skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's news to me. I have yet to read or hear the sentence "removal of magsafe was a great idea", or "I love carrying around this bag of $50 USB-C adapters". Or "this touchbar sure is a gamechanger, who needs the F-row on a Pro device anyway".

I'm not talking about hardware. I'm talking about software. How they changed the network filtering several times in last 5 years. How they deprecated and removed i386 support during the same timeframe that Ubuntu only considers switching to Wayland. Heck, my ~2015 Samsung MFP in office doesn't scan with MacOS anymore, apparently the latest driver from September 2020 is too old now. And bazillion other examples, see them in sibling thread.

> I am not sure why you complain so much about Ubuntu when you can just use another distro that does things differently.

I do use another distro that does things differently. To problem with Ubuntu is, that application developers do target Ubuntu, not those another distros. So when Ubuntu doesn't need Wayland (or Pipewire, or whatever), they won't allocate manpower for Wayland (or Pipewire, or whatever) support.

Then we get stuff like "Wayland is still broken after 10 years".

> I'am certain one distro or another will still support Xorg for a long time,

That's certainly fine

> and who knows, maybe one day Wayland is actually mature enough for me to use out of the box.

In order to mature, it has to be used by critically-sized amount of users. If you just push it aside, it will stay aside. It is not just Wayland's problem, for another example see ARM support under Windows.
And good that you tackle the test setup – that’s neglected far too often unfortunately.
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The Propel Center in Atlanta and a new coding program for young developers in Detroit are innovative ways at alleviating the issue of tech teams not resembling overall population, discrimination is not a creative solution and will only ever create resentment (I doubt discrimination can create longlasting equity). I commend Apple for paving the way and showing what a solution can look like.
I for one prefer the multiple "weird" clipboards in X.
> I was under the impression that in a distant past tribal wars ceased at the first blood, serious wound or at worse first victim, and didn't induce a major risk for non-combattants.

Not sure where this comes from. Tribal wars frequently ended in genocide, mass destruction, etc. The book Sapiens covers some of the evidence for how Neanderthals were exterminated.

I agree though that total nuclear war would be way worse than all the tribal wars in history. Although, interestingly, it seems like threat of nuclear war has prevented lots of wars. There have been no wars between major powers since nuclear wars. Maybe the closest was the Korean War, but China wasn’t a nuclear power back then.
Why is it inaccurate to claim that? Sure, Europe is not one country but is made out of several countries, but so what? The USA is comprised out of states, some of them poorer than other; heck, even inside a single country there are richer and poorer regions/counties/lands/whatever, with money/labour flows and dynamics very similar to the international ones.
Dance like no one‘s watching, or staging a coup.
wtf I've never seen a law mention corporations specifically
With 8TB of not throttled IO ?
https://www.jasonhickel.org/the-divide

The author addresses this question, along with how the UN has continually shifted the goal posts to reinforce the narrative that poverty has been reduced.
I'm the opposite - search is the only Google service I use (apart from occasionally recce-ing bike rides on Street View). I've tried to wean myself off it, and have succeeded for casual browsing on mobile, but for programming queries I don't find Bing or DDG anywhere near as good.
That comes as a surprise to me. Thanks for linking to the article.
The content is awesome! Have you considered converting it into something more accessible, like an mkdocs style?

I can recommend mkdocs-material. I'm doing blockchain video courses and I am using it for the study-materials - it's all markdown. And reception has been great.
With all due respect the notion that the Queen of the United Kingdom somehow rules over the ADF is nonsense. The Australian constitution places the Governor General in charge of the ADF [https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practi...], who by convention defers their powers to the Minister for Defence.
Even if it wasn't legit, I would still treat something like this as, "Sure I'm not in Kentucky now, but I can't predict that I will never find myself in Kentucky interacting with any part of the legal system at any point in the future."
That's the official adjectival form according to the Myanmar government. However, in practice I've never seen it used (even in Myanmar). People tend to either say Burmese or simply use Myanmar as both noun and adjective, as in, "the Burmese language" or "the Myanmar language".
Using "the Ukraine" is heavily discouraged, please use Ukraine instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#Etymology_and_orthogra...
> I am quite confused by the fact that apparently changing toolkits to set a new property (a one liner) is hard, but changing them to support an entirely new display server protocol with its on set of problems is ... nice, clean solution?

Because if it was just setting a new property in a toolkit, we would not have this discussion now.

Ultimately, it is not just that; if it were, all clients would be Wayland native already as the toolkits have had Wayland backends for years.
it looks like it redacts all the text?
Every few months the media here runs some bullshit story about some complete fuckwit that built their millions from nothing, assuming of course your definition of 'nothing' is a million dollar interest free loan from the bank of mum and dad every time you want to have a ping at whatever dumb arse business idea pops into your head, and maybe a couple of $1M+ homes to get their real estate portfolio started for good measure.

