skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, we've also had professional usability experts involved with KDE many times over the years. E.g. the OpenUsability initiative, which KDE helped set up, was run by HCI professionals and conducted a fair number of user studies, produced research docs, and so on.

The difference perhaps is that OpenUsability didn't limit itself to working only on KDE (and also helped out, e.g. LibreOffice), that's why it somehow didn't get booked as a KDE thing and didn't become a similar anecdote people cite now.
> what is actual and what is not

Heh, off-topic, but this is one of my favourite "EU English"-isms: using actual to mean current.

Completely understandable, given how e.g. the Dutch translation of current is actueel (whereas the translation of actual is daadwerkelijk).

Anyway, maybe this is even helpful if a native speaker is confused :)
This is actually great. I maintain a library[1] for interacting with the Robot interface using Rust, but testing is heavily gated because of the potential costs it might incur, which is why a lot of the purchasing/cancellation APIs haven't been thoroughly tested.

With this billing, I'll be able to do thorough integration testing without breaking the bank.

And of course with hourly billing, horizontal scaling becomes much more feasible.

[1] https://github.com/MathiasPius/hrobot-rs
C# interface is kind of like Rust's trait except the default passing convention by interface is similar to Box<dyn Trait> whilst passing structs implementing interface via generic arg is identical in the form of Accept<T>(T value) where T : ISomeInterface.

Arguably, today the line is somewhat blurred because interfaces can have default member implementations (which are used to extend interfaces without making it a breaking change) but generally you are correct. An abstract class and subclasses that inherit from it signifies what the type is while the interfaces a class or struct implements signify what the type does.
I think he means the companies should emphasize that prices can go down too. Like 'get a burger, fries and shake for $0.75 at off times!'

My guess is they had no plans to do the low part of dynamic pricing though.
This is an extremely biased article, coming from an extremely biased source - a source which says that its writers come from left and right, though after scanning through the Twitter feeds of most of its writers, it’s clear it’s ultra conservative.

The article itself and seemingly the book seem like Jordan Peterson manifest. The book is not by a therapeutic professional, but by a WSJ op-ed writer, who’s last book was written against “the transgender craze seducing our daughters.”

As a parent I’m keenly interested in the topic of adolescent therapy, and reasonable critique about therapy should be happening. Unfortunately this is not a reasonable critique.
There are more lobbyists of foreign corporations (american ones) in Brussels than European ones.

We should pass a "European Foreign Lobbyists Act", and send them back to their own country.
There are several dedicated server providers in US but not much is known about their track review.

OVH has a datacenter in Toronto which may close enough to the US for many people. They provide dedicated servers.
Wow, so "two bits" is what Roger says in response to Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I can hear it now, but I never actually knew what was said.
It is possible to be a repository for junk, but harmless junk only.
It seems to me that this would validate the practice of sarcophagizing Egyptian pharaohs such that they can be reborn in the afterlife.

As far as I understand it, we now have the technological capacity to do so, and simply lack the moral and legal capability.

For me this would push occams razor toward the notion that endeavoring to build monumental generational-construction-project tombs was not an act of cultural vanity but actually an informed and practical decision made with some form of ancient knowledge.
Thank you, finally I understood that.
There's nothing they can say to make this right. Fast food is already egregiously priced and Wendy's only wants to make it worse for consumers by raising prices otherwise. They can call it what they will but prices have almost doubled in my area. A single medium meal costs at least $8. If the quality of ingredients were in line I wouldn't have near as much of an issue. If this was what we had to do to get liveable wages in fast food workers in the US, again, I'm happy for this. Unfortunately, we all know all this would do is give the person who thought of it a bonus, increase executive pay disparity, and further reduce the point of a fast food stop.
Making factually incorrect observations is not defensible because the entity or thing you made them against is evil or doing another bad thing. If anything it unnecessarily weakens the case against them.
You could say that. We learned a lot from 4.0!

