skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Works for me" is a risky defence; if you are a slightly demanding Wayland user then it is fine, if you have unusually simple needs it isn't a useful contribution.

It isn't anything to do with the hardware, it is the design assumption that isolating application's input and output should be mandatory.

In hindsight; that was a design mistake. The correct design is probably something like isolation by default but optional (ie, allowing sharing). The current design means further protocols and de-facto standards are required to support, eg, streaming and screenshots. That is bad for an ecosystem that relies on low barriers to entry to get good software written.

Basically, there needed to be a security model but the developers skipped it because it seemed like it shouldn't be the compositor's job. And after a very painful couple of years, seems quite likely that it was the compositor's job.
It's free.

It's "subsidized" by iOS purchases I believe.
Would the Scoville scale be nicer if it used logarithmic numbers instead of linear? Would make it easier to compare something that was a 4 and a 6, for example.
Yes, where I am at we also have a similar career track just introduced a year back or so. For the most part it’s a welcome change and recognition that an IC can be just as if not more valuable than a manager.

However, for extremely large organizations, despite my personal desires to see an equivalent to a VP/exec level for an IC, I just don’t see anyone being interested in that.

The rationale I’ll probably hear for why it will never happen is something like “execs are responsible for so many staff’s eventual success or failure, that there is no way an IC can compare to that level of impact”.

If I don my tinfoil hat though, the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that these sorts of changes to an IC’s career path are ultimately made possible by execs themselves, and that they would not be able to compete with someone of equal stature who has spent 99% of their time thinking about hard engineering problems. A certain fear of appearing mediocre or protecting your rank perhaps.

I’d also say that my assumptions above are probably meaningless in a startup or company less than 100; I’ve seen plenty of postings looking for a magical “co-founder/CTO/principle engineer” hybrid. Which I take to mean a really good engineer who is also responsible for some part of executive leadership. It’s not an exact comparison /shrug.
Is there anything to admit, though? X.org has been in the so called "maintenance mode" for years and any development on the current main project is dead in its tracks, this is a well known fact. But no "drop in" replacement exists as of now, nor in the foreseeable future it seems there will be one - Wayland is an alternative, if you limit yourself to anything that is properly supported, with fundamental design differences (necessary for a more "modern", efficient approach to the current technologies), but I personally can't but think it's dead on arrival. There was some quote from the original developers of X.org about only few people in the world being able to grasp it in its entirety and I believe it's gotta be true.
I switched from 1Password to LastPass because (at the time) 1Password’s support on Windows was rudimentary, and on Linux was basically non-existant. And then I switched from LastPass to BitWarden, because I became uncomfortable with LastPass (for reasons which I don’t recall).

And then when 1Password released their 1Password X system which works via a browser extension that works really nicely across Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/etc, I switched from BitWarden back to 1Password again. (caveat: I haven’t actually tested the chrome extension myself; only the firefox and safari ones)

RE: BitWarden vs 1Password, they’re pretty similar in most respects. 1Password is arguably more polished (especially in the native OS X app), and has support for storing multiple separate vaults of data (a feature which I don’t actually use). BitWarden has the ability to self-host the server (which I’ve never done, but I very much appreciated that it was an option), and 1Password historically let you just sync your vault file however you wanted to; I had mine in a Dropbox folder to share between computers, for a while, and it worked great. But now with 1Password X, they want you to use their servers. Which obvs is less great, but.. I’m willing to put up with it, personally. (I mean, I was doing the same with LastPass and BitWarden already, anyway).

For me, the big killer feature for 1Password is that it can handle “Authenticator” features; scan the QR code into 1Password and it’ll handle the TOTP code for 2FA in addition to your username/password, etc. It’s so much nicer to have it all integrated together in a single flow than to need to find my phone and launch Authy separately every time I want to log into a web site.
I'm against Wayland because it forces compositing on all windowed applications. I'll stay on Xorg as long as possible because I'm not willing to sacrifice latency for no tearing.
Sure X.org is abandonware but there are serious problems Wayland still hasn't solved that X has.

