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> I love XFCE but nowadays it’s unbearable on a HiDPI screen.

How so? We support setting GTK's UI scaling to 2x, and (as of 4.18) I believe all the bugs around blurry icon rendering have been fixed.

What exactly becomes ugly for you?
No, you just have one God who created everything and has always existed.
Why does this exact word "hate" always appear in the top comment on Musk related topics? Is someone grepping this string for some purposes?
I agree but it's important to know that AI is a tool that devs need to understand and incorporate into their daily work life.
Don't bring processes back to life until the kernel prng is seeded?
That would require the government to be innovative.
Ask HN: How you all do sales research?
My friend who does enterprise sales manually ctrl-F keywords on news, company reports and earning calls etc to see if the management of the target companies had publicly shown interest in his solution or problem so he can quote them in his call.

Any of you do something similar in sales? Any other sales prep routine you have?
> spawn a new database every time they have a new client.

I've seen this work great for multitenancy, with sqlite (again, a single beefy server goes a long way). At some point though, you hit niche scaling issues and that's how you end up with, e.g., arcane sqlite hacks. Hopefully these mostly come from people who have found early success, or looked at by others who want reassurance that there is an escape hatch that doesn't involve rewriting everything for web scale.
Predates it by many years. It actually even predates the cave submarine, but strongly intensified then and increased roughly constantly until the present day.
Are there mapped communities if SDR folks who I can connect with and want to build off-grid networks? I’d be interested in pursuing this
Never said it was zero effort. It's almost zero effort. But you have to have deep knowledge of BEAM primitives if you intend on doing something crazy (still almost zero effort). If you don't know what you're doing or don't have experience in the BEAM you will probably get it wrong. Sometimes libraries haven't gotten it right so composability might not be there and you might have to write a sidecar genserver and supervisor (~40 LOC)

Good news is in elixir, though it is not easy to write (still low effort) most of it is pretty straightforward to read so a junior could probably successfully work through and understand a CR.

The other very nice thing about doing it all in the BEAM is that you can make distribution and availability guarantees part of your testing suite very easy, because its even part of you localdev flow. That also means your devs will write that test, instead of of assuming they understand how that kuberbetes operator works (they don't).
> And to go further: I don't recall anything from before I was 2 years old. What difference would it have made…

You’re putting forward the idea that your personal memory is the thing that makes you valuable. Why should we think that’s true? Memory is frail, too. How much do you have to be able to remember before your life is worth protecting?

Besides, one day you won’t remember anything anyway. Is it OK to jump forward just a bit and have you killed today? You won’t remember it.
I'd guess most people that eat oranges regularly will have a favorite brand.
There is a thing I am looking for.

I frequent here (and chatgpt.com) because it is the closest I have found to what I am looking for.

I have paid enough people to visit my attempts that I think I have a decent sense of how a large number of people will react to what I have tried.

My intuition is that my language to describe what I am looking for is insufficient to convey the idea to others (including the venerable responder at chatgpt.com).
I think what these people are looking for, really, is an alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly that provides more control and less tracking, not necessarily Linux (yes, I know the title of the post is "we need GNU/Linux"). Companies like Framework prove that there's a nontrivial number of people looking for devices like this.

Windows Phone was around during the time that carrying a smartphone on your person at all times was optional, and we didn't have critical government and banking services being delivered exclusively through apps that only work on Google Android and Apple iOS. I suspect that if Windows Phone had survived, and managed to keep even a tiny fraction of the market share, these apps would nonetheless be forced to support it because they would have to account for at least some of their customers using it.
Yeah but can they create a web based and ad infested CRUD app with javascript?!

The ego on display in the programming world is just astonishing.
Seems that what is needed is something more automated, beyond a "simple" linter like ChkTeX and more towards what Word has in its readability scores, combined with the local rules of Stanford's house style. State of the art here seems still in its infancy.

Example: https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nspring/software/style-check-readme....

For example, seeing a lot of double-backslashes (\\) in a LaTeX source file would be a code smell to me if not actually illegal LaTeX.
Your 2025 Honda civic won't start? Have you tried cranking it with the handle in the hood or adjusting the choke?
>So the unseen mass in clusters could just be ordinary matter that does not happen to be in a form we can readily detect.

That is the same thing as dark matter...
ElonMusk has cut the reach of my account by 81%
I had a puncture in a hire car a couple of years ago and was distressed to find they no longer bother with spare tyres - at least in the UK. Not sure if this is some money saving escapade, or if it's because most drivers no longer knows how to change a wheel.

Instead had to wait hours for a tow truck and a replacement tyre.

