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Quoth the wiki 'PipeWire is a rather new multimedia framework by GNOME'.

There will be people who don't want to use GNOME frameworks and don't want to use the GNOME window manager.

Wayland is enforcing a policy ('don't access other devices graphics output') where it should be providing capability ('an applications graphics output is private by default but that can be configured'). However it looks like the design of Wayland purposefully omitted that sort of configuration from the protocol. So instead of having a security model that is sufficiently complicated to allow screen recording, the security model is 'No'.

To get a framework independent solution all the compositors would need to implement an identical API for accessing graphics output. That needs to be coordinated in the same fashion as the Wayland spec. As the spec stands, it is just asking for every framework, compositor or application to go implement its own different solution.

The Wayland designers may even have tried to avoid explicitly creating a security model, but in practice it comes with an implicit security model that is inflexible, unconfigurable and difficult to coordinate around.
Can't think of any. Do you have an example?
I don't care if it fits your narrow definition of science. If a planet destroying meteor is hurtling towards earth, is that reproducible or falsifiable? Should we do nothing until you personally are convinced that it has been scientifically proven that it will destroy the planet.

If we convert our entire energy and transportation sectors to renewable energy and climate change turns out to be a hoax, we still get cleaner cities, cleaner air and a cleaner environment. That is a perfectly acceptable consolation prize considering the potential risks.
And people laughed when I surgically installed a farady cage inside my skull.
Nothing that you've bought you actually wanted?
Can anybody actually explain what the result implies?

> Meditators, compared with controls, showed significantly greater cortical thickness in the anterior regions of the brain, located in frontal and temporal areas, including the medial prefrontal cortex, superior frontal cortex, temporal pole and the middle and interior temporal cortices. Significantly thinner cortical thickness was found in the posterior regions of the brain, located in the parietal and occipital areas, including the postcentral cortex, inferior parietal cortex, middle occipital cortex and posterior cingulate cortex. Moreover, in the region adjacent to the medial prefrontal cortex, both higher fractional anisotropy values and greater cortical thickness were observed.

I don't think a non-professional could have any idea what this passage actually means, without knowing what each above-mentioned brain area is actually responsible for. Apparently some areas got thicker while some others got thinner. Is it unconditionally a good thing?
From what I gather, Pipewire isn't part of Gnome, i.e. it's generic and can be used with any DE.

For example, all compositors are using libinput, which replaces legacy ways of X handling input. It's not mandated by the protocol either. So I don't see why they can't use Pipewire for audio and video needs.

If anyone wants to make a better alternative to standardize on - they are free to propose it.
One question I had from the beginning is, how much of this problem was cultural? That is, would this same policy have met with similar resistance in other countries, or does America have a singular belief in the fact that one ought to be explicitly rewarded for ones effort? The issue as quoted in the article seems to be that users were outraged that their tips did not go directly to the drivers. However, they did not accept the explanation that this system paid more drivers more money (at least according to the company’s statements). It seems almost selfish that we would value our individual contributions that highly that we would risk punishing drivers. What do others think?
Maybe the reason why they are nationalist is because they see the other global elites and want to avoid them?
The issue is I need the powerfull features, like I have a script that OCR a region of the screen when I press a button (the coordinates depend of the app that runs) so I do not want a GUI provided by the DE to let me capture the screen.

Anyway the issue with Wayland is that it is not ready, the important screen recording feature is yet not here,I seen also some complaints from gamers and their issues are a won't fix, probably when Wayland will be actually ready we will need something to replace it or a Wayland 2 that learned from first attempt mistakes.
Sorry could you clarify... why would you need Voting Card? I mean normal state ID must be enough no? Like everyone has to have one so they can prove their age and citizenship and where they live no?
Which compiler? The one from Google, GCC (gccgo) or TinyGo?
Amtrak is now claiming that most routes have bike racks.
https://www.amtrak.com/bike-faqs

Personally, I'd still prefer to have mine boxed to prevent scratches.
But when one of the two parties is a large group with massive influence, it is more likely to happen.
I will bet my left nut that if such a technology exists TSA may use it based on their discretion on any person entering the US including citizens and most citizens will be okay with it and the Supreme Court will hem and haw about it for years before giving some weak half ass decision against it that won't be enforced at all.
The FCC approved Verizon’s request because they were requesting a very limited lock of 60 days in order to prevent “zero down” device theft and resale by people who manage to hijack or create a Verizon account using stolen credentials and identities, order a phone by mail from whomever, and then never activate it. Verizon provides a statistic of several thousand people last year having their identity stolen and abused to get iPhones, and they must continue to unlock phones (without user action required) at 60 days unless those phones are flagged as acquired through identity fraud (and thus essentially bricked for all carriers, terminating the get rich quick scheme).

