skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say there are even more launchers and docks then tiling WMs.

Also I don't know what would need to be better about them. Something like ulaucher or Albert is much more powerful than what is available in other platforms and I don't know how one would improve their UI.
I think the premise is wrong when there still doesn’t exist a core set of frameworks that are abi stable on Linux. On competing platforms there are way more frameworks out of the box (CoreImage, CoreAudio, CodeML, SceneKit, AppKit, etc) and they don’t break as often.

I know in Linux they have fun things like snap and flatpak but it is really solving the problem using a bit of infrastructure and package management instead of doing it in the frameworks and programming languages themselves (which are what you are asking people to write apps in).
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=area+of+alaska+vs+area+...

EU is a lot bigger than Alaska and there's a lot of Europe it doesn't cover.
Imo, I think that Flutter is one of the best ways to make native Linux applications at the moment. It can look just like a GTK, macOS and Windows app and you have a more enjoyable experience.
There is a large intersection of Linux users and people who cherish their freedoms. For many people, using non-open source note taking software is a non starter because of the vendor lock-in and privacy concerns. Thus, you'll probably lose out more by not open sourcing the program than by open sourcing it and risk having some people not pay. I wager a lot more people is willing to pay than use proprietary software. Also note that open sourcing doesn't require you to distribute the code to everyone, you can give source code only to paying users if you are charging them money, though they will have the right to modify and redistribute. If they don't care about open source, they might as well just use Notion or Evernote. If someone is looking for an open source state of the art note taking program, I recommend Logseq.
One of the biggest cities in the US.

The shipping ETA problem seems to be very hit-or-miss. I've spent more time than I'd like to admit sifting through pages of "prime" results trying to find something that can arrive sooner than 3-7 days out.

And then sometimes every search result shows same/next day--but you absolutely can't rely on it because the packages have a ~50% chance of "running late" and get assigned a new ETA of what the non-prime shipping would have been. For order after order.
Kagi uses the same bangs as duckduckgo (and more), so there should already be 4 different bangs for it

https://duckduckgo.com/bangs?q=protondb
This isn't really that newsworthy. Grok was probably trained on ChatGPT logs, just like the litany of other chat-oriented LLMs that are also open source. They still should've filtered out the OpenAI canned responses (there are datasets with that filter).
Not sure if you’ll find this helpful. But I feel like I have similar traits. And these can also be sometimes labelled as ADHD (hyper focusing).

What helped we was to clean my life aggressively of all the distractions. I don’t use social media. I don’t subscribe to newsletters. I turn off most alerts on apps and use focus mode with whitelisted set of apps most of the time.

I funnel all content to RSS as much as possible. For newsletters I use kill the newsletter forwarder.

Even HN I funnel thru RSS.

Then I read RSS feeds only once or twice a day, deliberately, like a book or a newspaper. And there’ll be a couple of days per week where I might not even read at all.

I found this sort of bounded consumption highly beneficial.
most ppl aren't germans. Germany banned glyphosate.
I'll share my anecdote: a few weeks ago I ordered hooks for hanging up lights ($25). The package was marked as delivered, but nowhere to be seen. I don't have a problem with package theft, so my guess is that it was delivered to the wrong address or something.

I went to Amazon's site and tried to report the issue, but, at least for that item, there was no automated way to report a package as "not delivered".
> Open source needs to be exposed to risk from end users.

Why do open source applications need that? You said yourself that users of open source software accept the subpar UX, so what problem are you trying to solve? Making open source development somehow 'riskier' for programmers without simultaneously providing more reward would only drive programmers away.
First release since 2021-03-27.
I believe it is. I've had people send me screenshots where it refers to itself as chatGPT.
Thanks! I hope this becomes the (un)official common moniker - it rolls off the tongue better than "gee gee em el".
I support independentist or non-independentist thinking and rights.

What I cannot support is to violate the law in every other neighborhood at convenience. If we all did what Cataluña does in Spain (the Constitution forbids this kind of referendums and it was supported by 88% of the population.

You cannot come and suddenly start to do these things when not even in Cataluña and after 40 years of institution colonization you do not have even 50% of support.

That is just playing stupid games that can create civil conflicts.

As I said, I am not against independence. But we have laws. If they say through law they cannot, maybe they are not doing a good enough job for their cause or people just do not wish it as much. That is why after doing a lot of things, I won't give details here but believe me, MANY, they did not reach even 50%.

This separation according to the law should be voted by all spanish.

Even more: if they won by 51%, independent forever? Will they let people do a referendum to join back to Spain?

