skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using it right now on Nvidia. It 'works' for most Wayland/Nvidia things, but there are still a few things to note.

The Good:

- No weird xWayland flickering like GNOME

- Desktop transitions never drop a frame, even with 1:1 trackpad gestures on my Magic Trackpad

- The kwin implementation seems to be less picky/buggy than Mutter? Might just be my hardware config, but Wayland/Nvidia/GNOME would crash constantly for a number of reasons. It all came down to random gnome-shell segfaults that I couldn't debug.

The Bad:

- Compositing/alpha effects are somewhat broken (on GTK and Qt)

- Sometimes a panel will stop responding or fail to render (or both)

- krunner seems entirely broken

Overall, I'd say it's running pretty well, and is probably better than GNOME for Nvidia users. Their work is cut out for them, and the Wayland-specific bugfixes are starting to roll in on a weekly basis. You'll probably have an even better experience if you aren't using Nvidia hardware.
My memory is it was somewhere between a nickel and a dime, but that was maybe 15 years ago.
Condition variables predate Windows and its predecessor VMS by many years (they do not predate unix itself but certainly they predate pthreads by decades).

In particular pthreads borrowed them from Mesa, but they originally were part of the monitor abstraction designed by Hoare.

So they weren't designed to be a superior alternative to windows events; they might be considered an alternative to events in general but I couldn't easily find any history of the events abstraction.
I'm using it currently, including for gaming (AMD GPU). It works very well (at least for me) since may be a few months ago.

Waiting for Wine to add native Wayland support.
Hæ? How is that?
Kind regards, bewildered Norwegian.
What a peculiar word to use. And, I actually disagree in this specific case. This kid is a statistical outlier to a degree I'm unwilling to even guess at. It's the kids around and below average who are hurt the most by a lack of structured education.
Oh, I don't think there's one for android or iOS, but most TVs have this setting.

My computer audio driver has one also.
The chromecast ultra comes with a 5w power supply (I know, I have one and just checked) so this cannot be true.

I don't know about you but I literally don't care about 5w, it's getting converted to heat anyway just a bit less efficiently than my gas boiler.
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For the love of refactoring.
Every app these days requires your unique and unchanging advertising identifier to log in. You can’t get an Apple ID or Google account, or order a pizza or make a dinner reservation without it.

You might know it as your phone number.
Wow, this is insane. We have a lot of WEF conspiracy folks who I generally dismiss, but this certainly doesn't help their image or credibility, it's basically summarizing the "conspiracy" allegations that get leveled against them (unless this is fake?)
> While on the road, you can use your notebook to open a Gimp session on your home machine and edit an image stored there.

How practical is that? I have horrible upload speed at home which ruins all these "just remote into your home machine" workflows for anything more than a terminal.
Thanks. I understand why people might not choose Corel.

I first bought a copy of Corel in 1998. The version I bought this year — prefixed “2021” — is not all that different from how I remember the oldest one which I stopped using around 2010.

For me, that’s a feature. The hammer has a familiar handle, and my nails haven’t changed much.

Benign neglect provides stability. Particularly in regards to user interface.

When it comes to my creative tools, I am the slow part of the loop now that computers are so well resourced.

I mean I’ve gone from a PIII with 128mb of RAM and 320 mb of spinning rust to four cores hypertheadeed, 8GB RAM + 4GB on the GPU with a two TB SSD.

But 300dpi and 32 bits are still the same. Basically what required a wait twenty-five years ago doesn’t because the new resources haven’t been consumed with new features.

Or slowed to the speed of the internet to ensure speed is an argument for upgrading.
> This is a lot to give up for cool compositing effects...

I've used networked X windows and it's always felt like a kludgy, crash-prone hack. The better solution is to render the entire desktop remotely and stream it over wholesale, such as with VNC and other protocols.

