skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Moom which lets me resize/reposition/layout sets of windows using keyboard combos.

But even with full screen windows, you don’t have to four-finger swipe between them–you can still cmd-tab or use spotlight to switch apps.

I encourage everyone to learn more keyboard shortcuts, it is just so much faster to stay on home row vs reaching for a mouse or trackpad.
So, HSR will have exactly the same issues as current airports right now: lack of transportation. So the main selling point of HSR (saving time) is diluted somewhat by a necessity to rent a car next to the train station. I’m wondering how many ppl will pick planes just because the traffic is better outside of downtown where all the train stations are.
I believe the comment is a reference to:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
Both things can be true at the same time, though. They lost their house because they were forced to sell it.
I've noticed youtube tabs communicating with me like some satanic angel on my shoulder

no schizo
Very tempting, Thanks for sharing your subreddit.
We we're playing XPilot on X termials on a VAX 25 years ago with no problem (though local university network). I would agree the problem had been solved, but no progress to internet scale. 99.99% of dev effort went into an endless stream of window managers.
Wow. I expected that it would install a keylogger or something, but this is so low tech that I'm both impressed and disappointed. Impressed because it's (a) so elaborate for what it is, (b) it's cheaper than procuring an actual virus, and (c) it is supported by existing scam infrastructure. Disappointed because I expected some exciting new attack vector.
Pretty sure even the first version around 20 years ago had expansion discs filling the exact same role, perhaps less insidious as there weren't that many available. You could say they just copied Barbie's™ timeless upselling strategy, doesn't make it any better of course.

Just out of curiosity I checked and it costs around $840 to buy Sims 4 with all it's DLCs, just... wtf.
What do you call assisted suicide that is not assented to by the subject?
Uber subsidized tech/finance employee commute trips for many years. Uber was frequently twice the price of public transportation anywhere in the city for a point to point trip. It was irrational not to use Uber. Many businesses (facebook/google) provided private company only commuter buses, which meant tech employees never had to face the realities of public transportation and could easily avoid it.

NYC has a functioning subway system that can land you 2 blocks from just about anywhere. There are entire areas of San Francisco you have to navigate bus transfers, bus transfers that were not predictable, to get to. Bus transfers nearly always inflate trip time significantly and are subject to the unpredictable force of traffic.

New York benefits greatly from economies of scale by use of NYC transportation. A subway that runs every 5 minutes is vastly vastly different from one that runs every 20 or 30. How much parking does New York provide? Because if you can pay, parking in San Francisco is not too hard.

So while it wasn't difference in wealth levels directly, different wealth levels opted into different forms of transportation, leaving the public options woefully less used, and particularly less used by those with power (those with money).
Libertarianism is close to anarchism except for army, police and law.
Ask HN: What work is being done on non-proprietary cloud computing protocols?
It's occurred to me a few times that I don't mind if our architecture uses cloud-based serverless tech, lambdas, message queues, storage etc. - but we should be talking to such endpoints using non-proprietary protocols that would allow us to switch to another cloud provider if necessary (possibly even our own non-cloud-based provider, esp. while developing/debugging).
Is any work being done on this front? Is it likely to be successful? What are the major hurdles?
> My issue is that, under the proposed system, two people who each own half of Los Angeles will pay a lot of property taxes, because the other half of Los Angeles adds taxable value to their half, even if their half is unimproved.

That is the goal, isn't it. To remove speculation from land ownership. Under this model the owner of the unimproved part of LA has no right to the increase in his land value since he did nothing to improve it. He either continues paying increasing taxes, sells it, or starts improving it. I see no bad side to it.

> But one person who owns the entirety of Los Angeles will pay no property taxes, because the unimproved land is worthless. This system guarantees that there will be a small number of people who own vast quantities of land, because that ownership structure minimizes the total tax burden.

What would be this persons incentive to own all this land under this model? Besides, somebody on the edges of this property starts some development and suddenly LA owners taxes raise.

