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The ban hammer would be my concern posting this blog. He would probably get away with it if he didn't publicize it, but my understanding is Tesla has no problem banning cars that it deems unauthorized from receiving updates, using supercharging, etc.
Yeah, and they’re slow rolling it and plan to charge high prices. It’s frustrating to me as an EV owner. But perfectly logical if you want to appear to be doing something while in fact protecting fossil fuel car sales.
One of my startup ideas is to start a service that makes it easy to hire full-time remote employees (not contractors) and we handle all the paperwork/hassle. Anyone interested?
What about ARM GPUs or PowerVR?
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I agree with the sentiment in general, but that example from the OP is actually pretty clear, no? Some might argue it is at least as clear as the code it is intended to replace.
I’ve loved the simplicity and speed of DO.

DO has definitely a lot to offer via some simple cloudy things as

1) Good ol VMS and load balancers - they already do

2) Managed K8s - may be they already do? I dunno

3) Managed DBs - good to see this.

4) Big fat blob store (like s3) - not sure. CDN that operates over blob store would be nice too.

With this pieces, one can develop quite a significantly complex and scalable application without worrying about infra.

AWS, Azure, GCP are wayyy too complicated. There’s definitely a niche for an IAAS Company to only do the few important things and do them better (speed, reliability, price) than the big 3 and steal a meaningful chunk of the market.
Cathay Pacific got hacked, compromising the data of millions of passengers
The fix is obvious... make the robot look sad when it's not doing anything, and happy when it is doing something.
Just tried it. It uses a VPN so you can't use it if you already use a VPN. :/
The Tasking Trap
> This is achieved by boosting any typical Linux text-processing utils such as grep, sort, cut, paste, awk, wc, perl, etc., etc., by providing a quick, interactive, scrollable preview of their results.

lshw | grep network -A2 | grep : | cut -d: -f2-

A better idea would be to work on tools that have structured output, so people can select the keys they want and don't have to scrape.

$ Get-NetAdapter | where status -eq 'up' | select InterfaceDescription

InterfaceDescription
--------------------
Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4A Wireless Network Adapter
This is great news. And as the author mentioned suitable for “web apps” rather than something devs should add to general websites but certainly special use cases where it could make sense there too.
People are afraid of stuff they don't know about. Most of us work in offices and don't even own a 3/8 socket set. (Of course they have no problem with some dude who barely reads English, or whatever language the service literature is in, performing service on their vehicle because he's a "professional"). There's also the fact that with physical objects you can't just revert them if you do it wrong like you can with code. People here are used to having that capability. Working with things where you don't have a near-zero cost option to revert is going to make a lot of people here uneasy. There's a vocal minority here who just hates cars to begin with and has no problem saying things that feed those fears. Then there's the fact that lot of people here are afraid of liability so they start going crazy when any entity that isn't a multi-million dollar company they can sue starts modifying anything tangentially involving safety even if the risks involved are on the order of being eaten by a shark on dry land in Kansas.

Tl;DR the subject matter and the user-base of HN react in a way that brings out more negativity than each one could normally on its own.
Amazing that you're doing this! I've been looking for something new for a while.

How well does this work for developers? I had to stop using Dropbox because NPM/Yarn seems to do too many symlinks for Dropbox to understand and it never stopped syncing.

I then tried to switch to Google Drive backup but THEIR BACKUP + SYNC APP KILLS MY MACHINE because it's a huge memory hog. I have to kill it/restart ever since going there so now I'm looking to get off of this Google Monster.

I'd be excited to try your service but would love an answer to the above! Also, how does restore work? Your FAQ/docs are pretty light on screenshots of the actual software.

Good luck!
"Please use nouveau and consider future purchases from GPU vendors that support open source. Other proprietary drivers are also unsupported."

Uh... how about I just not use your software? I'm not going to replace a couple thousand dollars in GPUs, or even buy a new specific GPU just so I can use your software.
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Use Wireguard with DNS enabled and then run `unbound` on your server. You control the blacklist. No ads, etc. Works on all platforms.
I’m not 100% sure but AFAIK tesla has done a really terrible job with the mechanisms they use to ban you from those.
Thanks, I forgot the details since this happened 10 years ago, my point stands that the juice sellers did not warned about this side effect.
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I use i3 currently. I might remove the old nvidia card from my box and purge the nvidia drivers from my system. The Intel graphics will be good enough. I run Gentoo but I don't want my graphical stuff to be high maintenance. Can anyone comment on whether it's worth it to move to wayland/sway?
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Interesting. I suppose reform worked for Turkish. I'm fascinated by the simplicity and the straightforwardness of Turkish.
macOS can't really be considered a proper gaming competitor to Linux, since it runs on very limited hardware. You can't use it for demanding games, unlike Linux.
I understand what you’re saying, that 50% is better than nothing. Which obviously, I agree with. My contention is that even 50% is not enough to make up for what the worker gives up. Obviously the lack of opportunities may force the employee to accept the arrangement, but I’m speaking about a work life balance overall.

