MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by notahacker | 2025-10-03 12:16:33+00:00
Not just transaction cost, but also the whole point of Georgist theory which is that it's supposed to stimulate development. Putting a skyscraper on a piece of land costs a lot of money, paid for by the returns to development. If someone who hasn't paid the capital costs of building that skyscraper (and the admin costs of letting it out) then has the right to buy the land under the developers and charge them the highest possible ground rent, the thin profit making opportunity disappears, and it becomes less costly to relinquish landholdings than to develop them only to lose them to the first entity that wants to capture the value of your investment in the skyscraper in ground rent.

Probably the only stable state for that sort of market is for the government (which not only usually has the lowest costs of capital, but also sets the ratio of LVT to property prices) to end up owning all the land. That model can work (see Singapore) but it very much depends on the quality of the government and doesn't replace tax revenue...
by paffdragon | 2025-10-03 12:16:50+00:00
Sorry, my laptop where I had evolution got a new OS installed and I haven't configured it yet and just started mutt, but my original setup had a local archive folder, with sub-folders per year (I think, I even had a higher level grouping of 5 or 10 years). Unfortunately, I don't have setup right now to check, but I think it was semi-manual, like Evolution was archiving to a local folder automatically, then every new year I just moved the mails from the previous year into a folder).

Re offlineimap, just looked into isync/mbsync suggested here by others, it seems better from the description, I'm probably going to try it when I have some time: https://people.kernel.org/mcgrof/replacing-offlineimap-with-...
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-10-03 12:17:30+00:00
Lately I've been ranting about the Grandma Test. Simply stated, if Grandma cannot understand the technology enough to use it, (in many situations just the UX) it is objectively bad. You are losing customers to frustration. Rote memorization is the hack that got her to this point in life in her world, and constantly and consistently shifting things is breaking her hack. Key takeaway: You could have thousands of additional customers if a lightweight 2nd UI that materially does not change existed for your product.
by diggan | 2025-10-03 12:17:37+00:00
Better that they're there so they can be disabled, rather than not there any no one gets any choice?

My pet-peeve is slow animations, as animations can help my eyes/attention to navigate to/from areas of the screen, but when they're too slow, it's just so damn frustrating that I prefer them off. But smooth, fast (nearly invisible) and clean animations seems to help me navigate better/focus faster than just being eye-candy.
by argiopetech | 2025-10-03 12:18:18+00:00
In the same boat with you. Not quite the same configuration (some version change issues, lost it once in an 'rm' accident that followed a symlink to / [I learned that day...] and had to start from scratch, rewrote for fun once), but my sole desktop from '09 to '23 when I switched to Niri. My reasoning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45462034

This was on my Bonobo WS (PopOS) w/ 2x NVidia GTX 1080s, multiple screens (2 1080p, 1 4k at 2x scaling), etc. No issues other than app support.

Highly recommend trying it. Very low barrier to entry.
by makapuf | 2025-10-03 12:18:40+00:00
The most used Desktop projects were started before 2015, around which new languages were stable enough to consider app building. Those apps fill their niche well and people don't need to start new projects for these niches, and new developers add to those projects instead of replacing them, which is a good thing. The cloud, AI, mobile (or crypto ..) by example are another story.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-03 12:18:44+00:00
History is written by the winner. does not mean that everybody trusts what is written by the winner. It has also become somewhat weaker in the era of digital communication, when censorship of sources becomes harder.

"The South managed to convince people that the confederacy cause was noble. "

A certain percentage of people will believe in anything. Putin is a virtuous peacemaker, Nazis didn't murder people in industrial ovens, Stalin was a good person, the American Civil War wasn't about slavery, you name it.

That still does not negate the overall observation expressed in the aphorism: winners have a lot more clout when determining how the war will be seen by future generations. The percentage of Confederacy supporters in the Western civilization is fairly small. They may be visible, but the vast majority of the Western population, to the extent that they think of ACW at all, don't support the cause of continuing enslavement of blacks.

Anyway, aphorisms shouldn't be treated like mathematical theorems. Their validity isn't as "hard" as that of maths, but in human society, nothing is. Aphorisms are the sort of model which is "wrong, but sometimes useful".
by diggan | 2025-10-03 12:19:18+00:00
Nvidia + Arch + Gnome3 + Wayland user here. I've tried Wayland on/off for the last couple of years, and made the switch I think late last year sometimes once I stopped seeing very obvious bugs/issues. Just about everything works fine nowadays in my experience.

Mostly made the switch because Wayland seems to run a lot smoother and efficient, especially when it came to Firefox for some reason.
by stared | 2025-10-03 12:20:06+00:00
So, from what I read, it's not that the bar can structure is special - it's more about the author's infatuation with. I resonate with that. I often find some structures (especially technical ones, occasionally - ruins) causing this kind of sensation. (Is there a word it?) Metal grid staircases, pipes often invoke it for me.