IIRC one of said fuckwits started crapping on in the media about how he didn't spend $20 a morning on smashed avos for brekkie, and as you can imagine people got a bit shitty with that and ran with it.
> Hardware encoding for WebRTC is in the works; that's something they would not be able to efficiently do under X11 at all.

And this is a not true, as evidenced by the fact even software ported from Windows (OBS) does it.
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I work for a public library. Yes, people still frequent libraries.

It probably differs by community and country but in Ireland at least I can say that public libraries are quite busy and provide a popular service.

Some recent stats for Ireland: https://www.gov.ie/en/policy-information/7468fd-public-libra...

And a look at the international picture: https://librarymap.ifla.org/
Wow. I have never seen someone project this amount of anger onto a random person on the internet. Maybe take a day off before your head explodes.
Here’s the TLDR:

> - The High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator testing occurred from October 2016 through September 2019;

> - The cost was $508,000 over the course of three years. Around ninety percent of the total - $462,000 - was for salaries, while the rest was used for equipment, test preparation, testing and assessment.

> - When NAWCAD concluded testing in September 2019, the “Pais Effect” could not be proven.

> Despite the fact that NAWCAD says the experiments ended in September 2019 without proving the “Pais Effect,” the inventor asserted to The War Zone in a November 18, 2019 email that his work “culminates in the enablement of the Pais Effect” and that “as far as the doubting SMEs [Subject Matter Experts] are concerned, my work shall be proven correct one fine day…”

However IMO what's really interesting is when we contrast this announcement of test failure with prior released documents showing that the Chief Technology Officer of the Naval Aviation Enterprise wrote a letter to the US Patent Office pressuring them to overturn a prior rejection of these patents, claiming that the technology is operable and that "China is already investing significantly in this area".

Citation: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28729/docs-show-navy-g...
Occasionally I post some utility for devs working in Linux/MacOS terminals. Here's my recent one:

https://github.com/da-x/foldity

A utility for folding terminal output to fit the screen.
My impression is that other animal species generally are in harmony with nature:

Non-human animals seem not to be inclined not to, in general, exhaust existing resources. They seem to have no interest in this, even where it would give them a monopolistic economic advantage over their competitors. You don't see animals hunting for sport.

On the other hand, bacteria and viruses will exhaust the resources given to them, and thus end up limiting their own growth. Humans are not so exceptional in this regard.
As I understand it, they’re not allowed to use it - the APIs are GPL only. They would have to open-source their entire driver.
I maintain a set of libraries in Go for XMPP (Jabber) and related technologies, https://mellium.im/.

While XMPP is still probably the most widely used federated instant messaging network (Matrix is the Internet's darling, but the sheer number of XMPP clients and servers is significantly higher, and even though Google and Facebook may have ditched it it's still widely used commercially and is pretty much the defacto standard in video game chat) so I believe it's an important piece of infrastructure that needs to exist in the Go ecosystem. Also I just wanna chat with my buddies and didn't like any of the TUI clients I've used very much.
On the others I don't agree with Patrick at all. On environment we are quite possibly heading towards a disaster, but it's still very far off. I doubt we'll even be in a situation to unequivocally call this one for Sale even in another 25 years. Maybe in 50, sure, but the bet was about the conditions in 2020, not 2045 or 2070.

And this is what scares me. From my point of view, we are already well into multiple major environmental disasters. I wonder how much worse it has to get before more people realise that.
Show HN: Cardi – store your notes for free in AWS DynamoDB
Crostini only works in some models, and follows the same approach as WSL, running GNU/Linux in a virtualized Linux kernel, completely unrelated to ChromeOS Linux kernel.

ChromeOS vNext could be based on Fuchsia and still offer Crostini.
It is just setting a new property. The discussion here I thought was what is required to distinguish a client that is DPIaware versus one that it is not, for use by the compositor to decide whether to scale it transparently or not.
I read a biography of an Italian farmer from the 1930 to the 1950s. In the 1930s he would prune wine vines, then dry them, and use the cuttings for fuel in the winter to stay warm and cook on. Nothing was wasted. Life in his village was still medieval before the war. By the 1950s he was working on building large tracks of housing, and the entire old way of life was gone. The change has been so rapid, we can't comprehend it.
I disagree. The problem is affluence and technology. We can keep improving technology and keep a fixed population, but we should be reducing affluence. The fact that an equal amount of money can make one live like a king in one part of the world and as a hobo in another part of the world indicates that wealth is not used as effectively as possible.
If a $100M investment along these lines is virtue signaling, I'm all for more virtue signaling.

