skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This post is a bit too ranty for its own good, but it has a valid point, and one that is unfortunately common in the open source community: because you have no monetary obligation to your "customers" (=users), there's not really a lot that forces you to maintain backwards compatibility.

And yet, distros like Ubuntu are too conservative, because they are too careful not to break something. Their signalling is then considered as it works, we don't have to fix anything, Ubuntu will keep things broken for us. Due to this attitude, they have slowed down Linux desktop by years, by not switching to Wayland by default in the past LTS release.

Compare with Apple: in the same timeframe they've deprecated and removed support for entire architecture (i386) while Ubuntu just thinks about doing one step. Apple breaks compatibility at much faster rate than Linux world, and everyone is fine with it. The difference is in signaling: Apple decides and does. In Linux world, we have articles like these, that try to slow down everyone.
And yet, photons can keep interacting with both versions, while we are forever unable to see the other version of the cat. The problem doesn't go away.

Even more interestingly, say you want to predict the outcome of a quantum experiment. In the MWI, that outcome is deterministic, and it is a superposition in Hilbert space. However, in your own space, you still need to compute a probability for that outcome.

What is this a probability of in the MWI? The concept of probability across worlds is not really rigorously defined, especially since you need to arrive at very specific results to be consistent with observations.
Neurotransmitter reuptake behaves differently in ADHD and non-ADHD individuals. Medication affects the reuptake allowing the ADHD individual to function more normally.
Transitioning from being a badly functioning individual to a normally functioning individual is not significant to you?
I've tried it, but don't understand what benefit it's supposed to have.
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IMO, it is the memes which will do it. Have you seen the one about capitalism teetering on an ivory tower, unable to to continue growing after moving away from extractivism and hopelessly trying to exert itself into a knowledge based economy? It's a real tickler.
>> Many seasoned Xorg developers work on Wayland.

All of them are either working on Wayland or moved on. There are no Xorg developers.
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Basic things like embedding windows (and thus classic, non-remote-puppet-over-dbus) systrays are impossible, which funnily enough break things like signing my tax forms with digital signature...
The exception being the current generation of their consumer lineup.
It's photons emitted by the plasma of the big bang, that have been propagating continuously through vaccuum since they were emitted. It's just as much seeing the big bang as the flash from an explosion is seeing it go off.
It's especially noticeable with fast-moving videos or games.
Efficiency of submarine fleets were always hard to calculate, based largely on guesses about the adversary's true anti-submarine capabilities.
It's such a powerful piece of art (unintentional as it is)
I dislike both interpretations, because they both throw in the towel and consider that the measurement problem is not resolvable. Even in MWI, you still to compute probabilities (of what is actually much harder to say) if you want to actually use it for predictions.

Instead, the more interesting thing is to stop ignoring the measurement problem and find a theory that actually solves it somehow; until such a thing exists, waxing philosophically about many worlds or un-reality is not really interesting.
Yes, MADness. Because the attack entails utter destruction, it would be irrational to attack, so no one attacks.

Bernard Brodie, naval strategist, figured this all out as the inevitable endpoint of nuclear weapons in 1946.

People have been trying to get around it ever since, but there is no way around it. Disarm, and a handful of nukes rule the world. If armed, the only way to avoid war is to make it utterly irrational.

And offence has an apparently permanent advantage over defence with MIRVs, as it will cost more to shoot down a rocket than to launch it, so missile defence doesn’t work as a strategy to exit MAD.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Brodie_(military_str...
And what's wrong with that?

There are differences between Reporting and Benchmarking / Reviewing.
You're right and I think I'm actually doing that on my 60% complete prototype. Haven't touched it for a couple of months and I've forgotten some of the details!
Reading the website, this more of an audio-only Zoom replacement, right? The entire point of Clubhouse is that it is a social network, where you follow people and can track them as they join different conversations. Like, that it is audio-only is part of its schtick, but frankly contributes much less to its information architecture than it being a social network (in the same sense that when Twitter started supporting images, or if Twitter supported 1000 or even 10000 character tweets, it would still be more like Twitter than a standalone blog that only let you make posts of length 140 or 280 characters).
Oh that's the misunderstanding, I was talking about overloading of the '*' operator and the consequent confusion, not overloading of 'square'.
It would be funny that at the point where it seems that Linux desktop hardware support is at its peak, the actual use of Linux desktop would be at its lowest. I don't think that's the case, though.
Feel I can with you the Force is!
I'm experimenting with Pale Moon now.

