skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if OP is the author but my love of learning languages was also unlocked through Esperanto when I was a teenager.

Its possible that my journey has been a bit longer, I did eventually get around to studying Mandarin Chinese, From 2016 until present day I still study an hour every day. I also was able to live in China for a year which was a great help.

Going from Esperanto, a language designed as a second language, to Chinese, one that is absolutely not, is like going from Ruby on Rails development to writing a web server in Assembly. There is so much more practice and rote memorization required to attain any level of fluency.

After over 7 years of study I still speak with an accent and have trouble communicating on some topics. But at this point I can read just about anything which was always my primary goal :).
I've historically had a lot of problems with Dolphin too. It has gotten a lot better though.

Try https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt as an alternative.

It feels native in Plasma/Breeze and is more traditional. I like it.
>The line is defined by profitability.

In what scope? Something that might not be profitable for a single company could be value-generating at a national level.

> as the conversions are extensive and costly and still don't yield units that are as good as purpose-built residential apartments

I understand that you've decided this. I'm saying that it's not a given, and asking you to free your mind a bit. How could the conversions be less costly? What compromises in design would people actually be willing to live with? What external conditions might lead to conversions making sense (including ones where potential profit is not the primary purpose of the build).

I GET that the people investing in real estate right now don't want to build anything but what they want to build. We're not obligated to confine our imagination to their ideal balance sheet.
I see. In every program that supported this I've triggered it by accident so often I had to disable it.
Raspberry Pi 5 support and more in Home Assistant OS release 12
I really wish this was posted in blog or article format instead of a series of threads posts (which I flat out refuse to use).
Many (most?) nicer grocery stores in the US already do bulk packaging for coffee, to no discernible detrimental effect.

Compared to narrow aisles and decision paralysis from 60 different plastic bottles with the same ingredients but different scents/dyes, I think any inefficiencies in bulk shopping are probably pretty small.
You don’t always have to add power, only if you don’t want to slow down during the turn, or if you don’t want to change your vertical speed. All other things being equal, making a turn will create additional induced drag, which will either change your rate of acceleration (slowing down, or reducing your forward acceleration if you were accelerating) or the change in drag will cause you to change your vertical speed, trading potential energy for forward impulse. If you want to maintain speed and your rate of climb or decent (including neither climbing nor descending) you will have to add power.
My podcast hit a milestone and I wanted to make something to celebrate it that I could send to some listeners. For a few reasons I decided to go with floppy disks.
Stack Overflow and Google Cloud Announce Strategic Partnership for GenAI
> Social services will care if you try to raise a child in a tent here where temperatures are freezing.

Sure, so as you point out there is absolutely no reason why you can't have children, even if you are in the most dire of straights[1]. As you point out, other people will happily help you out with those children if you are struggling to make it on your own.

The only reason to not have children is because you don't want them. Anything else is a lame excuse.

[1] Of course, we're specifically talking about middle class people here. Middle class people don't live in tents. They live in comparatively large houses that are far bigger than would ever be necessary to raise many children. Even if they wanted to live in smaller houses, must jurisdictions don't allow it.
So don't use those two programs? KDE is an entire DE and ecosystem; I don't see how you can fault it for two programs that you don't like.
Once the toll system is in place, the city will realise that reduced traffic means reduced toll income and the exercise becomes to find the highest price people will pay without significantly reducing traffic. Standard practice.
Like 0ther folks say elsewhere in these threads, the most efficient way is not to eval for vulns, but to assume compromise.

So, folks adopt the (admittedly ridiculous, but, in the strict sense, necessary) 0-trust step of running everything in QubesOS, then in a VM, and maybe then in Docker.

Essentially each application gets its own fresh OS to fuck up or not...as it goes.

I get this (but I don't condone it). It's not practical for dev purposes, only if you are endlessly testing the waters for each little thing. But, prolly, eventually we will be wowed by a shiny-thing that achieves infinity-virtualization with bare metal performance but perfect isolation so we can easiily run

infinvm run github.com/malware/repo

And all will be right with the world.

We ain't there yet tho. Hahaha :)
I should try driving my laptop around in the back seat with the webcam turned on for a few years and see if it learns how how to drive.
Yeah. I live in an old house on a little bit of property. It's paid-off but it's still probably something close to $2K/month between property taxes, insurance, utilities/oil, and more or less steady state maintenance--some of which could probably be deferred but...
> The car project’s demise was a testament to the way Apple has struggled to develop new products in the years since Steve Jobs’s death in 2011.

One failed product is a testament?

I never really understood the Apple car, but I guess you'd consider it a high-risk, high-reward moonshot project. If that's how Apple saw it, then an unsuccessful outcome isn't even necessarily a failure since it's part of the strategy. In this case, being unsuccessful in developing an autonomous car wasn't the failure -- the road to that turned out to be much longer and bumpier than people thought at the time.

