skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like in all things, it's important not to end up on the maximalist end of the spectrum. Obviously an individual is not only the result of a certain social conditioning nor only an isolated madman, and that's not Arendt theory; but it's undisputable how even the leaders brought to extreme consequences certain societal instincts that were present. When you compare the qualities of Italian fascist leaders with German ones, for example, you can see the differences: while Italians were focused on heroism and individual excellence (as expoused by D'Annunzio, for example), Germans valued more order in all systems - which is why the holocaust was as effective as it was. That's because the societal views that shaped them were different.

That does not mean that society carries all responsibility for the actions of this or that person, of course, that's never the case. What the banality of evil tells us is that society contains the conceptual germs for behaviour that can turn atrocious, when brought to extreme lengths by this or that individual.
Having a negative goal isn't recommended according to something I read somewhere.

You're meant to frame personal objectives in positive terms. Instead of "stop eating junk food", "start eating healthier food". Instead of "stop being lazy", "exercise every day".

Instead of "stop being boring", the objective might be to read more books, or a million other things that result in interesting people.

Also his app is built on the premise that we get distracted easily and can't focus. The success of the app therefore relies on the failure of others. Perhaps a better project is one where the app doesn't start with "you suck, now sign up and you won't suck as much". I'm possibly being unfair. I'm just thinking of ways this dude can make less boring apps.
> The consensus among economists on the question of sports facility subsidies likely stems from the basic economic intuition that government subsidies ought to address some “market failure,” and economists sense that there is no compelling case to be made for sports subsidies.

see also:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadium_subsidy
Apologies for the original click-baity/misleading title. I've changed it.
> I dislike mind maps because they always impose a central point/root and enforce hierarchy.

That was my pain, like when I began to gather information about triangles and took "triangle" as a root point but then I need to change the root point to "flat figures" and I realize that there is no easy way to change the root point in mind-map software I have tried. This problem of mine has been solved with Zettelcasten, currently I am using Obsidian but going to switch for something FOSS.
Sure, it was a nice idea, but it just doesn't work. Case in point: US invasions went unpunished, which in turn enabled Russia to do what it's doing.
Cover art is a must for me, as it makes it easier to find the movie again rather than reading the title.

Also, while I know what the movie is about, my SO wants to see what year and genre the film is, and if it passes that first hurdle then she wants to read what the film is about before deciding if it's a pass or a go.

Finally, I enjoy being able to quickly find related movies by clicking on the director or actors and see what other works I have with them. I know I could do this in IMDb but it's nice having it right there.
The right align is absolutely horrible and in no way improves readability. The fact that your website is literally the only one I've seen in multiple years using that style should have been a clue.
I am startup owner (SRL, limited liability company). I have incorporated the company in 1 day through a notary. Other activities related to taxes are outsourced by €2k-3k/year accountant. Yeah, it could be easier, but it's not the problem.

If you build a startup and your main concern are those tax activities, I assume you are not building a startup. That's definitely not the hardest part :)
As intended, not as expected
French court annuls license granted to Musk's Starlink
If you'd actually read the article, you'd see that the problem isn't merged /usr. Other distros moved to merged /usr just fine.

Also, the decision to move Debian to merged /usr wasn't done by Poettering, it was done by the Debian technical committee. So please stop spreading such ad-hominem nonsense.
That’s like saying because people die often when they’re gone anyway, it’s okay if they die in the army at the same rate. It’s not the same.
Is there an example of the media that still exist today?

Iraq war is where "embed" journalism became the only acceptable source where journalists were killed by US.
While I agree on the larger point, this thing struck me.

> Likewise the terrorism of the French Resistance and Osama Bin Laden.

I mean, Robespierre probably killed more people and not exactly for better reasons. Reign of terror was exactly what the name implies.
>You have class definitions, and these are only version controlled in text files as a concession to the extreme populatity of GitHub.

What prevents the pharo guys from simply providing their own merge tool and letting git call it?

The only remaining issue then is showing a file system tree and diffs out of the image e.g. a simple export that doesn't necessarily even have to be importable.
That's why FreeBSD doesn't use mknod(8) - or device numbers - at all. You can kind of work around this obsolete idea instead - that's what Linux is doing - but it's not optimal.
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I don't think so... where do you see this?
Not only is that impractical (how can you reliably filter blindness before birth? I suppose you could test babies eyesight at birth and kill them if they're blind?), but what about the people who get blind during their lives? They are the vast majority of cases of blindness!

