skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, The team behind Ximian, before being acquired by SUSE, was involved in early efforts to improve the usability of desktop Linux for end users. They conducted usability studies and published videos of these sessions to highlight where users encountered difficulties. These efforts were part of a broader initiative within the GNOME project to enhance user experience and make the GNOME desktop environment more intuitive and accessible to a wider audience.
I'm using KDE for 20 years already because it has great miscellaneous apps (though it's less important in 2024), slick integration between components and nice all-encompassing settings app. I do tweak a few things when I boot up a fresh install, but generally, I don't feel the need to do a deep customization, and am not aware of any missed opportunities.
What compositor? I use Hyprland and Firefox/Chromium Picture in Picture, and as far as I can tell, works as expected. I just hit the PiP button and it pops the video out into a new tiled window that I can toggle floating if I want. Just tried on a windows machine and, as far as I could tell, it was the same.
I appreciated their latest reply, especially mentioning case law. I don't feel they've been flame warring with me. If they feel I have with them, I apologize to them, but I didn't get that vibe from them, either. Is it possible you're interpreting both of our incisiveness as flame warring?

I know I didn't flag them, but I dont know if they flagged me. I'd be surprised though, given their respectful replying.
Perhaps it's the result of small families for completely different reasons than you posit.

On the first child, parents are still learning. They're risk conscious and worry about everything. On the second child, they've picked up a few specific fears ("What if Alice gets hit in the head while horse-riding like Bob did?") and stopped stressing about the others. On children three and four they've got much more experience and just don't worry about things as much.

With larger families, this attitude would come to be reflected by society as a whole. With smaller families, parents don't make it past the first and second child so often, and they never stop worrying.
These products are clearly not ready.
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The siren song of domain-specific languages
However, debit cards are not credit cards or compatible with credit cards, so I'm not sure what the relevance of your point is.
Bullshit, the Unites States just legalize/justify their brutality. Torture becomes enhanced interrogation technique, Assassination List is the Disposition Matrix etc. etc.
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Windows 8 was also designed by professional UI designers…
thanks. good luck!
Sounds like heresy.
At the end the author declares that the universe knows everything, which seems fairly bizarre to me. That’s like saying my house knows precisely everything about itself and what goes on in its confines. It doesn’t. It’s a house.
I've heard that Hetzner is a good provider, so I want to buy a cheap unmanaged VPS server in the USA. But can not find any mention about VPS. Any help, please?

Just need to replace this one (the same bad story $$$ as Netlify recently): https://www.leaseweb.com/fr/cloud/virtual-server
Thanos/Mimir community doesn't help to resolve configuration routine or even bigger resource consumption for a huge setup.
They're fantastic on Mastodon where there's no algorithm trying to force you to something more stupid. Or spambots, or grifters, or nazis, or pornbots. Hopefully Bluesky is going to follow a model closer to that than the current state of Twitter.
When the US is the only one holding up their hand at the UN against an immediate ceasefire the last 3 times it came up, it is quit difficult to make this claim.
Quite a risky position in a society where the dominant view is the one for "safe-spaces" and "not being offended"...
Maybe I'm missing something, but Picture-in-Picture has worked for years in Wayland Firefox for me. You do have to enable it in `about:preferences`, there's a toggle called: "Enable picture-in-picture video controls"
Libjxl 0.10.1 published right after this blog post is still a lot faster than the 0.10.0 version used in it.
>First-in-humans discovery reveals brain chemicals working to influence social behavior

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/02/research_fralinbiomed_m...
Eight bits in a (modern) byte, eight bits in a buck. I wonder if there was a conscious or subconscious correction by the team designing the IBM 360 to align with the existing “standard.”
Show HN: I made an audio versions of all Paul Graham's essays (and more)
Hey HN!

I became an active audiobooks listener last year, but I found that there wasn't a good app for listening to content that has no audio version available. Then OpenAI's text-to-speech model, which generates hyper-realistic audio 10x cheaper than other products did before, and I saw an opportunity to create something useful.

What’s under the hood?

