skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Delete "Downloads". Everything in there is probably outdated (or soon will be) and can be downloaded again anyway.

Move the clutter to a folder in your cloud storage account. Configure that folder so it doesn't sync to your local device(s). In a few years you'll wonder why you still keep it around.
Another comment cited this Dan Luu article:
https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/

Apparently a lot more claiming evidence exists than sharing of actual evidence. One of the few things shared was a pseudoscientific explanation that stated precisely the opposite of your (and my) subjective experience:
That using the mouse is less distracting and can be better committed to muscle memory than "command keys".

I think that is patently false, and don't thing Tog should be taken as anything but a marketing hack.

Disclaimer: my knowledge of Tog is limited to what is presented in that Dan Luu article.
I wouldn't wear earbuds at night or for long periods of time though, ear wax buildup and whatnot.
I mean, if stupidity is what it takes to get the economy back into the state it was in 2019, I’m all for it.

Especially in matters of economics, the most dangerous people seem to be the most educated. They can’t leave it alone and perpetually try to refactor society for some non-economic purpose. When you finally get “an idiot” who removes the boot of the government, unsurprisingly (to everyone except the economists), the result is economic growth.
Absolutely!

I'm not into that space as much lately, as I have been years ago, but in a lot of newer marketing videos I can easily recognize the OpenCV signature markings. For example from tesla videos (not the typical public facing ones, but on the NVidia tegra side) or robotic startups
Some people say use browser that supports manifest v2 extensions, but where will anybody find such extensions? I think Google will remove all manifest v2 extensions eventually from their store.
I have similar made here in the UK. Love them, wear them for gigs plus when I go to a club.

For anyone in the UK check out the musicians hearing health scheme. They provide the plugs at greatly reduced cost, and I can't speak highly enough of them.

https://www.musicianshearingservices.co.uk/what-we-do/musici...
The Extent of GitOps
Last time this came up on HN, I thought folks were saying that even Brother had started to go down the dark path. I'm not seeing that sentiment here now, though.

Personally I love the Brother printer I've had for ~13 years now.
Battling Implicit Bias
My criticism isn't of GNOME en masse, but of this Attitude of "The users must be protected from apps and also from themselves". Other posts have outlined some of the concrete issues related to these decisions - usually when developers choose to intentionally remove functionality and knowingly cause user pain, it is in the service of some greater benefit; "This sucks, but users will have a net gain in the end"

My point is, the "net gain" simply isn't there - it's unclear if there is any gain at all from these decisions that plainly cause user difficulty!
Ive wondered for a while why (yes I know, piracy and security) we can't get Xbox subsystem for windows
I'm still using OpenCV 3 and am more than happy with it. Why does every library or application have to be blown up so much that it ends up being too big and complex for a voluntary open source project?
Many UX/UI design folks I know have unpaid side projects, they're just not FOSS.

Nonprofit org websites, event posters, flyers, t-shirts, illustrations, small utility apps, WordPress themes, unsolicited redesigns of well-known applications on Dribble, etc.

I spend my days convincing developers to make UI changes. Spending my nights and weekends doing the same thing but with even less authority does not sound like fun.
Or when you finish paying it off, and don't move somewhere else right away, you get to keep the money you would have been spending.
Something not really discussed here is technical report writing, something I’ve done a lot of while working on govt-funded research tasks, usually in the world of simulation-based training. The aim isn’t to write documentation or user-manuals, but to communicate findings from tech research / de-risking projects to decision makers and other stakeholders, in my case often exploring the question “is this technology ready to use in this context, and if so, what should we do next”. The findings themselves are often generated by tech staff, sometimes involving academics, based on building prototypes and then deploying them in a semi-realistic context with some tame users.

I’ve participated in report writing as author, editor and reviewer and over the years learned a lot about writing in general. Key for me was understanding the decision that the reader would make as a result of reading the doc, and then ensuring that the doc did in fact present the necessary evidence and ideally some actionable recommendations. The absolute worst thing was when people started writing and just hoped that the answer would somehow emerge (which I admit is sometimes a useful way of getting your thoughts straight), but then just stopped when they ran out of time / budget.

One of my most useful roles as a reviewer, was to conduct a 20% review, near the beginning of the writing, when I would confirm with the authors what sort of message they wanted to get across, and ideally storyboard how they were going to do it. Also, when multiple authors were involved, it was critical to make they sure they used styles etc consistently, and ideally adopted consistent terminology.