It seems very odd to propose that the solution to a problem is to liquidate all people who suffer from that problem.
My apologies, I read too deeply into your comment. I just enjoyed (too much) the use of the phrase 'theoretical hardware limitations'.
Does CDE stand for "Common Desktop Environment"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment

But yes, those popup headings are way too chunky.
I am not particularly upset by this. You choose to embed JavaScript that interoperates with your website to make tweets look like Twitter … Twitter has decided that deleted tweets look like nothing now … that’s what you wanted.

Apparently the “contract” that Twitter would preserve the text of a deleted tweet was a tweet from some random employee.
no...

But worth nothing:

Fedora

openSUSE

Genode

ReactOS
Show HN: C-LISTS – Review and manage your daily routines
Hello all,

my name is Philipp, I'm a developer from Germany. I have been reading the posts here on HN for over 10 years.

Since half a year I am developing C-LISTS to help myself and others to run a productive and constant daily routine.

C-LISTS stands for checklists. Checklists that appear recurring daily, weekly or monthly and remind you of important tasks.

I am super excited and looking forward to your feedback.

An app will be available for Android in the next few days.
The title is still a straight up lie.
I switched to Kagi a while ago and have been a user for a few months. I've not had to use Google search once. It just... works.

I'll happily pay for it.
Maybe.. We are an Eternal Nothing, dreaming endless lives into being with Will and Imagination. When we're born, we forgot where we come from, and enter into a kind of solipsistic bubble of experience. When we die, we wake up and remember that we're an Infinite All.

But if it's nothing to begin with, how can there be imagination? It doesn't seem logical, but it may be that this "nothing" is not how we think of it, it's empty but it's the raw material of existence with potential to become anything, kind of like "mind".
I am sorry for that situation but my opinion does not change.

OS and politics should not be mixed. Your actions do nothing but say that you will "weaponize" an open source library to match one goal "punishing Russians" but not punishing other perpetrators.

If every software maintainer started to apply its own political views and ban some users the entire ecosystem would implode.

Should muslim developers ban all chinese users for the uighur concentration camps, and myanmaris for their treatment of Rohingya?

Should I, a Polish developer, ban Ukrainians because they hail as a hero and title streets to a criminal like Bandera that killed my own polish family in eastern galicia during world war two?

Where and when would this hysteria end?

I have sympathy for your situation, but not for such solutions. They damage everyone, including OSS.
Linux development in the present era is very heavily driven by Red Hat's needs and desires, and I don't think they have this problem because they don't support upgrading from one release to the next using the package manager - you have to reboot into the installer and do a kind of reinstall in place. So they can just require that all packages only have files in the non-symlinked directories after the flag day. Debian is different - you have to use the package manager to upgrade, which means you're going to be running with a mix of new and old packages at least for a while.
"Visually impaired" is a WHO technical term that encompasses visual acuity worse than 6/18.
If you want to try out Scribus, take the development branch (1.5.x)!

I highly recommend going for the development branch that provides a lot of useful features still missing in the stable branch. And it's quite stable as well. Do frequently save your work, though.

I've moved a student newspaper template from an old InDesign template to scribus several years ago and it worked very well. InDesign had many comfortable tools but it would regularly crash our old machines and the volunteers working for the paper could't use it on the go on their private computers.

Scribus was easy to install, ran also on Linux, had a lower impact on the machine's performance (or it would crash before the machine, so save frequently :) )
You seem ready to try Linux, perhaps with extensive virtual machines running old Windows versions under recycled licenses.
Ok - sorry I've really screwed this submission up. I think the points that many have made in the comments about the clickbaitiness and misleading nature/incorrect interpretation of the title I used are completely valid.

I had found it pretty shocking, given say the 37 average annual deaths in construction in a country like the UK which has over 20 times the population, so rushed to create a HN submission.
You really hate and despise that guy, don't you? I guess this is driven by Tesla. People are less dismissive about Musk if they concentrate on SpaceX and not Tesla.

Like it or not, Musk has a talent for attracting young talented engineers and giving them a huge playground to show what they can do. That is the main reason why SpaceX took off so massively, not any shouting to get things done (everyone can do that, but successful space startups are rare, so it isn't an obvious path to success). SpaceX engineers are allowed to have some initiative and aren't kept in a narrow corridor set up by typical corporate bureaucracy.

Contrast this to Bezos, arguably a very strict businessman who used to be much richer than Musk - several orders of magnitude, in fact. Bezos isn't any softer than Musk on his employees, arguably even harder; less shouting, but more pressure. But Blue Origin is a snail compared to SpaceX, even though it was founded 2 years earlier. They have enough money, but they have a problem attracting engineering talent and retaining it.
I don't think that the 27+ EU markets are a problem. I'm not even sure if there are 27+ different markets in the EU in the context of startups/tech, because if there were then each country would have their own isolated tech ecosystem which is not the case. Most EU countries are dominated by US tech companies.