It actuall feels snappier than the latest Firefox, but a profile reset on my main Firefox might change that (traditionally with my usage patterns there's little improvement to be seen from that.)

So for now the advantages of Firefox vs Chrome are:

- not Google

- less RAM usage

- slightly better extensions

And for Palemoon vs Firefox:

Pro Palemoon:

- snappier (?)

- extensions work

- looks better (subjective) and can be skinned

Advantages Firefox:

- more secure (maybe, Palemoon unlike Mozilla doesn't have a history of abusing extension bundling for various promos)
Whenever I hear Itanium comes up the old pang of anger that it killed Alpha. Sorry can't help it.
> libc is not intended to be the official entry point in any way or form, and kernel vulnerabilities and workarounds are not meant to be handled by a libc implementation.

Depending on how you define "workarounds", glibc is full of those. For example stat(2) is very much not the same syscall now as it was back in the 1990s. In some cases glibc will do a runtime test to see which syscall variants are supported by the kernel and implement workarounds (I even saw a case where this caused a bug in some programs).
And it's so satisfying to something that gives you physical feedback (doing dishes, vacuuming). Most of my day is spend doing math or programming so all my works takes place on a computer, a piece of paper, or in my head.
Thank you for the correction! I've updated the post to fix the numbers.
If it makes you feel any better, IINA ships with x264, dav1d, and libbluray ;) Speaking as someone who works on IINA, the team behind VLC is excellent and I'm very thankful for the work they do.
Reading the discussion/yelling on that issue makes me treasure the discussions on HN even more.
> It is a good thing that they are broken, because what they do is snooping on windows that do not belong to them.

Don't want to derail this discussion anymore, but this argument is nuts. If you are so concerned that programs that you run can spy on other programs that you run, how do you deal that the fact that all of these running programs have full read-write access to all files on your $HOME?

EDIT: I agree that being able to run selected programs inside a sandbox would be a good thing (maybe even all programs). But attacking the problem of visible display before that of hidden files seems ridiculous. Moreso if it cripples copy paste, screen capture, and similar basic stuff (which to me are just like unix pipes: ways to make programs work together!)
Any money is in selling bombs that are used, so you can sell more. Not much money in nukes, and you can very by stock exchange listings.

This kind of conspiracy thinking utterly ignores the horrifying logic of MAD. Read a bit about Bernard Brodie, pre-eminent strategist, he laid it all out for why deterrence was sadly the only way to go and that we must live in a state of mutually assured destruction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Brodie_(military_str...
Yes I've been using wayland for over a year and there are lots of little bugs.

The main thing that annoys me with firefox is drop-down menus don't respond to clicks properly so I'm forced to use the arrow keys.
none, it's baremetal servers
The US system is truly the worst of a both worlds: a highly centralized, bureaucratic system, with a handful of winner capturing huge margins on the top. The level of regulation and corporatism means that free-market people should be as dissatisfied as those on the left.
TIL that there are biodegradable epoxy resins: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280496020_Biodegrad...
It does apply to photons and electrons.

As I understand it, it becomes ever more difficult to maintain a coherent quantum state among larger and larger collections of particles (this is why making large quantum computers is difficult), so for most practical purposes large aggregates of particles behave like a single "world". But there is no sharp dividing line, and the same math applies at all scales.

Unfortunately, this is where the imperfect mapping to which I referred above — between the math and our intuition — becomes misleading, and why I don't like the term "world" to begin with.
The relevant graphs are: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/10/Global-inequality...

From: https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality

And I think you’re underestimating the marginal utility of going from $1.90 to $3 — both would suck for someone with a baseline of Western expenses, but it is the difference between a literal hand-to-mouth life of subsistence farming in a shack, versus a family that all works being able to collectively afford to rent a basic concrete flat with terrible plumbing on an unpaved street (citation: my ex took me to Nairobi a few years ago, we met one of her local friends, the friend’s flat was about $800/year to rent, $800/year is the increased income from two people going from $1.9 to $3 per day).
I haven't used their 10G uplinks in years, but it seems they're still easily available at €1/TB over 20TB:

https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/general-info...
Hey now, CVEs are fine; it's CVSS that is totally broken.
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I recieved plenty of emails in good notice and saw warnings throughout the console about the disconinuation of arm. moving away from arm was easy too.
As long as you can (cross) compile go source easily, I don't see it as a problem.
> Just saw Dubai post-covid-onset, and to my eyes, nothing has changed much from food-supply-chain side.

