skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of these examples are just the opinions of the author rather than actual problems.

For example:

>3. General graphics APIs issues:

> No high level, stable, sane (truly forward and backward compatible) and standardized API for developing GUI applications (like core Win32 API - most Windows 95 applications still run fine in Windows 10 - that's 24 years of binary compatibility). Both GTK and Qt (incompatible GTK versions 1, 2, 3, 4 and incompatible Qt versions 4, 5, 6 just for the last decade) don't strive to be backwards compatible. The Qt company also changed the licensing model for their toolkit which makes using the library under Linux problematic to say the least.

Firstly, I've seen a LOT of Windows 95 apps that do not "still run fine in Windows 10" -- in fact I'm not even certain how you could quantify "most" here because I made a living for several years doing updates of old apps for companies to get them to run on modern supported systems. In many cases using Wine things just worked but many older API calls broke older apps in Windows 10.

> There's no universal unified graphical toolkit/API (and e.g. Wayland developers will not implement it) akin to Win32 which means applications using different toolkits (e.g. Qt, GTK, EFL) may look and behave differently and there's no way to configure all of them once and for all.

This isn't true on Windows or MacOS either and I'd argue isn't a necessity anymore. Don't get me wrong, I get the appeal. Look and behaviour stability of a whole slew of first-party apps went out the Window with Windows 8 (arguably earlier at the introduction of the ribbon and auto-hiding the menu bar).

For the past ten years it's been "stick the web on the desktop" so you get apps like Teams and Slack that look nothing like more traditional applications and have no consistency from app to app. Not to mention there's no behavioural consistency across platforms (let alone within each platform) in those kinds of apps.

The author throughout suggests that if there's no purpose-built configuration GUI, it's a problem. Here's an example:

> Both PipeWire and PulseAudio are not configured out of the box to support multi-user mode (e.g. multiple users sharing the same device simultaneously) and configuring them to enable this feature is impossible for the average user (no gui whatsoever, you need to edit text files).

Then they go on to say:

> ! It should be possible to configure pretty much everything via GUI (in the end Windows and Mac OS allow this) which is still not a case for some situations and operations.

If you never do anything advanced on either of those operating systems then I agree you can get everywhere with just a GUI. However, this is just factually false -- Windows and MacOS do not provide configuration GUIs for every possible setting.

If you have to open regedit to do anything, this is functionally not superior to "editing text files", and MacOS simply doesn't offer you configuration where they don't think you need it, forcing people to edit .plists or use the defaults command-line instead.
Fascinating, thank you for sharing and in such detail
You missed something: https://youtu.be/mb_RrC2F5bM?t=82. Patches of Aidar, Dnipro-1, Donetsk and Azov prominently displayed in the background. You can see Azov goons at: https://youtu.be/mb_RrC2F5bM?t=94.
I wouldn’t know anymore, but I hope it’s still viable.
The book of Proverbs, a book on Wisdom, puts it this way: "The kisses of an enemy may be profuse, but faithful are the wounds of a friend." It tries to capture this paradoxical idea that harm can be to our benefit. Jesus had an interesting way of saying something I find to be similar: "Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it." He was talking about a woman who looked back at the destruction of a past life in a place of Sin with longing.

I like playing video games and especially to compete in them so the place I first really got this idea was from there. There are people who fear playing ranked in competitive ranked video games. They fear it because they are afraid to lose rating, because they think if they lose rating they will be seen as bad. They really want to be good. So it scares them to lose rating. So they don't play ranked and because they don't play ranked they aren't tested. As a consequence of that they don't improve as they could have, but others do. So they stay about as good as they were while others improve. In sharp contrast one of the best players I know of in the world had a different mindset. He commended the practice of intentionally seeking out fights and dying. In the game he recommended this strategy, this was not the optimal strategy and he knew that - in tournaments he didn't use it, but he recommended to the learner. It had the property of maximizing the amount of learning he got per unit of time.