I also began to appreciate the importance of an executive summary – the bottom-line-up-front, on a single page or less. If the person who commissioned the work was senior enough, sometimes this was the only bit they would read themselves, leaving the gory detail to minions.
maybe systemd will come up with some kind of sandboxing that automaticaly converts TCP servers to unix sockets and unix sockets to TCP listeners available only in network namespace of individual users :-D

Actualy namespacing syncthing per user might be enough for every user at same system to run syncthing at tcp/8080 or whatever.
No one uses them because they don't work
I didn't hear about Robot Wars until 1996 (when I hastily put together a robot for Robots Wars III). What a fun and cool time when it was still "punk".
I work for a US company and I can tell that US management doesn't give a rat's ass on local customs until it bites them. You can raise and escalate and whatnot, they will still push the locals to implement the illegal/unacceptable stuff if not immediately then boiling the frog - anything goes until some agency or legal suit says whoa stop.
Nope it cannot.

I have been using 3.5 to write code. I wrote a 'simple' app (200-300 lines) that although 'simple' it took A LOT of back and forth with the 3.5. In the end I had to spend a couple of days combing through it to add some key features (i.e. set values to zero so you don't see old data, etc.). Basically crude (but smart?) coding (I am not a professional developer).

When I finished the code and the app was performing EXACTLY as I wanted (v1.0), I thought to start planning for the v1.1 and when I pasted my code to the 3.5 and asked it to 'work on it on the new features' it was a shitstorm :)

Perhaps it was me feeding the requirements 'wrongly', but it was like pulling teeth 'guiding' it to correct even the simplest mistakes.
I think because it's a relatively 'younger' field, there is a bit more need to know about the foundations in AI than in programming. You hit the perimeters a bit more often and need to do a bit of research to modify or create a model.

Whereas it's unlikely in most programming jobs you would need to do any research into programming language design.
This perspective is still looking through a relative lens though, a form of stupidity (no offense intended, all people are a product of the flawed culture they are raised in).

How to make ALL people less stupid on an absolute scale is what humanity should set its sights on. Science was a good attempt, but that ideology too is stuck in a relativist framework.
> It's not crazy when you understand the Swedish model

the only thing i’m questioning is the idea that the postal company is allowed to not deliver mail. it just looks very wrong to me.
Funny how the article seems to be selling this as "not innovating". I was genuinely surprised when I discovered that it was just a social media post and not some ad-entrusted clickbait repackaging that theverge.com article while trying to one-up it with the "no innovation" claim.
Why be jealous and only feel bad about it? Let the envy motivate you to create great things! There are a million tiny hobby project ideas out there that you have the power in your hands to actualise.
Ask HN: Who do you look up to?
In your profession or in your life, who's your role model?

For me, it's Andrej Kerpathy and Jay Alammar coz their understanding of concepts and ability to explain is on another level.
Personally, I embrace this, I have some structure, where I put stuff long-term, like pictures / documents / movies / music / code
Everything else gets to live in the Downloads and Desktop folders, and they get to be copied into subdirectories indefinitely, by year.

And honestly, I think it's great to take a stroll through my history, I end up on the lowest levels, my C:\ drive from the DOS era, along with directories of backups of floppies.. It gives me an idea what life was like back then, who I was, how I thought about things.

Storage becomes cheaper every day, and the data from back then is so insifnificant, the first 10 years of my computing fits comfortably within what capacity a new version of Firefox takes up.

SO yea, I don't delete stuff, almost ever.
Maybe I'll go shoot a few Ubuntu ISOs once in a while, but all in all, everything gets to stay.

Oh the horror and joy of seeing which gifs 14 year old I decided to download off of IRC :D
This doesn't resonate with me because I grew up with mouse and gesture support and I left for a reason.

Now I guess I need to say this, if you find yourself intimidated or put-off by keyboard-centric workflows THATS FINE. I think the real problem is we assume that keyboard workflows are necessary for mastery, especially when we first start, and so people get all defensive about not jumping into vim/emacs. On the flip side, if you did embrace this way of life and actually do look down on people who don't, stop, you're making it harder for everyone and giving us keyboard warriors a bad name.

I got the bug after years of playing sc2. It gave me an innate sense for how to do a series of actions quickly and mechanically while leaving my mind free to do more strategic thinking. I just can't get enough of this mindset which is why I try to cram it into every app I can.

But I'm having to come to terms with the fact that new generations of programmers don't know how to touch type, let alone adopt emacs or neovim. Hell, people are starting to use chatgpt to just yell at their computer to create code with their damn voice, which would make keyboard-centric workflows akin to writing in cursive, an overly-specialized skill that will be seen as increasingly obsolete as new forms of communication overtake them.

