to delete the SVG data once it is in the canvas.

I fully expect this to still be defeated by AI though, such is my presumption that AI is smarter than me, always. It won't care about uglification and it would just laugh to itself at my humble efforts to defeat Skynet.

Regarding practical applications, nowadays kids sell weed online quite brazenly on platforms such as Instagram. Prostitutes also sell their services on Telegram. It is only a matter of time before this type of usage gets clamped down on, so there may come a time when this approach will be needed to thwart the authorities.
by cwillu | 2025-09-18 14:56:52+00:00
“You're using a suspiciously old browser You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions of Chrome). Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that use a variety of old browser user agents, especially Chrome user agents. To reduce the load on Wandering Thoughts I'm experimenting with (attempting to) block all of them, and you've run into this.”
by Corrado | 2025-09-18 14:57:07+00:00
We're in the same boat; HIPAA compliant Enterprise license. Slack came to us with a 2 day notice; pay more now or pay a lot more later. We asked if we could reduce the number of users and they said no, if you change anything then you have to take the new pricing for double the current price.

The whole thing was super sleazy. We told them that we were moving to MS Teams (arrrgghhh!) and they said "Bye!".
by squigz | 2025-09-18 14:58:16+00:00
Reading Jake's[0] and Bess' posts during his illness was both highly enlightening and also very depressing. The news of his death hurt me more than I expected. I simply cannot imagine the pain Bess has felt.

I wish I was half as articulate as they are and could say something that might provide even a modicum of comfort to her or others struggling with their grief.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jseliger
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-18 14:58:23+00:00
If you make your church the government, it is... the government.

Again, "I think your speech sucks" and "I have the authority to jail you for your speech because I think it sucks" are vastly different things.

> We are not talking about instances where people were rude to their bosses.

We're talking about Jimmy Kimmell's employer being threatened by the government to punish him for his speech. Which wasn't even particularly rude.
by commandar | 2025-09-18 14:58:27+00:00
>I just have to mention that IRC had these archives so repeat questions had a corpus to search. The walled gardens don't.

For many businesses, this is a feature, not a bug.

Internal communications are discoverable in litigation. If you have records, you can be compelled to turn them over.

I used to work in healthcare. Internal messages had a maximum retention of 30 days. That wasn't driven by IT or the users. That was a decision made by legal. In that space, you are always being sued by somebody. The lawyers want to minimize exposure and that's a fight they're basically always going to win.

To be clear: it's better if that's a decision made by the business. But it's also one of those cases where what the decision makers care about isn't necessarily aligned with what the users care about, so there's ultimately not a lot of incentive for Slack to care.
by liampulles | 2025-09-18 14:58:36+00:00
I've been a consistent XFCE user for over a decade. I think of it the same way I think of my desk - I'm not proclaiming its the best in the world, all I can tell you is that its pretty stable, clean and utilitarian, and I'm consistently productive on top of it.

I'm concerned about the XFCE team's approach to Wayland, which is to say they are not making any commitments to make a stable release for it. I've already had to take my new Debian install back to X11 to get XFCE working. I know that Wayland is contentious and not developed with clear communication with many DE teams, but the drift here is concerning, and I am considering trying to find something XFCE-like with full Wayland support.
by johnboiles | 2025-09-18 14:58:43+00:00
I have a Bambu X1C and a Prusa MK3.9S (mostly upgraded MK3S).

The Bambu is incredible at PLA. It is so fast and consistently perfect. The 0.2mm nozzle makes unreal detail small parts. But I struggle to do other materials with it like TPU, PETG, ABS.

The Prusa takes generally whatever material I throw at it and does a great job just using the PrusaSlicer built in profiles. It's also the minimum viable printer -- it's 80% as good as the Bambu but a fraction of the complexity. I am 100% confident I could keep it running indefinitely where the Bambu is mostly proprietary parts and software.