skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, OK, fair enough. Sorry. That was not clear to me, but then again, I do not routinely use KDE. I liked KDE 1.x but for me each successive version adds bloat I don't want.

No, I daresay it doesn't work as well as a dedicated tiling WM, but I don't use tiling WMs. :-) I have used xNix environments with just a window manager in the past, and while it works, I am not someone who lives in a terminal. In fact I almost never use them, just for occasional admin stuff, like a morning update run. Apart from that, I barely touch them.

So for me, I like the comforts of a desktop, and I don't want to give that up. But I do like tiled windows sometimes, so something that gives me a bit of both is of potential interest, while a pure-play tiling WM isn't.
> And nothing is stopping businesses from implementing an actual paywall, such that you must log in to see the content. Under such a model nothing short of actual copyright violation, i.e. somebody with access to the content making it available elsewhere, would make it possible to see the content without paying.

I'd imagine they're being put in a difficult due to search, which why they're doing it the way they're doing it.

And honestly, your justification rings hollow. It's akin to saying it's OK to steal if the anti-theft technology isn't there are is too easy to defeat. If you take my car from me, it's still theft if I left the doors unlocked an the key in the ignition.
We're talking about cognitive dissonance here.
If Microsoft hadn't put out "Microsoft loves open-source" statements, then all this would be treated as business as usual.

However MS did. So people are dealing with the dissonance. Some people are being remembered how the strategy Embrace, Extend and Extinguish works.

TL;DR: the attitude MS is having is not open-source friendly.

NOTE: at least today they did state their plans from the start. Props to them.
Ukrainian sources put the number lost at nearly double that last time I checked. I am using a number from oryx, who claims to have counted tanks out of commission or being towed from photographs taken in front lines or publicly released arial photography and de-duping them, as they have done for other conflicts like the war in Afghanistan. They actually have the count now at
Tanks 774 (of which destroyed: 438, damaged: 21, abandoned: 53, captured: 262), and host all the images used to make their count. I’m sure there are problems with this approach but it seems like the closest thing to an unbiased estimate available to the public right now.

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum...
Even better is Ilium, especially the translated version by Dan Simmons.
It has a reputation as "that book that most people don't finish." As someone who hasn't read it, I tried to find out why. Here's some reasons I've found:

1) Stream of consciousness. The reader must figure out whose mind they are in, if it's at all possible. Then they must deal with all of these tangent thoughts that would make sense to the character thinking them, but not to anyone else, including the reader, since they they don't flow from the previous context.

2) "References to various 19th century Irish intellectual debates that you could not reasonably be expected to understand unless you have a degree in the intellectual history of Ireland in the 19th Century or a closely related field." "Allusions it makes to obscure literature and Irish politics.

4) "Joyce makes reference to all kinds of works, from Dante and Nietzsche to Walt Whitman; obviously Homer’s Odyssey is important to be familiar with. So be familiar with the important works of British, Irish, and American literature, and with ancient canonical works. Oh, it will also be quite important to be somewhat familiar with Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and his life in general."

5) Changes writing styles throughout the book.

6) Uses words that many people don't know.

Knowing this, I believe I would be one of those people who stop reading less than half way through. From reading about why it was difficult to finish, I get the feeling that many people read it because it's difficult to finish!

I'm imagining reading over sentences not understanding what's going on or why what's being said is being said, even after looking up hundreds of words in the dictionary that I will never use again. I'm imagining spending many hours confused and lost, for what? To be able to say that I've read Ulysses?

But I could use an annotated companion book! Then I'd be able to understand what's going on, even if it takes twice as long to read. I wouldn't really get to brag about having read it the same way those literature professors can.

In that case, then the real reason for reading it would not be because it's a challenge. It would be out of appreciation for its modernist style and its underlying story. But I'm not really interested any either of those things, based on what I've read.
Of War and Electric Death: A Brief History of Push-Button Anxiety
The very first prediction in this piece is wrong:

> Business as usual continues; the human population peaks at 8.5 billion, liquid fuels production remains more or less level by the simple expedient of consuming an ever larger fraction of the world’s total energy output,

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consum...

But the entire piece is premised on mistaken philosophy, an irrational belief that progress has to stop for some particular (unjustified) reason.
Well, no. You certainly could be someone who *could* pay it off but chooses not to for a variety of reasons. Many otherwise financially people I know carry some credit card debt.

Now is that a large portion of people? I have no clue, and my anecdotal evidence certainly isn’t qualified to answer the question.
Best Practices for Tech Website Videos
sciter is good if you are looking for make an app based biz which not depends too much on web spec.

BTW, sciter only allowed dynamic linking for free use, the binary is close sourced. https://sciter.com/prices/

cross comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31764929
Do you really want to be locked out of your house or car if the Internet is down?