No, it makes no sense how they are doing things. They just do not have enough support. I am spanish, I am the son of people from Cataluña.

Careful with what you believe from what you hear around.

Inside the law, ok. Outside of the law, not ok. Otherwise many people will have lots of reasons to workaround laws they do not like, right?

Promote changes in the law, ok. But not this cheating that will only create bigger problems, in Cataluña itself even more than in the rest of Spain. Half of the people or more are not supporting this.
Ya, you just described any low margin business in downtown Manhattan. Maybe they can “afford” it but swiping $450/month from them is bs when they’re literally running the city.
While software certainly has improved phone photography, the sensors have gotten much much larger, and the lenses even more so (phone cameras are thicker and heavier now than they ever were in the 2000s) which is where much of the improvement comes from. I wouldn’t really point to that as an example of software eating the world.
saint11 mentions on his about page:
“Murder Engine: 2D Pixel art C# ECS Game Engine made by Isa! I usually help on the render and physics side of it.”

Isa: https://isadorasophia.com/projects/
Yeah, exactly.

I think a lot of "follow your passion" types also miss that a lot of passion businesses are 90% business (sales/marketing/accounting/leasing/HR/administrative/paperwork/phonecalls/BS) and 10% the thing you were so passionate about.

It's important to at least like what you do, and to find some purpose in how you fill your time. But it's a rare person who actually finds doing their job more pleasant than sitting on a beach / reading a book / watching a film / scrolling HN / etc. I've worked with some, and I don't really envy them.

There are limits in each direction.
Citizens United, I think.
I'll give it a try. I hope it's better than gpt4all, which I found out to be very buggy.
>Erhard Seminars Training

My understanding of EST training was that it gave people permission to be self centered assholes, and had no redeeming value.

No wonder SRI went downhill. 8(

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training
From what I understand, it's not passed yet. They've just reached a deal on the amendments that need to be added so it will be passed.
But writing a tiling wm is fun. Writing software collaboratively is the point in itself, not just the means of getting some kind of artifact in the end.

Being an open source developer means having agency over your goals and means to get to them, which you often don’t have when doing commercial software development.

You sure end up with roughly edges, but the. IKEA-effect kicks in and you like it anyway.
We do have devops team, yeah. Heard no bad (or any) words from them so far.
Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023
Someone asked this [0] at the end of last year and I found it really useful for gift ideas. Figured it was worth another go!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34272687
What's wrong with Qt? It works well enough if you want to write C++ or Python. Electron works on Linux the same way it does on Windows. GTK has some more issues on other platforms, but mostly works on Linux too.
There's a great book that details this event in one of the chapters, "What the dormouse said", iirc they used a television broadcast van sitting at the top of a hill to bounce the signal from where the machine sat and where the conference was.

Stewart Brand was also behind this demo and it was his idea to pipe audio from the machine to the conference, so that any UI lag was accompanied by all the disk seeking noise instead of awkward silence.
It's a reductionist attitude.
The way these people think and behave, reminds me of some science fiction novels.

I noticed a weird thing in many of them, the people building all that tech and breaking new ground seem to just be invisible, and all the drama seems to be created and perpetuated by a bunch of elitist techno-priest type people.

These people generally have 0 clue on what's actually going on. I doubt most of them could even explain basic stats concepts.

I don't know if this makes sense, but that's the imagery in my mind.
Hm, I should not have used the word "drivel", that may have been a bit too harsh.

A thing with Deleuze is that I still see very little value in some of his ideas. The idea of a "rhizome" for instance (which might be related to Latour's "actor-network theory") seems rather trivial to me. This may well be because I grew up in a time when these ideas were already fairly mainstream, but I find it highly unlikely that people before Deleuze only thought in black and white.

A hurdle that I may once have to cross is that I should not read these philosophers for their original thought, but more for their critique on contemporary society. The latter seems rather pointless, because it costs me almost no effort to superficially critique contemporary society myself :)
Well, they think it is. Most of the time, it's not. Command-line tools have terrible ergonomics for many workflows and use-cases.
For a subset of tasks, maybe. But I'd rather use Firefox than lynx. And I'd rather use Thunderbird than mutt or pine.
Random: is the Niche Duo made by a US company?

Asking, as I noticed the power switch on the side: the "|" symbol was at the top, which doesn't jive with the UK's "up is off, down is on" typical switch.
Grok is a new model. Its training data has seen enough examples of OpenAI generated content that it occasionally spits out text like this that makes it look like it's by OpenAI.