1) Wayland is really slow. I don't know if it's the compositing or what but it's unusable on lighter hardware that X ran fine on.

2) Widget toolkits handling window decoration is awful. Before the large number of toolkits just meant some controls were a little different but now basic behavior changes based on how programmers decided to build an app. And if you don't like the window decorations (say, they take up too much screen space) your choices are suck it up, or if you're lucky and willing to spend a bunch of time reconfigure every different toolkit your apps use.

3) basic stuff that worked fine on X11 doesn't work on wayland in the name of "security" (screenshots are a big one, there are extensions but isn't that the complaint about X? And if there's a security problem with something isn't hacking around with it because people need it a really strong indication that the idea is broken and probably making the situation worse?)
“ROS Stands for Slave Operating System”
I recently came to know about Arcan which is the alternative to both Wayland and Xorg .

https://github.com/letoram/arcan
It's amazing that no one has thought to do this yet considering the checkered history of GitHub's compliance with DMCA takedowns.
'I think phones are much more dangerous than guns' – filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi
I watched an hours long video of a daredevil/stalker with a guide. Sometimes the levels go insanely high. What I am curious about: are radiation levels crowdsourced anywhere?
>backwards compatibility is pretty much disregarded.

Wayland compositors provide backwards compatibility with most X11 apps via XWayland, I don't think it's fair to say that they completely disregard compatibility
I still find it much more useful in practice for SUM to return a NULL and not 0. Especially when plotting data over a period of time, having the chart go down to 0 and then go back up to some value is extremely annoying, and the query that would produce the current behavior of SUM would be much more annoying if it were implemented the other way around, while it is extremely easy to transform NULL to 0 if you want.
I have to say the story on server side decorations is nasty and disappointing from the GNOME devs.
Are there any filters/plugins that could create a good workflow for converting a pdf that is multiple pages of very clear text images? Think of each page having a few printed multiple choice questions. Is there an easy way to get it into a text document?

Some command (or commands) that can be wrapped in a script:

> convert2txtViaOCR.sh -i input.pdf -o output.txt

Thanks.
I keep trying to use Wayland, but it never fully works. Everyone keeps saying how well the highdpi stuff works, but then it really only works for a subset of things. For the rest it's actually worse than Xorg.

Multiscreen is Xorg is kinda mushy so I thought maybe Wayland fixes it, but no it doesn't.

Wayland is now 12 years old and everything is still half-baked.

It quotes an intel developer saying they don't want to do any more stuff on Xorg. But the reality is that as much as I admire intels open source contributions. I don't remember a time where all the features in the Intel driver actually fully worked. But sure, maybe it's an Xorg issue, or they don't know how to do release management.

Either way, Wayland doesn't seem to solve the problems it promised to fix.
Making Multi-Cloud Good
> I've been on Mint for the past 4 years and I've had no problem with it, other than the fact that every time I turn on the computer I have to run a shell script that fixes my resolution.

That's funny. I was on Linux Mint (windows PC with dual boot) for a few years, then I bought a Dell XPS13 with Ubuntu installed from the factory. I really wanted to like the XPS13, but both the hardware and the OS were just so poor compared to my Mac (that I used at work) that after a few broken things (power source plug broke, the fan was very noisy when I was coding on an IDE, the trackpad was not nearly as advanced as the Macs', shortcuts broke when I upgraded to Ubuntu 19, then to 20, language switching suddenly started taking 2 seconds for no reason, etc etc etc I hope you get the point) that I decided to finally hit the bank and get a little MacBook Air... what a life changing experience: even though the specs of the MacBook Air are a lot lower than the XPS13, it's just a incredibly superior UX. No fan noise even when using the most out of my IDE... trackpad is awesome... even the keyboard is excellent (after the fiasco of the previous Macs, they did get it right), quite superior to the XPS13. The OS itself is just much prettier in all aspects. I feel a small amount of delay sometimes when putting some pressure on the processor, but that's still not something I would call remotely annoying (as opposed to the incredibly annoying Linux UX).