Companies like Apple are big places. There will be funds used for various and sometimes contradicting aims. That doesn't change the fact that sometimes they do good.
Any of it ready to share?
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That's a pretty confident position to take. Really war could be all around us. If climate change continues unabated, large swaths of the earth will no longer be able to produce food. Hot temperatures will cause mass migration (we're already seeing this, see Syria). Billions of people, unable to be fed - desperation - war.

> We need another approach, one that puts us on a path to prosperity and sustained growth as a species. Everyone could have an amazing life, we really just need people to work on improving distribution of goods/services.

People in the US literally refuse to wear masks to protect others around them. Do you really think this is possible?
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This is nice. Reminds me a lot of SpellTower, which was quite big a few years back. Would like a mode without the time pressure.
So, some people who are invested in the XRP world say that XRP is a currency. Nothing to see here.
Hello HN!

Cardi Notes is a side project of mine that I've been working on (and actively using) for nearly two years now. The TL;DR is that I created Cardi because I wanted something which was:

- Self managed, so I'll never lose all of my notes if some company closes its doors or decides to retire a product

- Easy to set up and use, so I don't have to manage a whole server just for keeping some notes

- Accessible anywhere, so I can make a note on my computer and find it on my phone later

As you might imagine, this ended up being pretty restrictive in terms of what options I was left with:

(1) rules out any third-party service, like Google Keep

(2) rules out a self-hosted note solution, like Joplin

(3) rules out local storage, like a set of markdown files

Thus, I was motivated to create Cardi, which solved my problem (and perhaps yours too!) by simply storing notes in a DynamoDB table in my personal AWS account, then creating a simple static frontend that uses the AWS JS SDK to directly query this table and format the results in an attractive and usable way. Though "attractive" is maybe a stretch, I'm no UI/UX developer and have been learning JS exclusively through working on this... so it is rough around the edges.

The stack is very simple -- Svelte and Tailwind for the frontend, DynamoDB for the note storage, GH Actions for CI + CD, and Netlify for hosting the static site. Each of these tools has been a real pleasure to use, and I'd choose them again in a heartbeat.

Anyway, feel free to ask any questions or suggest any feature! This project is pretty close to my heart by now so I'm open to any feedback to keep improving it :)
Please let’s not get on to systemd.
Do you personally feel like smashing such a truck? Or would only ex truck drivers feel that way? Because if they are simply being faded out of existence (replacing retiring drivers with AI), there won't be any ex truckers to smash the trucks.
>Racism is the marginalization or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people

Fascinating that their definition of racism is explicitly racist.

In fairness to Apple, they cited the ADL as the source for their glossary of terms, and it is indeed taken verbatim from there:

https://www.adl.org/education/resources/glossary-terms/educa...
Screen recording was something that couldn't just be copied over from X when building wayland, because the way X does it lets any application just read any visible data from any other application with a window open. Avoiding that kind of security hole was one of the main goals of Wayland.

So it took a while for screen capture to work on Wayland. I agree that it was questionable for distros like Fedora to move to Wayland before such a critical feature was working, but now it works.

Because Wayland is a protocol with no canonical implementation, it is going to take a bit of time for all compositors to implement the new standard for screen capture. But gnome has implemented it, so has wlroots, and I assume KDE has or soon will. Weston is a toy compositor, not intended for serious use, so it's not surprising if it lags behind.
Point is that, like Android, it eschews the typical Linux Desktop stack, because it is a garbage pile that reasonable people don't want to deal with.
naive idea: this should have a place to make a curated list.. or maybe not maybe these projects shouldn't be too popular, but I find them much more exciting than 'yet another <trendy app> variant'
You could use DDG and then add "!g" at the beginning for your programming queries.
Can you share more details? Source? This kind of wording is alone unconstitutional in many countries.
There are a ton of long standing security issues. Which is why they are working on wayland: X11 isn't possible to secure as bad security is part of how it works.
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Thanks for the feedback.

I’ll put something up.
> Despite every physicist we have spoken to over the better part of two years asserting that the "Pais Effect" has no scientific basis in reality and the patents related to it were filled with pseudo-scientific jargon, NAWCAD confirmed they were interested enough in the patents to spend more than a half-million dollars over three years developing experiments and equipment to test Pais' theories.

That's such a low sum when it comes to military waste that leadership would have to be crazy not to spend it! /s
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She's also the Queen of Australia, and in that capacity she can declare secret anything she wants to declare.