If different cultures and languages are not a problem for US startups in spreading to Europe I fail to see why it would be a problem for EU companies
Would you mind explaining your point a little for those of us being a bit slow today?

What word would you use other than stadia to describe the plural of stadium?

Or were you making some other point about talking about stadia in general?
> More than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died in Qatar since it won the right to host the World Cup 10 years ago, the Guardian can reveal.

I tried to work out the context for this figure, but the answer I found made no sense. It's frustrating that I'm having to figure this out myself rather than The Guardian being responsible.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Qatar there are approximately 2.3 million migrant workers in Qatar. For 6500 of them to die over 10 years is a death rate of 6500/(10*2300000) = 0.000283.

The typical such worker is perhaps an Indian immigrant in the 35-39 age bracket. According to https://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.60740?lang=en such people would have a death rate of 0.00319, if they remained in India.

So have I made a mistake, or is this article really about the fact that being a near-slave in Qatar cuts your risk of death by 91%?
Yes we do.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-all-cause-mo...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26595089/

Same statistics are available in the UK, although immigrant-specific numbers aren’t updated on a weekly basis.
hm. a lot of people imitating the cool punk kids indeed wore similar clothing and went to concerts of punk-ish bands.

and indeed many original punk bands found commercial success

does that somehow invalidate punks? at best it shows that - like all (?) things before it - punk was also consumed by consumerism.
Your current title still implies construction deaths, which isn't true.

Better to change it from "At least 6,500 construction deaths in Qatar since winning the World Cup bid" to "At least 6,500 migrant worker deaths in Qatar since winning the World Cup bid".
Apple are culturally allergic to transparency. It’s going to be either a seismic corporate culture change if it happens quickly or it will take on the order of a decade or more for them to become comfortable with being open whenever the opportunity is appropriate. Apple is a “deny by default” sort of company at its heart.
"Poor businesses forced to build ramps and make their websites screenreader-accessible" seems a distinctly weird take to me.

If we're no longer taking even the slightest bit of care towards looking after our fellow Man then it's not a world worth living to me.

EDIT: It's also not just a "tiny minority", about 13% of the world's population have serious vision impairment. Making streets, businesses, services, products accessible is the very least we can do. It's scary that someone who suffers from this himself would chalk it off as inefficiency and waste.
From the Gobolinux homepage

> /bin is a link to /System/Index/bin. And as a matter of fact, so is /usr/bin. And /usr/sbin

So, they're doing exactly the same thing as Debian is doing on the default merged configuration ?

Issues seen on Debian are not the system using symlinks or not, but packages failing when exchanged between system that still had both /bin/ and /usr/bin as separate directories, as it was historically, and the new merged systems. Gobolinux being a from scratch built distro with no transition history, I am not sure how it can be seen as a better example here.
This part did make me laugh though:

"That reverse mode activation when you accelerate is a potential killer."

"I seriously couldn't muster enough courage to ride the scooter again. I sold it to my cousin."

Guess he's not keen on his cousin.
It's not a downside.

The downside is that we don't teach critical thinking to children in school.

So you end up with adults that believe whatever tv tells them or will buy any compelling argument without trying to debunk it first.
it's not Workstation, it's Silverblue. Workstation is just like every other distro.
It's all relative, so many people claim "Nature is too slow" and "We need to kick nature in the throat with AI because evolution is too slow."
This article calls Norway "neutral" during the war. That is a very generous analysis of the situation.

None of the Scandinavian countries have really come to terms with the amount they assisted and gave in to the Nazi regime during WWII.

In the case of Norway, the only
legal party in the country was the Nazi Party from 1942-1945 [1]. Sweden was similarly guilty, and would quickly move to pay reparations after the war. Most interestingly, this was arranged by I believe Linus Torvald's uncle (other members of his family have similar high positions in Swedish culture / history).

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasjonal_Samling
> So have I made a mistake, or is this article really about the fact that being a near-slave in Qatar cuts your risk of death by 91%?

No, you haven’t made a mistake.

The issue here is that the average HN user has absolutely no idea how rough conditions these migrant workers tend to come from.
Was that a problem before washing machine have been invented?
Fair points. Sometimes it just seems like it's futile to advocate for accommodations everywhere. I should be thoroughly used to it by now, though.
Yup.

In most industries, that kind of consistency is a plus (especially if you consider where all that time was spent).

Ageism is every bit as illegal, self-destructive, and uncouth as racism, ableism, or sexism; but is actively —proudly, even— encouraged in tech.