We've had the electrical power grid for over a century, but power cuts and brownouts are still a thing.

Designing vital systems to assume 100% reliability of shared systems is dangerous.
I'm reading it on a mobile browser and I strongly agree with apeace, the blocks interrupt the flow. Maybe it would be better if the images weren't in each block, or maybe if the images weren't the same size as the image above the article text. All told each block is more than half the height of my screen and each paragraph is a bit less than half the height so it feels like I'm reading the first paragraph of several distinct articles (like an RSS feed?).
I make a very sizeable side income on prediction markets. Basically, through scraping, collecting, and cleaning an obscene amount of data.
According to Randall Carlson, "civilization ending climate catastrophies" such as the Younger Dryas extinction event have been ocurring at a tempo of about 1 every ~10,000 years, for at least the last 160,000 years.

So it would seem were about 2000 years overdue for the next one.
>A giant, ≥100-km-diameter comet entered an Earth-crossing orbit in the inner solar system and began a cascade of disintegrations (Napier 2010). Nu-
merous cometary fragments from the debris stream entered Earth’s atmosphere ∼12,800 y ago and detonated above and/or collided with land, ice sheets, and oceans across at least four continents in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
I have read about this tech, yes, but I lost interest as soon as I learned I'd need to use GNOME. I can't stand it. I like traditional menu bars, and desktop iconsm, and a vertical taskbar or panel -- and the top panel in GNOME is an egregious waste of desktop space.

JOOI, what Intel tablet do you have that works well with Linux?
One thing I always felt was an anti-pattern was in any input where months are numbers they don't explicitly mention in an adjacent label the name of the month. Besides the US/UK order confusion, you'd be surprised how often people think August is the 7th month of the year.
Amazon announces picks for best science books of 2022 – so far
Rendering large areas uninhabitable is plenty of harm. And death is not the only detrimental health impact.
`cargo check` is what my editor runs automatically to find type errors, that runs automatically on every save. It doesn't allow me to actually "check" that the application does what I want it to. I run `cargo run/build` when I need to "humanly" test the application, and waiting 20 seconds for it is pretty bad.

But then I come from a dynamic application development background (mostly Clojure), so maybe I do have a pretty unfair view on how fast I should be able to make a change and see the effects (sub second is the usual wait time in Clojure land).
> Second the people selected for a company are selected based on their conformance to that companies culture.

I would agree for most companies and it's probably true for Microsoft but that doesn't really apply to Google. Google is 23 years old. 20 years ago the people who wanted to work at Google were looking for a young fast-growing company shaking things up with its search engine, a heavy focus in engineering and opportunites everywhere. Nowadays, the people who want to work at Google want to work for one of the most prestigious tech company. That tends to attract a completely different kind of person.
I could be wrong but I seem to remember paypal will require KYC at some point past a certain amount of money coming into the account (?)
Pickup driver unplugs Tesla while owner naps
On similar lines but a bit more ironic is Robert Sheckley's: To ask a Foolish Question

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33854
> Why participate in an ecosystem where the biggest corporate overlord is trying to reduce your ability to _do things_.

For free.

If you pay, they’ll help you do more things.

That’s unfortunately the motivation a for-profit corporation has.
> if rescript/reason issue harmed rescript.

Personal anecdote: yes, it has.

I was very interested in Reason when it appeared, and it seemed to have immense momentum: exploring arguably better (or more familiar) syntax, tool integrations etc. I know that people ran regular OCaml workflows/projects with it.

And then the whole split happened ... why? "We don't want to be constrained by OCaml" while keeping all of OCaml's syntactic idiosyncrasies among other things doesn't sound like a proper, well, reason.

This is where I stopped being interested (and as I imagine, many people stopped, too). Because a slit in a niche miniature language (which it was at the time) means only one thing: not enough resources to continue with either one.

It doesn't help that the whole split was confusing to everyone. Good description here: https://ersin-akinci.medium.com/confused-about-rescript-resc...
Yes, however in a less aggressive tech market the return would have probably been 0. This was also the best case, the P/E buyout and subsequent funding injections may have diluted the value of those shares.
I run a microbakery on the side (https://www.instagram.com/stoneleigh.microbakery/) and my local government knows nothing about this operation. That said, I only sell to friends and neighbors bc if somehow my bread gets spoiled (highly unlikely, unless its focaccia and they leave it out for 2 days), I can resolve it directly with them and not have to deal w the health department.
True. :) I mean that the other approaches appear to have obvious showstoppers (mostly engineering ones for DT approaches), while Helion has at least a plausible path to practicality.

(plausible, adj.: superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious.)
Yes, one hundred thousand times this! The national government desperately want to cut bits of it to save money, so there's a concerted effort to paint it as an unnecessary boondoggle, and a lot of people are buying that. And they always say "why don’t we focus on increasing capacity on the existing lines?" - which is insane because HS2 is doing precisely that.