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/26/18759602/verizon-60-day-p...

Hopedully the context helps provide some background for why this might not be as scummy as it seems without that.
True, but people would never admit to that... I know I wouldn't
Data structures won't tell you the communication paths and dependencies between modules/components/services.
how do you know someone uses Julia? don't worry they'll tell you.
My partner still gets a pager for on call at a hospital, she gets a phone as well.
Reasonable Coding: A Live-stream of reasonable software engineering
I've read a lot of books on meditation. Without doubt, the clearest and easiest to understand for me was "The Yoga of Consciousness: 25 Direct Practices to Enlightenment" [1]. Well worth it to understand how to do awareness-based meditation and how it can fit into a broader set of practices.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yoga-Consciousness-Practices-Enligh...
Honest question: what is the non-capitalist alternative economic system? European socialism and Chinese communism are still very capitalist. I'm always generally confused by these debates.
Thanks! I'm using the same library that displays the 3D globe view, CesiumJS. I feed it the camera parameters from the Street View API and from that it can calculate the coordinates of the satellite on screen. I take those coordinates and use the 2D canvas API to draw the satellite dot and label. The 2D canvas is overlaid on top of Street View with some basic CSS.
I worry that the term capitalism means different things to different sides of the debate and therefore the arguments are non-substantial.

What does capitalism mean to you?
I use string and stream, also most libraries (glew) and compilers (MinGW) that are updated use C++.

To avoid cache misses you can't use OOP, that's probably where this wave of going back to C is coming from:

For example here's how someone that knows how computers work writes Java games: http://www.javaonthebrain.com/java/warp/warp.java
Are we going to gloss over the fact that
a) this is 3 years old,
b) shown on a technical preview which are clearly known for having lots of telemetry, and
c) he somehow casually decrypted an RSA key in about 3 seconds?
I have noticed the same trend in me, but have never done any meditation so far. It could as well be due to growing older.
Sorry but I do not.
This does not appear to work any longer.
> I'm far less worried about commercial companies doing this than I am worried about governments doing this.

I don't understand this statement. I hope after Snowden we all know that data at a commercial company = data at government? What's the difference? I don't see any practical barriers to various government agencies having access to all data at all companies. With and without company knowledge, mostly secretly, with and without company and customer consent, legally and illegally. This goes for the US, all US allies and all US enemies. The intentions of commercial companies when it comes to data protection from government are pretty irrelevant.

If you (as a people) want to ban your government from access to anything specific, you must first have control over your government. Which is inherently impossible in a system that is anything other than a direct democracy. Just my very unpopular opinion. There is no nation in the world that comes close to a people having control over a government, except arguably Switzerland. But even there I have my doubts...
I agree, but it's inevitable. The state has claimed all conceivable cut-points or transitions:

- Transportation. Any time you want to go somewhere by car or plane (and potentially bus/train[1]), the government has decided it has the right to search you.

- Interstate commerce. Most economic activity is taxed, and may be searched passively or actively to ensure that the state gets everything it wants.

- Communication. TV, radio, telephone, and now the internet are monitored and adjusted by the state.

Brain-to-network communication will eventually be commoditized, and the state will transitively invent some justification for monitoring it. Thus you may think thoughts which are shared with the network and for which you will be held liable.

The only difference is that today you type the thoughts on a keyboard.

I wrote an essay about this in 2011, for university.

[1] http://news.antiwar.com/2010/11/25/napolitano-eyes-full-body...
Doesn't work for me. All I see in Firefox (on desktop) is a blurry earth animation which you can zoom but which does nothing. There are some errors in the console and that's about it. There might be some text or something in the lower left corner but that is blurry too.
So far this is the only way I’ve been able to find to view the article, thanks.
> A cursory look at the CVE list for any C software in the wild

How can I see that list? I'm interested in comparing languages this way.
Shannon / information entropy absolutely is fundamental to thermodynamics. It clears up a lot of confusion when you realize that the entropy isn't in the system itself, it's in your head (your lack of information about a system's exact state, knowing only summary statistics like its mass, volume, and temperature).
You can't call native libraries without going through cgo. So unless you don't want to have audio, draw text and have access to the graphic APIs, you'll need cgo, which is really slow due to Go's runtime. For game dev, that's a no go (pun intended).

Additionally, the Go compiler isn't trying really hard at optimizing your code, which makes it several times slower on a CPU-bound task. That's for a good reason: because for Go's usecase, compile-time is a priority over performances.

Saying that there is no drawbacks in Go is just irrational fandom…
Clickable links:

https://www.instagram.com/accounts/contact_history/

https://m.facebook.com/mobile/facebook/contacts/?tab=contact...
Not exactly a 1:1 replacement though:

> This program requires access to /dev/uinput. This usually requires root permissions.