> Sale of land would vanish to nearly nothing, because not only would the land have a very low cost of ownership - selling some of your land would raise the taxes you have to pay on the rest of it, the part that you keep!

This doesn't follow from anything. Land would have very low costs only if it is land that nobody wants, just like today. And selling your land will not lead to higher taxes on your remaining land unless the land that you sold gets improved in such a way that it increases the value of your land. Why do you think that landlords are entitled to value created by somebody else?

>The total amount of tax owed is different depending on the structure of who owns the land. Why does that make sense?

I agree, it doesn't make any sense. Luckily, your conclusion doesn't follow from anything that you wrote. The total amount of tax owed is different depending on the value of the land. Do you think that that also makes no sense?
Yep, I just used Remmina earlier today to go cross-continent and it was fine.
it’s out there :)
> A buy or sell offer system works pretty well for determining value.

Georgists, which are the subject of this thread, explicitly say that taxes should not be NOT based on improvements, just the "land value". So if the improvements have significant value, buy sell doesn't work.

I'll let you fight that with them.

> Profitability (no matter whether your abstraction for ownership is property or political favour) as a fundamental concept is a tax on the poor to the benefit of the wealthy.

Twaddle. The garbage man doesn't show up unless he's paid. Farmers don't grow enough food for others unless they're paid.

To first approximation, no one provides any essential service for free.
> Poland lost 20% of population in WWII started by Germany and Soviet Russia. Every fifth person dead.

Germany started the war. The Soviet Union was forced into it much later by Germany declaring war on them.

> Poland lost 20% of population in WWII

No country lost more people in WWII than the Soviet Union, as I'm sure you're aware. Your feelings of huge loss are shared by the Russians.

> You may also notice that Poland and Ukraine are on perfectly friendly terms with Germany.

It's just because Germany left Polan much longer than the Soviet Union did. With time, you'll also "forgive" the Soviet Union, their crimes pale in comparison with the Germans.

> It's really hundreds of years of Russia trying to subjugate us.

Poland has been occupied by many other countries[1]. It was Prussia and the Autro-Hungray Empires that occupied it for the longest, not Russia... that's how European politics always played out, a big struggle for smaller states living between the bigger ones... why single out Russia? Probably only because it was the latest invader and memroy from previous occupations is fading.

Do you really believe being hostile to Russia will somehow be benefitial to Poland in the longer term?... if history is anything to go by, you should watch both West and East of your border while trying to stay "friendly", or at least neutral, in relations with both.

[1] https://brilliantmaps.com/invaded-poland/
That's pretty much inevitable I think when chasing density.
Moved on to where?

Windows has adverts in the start menu!

Desktop Linux GUI is still painful and really only suitable for those who love to tinker.

Since I moved to Mac from Windows I’m thankful for macOS even if it could be better, it’s still much more usable than the alternatives.

I find myself spending more time on my professional work and less time fixing driver issues or fighting annoying in OS ads.
> At least then there will be less lingering suspicion that he was pressured into it for being a cost point.

How? Sure, the doctor probably didn't actively recommend it. But medical costs could very well be a significant factor in such an action.
'Tried to it right notwithstanding what masses think' and commercial success are not exclusive. Two examples. Clojure's maintainers very carefully vet what goes into the core language. It has been a source of frustration for some contributors too. But the net result has been more positive than negative and the language has been successful (relative comparison with Haskell). Second example is Lua. There was a comment by its creator (I'm paraphrasing from memory) 'Lua grows by answering why, not by answering why not'. But it still has found (again, relatively more) success, despite being conservative about language feature-set.
Well I have a Math BA and I can say that I haven’t done much long division by hand in the past few years but I sure know how to do it.
It's a bit nitpicky to go this direction, but in general having the display server implement all of the things X does is not necessary at all, especially because most apps, certainly browsers, essentially ignore those features of the display server, because they need more functionality and better performance.