Vest and first aid kit cost like €15, absolutely should have them - although I'm not convinced the typical "cut finger" first aid kit would be much help. Sure if you knick yourself changing your wheel (which of course you don't do any more), but I wonder what level of injury it's useful for when looking at a typical crash.
This tripped me up too until point 3 in the piece:

> If you are wondering whether or not something counts as weird nonfiction, consider its weirdness. Modern mockumentaries do not work because there is no uncertainty; the documentary element is used to advance the plot, mug at the camera, key the viewer in.

I read this as: non-fiction elements in service of advancing the plot is a strike against.

Really, "weird nonfiction" is whatever the author wants it to be. The examples are a total grab bag IMHO.
I've never used Genera; I was born in 1989 and thus was too young to experience Lisp machines. However, I've read a lot about them over the years, and I wish we had a modern analogue. I think the closest thing we have to Genera is the Squeak implementation of Smalltalk and its derivatives (Pharo and Cuis Smalltalk).

I wholeheartedly agree with you; a system based on structured data or objects would be much better than what we have today. What I've been dreaming about for years is a system where everything is an object, much like Smalltalk. Instead of typing "ls" in a terminal window, you would send a get_files request to the current directory, which would return a list of file names. It's possible to emulate the traditional Unix "ls" command, but interacting programmatically with the system enables so many other uses that's much easier than parsing text or calling POSIX system calls. Because the user is working with objects instead of text, not only would it be easier to write scripts compared to Unix shell scripts, it would also be easier for developers to implement GUI tools for the system. For example, imagine if word processing documents were represented by a class that handled all sorts of manipulations of the document, hiding the details of the underlying file format from the user and developer in most cases. It would be easier to come up with scripts for generating and modifying word processing documents without having to use the word processor's macros (if they're available in the first place) or without having to dive deep into the underlying file formats of the documents.
Wired with the click bait.
What's the cost? It only takes a few min to submit on Product Hunt.

I agree that you're better off befriending the PH editorial team (since they decide who gets featured and who doesn't).

But even a simple launch gets you a backlink and "some" traffic. So I wouldn't say "you're doing it wrong" for doing something with no downside and some upside.
There's no societal problem of hidden deaths because of fermented foods. But assuredly there is because of "safe" ultra-processed convenience foods.
> The transition to Wayland also seems to correlate with the adoption of client side decorations (CSD)

Not really. The GNOME/GTK folks were already on the CSD bandwagon well before Wayland. Wayland compositors are free to draw their own decorations (and xfwm4 will indeed continue doing that once it's a Wayland compositor), and one of the actually neat things about Wayland is that there is a protocol that allows the compositor to tell applications not to draw their own decorations. (Whereas on X11 an app can tell the WM it will draw CSDs and the WM can't do a thing about it.)

Certainly GNOME has gone all the way to CSDs (IIRC if an app on GNOME doesn't draw CSDs, they get no decorations at all), but that has nothing to do with Wayland.
You could use a phased array to target each of them rapidly
The main reason academic papers exist right now is simply because academics need to publish papers, in ever larger quantities. It's publish or perish, and it gets a little bit worse every year. The peer review system is a bit of a farce. Sometimes it works out, but there are loads of papers that get published simply because the author is well known.

Papers used to be better. At least in my field, the quality really dropped off in the mid to late 00's. Most of the very best papers that I've read---at least, in terms of writing---were written in the 90's or earlier. I think the increased pressure to publish coupled with people being constantly distracted by computers and other forms of media are to blame.

Depending on what your interest is, you may be better served by a textbook. Or if it's something very specific, just contacting someone by email and trying to have a chat with them.

That said, most of the techno-improvements you suggest (clickable links, interactive plots, etc) are basically worthless. Good writing and good presentation can be accomplished on a typewriter with hand-drawn plots. Communicating technical ideas well requires the author to think carefully about how they'll present their thoughts, which gets skipped over in most cases.
More good tools are always great. But I don’t think random clutter is always good.

Fortunately we don’t have to see it so it’s not like it blocks my vision.

But I just wanted to note that the idea of “anything is good” is not really true and I don’t like its spread as there’s opportunity cost. I think we need to spend more attention on evaluation and quality and making good things than the idea that even creating lots of bad things is good in some way.
100%, but my mental exhaustion grows every time I see a post claiming Claude or some other LLM can build your whole company
Sorry but I am pronouncing that as 'ess-cue` and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

Looks kinda neat for when I don't want or need anything more than bash for a script.
I appreciate that you’re getting to the crux of the matter instead of downvoting.

