skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've emphasized a few times, that examples are made up (for a purpose of explaining different scenarios). I haven't included any actual opinion to make it even more apparent.

You should it read it like this:

_given_ [ A is right and B is wrong ]
this and that _may_ happen

with emphasis put on the word "given".

In real world are usually more than two actors and multiple mutually exclusive narratives; authors even when deliberately lying include some truth to make it more believable etc etc, my point of the previous post was that adding a new source with an agenda usually does increase the noise, but not _necessarily_ the signal.
If desktop + mobile make up >95% of your audience it's hard to justify the cost of creating a third set of rules for the rest.
I have a Linux PC that my kids mostly use, running Wayland sessions. It definitely works with Steam and Krita, although I admit that I do not know if all of Krita's features work. They have played Portal 2, Minecraft, and a few "windows-only" games with Proton.

My biggest gripe is that if you have more than one window of Chrome open it gets VERY slow. Multiple tabs are good, multiple windows are not.
Let's hope it crashes less often than Garuda Airlines.

(NB Yes they are supposed to have improved but 10-20 years ago they had a very bad reputation).
A couple days dfter Fauci said "If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective." Which is quoted in the article he said: "There are many people who feel, if you really want to have an extra little bit of protection, maybe I should put two masks on. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's no data that indicates that that [double masking] is going to make a difference, and that is why the CDC has not changed their recommendation."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5XdeMD7YueY
So many comments here are missing the point of the rant. If it doesn't work for you, fine, move on. But it takes a special type of asshole to go around harassing maintainers and continuously putting down their hard work and in many cases just making overly broad and incorrect generalizations or propagating outright lies. There is a big difference between constructive criticism and what drove the author to write that rant in the first place.

It boggles my mind how people can be complete assholes to people writing FOSS because the sense of entitlement that users have when it comes to FOSS is staggering, and the more technical someone believes themselves to be, oftentimes, the more caustic they tend to be in how they interact with FOSS developers. Obviously this isn't the case for everyone, but having been a silent observer on Github issues for many FOSS projects as well as reading the rants on reddit and HN against FOSS technology <X>, it really pisses me off even though I have no skin in the game.

These are real humans and people devoting their own free time to build something they are passionate about and believe in. It may not work for you, you may even think what they are doing is a terrible idea. Then provide constructive criticism if you wish and move along. That's all too rare though. In reality, what people really want is they want Wayland (or insert Technology <X> here), but they want it the way they would wish it to be, and so they will essentially engage in negging developers and their decisions trying to beat them into submission. It's despicable behavior and no one should be defending this.

Measured criticism is fine, but then move the fuck on. Let people passionate about FOSS they care about, continue working on it. But don't be an asshole and keep trying to tear them down just because you selfishly want what they are building, but you want them to really build it the way you want it and to meet your specific use cases.
Of course! I do hang NFC tags around preselected vines and I did wrote small iOS app that after scanning the tag I am able to attach photos, labels or other metadata that are interesting from breeder perspecitve. I am also able to track lineages and compare the stability of attributes I am interested in.

Most other breeders use pen and paper and they are fine, but hey I am programmer and I am going to write software.
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I'd love to use Wayland, but having to use proprietary nvidia drivers for performance and working screen sharing via Firefox, Chrome, Zoom and Teamviewer force me to stay with X11 for some time. Though there's much progress on the Chrome Firefox front I fear it will take some time until proprietary apps will follow.
Beware writing things on the internet when you are angry.
The actual text of the Voynich is also much more beguiling to a Western audience. Nova N 176 may be written in an undeciphered language, but, to someone who cannot read any scripts from the Chinese family, it looks completely indistinguishable from any other old Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Mongolian/Vietnamese/etc text, all of which are also completely indistinguishable from each other.

In Voynich, on the other hand, a speaker of an Indo-European language sees a script that is indecipherable, but also looks hauntingly familiar. There's a lot more intrigue in that.
Now why does wayland break screenshot and keyboard tools? Because "every program is a keylogger by default and can see any event, look at the contents of any window" is a major security issue, especially as it means the entire security model of screen lockers or containerized applications is useless.