This is common issue across all sorts of other alternative models too. It's not particularly surprising.
OSS. No more enterprise here in Russia for any foreseeable future.
I agree with you here. One time, I didn't receive a check for $8k for two months for work I did. I complained to the sender, who sent me the image of the cashed check. So, I filed a complaint with USPS about stolen mail, and that too was supposed to be delivered to a PO Box. No response whatsoever from USPS postal inspectors, who are busy with priorities of their political masters. So, it took another three months to sort out this mess through alternative means. At least, USPS should have contacted me about my complaint; no, they didn't care.
More software? Wonderful! I'm all for it, but before starting something from scratch why not contribute to something that already exists, or possibly pick some project that was abandoned or simply needs to be worked on for example to be built with newer compilers, run on newer hardware, etc. Which makes me wonder if there is somewhere a database of dormant/dead projects that would deserve to be resurrected.
$23 Bluetooth earbuds (late to the party)
I have, through Ollama, and it would say their truthfulness is not great. You almost have to treat them with kid gloves and prompt them a certain way to get reasonable results (they're harder to steer than larger models). There's a reddit thread on this where people share tricks on how to handle 7B models.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/18e929k/prompt_...

My feeling is 7B models should only be used for domains where reasoning and factual correctness are not needed, like summarization or generating creative variations of ideas. Code generation is ok too if one is willing to babysit it.

But otherwise, the answers can be misleadingly bad. Even reasoning fine-tuned models like Orca2 7B do very badly on simple math questions, despite Chain of Thought prompting.
I believe I know this game. Strange how wording it this way makes way more sense.
that don’t have such risks… yet
This is first model that gets this puzzle right

“three missionaries and three cannibals must cross a river using a boat which can carry at most two people, but these are nice cannibals so they don't eat people under the any constraints, for both banks, if there are missionaries present on the bank, they can be outnumbered by cannibals (if they were, the cannibals would not eat the missionaries). The boat cannot cross the river by itself with no people on board how to solve this?
Would you mind to expand on what do you mean by soulless?
The DemoScene has existed forever... well before computers, lathes, etc... all the way back to "Look at the way these pictures come to life and dance around when the torch flickers inside this cave"
Only when they want to investigate your case. Most of the time, postal investigators don't care. Maybe, they care if the package is insured/priority/express mail.
> This all seems premature. So far we have something that can generate text and pictures based on other text and pictures ?

People say this with a straight face having China as an example, and news like this https://www.404media.co/fusus-ai-cameras-took-over-town-amer... and Deloitte alraedy campaigning for predictive policing: https://www2.deloitte.com/fi/fi/pages/public-sector/articles...
It's far, far more likely that Grok was just trained on data that includes text generated by GPT.

This is super common in the open-source/local AI area. Many models are trained on output from GPT. The better models will filter out anything that mentions GPT or OpenAI. Seems like Grok is not one of the better models.
You started some sort of Europeshrinking conspiracy here, check out the sibling comment that's off by a similar factor but for area.
It's the x.ai model, released last month https://x.ai/model-card/

It's currently in preview for some X premium subscribers.
The process of making Windows 11 tolerable
There are so many systems thinkers from that time that basically understood how the world works and how it could or should work that basically no one today knows of or considers. It's a shame.

This demo us one of the most mindblowing things I've seen and especially so if you consider its date of arrival. I truly think the audience didn't really understand it.
Exactly, the West can bring to bear its might on Vietnam if they step out of line, especially since they themselves are not much fans of the Chinese and will be more than happy to work with the West.

For Western consumers and companies we have learnt the lesson that if we want to keep the flow of cheap products, we need to diversify the pool of labour we draw upon and to keep them dependent instead of building them up to be competitors in the supply of products as well as competitors as consumers of those products.

The crucial moment in the China strategy was in 2008 when we should have started on/friend shoring rather than leaving it until now. Instead with the West facing economic calamity at the time, we wanted the economically easy solution of letting China continue its integration into the global supply chain.
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I think you're making the right decision. Open-source is extremely difficult to make even a living wage off of - the number of people who do is orders of magnitude smaller than those who make a living off of commercial software.
Don't make assumptions.
Everyone knows don't shit where you eat, but what about "don't work with your passions"

If you enjoy doing computer stuff (coding, repair and building, management, etc) don't work in that industry. I've had this thought for a really long time about how if my work is sitting down and my hobbies are all sitting down, it is really hard to maintain a good schedule of forcing yourself to stay in shape and commit to a lot of exercise because frankly I don't really enjoy it and it just takes time away from what I actually want to be doing. If I were to just work a job that forces me to get exercise, like the forest service or a construction worker or anything that is very manual labor focused, I get all of my exercise needed as part of my job, and then I also get to do whatever I want at home without feeling guilty and I don't get burned out.