If companies like YC's Mighty have their way, the future will be thin-client based. And it won't be built on X Windows, because that's the wrong layer of abstraction.
It’s not as a consumer in the Netherlands. This is what gyms used to do. Now you can have a 1 year contract, after that, you’re able to cancel anytime
> If you’re into Gnome, Wayland is probably a good experience today out of the box, even if you aren’t a power user.

I'm not sure this is true, yet. I recently tried Wayland together with Gnome on a Arch installation, and seemingly applications need specific fixes otherwise they are kind of buggy. Firefox had bunch of issues out-of-the-box, that required some incarnation of right environment variables to work properly with Wayland, and seemed the same thing applied to other software as well. If I recall correctly, some other application was also behaving buggy/with artifacts, think it was maybe DaVinci Resolve but not 100% sure...

For now, I'll just stick with Xorg that Just Works(TM), but I'll be back to try Wayland every now and then until it works perfectly.
Realistically speaking, what matters is that openssh comes with X11 forwarding built-in.

Somebody should go and provide equally seamless "Wayland forwarding". That might end up looking more like VNC under the hood, but there's nothing inherently wrong with that.
Google Knows Best™ and lack of real competition or regulation means they can do whatever they want.
The executives and producers. There’s a fascinating leaked email thread from Marvel where a couple random execs are hyping up each other’s terrible ideas, saying they could kill off characters and reboot Iron Man and other self-indulgent nonsense. Then Kevin Feige, all hail and hallowed be his name, joins the thread with a simple sentence - “We don’t need to reboot, we can make infinite stories in these universes.” With a stroke of the keyboard he stopped that garbage in its tracks.

There’s also a great speech by Kevin Smith where he describes being hired to write Superman and he goes to the producer’s house to read the script. The guy is coked out, ranting about how there needs to be action every 10 pages in the script or the audience will get bored. He’s talking about spiders and says the main villain should be one. Then Smith says Superman’s kryptonian name, “Kel’al” or whatever, and the guy is like, who?

That’s the people making these calls sometimes. Most companies do not have a Kevin Feige.

Amazon especially is going to be an overly cautious and bureaucratic behemoth. Inexperienced as a whole despite whoever they hired. Meanwhile HBO just bought a Channel 5 documentary produced by Tim and Eric and A24 with total creative freedom. Risky. That’s the difference between shills and artists.
Even with javascript enabled it looks awful on mobile.
> This is a lot to give up for cool compositing effects...

Wait, you think this is what this is all about?

How about the cool security effects...?!
and that great acronym: OHIO
I look forward to them first AI ad blockers then.
X11 is the worst remote protocol in the world because save for about one year, it was never developed with that application in mind.
Oh cool, I didn't know the British used to do that as well!
Hackertosh should be the name for the type of apple the Queen used on Snow White.
I'd say for smooth desktop experience, Nvidia is a bad option in general (at least yet). They only very recently started caring about addressing Wayland support and a lot of things are rough becasue of that. Plus it will be a long time before their kernel driver is upstreamed, and a lot of the above depends on that.

So I strongly recommend AMD for good modern Linux desktop experience.
They've got big name co-founders and a lot of cash (just closed $300m funding on $2B valuation), but what will it actually enable people to do?

The future of Web3 is still looking opaque, fits every hallmark trait of a solution in search of a problem.

Here's to hoping they can crack it!
(Also, emacs > vim)
Congrats, that's awesome! Simon Owens has many articles about this – paywalled, ironically, but worth it IMO, and you could just pay for a month and then cancel. His case studies based on interviews with media entrepreneurs are especially good.

Link: https://simonowens.substack.com/archive?sort=new
Documentation is a hallmark of good design.
Russia isn't the only source of opposition to the Marxist hate movement known as feminism.
Some of the fines for currency reporting have been adjusted for inflation. It is absolutely intended.
What are you using Cloudflare for??
Using the widest definition, "affairs of the citizens", it's literally about everything outside of your private home. The twist though, is that since pretty much everything has consequences (including inaction), you are not safe from eventually having an outside impact even there. As the meme goes, "we live in a society". (Also why you should want to keep good relations with the other citizens...)
Since the topic is power draw, it is important to note that plasma TVs require much more power than LCD and OLED, at least when they are turned on. By how much is not trivial but it is usually at least double for a similar sized screen.

