skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The option always remains to change it yourself or stop using it."

If I changed every bit of software I dislike, I would have no time left for my actual job. Yeah, I get it, these volunteers found the time to work on this one project and therefore get more of a say about what changes will be made, but you know what? They also have to use other software, and they would not have time to work on something like Gnome if they were busy making changes to Wayland or the Kernel or whatever else.

Worse, in my experience, Gnome developers will turn down patches that do not align with their ideas about how things should work. I have had it happen to me, I have seen it happen to others -- even when we find time to change something, we cannot commit to maintaining our own private fork, and dealing with merge after merge or trying to keep up with a project that has as much activity as Gnome or Wayland. Obviously some patches need to be rejected, but in the case of Gnome I have found that rejection often comes down to their notorious "less configurability is better" attitude.

As for stopping using it, how does that work with critical packages like systemd? At some point you wind up having to ditch an entire distribution, with all its infrastructure and maintainers, just to get one use case to work. In some cases you are left with a choice between a project that has the features you need but has received no updates (including security updates) in years, or a project that does not have the features you need but is actively maintained. More often than not people will just give up on their use case, which in some cases means giving up on open source software entirely since that use case was the reason they were using open source in the first place. Some might think that is fine, users have the freedom to choose what software to run, but the fact is that fewer users means fewer contributors (including many people who make only the small but very important contribution of reporting bugs) and a less robust open source ecosystem.
> "that he is pulling up on 5 year old hardware?"

is a 5 year old computer old?
Hard to find information about who thewashingtonstandard are. They cite Mint Press, whose article is https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-censorship-conference-ce...
Cancel culture is a funny way of saying "people can disagree with what you say".
If every other application / process is running fine, but not Chrome, then how is it a Wayland 'bug'?
If every implementation of a protocol seems stuck with deal-breaking bugs or incompatibilities, it's time to start asking whether the protocol itself has some problems that make it impossible to implement consistently - unstated assumptions, for example, in the reference implementation that never made it to the protocol spec.

For a modern example of this in action, see Bluetooth and the madhouse of device 'quirks' you have to settle with day-to-day, since each device has subtly protocol-breaking opinions on how to implement it.
His method of taking reported resolution and multiplying by window.devicePixelRatio is designed to work around exactly that.
This, uh, looks like a semi-propaganda website.

I also really couldn't find a trace of this conference online, barring maybe a tiny FB page and an automatically generated hand/pen video with _13_ views?

Also, this is on a semi-propaganda-if-not-outright-propaganda site that's been posted here.

No social media movement on it that I can see, even on the supposed facebook page for it.

It's almost as if it doesn't exist.

And the article goes on for as long as it does talking about the conference being censored as it does the fact that we're living in 1984 (and a gratuitous attempt at connecting the WSB subreddit).

Please, folks. This stuff is easily debunked and really dangerous to just share around. Why are we upvoting things like this? I thought we were better than this as a community.
Sometimes companies will spend more trying to not pay fair wages than they'd spend just paying fair wages. I've seen it with software outsourcing numerous times-- they outsource at great logistic expense and then get crap that has to be rewritten, yet still consider it a win because the wages were lower.
I like the built in snapshots feature, good for linux noobs like myself. Any other distros have this feature in their OOBE?
I wouldn't say it's impossible, but we need to weigh the costs of trying to eliminate it, versus the very real likelihood that it is already endemic.

We _could_ eliminate the common cold virus, but the measures taken would be so destructive to society, it's not worth it.

The cost/benefit analysis here seems to be the crux of the conflict around COVID mitigation efforts.
"Overall, RISC-V will lead in a revolution for nationalist vanity CPUs (think Loongson; no one will run them but for show and perhaps a niche of radical ideologues)."

With the US-China tech war that has obviously changed.

The US has demonstrated an ability and a willingness to prevent China from using highend fab and ARM thus forcing China to invest massively in chip production.

That is why RISC-V with its free ISA has its moment now.

Not because it is novel from a technical perspective.
Linkerd creator 'not a fan' of steering committees but made one anyway
> While technically true, that is a bit of deflection. In some cases none of the compositors have implemented certain things yet.

Deflection is entirely my point here :) These things are real problems, but they should be fixed in Gnome/KDE/Sway/wherever you find them. Complaints should be addressed there, and not at "Wayland", because "Wayland" can't fix em!
> Which lines are going up? the ones the government is most involved in. Which lines are going down? the ones with the least(by comparison) regulated markets.