That said, I would not be surprised if XFree86 was, at some point, significantly larger than contemporary web browsers, given the enormous amount of functionality that was loaded into it. Of course, modern web browsers definitely trump any old X server, so is this really relevant? I guess it depends. I get a huge sense that what people are longing for is a return to the "good ol days" when software was simple and fast, and X is a damning counter example, though it certainly doesn't mean that there's no point to be made at all, just that it is perhaps less black and white than people suggest.

I am not trying to say that feh is as complex or as slow as a web browser, only that in general, people treat the division of "native code" and "browser code" such that code running in a browser is always more bloated and slow. Somehow though, this is demonstrably not true. Looking at only very simple software with intentionally very limited scope is not going to give the whole picture. When you look at fairly complex software, the additional burden of having a browser underneath can fade away compared to algorithmic complexity issues and poorly optimized code. Your text layout and font shaping routines are probably going to struggle to compete with a browser if you have a very heavy layout to handle, and if you're doing accidentally quadratic things it's going to matter more than JIT or GC overhead.
That matches my experience with recipe websites lately. 4 cores for the ads, 3 for the author’s life story, 6 cores for the autoplay video showing an unrelated dish being cooked, 2 for the partner grocery delivery links, 3 for performance analytics, and of course 1% of a core to display the actual recipe. I have actually seen iPad Safari crash on trying to read a recipe.
I was taking apart my Dyson today to clean it out. I was thinking that it was elegant and useful. I sort of like the company because it doesn’t attempt to get in the way and just provides a nice experience for a tad higher price.

Then I thought vacuum cleaners have existed for a while now. There’s the Whirlwind, Bissel, Kirby, Electrolux, Hoover, Oreck, Dyson, and most recently iRobot. Each generation had their brand.

We’re living through cycles and computers with operating systems are no different. With all the Chromebooks floating around in schools today, I bet you’ll have a generation of kids who will do everything on a web browser in the cloud and won’t complain about not having an exposed filesystem.
I don’t think it should be a decision for the state to make at all, and certainly not one where a history of depression or mental disease would be permanently barring.
The contribution of kanban for personal task management seems to be limiting work in progress.

Overall it seems that kanban would work OK for car factories, where there is a fixed set of cards that is recycled, and very poorly for software projects, where backlogs are infinite and each card is unique.
Why can't we have both? L4 cache anyone?
With tetrahedra, at first I was expecting the n dimensional analog of taking a triangle, area n^2/2, plus the half-squares, area n (1/2), for the sum 1+…+n to equal n^2/2+n/2. This would require 4 dimensions for sum of cubes, though.
Yeah I think that's a matter of software, plus optimization for a particular use case. Looking at Geforce Now/Stadia/Xcloud/Luna, the underlying technology exists, it's just a (not so small) matter of updating RDP's video stack to be seamless.
I can't see Linux (or other GNU-desktop-nixlike) becoming a full-time macOS replacement for me because no DE works the way I'd like it to. You've got KDE (Windowslike), GNOME (what if iPadOS were adapted into a desktop OS), XFCE (middle ground between Windows and Classic Mac OS), and Cinnamon (Classic Windowslike), and Pantheon (what if iPadOS looked like Mac OS X Mavericks). None that are an obvious choice for someone who prefers a Mac-like setup. RavynOS/airyx/etc has been posted here a few times but is a long way away from being usable.

I've considered just building a true maclike DE myself but the process of getting a garden variety traditional floating window manager for Wayland set up makes my head spin, even with things like wl-roots existing. It doesn't feel the least bit accessible to someone used to building consumer-facing native desktop/mobile apps.
Apple constantly spams you with popup ads for their cloud services, far worse IMHO than any start menu nonsense. To each their own.
Curious that this article, from August 11, is posted today.