OK, so what's the solution here? Give up on screen-shotting tools forever? Or is there a plan to fix this somehow?
X is barely maintained anymore. To a large extent all of the X developers are working on Wayland now. A lot of people have the impression that Wayland is some outside competitor to X but the truth is that the vast majority of the people who started Wayland are long-time X developers who know its flaws inside and out.
Did you report any of these?
I think the word believe is unnecessarily complicating this. As I stated above in another comment, assumption is a better word to use than believe, so substituting that gives:

“I do not assume that there is a person in Argentina called Smergold Abrahamson, as that is a ridiculous name. But I am not going to claim with certainty that they do not exist”.

Which is more concisely re-written as:

“I assume there is a very low probability of the existence of a person in Argentina called Smergold Abrahamson”.

Which going back to the original comment, I see the difference now:

“not believing (assuming) in a higher power”

is different than

“claiming (assuming) no higher power exists”
This is a relatively minor event. For most any actual Wikipedia author, nothing will change. That's because these global rules merely codify a minimum standard that any of the top-50 or more wikimedia sites have long had on the books.

The purpose is to expand these rules to some of the small properties (Gaelic Wikinews or whatever) where they lack due to omission: admin teams are small, resources scarce, etc. No community has ever decided "no, we believe harassing women is great" (is there a gop.wikisomething.org?). The just haven't gotten around to putting it in writing.

It'll also make it easier to work across projects, because you won't have to familiarise yourself with the nuances of local rules in easy cases. Sort-of like the EU's harmonisation of customer rights across jurisdictions makes it easier to order from France or Italy.

But, mostly, a non-event. I'm sure there'll be hot debates and open letters and then everyone will forget about it.
Oh my bad! Here's the response:

Human: What would you ask GPT-3?

AI: What is zero?

Human: What is zero?

AI: Zero is nothing. It's empty, a hole.
> That does not mean anyone is under an obligation to like it.

He’s not asking anyone to like it; in fact, an informed dislike would be much better than the reaction many people have to Wayland.

A lot of the response the Wayland maintainership receives is instead a reflex-response of uninformed people repeating out-of-date FUD they heard somewhere, without ever having actually looked into the issue themselves. Which is something you just don’t do if you think of the people on the receiving end of it as real human beings.

(That kind of scarlet-lettering does have a place! It’s a perfect tactic to allow newer community members to assist in suppressing a widespread “old evil” which the community long ago chose to excommunicate, for complex reasons that the newer community-members haven’t been around long-enough to absorb. It’s the reason people belittle/make jokes about Multi-Level Marketing schemes, pseudoscience, etc. — or in the FOSS sphere specifically, about bought-out projects like AdBlock Plus. The people who reflexively just laugh at newbs for using $thing, are acting as part of an “insulation layer” of people defending a community from a threat at the margins without really understanding the threat themselves; and they’re acting at the behest/connivance of people closer to the core of the community who do understand the threat.)

But Wayland was never excommunicated from FOSS. There is no old threat; only old arguments. The core people working on Wayland are in fact the same people who work on X. The other core people, those working at the distros who package these components, were never against Wayland; just wary at first, because they didn’t want degraded functionality. (And even then, they’ve always been shipping it on distro spins for e.g. mobile, where using X11 has never worked.)

> They just punted and said "that's a compositor problem!" as though that was supposed to make it ok. People have thus harbored some inherent resentment ever since.

It’s not punting when the same maintainers also write the compositor. (Yes, they do!) They’re effectively doing the same thing StackOverflow does when it tells you “this is best handled on [other StackExchange site X]”: not trying to make you Somebody Else’s Problem, but rather telling you to go to the counter two paces to your left, where they’ll trundle over wearing a different hat, and then help you solve your problem there.