Of course, if your new TV is using 25W in standby, it doesn't really matter, but I am assuming something reasonable here.
34 year old, probably took me 8 minutes
I used X tunneling over ssh regularly from 2001-2020, when I left that line of work.

For some applications it is radically faster than other options.
Tracking users with online advertising is actually a good thing for economic efficiency. People tend to see more relevant products, and are able to allocate their resources to products that better meet their needs. The best ads aren't lying to people.
A) gas prices are in fractions of a cent, and people buy that with cash

B) most items aren't an even dollar anyways

C) I've only once lived anywhere that sales tax was an integer percent

More specifically, you round to nearest quarter, just like we do now for pennies. In your case, the coffee would be a dollar, and if that was too rough on the coffee shop, they could raise prices by $0.10 and you'd pay a dollar and a quarter.
+1 to Pixelmator Pro, the price is super reasonable
> While on the road, you can use your notebook to open a Gimp session on your home machine and edit an image stored there. That is, the Gimp runs on your home machine while your notebook has the GUI.

But that's never where I want the split to be when working across the network.

Remote storage? Sure, sign me up. (The POSIX APIs are horribly unsuitable for network filesystems, but I'm speaking about the concept more than the current implementations.)

Remote heavy computations, like AI workloads and compilation? Definitely.

Remote GUI code? No ugh. Compare the experience of VS Code Remote vs just running VS Code remotely with ssh X11 forwarding, using a high latency connection.

You are fighting the speed of light. It won't go well.
Condvar and mutexes are for very different use cases though, and condvars are notoriously hard to get right, especially when supporting all the full set of posix behaviours with good performance.
The Google laughs maniacally in response and says:

"No, no... we're not competing with ad firms. We're about bringing products to users before there's even a need to advertise them."
I appreciate the clarification here. It helps. Thanks!
Have you met humans? Even if climate change itself does not bring about extinction, there's a very real possibility that human stupidity in response to climate change (and other related factors) could very well start a chain of events that realistically might end with an extinction level event of one kind or another. Hell, even without climate change aggravating things, some lunatic like Putin could start something we'd all regret…
Yes, paper books on hard tech just easier for performant and/or thorough reading. And I just love the taste and look of real books.
Did you read the article? His parents were immensely supportive.

I can’t imagine any other situation where a parent would essentially dedicate their life to support their child’s development.
It’s an interesting issue because it is probably Apple’s fault.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/small-businesses-cou...

Apple accidentally attacked small businesses that used to rely on geographically relevant advertising by increasing privacy protection.

There is no easy solution here.
It's interesting to me that GTD has so many adherents - clearly there is a wide cross-section of people for whom it works well. I tried really hard for a while but ended up concluding I must be a different category of person. I experienced the following pain points:

- I got overwhelmed by what I was capturing

- Contexts weren't useful at all and only complicated the system

- I had far too many tasks on my list that made me feel guilty for never starting, no matter "when" I would schedule them

The sort of system that ended up helping me was an exhaustive exercise that helped me determine my lifelong values, and how they related to my priorities in terms of actions. Then I could identify my tasks - not as "oh gosh, I should do that too" impulses, but as actions that were actual logical implications driven from my values. I discovered that the large majority of my "guilt-driven" tasks were tasks that actually weren't connected to my values, or could be replaced by other tasks that were a better fit. And I almost never "capture" - I will review my values, and reason from there.