I won't lie, that makes me sad on a level, but it would be unrealistic of me to expect others to go through the same training I did when it simply isn't as relevant to their lives.
I disagree so, so strongly with this. C++ programmers are one of the most religious groups around, eclipsed only recently by the rust community.

Try telling a C++ programmer RAII is not a good idea. I dare you. Or smart-pointers. Or that the STL is mostly-garbage..

Trying to honestly have these conversations is typically an exercise in starting a religious flame-war.
It almost seems like they are conflating things on purpose. They mostly use the name Mozilla without specifying which it is. Actually I was trying to find sources now and reporters seem to be doing the exact same thing.

We know they are paying large sums to the top executives. Is the corporation paying this or the foundation? You cannot donate to the corporation so maybe the donations alone (without google money) is enough for their expenses. It's more consufing because if I am not mistaken the top execs of the corp are also top execs of the foundation. Regardless, since one owns the other, they probably have legal ways to move money around. Excluding the people who are actually trying to build a browser, the whole organization is super suspect. As far as I know they never respond to criticism either.
On MacOS, consider Orion Browser by Kagi.

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There's some things you can do to quieten a bedroom passively at least. Closed windows, noise muffling vents (because fresh air is also important during sleep). Thick and heavy curtains will muffle a lot of sounds and prevent it from bouncing around, the bigger the better (wall to wall, floor to ceiling). You can have another layer of that around your bed, old style curtain beds. Carpet on the floors instead of laminate or something else.

Next level would be adding noise insulation to the walls and the like, but that's a bigger time/money/effort investment.

Moving to the suburbs or the countryside is an option, but won't be a panacea; you'll have different sounds, sound travels further, houses won't be built with city noise in mind, and they're likely to be older so less well insulated to begin with.

Anyway, passive noise insulation first, I wouldn't use earbuds or anything covering / plugging the ears, and things like white or pink noise generators are a last ditch effort (they will put constant sound pressure on your ears instead of silence, idk if that's harmful but it's something to keep in mind)
On the crowdfunding page [1] they revealed causes why they decided to run the campaign:

> Our goals with crowdfunding the development of OpenCV 5 are several: 1) To make OpenCV 5 our biggest release ever, with the most community participation of any version so far, 2) To prove to other struggling open source projects that crowdfunding is a viable option over seeking corporate donations exclusively, 3) To create a sustainable method of fundraising that OpenCV can return to year after year, making the overall organization and project more robust to global instability.

> Recently, due to global conflicts and instability, OpenCV has lost several core team members, and this has slowed progress on both new feature development and the handling of bugs and requests in the GitHub repository.

> Crowdfunding development of a big Open Source project like OpenCV is a big move. We aren’t aware of ANYONE doing it at this scale. As a non-profit organization, we are constantly fighting to find funding, but we always find support in our community. Instead of spending our time chasing big checks from billionaires, we are putting that community front and center.

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/opencv-5-support-non-prof...
After my third ECT I am skeptical about anything involving electricity and the brain. It's all guesswork atm.
Discussion earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38427864
You confused money with control of companies again. If you just randomly split the control of companies into many people you don't get more decisions, you get LESS decisions as you get boards that are gridlocked and paralyzed by indecision due to having basically hundreds or thousands or even tens of thousands of "bosses" who are all screaming different things.

This is how you end up the management class of people who do basically nothing and collect huge bonuses for it, running companies into the ground slowly by not making them taking any risks/not trying to do anything.
> because it will have to respect warranties

How? If they leave how can a fine be levied against them? EU?
Lots of theories on this paradox, which is not unique to Germany nor EU, but seems to be a manifestation of economic development in general.

Some thoughts on which might go towards an explanation:

- immigrants (unsurprisingly) are mobile, are prepared to move to the work. Job categories where the labour shortage is most acute, as all on-location jobs, many of which are located in cities and regions unattractive to native workers

- work is hard and unrewarding. Native workers won't do the work for the compensation offered, immigrants usually do not have the privilege of saying no

- too long to train, then too hard to retain. No incentive for employers to hire-to-train, only to see trained up workers convert their training into higher paying offers elsewhere, so employers just satisfy themselves with smaller companies, less growth. Or hire foreign workers

- democratic incentive to keep consumer costs low. What is good for worker is bad for the consumer. Short term fix of increasing labour pool with cheaper labour solves the short term political needs for politicians subject to popularity votes

- demographic crisis. Not having enough kids, over the past few decades, now coming home to roost. Even if incentives were provided to local workers, it would still not make up for the shortfall

- overeducation. Modern economies moved young people toward University education, whereupon graduates emerge with middle class, white collar, knowledge work aspirations. Push to educate might have inadvertently denuded the population of workers willing to do skilled trades

- status competition. All of the job roles with highest degree of labour shortage are low status occupations. No bueno for anyone who wants to 'better themselves'. Society wide failure to correct the erroneous de-valuing of essential work, another bird coming home to roost.

