skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a long time Ubuntu user but not exactly a power user. When I installed i3wm I really liked it but was very handicapped by losing the rest of Gnome. I didn't understand how much "windows manager" encompasses. Suddenly just finding an app and opening it was pain. I ended up getting rid of it because of the constant challenges of replacing this and that from Gnome, but I still miss the tiling desktop. Is there anything out there for those us who need more hand holding?
I have a 8/8 Gbps fiber (suburbs of a large city in France), and the point is more or less that you never sature it neither up or down. That's essentially why I upgraded from my 5/1 previous offer.

For 60e/month I get that, ~260 TV channels, amazon prime, netflix/disney+/canal+ included, wifi 7 and a secondary extender with ethernet backhaul support, a 2.5Gb switch, dedicated ipv4, and a bunch of other things included like a cellphone sim card, a portable 4G router with 50Gb of monthly data, etc ...

What our governement did in incentives push for their "project high speed internet" really worked here, 15 years ago even in large cities we were behind with lackluster adsl. Add EU's push to open the historic copper lines and Free's push into breaking the old money's market, both the home and mobile market is really great.
> You can't be not exploitative.

This is not true. Specifically because you are pointing out that exploitative companies will retain more money than non-exploitative ones and thus not be beaten in competition.

However, it is paradoxically also true that the same competition is beaten merely by high quality - leading to higher margins. Cost cutting is not the only way to squeeze margins.

> Trader joes employees are not actually paid very well. They're paid okay. Also trader joes is not very successful. They're a small niche, only profitable in the whitest and richest parts of the country.

And yet, they are nowhere close to running out of money and have a firm loyalty against cheaper competition. Exploitative cheap is not the only way and you are proving that same point.

> Yes, to an extent. But branding, as I've alluded to, is mostly advertising. The reality of your product is a tiny tiny part of your brand. How your brand is advertised is a much bigger part.

> Trader joes is cleaner, sure, and the experience is nicer. But from a food quality perspective, how much better is it than Walmart or Target? ... not much. I can find produce and whole-foods at both locations and I can live an equally healthy life with a diet consisting of only foods from Walmart.

Yes you can find the same produce at whole-foods or walmart or target. And yet, trader joes survives and is expanding. Once again, you are proving the same point - cheap exploitation is NOT the only way to win.
Yes. Linked press release says they borrowed equipment from NARA to play it.
I read his translation of Crime and Punishment and I liked it a lot, I saw he had a new-ish translation of The Brothers Karamazov but I haven't read that yet.
Being too fast to easily saturate is a benefit. It keeps your ping low.
The author is a Catholic conservative and considers classic science fiction as failed attempts to replace transcendent, divine purpose with mere scientific progress. And yes, I agree with a lot of that. Authors like Arthur C. Clarke, are obviously looking for some new form of transcendence - it shows up again and again, from Childhood’s End to 2001.

It’s well-written and sincerely felt. But like a lot of conservative tracts, for me, it only makes sense if you already feel as the author does. If you have a deep longing to be a soldier obeying divine commands it’s obvious, obvious, that Star Trek is hopelessly inadequate. If you imagine that once upon a time, the universe was well-ordered and filled with light, then of course the grey present is disappointing.

I had a look at other works by this author. He is particularly ticked off by how “wokeism” infects everything now, especially his beloved sci-fi/game universes. For him, the loss of transcendent meaning in culture is intimately bound up with the traitorous inclusion of women in some aspect of Warhammer that I honestly can’t be bothered to investigate.

On a personal note, I too was raised in a very Catholic environment. I do not understand the nostalgia. The worship of science may have produced gods that failed. The gods of religions like Catholicism not only failed, but were never there at all.

The thing that this author apparently cherishes the most - a childhood with exciting visions of the future - is itself a product of modernity. There was no sheltered childhood, no books and stories made particularly for the imaginative adolescent, before the modern period. In the bleak husbandry of Christian religions, women, children, and lesser peoples were property.