For me one of the biggest accomplishments of our community is that people really do stick around. It's very multi-generational. Therefore the memory is there and the lessons do get learned.
And worthy of note that, every time Bitcoin goes up brutally (every 2 years or so, like clockwork) Coinbase crashes.

You'd expect their SRE team had that one figured out by now, but no, apparently.

other link to story: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/28/coinbase-users-see-0-balance...
Making a selfhosted installation of WordPress run with SQLite as a backing store
I know that, i clean that place. Still i don't care much. After all, its the bathroom.
The point isn't that disruption can't happen, as we know it can. The point is that is can take a lot to dislodge an entrenched product, usually more than just new features, especially rarely used new features.

As pointed out, the main driver is switching cost. Going to HN has low switching cost. Moving off Oracle has very high switching cost. I know of companies that have been actively trying to move off mainframes for 30+ years and are still paying switching costs.
Probably massive overkill to get an easy bt/wifi board to connect to an oled display.

These things are so cheap and the containing "smart" product so marked up everyone reaches for the hammer to drive their thumbtack.
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Agree totally.

I fear it's a tough sell though.

Screen size and resolution are firmly implanted in consumers' minds as THE metrics to rule all metrics.

Just like other flawed metrics like horsepower for cars, megapixels for cameras, "watts" for amplifiers and powered speakers, and so on. Hope I'm wrong!
"before we talk I have to inform you of my condition. it's very rare, I might be the first case. the doctor told me that my brain bleeds internally if I see emojis . like there will be blood in my skull if I see more than 3 emojis. can you not use them? I risk my life if I see more than 3 emojis"
Three companies own 19,000 rental houses in Atlanta, GA
I’ve been building an open-source tool Packj [1] to detect publicly malicious, abandoned, typo-squatting, and other "risky" PyPI/NPM/Ruby/PHP/Maven/Rust packages. It carries out static/dynamic/metadata analysis and scans for 40+ attributes such as spawning of shell, use of SSH keys, network communication, use of decode+eval, etc. to flag risky packages.

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj
Ah yes, the publication that argues in favor of telepathy. Definitely the kind of Hacker News we need. /s

https://unherd.com/2021/11/rationalists-are-wrong-about-tele...
Help me stop the EU bullying Apple
Works well on average, and remember that bad actors are also part of the overall herd. It can be very detrimental to the individual (person or company).
Space Trash Lasers [video]
It works great on FreeBSD and I get the latest versions within days of release.
relevancy testing, overcome time shifts relevancys testing prompts, recovering plasticity and flexibility, throat working chakara, some of those.
I'm pretty sure car deaths are the number 1 preventable cause of death of children - doesn't seem like an exaggerated fear.

Step 1 is to reduce speed limit to 45kph (25mph) anywhere a pedestrian could interact with the road which is what Vision Zero recommends.
Quarkus 3.8 – Our new LTS version
The 'mind-bending' bionic arm powered by AI
What about the waste heat from the a/c units heating the surrounding areas?
This is not what I mean, when the waveform cuts abruptly (oversimplification) it creates an unwanted mid-high end popping sound. I see that you are new in the world of audio, I would recommend reading about zero-crossings. A very sho0rt attack like 1ms would help
> KDE should probably invest in better defaults if these need tweaking.

We've done that a lot the last couple of years! We've changed many defaults to values that reflect better what the users actually use, based on reviewing what distros do, studies, and opt-in telemetry. A lot of this already happened in the back half of the 5.x era, but 6.0 includes additional changes in this regard.

And you're not wrong, it does help a lot.
I have a large tattoo I thought was the coolest think when I was 20, and then for the next 10 years. At 32 I changed my mind and (gently) wish I didn't have it. It doesn't bother me a lot though.
In other tunes it was bay rum instead of two bits.
Wendy's Digital Menuboards Update - no plan for surge pricing
Michigan does have the sorting machines at supermarkets, just like in Germany. Michigan also has a 10¢ deposit.
Never use textbook RSA.