In our experience elevating the web metrics in Next.js takes the same expertise as doing it in any other framework. Our experience with Vertx and Microsoft’s dotnet web frameworks have been good, but Next.js got us to a fast, featureful, performant website sooner and with more flexibility around requirements. I won’t pass judgement on rust frameworks I haven’t used, but it’s just to say that in an honest accounting, a naked backend framework is less than half the product when you’re talking about web applications actually worth making with original ideas. Unless you work at Google.
> and Starlink's involvement in Ukraine/Russia war

Why is that in the same statement as the sub thing? Starlink has been absolutely instrumental to the success of Ukraine.
>t's a bad argument. You do need to learn longhand math - and be comfortable with arithmetic. The reason given was incorrect (and a bit flippant), but you actually do need to learn it.

But...this applies to engineering and/or webdev too. You can't just expect to copy paste a limited solution limited to 4096 output tokens or whatever that would work in a huge system you have at your job, which the LLM has 0 context of.

Smaller problems, sure, but they're also YMMV. And honestly if I can solve smaller irritating problems using LLMs so I can shift my focus to more annoying, larger tasks, why not?

What I am saying is that you also do need to know fundamentals of webdev to use LLMs to do webdev effectively.
> He's already done it to interfere with a war

One of the many Musk myths that continue to float around. There are dozens of them at this point.

The turning off did not happen, it was a misunderstanding by a biographer that he later corrected. (Naturally the correction got a tiny fraction of the reach of the original)
> CSD has nothing to do with UX.

Sure it does. Allowing windows to draw their own decorations, often in different ways and with different styles and themes, and not respecting the settings in xfwm4 as to what window-control buttons should be drawn (and where)... that's a huge UX issue.
Curious which YouTube video you watched that helped learn Axum.
We've replaced the title with a less baity substring from the subtitle.
What's the significance of the company being Finnish?
I believe it's fair and based on recent changes in musk's political outlook which many disagree with. His public persona really didn't used to be like this, and he never would have been so popular in the first place if that was the case.
which side of the line did you intend to place yourself with that statement?

I found that AM radio had so much interference 20 years ago listening to Radio Disney that I gave up. (oh god. That might be closer to 30yrs now)

Dipping my toes into software defined radios (RTL-SDR, and a HackRF), I found AM to be incoherent in my area.

So, what exactly is there to save? It's obvious there's an agenda- FCC already has enough latitude to allow low power FM broadcasts to replace AM ones without external involvement.
> Musk is also spreading the "this might be the last election you ever vote in" meme

It’s hilarious that you’re spreading the left version of that meme and can’t even tell.
Yeah and only a few of each launch are direct to cell capable. Probably until starship works.
Possible unpopular opinion: Rust is a systems language, doing "web work" in Rust is a waste of effort as there are much better languages and ecosystems for that.
Portable nuclear reactor thought experiment
Bill Gates talks in a documentary about nuclear energies being old-fashioned. what kind of measures can be taken to solve possible problems due to building small nuclear power plants that will perform simpler processes instead of large nuclear power plants moreover, what do you think about possible interesting technological development?

I believe that something like this can be produced. I think most things can be invented with the right team and financing.

Going back to the thought experiment, let's think...

The first things that come to my mind are sabotage. But I want to put those bad things aside and think.

There could be a situation where electricity could be free. electricity companies might not like that. maybe there could be obstacles to the development of technology just because of that. okay, that sounds a bit like a conspiracy theory. let's be more serious!

Instead of using it in people's homes, it makes more sense to use it in space. it could be used for rocket fuel. although I don't know what would happen with the radiation of space. it could explode in space. But let's keep thinking.

It could be used for spacecraft, even if not in space, but on planets. It could be a good solution for the panels of solar-powered Mars vehicles that get dusty due to storms. because solar energy is not needed.

If we think about it, if a portable nuclear reactor is made, I think it can accelerate the colonization of Mars.

Does anyone think otherwise or better?
Oh, I'm also too young to have experienced the Lisp hardware. I've tried Genera in an emulator, though, and I've read some of the manuals because it's so interesting. There's a nice user interface programming manual preserved at [1]. Defining commands starts on PDF page 39.

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/symbolics/software/genera_8/Pro...
At some point, why not package Python into a single executable, and symbolic link applications and modules into it for Unixy-ness?

Another POV is all the developers I know who thrive the most and have found the most success: they rate aesthetic concerns the lowest when looking at their tools. That is to say that the packaging or aesthetic coherence in some broader philosophy matters less than other factors.
I run all my desktops on it, i even did a crappy nixos config to use it and the linux jellyfinmediaplayer app on an n100 attached to tv. I really need to better understand nixos is what i discovered from that.

its a great tiling window manager
You could buy bolt action, semi, and even fully automatic firearms, including belt fed machine guns, with no ID out of a catalog and have it delivered to your door before WW2. Acting like the individual right to bear arms didn't exist before Heller is akin to an 8 year old telling me 9/11 was a fictional event.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54213/54213-h/54213-h.htm

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediafiles/346339/838C8AF0-140E-4...

https://archive.org/details/catalogno12400sear/page/904/mode...
> The thing is, why 10? Why not 9 or 11?