The failure was probably in letting the project live too long after realizing the project vision wasn't going to be achievable in a reasonable timeframe. The pivoting wasn't the cause of the problems but a symptom. Those probably should have been recognized as death throes, and the project ended sooner.
> For you. For me having to tinker with a repo full of YAML files just to have a Kafka topic provisioned

This is understandable, but this isn't about speed. Many YAML files may result in high provisioning speed or low provisioning speed, after all they only give instructions to the program doing the provisioning.

You could legitimately complain about choice of YAML as a platform for infrastructure configuration so several reasons, like:

1. Not having a built-in ability to describe templates. Lots of infrastructure wants to have some sort of polymorphic configuration, and when the infra developers chose YAML to configure it, they didn't account for that. So, instead they use various template engines that strap on this polymorphism on YAML. This was also indirectly mentioned by OP.

2. Poorly structured, especially when it comes to large configuration size. It's easy to accidentally write something you didn't intend. It's hard to search.

3. Being JSON in disguise, it inherits a lot of problems from JSON. Marshaling richer type / structure of data in and out of the program is severely impacted by the primitive and inflexible type system of the format.

But, again, this isn't speed. This is just a different set of problems.

> If I were a CTO or an IT manager I'd be very worried about stuff like this.

Practice shows this is mostly irrelevant. It's hard to reach the point where provisioning speed starts to hurt so much it impacts business decisions. For instance, provisioning in MS Azure is on average twice as slow as it is in AWS. (And deprovisioning is probably four times as slow.) And nobody cares. So many other concerns will overshadow this particular aspect, that you'd feel uncomfortable to even bring it up, if you had to choose between two service providers. Primary driver is cost of running the infrastructure for a long time, overall as a system. Starting time does contribute to the total, but unless your business requires very frequent allocation and deallocation of resources, this won't make a difference. Also, cloud vendors don't bill you for the time that the infrastructure is being brought up, so, it's really hard to make a compelling case to choose the fast-to-provision infra over the slow one just based on that aspect alone.
As far as I know, it hasn't been formally verified.

Andrea Lattuada (https://andrea.lattuada.me/) is more likely to have done work in his implementation of the algorithm than I did on mine.

I have run the testing with various dynamic analysis tools, but for sure this isn't formal verification. If someone is interested in doing it, happy to chat with them!
I can't say which position is the "right" one, but I also noticed different distros have different defaults on where the tabs are positioned.

It's cool that KDE lets you do that, but it's a bit annoying actually as it messes with the consistency of KDE. Sure, users can always change their preference to what suits them best, but it would be nice if out of the box all KDEs behaved and looked the same and leave the personalization to the user after installation.
Minix can.
It’s good to see someone else loving that socialized medicine!

/s
The red herring is a fair point. I have had to moderate comment sections off and on over the years and there are times when the magnitude of stupidity overwhelms you, so I was venting a bit.
Subscription services are changing our relationship to gaming
You can’t buy these apps from the Apple store without providing identity to Apple in the form of a phone number (required for an Apple ID) and linking it to a hardware serial number (the app store app transmits this).

It would be nice to be able to buy the app directly from you, instead of putting a surveillance company in the loop. I don’t use an Apple ID on a macintosh.

(I would like to avoid using one on an iPhone/iPad/Vision Pro/AppleTV, but it is impossible to install apps on those without one. Please do not bring this terrible circumstance to be the default on macs, too.)
I learned Esperanto years ago, not because I wanted to speak the language, but because I heard that students who learned it had an easier time picking up third languages, to the point that they'd surpass those who had been learning that 3rd language (as their second) the whole time! It seems that that strong of a claim has been since removed from Wikipedia, and I am skeptical about it as well. I wish I had spent the time just learning Italian from the get-go.

Also, like Derek, I was turned off by the community. I found them way too socialist-leaning idealists.
Nope, but regarldess of drivers, xorg has never been pixel perfect and tearing do happens. You are just probably used to it but it is obvious once you have started using wayland how smoother your desktop becomes.

It is the first time I hear about that Tearfree option and I am wondering. If it exists and it isn't the default behavior, it means there must be some annoying drawbacks right?
None of those would do much against these behemoths, but they would harm the smallest landlords (which might be the intention).

The "best" might be to adjust property tax on a given description of dwelling unit such that it's pretty annoyingly high, but each family effectively gets one for free. Then corporations and multi-unit owners would pay that, but individuals wouldn't.

Prop 13 in CA would be much less of an issue if it excluded commercial real estate and only applied to "homesteads" owned and held by the resident owners.
NACK?
Yes, absolutely. Perhaps not directly with the DE itself, but the DE affects how I work.

