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> How's the forced v-sync?

Not sure what you're talking about. Haven't noticed any adverse negative effects.

It's super nice to have a desktop without any tearing though.

> I assume all games run XWayland, which makes it a non-issue.

I don't do PC-gaming.

> Also, can you use xdotool for key input redirection

Not sure what xdotool is.

I'm using sway[1] with libinput. I haven't had a need to use external tools beyond what they support natively.

> or screen capture programs and stuff yet?

I have no issues to do screenshots ad-hoc (in fact, I have keybindings to do this, and throw it right in the wayland clipboard).

I do notice that most Xwayland-based programs which tries to do screen-sharing fails spectacularly though.

[1] https://github.com/swaywm/sway
And yet, "Tinus" is a more common name; probably a shortened version of it?
When it's 2020 and you label your boxes master/slave.
Platforms should welcome users of any background and views. Company shouldn't be able to ban someone based on their views and opinions. If user will violating T&C or the law then company should be able to remove the account.
The fascinating thing about this thread is its contrast to other technical discussions on HN.

A website is broken? Somebody digs up which stack it's running, suggests a config change and the discussion evolves around that. Some Rust thing is weird? People discuss fixes, patterns, some code example. Fabrice Bellard made a new magic thing? People celebrate with links, their experiences and cool own Show HN things.

But here? "I bought $consumer_device, it sucks" .. "Yeah I can't believe latency is still not fixed." .. "Oh man when my wife comes home $weird_device connects to her car". That's how my aunts discuss technology. Guys, this is Hacker News, why is the deepest we are actually talking hacking here just the mention of different bluetooth profiles?

Is this a sign of how closed and proprietary all bluetooth stacks are so that even technically skilled people can only conclude that it sucks and move on? Otherwise I'd have expected people to already have suggestions for fixes. This is a very sad state of affairs..
> ... don't support readline shortcuts.

Have you tried rlwrap(1)? I use it with the OCaml REPL and it works well enough.
Only if people are willing to pick up the maintenance when Microsoft stops working in the open. Now TBF, there are a lot of forks and quasi-forks (VSCodium, Eclipse Theia) that there's hope that there are orgs and people outside microsoft that do know vscode well enough to pick up maintenance if it came to that.
Indeed and they were trialing negative interest rates as well since 2016
You can also do it in Ada/SPARK, Eiffel DBC, F*, Dafny.
The solution is to wire everything and leave the wireless for the low bandwidth signalling application and just a few heavy users. Once you And your neighbours have a managerie of wireless devices there’s just no way to manage what happens with Um.
Long time judoka chiming in. Both BJJ and judo are impossible without constant touch. The only time you're not touching someone during practice/competition is when you're bowing to one another or are doing some solo warmup exercises. I've been doing this since I was 6, so I can safely say that this greatly increases tolerance/comfort for being touched by complete strangers.

When teaching children or adolescents you sometimes get strange looks from parents, because things can look a bit weird in ground holds.
Ask HN: How to properly transfer knowledge between operations and development?
Our company has an operations team and a development team. The teams work together in the sense that operations comes up with user stories and development picks them up and tries to implement them as operations desires. One of the big problems we run into as a company, is that when we finally implemented the sometimes complicated new features, operations doesn't know how to use them or how to configure them. This leads to a lot of questions coming from operations and development wastes a lot of time answering the same questions. We currently use Azure DevOps to track everything.

This is why I have the following questions for you guys: How do you properly transfer knowledge within the company?
shh, don’t tell people the secret! :-)
I don't mean to go all Stallman on you, but MATLAB is the devil's software.
I don't mind paying for quality content (and I mind paying in cash a lot less than paying with personal data), but if someone wants a free alternative to this, I recommend https://craftinginterpreters.com/ . Bit lighter on the theory side, but exactly what you need if you want to write a parser in practice.
banning open source software is like the streisand effect, its probably impossible but a new name will popup tomorro even if it was banned... its funny there is even a law to ban attempt to ban software, which is essentially poetry or speech. any challenge to the supreme court would likely fail on those grounds.
Unless the parent was being sarcastic on purpose, this is exactly what the company is proposing to do, automate TL;DRs.
>> The form elicited unease as when we have an intimate relationship with a space, we start to ignore its intricacies, instead handling navigating through the general form unconsciously.

I'm guessing the form rather elicited unease because it was an eyesore and not for any symbolism it might have carried.
Correct, simple.
> Couldn't agree more about how annoying it is that Nordic countries are always described as super exceptional.

Same here, it creates unrealistic expectations.

A lot of the things they say about Nordic societies are a bit more two-sided than they are made out in the Anglo media. For instance you don't have very strong job protections in Denmark, and some of the government handouts are dependent on you not having significant savings.