As much as I don't like using Apple stuff due to price and their closed-garden policies, I just can't pass on the superior UX.

Even though my Windows and Linux machines are still available in my closet, I just never had the desire to touch them again since I got the Mac. Unfortunately!
When gstreamer first came out it was hilariously buggy. Constant crashes. Maybe it's improved but I bet that put a lot of people off.

Plus does gstreamer even have a CLI targeted at users rather than developers? If they do they don't advertise it every well!
Well the CCCP also had no problem performing forced abortions on their Han Chinese citizens. Sometimes in the 8th month of a pregnancy... All for the one child policy.
Other than it being a felony in the US to issue a false claim with a jail time of up to 5 years aye
In the example of the fundamental theorem of LA, the key point is the relationship between the subspaces (there are other ones just about the definition of a nullspace for example) - agree if every card was like this it would not be ideal.

I think my more important point was about problem sets, for instance:

Construct a matrix with the required property, or explain why you can't.

- left nullspace contains [1 3]^T

- rowspace contains [3 1]^T

breaks down into a few steps, and trying to break that down into bite sized flashcards such as, "what's the key idea in constructing a matrix with left nullspace [1 3]^T" and "given a matrix that is the product of L with row [1 3] can you choose a U so that combined they form a matrix with row space [3 1]?" seems like it could risk in resulting in me not being able to figure out the entire problem together. But maybe not?

Bringing it back to the post's proof example, what if you had completely nailed every step of the proof such that Anki doesn't ask you about it for a while, and then 6 months later, one of the harder steps comes up in isolation:

"What is the second adjustment we make in the proof of the ratio test, a < 1?"

what if you can't remember the first steps? Would having the rest of the context help? I guess it's a tradeoff.
Look for RFC3161, its a standardized timestamping service over the network. You send arbitrarily binary content (subject to size limitations of course) via HTTP POST to an endpoint of the provider, and the resulting HTTP response is a signed data structure containing a cryptgraphic hash of the response together with the timestamp. When public/private crypto is used by the provider, all you need to verify the signed response for authenticity is the public key of the provider.
NB: I've adapted this comment as an article here:

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/808cf690f8e801381778002590d8e...
why does Facebook want me to have a single friends list, under my real name?

To make their graph more legible. Basically, seeing like a state but for corporations.
I disagree and think a clean break was the way to go. X had acquired a whole lot of legacy baggage and compatibility with that should be provided by a separate piece of code.

Wayland should have been a completely new thing built with the lessons learned from X but vastly simplified for how modern display systems are actually used. Unfortunately it was built with no intent to handle many of the common use cases X already handled just fine, leaving that up to third parties to develop their own ways handling it, leading to some fragmentation (Linux really needed more fragmentation!) and very slow adoption.
> drink one coffee and stay for 4 hours, meet people, chat, discuss etc

I've been to Vienna a few times, and while I agree that the coffee houses are nice (though a bit posh for my taste), I did not see anybody talk to strangers or discuss philosophy or something. It was mostly just friends or relatives going out for a drink, like anywhere else.

Did I go to the wrong places? Where is this mythical coffee house where ideas are exchanged and challenged?
forked from github/dmca
Not all software is written and controlled by a corporation.
It doesn't really talk about gateways at all, but says it should be vendor neutral.