On Plasma, I have it set up so I have all title bars hidden and I use custom keybinds to close, minimize and maximize windows, which saves screen space and reduces clutter. On GNOME you cannot minimize windows at all if I remember correctly.

I have virtual desktops disabled and only use one desktop to manage all of my windows, while GNOME fundamentally works around using multiple virtual desktops as far as I know.

GNOME doesn't have a system tray, which I find essential. For example, I can see just by looking if Discord has an unread notification. Or I can close OBS to the system tray without quiting the application, which reduces visual clutter. I know you can add this with an extension, but I'm just referring to vanilla GNOME.

I often use KRunner to temporarily write something while still seeing the contents of my screen, while GNOME's equivalent is full screen I believe.

I'm sure there are many other ways, but these are the ones I can quickly think of.
> It had no steering wheel and would be controlled using Apple’s virtual assistant, Siri.

Let me out of this thing right now.

Not a popular opinion on HN, but I'm not sure anyone wants a self-driving car.
You fundamentally do not understand the activity of hunting and equate it to just shooting a gun. That's like saying camping is the activity of sleeping in a tent at night. There's a lot more involved that you're not aware of.

The point is that the activity of hunting spans over an entire day and certain activities can be performed before sunrise or after sunset and none of those activities involve shooting a gun.
In OoL, there will be steps. Some could be easy, others potentially very hard.

By their very nature, the easier steps will be understood first. Understanding them therefore doesn't say much about how the hard the overall process is.

An analogy is those collect-all-the-letters games one sometimes sees from grocery stores or fast food restaurants. If you collect all the letters in some phrase, you win a big prize. When you start playing the game, the letters come quickly, and the phrase fills in promisingly. But there's one letter that never seems to show up. The contest ends and your phrase is still incomplete. What happened, of course, is that all the letters except that one were just distractions. That one letter was very rare and controlled how many times the prize would actually be awarded. The contest exploits the unconscious bias that the letters have to show up with the same probability. They're all just letters, right? There's a feeling that when you get a letter you're closer to winning, but unless it's that rare letter you're not significantly closer at all.
On Getting Paid for Open Source
I would say moulded foods in general have fallen out of fashion, Christmas pudding aside, and not counting things like cake tins & pie dishes as 'moulded foods'... which I suppose gets somewhat arbitrary, but there's definitely a certain hard to define (use of gelatin or similar setting agent?) style of moulding (blanc mange, jelly, pates) which seems out of vogue.
AMD EPYC Bergamo Has Consolidation Benefits
You are missing something: 200 years ago you were lucky if 1 in 5 kids lived to 5 years old - disease was a big killer. As such you dare not get attached to your kids if you do you will be heart broke when they die. So you let the kids do whatever, the ones that survive great, the ones that don't well odds are it wasn't the risk taking that got them anyway. (you also had to work hard to find enough food for this family)

Don't read the above as kids were allowed to do anything. They were cared for, but it wasn't as close as modern families would care for them. If the kid is mostly safe that is good enough.
Another reason (than the ones listed): it's physically hard. Office buildings have to be essentially gutted, new utilities designed (heat/cooling/light/power/access) and rebuilt. Not as hard as building a new shell, but still a big chunk to bite off. And probably not quick, it'll take months.
Every single home owner is an investor, and often it is there primary asset, that they put all their effort into maximizing financially, as much as possible.

We do fundamentally disagree, I do not view homeowner profits as more virtuous than corporate profits, and in fact corporate profits will be less than resident homeowner profits, due to tax incentives.

Housing is more important than profits, but corporate owned single family homes actually result in less profit than the current homeowner-run system.
I doubt it will succeed for cars, the pressure needed to achieve the range is to big, and there is no infrastructure and not enough green hydrogen.
It's funny. My first step would be

0. You reach out to the previous maintainers, visit them, buy them tea/beer and chat (eventually) about the codebase. Learned Wizards will teach you much.

But I didn't see that anywhere. I think the rest of the suggestions (like get it running across platform, get tests passing) are useful stress tests likely to lead you to robustness and understanding however.

But I'd def be going for that sweeet, sweet low-hangin' fruit of just talking to the ol' folks who came that way before. Haha :)
What makes you think it isn't? There seem to be old-fashioned config files for anything that you could do in the settings app or whatever.
I wouldn't say GNOME 3+ is following Mac trends. GNOME 3 has been a horrible mess in my opinion, it's unusable for both Windows and macOS users.
the government doesnt need to produce viruses anymore. They have escrow services and remote access to radios, processors, firmware chips. All that technology is leased to private investigators who are private entities and then they go after people using the tools. It allows distance between the government and spying, lower salaies and infrastructure costs.