- Calibre ebook-convert to convert books into markdown

- Vue/Nuxt.js full-stack app

- A lot of node.js scripting for text cleaning and structuring

- Google Cloud Storage for mp3s (really like their SDK for node by the way, recommend)

- shadcn UI library port for Vue (http://shadcn-vue.com)

- self-hosted on VPS

The pricing model: $2 / hour. No subscription or hidden fees. The idea is to charge a 100% markup over OpenAI's prices to align incentives — I want to help you listen to as much content as possible. If OpenAI cuts their prices, I'll cut mine too. I'm open to feedback on pricing, though. As a solo founder, my goal is to turn this into a business so I can quit my job and work on it full-time.

I want to create a free, public library of audio content in the public domain. I'm starting with PG's essays, Jeff Bezos's shareholder letters, “My life and work” by Henry Ford, and “Shape Up” by Basecamp.
I plan to add features for users to contribute to the public library by sharing the content they've listened to, as well as features for authors to generate audio for their own content.

Plans for future / what’s on my mind right now:

- Offline mode, download mp3

- Add features for authors to let their audience listen to their books/blog posts. One author already reached out to me and asked for it.

- Integrate with Project Gutenberg to create 70k audiobooks? I don’t know.

- Maybe better text reader like Readwise’s — to switch between reading and listening.

- Maybe make it standalone app usable with your models/OpenAI token, with single payment.

- Bookmarks, notes, quotes. Share your quote as a video snippet with subtitles.

I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions! I'm excited to ship feature requests as quickly as possible, even within hours or minutes if I can.
The article seems to be generated by GPT. Its quality is remarkably low.
A made a little “secret knock” authentication demo.

Shave and a haircut is obviously the secret knock used in the demo

https://miniatureape.github.io/prohibition/

(Nb: I’m sure this doesn’t work great on some devices)
I remember in the Visual Basic days, guys got really creative with games etc they would build by just using standard Windows Controls (UI elements), and no bitmaps.
Pull not being a good model of two way communications is going to be the major blocker here in my opinion. It's going to mean that people are only going to see comments and reactions on their posts or comments from people they already subscribe to, because their RSS reader would have no possible way of knowing if anyone outside of that list commented, since you can't get notified of content sources you don't already know about, only poll ones you already know. That's already bad enough (one of the big negative things people with large followings on the fediverse talk about is how they can't see what people are saying in the replies to their posts a lot of the time if the servers those people are on are blocked by their server, which means hate and harassment and one sided conversations can fester, and often many commenters can't even see each others' comments, leading to people saying the same things over and over exhaustingly). This also means that people who don't have any followers will literally be essentially muted by default: no one will see their comments or interactions, because no one polls their feed yet, which means that it's basically pointless for them to interact at all, which sounds dispiriting and would probably lead to no one wanting to use this type of social media — moreover, it also creates a catch-22 problem, because a major way to get followers in the first place is to directly interact with other people and bigger blog posts, to make people aware of you and maybe get some of them interested in hearing more of what you have to say, yet in this model, you can't really interact until you have a following already, so your main means of getting a following is gated behind needing a following to work!
So why not organize our system of governance as one dollar = one vote if you believe that deep inequality is the purest democracy?

Would you be in favor of that?
Best comment!

... preventing you from peppermint induced numbness for the day!
Managed virtual servers are available here: https://www.hetzner.com/managed-server/
Just use DigitalOcean. Easy setup and very cheap VPS options.
It says a lot about the difficulty of writing great software that it has taken around 15 years to get a list windows out of Wayland. But it looks like wlroots was a tipping point where the ecosystem started to function in a healthy manner.
Because then it wouldn't be backward compatible.
However, this doesn't mean that an HPC application has no need to verify its input, fail gracefully if something goes wrong, or have to be absolutely rock solid because it's running for days (or weeks in some cases) while being dead-on the results of the problem evaluated.

You're right. Correct is the king in HPC, but it's a king which doesn't exile speed. What we do is to solve a couple of known cases correctly in MATLAB or something similar, then try to hit the same results first (or be better if we can do that), then make it iteratively faster without deviating it from a bit (Same result with 1e-32 precision, IOW).