Source: every course on cryptography.
Sure. There is totally no porn induced autogynephilia in solitary people with untreated mental issues that makes them believe that they are transexual, and the faux acceptance of the LGBT community totally does not lure them in.
Isn’t the general ethos here that HN doesn’t care about some number of 9’s of reliability? They just upgrade stuff when necessary and probably bang on prod a lot more than big corporate sites. HN is a nice to have, and keeping it that way allows it to remain administered by a small crew.
What does it mean to have a "dedicated" offering for the US? Hetzner lets you create servers in their US datacenter, isn't this enough?
> The nice thing about KDE is that so much is configurable, but finding configuration settings is still a challenge in Plasma 6. For example, the aforementioned setting to scroll virtual desktops is found in the Desktop Folder Settings application, but not in the System Settings application under the Virtual Desktop settings.

My current Linux installation on desktop is from 2016 and everything was configured years ago. Recently I had to install Linux in Virtualbox and decided to go with KDE. I was overwhelmed with settings not in a good way. Maybe when I was younger I was more enthusiastic and liked it, but now I want reasonable defaults and consistent UI/UX experience.
wouldn’t do it for me, must be some subtle difference in approach which itself is disconcerting
AI technique 'decodes' microscope images, overcoming fundamental limit
JS not only has BigInt, but it also has TypedArrays too. It even used to have SIMD support before they dropped it for WASM.
Hey, this is Sam Ritchie's project! Here's some of his excellent tech talks:

• "Computational Physics, Beyond the Glass" by Sam Ritchie (Strange Loop 2023) - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv2JgzAl5yU

• "Emmy: Moldable Physics and Lispy Microworlds" by Sam Ritchie - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9kqD8vBuwU

• "Just-So Stories for AI: Explaining Black-Box Predictions" by Sam Ritchie - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiWkKqZChF0

At one point he was rebuilding an old airplane. Unsure if that project is still going on:

• https://samritchie.io/spring-clips-and-stage-time/
Well, I can understand why KDE made it default since it's the behaviour everybody else expects now. But it's weird that it became standard in the first place.
This does seem to be a good opportunity to retire the obsolete and wasteful .gif format ? (Or maybe at least limit it to maximum pixel area ?)

But you just meant looping animations, right ?
> Mr. Ive and his team of designers drew concepts for a car that would look like a European minivan such as the Fiat Multipla 600, which has a half-dozen windows and a curving roof. It had no steering wheel and would be controlled using Apple’s virtual assistant, Siri.

> One day, in the fall of 2015, Mr. Ive and Mr. Cook met at the project’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., for a demonstration of how the car might work. The two men sank into the seats of a cabinlike interior. Outside, a voice actor read from a script of what Siri would say as the men zoomed down the road in the imaginary car. Mr. Ive asked Siri what restaurant they passed and the actor read an answer, said two people familiar with the demonstration.

Tackling one of the hardest technical problems ever attempted, where it was not clear at all whether a solution is even possible (it is still not clear) they seriously discussed the script Siri would read.
Yes, that’s absolutely what makes the difference in the end.

But if you’re going to build an app for professional content creators, it definitely helps to be using the framework that powers Autodesk Maya and many other tools that they’re already familiar with. A lot of non-obvious product needs on the framework level for this niche have already been solved.

GNOME just never had that kind of solution pull. It’s always been more of a research project.
Is GIMP even associated with GNOME? The G stands for GNU, not GNOME.
I don't want to pick a fight with anyone about this. Is this not what Apple does? What immediately comes to mind is browsers on iOS, proprietary cables, and locking iMessage to their platform. Apple is a walled gardener and they'll wall their gardens.
> On the first child, parents are still learning. They're risk conscious and worry about everything.

There's no actual empirical evidence for this pop psychological theory, and it's certainly not my experience as a firstborn way back in the day. Moreover, we're not talking about babies, who of course need to be coddled. The issue is with kids who are old enough for unsupervised play, by which time the parents are already experienced, literally 10+ years of parenting experience, and if they have two kids, they've likely had both before one of them is old enough for unsupervised play, at most maybe five years apart.