Overall, that worked better for me because then I had a system that gave me a built-in way to say no. From what I learned about GTD at the time, GTD doesn't have that.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think <embed> was used because it embedded a flash player, back when flash existed on the web. Then browsers decided to get rid of flash, and something had to replace it. You can't <embed> HTML pages, so wasn't really up to YouTube if to break it or not.
The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died (1988)
I had the benefit of absolutely great parents who are both gone now. By choosing to stay local I had the gift of being able to help them at the end of their life. As I look back now it was one of the most rewarding things I've done in life.
We already round up to nearest penny. How do you think I pay 8.75% tax on something that costs $1.99 anyways?
GitLab team member here.

If you go to the pricing page[0] and click the “Buy GitLab <tier>” you’re interested in purchasing (Premium or Ultimate), a pop up will appear and you can purchase an on-prem license by clicking the “Purchase self-managed” button.

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They also apparently posted the n-word in company chat and redirected all internal tools to a graphic shock image. Nice kid indeed.
We published a paper where we captured the same kind of insights (deep numa hierarchies including cache levels, numa nodes, packages) and used them to tailor spinlocks to the underlying machine: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477132.3483557
I've been using Wayland with sway for about a year as my daily driver. I have xwayland also and a few applications use it, specifically I'm using dmenu because all the wlroots native menus are missing some features I need (why is there no text based menu in the world that can read from bash aliases and PATH at the same time?) and I've got to say, it runs perfect for me. Granted, my machine is mainly a workstation and I don't game really, the most I do is watch a video with vlc. But I have run into problems with game emulation, specifically running retroarch/libretro just doesnt work for me, I haven't dug into it yet. I have run Minetest and several quake 3 engine based games on it with no trouble.

I'm probably going to build an Alpine or NixOS based workstation from scratch using Wayland and Sway at some point in the near future, this was an experiment with Debian I did that worked out so well I just kept using it.
Don't throw that design out, we're, uh, still on for this. I've got some good news regarding the production of alcohol -- I suspect that the government will actually find this easier than printing money.

The challenge will be in how to ensure that all that new alcohol doesn't end up in the already-well-stocked liquor cabinets of the rich.
100% with you on this smitec.

It's what I tried to capture in the post, but probably could have put better.

The sense of just taking the steps I can today, rather than burdening myself with the expectation of needing to have worked it all out and achieved all of my comparison-driven life goals.

The key is to find healthy rhythms that help us continue to better ourselves over time.
For a semi-normal price? Probably not.

Terasic has been getting stock pretty regularly though and their pre-order dates don't seem to be too far off reality.
So in your view, it sounds like being able to perfectly diagram a sentence is more important than understanding tax law?
How did the initial communication occur? Whiteboard? In person? Shared vault?
That was a fun few minutes of my life I don't want back, great puzzle concept built around dependency hell!
The main rivals referred to are Amazon, Microsoft and Apple so acquisition doesn't seem a realistic option.
Oh I can’t take credit for that, it’s from 4Chan: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/983286-4chan
How are these bills now worthless? I can't go to Zimbabwe today and get 100 trillion dollars (2.6 billion USD) from the currency that they printed that is supposed to be worth that amount?
> which is adequately obnoxious and harms real wages plenty.

That's not historically correct. Wages generally track inflation well, and are often (and are right now) a leading indicator.

What gets people upset about inflation is that it hurts lenders, not workers.
I was a very early convert to e-books. I had one of the original Kindles, eventually a Kindle DX to read larger-format books (like tech stuff).

I would still buy books sometimes (fiction and non), for special editions or for things where I was buying direct (or from a good publisher) and wanted to support the author, but, I've completely stopped at this point.

At some point during the pandemic and lockdowns I realized I was drowning in physical media and I've made a very conscious effort to divest myself of as much of it as I can, donated tons of books and movies and I've bought none since.
Bought it from the website https://buy.indiegamethemovie.com/ and just watching it. Thanks a lot for the tip! Really engaging documentary.
Mostly, I just hate the treadmill.