Or it would if they didn't keep cutting bits from it (cough)golborne spur(cough)
Last time I looked I found https://patally.co.uk which does the same thing and doesn't have as much nastiness (it only has Google Fonts).
> ReasonML is now Rescript

Apparently it's not. The whole thing is a mess :)

https://ersin-akinci.medium.com/confused-about-rescript-resc...
It's obvious you've never worked or had a business.

In California, an LLC pays $800/year taxes even on zero profit; you must pay for a business license tax, and you pay "property taxes" on the equipment and fixtures in your facility. (See: https://www.sccassessor.org/index.php/property-information/b... )

You also must pay for certain professional licenses, and pay for certain inspections. Just one example, I have to pay about $150/year for a "water backflow valve" inspection, even though our computer consulting office has no equipment that connects to the water supply.
Texas has a feral hog problem. Hunting them makes it worse
I’m not sure how to link a comment on this site but it’s now downvoted in this thread.
I sympathyze with Icaza because he does a lot of stuff.

His reaction is unexpected though -- after all this is the playbook FSF is always warning as a possible path. He must have been aware of the possible paths and the fear of them when Novell was trying to bring C# onto Linux / Gnome.
I've tried this with Google Sheets add-ons. It can be hard since there is no built in payment method so I end up using lots of API calls to Stripe to check for current subscription status. However, you have to get the user to subscribe on one site and install the add-on on another.
It doesn't have to be like that. The focus on shareholders started sometime in the 80s.
I think the good argument is that with the very high level of leverage in the market and people spending their money on the assumption of high equity/bitcoin/real estate values - as the fed shuts down access to cheap money and increases interest rates across the economy - those over levered people tip into getting margins-called, repo'ed, write offs to credit card companies and people losing their homes. I hope that isn't the case but that's the argument.

The alliterative is inflation getting into double digits and then the fed having to do even more dramatic things such as increasing the federal funds rate to 20% (highest on record).

There are some specific things right now but it feels like they aren't large enough to cause the systemic problems just temporary fires.
The iron age turned almost all trees into charcoal before we figured out how to make steel with fossil coal. But luckily today we know how to live without fossil fuels at a much higher level of comfort than the iron age.
Impressive! How long did it take to write. You seem to have a ton of integrations?
It might well have been true(-ish) at the time McVoy did it. Problem is that a lot of these things are hard until you see a solution, but become fairly trivial or at least much simpler with even the smallest little hints at which part of the solution space is fruitful. If you want to monetise an idea like that you better build a lot of more amazing stuff around it to give people a reason to pay you.

E.g. to do something like git you'd save a whole lot of effort the moment you know to consider a hierarchical store addressed by hash of contents from the whole repository down to individual files, and a list of the hash of the root of each revision (this description is already a refinement of the first iteration of how git stores trees, which apparently didn't use a hierarchical structure at first but just a list of files according to [1]).

[1] https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/GitTreeEvoluti...
What I enjoy doing doesn't pay anything, so my job is a necessary impediment to happiness. Sucks.
I find JSON and XML more readable than YAML, since the semantics (what is a dictionary, what is a list) of items are more explicit by the use of punctuation and quoting characters.
outcome of a dice roll can be explained/predicted by the laws of physics.
Out of curiosity, did you consider creating a browser extension version of your software? As a developer of a dictation extension for Chrome [0] I see that it gets a lot of use for accessibility purposes.

I once experimented with a tremor-compensating extension and some css that hid the “natural” cursor and overlaid a cursor image instead whose position I controlled (using a basic rolling window average to make it steady). This basic test seemed to hold up.

That could potentially open up a whole new market for you…? Just curious if you’ve considered this. Don’t hesitate to reach out by email too if this sounds interesting!

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dictation-for-gmai...
No. Even with the high immigration rate our population is shrinking. We're about to enter a disintigrative phase. Things are going to get worse and they'll stay that way for quite a while.
What's the story behind Amazon's SSR?
Cool, just enabled it right now. Will be great to have similar stuff for timezone.
And if the industry were better organized overall, the other workers in it would be taking home more, too. Support, customer service, technical writing, etc. It seems that programmers are pretty hostile to organizing as a group. Many here even defended the anti-poaching agreements that FAANG got in trouble for.