payto:stripe.com/pk_PU1qgJjo2yW1to?amount=USD:100.0&message=Box+of+chocolates

It seems weird to leave payment gateways out of consideration, but maybe I'm not understanding the purpose of this RFC.
Since wayland has been pretty much started by Xorg developers, you can consider it as X12 I guess.
IMO, the main problem with ffmpeg is that the official documentation is overly intimidating to newcomers. While the command syntax isn't great, it's not terrible either. Probably one of the contributing factors is overcomplicated poorly written internet tutorials copying out-of-date technical memes, like how people complain about tar -zxcvbnwhatever despite tar -xf file covering 99.9% of decompression cases.
A Slow Website
yep, compositor latency is infuriating when you're used to non-composited UI
On the downside, they will also happily include bizarre requirements and censor content.
I can't say I really understand the audience. You want to read a lot and you don't want to pay for something like Kindle Unlimited, but you're also unwilling to pirate your books. Is there a big user base for that? A single collection download is smaller than a video game and can contain nearly every notable work ever written in a given genre. If you download that, find an author you like, and purchase new releases from them you're contributing more than someone who only reads public domain literature.
Pupyl – fast image search in Python
As a remote worker, a single programmer or an author, you can still work in a coffee house. But only because you don't have to communicate with other patrons.

People who do business hang out with their colleagues in offices. In a certain way, offices are the coffee houses of today.

Ships are too expensive nowadays for a single person to own or manage them. So companies own them and all the specialists who would meet in a coffee house meet in meeting rooms and conference calls.

To bring coffee houses back, you need some information with the need to be exchanged very locally. I doubt that it is possible after the introduction of the internet, at least for trading information.
Innovative Energy-Efficient Method to Safely Keep Meat Fresh for Up to Two Years
Show HN: Sklearn-jax-kernels – Composable kernels for sklearn using JAX
It's evolution of the stance that started in early GNOME 2.x time, and crystallised with GNOME 3. Similar to how GNOME 3.8 was used to push systemd one everyone, similar to how they tried to push their own idea about input methods on everyone (since I don't use IBus, I don't know if they finally succeeded - fortunately UIM and XIM still work).

"We know better" could be their motto.
In a market economy you are free to not use their product. No one is forcing you to use Apple or Google or Microsoft or whomever.

The problem is that there are political entities that can be manipulated to give unfair advantage and or effective monopoly control by making that cost of entry so prohibitively high.

Education will ensure people will understand that political entities are no more inclined to have your best interest at heart than a corporation, there both made up people it would be moronic to think they'd act any differently.
And if they disapprove in some way...?

Nope, nope, nope. I wasn't born yesterday. If I'm struggling, I sure don't have a spare $30,000 to spend on a family law lawyer.
NM doesn't connect to wifi by itself, it uses wpa supplicant for that. If something is slow, it is wpa supplicant. Fortunately, nm backends are modular and you can use Intel's iwd instead.
Based on my somewhat limited testing, the qt stuff is much better with qt 5.15, which is a very new release (and what kde plasma 5.20 is based on).
Remember the outcry regarding Google Glass. They went with smart speaker instead and combined it with 360 degrees speaker. Its like how I remember Microsoft in ~2001. There was an RCE in Windows Media Player, and they patched it. But the update containing that patch also added DRM functionality. How they got away with that, I still don't understand.
Thank you! Primary instrument AP — 80% accuracy (C4 to B5), reaction time 1.81 seconds. Yet reduced by non primary instrument.

> Participants got significantly more trials correct when the timbre of the
trials was congruent with the participant’s primary instrument (M = 39.13 (out of 48) trials, SD =
11.26) as opposed to incongruent with it (M = 36.5 (out of 48) trials, SD = 13.7), [t(23) = 2.935,
p < .01].
Redundancy is taken care of by the TOTP app on your phone.
I had it on my list, but I wasn't sure if it'd be appropriate to barge in with suggestions on how to make certain language a bit more readable and pleasant to work with. LtU looks more about the higher-level theory and less about pedestrian usability issues, no?
In the age of the Apple Watch, Siri and Alexa, there’s no reason why we can’t have local time, which is better for our health. Sunrise should be 7 am every day, everywhere. Meetings, broadcasts and special events can be handled with digital alarms.
The design overview slides are their own critique: Wayland does almost nothing besides render buffer handling. Input? Applications job. Window decorations? Compositors job. Application talking to the Compositor? Somebody elses job. Clipboard? Maybe compositor or toolkit. Screenshots and remoting? Somebody elses job, but only after Wayland has bored the appropriate holes in its security model. This all leads to a ton of incompatibilities between compositors, toolkits and applications. And beyond Gnome, the full "featureset" is still not implemented, where "featureset" is barely adequate as an X11 replacement.