TLDR if the Catholic Church was able to run things the way they truly want, you wouldn’t have Warhammer or video games at all. They’d have slapped you upside the head, given you a book of the lives of the saints, and told you to say thirty Our Fathers in penance for wanting anything more.
The keyboard on the AT&T 6300 looks different to that for the Olivetti M24, just comparing the pictures on the wikipedia page.

I had an M24, with the original design of Logitech mouse that plugged into the keyboard.
Yes, one way we could fix supply/demand is by scaling up the density of detached and semi-detached neighbourhoods. This means mandating narrow one-way streets (6m wide) and banning wide two-way streets (15m wide), forcing smaller front yards (reducing setback distances), eliminating garages and driveways in favour of street parking, allowing narrower properties and smaller homes overall. Furthermore, we should be allowing mixed use zoning so that small shops, restaurants, cafes, and bars can serve these neighbourhoods and promote a walkable lifestyle.

These neighbourhoods can be served by light rail / street cars allowing more distant travel via rapid public transit, further reducing the need for cars. Look at a lot of the older neighbourhoods in big cities such as Riverdale in Toronto [1] to see what streetcar suburbs look like.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0
I switched to Aerospace from Yabai
> Although SSE2 is always available on x86-64, I also disabled the cpuid bit for SSE2 and SSE to see if it could nudge glibc into using scalar registers to copy data. I immediately got a kernel panic. Ah, well.

I think you need to recompile your compiler, or disable those explicitly via link / cc flags. Compilers are fairly hard to get to coax / dissuade SIMD instructions, IMHO.
Anecdotal, but in my area (Central US-IL), we had Verizon as the telco many years ago and we had Verizon DSL (Comcast was the only other choice at the time). We had only 1 issue w/ Verizon and it was fixed quickly.

Frontier bought them out and they could not keep DSL working at all. Problem after problem that they couldn't fix. So we switched to Comcast - that's how bad Frontier was.

Now we use Metronet and I'm waiting for that to get completely enshitified since they were purchased by TMobile or someone like that. I hope i3 is available in our area, I'm guessing if it's not, they'll be moving in as Metronet goes to shit.
At my company, we do business in the EU. It's a wide market with many opportunities. We're extremely careful with personal data: we do not intentionally collect user data, we do not share data with any third-party (and certainly never sell it)!

Importantly though, the law does not suffice with "careful". We *think* we have our bases covered and are careful to try to ensure they are but we're not sure how to *know* our bases are covered. There's the fear that some logs that we believe are anonymous might be considered identifying by some data scientist armed with techniques we've never heard of. There's the concern that some third-party library might dynamically pull in a font-set that comes from a US-based CDN based on some user configuration that we don't foresee. There's the anxiety of asking "Did we forget something? Is the DNS server in us-east-1?" when trying to roll out new features.

These are all strawmen, but they represent the kind of anxiety we feel. Having done our best to respect the requirements and the spirit in which they were written, there's the fear that we were imperfect in our awareness and that that something could cost us a fine that would have gone to someone's salary.

I would very much condemn the indiscriminate collecting, reuse, and selling of personal data, but I would also caution that those of us wanting to play by the rules find them lacking in precision.
It's not irrelevant if housing size is a driver of cost. Material is still one of the primary costs, generally above labor. But again, in more rare areas like SV, that general rule is distorted which is why it's not a good comparison for the nation as a whole.

Even conceding that there is minimum size for a builder, why is that minimum size increasing when manufacturability is also increasing? If home building is getting more efficient, you'd expect that minimum viable size to go down. Maybe labor costs have gone up? If so, I don't know if that is a net negative for society.
increasingly it's not that I need or desire any more features, but shit simply doesnt work if I dont bootstrap my window manager with a service layer desktop environment. My xinitrc includes sillyness to get KDE, gnome, dbus, systray icons to all work juuust right.