The whole project of Wayland was to take a monolith with mixed responsibilities (Xorg) and refactor it so that the responsibilities were each handled in the correct places, by teams who best understood that layer of the stack. As such, “Wayland” as a project staff covers all the resulting components—they’re all outgrowths of one project. But all those resulting components are all also their own codebases, with their own growing maintainerships, with their own negotiated APIs, so that they can grow separately, be swapped out for competitor projects, etc.
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Do you really think the market for television sets behaves the same as the market for healthcare and that government intervention is the reason healthcare is so expensive? How do you explain nations with more government involvement in healthcare who have lower healthcare costs?
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Ah, but that is so niche that it's precious :)
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One cool solution the wikimedia research team has been working on is to apply multilingual nlp. Like, how can someone detect a discrepancy in information presented in an article written in english & the same article written in russian?
Why do you care so much about what someone else decides to spend their time coding on? Man, people criticize the weirdest things sometimes.

I for one greatly appreciate a lot of DeVault's work. Do I think he has the softest way of expressing his opinions? No. Do I need him to in order to appreciate the technical merits of his work? No. I'm not looking for a life partner – I'm looking for excellent software.
I was looking all over for a concise explanation of the different elements of flicker. Yes, to win an argument, but really to get agreement to use incandescent bulbs in the locations where I spend a lot of time.

There's so much useless, imprecise, misleading and otherwise unusable information out there, it was getting discouraging. And then this person nailed it:

Incandescent lamps have a lot of thermal inertia. Because they are hot metal, the filament can't heat up and cool down 120 times per second, so they don't flicker.

Flourescent lamps work by a glowing gas (Mercury) that gets phosphor glowing on the inside of the tube. White phosphor is pretty fast, so a cheap flourescent can flicker. Radar and sonar displays used to use a very slow green phosphor that would not flicker, but who wants a green light bulb?

LEDs are super fast. If you drive them with DC, they will not flicker. But, LEDs use very low voltage (around 1 volt) and converting 12 or 120 volts to a small DC using resistors or transistor in old-fashioned "linear" regulation wastes most of the power. So, folks usually pulse width modulate (PWM) LEDs. This turns them on and off at a very fast rate. It wastes very little power and allows you to vary the brightness by changing the % of the time it is on. If the on/off frequency is high enough, you can't see any flicker. One issue is that if you move your head quickly, the LED will look like a dotted line. Modern car tail lights have this problem.

This explains why I'm OK with my LED desk lamp... it's 12V DC. It explains why LEDs are miserable with dimmers. It explains why incandescent is so soothing. Thank you David Hoatson.
Basically all GTK2 apps won't work.
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To be fair, there's a lot of people asking for help on X-Y problems in the programming world, especially on python, and often the fastest way to sort out someone's issue is to walk it back to the original problem X they were trying to solve.
HN is almost useless on mobile. Tiny UI elements that are hard to hit, people using code blocks for quotes that cut off after the first few characters, etc
Yeah. But that's a company risk.

Not being able to participate in video conferencing and desktop sharing is an employment risk.

Im a picky person though. I already use i3, but also have NVidia gpu's. I don't mind spending some money on another real GPU (will it work with AMD).

I understand the frustration of the developers too. But screen sharing or my custom screenshot tool.. are things that will make me recompile if needed for days before I give up and abandon linux for the desktop.

I realize I'm spoiled, but I do wonder if this is the direction things are going who is going to be that hypothetical user that cares?
What does this have to do with Garuda Airlines?
America doesn't need healthcare innovation. Every developed country in the world has better and cheaper healthcare already. They need policy innovation and a functioning political system.
Agreed. Tried Wayland again last year. Screen sharing in Electron doesn't work, so can't share screen in Slack. Googled, known issue.

I don't care how much better Wayland is...if it can't do something I'm used to and need, it's going in the trash. I don't have time or interest to read mailing lists and bug trackers to know when it's fixed.
Something made of 380 grams of material that takes up maybe half of a cubic foot of space, that you use every day for 2-4 years really isn't that big of deal in terms of waste. Single-use plastics like takeout containers and other food packaging, and plastic/foam packaging in shipping boxes seem orders of magnitude worse. And we're not running out of landfill space anyway.

The only way forward I see is to make significant cuts to some of this really low-hanging fruit of single-use plastics (which also have other harms like environmental micro-plastics and inherently requiring fossil fuel use), maybe come up with better ways to recycle the aluminum and stainless steel in a product like these headphones, but most of all to move away from fossil fuels in the manufacturing chain and in the operation of landfills.