Since no one in the thread has mentioned it, the issue has been in the Canadian media recently due to a situation first reported on August 16 which was updated today. The first paragraph is ample summary of what transpired:

> A Canadian Forces veteran seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury was shocked when he was unexpectedly and casually offered medical assistance in dying by a Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) employee, sources tell Global News.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9061709/veteran-medical-assisted-...

And today a full investigation was announced:

https://globalnews.ca/news/9072857/canada-veterans-assisted-...

This is not what is supposed to happen and the Veterans Affairs employee involved will, I expect, be sacked or placed on leave. It is at the very least incompetence or lack of proper training, given that the law has only been in place since 2021.

**

For anyone looking to understand the issue in the Canadian context, and how we got here, here's my brief non-expert summary.

In 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada decided in Carter v Canada that our Criminal Code's prohibition on assisted suicide was unconstitutional:

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/ad-am/scc-csc.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_v_Canada_(AG)

That brought about Bill C-14 in 2016, which allowed those whose death was "reasonably foreseeable" to obtain MAiD:

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-14/royal-a...

A further legal challenge, Truchon v Canada, decided by the Superior Court of Quebec in 2019 required further legislative accommodation. This removed the restriction which required that death be "reasonably foreseeable" as it again violated the Charter. Hence the government introduced Bill C-7 in 2021:

https://parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/43-2/bill/C-7/royal-assent

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c7.h...

The eligibility requirements are now:

1. Be a mentally competent adult

2. Experience "enduring and intolerable suffering"

3. Complete the process involving paperwork, witnesses, physicians, etc...
You will have to do better than make rhetorical arguments.
Even if it’s more expensive and twice and long I will take a train over flying. Flying is awful and trains and nice.
It's a nice distinction. I find most article with "deep stuff about life" are just fluff, this is genuinely an interesting observation.

Like with work-life balance, I think the doing-being balance is a bit of a luxury. I mean, quite an important one, like having a balanced diet, but i suppose there are many people who lack it because they can't afford it. Maybe they are working two jobs, or are saving for kids' education etc.

It's also likely true that within some limit, more doing has delayed benefits, eg learning new skill for work vs chilling on a weekend. I'm not saying "doing" is better, just that it's a tradeoff, like everything else.

Mental health is a currency for "desk workers" just as physical health is for physical workers.
A contradictio in terminis.
Its people with no real life and world experience.
I'll add that the French had an anonymous baby depository for women who couldn't afford to care for their children.
Show HN: Euporie Console – a terminal console for Jupyter kernels
I've been working on a new terminal console for interacting with Jupyter kernels.

It can display rich output in the terminal, including images (using Sixel / Kitty / iTerm2 terminal graphics protocols), ipywidgets, LaTeX, and HTML. You can also save your terminal session as a Jupyter notebook.
You make a valid point, But I think a even a GPD like device wouldn't be comfortable on the lap while traveling if we have to crouch over while typing due to neck strain.

I think what's best in this situation is display glasses, Like VR headset but only that it outputs our computer/phone display for stereoscopic vision. I've been tracking such glasses for a while[1] as I have limited freedom of movement with my neck as its held by rods.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/16-wearable-low-latency-display...
Rumor has it that Mac will soon have ads on the AppStore
Well that's the problem, right? The more stable the substance you're trying to degrade, the more intense the conditions or chemicals you need. Teflon is inert as a rock, so if you for some reason needed to dissolve it in acid then you have to reach deep into the realm of impracticality and pull out demonic reagents like chlorine trifluoride or trihydridoboron.
As a fan of PKD, and a variety of others in the same vein, I'd probably be curious to read some of these books by these other authors.
Mac revenues are ~10%

This is a little misleading.

The Mac has had several record quarters since Apple Silicon Macs started shipping nearly two years ago. Let me repeat: a nearly 40 year-old computer has never sold better than it does now.

On a revenue basis, the Mac generates more revenue than the iPad; that's been the case for quite a while now.