I remember I had an American teacher in school who decided to go back there just because he couldn't fit in socially. Something about the society means that people are hard to get a hold of. They kinda already have the friends they're gonna have. Not everyone is the same of course, but you often find with Scandies their friend slots are full.

The weather is great during the summer. In fact, it's perfect. Not hot enough to be oppressive, sun stays up late. But the rest of the time it's not great. Like today, it's cloudy in Copenhagen, threatening to rain. There's a lot of those days, and the nights get longer. You'll find a lot of the time it's dark when you want to do stuff.
Yes that is indeed a problem. But it's more prominent in the streaming platforms netflix et al. The encrypted widevine stream can still be captured though and AFAIK if any of the hardware leaks the decryption keys it's easily recovered. YouTube will hopefully never implement a DRM solution - it would lock out a lot of older clients that simply do not support it..But in any case you can still record stuff with your phone by simply recording with the camera if you must.
It's "May the best of your past be the worst of your future" except the other way around.
I'm a software engineer working in the UK Civil Service for the last 5 years after a 15 year career in the private sector (including a few short stints in Menlo Park). You are right, the money is far, far from the best I could earn but then on top of the 8 days of public holidays I get 30 days leave (plus an extra day for the Queen's birthday, gawd bless 'er), flexible working hours, a pension that's worth way more than I accrued privately and a cultural abhorrence workhouse practices I've experienced in the private sector.

Best of all, I get to work on systems which touch entire populations.

I guess Type-X personalities need not apply.
I'm curious why you hate it. (I have spent time in Scandinavia, so I have some idea what it's like.)
At the HN frontpage there is another ShowHN notetaking app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24898373 - looks like this field is heating.
by working there. I would say sure a lot of the platform is written in C, much of the architecture and front end market-making apps are written in C but when it comes to the algo's and tools to spin up new pricing models in a way that is fast, those tools are written in Java.
iirc the mimic had most of an apple II clone in the box
I wrote a workflowy clone for myself so that i could store my notes on my dropbox account - https://www.deepnotes.in/.

But things like collaborative editing become impossible with this model. Or maybe i don't know enough.
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This video[1] speculates that Starlink will achieve lower latency than fibre Internet. Latency-sensitive industries like finance are very willing to pay a lot for improved latency.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giQ8xEWjnBs
The referenced video has a CC-BY license. Downloading and sharing is therefore legal according to copyright law. Anyway, in most countries downloading per se is not illegal when the content wasn't obviously illegaly uploaded. No copyright protection mechanism was circumvented.
Exactly, Google has that player, but to replicate the same effect for offline playing you would need to play a playlist or a DASH video and multiple fragments.

But I grant it's technically possible to do with a single MPEG file, just not trivial. You would need to prepend the advertisement to the video bitstream (re-encoded with same parameters such as width, height, FPS, intra picture interval) and then do the same for audio, while ensuring the video/audio synchronization is kept intact (MPEG edit lists are not well-supported by players, such as by ffmpeg), while preferably not re-encoding the actual video. A bit more complicated to do the insertion in the middle of the file.

It's possible to do, but I don't think it's something that any off-the-shelf tools actually do.
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Standard human 'exponential discounting' behaviour. Inaction will cause us all a great deal of discomfort in the vaguely anticipated future, but unpopular action will cause her personally a great deal of discomfort right now.
I think so, yes. Compare this with IEEE and GSM stuff. Something has gone on with the Bluetooth process that makes it seemingly impossible to break out of the proprietary space.
Yes on both counts :) see: https://orgmode.org/manual/Exporting.html
Because it is way slower despite cargo cult about its performance, and any optimization algorithms, just turn reference counting into poor man's tracing GC.

https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.swift/blob/master/perfo...
And you write it backwards from the end? Otherwise I don't see how this solves the issue.
My experience outside the Nordics says somewhat different.

> An appreciation of and desire to be in nature is part of almost every society on the planet

I would rephrase that as "An appreciation of and desire to be outside in great weather with friends is part of almost every society on the planet." I'm sure there are plenty of exceptions, but I've met few people who are willing to, for no purpose other than to be outside, go outside in hard wind or light rain. The idea of "go get some fresh air, you'll feel better" doesn't seem to resonate well.

> fika

What makes the fika culture unique (we have it in Finland too) is not that you decide to go grab a coffee during the work day. For me, it's that _everyone_ takes a break at the same time to have coffee. I only did an internship in tech back home, but even there we would all take a break at 9:30 to sit down, have a coffee, and talk about whatever we came up with.