To some extend, I like these feelings also in some games (notably: Half Life, including Alyx and the remake Black Mesa).

Also - given current technology, both with both tech for scanning and creating models, and generative one - I would love to turn some real locations into "walking simulator games". As a side note, "The Vanishing of Ethan Carter" was based on a real location in Poland.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-03 12:20:50+00:00
> Feyerabend, an academic and leftist anarchist)

Yes that was obvious in your first post.

Feyerabend was writing during the cold war and was influenced by Marx (an authoritarian) and Marxist critiques of science promoted by the Soviets at the time. You get the same threads running through people like Kuhn and Popper.

The backdrop of these ideas is that the authoritarian Soviet state wanted to undermine faith in science within the US for the same reason it wanted to undermine democracy. They also wanted to promote the idea of alternative views of science at home because Soviet science was constrained by needing to be consistent with Marx. These ideas percolated for a few decades as propaganda before people like Feyerabend gussied them up and tried to publish them as academic works.
by pansa2 | 2025-10-03 12:20:53+00:00
>> I don't understand why people say it's an easy language

> I find Lua simple

The comment you've replied to is correct: "easy ≠ simple". Lua is indeed simple, but it chooses simplicity over ease-of-use. For example, even printing the contents of a table requires explicit logic.

OTOH Python, for example, prioritises ease-of-use: `l = [1, 2, 3]; print(l)` does what you'd expect. But Python only achieves this ease at the expense of simplicity: not only does the implementation of `print` need to be more complex, its output can be complex and unpredictable as well - for example, in the case where `l` refers to itself.
by bojan | 2025-10-03 12:21:10+00:00
1) Dutch may be easier to learn for English speakers than, say, French, but it's not easy. Learning it to the point that you can have a naturally flowing conversation with a native is still very difficult for an average person. To go on with your example of gestolen, yes, that sounds easy, but it gets harder very fast. To use a horrible stereotype that is still a very simple sentence, Vandaag gestolen morgen in Polen is not easy to interpret even if you correctly deduce that Polen is Poland. Further, being a native speaker of another Slavic language I could guess what your Russian example mean, but without knowing, I wouldn't put money on it. Does brood mean bread or has it to do with brooding? Once you know, it's easy, but you still have to learn.

2) Obviously there's a huge difference in available content compared to bigger languages. But I do think there's enough, especially if you're not too picky (and you shouldn't be if your goal is to learn the language).

3) it is true that English proficiency is more prevalent in the Netherlands than elsewhere. People don't like making unnecessary effort anywhere, and even if they do, the conversation turns into a lesson, which is I guess not generally desirable.
by piva00 | 2025-10-03 12:22:12+00:00
The Turkish pilot who shot down was persecuted by Erdogan:

> Erdoğan announced in an interview that the two Turkish pilots who downed Russian aircraft were arrested on suspicion that they have links to the Gülen movement, and that a court should find out "the truth".

Russia didn't tuck its tail, they deployed SAMs to their Syrian base, they deployed the late Moskva in the region, and they pressured Erdogan to punish the pilot.
by snowwrestler | 2025-10-03 12:22:13+00:00
Is there some version of Betteridge’s Law of Headline Questions but for the imperative voice?

But seriously I don’t think warts are the key to long-serving web applications without maintenance. The key is to pick technologies with no security vulnerabilities. That way you won’t ever have to install patches (which risk breaking functionality, which requires maintenance to fix), and you won’t ever get hacked (which also requires maintenance to fix).

Do such technologies exist? I don’t think so. Which is why I think the concept of constant maintenance is inherent to web applications and everyone should just accept that.

I think we’re far enough along in this journey to recognize that the dream of “immortal frictionless machinery” is not what software actually is. We create the friction (via usage, attacks, and patches) and we should plan to address it.

Bridges do receive regular maintenance BTW, even very well-engineered ones…
by adastra22 | 2025-10-03 12:22:13+00:00
It is an informed statement. The Russian military had ALWAYS operated on grift and cronyism, all the way back to the napoleonic wars. When shit hits the fan, as in Crimea, WW1, WW2, and Ukraine, it turns out all those paper capabilities don’t exist. Even in the height of the Cold War, ICBM silos in Russia were often flooded and inoperable.

Nuclear weapons are extremely sensitive and maintenance heavy devices. They have parts that need to be regularly checked and replaced or else the bomb will fissile. These parts are EXTREMELY precise and very high purity. The rockets have similar needs or else the engine will as likely blow up on launch.

Maintenance cycles are on the order of 10-15 years. We are now 35 years out from the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the nuclear and space industries have experienced massive brain drain and almost complete elimination of operational and maintenance budgets.