If you use KDE+i3 as the WM, none of those problems exist.

So its more like, other apps expect certain things to work in a certain way so make sure you get all the ducks lined up and then youll be good to go
Qantas mistakenly sells 300 discounted first class fares
The documentation is a major turn-off. I havent revisited the situation in a few months, maybe things have changed, but could not deploy a single app to my traditional cloud vm's... I never struggled that much with Dokku, that's why the comparison...
It does indeed extend all around, and I'm sorry you had to go though that. But you have to keep in mind that there is an extreme power imbalance between an employee and a manager who can have them fired, which means the jerk-factor is very much slanted heavily in one direction. For regular employees having those above you abuse their power over you in various ways is often a daily occurrence.
I have heard you can, for about 2 weeks. Then the phone must be at least become active.
>I think tiling is great for terminals, but not for the whole desktop (I don't want my web browser or video player to be resized because I open a new program).

This, I can't imagine anyone wanting that sort of tiling. Anytime I have a use case for tiling in my own job it ends up being impossible to get things tiled the way I want and also have the things I don't want tiled setup correctly on my other screen.
This is moronic. Economic theory is a self-reinforcing veneer of soft science studying observed human behavior with wild variance between different cultures, geographic markets, and individual people.

The "laws of supply and demand" are not empirical laws of physics. They are general principles with well-known exceptions and flaws of their own. You should lay off the microdosing.
Flyleaf 2.0: Indie read-later app focused on book-like pagination
You can configure almost everything using an app.json file.

https://dokku.com/docs/deployment/deployment-tasks/
Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU
Yesterday,I saw a post in X asking for a self-hostable background remover service. I was thinking, can we make it work by using WebGPU? So it will run in the browser and doesn't require any server/queue to run

After a couple of hours, I created this and published the source code on
https://github.com/ducan-ne/remove-bg

It's still new so welcome any ideas and contributions

Powered by WebGPU and Transformer.js (RMBG V1.4 model)
Has anyone tried out Tau [1]? It's similar to Coolify but supports multiple nodes which is appealing to me as I have spotty internet and distributing an app across several pi's in different locations sounds ideal.

[1]: https://github.com/taubyte/tau
It's not that hard or expensive now, there are lots of 10 gig unmanaged switches on Amazon. I recently upgraded my home network to all 10/2.5 and I used the TP-Link TL-SX1008 as my "main"
I have A/AAAA records set dynamically for my home connection. Granted I don't host anything that requires 99.99% uptime at home.
New startup wants to sell you "sunlight after dark" using mirrors
Yes! About 40 minutes into the first posted lecture [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9iqF5uTFk&t=2400s
Yes please! This came up enough for us we standardized on this for all documentation and CI scripts.

https://architecture.lullabot.com/adr/20211006-avoid-command...
Why build it if you are just reading? I find https://source.chromium.org/chromium wonderful. With things like go-to-definition and find-all-overridden-functions working wonderfully well.

I find this to be ideal when working with a large codebase. I don't even need an editor with fancy intelligence features and LSP integration; a bare bones vim or emacs paired with a website with all the intelligence already there.
And there was much rejoicing.

I can think of one use case: reaction to dynamic pricing of electricity. One could imagine (for example) an energy intensive appliance that would delay operation if energy were suddenly more expensive. This might just need the appliance to be able to connect to some home control hub, not to the internet by itself.
Which state is your town located in, out of curiosity? I'm trying to build a mental rolodex of which states have towns that are development-friendly.
I'm not sure what major user-visible innovation in desktop operating systems really would look like these days. It presumably wouldn't be something that fundamentally changed the user experience. I have some suspicion that convergence of mobile and desktop/laptop will happen with time but a lot of users would probably hate it, Microsoft already sort of whiffed on it, and convergence probably isn't really in Apple's business interests anyway so long as they can sell someone both a laptop and a tablet.
Is there something interesting at that site, or is this just an ad?
No. With Dokku you can just push to git remote and it'll build, deploy the image, set up LE certificates, roll out the app with zero downtime (if you want). To get this running you'd have to do some manual stuff with git commit hooks, but that's just one small part of Dokku.
I get a mostly static IP that cycles when the power goes out long enough (central florida location). I use Cloudflare, Tailscale and DDNS, works fine for my uses. Importantly, it’s not CGNAT like T-Mobile Home Internet or Metronet, which makes inbound services significantly more challenging. $40/month for 500Mb symmetrical.