Aha. So the two Baby Bell descendants own virtually all of the last mile land lines in the US, and who were cheaply sold by the government cell phone wavelength which they also both mostly control - this duopoly which spends an inordinant amount of money on lobbying at the state and federally for regulatory capture is part of the unregulated market. The government regulating exclusive spectrum use for this as part as that lack of regulation.

Your "by comparison" and "most involved" qualifiers are doing a lot of heavy lifting. Corporate America is heavily involved in desiring bailouts, regulatory capture etc. Just witness the corporate talking heads demanding more Reddit Wall Street Bets Gamestop regulation. And these were people long, not short.

The notion that "free market enterprise" wants free markets, a lack of regulatory capture etc. is a fantastic notion. And you will be hard-pressed to find Fortune 500 companies not tightly intertwined with the government, which is something they obviously desire to be by their actions.
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Just-discovered nano-chameleon may be world's smallest reptile [full paper]
I think you have a point, and I agree about this kind of complaint for screencapture where there are APIs on Wayland so you can't point at X-based software that didn't port and say "it's broken"!

However as far as I am aware there is no proper key-capture or key-inserting API in Wayland. There are hacks (IMHO) like bypassing the compositor and reading the events directly but we are still missing a well-defined API that is supported cross-compositor.

I am fine with GNOMEs very limited keyboard shortcut support but I definitely agree that this is a step down from what we had on X.
how long have people been workng on wayland? how often have they said it's almost ready? what do they have to show for this charade?

the crazy conspiracy theory here actually is that we need to replace Xorg/X11 with something that just doesn't work, and nobody actually wants to use.

keep appealing to outrage, though. hypocrite.
While the fact that making things cheaper improves the situation e for everyone, especially the poor/struggling people is obvious to you or me it's far for obvious to most people and is absent from the public debate.

Every progressive politician beats the drum of more taxes, more money for healthcare (and other stuff) and things magically improve. When was the last time a major politician said something a long the lines of: "let's think how to make doctor visits cheaper so people don't avoid them, maybe you know, lower requirements, allow nurses and other healthcare workers to carry simple checkups or minor treatments".

Making stuff cheaper if what worked historically to improve the economic situation of poor/lower economic classes. It should be the main focus but it somehow isn't.
Flatpak runs applications in what’s nowadays referred to as container: the application can’t see any processes outside the container, can’t access any filesystem except for files you explicitly open with the application, and especially can’t edit your .bashrc.

That’s the point of flatpak. But as long as you use X11, there’s one single privilege escalation path left, and that’s the complicated one I described above.
Nice with the Steam gaming and graphic design.
"we might reach a day when people are 3d printing there own chips"

Hah! Imagining what die size a 40μm process might need to make a CPU. The Intel 8008 (1972) was 10μm.
> a blithe rejection of facts to embrace a narrative of victimization by a vague authority

actually I am victimized by the extra frame of latency. cool rant though
/me shrugs

It's just another init system to me. I don't really care enough about it to get upset and complain that I had to read some documentation and edit a text file to change its behavior.
> dictatorial power over 100s of users

GNOME has tens of millions of users.

I do understand your sentiment. I don't like GNOME myself. But there are alternatives. If you don't like it, try using something else, contributing patches with configurable behavior or maintaining a fork.

FLOSS maintainers are a rare breed. We as a community need to find ways to not burn them out. Even if you have millions of happy users, just a couple of really toxic ones can make it feel not worth it.
In their defence until a few years ago it was nvidia that had the good linux drivers while AMD was stuck with bad ones. The tables turned after AMDGPU as far as I know.
> (this happens most often if you accidentally install an Nvidia GPU and use binary drivers).

Heh
A Critic Sells Books Down by the Seashore (2018)
Launch Event: Meet Spot's Expanded Product Line
That depends on if the precise argument is closer to "Wayland, as experienced by everyday users, is shit" or "Wayland, as a Platonic ideal, is shit."

People, especially people trying to work done on their computers, usually mean the former.
Cell Bones Mystery Solved with Supercomputers
The big problem is the materials used won't last, even presuming you will replace the earpads and maybe parts of headband.

Closest we've come to this is old pairs of Sennheiser HD580. Very high quality plastics, still get scraped and loose over time.
Full steel or aluminum construction holds up much better.
One of my minor bugbears with macOS since Yosemite has been changing the green button from zoom to full screen.

I just don't use full screen mode much. On my 25" displays the only application that gets kept full screen is my IDE. I don't need a dedicated button that slowly animates the window to fullscreen if I accidentally click it.