When I hear non-Nordics talk about Nordic culture I get the feeling that they're very focused on what individuals do, whereas the whole point is what people collectively do.
>The Airpods came out in 2016 and did away completely with connectivity issues

My Airpods disconnect about every 10 or 15 minutes when I'm outdoors. Then after reconnecting, some of the tap functionality stops working until I take them out of the ear and put them back in again.
The act of mass sterilization is genocide. Again, you are superimposing a single historical standard that simply doesn't apply here.
Imagine a giant landhouse with hundreds of acres garden. The millionaire living in it can't get proper internet. Or a farm or castle. Imagine villas which are scathered. Imagine a beautiful cottage in the mountains. Rural does not equal poor, neither does suburb. In fact, imagine any users of satellite internet. This one achieves higher throughput and lower latency. Not sure about the noise in the airview though.
If you use Docker or similar for deployment you can have ~static executables ootb.
This reminds me of this British perspective on the custom of opening a window in Germany, which is indistinguishable from parody for a German:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/30/germans-embrac...

> The custom is something of a national obsession, with many Germans habitually opening windows twice a day, even in winter.

> Impact ventilation, or Stosslüften, which needs explanation for most people unfamiliar with Germany except for experts in air hygiene, involves widely opening a window in the morning and evening for at least five minutes to allow the air to circulate. Even more efficient is Querlüften, or cross ventilation, whereby all the windows in a house or apartment are opened letting stale air flow out and fresh air come in.

> In Germany, windows are designed with sophisticated hinge technology that allows them to be opened in various directions to enable varying degrees of Lüften.
Depends,

https://www.ptc.com/en/blogs/plm/ptc-perc-virtual-machine-te...
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Halloween technology has put a new twist on traditional Halloween events that make it look more exciting. Let's study some Halloween tech decoration ideas that give trick-or-treaters and your co-worker's goosebumps.
Thank you so much for the thread here! I would like to share the service on https://streamingsites.com where you will find many good paid and free streaming sites and apps with cool movies to watch. It was really helpful to me, I have to say. I am sure that you will like it a lot too, good luck with it!
archive.org archives YouTube videos, too! They might not have everything but I have used it more than once to salvage an old video for which I used to still have a link but it was removed by the uploader...
The use of old or condemned buildings reminds me of works by the sadly short-lived Gordon Matta-Clark.

https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/07...
And the concept of case law / precedent is an attempt to synthesize a point of view from multiple different judges. “Training data,” if you will.
Yep, I also used youtube-dl mainly on non-Youtube websites (Twitter, some news sites, etc). Definitely not a replacement.
It's only a cosmetic change from a tech point of view of course, but from non-tech point of view, maybe it would be safer to say it's a youtube offline player than a youtube video downloader.

It would require to pipe downloaded video to vlc or something by default for this to be true, of course.

Agree with other comments here, as well : youtube-dl reference should probably be removed. It will be added back by those who link to the project.
The youtube-dl software still exists, it's just been taken down from GitHub.
I'd assume it's only YouTube, the usage message has this text [1]:

Download a video from youtube

The beauty of youtube-dl is that it is so universal, supporting a great number of sites, even the simplest case of giving it a direct link to a video file and it will essentially wget it, and process according to your config.

[1] https://github.com/kkdai/youtube/blob/00a2aefb29c4fbf4fc3bf3...
For music, which doesn't require a securely negotiated connection, I'd prefer a bag of small, cheap FM transmitter/receiver devices with a simple frequency selector. You could have limitless(?) FM receivers tuned to the same transmitter. Imagine adding 20 discreet powered speakers to your living room, being able to place them anywhere you like... a woofer in each corner, a full-range unit on the coffee table, two floor standers playing left and right channel respectively, and a bunch of smaller speakers dotted around the kitchen, bathroom etc. The only hassle would be 'changing the channel', but you would work that out I'm sure. Each room could get its own frequency, and each member of the household could get their own personal frequency. you could revive your old Sony AM/FM Walkman...

Edit: So I just searched, and such a thing exists. Not the crappy in-car things that insist on cigarette lighter power supply, but a wearable device (aimed primarily at tour guides). For under £200 you can get a Retekess FT11 transmitter and 10x V112 receivers. Tempting...
Oh I agree completely that the ecosystem makes a big difference. I was counting that as something separate from the language proper.
In my experience teaching my friends and colleagues there are two ends of the learning spectrum--you can learn by example first or by theory first, or both, but the former is by far the lion's share of the population.

I've taught people where there's absolutely no way I can teach them a generalization unless it's rote--however they can get domain-specific knowledge and beat me over the head in their domain and teach me something about my generalization as well that I might have been missing.

The best way for me to teach calculus to most people is to walk around a room explaining concepts like velocity, speed, acceleration, and position. However, I personally would never learn it this way--I prefer Spivak, during my read through I learned more than I could ever learn in a class.