The likelihood that these strategic weapon systems have been adequately maintained is indistinguishable from zero.
by cladopa | 2025-10-03 12:22:17+00:00
>Is there some reason Europeans should go to war to satisfy the desires of American organizations?

That is the wrong question. The question is:

Is there some reason Europeans should go to war when Russia invades a European country in order to annex it by force?

The answer is yes. The reason is not letting force impose over things like democracy or rights. If Europeans do we(I am European) will become slaves.

It happened multiple times: The Ottoman Empire, Napoleon or Hitler and Stalin.

You don't have to explain that to a Polish person: They lived the occupation of Russia and Germany and all of them have family members that were exterminated by the germans first and then by the communists. Let alone they were subjugated over decades making then a puppet state of Russia making Russia richer and Poland poorer.

If Europeans do not oppose the dictator Putin controlling Russia, next time we will have to fight against Russia, Ukraine(occupied by Russia) and Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and all the new conquests(of the new Russian Empire) in the same way if you do not oppose the ottomans taking Constantinople, you will have to oppose them in Vienna, when they have become much stronger.
by junon | 2025-10-03 12:23:25+00:00
> This is why, when you read Old English, you can often replace ‘ᵹ’ (or ‘g’ in modern editions) with ‘y’ and get recognizable Modern English words: ᵹear is year, dæᵹ is day, weᵹ is way.

Interesting, because at least for the last two, "tag" is "day" and "weg" is "way" in German. Replacing both of the G's there make a more recognizably English equivalent word.

Also, "-ig" is the suffix most commonly associated with "-y". For example, "hungrig" is "hungry", which tracks.

Super interesting article. Also I think "cat in a barbershop run by monkeys" is my new favorite classical painting.
by peyloride | 2025-10-03 12:23:38+00:00
If I'm not mistaken, you can have the same workflow with niri. You don't need to use "scrollable" feature of Niri, you can attach screens to workspaces.

I was a former Hyprland user but after I switch to Niri I didn't look back because I think it's kind of having best of two worlds.

In my workflow, I have browser on workspace 1, code editor on 2, CCTV Viewer on 3 (we have a baby and babysitter so I occasionally check them).

In the other monitor, I have slack, terminals etc.

So when I need to switch between browser <-> code (or terminal) I can do quickly. Scrollable comes in handy when you need to check something quickly; for example you are trying to solve something and you need to run some commands in terminal. In that case I just open a new terminal next to browser, do my job and get rid of it.

Also the Super+Tab view is awesome, you can easily see which window is where. Niri also some IPC features so you can find window id and make Niri focus to it. This comes handy if you use Vicinae (Raycast like launcher for Linux). I can switch windows with just using that.

One final note, I highly recommend DankMaterialShell - https://github.com/AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell/ along with Niri.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-10-03 12:23:40+00:00
> at least in Israel, the vast, vast majority of those under administrative detention are held for violent acts such as throwing stones, molotov cocktails, etc

Actually, the vast majority of hostages israel holds, have done nothing at all. Just like the hostages hamas holds.

This is easily demonstrated: show the list of israeli detainees and the fair trials they had to determine if they were, in fact, guilty of the accusations israel unconvincingly levels. Otherwise, if you take the IDF's word for it that their hostage taking is righteous, intellectual honesty requires that you also take hamas' word for it when they say the same thing. Notably, israel kidnapped, raped, and tortured hostages first.

Also, israel has willfully or indiscriminately killed way more babies and mothers than hamas. Surely you view an innocent civilian life as equally valuable regardless of religion, skin color, or national origin? Surely your emotional outrage won't evaporate when the victims are Palestinian?
by mrweasel | 2025-10-03 12:23:53+00:00
KDE, Gnome and others obviously do provide stacking windows, but you do get the impression that writing a stacking window manager/compositor is just extremely hard to do with Wayland. Someone is maintaining a list of compositors[1] and there do seem to be a number of stacking ones, they just don't really get much attention.

1) https://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html
by pelzatessa | 2025-10-03 12:24:01+00:00
Huh, it's true. I thought an organization that needs $50M yearly to function[1] would employ more people. Still, I think it's fair to call them "pretty big" looking on how much media exposure they get or their operating costs. Perhaps a bit misleading from my part with the "company" part, as I'm not english-native, every type of firm,company,foundation in my head translates to a "company", sorry about that, will be more clear next time :)

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/signal-operating-costs/
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-03 12:24:13+00:00
I really like these animations. I can understand your opinion but I moved to something like cachyos hyprland and its dotfiles really interest me and to me seems like something that __just works__ for me and it was very easy to migrate too and I just needed to add some software and just change some keybinds and I didn't have to modify any hyprland animations on cachy by default as I liked it.

Maybe there is a point to have them not be a default but that might be a hassle for people like me.