The greatest danger from LLMs is people who beleive they are receiveing data that hasnt been tampered with when we already know that LLMs are filtered before public use for terms. Imagine a day where kids and adults ask a LLM what the meaning of life is, should they go outside, what happened in WW2, etc.

People could be programmed in a more tailopred fashion than todays facebook shorts and youtube can deliver.
Hoping for 3rd point to activate soon!
Everywhere I've lived the local libraries and community centers had a decent number of events, classes, get-togethers. Check calendars at places close to you, and go to some events.

Or go to openings at art galleries/museums. Go to fairs and festivals. Really, any local event that is open to the public.
>88% of Americans would rather own a home than rent. Specifically, 76% of renters would rather own a home, but only 2% of homeowners would rather rent.

https://www.lendingtree.com/home/mortgage/homeownership-rent...
In the top picture of the article, they show Exxon, Apache, Chevron, and Core Lab data on the prominent NYSE energy trading screen.

One of these is not like the others.
I dare say the majority of renters feel the "rent is too damn high" - I've rarely found someone wishing they could pay more rent for what they're currently in (usually if they can afford more rent they move to something bigger/better).

So the missing link is somehow proving the causality between "rents are high" and "3 companies own 19,000 rentals". That may seem obvious but could be very difficult to prove, especially as it may not be correct. Walmart owns 25% of the grocery business in the USA - does anyone really think grocery prices would go down if they divested? (It may still be better for society for them to do so, lowest price is not the only measurement, of course.)
There are 10 types of people, those who don't know binary, those who do and those who know ternary.
>> would be a prison sentence for her

People around here say exactly the same thing about cities. Not being able to go hunting/hiking/camping/fishing. Not being able to ride a dirtbike/snowmobile. Getting a ticket if you cut down a tree in your back yard without government permission. Having to pay for parking. Having to adjust your work schedule around the mass transit schedule. People looking in through your windows. Being woken up by cop cars at all hours. They describe city life as "prison".
>88% of Americans would rather own a home than rent. Specifically, 76% of renters would rather own a home, but only 2% of homeowners would rather rent.

https://www.lendingtree.com/home/mortgage/homeownership-rent...

Pretty clear to me.
There's an old xkcd comic related to this https://xkcd.com/191/
OK Drone.
The best way is using sites like meetup.com and finding an interest group. I met my current friend group (around 20 people) and wife. I ended up joining a group in the beginning and then taking the group over. While we don't use the site anymore and group disbanded, we are all still really close and meet at least a couple of times/month.

Random interactions are going to be hard and awkward. It's much easier to be part of a group that you know the other person has at least some of the same things in common as you.
It's entirely possible Fedora sucks and is at fault while KDE itself is not responsible for the problems.
Nothing ever "has to come down to" foreigners unless that's your preassigned agenda that you want to bring everything around to. Pretty much every study ever done has concluded that immigration is a net benefit to a country's GDP and emigration is a net loss.

> The USA is (mostly) not growing through birth so any proposal to gradually decrease the population has to include immigration.

You're going to need to explain how you've managed to bring The Foreigns into this, you've just glued together two unrelated statements. You say that the US population isn't growing through birthrates, and then talk about population decrease and immigration as though that's related. If the US population isn't growing through birthrates, and people continue to die (which is pretty much a given), then you've got your wish without ever needing your racism.

Out of interest, which of the First Nations tribes were you born into?
If you’re a front-end developer, you should checkout ReScript[1], supposedly a JS-oriented successor of ReasonML and developed by the ReasonML team.

[1] https://rescript-lang.org/
I think this is about newer upside down bottles, the one that has a giant flip open cap with a gasket that don't open until the bottle is squeezed hard enough.
Don't even think putting Spanish in the same basket of French of German...

French has nothing to do with the almost WYSYWYG spelling of the first...
I don't generally agree with the masses being dumber than ever, but I do think people have a pretty warped view of nature these days. We heavily censor real violence; its partially why people (in US at least) have such a high tolerance for "violent" shows -- they are so far detached from real violence it doesn't even register as something actually bad.

I have mixed feelings. Being exposed to actual violence doesn't seem to make people better, IME. But being so detached from it doesn't seem healthy either.
What's the definition of environmental impact you're working with?

I think microplastic pollution is horrible. It's arguably worth putting extra carbon in the atmosphere to avoid plastic pollution. I'm not actually sure.
Makes me think about Dijkstra being horrified to learn that the US was sending astronauts into space using unproven computer code [0]. Eventually, we'll have programmers trusting the AI generated code as much as we trust compiler generated code. Sometimes I think this will be the evolution of programming (like binary to assembler to compiled to interpreted to generated)... Other times I think about how we've grown used to buggier and buggier code and yet we press on.

0: https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/translating-dijakstra.html