When someone tries to seek to stay where they are and avoid judgement, what they get is judgement, because it is deserved. When someone tries to seek to be under judgement, what they get is praise, because the judgement isn't deserved.

What I'm trying to get at here is sometimes our ego tries to protect us, because it wants good for us, but we need to be wiser than it is. The present, the short term, it is only here for a moment. What we are going to experience later is what really matters. So it isn't a great bother if we lose horrifically. Whatever errors someone might heap upon us: this is wonderful, a great opportunity to learn and grow.
>That scenario exists merely in your slippery slope fallacy.

It does huh? When I was growing up, I'd chance upon some people with thoroughly unpleasant opinions. Everyone in the neighborhood knew about them. Everyone ignored them. Nowadays, you've got mobs coordinating amongst one another to inflict harm on someone over a disagreeable worldview.

So no, that it exists only in my mind is, and always will be hogwash. Once again, it takes someone principled to stare down the angry mob and say "not one step further, y'all cool it."

I'm absolutely fine with doing away with NDAs as a recognized legal instrument to be quite honest. The conscience of good men being burdened or weighed down when justice demands one speak out is one of the legal system's longest standing shames in my opinion.

Libel reflects more on the character of the Libeler than of the Libeled, and the truth is a foolproof remedy, which makes it obvious to everyone who the fool/scoundrel in the room is. If anything, one can have Libel laws utilized as a powerful tool of oppression, particularly when wielded by those with disproportionate power or means at their disposal.

That Liberty invites the possibility of poor behavior or the actual exercise of freedoms unencumbered by threat of a nebulous System is a fear I am 100% familiar with, and okay with. It's worth it. There are more people on Earth looking to place fetters on everyone else that I don't see any reason to encourage anyone to do so no matter the convenience.

>Real freedom follows the principle 'the freedom of each person stops where that of others begins'.

Congratulations. You just made my point why a library is best served in stock books that it's community may not like, in the interests of creating availability for the reader that just might need it! Or why free speech absolutism is the most prudent treatment of speech! Anything less is one person treading on another's freedom.

Good of the goose, good of the gander. You don't get to silence one group, (your freedom) because (your freedom) stops where their freedom begins. You may think it's a good idea. They may be really annoying to you. But just as you get to voice your bit, they get theirs. Anything else is self-referential inconsistency, to which the punishment is beatings with an organic carrot. No exceptions.
Cursorless is an editor created for editing with voice control. It is built on top of Talon Voice and VSCode. Every token in the file is marked with a "hat," and you can refer to different pieces of your code without having to place your cursor there by stating the color/shape of the hat and the letter that the hat is above.

I started using it to help with some RSI, and honestly when I go back to a keyboard to use emacs evil mode it feels awkward compared to cursorless (other than the fact that it allows me to get out of VSCode, but that's a personal preference...).

This tutorial video gives a short taste of what cursorless is like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6lM68jU2iI
And here is a link to the documentation:
https://www.cursorless.org/docs/
I mean, organic food is probably not causing you any harm other than potentially financial, so that's fine.

The best food advice IMO is to ignore 99% of what's in the supermarket, and buy mainly fresh meat, fresh fish, and mostly lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. It's not even a particularly accurate heuristic, but if people ignored anything that came in a box or can, people would probably be 10x healthier.
I value the absence of house fires too much to buy no-name power banks and chargers (chargers also come with the extra risk of yummy 230V on the output).
Fascinating. Perhaps drop me a line if you’re in town.
Do many places actually do net metering? Where I live, feed-in tariffs are 1/4 or less of the electricity supply cost. Net metering isn’t sustainable if you amortise the infrastructure cost over the energy supplied. Even so we’ve seen the static connection fee portion of our bill rise much faster than supply costs.
Yes! Lived there 7 years.

You can’t compare SF or any city in the US to NYC.

Sf and the bay is a boring piece of suburbia that shouldn’t be inflicted on anyone before 35.