And there are many positions where the cost of hiring/training/retaining employees is higher than 50%, so it’s more advantageous for employers to just give overtime, which employers obviously utilize. But because an employer can force the employee to work overtime, it’s not clearly a beneficial arrangement to both.
Sure, my statement was based on rumors that I heard about Rethink taking a look at Robonaut with the covers off and the actuators looking eerily similar. But yes, Series elastic actuators weren't invented at NASA.
This is also acceptable. Please, never use Sway
Better to let them build their boxes, then fix the loopholes they're using. You can't legislate real security.
Ask HN: Impacts of X orders of magnitude improvement on battery efficiency?
I have been thinking lately in how increases in battery technology have enabled lots of new transport technology (such as Teslas, segways, e-scooters, etc.), drones, mobile phones, etc., and how several other classical scifi technology is only (/mainly?) fiction due to energy limitations (exoskeletons, human-carrying drones, robots, some black-mirror-level technology, etc.).

Mobile phone adoption has changed the world. Electric cars are posed to do the same (sadly, autonomous cars promised a lot more changes that now seem somewhat farther into the future). I thought it would be an interesting thread for HN to discuss some other areas in which a hypothetical sudden 10x, 100x change in energy storage/availability would have a big impact in the world.

What do you think?
Your pick. Nvidia are assholes, though, and should not be supported directly at any cost. They need to learn to grow up.

Also, what the hell are you using a couple thousand dollars in consumer nVidia GPUs for on a Linux system?
Government and business aren’t known for considering externalities in their decision making, but it seems noteworthy that the impact of the loan is not a small return, but the survival of a successful electric car and battery company. Would you be alright with providing equivalent money in grants to produce this tech? Because I would argue loans to a business have a better chance of reaching market successfully. Could they have gotten here without that loan? Maybe. Could better terms have been arranged? Possibly. But I think it was a praiseworthy investment nonetheless.
> Once a good value Honda, WordPress now wants to be the high quality BMW.

This is the heart of it.

To extend the analogy further, they actually could take a page from the car industry. When Toyota and Honda and Nissan wanted to move from the value-for-money segment into the luxury-car segment, they invented new brands for those luxury products (Lexus, Acura and Infiniti, respectively) instead of trying to convince people that "Toyota" and "Honda" and "Nissan" stood for something different today than they did yesterday. And this strategy has been quite successful, letting them grow into a new market without undercutting their hard-won position in the old one.
Heh, speaking on relying on APIs/ABIs, macOS must be a lot of fun with Apple deprecating OpenGL to begin with.
As a kid, I read Hal Clement. He was lauded as one of the few authors to write aliens as alien. They had different goals. This was refreshing after so many 1-dimension aliens, or aliens who were just humans in a different guise.

Actually even as a kid I didn't think he'd gone far enough. Sure they had different outlooks. But fundamentally there weren't as different from me as some other people I knew. I was wishing for an alien that thought completely differently - different morals, different logic, different cultural blind spots and esthetics. Not just different solutions to obstacles they found, which they could explain in perfect western logic.
6 cups of green tea per day isn't anything unusual. There's always tea ready at home (my wife is Japanese). And at work I drink much more coffee than 3 (normal) cups. I don't drink coffee at home though. But I'm getting a lot of green (and other) tea instead.
Whether it's worth it depends on the user. Try it, it's free!
Did you know bonsai trees live longer then they would have in their natural environment?

Does knowledge of this change the equation?
Thanks!! That was certainly useful and something I would have never found using regular search terms.
My experiences with nouveau have been anything but stable. I don't know why people would recommend alpha quality software over alternatives.
I really have tried to use Ubuntu Destop as my daily driver after using the server varient for many years in work. It's not great for any "design" related task where I would normally jump into Adobe CC, no problem I'll just reboot to Windows for that.

Until one day it just stops working... won't boot, logs you out immediately after logging in, random UI components become corrupted etc.

At this point I always end up thinking... Well I've got reboot into Windows now anyway so why bother sifting through Stack Overflow for hours trying to fix Ubuntu.
Why would anyone go out, buy a new Radeon, install it in their computers (assuming there is room, which in ML cases is not always true), and reconfigure any drivers and all the other hassle, just to use a window manager? That's assuming such a thing is even possible (e.g. work restrictions).
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Agree. Being sleep deprived is not a good long-term strategy. I can wake up early if I wanted to but I need to go to bed way earlier too, which historically hasn't fit well with my lifestyle.