Source: https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool#runtime

Edit: I'll also add that only 5~ commands have been implemented so far in ydotool.
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Rail transport is convenient enough in Europe and many Asian countries. It is just US railways are broken, old and nobody invest into high speed trains. Even the richest state in US failed to build just one track, which was supposed to be the fastest in US, but a snail-slow compared to Japanese or Chinese railways.
> He could have chosen that option, bit he wanted to use hos Verizon upgrade credit. I'm sure he saw the policy on the verizon site & thought he was being smart, no he's crying.

What's the problem with this? Is there some unspoken rule that we're not allowed to "be smart"? Is that odious? He played by the rules, Verizon didn't, surely that's not his fault..?
The procedure is opaque because:

He posts questions that are duplicates but are only obvious duplicates if you're have a PhD in quantum statistics. And he attracts downvotes and gets demerits. Most SO users don't have PhDs, therefore most of the the downvotes and demerits must be due to something mystifying.

The procedure is not opaque because:

Well, maybe his questions may be regarded differently by other people, and then it makes sense.

There's a rule on meta.stackoverflow.com that each such complaint must point to an example question. A good rule.
The Many Faces of the ‘Doctor’ During the Cultural Revolution
I did it in the Himalayas. There were literally monkeys fighting on the roof, musicians practicing every morning at 7am, and it was really cold. Regardless it was a peak experience in my life. Western centers are probably quieter and more comfortable.
From the introduction:

> Today, most independent researchers believe that the 1979 [Vela Incident] flash was caused by a nuclear explosion — perhaps an undeclared nuclear test carried out by South Africa and Israel.
I live in Switzerland. Direct democracy works perfectly well. I don't understand why it is not the default mode and no other country uses it -- to me, it is the obvious way of running things.
Could you tell us more about the use case here? What do you use the OCR for?
Usually you wouldn't write the type, so `let x = 5;` In general, the C style type declarations complicate parsing quite a lot as well.
To be honest, when I said "multiple" downvotes, it was probably just two. (Two is a multiple of something, isn't it?)

Not a worry, I assume when people downvote a comment they have their own good reasons for it. In any case I am grateful that you found it helpful.

I will keep my eye out for sites that are clean and easy to read like you asked about and will follow up with any suggestions!
I use a timer set for 30 minutes. Almost every time I know exactly when the gong will ring. It's very strange.
Capitalism is too efficient of a system. It doesn't do enough to keep growth in check. We are on a speeding train that is going faster and faster. Any new system that tries to keep capitalism in check will be villainized by those who benefit from the capitalistic system.

> harnesses it for the benefit and advancement of everyone

but resources are limited, and so this model was created in a vacuum. Resources will become constrained and many will die and suffer, and not just humans.

Personally, I think capitalism is great, but maybe technology is causing to become too efficient, and its not a fault of capitalism itself?

So i guess i ended up agreeing with you, capitalism is pretty good, but we need a system to limit efficiency and tools.
Now, do you really think it would be something as straightforward and innocent-looking?

A much more likely scenario is that brainstreams would be stored in various tech giants' systems (and because analytics is important, ~nothing is discarded).

Instead of running a quick check, the police or official would pull your
thought history. But no, not directly from the source. Of course not.

To maintain a veneer of legitimacy, the actual tech companies will not sell to governments or law enforcement. There will be a forest of brokers, who sell to anyone.

And if you thought advertising was invasive or creepy now, with this kind of technology we would be entering a world Philip K. Dick would have found too depressing to write about.
I've seen the ISS at -10 magnitude, at that brightness we could see it through thick clouds!! So probably part of it is waiting for it to be very bright.
As if a dining car was a specifically _American_ tradition.
this link turned mallicious on me using materialistic.
If you're into more of this kind of thing, check out SummoningSalt (on Youtube). Very entertaining history of speedrunning videos, with solid production value and the creator has good connections with the community.
Check out Taoist practices, specifically the Microcosmic Orbit. When a lot of chi enters the head it can lead to what you describe. The key is to 'ground' yourself by learning to bringing it back down. Physically stroking down from your head to your belly imagining you're drawing electrical energy down and circling your hands at your belly can help (touch the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth and imagine you're running energy/electricity down through it down to your belly). It's safer to store energy in your navel, throwing off any excess into the Earth. This can stop you feeling spaced out.

Unfortunately I've not been entirely happy with most of the courses I've taken online though so can't really recommend one. I wasn't impressed with Michael Winn's courses [1] in general in case you stumble across his stuff, nor Ken Cohen. I'd suggest exploring books or look for other recommendations (The Tao Bums [2] could be a good place to start). The basics are pretty easy to pick up from books (but overall for meditation I'd say you need a real teacher, either in person or available for video tutoring/chats).