Go .. run!
Yes! I particularly love this performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFcb-XF1RPQ

Definitely an underrated movie.
So curious to read these comments of yours. There is some truth in them, cloaked in all sorts of wild talk… “semidemonic parasites” !!! Is this serious?

Anyways, how desired is it really to weaponize the jealousy of the masses against those who have been given wealth? Any successful movement needs the buy in of some people in power. The strong rule the weak.

And after all, slavery was and is a human institution; it is debt-servitude that maintains our social relationships. Don’t think it’s so simple as ousting the master.
Exact numbers depend on panel technology, but if you really want to get into the recycling argument stuff that isn’t consumed to generate power is obviously a net win over nuclear fuel. Reprocessing doesn't let you create energy from nothing while solar does let you create energy from material inside the sun.

In term of mining, look at all the material needed to construct and maintain a nuclear powerplant. A significant portion of why nuclear is so expensive is all the stuff needed to build and maintain one.
I think that's where the fracturing comes in. For whatever reason, distros will ship with the new thing. The past 2 or 3 places I've worked adopted MATE (a continuation of GNOME 2). And, of course, there was instability at these places in figuring out which direction to go.
Ask HN: If money was no object, what ambitious project would you work on?
You have horrible luck. I've never had an AC-to-DC converter die and I've owned 6 going back to 2006 timeframe. Two of them are still used daily and they're from 2011 and 2013 respectively.
What I especially love is the internationalization problem examples you can provide that relate to this. One simple example is what happens in case sensitivity if I have a file named "Große" and then try and open "GROSSE".
It is pretty frustrating that Linux failed to take advantage of Windows spending a decade with the tiles two-screen desktop and all the associated disasters of Windows 8.

Ultimately, linux on the desktop needed a big sponsor. IMO it should have been Intel who had some spare billions to put the heat on Intel and keep abreast of hardware adaptation since Linux is shoehorned into so many things, but Intel was ruled by drooling MBAs and that's why it's in the predicament it's in.

Sun would have been a good one if it didn't blow up, and so tied to Solaris.

Maybe the sponsor should have been the EU. The US had OS marketplace supremacy with Microsoft and to a lesser extent Apple. The EU should have poured a couple billion into it for economic independence, and fostering their own dynamic software industry. AMD was sort of EU's hedge on Intel, Airbus was their hedge on Boeing.

Heck the US military should have done it, and still can, for effective cyberdefense. Microsoft and Apple won't open their codebases for hardening or deep dives into hardware+software security, but Linux can. Alas no way the lobbyists for the private OSs would allow it.

Linux is a lot like democracy, the worst OS, except for all the others tried.
Now you know how the rest of us feel when Americans say things like "I flew from NV to AZ, stopping in FL".
> Sure, you could have a syntax for requesting (potentially recursive) nested resources in the query string of a REST API

Or you could just make an endpoint that gives you the data you want.
Second for Inigo Quilez. Wonderful presentation for procedurally generated at. He’s also ex-Pixar and creator of https://shadertoy.com (which is also a great resource) and https://graphtoy.com
Anker is pretty reliable and far from a no-name IMHO
Neat work and congrats on the launch!

Speaking of Cypress Dashboard drop-in replacement: https://currents.dev is a must-be-mentioned tool!

As well as the open source and free https://sorry-cypress.dev

Sorry for the shameless plug :) We have also been working for a while on time travelling. Hoping to share some results soon - your work is very inspiring.

Great to see such a variety of tools that make CI testing less painful!
NixOS with encrypted /boot partition and detached LUKS header all on a USB stick
Not only has this been considered in California, it’s actively done in India.
No one is saying that you shouldn't use ECC, obviously you should if at all possible. But even if you don't have it, that is no reason not to use ZFS.
> Note - roughly 6% of the US is developed space, less than 3% of that land is urban.