The only real advantage I see to shifting your day earlier is that there's generally less distractions or unexpected demands on your time in the early morning because, well, no one else is awake.

I prefer to work on side-pursuits in the evenings but I do find that the time gets easily hijacked by other stuff like social/family obligations, etc. IMO it's probably easier protect your productive time by saying "sorry I have to go to bed" than "sorry I gotta go work on my Scheme interpreter".

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18111034
I have an integrated intel card in my notebook, and an extra nvidia card that I use with proprietary driver and bumblebee.

That works great with sway
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> only usable by Safari users doesn't seem to be profitable at all.

Why is that? According to [1] Safari has 14% market share. Just the desktop version has 5%.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
He still has a deployment problem. Flatpak needs to be installed and requires users to set up repos, including flathub itself, so he has to have them jump through extra hoops even if he puts his product in the largest most default repo available.

From what I understand about Snap, the only difference is that that the One True Repo is installed by default.

AppImage is another option he could consider, which requires no repos or additional installs, just flipping the execute bit on the AppImage file. Unfortunately even that is spotty because there is no standard set of libraries to rely on like there is on other platforms, so he'd pretty much have to include everything from glibc up to be safe.
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my biggest wtf was when after rebooting after an update, the disk decryption didn't like my password anymore. turns out, the keyboard layout was switched and my password contained special characters.
Although note that recent Intel HD should outperform those cards, with much better power efficiency.

For newer cards, nouveau can be a quite sad experience due to nvidia not only making a mess of their own driver, but actively handicapping development of nouveau.
And also, when they got to that cliff and made a hot-air balloon to ascend, I was appalled. The balloon was described as round, which in the crushing gravity gradient would have torn itself apart. It should have been pancake-shaped or cigar-shaped to reduce the pressure differential from top to bottom, to something that the fabric could reasonably have withstood.
Logging in to recommend _not_ reading that book, it almost turned me off fiction. It's a mediocre YA sci-fi at best, IMO. Read the 1 & 2 star reviews for lolz, they are spot on: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604388-walkaway
> ignorant barbarians

Anything the British have done to the Elgin marbles pales into insignificance compared to the actual blowing up with explosives of the Parthenon at the hands of the Ottomans/Venetians in 1687.
On my Dell Precision 6800:

* "Supported" ubuntu was so old that neither Chrome nor Firefox would update

* Latest ubuntu constantly toggled the backlight at 30fps (yes, really).

* They didn't provide a driver package, instead they provided a utility to bake drivers into install media. Naturally, it didn't work, the documentation described a significantly different version.

* All these problems were well-represented in forlorn solutionless forum / stack overflow threads.
Machine learning, probably. Nvidia is still the best option for that.
Same for me.

Though there is a wayland version of firefox, which I plan on trying out.
I honestly don't see the problem. It's a different platform so it's got different quirks, that's just life.

Having said that, I strongly prefer Linux's explicit shared object search paths and very user-friendly dynamic linker to Window's implicit search scheme (aka the DLL hell). If that means I need to add my dynamic linker along with a couple lines of wrapper script so my binaries work, so be it.

And, you can even avoid the wrapper script if you can make sure your stuff is always installed to a standard location (eg. /opt/yourcompany) and you pass -Wl,rpath to your linker (at compile time) but I really don't see the point.
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What I understood one of the reasons they keep their source closed is that it's full of stuff like:

`if (game == "Fifa2016") use_nvidia_custom_shaders() ...`

So games don't work quite fast and the game companies ask nVidia to fix it in their drivers, which might do stuff such as adding custom shaders to get that good fps. That's why many major games require you to update to the latest nVidia drivers before running.

I don't know how much AMD does this, their open source support is excellent nowadays.
I guess what I mean is the the font rendering tweaks to give you really nice font dithering etc; didn't used to work. I'm thinking the freetype2 project for example.

The fonts always appeared super sharp and jagged on Wayland when compared to X11.
Scorpions do look menacing, but are they aggressive?

The thing with wasps for me was that both times I was stung, I sort of walked near a nest but wasn't really doing anything to disturb them. Or one time I was having dessert at a restaurant and a bunch of yellowjackets flew through the open window and ganged up on me and wanted my dessert and my coke (in this case they weren't aggressive but attracted to the sweet smells/tastes, I know, but still scary). However, every time I've seen scorpions, they were doing their thing, away from me, and I got the idea that unless I actually stepped on them, they'd leave me alone.
That would work just fine. Intel HD, which basically everyone has, would work fine (and performs quite well). AMD also works.

