skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in a similar boat as you. I switched from X11 to Wayland (also Sway) and from PulseAudio+Jack2 to Pipewire a couple weeks ago. I am in the extra difficult boat of doing it on a high DPI display (I assume you aren't, or you would have mentioned it, given how annoying it is to get everything working). GDK_DPI_SCALE, ELM_SCALE, QT_SCALE_FACTOR, MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND, QT_QPA_PLATFORM, XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP, XDG_SESSION_TYPE and a few other things are necessary to get everything working.

Then you have little things like having to do xdg-desktop-portal to do screencasting, little nits like not being able to screen-share a window at a time (only a full desktop). It's definitely not a super easy and comfortable transition at the moment. I'd recommend most anybody who wants to do it use a DE that takes care of as much of the pain as possible, like modern Gnome or something. Sway itself is nice. I've never used i3, but I've used Awesome for like a decade, so Sway is not a big jump.

Moving to Pipewire was really easy, on the other hand. Mostly drop-in, and I had some annoying audio issues both with PulseAudio and Jack2 that Pipewire completely fixes for me. I absolutely love it, and feel like Linux audio is in an acceptable place for the first time in my life.

edit: oh, and before Firefox 93, I had to force Firefox to run in X11, because extension popup windows were broken on Sway due to a Firefox bug. Much of the testing for Wayland applications is done only on Gnome.
With beer and wine, i can understand how one would like at that a think "hmmm, maybe I can try this." But with garum, i don't think the decision was that easy.
There are ten emergency stairwells on every floor: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FC1jlGjVEAIvAG8?format=jpg
Setting Up a Secure Private Registry in Kubernetes
I've sometimes wondered about this as well. We can all understand how saws work; but can you actually make one from scratch? How about a rope? Do you know where to find the right kind of fibre, how to correctly process it, and then make it in to a functional rope? Do you have the know-how to functionally domesticate wild animals and cultivate crops?

I'd consider myself a pretty handy guy, but if I were whisked away to 70k years ago this very minute then I'd probably struggle with a lot of that, even though I roughly know how to do it. And that is ignore the obvious communication barriers, that you also need to spend time on basic survival, and things like that. A lot of these crafts developed over generations partly because while the concepts aren't all that complex, the actual doing of it in a way that's effective is a lot harder.

I certainly think it'll take a lot more than "days or weeks".
Why are we mandating experimental vaccines under threat of termination (and, increasingly, exclusion from greater society) for a virus with a 99.99%+ survival rate in healthy individuals under 50? Can someone please explain this to me?

If the vaccines work, give vulnerable populations the choice to get vaccinated. If vaccinated individuals are still so vulnerable that a general mandate is required, then these vaccines are not effective enough to mandate.
As a new building I assume it will have proper air supplies to each room...

And lighting can totally be artificial if it is sufficiently bright to be akin to sunlight. If I can't get sunburn off it, it isn't a suitable sun-substitute.

These people will still have access to the outside, where there will hopefully be a large park all around.
It's actually PopOS 21.04, so pretty recent. Wayland is available if I wanted to ise it, but I remember running into other issues when tried.
Possibly because it is legal.
The goal is to get the students out of their bedrooms. There's plenty of common space, and lots of really nice places to go study and socialize out of your bedroom. This is intended to promote real-life socialization, which is the only real reason to go to in-person college these days.

But there's zero evidence this building will actually accomplish this. And, according to the architect who resigned, plenty of evidence to the contrary.
It sounds like we also probably both agree that such rules are likely the cause of the problem they are trying to solve.
Introvert's nightmare. Also, who can study in a common area with all the noise?
I know this wasn't the point, but the idea "France is tired of beheadings" did make me smile a bit.
I'm sure all egress doors would have crash bars. Think of any tall building, they typically only have one or two major entrances but then many one way egress doors. This building wouldn't be any different.
The MacOS "App Store" (as in the thing they call the app store, rather than all the other ways you can pay for and install apps) does require you to login. Worse, they block updating the non-os software that came with your computer with logging into that app store.
Interesting fact: There was a running joke in PC Gamer (UK) about how odd/terrible Loughborough is..
This is really an idealized view of how office workers view restrooms. BFC I worked in a 5 story office building with 6 bathrooms per floor. Nobody felt ownership of the restrooms, nor treated them particularly well. Some stayed clean (largely because they were either relatively unused) and some were dirty. The idea that we wouldn't allow a vendor or repairman to use them (since in your view they didn't have ownership and would thus soil the restroom) would never enter our minds.
> Assange was a non-U.S. citizen working outside the U.S. - I don't get what gives the U.S. jurisdiction to try him in the first place.