Undeveloped land that people actually want to live on/near is a dwindling resource. Sure Kansas is filled massive amounts of undeveloped land but you don't see Americans rushing to move there.
Libraries are part of a larger "research ecosystem", so they can exclude all the loud and talkative bits of research because there are other places it can live like the hallways and cafeterias and text messages people use. Open offices are undifferentiated. There's nowhere to segregate disruptive activities to because there's nowhere else to go, except for maybe some small concessions to meeting rooms. That space can't even be a good space for everyone because it's constantly serving a hundred mutually conflicting uses rather than providing specialized purpose the way a reading room does.
I guess not all land is the same. Undeveloped land around NYC is scarce, and that’s where you want to have solar panels for the city.
Not sure when I’ll be able to get to NYC (work is nuts and I had another kid a few days ago) but I’m located in Boston if you can get up here. My email in profile if you want to meet up sometime.
> The author then compounds the mistrust by stating that by 2050, we might need up to 0.5% of land dedicated to generating solar power.
ZERO POINT FIVE percent. And I’m supposed to think that’s a problem? 10 million acres out of the nearly 2 billion we have

This comment reminds me of the early naïveté about carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

CO2 increased from 0.03% to 0.04% of atmosphere? ZERO POINT ZERO ONE percent. And I’m supposed to think that’s a problem?
I would be curious what the arguments against solar canopied parking lots would be other than the cost of the installation (due to the obviousness of that one, sometimes something just costs more than it’s worth).

A parking lot on a hot day is one of my least favorite environments to walk through, and with solar cells or not, I’m surprised more parking lots aren’t at least shaded. Stick an installation up there and you could be powering the store or mall with some of that saving on utilities, maybe charging some cars and providing that all important shade. So I’ve always been curious what the arguments against it are, and the only one I can think of is the upfront cost of such an installation.
That is, in fact, what the Filipino-American writer chose. The option proffered by the sensitivity reader was to assign race to characters.
Sounds like a good place to put solar panels then?
1) You are saying that a call for the use of wits had you decide for a label of 'misunderstanding'. What?!

2) And your opinion should be postulate in discussion? Especially when it was reminded that the representational nature of the mind and knowledge was recognized since the dawn of thought then called a main problem (Kant) and the starting point (Schopenhauer) at relative maturity? You think that just saying that "you see otherwise" suffices?

3) And the critical difference should be one of "degrees"?! It has to be _proven_, whether it is 'impossible' or 'almost so'. And if that rhetoric that sounds like sophism just meant "'difficult' in front of obstacles", well that should be more obvious to the architect than to the commenting passer-by looking from the border of the construction site - it is a very gratuitous note which wastes everyone's time; and it if it meant so, it should have expressed so instead of literally different statements (and morally "bait").
It makes even more sense for web apps. It will tell you how it came to be that a web page received the request, what context it has, how the cookie is resolved to an auth context, how to access any query args, what is available to support the page.
Just because you know for sure you got the drug DOES NOT mean "no placebo effect is possible" (!)

That just means you can't possibly have a proper control. BIG difference.
When the process being studied has more moving parts than humans can grasp in working memory there comes a limit after which we can't understand it anymore. Maybe the nice clean abstract concepts we expect are not there. It could be perfectly correct and yet complicated like front-end spaghetti code.
Many mountain ranges are surprisingly young, geologically speaking. They rise quickly, but also erode rapidly. The tallest ranges (Himalaya, Andes) are relatively young, at roughly 20--50 mya based on a quick Wikipedia read.

The higher and more rugged the range, the younger, in all likelihood.
Yeah, I caught that too. A lot of comments sounds like they're relying on Prisma/Husara/etc. to map directly to the database. I'm sure it's fine for some use cases (such as when prototyping), but I prefer to design and build out GraphQL APIs with a more UI/product-centric approach, which hide most of the database details.
It is nice that laptops are now often USB-C powered.
Transmitting electricity from Kansas to either of the coast sounds incredibly impractical.
Stop waiting. This may not be popular with the hive mind, but if you want kids and she doesn’t: move on.