The Australian Parliament needs permission from the Governor General to investigate the ADF - it doesn't have that oversight by default.
> the world has clearly gotten worse and more unpredictable

By what measure? Crime? Child mortality? Global poverty? Death by warfare?
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Safety theater, pure and simple.
Death will always be a thing. I'm not selfish enough to want to enslave the planet to buy me a few more years.
"You're only poor because you choose to be poor"
> Also, it’s worth noting that since there is not one Wayland server the way there is one Xorg server, that not all of this applies evenly.

This is what killed XMPP and it's likely to kill Wayland too.
Ok mongol.
Do you have any more information regarding the great barrier reef and avocado fields? I haven't heard about a link there.

I'm also not sure I follow some other parts. 'Smashed avocado' is used derisively for young people squandering income, but those same young people typically have stronger environmental mindedness than older generations. Teenagers were derided by parliamentarians for protesting/striking against inaction on climate change.

I am an informed and (I believe) conscientious Australian, but I do not see why we cannot strive for a happy and comfortable life while keeping a great environment.
"I continuously think about quitting but fear that this lack of motivation will continue and I'll either become jobless or end up doing the same thing at another company with worse conditions and worse pay."

This is my fear as well. I'm basically taking the approach that I just need to tough it out. I can't say it's the right approach.
Automation software like that will never work on wayland (certainly not across different compositors) since it violates the security model.
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> On the contrary, there is a culture clash between mainstream media which is becoming increasingly progressive and tech which is also quite progressive, but moderated by the influence of libertarians and the Intellectual Dark Web.

> (Aren’t their worldviews essentially the same? No, see Freud’s Narcissism of Small Differences. What matters is proximity - both coexist within the bubble of educated professionals.)

Which set of over-educated, under-cautious, overly self-actualized, out-of-touch know-betters will lead the country to Truth (TM)? Choices choices.
Looks just like 1/6
That seems like such a low cost. How can a R&D project of this magnitude only cost that much in 3-4 years?
I've said this from the very beginning of the pandemic that it makes no sense at all focusing on surfaces and raiding stores for hand sanitizer. Even the CDC themselves says this:

"On the other hand, transmission of novel coronavirus to persons from surfaces contaminated with the virus has not been documented."
Paying these fees to get Googles search traffic would probably be a steal, they need data to be competitive with Googles search
Social bookmarking with tags. I'm dogfooding it mostly, a lot of functionality under the hood ( perhaps a bit too much)

https://handlr.sapico.me/Home/Newest

There was a Show HN of https://www.cloudnews.dev/ ( changed a bit now) and I duplicated the sources within 10 minutes with http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/Newest

Eg. here's all news related to Cloudflare's blog: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=cloudflare

Resources i could find with Azure: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=azure-devops

I'll be using it for e-commerce clients, who want to feed the news of anything related to their business. Currently it's kinda slow ( not optimized for 1 million items with tags on my slow VPS, where i host a lot of test things )
> The cost was $508,000 over the course of three years. Around ninety percent of the total - $462,000 - was for salaries, while the rest was used for equipment, test preparation, testing and assessment.

Well we know why it was a success for the scientist.
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Same reason we're still wearing masks, I'd imagine. It's not necessarily about what is the most effective, it's about increasing the odds.

And more than that, it's about what's seen by politicians, their constituents, the media, and society at large as effective. Safety theater, as another commenter put it.
You really should have linked the blog post in the OP and the site in the comments.
They don’t and currently work on Linux. It just might turn out to be much cheaper to use this one
Maybe they should focus on stopping their tax dodging and deal with their labor issues abroad first. A Pan-African watch face is not helping anyone get out of poverty.
It's not just setting a new property. Meanwhile, today, you have clients that are dpi aware and are not setting the property. And they all will be out in the wild for an undetermined amount of time (because stuff works for the application developers, why bother?). If you do not handle them anyway, your users will complain that your desktop is broken.
It also doesn't hurt people (more than other seasonal infections), so why are still talking about it? Because this is not about health at all.
Wood was the main form of fuel, until very recently.

The forests that have grown back are not as healthy as the old growth. In the NE of America, the oaks and transitional maples have greatly diminished. Faster growing, and invasive species have taken their place. Less diversity in the wildlife, as the new trees don't provide the same amount of shelter.

The importance of grasslands are overlooked. The prairies in NA have been turned into a monoculture nightmare. Grasses grow fast and are great at capturing carbon, providing food, and habitat for animals.
Sorry, by "here" I didn't mean in the sentence I quoted, just in this field.

I just don't buy the apparent absolute certainty it won't kill everyone. Then anything else would have been preferable to the "stable equilibrium" we were assured was necessary. But we won't be around to talk about it. That eternally living under MAD is 'the only way' seems to me more like a religious belief than a realization of a fact. A uniquely insane/evil one, however you want to describe killing everyone on Earth. Perhaps it's not considered so evil or insane to do that if you meant well?