There are tons of examples of this. Examples:

- If a US citizen conspires to insider trading with another US citizen on US soil regarding an Australian company, the Australian government will claim jurisdiction through the Corporations Act because it is an Australian security;

- There is a "sex tourism" problem in several South-East Asian countries that involves children. These pedophiles have historically been rarely if ever prosecuted in those countries for various reasons. The Australian government passed a law saying that if you are an Australian citizen and engage in this sort of activity you can be criminally charged in Australia.

> Adding insult to injury, publishing leaked military secrets is not even illegal in the U.S. due to the first amendment right to a free press

It's not as simple as that. Let me give you some escalating hypotheticals:

1. A journalist receives some classified material in the mail and publishes it after vetting it (eg journalists typically won't publish details that will risk the lives of those currently in the field);

2. A journalist meets with a source that has access to classified material and asks for anything concerning, say, Benghazi. These materials have already been obtained;

3. A journalist looks for and finds such a source;

4. A journalist tells a source what to look for and these materials have not yet been obtained;

5. The journalist provides direction on what to find and leak and provides material aid in that effort. This could include providing hacking tools, contacts, security protocols, etc.

(1) is a journalist. (5) has committed a crime. The line between criminal and journalist is somewhere in between that we debate.

My point is that the first amendment isn't a universal shield. Assange is much closer to (6) than (1) here.

EDIT: corrected list numbering.
You know that the world has progressed since the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, right?

Of course I do, duh. The question is "how much has it progressed?" Note that the Hamlet fire I mention was in 1991, and the Station Nightclub fire was in 2003, so it's not like Triangle Shirtwaist is the most recent example of a mass fire tragedy. And there are other examples, those three just happened to be "top of mind" for me.

as we sit here communicating effortlessly across the globe, protected from huge numbers of diseases that ravaged humankind, enjoying workplace fatality rates decreased by multiple orders of magnitude, enjoying universal suffrage, etc etc

Sure, but most of those things are orthogonal to fire safety.
Are the ratings reliable?

Most of the 9 or 10 star reviews say the lack of windows is a problem, yet still give 9 or 10.

There are very few low ratings. A 1, a 5, a 6, the rest 7+.
A lot of the reviews amount to "well at least it's cheap" which is not really a ringing endorsement. When you build living spaces that are terrible to live in, they become inexpensive relative to the horror that is the current rental market.

But that seems like a bad solution to rent inflation.
<I>PGE is considered directly responsible for >$40B in fire damage in California.</I>
<p>That (officially sanctioned) conclusion was in complete disregard of the state and federal gov’t contribution. But I would agree with you that it’s an example of similar phenomena. Probably not for the same reasons.

IMHO regulation, the phenomena of regulatory capture, and the implementation of regulatory compliance bureaucracy within PG&E resulted in private sector bureaucrats drunk on power imposing government-supported misfeasance with unintended consequence...With a organization like PG&E it’s difficult to discern the boundary between the state and the corporation. Modern government enthusiasts dream of ways to impose more perfect order using the power of government, not realizing the emergent imperfection is a consequence of such aggrandizement.
Munger obviously cares for young people and education if you read or listen to him. I feel like the people complaining about economical living conditions are going to turn around and propose erasing college debt, without ever addressing the cause. This is one way to make college more affordable and allow students a better chance of meeting people.
If another company can produce more value from the employees labor and the employee brings more money into their local community, isn't that better for both the employee and the small town? It's better than the employee having to leave the small town to get the higher salary. The only one that loses is the capital owner that could previously make more money off of the employees that would stay despite there being better opportunities elsewhere.
I think I understand where they’re coming from by designing such a large, on-campus dorm. There’s limited space at UCSB to physically house kids nearby. If you look at the map, there’s only one walkable community to UCSB and that consists of rented single family homes (2,000 sqft shacks) that you cram 20-30 students in. I would argue that living in the dystopian mega dorm might make more sense for lots of students who want to be on campus but can’t afford nearby rentals. However, after living in a windowless apartment during lockdown, I would strongly suggest they revise their proposal. The toll on mental health that no natural light takes is an insidious threat and should be avoided.
I count ten emergency stairwells on every floor: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FC1jlGjVEAIvAG8?format=jpg
I knew a court reporter. She would clean up the shorthand afterwards from her memory and using the audio recordings if needed. Her steno had a full alphabet mode for typing things that needed accuracy like people's names.
There are plenty of examples, but here is one so you get the idea. This guy is a former cop who, in this video, is explaining how many police cultures work, how they are trained, how the justice system bureaucracy works, and why there are so many issues with police and civilians. You don't get this from traditional news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhqFDV6iaXI

There are many, many, many examples. There are a lot on YouTube, but that just happens to be the distribution model de jour. Blogging, substack, etc are also viable distributors. When I grew up I always saw journalism as Walter Cronkite (I'm dating myself), Dan Rather, NYT, etc. Those are just corporations who practice journalism for profit. Journalism itself, as defined by the founders in the constitution, isn't limited to that. I believe we are currently experiencing a revolution in journalism, or perhaps a return to its roots. It's exciting.