Forget Dubai, it's natural that a city in the desert that relies on tourism way too much will keep itself open. Government even mandated schools to open (no one's sending their kids, except the really desperate parents), mandated malls to stay open and cancel temperature checks, mandated employers to open up offices. They just recently closed up and put in all restrictions once again (although not European levels).

I think a lot of countries will see shifts from major cities to cheaper cities (as long as they are safer and have basic services). The only reason people (like my parents) are still staying in Dubai is because it has gotten cheaper - rents are falling, home prices are falling, there is a visible glut, and it's a buyer's market right now.
Legally it's far from clear they can, but Nvidia entered a market where they can't afford to piss off game makers from their legacy business and folded on it.
Wow your game's website was blocked by my hospital

Looks like you've made it to the BIG LEAGUES

I'll check it out when I get home lol
If there is such an association, how would a study differentiate between the underlying condition causing the increased risk, and the medication itself?

Edit: smokers have reduced rates of Parkinson's disease, and nicotine is a stimulant.
> [Xorg] limitation is, that all screens have to have same DPI.

The limitation is not true. Yes, the core protocol gives you a single, global DPI value. However, who cares about the core protocol? You have XRandR, which gives you a per-screen DPI. Alternative, you could have a freedesktop standard/convention where the DPI is stored as a global property of the root window, in a array of values, one for each display, so that you can override them.

Problem solved! I am actually running Gtk+ slightly patched to support that... trouble is, most of the toolkit is hardcoded to assume a fixed display or even process-wide global DPI, or at least it was when I last looked at it. Dunno what they did for wayland.

I really don't understand why we need to throw away an entire 30 years of software development just because the current property for storing the DPI only has space for 1 value instead of 1 array of values, one per monitor. Just use a new property.
I just stated facts tho. They did have raised their pricing multiple times. It could be argued on the support quality, ok, but a comment with details is always better for this...

What's also intringuing me is that my comment was at 5 or 6 points. And then in a couple of minutes went directly to -1.
That's very surreal. And would be funny if the situation wasn't so serious.

Can someone from that country or who knows what's going on give some insight?

On the face of it, seems like military leaders who don't want to give up control. Is it more complicated than that? Do they actually believe there will be some kind of revolt by one faction if she stays in power (or at least some excuse like that)? The article I saw was not very insightful.
A very simple live editor and host for HTML files.

https://html.cafe

https://html.cafe/gallery
>> I'm not saying this isn't true, but I always find it interesting when I see people complain about screen tearing.

>> How often does it actually happen to you, and under which circumstances?

It happens every time I Watch a video on X, which is really annoying. It also happens when dragging large windows on my 4k. Wayland is fantastic in this regard.
US homeless population has been steadily dropping for decades, likely even longer if you dig for data. Here's recent numbers [1]. It's also an outlier on the condition of how a person in the US is faring. Taking that as evidence for how people live overall is as reasonable as pointing to the top 0.1% and claiming all is well. Neither gives as accurate a picture as a median.

The median is simply much more indicative of how Americans fare.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/555795/estimated-number-...
> How often does it actually happen to you, and under which circumstances?

Scrolling, moving windows, resizing windows, approximately constantly.
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Perhaps there's another way to put this. In an ineffective public healthcare system, people are denied treatment because the public body has determined it is not worth the cost. In an ineffective private healthcare system, people are denied treatment because they cannot afford to pay.

> Being denied treatment because you can't afford it is objectively worse then being denied treatment because the system is busy.

Is it? I am fortunate enough to not be in this position, but I'm not sure how much I would care about the reasons why if I were.
>decoherence

Yes, the alternative is that classical mechanics is incomplete and quantum mechanics is necessary. And there has been plenty of experiments supporting this conclusion.
It's not meat in the fridge it doesn't go bad at a certain date.