Probably others, but this is what I got
I have seen right here on HN where my request cannot be processed, but it loads fine in a private browser window.

Logged in users receive more errors.

Thanks, caching, for allowing me to continue procrastinating.
I'm sorry but you certainly never had to cross France from one side to the other in recent years.

My favorite highways are the Spanish ones. You can drive for hours completely calm without a worry in the world. Very long straight roads with calm people driving. It is a complete breeze to drive for hundreds of kilometers without stressing you. The only problem is when driving close to urban centres over there.

If you look on statistical data, you will see that France keeps increasing the death on the roads since the past ten years, whereas Germany keeps lowering: https://etsc.eu/euroadsafetydata/
I don't know how the Blue Yeti continues to get so much praise. i got one years ago when the hype was especially fresh. People were using it over their headset mics for comms while gaming but I swear there is no way anyone who recommended them for that ever heard the mic from the other end. It picks up everything. Even on an arm with a shock mount and pop filter it's still better to just use a properly directional headset mic. Better to sound like you're talking over a can and string than to have every little sound clearly audible.
You don't think Tesla owners would seek reimbursement if they cannot service their cars anymore? The government would likely get involved to avoid Tesla car e-waste, either to force car returns and repayment or to allow 3rd party mechanics to work on their cars.
Wrought iron and mild steel are more or less functionally equivalent. One other reason why cast iron is so brittle is because it contains quite a bit of silicon.
curl can do this: https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH.html

It's pretty useful in test suites where you don't want to open a public TCP port (even on localhost), for obvious security reasons but also because it's hard to pick an unused port without conflicting with other tests running at the same time. Example test using this: https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/blob/master/tests/test-cu...
Just curious, did your monitor flicker randomly when changing screen content and while connected to a MacBook?
CO2 readings from Mauna Loa show failure to combat climate change
I've used Firefox consistently since about 2006, and it is true. We use gmail and meet in work - both are snappier and break less in chrome than in Firefox. I probably spend 30% of my browser time on those two sites in work.
Ryedale Society of Model Engineers
They are good for the stock. There is no evidence they are good for the company, its workers, or the economy.

Stock buybacks have destroyed companies like GE and Boeing.

This is very well covered in the book about Boeing - Flying Blind. A bunch of Jack Welch mentees did the same trick, selling the company for parts and buying back the stock - until there was nothing left to sell. It was very "profitable" for a while, though!

It's not a tool for company growth - it's an accounting trick to make the wealthy ultra-wealthy.

There is a reason why buybacks at these levels were illegal (or at least very hard) until the early 80s, but there were multiple pro-big-business "reforms" that took root under Reagan which are now wrecking sensible Capitalism.
Or counterpoint, Brother is a Japanese company instead of an degenerate American company. That is worlds apart in terms of business strategies.
Yash – Yet Another Shell
Sure, but at the most, having to put up with a touch screen is a minor annoyance, and for the most part, you really don't need the functionality that's gated behind those controls. It's a little annoying, yes.
Pages that use the features that are enabled in edge but not in FireFox. Such as WebGPU.
sometimes Pillow-simd is nice as well.
It seems a little less magical when you do it for a long time, but yes, it is kind of magic.

I wish, as a practicing EE, that it was easier to transmit the knowledge in a faster way than doing it for a long time. Unfortunately, nobody seems to have figured out how to teach it.

It bums me out a little bit. I really love what I do, and I think it's magic too. I wish I could share that with more people.
I love this quote so much:

”
We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:
Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.
The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.
– Bruce Tognazzini
”

The question one needs to ask from oneself - am I a poweruser or do I just enjoy yak shaving.

I used to configure everything ”so it’s exactly right for me”. At some point I switched to mostly using default options for everything, and if given the option, choosing what ever had best default options (for myself). I like my computer use much more nowadays as stuff tends to ”just work” and I can focus on actually just doing stuff.
New AI Model Outperforms Google's Powerful Palm-2