Check the first Unicode codepoints, 10 is defined there:

000A is LINE FEED (LF) = new line (NL), end of line (EOL)

It was already 10 in ASCII too (and the first 128 codepoints of Unicode are mostly the same as ASCII [I think there are a few tiny differences in some control characters]).

So to answer your question: it's neither 9 nor 11 because '\n' stands for "new line" and not for "character tabulation" nor for "line tabulation" (which 9 and 11 respectively stands for).

> Clearly at some point someone must've manually programmed a `'n' => 10` mapping

I don't disagree with that.
I would have to look more into their methodology, but it’s fair to say that the AI coding tools are so new that workflows using them are still being themselves standardized. Interaction models are being prototyped.

I’m willing to believe that those posting on HN about their experiences with AI coding tools are doing so in good faith and also are probably able to evaluate their own experiences faithfully. They aren’t gaslighting themselves, as most folks using them for work are assumed to be doing useful work with them over baseline of not using the AI coding tools, or they wouldn’t use them.

Good enough works. By that same token, those who are not having better than baseline experiences with AI coding tools are probably “holding it wrong”/using the tools in a manner that they are ill-suited for etc. Those devs are probably not able to assess their own performance as well as those who are more proficient at coding generally, even without using AI coding tools.

Basically, good programmers are better able to use programming tools, even AI coding tools that are somewhat buggy in their implementations and/or output. Using the wrong tool for the job or using the right tool improperly is not an indictment of the tool, but of the user.

A poor craftsperson blames their tools. A quality craftsperson accepts their tools for what they are and aren’t, and adapts their tools and adapts to their tools accordingly.
iPhone photos are usually in HEIF, and an on-the-fly conversion option that fails after hundred or so photos is enabled by default. Image transfer on iOS works half decent after you find that toggle.
That's the plan, anyway. And I expect Wayland won't be usable for most as a daily driver until 4.22 or even 4.24, so obviously X11 will remain a high priority. And even after then, the X11 code paths will still work. Most of the difference is handled inside GDK anyway; the work we've done for Wayland support is mainly where GDK doesn't handle what we want to do, and where we've had to write libX11 code.
Was at a rest stop and heard talking coming from a box on a pole. It was reading out the weather in TTS voice, guessing it was the transmitter for one of these stations.
What weird phrasing. Loon just shutdown on its own and did not participate in any of the sat laser development for Starlink.
Tesla deserves a full-time CEO. It's a shame shareholders don't care about the company enough to demand one.
Where in Europe? Everywhere on the continent? Certainly not in Sweden where I live. The major banks here use 2FA but not mandated to a mobile app.
Why don't they use a third party authenticator instead?
When you say “tn” do you mean the European trillion or the American one? I.e 10^15 or 10^12
A major problem is that one can only have a single connection. It would be nice to do WiFi Direct or AdHoc mode while being connected to an AP. Being able to use WiFi without losing the AP connection (or having a standardized AdHoc channel for discovery) would replace uses of Bluetooth in consumer devices where Bluetooth is used for the initial connection to join a WiFi - some devices rely on WiFi Direct but the UX is very bad because the AP connection gets lost.
It could beat using C/C++ for using an embedded web server. I remember I tried that once and a lot of the work was using aho-corasick for working with paths, handling cookies and dealing with a bunch of nasty error handling all of which in theory would be easier in rust.

My problem wasn't so much dealing with memory management, but trying to put an upper bound on memory usage and failing nicely when that upper bound is met. I generally don't like working with garbage-collected languages, or having to use some niche application-specific language when I can just use a general-purpose language instead.
No. Dark matter is a proposed form of matter which does not interact with light.

Normal matter we can't detect isn't dark matter - it's just currently undetected matter. As our observational ability improves we find more of it.
I briefly worked in loss prevention at a major US retail box store. I was very surprised at the number of times the local PD came in to make arrests for outstanding warrants vs for theft. I suspect there is a symbiotic relationship between the corporation and LEO but I didn't stay long enough to validate whether or not they were screening via Clearview or something similar.
Ask HN: Quality ad-free audio content for kids?
What are your favorite high quality podcasts, audiobooks, or other listening-only media for kids (6yo in my case) that will teach them in a fun way, or tell interesting stories, and not contain any annoying ads? Paid is ok.
Well, I don’t reread books. But I’ve read this one science fiction book five times. That book is “The Long Run” by Daniel Keys Moran.

As for non-fiction I just bring out the classics that taught me Lisp and Lispy things: Simply Scheme, SICP, On Lisp.