Anything important is in a rack at a colo facility.
> In my post history, I asked about newsletters and newsletter popups, and a few people confirmed that they work really well.

Ignoring for now that’s 100% anecdotal and that “a few people” is far from enough to make definitive claims, what post history are you referring to? Do you have a link?

> The goal is to get paying customers. We discerning readers are the high effort, low reward cohort that aren't worth losing sleep over.

I understand that. I’m lamenting we live in a world where we find it acceptable to purposefully produce shit to exploit others.
Ask HN: Do house building laws like CA's "builder's remedy" work?
Do they actually build more housing? If no, what can be done to actually build more housing to help resolve the housing shortage?
Brian Chesky Interview with Steven Bartlett – Diary of a CEO [video]
That guy had a lot of interesting thoughts. It's ironic that of all the writers who I've tried to read in the original, Borges is the only one which comes to mind.
> I don't want my web browser or video player to be resized because I open a new program

That's the reason why tiling wm users use multiple virtual desktops. In fact, switching between virtual desktops will behave like change maximized windows, unless the virtual desktop has more than one windows (those are the cases that you want it to do that).
That's not something that I've encountered on Reddit - I've mostly seen people deliberately not using their real names.

If there is indeed a lot of personal identifying information from Europeans on Reddit, then they'd better get ready for a GDPR investigation.
This is a really cool post and that is a massive amount of throughput.

In my experience in data engineering, it’s very unlikely you can exceed 500mb/s throughput of your business logic as most libraries you’re using are not optimized to that degree (SIMD etc.). That being said I think it’s a good technique to try out.

I’m trying to think of other applications this could be useful for. Maybe video workflows?
Parsing tiny and large floating-point values: a programming-language comparison
Hngrok: AI summarized Hacker News stories and comments
https://github.com/leukipp/cortile
Its a weird glimpse into DHH’s psychology that he writes such a bombastic take on what is an extremely nuanced decision.

If it has any point, it must be to brag about how elite their ops team is to build and maintain obs infrastructure with less than 1/3 of a headcount. THAT would make for interesting reading.
Single payer or not but I think everybody should agree that dealing with health insurance needs to be easier and more predictable. When I read the stories of how people won against them, it's always mind boggling to see the giant effort they had to put into it.

Hospitals and insurances should be fined if they have a high ratio of claims that get rejected first and reversed after appeal. Patients simply shouldn't have to go through this. The whole system is set up to profit from wearing down patients by attrition.
My first thought was "From their planes???" [1]

But for real. Seeing as most consumers are using WiFi, a quick google suggests the fastest WiFi standard is 1.3Gbps, what is the usecase besides super users who are willing to wire everything? (Is that 1.3Gbps per device and so a combo of devices can use 7gig?)

[1]: for those not in the US -- "Frontier [airlines]" is a ultra low cost airline
It’s not the wired speed it’s that most people only use it with WiFi anyway so they get no benefit of the full available bandwidth. Most people don’t have their house wired for CAT6 or better
That sounds like Servo?

https://servo.org/
None of these states mandate disclosure of real estate transaction details...

Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
And maybe the opposite where the do-everything dream app of Twitter will eventually become an MMO.
> Unlimited Data

I think they left off the usual provider's asterisk next to that bullet point, or they're hoping to have so few customers that know what to do with that amount of throughput that only the long tail customers would use it
it's been a few years since I've done this, but I used to have the same problem as you and I found that if I ran MATE but replaced the default WM in it, Marco, with i3, I got to have my tiling WM inside a proper DE. It was really great! If you are interested there are a few guides you can find if you search. I'm certainly not the first or only person to do this.

I only stopped using it because I eventually got a very large screen and tiling doesn't fit my flow anymore, so I just use KDE now lol
> No one will be stealing your data as the big corps do.

We take care of that ourselves by self-hosting and having faulty or unmonitored backups :)
What makes anything "serverless", when it has to run on a server?
dokku does a lot of things that docker-compose does not. One of the bigger ones is zero downtime deploys:

https://dokku.com/docs/deployment/zero-downtime-deploys/

This has the added benefit of warming up the app before traffic ever hits it, something I was always surprised that even heroku didn't do (at least, the last time I used it ~6 years ago)
I don't find this argument convincing:

> I heavily disagree, as this will separate logic in at least 2 pieces, with the error being handled elsewhere.

1. Triggering and handling an error are two separate things. They can be on opposite sides of a library call, a process boundary, or a network boundary. Depending on the nature of the error, the logic that triggers it may be completely oblivious about how zo handle it.

2. Even if ignoring #1, returning an error code might propagate through the call stack, too, if call sites choose to do so.

My thoughts:

There is no one true best thing.
IMHO the most important thing is consistency. If you provide a Java API, then go ahead and throw exceptions, as is customary. In Go, return an idiomatic (result, err) tuple. If you're writing Typescript, consider using a union result type, maybe one that has a discriminating status field, if your failure mode is common enough that you prefer to force your callers to handle it. And if you're writing a C library, then go ahead and return EBADWIDGET or whatnot. Just keep it consistent to the rest of the code base and to developers's expectations.

If your language has both result types and exception types, and either is idiomatic, then ask yourself how strictly you want to force your clients to handle errors, and make your choice with that in mind.
It may go completely against the rational point of view, which says people are utterly insignificant, but can’t we just pretend that we are?

This is a typical viewpoint from self-described "rational people" (which is always a red flag, side note) and is more of a consequence of historical ideas, ironically many of which have their roots in the religious beliefs the rationalists are supposedly escaping from.

As a quick example: this viewpoint often says something like, "Human civilization and the individual human being are insignificant because we are so small compared to the vast universe, and live for such short periods of time compared to the age of the universe."

But there are two very human biases on display here: the idea that occupying large amounts of physical space is indicative of "importance"; and that things which exist for long durations of time are inherently more valuable. These are human biases and there any many examples in nature of the exact opposite being true.

These biases are better explained by human corporeality ("big empire = more powerful") and the human desire for an unlimited lifespan (which has a long history in religious thought.)

It's my opinion that one of the most difficult problems facing Western/global civilization is the construction of a belief system that understands this flaw of nihilism and presents a strong argument for the alternative, factoring in scientific knowledge that has shaken up society since the 1600s.
That's not comparable, because there's an actual police service meant to take care of criminal activity, meaning that's the train is not a careless conduit with rampant unchecked lawless activity. And that's ignoring that NIMBYs just make up stuff and exaggerate, but even assuming their rampant fears were based in reality.
Provided it's not going to cost you a fortune in time or money, provided its not going to "wreck your reputation" etc, I'd say go for it as you're "close to being done" (hahaha - famous last words).

You will get some valuable experience and learn a lot about the process of going to market and about yourself personally too.

Go on the journey, or in your case finish the journey. The next time you get a good idea, it will no longer be your first time and you will have lessons from the is experience to draw from. You will make mistakes and by the end of this you will look back and know what you would and wouldn't do again. If you derive no other value, that by itself is a worthy prize.

Go get your hands dirty and get your first time behind you I say. Nobody builds Facebook on their First Rodeo and you won't either. Consider it an exercise to prepare you for the future.