I love my wife more than anything outside my family, but the kids are on another level. In 20 years you may not remember your current partner’s face. But you won’t pass a moment without thinking about your children, if you choose to have them.
Welcome! Incarcerated life is like an entirely different universe, to the point that people on the inside refer to life outside as "out there in the world." Experiencing it was very interesting in addition to horrifying.
So back in the day we solved the open office problem by putting walks and doors around each worker. We moved premises and took the opportunity to give everyone a (small) office with a door. About 70% of our actual floor plan was for common open space - big kitchen, diner, lounge etc. But for work you had a private space with a door.

Over 10 years later we bought another company and had their local staff over for a visit. Almost immediately a fairly loud person exclaimed "it's so quiet here!" (and not in a good way). Their office was separated into rooms of 4-5 people, so they were used to plenty of banter. Interestingly the quiet ones complained about the loud ones (but not the other way around).

We ended up with a somewhat hybrid model - we took on more space and made more open-plan areas, and small-team offices.

I'm a coder, do I like the solitude to focus. Others need more interaction. I think there's a danger in trying to propogate a one-approach-for-everyone. Different people have different needs. Creating a mix of spaces allows for mentorship at the beginning and an eventual migration to either a solitary space, or co-work space, depending on personality. This approach though never seems to get any press, it's always about the tyranny of open plan, or the soulessness of everyone being locked away in cells. (on HN its always the tyranny of Open plan :)
Hmm, computability is more of a mathematical formalism thing. Physical phenomena aren’t really at question; computability is trivial. But yeah, protein folding in silico is pretty tough.
You’re ignoring the 47% of land (per that article) dedicated to agriculture.
There were two popular submissions 3 months ago:

Teach your kids poker, not chess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31435034

Teach your kids bridge, not poker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31459044
Seems like a nitpick, maybe “undeveloped but readily developable” would have been more accurate but doesn’t really change the story.

.5 percent of U.S. land would be 12 percent of already developed U.S. land, which is a lot. It’s doubtful that all generation will happen on top of that but as they point out, it’s more efficient to generate close to where power is used; you lose less power in transmission and need less land for transmission lines.
Murder of Gwen Araujo
> I'm not sure why you believe your statements on your opinions of what "ought" to be should bear weight on what is nationally legal.

Do you not live in the US? I'm not sure why you would be confused about this. It seems like a silly thing to be confused by.

> Literally all of society does.

This is false.

> why do you feel that commentary on social media is inherently deserving of weight, and at what point does your failure to garner interest take precedence over whatever your position may be?

It was made by humans who have inherent worth which I take to be self-evident? And it did garner the interest I was hoping for - I got answers from kinder people than you who explained things to me in easily understood sentences that I found no flaw with. Ctrl+F "thank". Actually even the idea of garnering interest as the important thing seems kind of suspect to me. That small interaction got the least interest out of all that I've said - yet is the one I'm most glad to have made. I would not be greatly saddened if the only interaction I had was with that single post.
I agree but the OP is the one who brought up crowded city centres like that was relevant to the amount of wind. I don't understand what relationship they were trying to suggest there.
Much less the fraction of a penny range Xanadu wants!
The film Arrival (2016) is well known for hiring consultants- experts in linguistics, other scientists, even Stephen Wolfram- to improve its portrayal of an alien language and the people working to decipher it.

Nobody complains when a consultant is hired in this capacity, and yet sensitivity readers, whose role is broadly similar, are somehow considered bad? It's not like they rewrite your whole book- they offer notes for things that don't make sense given the characters and plot, just as a developmental editor might.

A publisher doesn't just print the text they're given, they edit it, suggesting changes they believe will help it be better (and thus sell better). There's a back and forth dialog between editors and authors, and it's entirely possible either side might walk away if there's no willingness to compromise. This happens to all books that aren't self-published. Adding another type of editor to the mix isn't gatekeeping.