I think the world really needs to stop telling people that they need to do what they love, I think you really need to do something that you can tolerate doing for 30 years. Even my job was doing drugs and having sex all day, I still probably wouldn't love it after a while, if my job was playing video games I wouldn't love it, if my job was doing community service but paid, I wouldn't love it. But I enjoy all of those things outside of work, probably because they aren't work!

If you're going to spend all of your days coding, you're clearly going to lose interest in coding because that's just how work is: you don't want to do it!
Yes and no. Found money is easily lost. And when a savings rate turns into a burn rate, the nest egg quickly evaporates.

Play with any retirement calculator and shift your retirement age forward even 5 years. The problem is 5 years less new saving, 5 years less returns on peak nest egg, 5 years more spending down the nest egg, (and also not collecting social security yet because too early).

For someone who didn't already have strong passions and hobbies that don't have high burn rates, filling 50 hours/week without spending down savings extra fast is hard.

You can also become alienated from those around you and the ordinary rhythms of life.
QuickJS is really cool! You can use it to embed JS code in a native binary, which is nice if you're trying to use a NodeJS library outside of the JS ecosystem.

I put together a proof of concept for this about a year ago, in case this is a use case you currently have: https://github.com/ijustlovemath/jescx
Borgbackup against hetzner storage box
Way to go team, you're killing it
Should have “in mice” in the headline.
Just use Firebase and be done with it, and half the other steps it takes to build an app. For what you're describing, database operations isn't going to be a core competency or product differentiator, so it doesn't make sense to spend any more time on it than necessary.
Good point. There was a very non-obvious "Get Help" button which led to a non-obvious "Get More Help" link which led to a "Call me" button. But they called instantly once I got there
Thank you. I wasn't aware of that particular book and will check it out.
I saw one in Sweden recently and thought it was weird. Didn’t realise it was part of such a campaign. Feels totalitarian.
I worked as a FedEx package handler for a bit. One item that was shipped was rolled up mattresses, another item that was shipped was cell phones. These arrived on trucks in large quantities. The shipping labels didn't stick well to the mattress packaging, and occasionally came off of the cell phone boxes as well. Sometimes it was obvious which packages the labels had come off of, other times not.
Hows it different from Obsidian or any other note taking app that has a larger community. I'm sure OP put in lots of hard work and it looks good, but it's not apparent to me why I should abandon my existing platform (stickiness) for another one. There are a lot of note apps out there already which probably makes it hard to sell.
I'm not ignoring that, I don't believe that's the case.

> You don't kill about 20k civilians in 2 months without targeting civilians.

None of us have any way of knowing if that 20k civilian count is accurate. Gaza's Ministry of Health doesn't, as far as I know, give a breakdown of whether the deaths are militants or civilians. So according to their numbers, literally 0 Hamas militants have been killed and all 20k deaths are civilians.

Obviously if that's true, then that would prove the IDF is targeting civilians. But it's obviously not true.

The IDF's own estimation is about 5k militants dead, and around 10k civilians dead. A terrible tragedy that any civilians die, of course - but not an order of magnitude difference to other conflicts, as some people are presenting it.
That's not my experience at all.

Shipping is 1-2 days for nearly everything that is sold/shipped by Amazon, in my experience. Occasionally it's a day late.

The idea that most shipping takes 3-7 days isn't my experience at all. Maybe you live somewhere more inaccessible?

I always thought paying for Prime was about free shipping on small items anyways, not about faster speed.
+1 for What the Dormouse Said. Truly fantastic.
Sure, but now your interaction with macOS is limited to automated testing and not compilation + testing. Depending on the application, this could be worthwhile.

For example, at work, we cross-compile C/C++/Fortran/Rust code in R packages. We compile for supported versions of R, so that ends up being tens of thousands of packages that we need to compile.

By cross-compiling we saved a lot of work and nearly eliminated our need for macOS.
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I finally read it all. Funny enough, this is close to what I did for years and years due to having limited C: SSD capacity. Got large SSD, and last reinstall, decided I didn't want to mess with moving folders / backup to D: anymore. TBH it's a load off. Even have an image of relatively fresh windows install. That said, accumulated a lot of changes/tweaks since, some I knew I should have documented but didn't. Just a wierd feeling it's going to be PIA this time. It's just a chore. Thanks for the write up though.