Rhel 8 supports x11 and will be supported until 2029-2031. If they don't excise support by the next major release which is super likely it will end up supporting x11 until 2034-2036
Yeah. It was just a snarky play on the famous Bezos quote, "Your margin is my opportunity."
Because in science we tend to use "Occam's razor" approach - we don't make assumptions that are more than necessary to explain the behaviour of something. Most adherents of the anthropic principle assumes "Oh hey, we probably live in a multiverse" to justify it, but we have no strong evidence that that is true. So making that assumption is difficult to justify. It may be true! But we don't know it is, and until it can be proved, the theory rests on shaky ground. It might be that another, simpler theory can explain the same behaviour. Should we assume that a simpler theory is true? No, not necessarily. But it lies on the adherents of a more complex theory to come up with reasons why that theory is right, by making predictions that can be tested.
Here is a reasonable overview from 2012: https://lwn.net/Articles/491509/
Casting is generally hard; the protocols are undocumented and proprietary in general and are usually quite limited in the formats they support and function in ways that are not necessarily conducive to casting content that isn't hosted on the web.
Screen sharing seems a critical feature to enough people to rise well above mere “minor feature” if the goal is to replace Xorg. That was probably true 12 months ago, but definitely true 8 months ago.

If the goal is to have a different display protocol that a significant fraction of the possible user base can’t reasonably use as their root display because it provides yet another way in which “Linux isn’t ready for this to be the year of the desktop”, that’s a perfectly reasonable aim, but it seems like Wayland is targeting replacing X, in which case supporting screen sharing (and recording) is probably not an ignorable “minor feature degradation”.
https://great.dj - a music playlists app with a small (but loyal) user base

https://progress.bot - slack bot for async standups

https://textareaplease.com - a textarea with text transforms

I built them because I needed them at some point and I'm happy others find them useful as well!
I'm not sure that:

>Flood of Chinese Aircraft

is accurate to describe:

>eight Chinese aircraft

No reason to make it into click-bait IMO.
Haha, guessing the whole of itch.io and other well known gaming sites are blocked? It's the first time I've used itch.io. It's cool for quickly throwing up a web game page.
And that's not even accounting for the beneficial effects on friends/family/society.
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Not sure about screen-recording, but for screen-sharing purposes, it breaks frequently (as in, every couple of months).

Which is not surprising, because pipewire, too, decided to start from from scratch instead of working inside gstreamer.
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Without an experiment that can show a multiverse, it is just a way to explain the unexplainable. It can be completely discarded and replaced with "for some reason" and any experimental evidence would support the same conclusion.
The price feels high for that, yes? Hardward is relatively inexpensive and falling.

Put another way, with this "lease" after a year you could have bought and owned the vehicle. Instead, you're committed to another year.

That said, I assume there are security advantages to this model. Better control of access, etc.
> t all of these running programs have full read-write access to all files on your $HOME?

They don't necesarilly do; if you are running flatpak, chances are that they don't.

For example, there is a flatpak for MS Teams. For application like this, you want it to be able to share your screen, but it doesn't have any access to your $HOME (in this specific case, only to ~/Downloads).

More importantly, if you want to tight up your desktop, why do you criticize something that starts attacking it from one angle, that it is not 100% solution? It is not; others are working on the other angles, and then together it will be the 100% solution. In this case, Wayland is only one piece of puzzle, not the entire puzzle.
That's also solved by using Wayland with Gnome 3 which comes by default and doesn't require me to tweak anything.
What do short-sellers do?
I address your first point here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25999766 (in brief, photons are treated no differently than people).

I agree that the meaning of probability in the MWI context is an interesting open question. Mathematically, it's the squared amplitude of part of the wave function. But why this corresponds to our personal experience of frequency is something I'm unclear on.
Turning Gmail into an infinite scroll like Twitter/Instagram. And grouping newsletters into topics to feel more like a RSS reader - https://www.getbreef.com

I start 99% of my emails with 'sorry' - I live in fear of going into my inbox, and so when I do it's a distinctly whiffy guilt laden experience, so I don't go in again for a while, and the cycle... well, you get the idea :-)

I've tried other addons to help (both using and making), but keep failing to invest the effort. In the end I went with "what's the simplest, speediest change that might have a lasting impact" and this was it.

It started as a weekend hobby in September, but I've been trying to polish it as more people have found it helpful. (This is hard work as I'm a dreadful aesthetic designer. It's more a case of 'monkey see, monkey copy the html').
https://www.eeweb.com/industrial-temperature-and-nand-flash-...

I found this here that says lower temperatures are better for storage but higher temperatures are better for writes. I'm not sure how accurate that all is though