In fact, parents are more likely to forget than they are to learn. It's not like they've never encountered kids before in their lives. They were kids themselves! They just need to remember what it was like for them as kids. The hardest part is taking care of infants, because you generally don't remember what it was like to be an infant, so infants are somewhat more mysterious than older kids.
They simply used the wrong link, its not really a lack of account or hostile UI
> I concur, using credit cards is rather dangerous

Your link is about chargeback. I'm pretty much exclusively using credit cards for daily payment and I can't even remember the last time I got any problems. I never pay interest either.

I get that you don't like or trust credit card, and it isn't popular in Europe, but don't be generalizing. Even in Europe my credit cards work well, except for the unpopularity of Amex.
Palantir boss says software only reason 'goose step' has not returned to Europe
For those who want to listen to a long-form conversation with the main author of the book that the article review in a more articulated way [1].

[1] - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5dyeoq59cAIlP1FpOcEW2F?si=4...
I don't think so. There's a huge push for recycling in EU. Every recyclable item either says to be put in the correct recycle bin, or has information about reusing with concentrated refills or by repurposing.

Maybe the same push is not present in the US, but creating a new cap for European market makes sense. Also using the better cap across the whole world to save costs makes sense again.
> Also, some people just can't see in the dark well, regardless of how well they see in the day.

I think that if you are hanging around forrest with a gun and shooting that gun in the night, you probably should not be someone with poorer then eyesight in the night.

Saying that as someone who occasionally returned late from hike and would prefer not to be shot by hunters.
I think it'll fall on some "would a reasonable person believe this" test.

Like if you ask an official company chatbot a question and it blatantly lies to you, I'd say you have some recourse. Like for example you ask about the return policy and bot says 30 days, when it's actually 15.

Versus looking at the chatlog and seeing the customer tell the chatbot to repeat to them that the company is going to give them $10,000, and then suing said company to get the $10k.
The Kodak Fling had to be renamed Funsaver because people were taking out the film and throwing away the cameras. That interfered with their plan to refill the used cameras.
And Windows 11... web content in start menu, unproductive, extremely distracting - ugh
DMs is what we need first.
There are several "FRP bypass techniques" that you can find on Youtube.

I've had success unlocking a phone using one myself, but only after trying other 3 techniques unsuccesfully

These techniques are convoluted, dependant on Android versions and phone model, and nothing guarantees success, so you will need a lot of patience, but I would at least try them. for example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F5O5l-ekLiw
Non blogspam: https://sites.google.com/view/genie-2024
that said, while digital ocean is great, as far as i know hetzner is somewhat cheaper. compare!

at digital ocean, 12$: 2GB RAM, 1vCPU, 20GB SSD, 2TB transfer

at hetzner, 10,50$: 8GB RAM, 2vCPU, 80GB SSD, 20TB transfer
Official Wendy's post: https://www.wendys.com/blog/wendys-digital-news-update
Richard Fabian new book on design patterns: "Unresolved Forces"
Project Maven: AI warfare is already here
Having bought a Toyota hybrid for the first time about 2 years ago, the value proposition was overwhelmingly in their favor. Cost the same or less as equivalent gas cars in their class, with about 30% to 50% less gas usage, meaning ongoing costs are way lower too.

It was of course way cheaper than any reasonable electric car 2 years ago too, still probably is, and charging infrastructure was terrible where I live back then, still mostly is (but getting better).

I think the years and years of PR around their top tier reliability helps a lot too. I guess the biggest gripe is the looks of their cars, they're basically boring, kind of ugly and utilitarian. But all of the above together kind of nails a segment of car buyers which is "I don't want to give a shit about my car, I need it to work well, not burn the planet too much, not cost a lot, and get me where I need to go", which is probably a pretty large segment.
It's a risk. Similar to the risk that if you accept PRs from coworkers without reviewing them they might have copied and pasted in some vulnerable code from somewhere.

Using LLMs means investing more effort in code review. I think that's a worthwhile trade.
I see the peer comments regarding big ints, but the OP is still right in that the presented code doesn't work, for more than one reason.
VPS are a part of the cloud offering now. Just like EC2 is part of AWS. Once change is that traditionally VPSs used local disk storage, while cloud servers use network block storage.