I understand where a lot of it comes from, but it’s really no different from “All our girls start off in the typing pool.”

As I mentioned, I’m quite capable of making other people a great deal of money, but it’s more important for them to treat me in a shabby manner, than to create great product.

Here’s an example.

I’m working on a fairly ambitious (40 screens) app. It’s getting ready for our phase one testing. I’ve been working on the frontend app (native Swift UIKit app) for about a year and a half (I also wrote the backend. That took seven months, a few years ago, and I also wrote another backend that we use as a data source, about ten years ago, that is now a worldwide infrastructure, but backend is not really my forte). This time has been mostly spent refining the app. I actually had a “shippable” app, after a month of coding, but we needed to make sure that it would be suitable for our end-users, so all that time has been spent working on over 600 TestFlight releases. At one point in the project, we probably had over 60 screens. I really like removing large swaths of code.

I’m also working for free. If no one wants to pay me to code, I’ll do it anyway.

Yesterday, I was bored. I’m at that part of the project, where I make a release, then wait for the team to decide the next step. The steps are small, at this point, and the team spends a lot of time arguing about things like colors.

So I wrote another app.

In an afternoon.

It’s already ship-ready, but I’ll spend a couple of days, polishing it up. It is a fully-native Swift UIKit app (not some ghastly hybrid), is small and lightweight, already completely localizable, adapts to dark mode, works on iPad, and has a high degree of polish. I shared it last night with the team on TestFlight. Some haven’t even had a chance to install it, yet, and it hasn’t completed the first Apple vetting.

It’s a fairly humble (4 screens) app, but it will be fun for our users, and will be a great “brand reinforcement” tool. Down the road, we’ll probably integrate it into a suite with the main app; but that’s icing on the cake.

The code Quality is out of this world, and it is done in a fashion that documentation comes from running a bash script, called “jazzy.command”. That creates a “docs” directory that can be uploaded to a GitHub Pages site.

The team will spend more time coming up with copy for the App Store, than I spent, writing the app.

That’s the kind of thing that experience gets you. It’s quite obvious that I’m capable of this kind of thing. A quick shufti at my portfolio makes it clear. I’ve met many folks that are more capable than I am.

It’s just that people are so fixated on my gray hair, that they, literally, refuse to look at my portfolio.
If you link /bin to /usr/bin then all binaries will be available under /bin, and developers will hardcode paths like /bin/python3. This will make programs non-portable to other distributiobns with separate /bin and /usr/bin. The link farm doesn't have this problem.
Nice! Can’t wait to do that
So why is Kimbal Musk a nobody, while Elon isn't? They grew up in the same house, shared the same privilege, are children of the same parents etc. If all this matters so much, Kimbal should grow up to be someone like Elon.
Nice, thanks! I'll give this a little read over lunch :)
Can you talk about this a bit more? Or have any guidance?

I'm in Germany and wanted to do this with my cofounders, but couldn't wrap my head around the legality.

Don't you also have to maintain a German presence basically? And what are the implications in regard to exit taxes?
I looked into this a few years back. What confused me about this article is the blurring of custom earphones and custom ear plugs.

You can get standard in ear monitors that come with a variety of interchangeable earplugs of different sizes, and different materials, like foam.

I believe it's possible, and fairly standard, for musicians to use these with custom fitted plugs.

But this seems to be talking about the whole device being custom made which sends the price rocketing and it's not clear what benefit that adds. Is it custom fitted to your outer ear too?

I'm also somewhat surprised that the state of the art is still to take molds rather than some digital scan of your ear, surely someone is working on that?

Are there open standards for earplugs?
This might not be what you're looking for but my solution is:

1. Get paid $78/h for engineering
2. Pay someone $35/h for folding laundry
> Trump, the only president in recent history who did not start any wars

All of this "Trump is the ambassador of peace" rhetoric may almost convince you to forget that 90% of his electorate are gun-crazed maniacs.
the studies said something about remembering where exactly something happened (e.g. it's easier to remember if you have pages instead of infinite scroll). Also, books are not as distracting as screens (I'd call it "light noise"). These are some hard problems to fix, also the devices (e.g. smartphone) are used for too much things so that your mind is used to being interrupted, even if you're not, so much so that your mind has trouble concentrating when using the device.
I don't have links handy, but this topic came a few times on HN. Also, although this is usually not part of the topic, making notes with a pen is also better for your brain than typing (leads to better retention). So, to sum up: We are wired for pen and paper and using this knowledge is an advantage. The paperless office can wait.
Triald is all about Machine Learning
I think he's referring to Google Stadia [1]...it isn't much common to use Stadia as plural of stadium, even if it's correct.

1 - https://stadia.google.com/