[1] https://healingtaousa.com/ (seems to be giving a 500 at the moment)

[2] https://www.thedaobums.com/
Maslows Pyramid wants a word with you.
Care to provide some examples and explain how using more abstractions would have solved them?
Thanks for the reply. Amazing work :)
If you know the exact state of a system, then it has zero entropy regardless of what that particular state happens to be. In this case, you also don't need thermodynamics to model the system's evolution, because you can predict its future exactly.

When you only know summary, average statistics of a system (such as its temperature), its entropy is nonzero, because your information about the system isn't enough to isolate a particular microstate. Instead you just have a distribution of many possibile microstates, any of which would match the measurements you know. The more possible system microstates there are that would agree with your data, the higher its entropy.
It's clearly not financially efficient.
Well, let's try: shoe me one valid point of critisim against Soros promoted ideas that is not illiberal.
“Information gerrymandering” influences voters
The same could be said for every Rust fanboy that feels the need to mention Rust whenever an article about C or anything implemented in C is brought up.
Scratches? My daily commute on the Caltrain quickly cured me of this concern. The bike racks on the Caltrain are simple and effective IMO, but essentially just cram bikes together with elastic straps.

It’s a great way to unblock lots of people to utilize trains that wouldn’t otherwise. 2 or 3 cars of the train are devoted to bikes. That certainly is indicative of the environment and the temperate California weather, but still. Makes for a marvelous multimodal commute for me.
Did we read the same article in wikipedia? It quotes many many sources saying it was not a nuclear test.

The quotes that it was a test were from journalists, and from people who "heard" about it. None from actual scientists who studied it.
I'd like to use this opportunity to ask a question of the HN community.

I remember someone (philosopher perhaps, scandinavian I think) who had a paper / rant on the utter impossibility of understanding one another.

From memory it was in a form of a list, with one of the items being something like

"If something can be misunderstood, it will be"
Oh come on, I was taught the difference between strong and weak typing with C (weak) and Pascal (strong) as the examples 30 years ago. You can cast a C entity to something else and NO ONE ELSE KNOWS.

Then THINGS happen.

BAD things.
There‘s another few positive effects from WeWork that has been overlooked so far: It‘s a one-stop shop for startups that expand internationally.

When my company started building an office overseas, they looked first at a new development built by a pension fund. Long story short our company would have had to have a facilities person locally for months on end to coordinate this. Lots of things lost in translation - the construction and real-estate industry have many local norms and cultures. For example, the US facilities people assumed to have many flexibilities how the office would be built out while the local landlord had more of a “take it as it us or go away” attitude - which is how real-estate deals are done in this city. Negotiations dragged on for months. Project got delayed. It was a nightmare, we didn’t know where people would be working as our team was growing.

Meanwhile I figured WeWork would open their first offices in the city. I connected them to facilities. Turns out we already rent a space in NYC - so connect them to the rep, moved in within two months. Problem solved, and the product we get (AC everywhere, office design) is a few notches better than what we would have gotten elsewhere.

WeWork also said once the office size gets stable they could build one out for us - with our brand and separate entrance. So, I see it more as an outsourcing shop for facilities departments, whose moat is the experience of doing this at scale - internationally and for many customers. If they get their act together this could be just as viable of a strategy as it was for KPMG, Deloitte et al. in accounting.
You disagree that millennials and younger are much more screen focused and much less face-to-face comfortable than previous generations?
Vaclav Smil: Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that
5 minutes? Commendable, it's more like 2 hours in my case.
One Man Raises a Family in SF Making $65k a Year
But libinput is a freedesktop.org project, ie, supported by the same people who are working on Wayland. It was specifically built to support Wayland.

Pipewire looks like some audio-visual framework for GNOME and GTK apps and while it might be fantastic it is both new and not very comprehensibly advertised. And it will probably be very complicated and involve some rather interesting design issues compared to building something in when the Wayland protocol was created.

We're coming out of a world where the standard used to be "run graphics drivers in userspace!" so any weird compromise is workable (including an audio framework deciding on graphics security policy). But ultimately the idea that a GNOME-sponsored effort is going to be what sorts out the security model for desktop apps is weird. I can't find anything to suggest that Pipewire is intended to be the definitive way to do screen recording, it looks to me like that might be a happy side effect. It wouldn't be surprising if it turns into two or three competing ideas.
Apart from the official tutorials what are the best resources out there for learning PyTorch?
Neuralink will give the border agencies good bandwidth on our brains, so at least the queue will move quickly!
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