The cat is already out of the bag, people enjoy getting new toys like these and the fact that hundreds of millions of people around the world have the disposable income to afford to buy products like this if they want to is amazing. I don't think talking up the good old days when disposable income was a lot more scarce and consumer goods were relatively much much more expensive is going to make much of a difference.
When we first moved office space to the city from Brooklyn, in 2012 we were seeing rents in the mid $50's, now at a record low (past three years) of $73 per sq ft, still quite a bit way off of where rent was less than 10 years ago. And that's after a tremendous amount of real estate has been developed for office space.

2012 was pre WeWork, it was also pre Hudson Yards - though that is extremely pricey office real estate.

The benefit of reduced rents is that when the market recovers companies that hadn't previously considered the city affordable can take advantage of lower rates and as a blended avg I'm sure there are some great deals to be found.
Ah, damn, I'm not a good reader.
> I've been down this road a lot with FOSS software: "I don't use it because it doesn't do what I need", "sure it does!", "no, it really doesn't", "well you don't need that anyway!"...

Just recently (I was on a Fedora box temporarily) I was trying to figure out how to get Nautilus to stop starting a search whenever I typed something, and instead highlight the nearest match in the current directory, y'know, like pretty much every other file manager in existence. Eventually I found a thread where the core Gnome contributors were saying "it sounds like you don't want this feature, what you really want is a better search function". They probably should never have enabled "reactions" on their bug tracker since it was piled 100's high with negative reactions - yet they still doubled down and said it's not something they're going to support (despite having supported it in the past, and Ubuntu even bundling patches to make it happen up until recently).

It's a frustrating trend in FOSS that contributors feel like "we're doing this for FREE don't you know, so whatever we say is lore and since you're not paying, we don't have to listen to you". Yes, I understand how amazing it is that this software is truly free and created by volunteers, no, I don't understand how that gives you dictatorial power over 100s of users who don't like the changes you've made.
> In order to limit buying the CDC pushed the lie that masks would not significantly affect the chance of catching COVID in a non-hospital setting.

Is it actually a lie? I don't believe there is conclusive evidence either way. (It certainly doesn't appear to have made much difference here where we have had a mask mandate for months).
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These seem to be preliminary results; it is mentioned in the paragraph at the top and throughout the report. The estimated completion date is May 1st, according to the clinicaltrials.gov link.
To concur:

Copenhagen made a choice to try and preserve locality when faced with two different solutions to quantum.

Unfortunately, it looks like reality is non-Euclidean instead.

At this point, we actually know Copenhagen represents an extraneous assumption — but it’s deeply baked into the work of the past century.
> No, but Wayland is not a bit of software you even think about until it goes wrong. That means the internet gets disproportionately filled with posts about Wayland not working, which presents the wrong image.

Kind of like reverse survivorship bias. The only wayland sessions that get attention on the internet arw the ones that don't work.
In HN healthy ratio is something like 10% positive 90% negative, I think.

It would match the ratio between good software and self promoted junk.

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I think Ubuntu is good gauge for the real state of Wayland. They would like to switch to Wayland as soon as possible but even in the 21.04 Ubuntu still defaults to Xorg on Nvidia based systems.
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Why do people have to politicize everything to this degree? I guess I’m on this dude’s “enemies” list now because I don’t want to throw away the window manager I’ve used for literally two decades. I’m okay with that :)
It has the same first name. Which, incidentally, is a mythological bird creature (hence the logo) from Hindu mythology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda
It seems like a whole lot of material, all of which came from the same time period. Would have been a lucky find to find essentially a whole book's worth of the stuff in one place.
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as a non-expert wayland hater, I agree. Colorful language for the win!
Often asking "why" is to tease out XY problems. It's not that the experts can't see past the end of their own nose, but rather that they have the experience to recognize questions that indicate the questioner has wandered off into the weeds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
Have you tried ydotool?
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I didn’t say I cared. I said it was an undercapitalized endeavor partially due to infighting like this, and that sticking to it speaks for itself in terms of the goals and philosophy of a developer. I might have meant kudos for believing in something the world doesn’t and left it unspoken, for all you know, but your reaction to criticism of Drew DeVault tells me we are not discussing this on equal footing.