"News is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest is advertising."
The fact that the two components of an analogy are not the same thing is the point of the analogy. If they were the same thing, the analogy would be useless.

In this specific analogy, the point is, despite having different business models, society benefits from either conglomerate separating their respective two aforementioned business units.
You know most offices have a much worse ratio...?
I know +1 is against the rules, but I think this deserves a positive comment. I enjoyed reading it, thanks for taking the time and giving back to the ecosystem.
> For some reason, only the left is called to take responsibility for it

Wait, what? The right is frequently called to take more responsibility for its extreme elements – moderate Republicans being accused of playing down the seriousness of the Capital invasion, etc. And rightly so.
I don't know if that's true. In the Scala and Java worlds, a library called Akka provides distributed actors as a library. As far as I know, what you describe isn't a limitation. See https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.5.32/general/supervision.htm...
IDK, I’ve been back over the road for the majority of the year and the only place I can think of that didn’t let me use the restroom was a secure warehouse that only let you in as far as a little cage… which I still complain about because it was a “high value load” where we couldn’t stop for the first 200 miles so as to not be hijacked. Had to walk a 1/4 mile to a gas station before setting off.

Everywhere else, no problem. Just ask someone and they point out the way. Might have to go through security (twice?) because you’re at a fedex terminal at the airport but nobody has a problem with us dirty truck drivers generally speaking.
Our border collies know so many variants of "outside", "walk", "W-A-L-K" spelled out, "woods" (our back woods), "garden", etc. and N number of other words and are at the door before I even know that I'm going there, myself.
> In my mind STEM topics exist on a scale that has math at one end, then there's a slight pause/discontinuity (as in point 2 in the underpants gnome business plan) before it continues with physics, chemistry, biology and onwards to god knows what.

Man there really is an XKCD for everything: https://xkcd.com/435/
You won't believe the attitude a certain MNC had in India.

In pandemic they gave 0 hike and increased notice period to 6 months etc and still scores resigned.

And then suddenly the top HR had an unceremonious exit and policies improved a LOT
G-20 Climate Talks Threatened by Clash over Coal Ahead of COP26
I'm not claiming life must be common. The strong anthropic theory explains why we can be having this conversation despite the probability of life emerging being arbitrarily low, so there's no reason to assume the probability of life must be high.

But no matter what that probability is, when there are 2 alternative pathways for a step, we should assume the more likely one. I merely claim that

inorganics -> small replicators -> large replicators

is more likely than

inorganics -> large replicators
Not to dispute any of your arguments, I'm really surprised at your referring to the consideration of whether to accept a gift of $200M as "save a few bucks".
> just because money

Money is really important, probably the single most important constraint for state universities.
Beebug for the BBC Micro (1983) [pdf]
Reminds me of google plus
Crypto Carbon Emissions Offset Enablement
We just put it up on ProductHunt, would love your thoughts!
Feels like one of those things people keep repeating because of a handful of newsworthy events a year...

People keep talking about that handful of newsworthy events because we don't want there to be more of them. Or at least we want them to become less frequent, and less deadly when they do occur.
My office building is inspected a couple times a year. They flip out if you get anywhere near blocking the operation of an interior fire door (like auto closing metal doors), much less egress doors. Hell, until recently they wouldn't even let us have fans because of the possibility it could impact the design of the air handling for the building effectively removing smoke.

So I think maybe we've progressed beyond the bad old days of the early 20th century.
Sadly, that's not over the top when it comes to institutional building. Particularly in Californian costs.
How much funding are we giving our universities, and how much is Europe giving them?

I ask because in-state tuition in California and Washington is so high that you could afford a full time PhD student tutor with it.
How many fascinating analogs exist for this problem?
"...the corrosion on the glass also forms millions of tiny pits. The authors think those pits could serve as tiny reaction chambers..."

In other words, the experimental conditions, as intended, were almost "too perfect." The simulation of reality requires some amount of unspecified noise with respect to CONDITIONS, in this case, corroded glass.

How many experiments, on the terminal or the bench, are run with noise in the underlying test conditions?
I’m the pessimistic opposite here; I’m a little shocked to see this largely failed idea be dragged back out of the history books again, a good decade-plus after the last major failed attempt.

We’ve gone through this so many times, and — outside the very specialized Erlang — the result is always the same. It doesn’t work.

OO Actors are a terrible concurrency model, and an even worse networking, protocol definition, and serialization model.
> all border collies

I assume the control group was also border collies? Otherwise they might have instead discovered that border collies tilt their heads more often (which would also be interesting of course).
Someone once explained to me the strategy of the US (and other govs).

They want to discourage future dissidents by making an example of people who oppose the status quo. They want the prospect of being a whistleblower to be as unpleasant as possible, without creating a martyr for people to rally around.