Speculating here, but given that most people using a mac are looking at a 13" screen, it seems like this change was made to benefit them. And that's fair enough, but why can't there be a toggle in the system preferences to change it?

macOS has some preferences like this, but they all seem to be things grandfathered in from the old days. Future updates that change things like the green button or Mission Control don't get any preferences to tweak behaviour and it's so frustrating.
I can't read the article (502 error). Here's what I learned about companies who outsource.
> Error 502 Ray ID: 61b53661fb0d1ee4 • 2021-02-02 16:15:42 UTC

outsourced web services?
That's not true. It bypasses the default security model but it is entirely possible (and to be honest I'm surprised there hasn't been progress) for the user (or the compositor automatically) to provide an API that provides the required access to whitelisted applications.

It is just like the web. By default websites don't get to access your camera, but that doesn't mean that camera access is impossible. They just added a way to request camera access with user permission.
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ProbNum implements probabilistic numerical methods in Python
Someone is working on that: https://github.com/masm11/emacs
3D printing high performance (competitive with state of the art TSCM) chips is probably not for this century.

I’m hoping for an open source implementation that can be backed by a company or crowdsourced, manufactured at scale and auditioned by the community.

This could happen this decade and would be transformative.
This sounds like an interesting screen. Which is it, if I may ask?
Augmenting and Automating Creativity
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FF does not run acceptably on an old but otherwise perfectly good netbook with 2GB of RAM and Slackware. Pale Moon does.
When you have enough users, any change will make hordes of them unhappy, just because 0.01% is already a horde.
They need to be sure there are as few of these targets as possible. I'd suggest one 32-bit and one 64-bit, period.

Think of it like this: the difficulty of targeting RISC-V increases with the square of the number of variants.

It's a general rule in systems that difficulty and bugs increase exponentially, not linearly, as complexity increases.
I am willing to accept those observation and the conclusion might very well hold under a truly independent study made on a wide range of planes and conditions.

It does not remove the fact that we should not relay observation about health and safety made by teams with significant (disclosed or undisclosed) conflict of interest.
Wow - nearly unreadable with the giant cookie prompt. The web is practically broken in so many respects nowadays, yet it's at the center of so much of what we do.
Former Asana employees want to take on Discord with a positive platform
> assuming Moore's Law held, we would be doubling computing power every two years

So the correct realisation here is that Moore's law (an observation by an engineer) doesn't trump laws of physics.

The transistors Moore was talking about have to be made from something. When they're made of a lump of material you can actually see under a microscope this feels both very real and as if it could be shrunk indefinitely. Just keep cutting that material in half!

But it can't. Matter is made of atoms. If you double the number of transistors you must halve the number of atoms in each transistor. Today's transistors have a few hundred atoms in them. Guess what happens when there's one atom in each transistor and you try to halve that? There's no such thing as "half" an atom, what you've got there isn't an atom any more, and so what you're making isn't a transistor.

The argument that we will never need larger symmetric encryption isn't based on ignorance of Moore's law, it's based on knowledge of the laws of physics. You can't make a 256-bit AES cracker by "just" converting the entire planet into Computronium, that's not enough compute power.
when you take one period of 125 years, then another of 125 years, and compare them to 50 years, then yeah, it's not a huge surprise that the 50 years has lower production numbers.
Dice, Rubik's Cubes, and Error Diffusion
That’s true, but that’d mean running a 900 series Nvidia card or even earlier, which wouldn’t be able to handle multiple 4K monitors natively at 60Hz with or without the proprietary driver.

Which means that the author bought an nvidia GPU at a point in time when it was already obvious that nvidia would treat linux as a second class citizen.

And even if not, you should first complain to the company you paid hundreds of dollars to, not the unpaid volunteers.
I don't know about the US, but let's see France:

For tax-funded public healthcare, 78% of the money they are making via taxation is used to reimburse patients. That mean 22% is used to pay for the bureaucracy. Its is growing according to the numbers i have, despite all the shiny new tech they could have.

You would imagine private healthcare insurance compny overhead is lower, right? or at most at 25% for a 3% profit? Right. So Swisslife (i think this is the european private healthcare that have the biggest network, at least for glasses): 31% of what you're paying will get in their pocket to pay for bureaucracy and profit.

Either they have huge margins, either they have huge costs and are more inefficient than public healthcare. whatever the reason is, the number is way too high.
The solution is to sell the transmitter and/or battery separately, with the earphones using a standardized connector, such as MMCX.

Earphones stay, receiver may get replaced.
No, the say that HN does it works regardless of screen width. If the site were to assign a fixed width, it would conflict with mobile devices.
Until 2020, it was probably uncommon. Not so sure now.
Well there are mITX boards with 8 or more SATA ports, and a lot of mATX boards with the same.