It's also my belief that most people aren't like me in the sense that they learn from example first. However, most people I know are like me so it's hard to realize how needed a textbook like this is and how huge it could be for the regular person to learn something like this.
It used to be similar in Norway as well. It was considered so self-evident that despite Norwegian law otherwise being fully codified, courts took it into account. It was codified in the 50's I think.
Unless you commit a crime or don't work/college past high school. Don't be a foster child and age out: You might just find yourself homeless.
Lab-Grown 'Mini Lungs' Are Helping Scientists Understand Covid-19 Infection
Some feedback for the team:
I read the landing page, and think, "oh this could be interesting, let's try it". Hit the 'write my first note' CTA button. Next question is 'sync your calendar to get started'. No explanation why, and it only seems to accept Google. So I dropped out. Read the landing page again, and still I have no idea why calendar access is mandatory.
> My understanding is that music gets decompressed on the Apple headphones, the original AAC stream is sent over the wire.

That's claimed at many places, but this one claims the opposite: https://habr.com/en/post/456182/, that everything gets (re-)compressed into AAC on the sending device before sending it to the Airpods, in order to mux other audio events. In principle, with end-to-end Apple hardware, they could send multiple streams and leave the muxing to the Airpods, but I don't think anyone has conclusively shown if this is actually done.
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I beefed up my browser cache to remember everything and have a server in the background downloading any youtube channel I visit. Now I know that anything I've ever looked at via the browser is now accessible offline.
So it appears sea level rise is nothing new? Who would have thought.

The sea levels have been rising for thousands of years, since the last ice age. You would be able to walk to the UK from the EU.
If youtube-dl is permanently removed from Github, this project will surely follow the same trajectory if it gets any bit popular. So I am not sure what's the point of this.
It's been a work in progress for quite a while. Involved writing many different scrapers and other data ingestion systems that systematically downloaded everything I could get my hands on. I'm building an API to eventually sell some of the information, so I'd prefer not to say specific sources.
Though youtube-dl is taken down in Github it doesn't necessarly mean youtube-dl is going to be unmaintained, or at least the youtube-dl developers are not suddenly disappeared.

What is the authors of youtube-dl's response regarding the takedown?
yeah, second wave is hitting here in France and it seems the hospital are even less prepared this time around.
Finally some goods news.
Erase anything interesting.
It's not that they didn't realise they were on the same frequency - it's that 2.4Ghz was really the only suitable unlicensed ISM band available. There's other devices there too - 2.4Ghz DECT phones for example when landlines were still a thing, 2.4Ghz video doorbells etc.
> That assumes you're running a new separate PHP processes for each request and an application built this way is unlikely to scale terribly well.

No. PHP always wipes the complete execution stack even in a long lived execution model like FPM or Apache mod_php.
The best camera is that one you have with you :)
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Nobody thinks about the fact that they are "fly by wire", using software to control everything. Who thinks about changing the battery controller to cause a battery fire? Or controlling the acceleration to maximum? Or setting off the airbags? Or...

Automotive engineers think about those things. When we drive our cars we're trusting them to have thought about those things, just as we're trusting that the engineer who designed the wheel nuts did his work well enough to stop the wheels coming off, or the engineer who designed the steering linkage considered how we might need to go round corners reliably.
Yeah, that's along what I think as well - apart from that I think the "getting police called on you" factor is neither a real risk nor something that really stops people from doing it.

And it has indeed been a growing trend in the last couple of years, specifically with heavy imagery and inspiration from Scandinavia.
youtube-dl supports like 600+ websites, not just youtube
> 3. Obsess about backing up all of your org files because if you ever lose them you will literally have lost half of what you know.

all my org files are inside an org folder in Dropbox :) instant sync of my org system between computers :)
Amazon sacks insiders over data leak, alerts customers
Bose ones seem to connect to two devices simultaneously but no more than that.
For me, it's that _everyone_ takes a break at the same time to have coffee.

I've spent four years in Italy and around 12:00-12:30 the whole country essentially stops and goes for a lunch break - small businesses close etc.

The vast majority of restaurants are open during certain hours when there's a chance that people will visit.

I read somewhere that before WW2 it was like that in other countries, but died out over the years because of competition.

Perhaps what you're describing is a remnant of these times?
moved to gitlab for now https://gitlab.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
this is useless if you're on wireless connection. which is becoming more and more popular and with starlink this will become utterly obsolete.
I recall reading from research on video games that people get an intrinsic joy from being challenged. Too hard and too easy challenges were both boring. The sweet spot was around 80% success rate. But alas I cannot find it now.
Poland objected to use of ‘gender’ in EU digital equality text
Pybind11 is a dream to work with and there are python packages that implement hot reloading for C++ into a live python session aswell as autogeneration tools for it.
Was it claimed that it was under control in France? (it might have been said in the media, but I've mostly stopped following the news)
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