So they typically don't just kill the person. They might use poison to maim an adversary (Yushchenko, Litvinenko, ..). Make the person disappear. Discredit them. Shape the public opinion. Paint them as traitors. Countries have their own flavor, but it's basically the same playbook.

Making life hard for Snowden and Assange has a chilling effect for all people thinking about turning against their governments.
Except Oculus Quest 2 is $299.00, runs smoothly and requires no rig at all
Free Pascal is more elegant, and has runtimes everywhere. Normally you can avoid pointers, however if you need to use them, the syntax makes it easy to see what you're doing.

Strings are memory managed for you, and can even include nulls.

See the Free Pascal project[1], and the Lazarus IDE[2]

1 - https://www.freepascal.org/

2 - https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
I hear all the pushback on Wayland with boastful claims about x11

X11 has been crap since I started exclusively using Linux in 1998

Is junk, it's unstable, slow and bloated. Why people grasp onto the network aspect is beyond me. The model is horrendous and outdated and little used at that. Better alternatives have blown x forwarding out of the water years
>No charges in the UK, and the extradition was denied. He should not have been detained between the extradition being denied and this appeal trial.

I'm not familiar with UK law, nor am I well informed about the penalties for jumping bail there. Was Assange held on charges related to that?

It's also not entirely clear to me what responsibilities the UK government has with respect to its extradition treaty with the US. Is the UK treaty-bound to hold Assange based on the US indictment?

Since you seem better informed about this than I am, perhaps you could provide some detail about that?

Assuming that your assertion is correct, the UK government has some explaining to do.
To quote Zoolander: "What is this, a school for ants?!"
You realize iOS roots are developed by third-party geeks and void your warranty (unless that changed in the years since I've interacted with iOS, but I'd be shocked)? Maybe we should indeed force hardware manufacturers to offer a rooting/open OS option by default, but it's a weird criticism when you start off the comment by licking Apple's boot. Further, Facebook actually does offer to open up your deprecated Oculus Go headset now that they are done with the 2 years of guaranteed support to its devs. As such, people can keep tinkering and keeping it up to date (Carmack's opening remarks yesterday address this) with the help of Facebook. That puts them quite objectively ahead of Apple in this regard, the company which was fined in court [1] for draining older iPhone's batteries and slowing them down thru software updates.

Guaranteed all these people in this thread wouldn't be losing their shit over a hardware account if it wasn't from Facebook's holdco. Forcing a Facebook account was creepy, a dedicated Oculus (well, Meta) account is normal and defensible.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/tech/apple-battery-settlement...
I saw that convention in IBM/NAG's Scratchpad/Axiom computer algebra system which was designed in the 80s. It may go further back than that.
A lot of those reviews seem to be posted in late November 2019. Seems suspicious to me. Granted, I'd probably be fine living there.
> How the fuck was this project compliant with local fire code?

UCSB employs 10k people in a town of 90k. This is a $1.5 billion project that the University is desperate to have. It seems totally plausible to me that they could find a compliant inspector and/or get a variance for the building.

Whether or not it's actually safe, you can bet that the companies making millions off this will have a plausible story about safety. With lots of documents and presentations and software models. What's a small-town fire safety inspector got to put against that?
I'm not a fan of "as a species" arguments. It fails to understand potentiality, i.e., that something can remain substantially (or put another way, intrinsically) the same while changing. Development and the actualization of inherent potential are important to understand.

A human baby cannot walk. If all you ever saw were infants, given "as a species" reasoning of this sort, you would conclude that human beings "as a species" have difficulty walking. Or basic literacy. Hundreds of years ago (not even) most people were illiterate. Today, literacy in developed countries at least is over 90%.

Reasoning and knowing are like that in the sense that you have the potential to reason well and to know things, but you aren't born with these things actualized. Reasoning well requires practice and refinement, and coming to know things requires the exercise of reason. So you have the potential to develop the prior faculties developmentally and then the potential to refine those faculties once you have them.

Also proper exercise of reason requires virtue. Vices corrupt the use of reason by introducing impure motives (envy might lead a person to deny truths he would prefer not be true, for example, or to accept sloppy reasoning because the conclusion is desired out of ill will).

That it is easy for many people to blame individual things or root causes in a tidy way is not a fault with the species, but a fault with people who either want an easy scapegoat for their real or imagined predicament and want to shoehorn everything into a single, easy-to-blame box, or people who suck at reasoning.
Is there any clue to what Pathways actually entails? It's just a gif ;)
Business code must be optimized for maintenance first.

Because it will live for many years. It will have to survive in the hands of multiple caretakers. It will have to evolve to work with the underlying foundations changing (operating system, compiler/runtime, desktop -> web -> mobile).

That's different from most video games (one single release, then little patches) and from advent calendar code.