It's only nVidia that would be excluded, due to them acting like children and trying to push proprietary things as the only GPU vendor.
In my work, I have colleagues from all Arabic countries among others, I talk to people of Morroco and my Arabic is more Levante, with no issue at all. Syrian dialect, along with Egyptian, has gained a lot of ease in the region due to popular tv series and movies (more Egyptian than Syrian ones)I predict that the variations will be reduced since the differences grow out of old geographical barriers that gave distinctions and differences. There is a lesser strict everyday language that is very simple yet formal Arabic, as in the news, be it TV or online. So please look further before jumping to conclusions, as in the region you would read the news regardless of the geographical aspect of the source. If an Arabic website in Morroco has a compelling news story, or article speakers of Arabic in the whole region and abroad will read it very comfortably.
I just checked the code - it is explicit (there is literally a file called dead-code-elimination.cc that shows the reductions) and it's turned on and it's added in pipeline.cc :)

So apparently it's been turned on for a while now which is good (it was off for a while before that).
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The problem is that Apple can now start locking the USB after a single failed attempt. Eventually the entire technique of brute forcing would be moot.
Only if your luggage can be effortlessly duplicated and there’s a setting to automatically copy your trunk luggage to secure storage on a regular basis.
Possibly yes, someday, if they're still relevant. I mean, not every paper even deserves to be read, there's a lot of garbage published somewhere with an imitation of peer review. There's a lot of publications that have never been cited and likely won't ever be, much less replicated.

As I said before, at any point of time in any scale of research the next research steps that "need to be done" vastly outnumber the resources to do it, so obviously not all of these things can be done. The majority of reasonable grant proposals get rejected, so that research doesn't get done - it's all a matter of prioritization; unless there's solid argument that this research task is within, say, the top 20% of the important research tasks, it won't get done. And most studies are not so important to justify repeating the effort; perhaps it was justified to expend X resources to get to that result, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's worth to spend 2X resources to get to a slightly more certain result after replication. It only needs replicating if lots of people are going to build their research on top of these results, and that simply doesn't happen for most studies.
Thunderbird is by far the best MUA I've used. I use a Chromebook as my daily workstation and I cannot wait for it to support Linux applications so I can run Thunderbird rather than my current situation (a mix of web-mail and ALPINE).
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I couldn't find a good readline library in pure Go, that would also interact well with the tcell package I am using for the TUI. This annoyed me really hard, but eventually I said, screw that, and went with the minimum I had to write to make an input box usable at all :)
What is the meaning of the quote? that when someone teaches you to read, that you have a huge philosophical debt to them (that can never be repayed)?
You think the ashes are still in the canister? The probe hit the surface while traveling more than a kilometer per second. It would have to be some canister....
As much as I'd love to do that, I need CuDNN for my work. It's okay, though; X11 still works. I have no real reason to want Wayland.
>patents and other things will still protect their IP / featuresets even if they open it....

That's not how it works. Even if you patent something others can copy it (and I don't mean just the source, but the idea, algorithm, implementation) and use it in their products and then you're left with the work of completely reverse engineer them, figure it all out, then sue them, etc.

So you can either do that or just never open your source. Who can blame them?
This is the Achilles heel of Wordpress.

WP is now getting a a TON of competition from static site generators, and companies like Netlify. Headless CMS' and Jamstack are the future for these types of sites and people are coming off of Drupal and Wordpress in huge numbers.

As their numbers have shrunk, they've had to make drastic changes. I haven't been seriously involved in the WP community for about five years, but I've heard rumblings within the community about moving to a modern stack that includes ReactJS or VueJS for a while now.

At the very least they're trying to maintain their position and modernize WP to appease some of the critics and vocal members of their community.
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>Reusing delicate parts from a salvage wheel that had a blown airbag does not seem particularly safe to me.

Well the existence of the entire used car parts industry seems to indicate otherwise. For some parts, especially out of production control modules over various kinds, used is the only option. Mechanical failure is a drop in the bucket in terms of road safety. Mechanical failure as a result of substandard parts (as opposed to deferred maintenance/repair) is such a small fraction of that drop I've never heard of anyone even trying to measure it specifically.
A lot of the complaining in this thread is not what the article is about but I always find that too many people look at CSS usage from too high a vantage point without understanding the fundamental workings. It is that issue where people find themselves in trouble getting properties to interact with each other as expected.

One example, and not the best one, is 'width'. People want 'width' to be the total width of an element as displayed in the viewport but 'width' was never specified that way. It is the width of the content, such as text, exclusive of padding, borders and margin. But people don't read the specification, then struggle getting layout to look as they wish and blame CSS as not working "as it should".

Quite frankly, in most cases, CSS works exactly as it is specified and most of one's problems go away once that is understood.