A lot of our innovation these days is coming up with new ways of extracting rent. The programmers don't directly do that but they make it possible at scale. Google, VISA, Yelp, etc.
I have always seen Tom Jobim’s “Águas de Março” as a beautifully-conceived usage of Shepard’s Tone in a song:

https://youtu.be/wBEesrdaRog
I think that run is going to be longer than my life. In 30+ years, I've yet to see this type of thing bite them hard enough to really hurt.
This is a common refrain, and the implementers are baffled by any security or privacy concern about it.
Why can't you also make a copy at the block level?
I'm not talking about passing anything, just putting it to a vote.
Please order a gopro at the same time so I can see it on video.
SpaceX employees draft open letter to execs denouncing Elon Musk’s behavior
I also read a high frequency trading blog that was posted here a few years ago. Same thing: hacking hardware and software so the first bytes of info could be grabbed from a stream and acted upon, instead of needing to wait for the whole package to have come in.

Also when I was in the demo scene on the Atari ST one had to do specific timings in the assembly code to be able to draw outside the screen's borders (so the borders were on screen but couldn't be drawn on by code).
Electron – Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
> (on a 5950X CPU)

Incremental builds are unlikely to benefit from multiple cores. I have a 5900x Desktop and recently bought a Laptop with 12700H. For some incremental builds, I'm getting the same performance. The Desktop Ryzen shines with full multiple builds (where the laptop gets hot and has to sabotage itself); or with running multiple programs without noticeable performance impact.
One out of ten odds are also much, much better than the lottery though.
For anyone coming from the rust side and just looking for a cross-platform rust frontend framework: although not covered in any details by the docs, you can cut out all the web stuff and run everything from cargo.

I have a small `hello-world` example of a rust-only Tauri application at https://github.com/Japanuspus/tauri-from-rust
Must be software engineers.
also, don't forget: it is safe.
Thank your for your reply!

> I'm a web dev, so I'm not comply to web spec but chasing it, as a web dev, I'm happy about this, so I take the web spec as granted.

Okay, now I see: As a web dev you are able to make use of all these new features. I do not know about current conveniences.
FWIW is that CSS should be portable across any browser/web view. And given that browsers nowadays occupy tons of memory (even though they are written in highly performant languages) I am still impressed by sciters small shipping size.

> If I'm building a app biz company, I may choose sciter. sciter is not "free" to use, I remember sciter used to tring allowed the static linking if the donation is good enough, but seems not reach the goal, which means can not get a static exe like https://github.com/wailsapp/wails .

Thank you for the recommendation!! It appears to me that his previous attempts to market his product have left a serious impression. I do remember stumbling about sciter a while ago, neglecting it as well. But I can't recall my reasoning.

> BTW, I'm sorry for the small app part, small should mean adapt or bend to sciter.

No worries, thanks for your input!!
"The total amount of information stored on its 50 spinning iron-oxide-coated disks--each of them a pizza-size 24 inches--was 5 megabytes. That's not quite enough to hold two MP3 copies of Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog.""

So maybe a dumb question... what were they doing with that thing back in 1956? That's such a small amount of data in such a large space, was this actually used to do anything useful after it was sold?
Instead of "fixing" every page with CSS, maybe the default style sheet is wrong and should be fixed?
> admonishing Democrats as a bloc for not trying to reform healthcare

Incorrect. I was admonishing them for not putting it to a vote.
We could be cruising along at 0.05c or so in nuclear rockets if we figured out a way to make enough profit off of space colonies to justify the expense of building them. The technology for nuclear pulse propulsion is not that difficult.
My wife is a teacher and I built the materials so that she could use them in her remote lessons. She shared with her colleagues, and growth was purely through word of mouth.
Guess we’re doing a “web UI on the desktop” morning on HN, huh?

Sciter has always been near the top of my list of tech I want to play around with. Last I saw the creator was working to get a JS runtime attached to it which might finally be the thing to motivate me to try it out.
If I'm trying to bring app to mobile, ionic is my first choose. Like fluter is not the first choice to build a web app. For tauri case, most tauri app shared part is web based, you can just put it into ionic, and deploy for mobile now.
The problem is bureaucrats are unfireable. The politician can't actually make them "do something" because they lack the power to incentivize them.
CPUs are mounted 'upside down' in the die. So they are as close as they can get to the body of the cooler.

Adding one to the bottom of the package wouldn't do all that much.
Tail calls are basically GOTOs, yeah. The bring a HUGE benefit of very clearly defining state flow between gotos which makes the compiler's job super easy.
> We have health permitting and inspection because people will do things like not fix freezers or leave a tray of raw chicken in 90 degree heat on a tray perched in the grease trap.

We are about to have a natural experiment take place related to this. In several states they have amended their health codes to take away the power of inspectors to actually do anything when they find such code violations other than tell the restaurant that they should fix it.

Their county/city health departments can only act now when there is verified report that someone was actually seriously sickened due to the restaurant's actions.
I'm not talking about passing anything, just taking down a vote of who is actually for and against Medicare for All.
Electron has a reputation for poor performance and slurping RAM...

But most of that is down to the architecture choice (using an HTML renderer) rather than the implementation.

I assume that means Wails has the same disadvantage?