This "comparing with a known truth" process is a great indicator of calculation sanity. Other parts are iteratively tested with Valgrind and custom test suites, from function level to end to end, automatically after each build. End to end tests are very expensive in the Valgrind memory profiler (esp. if you're testing multi-thread code), so we do these weekly generally, but I think the idea is clear.
History of Home Satellite TV [video]
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Browsers have native bignum support: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
This is a great way of teaching browser js (dom manipulation, etc.). I always think, for most people, building games (ie., building play time) is the best route into engineering of any kind.
As previously discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39535528

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39529974
I’m confused. Upthread [1] you said you were trying to activate your second Starlink dish but now you claim to have activated more than 100 Starlinks ?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39547910
Yep, I much prefer KDE's default binding of meta+LMB/RMB anywhere on a window to move and resize it, rather than ginormous title bars.

Might not be "professional" but it sure is more productive.
Which is what a checkbox is. A switch element seems needlessly duplicative. A checkbox and a switch have the same purpose. I don't mind it entirely after all we have plenty of block level elements that do the same things as one another. This just feels like a solution in search of a problem.
Comparing github to usenet feels is a reach. Github has always been filled with junk since day 1, people post the same projects, coding exercises etc. The small N% of the repos are actually the interesting ones. This is by design.
yes, understanding how the blockchain works is only a small piece of the puzzle.

Step 2: understand how fiat works

Step 3: understand what money really is

Step 4: try not to think about bitcoin every moment of the day
Javascript has native BigInts, and there is already an RSA implementation using them: https://github.com/i404788/tiny-rsa
For those who don't get it, it's a reference to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island which features a parrot that repeats "Pieces of Eight" (also known as a bit).
All common browsers support BigInt in Javascript:

https://caniuse.com/?search=BigInt
I won't ride a bicycle in the UK because the British despise anything that isn't a car. People will literally cheer if a cyclist is mowed down.
Meanwhile the Yanomami tribes children are climbing 100 foot trees on their own.
I'm not sure what of this is available in npm, but with crates io and cargo, there are crates like cargo audit and cargo deny that your pipeline can use to check for cve in your dependency tree. Your lock file maintains the sha256 of everything in the tree, so there is no need to mirror things to ensure they aren't modified if their repo gets hacked. Pinning a version a few months behind the newest seems to be the sweet spot that avoids new cve and avoids big chunks of rework from sitting on ancient versions then upgrading all at once. Download count seems like a decent way to gauge top level deps against others with similar purpose, but that's just my subjective opinion.

Austral uses linear types to give fine grained permissions to dependencies. A graphics library doesn't need file io, a network transport library doesn't need microphone access. That is just a mitigation, but it would be nice to see in other languages.
Traffic has been increasing for years, so a multi-year "working on it" effort is probably a good thing - it shows an ongoing effort to size the resources to the level needed at the time, and adjusting as times change.
> The former prisoner of war and U.S. Navy seaman Doug Hegdahl reports fellow U.S. captives in the Vietnam War would authenticate a new prisoner's U.S. identity by using "Shave and a Haircut" as a shibboleth, tapping the first five notes against a cell wall and waiting for the appropriate response.

With the mass export of western culture, I wonder if there are any songs, tunes, or patterns like this that would still reliably work as a shibboleth.
I've learned to appreciate that if I showed this version to a 20 years younger me who had just gotten into Linux with Fedora, they'd probably find the UI extremely familiar. Meanwhile I have to relearn how to use my iPhone and Macbook every year now...
Sure seems like this should be a drop down that updates a preview image in change.
That's great, Please explain how is this different from Open Source APIs. Here you check them out: https://products.fileformat.com/email/

Most of them are free and can be used with ease.
Most distros will change the defaults anyway., and, as others have said, a lot of KDE users use it for its customisability.
With time you'll notice in most complex situations and subjects - many articles are of the wall in poor details and erroneous information - but especially on background. I regularly read these with one eye closed...
Totally aside, but the article reminded me. Does anyone remember when Firefox showed you the stacking context of elements on a web page? It had an exploded 3d view of all layers on a web page.