Apple's latest quarterly report shows for the first 9 months of the fiscal year, Mac revenue is about $6 billion ahead of the iPad [1].

I get it; there are all kinds of different UI/UX paradigms that didn't exist back in the day and some of them are out of place.

But I've been using the Mac long enough to remember how fragile System 7 was and how INITs could crash your machine because everything lived in the same address space. On a 25 Mhz 68030-based Mac with 2 Mb of RAM.

The Mac is in much better shape now than it was a few years ago, when Apple couldn't ship stuff because they were beholden to Intel's processor roadmap, that was often late.

I don't mean to echo something we hear at each Apple presentation but these are the best Macs they've ever made. Old timers will remember the multiple times the Mac (and Apple) were doomed. I don't expect that to be the case; I guess we'll revisit when the Apple Silicon Mac Pro ships later this year or early 2023.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/FY22_Q3_Consolidated_Fin...
A sure way to identify C-suites at my current place is by MacBooks. Their close assistants, sorry, their chief of staffs are the same.
Wouldn't mortgaging and bootstrapping profitable land use become incredibly hard in a world where 100% of land value was taxed?
Apple themselves are to blame for that
Countries with No Property Taxes Where You Own Your Home
but it’s only been getting better for me.

Same.
Better than under their last functioning state, worse than all their neighbours. Note the only reason they don’t have a state is that the US keeps on propping up the UN Transition Government (Puppet) and bombing al Shahab who would otherwise have won the civil war long ago.
I think I might disagree with your assessment of DD.

I can't use it, but check out this guy's work. incredible detail

https://instagram.com/textrnr
The public transit around the bay area, which is served by Bart and Caltrain, is not very good.
> For example, get rid of all the footguns about expanding unquoted variables

That's what zsh did; $var is always the value of $var. Want field splitting? Use $=var. Want globbing? Use $~var.

I think bash is stuck in 1988 and is a poor clone of ksh. I think it's highly unfortunate it became the "de-facto 'modern' standard".
I got my dad a Mac about 10 years ago, and never got into the experience. I mean I got it for him, used a couple of days to tell him where was everything, delivered and then came back to my trusted thinkpad with i3.

About a year and a half I got a macbook from my employer even as a replacement from a T480 which was awful because of thermal throttling. After a couple of months, I got the m1 macbook air as my personal laptop. I guess the experience with the software I commonly use got better, but I feel like the biggest reason is that the experience with other laptops just became worse.
Lenovo doesn't have a case, it's a slap lawsuit. Ubuntu isn't targeted because it's not a competitor. The reason new companies can't compete in hardware is 1. Patents/IP, 2. Supply chain control and 3. Bad behavior from competing companies.
This reads like wishful thinking at best, with various historic references to hunter-gatherer, pre-modern, tribal societies expected to strengthen the point. Modern western society is much more complex. It is this complex structure that gives the average citizen amenities he doesn’t even know someone needs to take care of. Sure, you can have a primitive anarchic society without all these amenities, but to expect that someone in such a society would be willing to build roads and bridges and maintain nuclear reactors for the “communal good” borders with lunacy.
And then they use Adobe programms anyway. Having a Mac on your desk does look the kind so if you work in an agency.
It's a good read, thanks for sharing. I think it's an important discussion, despite how feasible "true" anarchy can or would be. In my opinion it's important to recognize that ruling by violence, or threat of violence, isn't just. We can do better.
How are you using this zipped list later? That could influence the design of the parsing function and the intermediary data structure.
nothing. you're probably saving a lot of money, something objectively true.

fwiw safari is the no 1 worst browser i have ever used, as a developer. it's hot garbage. not the renderer, the browser itself and its dev tools.

plus you need an apple account and a 10 trillion gb xcode install just to port your chrome extension to safari, what a joke.

and every couple of years apple decides to drop backwards compatibility for X number of products/services you've been happily using because they need to sell new machines or something.