Over the last decade and a half I've written dozens of small tools, applets, etc to hone my desktop environment I use. Half of those have required patching, some don't work at all (like a nifty oneliner I used to kill of hung ssh connections by targeting the ssh process name, that no longer includes the ip or domain).

I will use X11 until I can't - simply because I do not want to rewrite my tooling.
How to fight desertification and reverse climate change with livestock [video]
Many state universities have agricultural extensions. They hold events, will often answer questions…I have a large book that was published by the extension in my state that largely focuses on native plants alongside the more general information like what you listed. Also, I used to live near and visit a great botanic garden that also held learning events (one offs, and I think multiple-week ones), so if you’re fortunate to have one near you it’s a great opportunity.
Isn't a lot of legal language intentionally written to be hard to understand? Doesn't that drive up billing hours for lawyers, and benefit those with the most lawyers?

Could we have more rules that difficult to understand language isn't enforceable? Could courts do more to rule against contracts that have poor language?
Trends.vc does this, it works very well for them. I think they make mid 5 figures a month. If people want, they can unsubscribe but honestly I doubt most would.

Sponsorship could work, which is why you should add it in addition to, not instead of, a paid newsletter.
I think it works for the most part.
Also it's $750MM for 5 seasons...
Very cool to see the rundowns like this. As someone in the ML space, I’m a little concerned that they may be ceding the AI accelerator market to Nvidia. The fact it’s exposed as two separate GPUs, the focus on fp64, etc, all point to them aiming more at traditional HPC workloads than at AI. To be clear, I don’t think that’s a terrible move. HPC is a large market, and these cards look like they’re going to be great there. My concern is that there is no one really trying to challenge the Nvidia A100/H100+Cuda ecosystem. I’d love to see some better competition, both to bring down prices as well as to spur more innovation.

From what I’ve seen of Biren’s new chip it’s nice but won’t be competitive with any of Nvidia’s chips. Maybe in a few generations it’ll be more compelling, and they can build out their software stack. AMD seems to be aiming directly for HPC. Maybe Intel and their OneAPI strategy will get there? I want to root for Intel, but it’s hard to have a ton of confidence after watching their performance through the late 2010s.
As a rule of thumb, if the ballot measure is incomprehensible, you're safe in voting against it (which, obnoxiously enough, can sometimes mean voting yes)

There is never a good reason for using language this obtuse, but there's lots of bad reasons.

This measure in particular seems engineered to be just clear enough to be upheld by a judge, but also sufficiently obfuscated so that the public doesn't know what it's actually voting on.
No, that Voat had a small population of jew-hating Nazis, and another small population of racists. It had a large population of fat-shamers and trolls. It was not a "forum for Nazis" by any definition.

If OP had said, "a forum for terrible people," we wouldn't be having this discussion at all, and I would agree with you.

The same distinction I am drawing about Voat is what people routinely say about Facebook, Youtube, Reddit, and Twitter. All of which host far more Nazi content, by the way, than any side-show like Voat.

Toting out the token Nazi groups on a platform to say that every user is a Nazi is disingenuous at best and dangerous at worst.
SV forks are hard because they need excellent weather, universities, immigrants, and a historic local tech industry.
Terry Pratchett did a piece on this in his book, "making money".

A scam artist was asked to take over the capital city's rotten central bank, which contained the mint.

He made the point that these little coins cost more to make than they were worth, and what was the point? In this case they had a coin that was a tenth of a penny I think.

Turns out the point was when you didn't have a lot of money, these coins mattered. They could buy you a not so rotten apple core on the right street.

I think the point was; life is a lot different when you are poor, and that's when cents matter.
As far as I understand, calculus = analysis without proofs - or at least without rigorous proofs. You might do some hand-waving and elementary transformations, but you're probably not gonna invoke the Least Upper Bound axiom of the real numbers.
The preponderance of evidence suggests that schooling has essentially zero impact on adult outcomes until around middle/high school.

Most public schools are clearly more abusive than simply not subjecting your children to the standard industrial schooling regimen.