Not sure if any extensions or browsers still have that feature?
What do you mean by "official documentation"? The specification [1]? MDN [2]?

[1] https://drafts.csswg.org/

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS

The former is not meant as a learning resource for new web devs. And the latter (which is neither official nor authoritative) usually has information about the "baseline" support and browser compatibility tables.
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There's a tune that's very similar to "Shave and a Haircut", but in a minor key, replacing the two eights with a triplet and a chromatic part. (Notes are: G D Db D Eb D; F# G) Does anyone know what its called?
#yes #all #the #time
> hanja (= kanji or "Chinese characters" or whatever your country calls it)

(Also, for reference, we say "Chinese characters" because that's what every country calls them. Hanja is just the Korean reading of 漢字. Kanji is the Japanese reading of 漢字. 漢字 means "Chinese characters".)
> I mean, is this really the case?

"Disruption" is a smaller company with less baggage finding a way to do something better than some ancient behemoth. Pick any of many examples that show that's the case.

If it weren't for disruptive startups, HN would not exist.
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It often does include such deliberations, if you watch state legislative committee videos on YouTube. If it doesn’t, often times a citizen is free to testify and raise the issue.

Many of these small clause discussions go on around amendments.

There is less deliberation on policies (rules) and regulations (how an agency decides to implement a passed law). There is deliberation of course but it is more opaque to the public and less record is made.

Whether it’s easy to do effectively by the public is another thing.
If you haven't tried single click to open before, I would highly recommend it. I used to hate it as well, but going through folders and files is so much faster now that I'm used to it. And if you think about it, a single click to open something is much more consistent UI wise.
Oh, I tried to scroll up but it didnt do anything on my phone. Probably because I don't have a copilot account? Now that I know something's there I guess I'll make an account to see.
Wow, this is very interesting. In Mexico, it's used to insult another person. I always thought it was a Mexico-thing.
> wiped the hard drive and went back to Manjaro

I think this is the reason Linux hasn't penetrated the desktop more than it has. “Just reinstall” is too often the solution to issues.
Starting over will often throw away hours of someone’s time. This can be catastrophic for a non-technical user.
I wish the Linux desktop was implemented more like a user extension on top of a rock solid base server layer (eg hypervisor). Maybe such a setup exists, but I’m unaware of it.
Perfect. I remember a DOOM mod that replaced the chainsaw with an electric toothbrush. Obviously this needs to run that mod.

Edit: I think that's the one: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_3:_Mr._Smiley_Head%27s_Safari
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GDPR just politely requests that companies don't use this data. Do you think the alphabet agencies are actually going to comply?
Right? Elon won't save you. He's a billionaire who specializes in siphoning tax payer money into his companies and pretending like he has a clue.
I've found the best way is to build things over and over again. That may reflect a certain learning style but actually manipulating styles and layouts really helps hammer home the practical aspects of how it works.

I also approach writing CSS with the goal of writing as little as possible. Not because I don't like it - I tend to think it gets an unfairly bad rap - but because it teaches you how to more effectively style layouts without layering too many declarations.
I left big DEs because of the constant overhauls (and because of their slowness). The WM of my choice (jwm) hasn't changed in decade and still being actively maintained and developed.
If you need to relearn your iPhone/Mac interfaces every year, you might want to get screened for Alzheimers.
And realize that if you were born just a few centuries earlier, you would have probably been illiterate - and if you were literate, you probably couldn't read anything beyond religious texts.

But on the other hand, you wouldn't have been able to broadcast the holes in your knowledge as far, either. And everyone has them - the holes in their knowledge. One of yours seems to be reading communication. If most folks can barely speak coherently - to you - I'd wager that you just aren't putting in the work to better understand colloquial speech.
why wipe out the hard drive, tho? You can usually just switch DEs just fine, this isn't windows :) long gone are the days where we would have 10 different DEs/WMs installed