But the buffer handling is great, no more flickering...
last time i checked remote desktop (ala vnc) was not really a thing and opening remote apps on the local display (ala ssh -X) wasn't a thing either.

That's disregard for backwards compatibility to me.

edit: which is not to shit on wayland itself, it's to complain about the general attitude which is like "just don't do that" or "oh that's old, we don't support that"
> The C/S architecture of X11 hits the spot when terminals and thin client are the norm, that means 20-30 years ago, but today, we all have dedicated graphics display devices (GPU, monitors) even in our pocket smartphone, and the way X11 works is holding Linux desktop scene back.

I used X11 forwarding just yesterday to open & control my linux desktop's music player from my mac - which other 2020 technology allows me to just run

$ ssh -Y my_desktop
> my_music_player&

and being able to do that without lag (scrolling through the list views was much more fluid that my experiences with e.g. RDP or VNC even though it's a Qt 5 app, strawberry, which likely does most of the drawing server-side) or blurry jpeg-compressed pixmaps, and with the ability to resize, minimize, etc this individual window without any issue ?
Hi! I made imgcat. I wanted to say how wonderful it is to wake up and find myself on the front page of hackernews.

Things are so hard right now in the pandemic and this has given me a little virtual hug.

Big thanks to the eng team at https://charm.sh/ who wrote the terminal library I am using and showed up with prs and great ideas.
Nobody in particular wants to use the X11 protocol. It is complicated and supports a bunch of weird functionality that is rather niche. The trend seems to be to use OpenGL and call that done.

I haven't seen many serious complaints that Wayland doesn't support the X11 protocol since people can run an X server directly using XWayland.
Wayland is really slow. I don't know if it's the compositing or what but it's unusable on lighter hardware that X ran fine on.

This is crazy when you think about it. I remember running an X server, Hummingbird I think it was called, on 386 and 486 machines connecting to Suns and it was fine, this was a perfectly acceptable way to work. Couple of xterms, an Emacs, xbiff for email, maybe some xeyes just for fun. Developing with Tcl/Tk and running those applications. Now we have several orders of magnitude more CPU, memory, network and Wayland doesn't even perform as well as that! My mind is truly boggled.
Ciaccona with choral interpolations, BWV 1004
I still haven't understood the advantages these custom mobile UIs have over a basic X11 DE with a software keyboard.

PalmOS had it's own GUI because the whole OS was this insane feat of software engineering and something like X11 didn't fit on the abstractions they built. The result was something that could run forever on a couple of AAA batteries. If you're just sticking things on top of X/Wayland/Linux anyway at least make it usable.
> There are people who lost limbs because of clotting.

How many?

> Also, disability doesn't have to be permanent. Broke your leg and need a wheelchair? You're still disabled for the duration you need the wheelchair.

Why are you arguing semantics instead of writing something constructive? Yes, technically you are disabled if you have "a physical or mental condition that limits [your] movements, senses, or activities". That obviously happens to everyone who gets sick.
Pubs in London replaced it basically. The local.
> The reason they are getting people to create accounts, which is obvious to anyone who has actually used an Oculus, is that the multiplayer matchmaking story right now is horrible, and it absolutely definitely needs to be replaced with something logical with cohesive friends lists.

Matchmaking based on FB friends lists is a horrible idea, at least for competitive games. I don't want to play games with my young nephews, and I don't want to play random games with someone who is more or less experienced then me.

If you want to play games with friends, there are simple features exactly for that, and game-specific friends lists. Using the FB social graph for this is counter-productive.
> Not really that important. +/-50% is no big deal.

By your anecdotal judgement, sure. But for the rest of industry proper that actually cares about quantitative objectivity, there's ASTA Method 21.3 which supplants "trained tasting experts" for HPLC.