But the key differentiator IMHO is ECC and 10G. If one picks a board like https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/C246N-WU2-rev-10 it then becomes possible to put a i3-9100/etc on it and gain ECC support. Given the 8 onboard SATA ports, and a 10G+ nic in the PCIe slot, you have a NAS that can best nearly everything on the market below a couple thousand dollars. There of course is a pretty wide range of atom/xeon boards with BMC's, and all of the above including the 10G. In the past I ran a https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C... which has 12 sata ports, ECC and a BMC.

But, yes it will consume more than a rpi, and CPU power rating isnt everything. Having 8+ sata ports, bmcs, 10G ethernet, etc all up the board power consumption. But on the other hand, that i3 is rated for 65W, but idles at ~5 on a modern board, which is in the ballpark of the 2-3W of my RPi4 (which only swings a watt or so, and doesn't include the USB3 hub+devices).

So, given the NAS spends a lot of its time idle, and the power only spikes (and never to anything close to 65W) when its being used, it seems the extra power is worth the extra performance. I could probably fix the max frequency at 2Ghz like the RPi and save even more power.
Just bought a Macbook pro last week, and now I'm wondering if I was a giant moron for steering away from the M1. Just seemed like it was going to cause me a lot of headaches when my target instances are all on x86.
The level of double-speak is off the charts. Also "It is very expensive to spread intellectual property and know-how amongst the number of US-based resources."
You mean 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀?
I just got a Figma Educational license two days ago. I'm likely going to just work with Penpot, instead. I'm so glad to see you guys here. It's certainly worth the development, considering how quickly prices raise at Figma when working with teams.
It bugged me too. If you hold down option, you get the old behavior.
Has anyone tried it on Raspberry Pi, will it work well?
I have never even used Wayland, because it's so broken for me that I thought it's still unstable and experimental.

On that note, if the developers are so frustrated that all their work doesn't get the resonance they wished for, probably they are in the wrong business. I am very familiar with the fuck-you-all attitude. But if it comes to this on my part it is usually because I messed up really-really big somewhere and got lost, and needed self-reflection.

EDIT: Btw, I was considering to comment on his flaming, but then I read "mailing list etiquette" and figured that flaming like he does actually breaks etiquette, oh well... Let him flame, I don't care.
Here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
"Vaccine scandal and confidence crisis in China"
You can modify EQ of the source. If you're playing from a computer or mp3 player, there are many apps that do this.
AFAIK it comes built-in as a slightly customized Arch (using regular Arch repos, plus one of their own) with Btrfs as default FS, Pipewire as default sound system, and many Kernel patches oriented towards "performance". They have an edition more suited towards gaming, and also one with a very customized KDE desktop. It is very similar to Endeavour and Reborn, although with the aforementioned tweaks
> “Wayland sucks!” is a conspiracy theory with no basis in truth

It’s an opinion, not a theory. People should be able to hold the opinion that “Wayland sucks” without being labeled conspiracy theorists.
What if I don't trust the person that sent me the flatpack container itself? A truly secure sandboxing should be a standard OS facility, not tied to a package distribution method. The flatpack/snap model is all wrong. I need to run arbitrary hostile applications in a safe manner, not only those that the developers have decided to distribute in a certain form.
Case in point: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-June/m...

"Facilitating the unrestricted use of extensions and themes by end users seems contrary to the central tenets of the GNOME 3 design."
On the one hand, trying to work with a company as intractable and anti-OSS as Nvidia must be incredibly frustrating and I sympathize. Nouveau is too slow and broken to be usable, and that's also NV's fault. On the other, I'm never going to choose Wayland over Nvidia (i.e. throw out all my GPUs and buy slower ones), and it obviously can't be a default in any major distros while this is still the case. So long as it's not a default, it won't have the support or pressure needed to fix its many smaller problems.

Unfortunately, Wayland is dead in the water until it can run on Nvidia machines, and no amount of blog posts will change that.
Yeah I feel like I want fullsreen almost never. Even on a 13" laptop, almost all of my workflows involve having at least two applications open and at least occasionally having both of them visible at the same time
Locke's Index
These look like ads, but they're not being blocked, so I guess they're just things this publisher would like me to consider:

- Democrats mobilize US military to suppress domestic opinion

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- Clothing for LIBERTY LOVERS (I really enjoyed this one)

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- Various "health secrets"

Regardless of any reality that may legitimately be present inside this content, this website appears to be a typical clickbait machine that runs on political hate.
>It also disallows introducing bias in articles on purpose

How on earth would this be provable or enforceable?