Usually clouds offer additional higher level features, in addition to basic VMs, such as load balancers, object storage and managed containers. Though Hetzner currently offers very little in that regard.
https://archive.ph/E1wgu
To do so Microsoft needs to act as the strong man with a heavy hammer.
Yep. I want to have the same config as everyone else to maximise the chance that I'm using the well tested path of the software.
Back when I started I thought I would make games. I used a lookup table for cos/sin kept as an integer. I only needed enough precision for rotation on 320x240. It was something like 20-30 cycles faster per pixel. Even more if you didn't have a FP co-processor.
Wiping and reloading my systems is likely faster than cleaning up thoroughly, but I have backups and some automation.
> This is a set of chapters about CSS layout for people who already know CSS. Which seems like a small market, I admit.

This was like a gut punch. Is this why software is so terrible? So many people just graduated bootcamps and never learned anything else?

How can you do web development or even React if you don't understand CSS?
The font sizes are screwed up in Safari on iOS. At 100% the font is too small on my phone but at 115% it's way too big — double the size of the font at 100% — and the line length is too long and doesn't wrap to the screen.

I like the minimal design and low page weight, but the markup is archaic: nested tables instead of lists and CSS (but strangely enough replies are not nested in parent comments). It's light weight but could be leaner and cleaner.
Stop testing your designs with prototype tests
Fuck that, he needs to be made an example of.
Somebody in Maryland with a tattoo-removal business said that the ratio of the cost of tattoos to the cost of their removal was roughly that of the cost of a marriage license to the cost of a divorce.
Funny bug in the current implementation, the # emoji is also working as a hashtag.

But they are considering keeping it.

https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3kmjlcds4ie2q
Steve Thorne, aka "Flight Chops", had a couple of videos a few years back with an ATC guy on helping pilots not be so intimidated:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg90PF4mWJs

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnxb8RTdl6Y

As a bonus video, see also this crawl-thru of a B-29:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XakK81edKFA
What I get from your comment is now older RTX gens are going to be in high demand soon.
It's not "the solution", it is a solution.

It is the easiest solution, requires no research or technical ability, and will not have any left over cruft from the hours of customizing.

The same goes for windows, I know people who reinstall every 6 months just to keep their system clean and working optimally.

> I wish the Linux desktop was implemented more like a user extension on top of a rock solid base server layer.

I would argue that the Linux kernel is that server layer, but let's not open that can of worms.

Maybe Fedora Silverblue is up your ally. All the apps, including the desktop environment are containers.

Or if you really want an actual hypervisor you could try Qubes, but that is not for the faint of heart.
Almost saying planting trees with high carbon sequestration would be the more cost-effective long term solution (eg: gingko biloba).
not being able to view a post that a linked-post is replying to is a hostile UI
A realtor friend found a lucrative side business in plastic recycling during the Great Recession. She still makes around $100k a year off of it.

I wish I knew how it worked but her and her business partner don’t talk about it much. Probably for good reason. Pretty sure they take plastic off people hands and sell it to someone who uses it, paid to take it away and then paid again by a buyer.
Dan gave some traffic numbers in 2015, and the site has grown a lot since then:

"Roughly 2.6M views a day, 300K daily uniques, 3 to 3.5M monthly uniques. It depends on how you count, of course."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098
Show HN: Share private GitHub repos by auto-generated URL and paywall
Morning HN. I had an issue recently where I wanted to share some private Github repositories with a larger audience than usual (25k+) on Youtube and was simply considering making my code public. Came up with an idea to build a middleman service that handles user access/management, generate share links and even paywall individual repos.

Thought I might as well share here in case there's another dev out there who might be interested in sharing a private repo. Keen to get any feedback as I'm currently building
> Github should figure out if their product is "a repository for everybody" or it is "I can trust this code".

I'm pretty sure they decided on "repository for everybody" when they first launched the company 16 years ago.