There is a point to be made that maybe cachy and others could opinionate it themselves but the stock shouldn't have animations but if you know that they can be deactivated easily, its definitely a mixed bag of sorts.

Like see neovim, people want to use that software with some saner defaults so they use things like lunarvim / nvchad etc. but even when I was on omarchy (which I stopped after reading https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug...) neovim with these mods never really worked with LSP and so many other nice to have features and other things with me (maybe skill issue from my side but there was always one or two errors in that neovim and I just prefer micro nowadays, it just works)
by christophilus | 2025-10-03 12:24:50+00:00
This is a scrolling WM (not tiling). I've been using it as my daily driver for over a year now, and it's awesome. I never liked tiling WMs because I do a lot of web work, and I often want a large code editor and a large browser window and a few terminals open. I don't like having stuff scrunched into a little rectangle, but I do like having all of that related stuff grouped in a single workspace. This works perfectly with Niri. I can keep my editor in the center, a peek of my browser to the right and a peek of my terminal to the left, and easily flip between them, resize, stack, etc.

I know it doesn't sound all that interesting, but once I used it for a while, I just couldn't go back.
by anthonybsd | 2025-10-03 12:25:23+00:00
Counterpoint: I have two senior citizens living with me (my inlaws). They are 75 years old. They have no trouble using their IPhone 13 Maxes. Yes, I did set it up for them 2 years ago but after that they've been on their own. Maybe once every few months they can't figure something out and they ask for help but for the most part experience has been largely painless. They have a decent range of apps they use - youtube, facebook, viber, some games, some utilities, family ToDo shopping lists, translation apps, camera, messaging. I wouldn't call them power users by any stretch but they definitely feel comfortable with their devices.
by piva00 | 2025-10-03 12:25:27+00:00
It's hybrid warfare, disrupting the economy by shutting down airports, increasing fear in the population to pressure us to not escalate it further "or else..."; I don't believe it's an attempt to break NATO, they want to keep the harassment and disruptions at as low cost as possible, and these drones flying over important hubs (airports, ports, bases) are quite cheap while causing relatively larger annoyances.

They can't sustain, economically speaking, a war against EU/NATO but Putin can definitely play on our fears much harder than we can play on Russians fears.
by djoldman | 2025-10-03 12:25:35+00:00
The goal of an assessor's office is to set the value of property to it's fair market value - the price it would command if sold fairly on that day.

It's not appropriate for an assessor's office to further a goal other than the above, particularly a public policy that tries to increase or decrease taxes based on a property's characteristics like how much land it contains or how many stories it has. That's for the legislative body.

If you want to create (dis)incentives for types of property, you do it AFTER fairly valuing property.

TFA conflates the two ideas.
by scott_w | 2025-10-03 12:25:37+00:00
> However this scenarios is still extremely unlikely.

I watched a video just yesterday from someone (middle class) who explained that, by not having a passport, it took him weeks to get the necessary documentation together to prove his right to work in the UK. As a UK citizen.

> None of this says anything about whether I am privileged or not.

Oh boy, let's see:

> It merely means that they may cost a relatively small amount of money.

> What you are showing is simply a "bigotry of low expectations".

> What you are describing now I would imagine is discriminatory and thus illegal.

Out of this comment alone.

> I read it fine the first time thank you.

Except you completely misunderstood what I said, so you didn't "read it fine."

> However IANAL.

I can tell.

> the problem is with the potential employer in this circumstance.

Which primarily hurts the person who needs to work. What do you propose they do?

> TBH. It really feels as if you are inventing reasons why right to work checks should be considered "excessive" to shoehorn in your own personal politics.

I'm just pointing out how a mandatory Digital ID system, designed to prove right to work as a way of tackling illegal immigration (and thus illegal employment), could also benefit groups who aren't well-served by the current system.
by piltdownman | 2025-10-03 12:25:50+00:00
Here's the third way - acknowledging that Israel’s settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law, regardless of whether they have Israeli planning permission.

* United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...

It demands that Israel stop such activity and fulfill its obligations as an occupying power under the Fourth Geneva Convention. These settlements are in violation of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and in breach of international declarations.

That the resolution did not include any sanction or coercive measure and was adopted under the non-binding Chapter VI of the United Nations Charter is simply a matter of real politik dealing with Genocide, and is irrelevant to the overall judgement.

* The International Court of Justice

Israel sleigh-of-hand in designating "occupied" territories as "disputed" by virtue of the fact that "there were no established sovereigns in the West Bank or Gaza Strip prior to the Six Day War" was roundly rejected in the International Court of Justice over 20 years ago

//The Court notes that, according to the first paragraph of Article 2 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, when two conditions are fulfilled, namely that there exists an armed conflict (whether or not a state of war has been recognized), and that the conflict has arisen between two contracting parties, then the Convention applies, in particular, in any territory occupied in the course of the conflict by one of the contracting parties.//