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A lot of devices use these simple microprocessors to do general management and talk to low speed buses

I remember in the times of region locked DVD players, some device hacks targeted the same processor inside the DVD player unit (I'm talking about the IDE/SATA drive, not the whole player)
> a modern game engine written without OOP features

Is there a particular codebase you are thinking of here?
A Split-and-Recombine Approach for Follow-Up Query Analysis
X doesn't need a hardware specific DDX driver either when running on hardware supported by Wayland+Xwayland. The GLAMOR backend works just as well for a standalone X server, and it can just use the same libraries and APIs as Wayland does for the rest of the stuff. (There's not really any kind of hardware abstraction layer in Wayland itself.) The main reason why people use the hardware specific X drivers still is because they're more mature and robust than the Wayland stuff.
What's also worth noting about the Wallfacers is how for 3/4 of them, the aliens and their human supporters were still able to figure out their "inaccessible plans" simply by deducing from their actions.

In some ways it feels like a waste to try and directly read the mind when humans can be pretty well predicted by their outside thoughts alone.
Spiders fly using electricity, not wind
We've already been to Mars a bunch with robots. Time for something new!
We're currently moving towards prohibitting the communication of some thoughts (e.g. "hate speech"). That trend will be just as effective at preventing societal change/causing stagnation. :(
Try watching the movie About Time, from 2013. In short the main character can travel through time to visit his passing father... Until a point. Sound creepy, but actually isn't. A very wholesome movie.
> On the other, it feels like a severe form of escapism and refusal to move on.

There is nothing wrong with it. People deal differently, I guess. I, for myself, would have loved to have something similiar from my parents. Not a whole chatbot, but... Written down and audible memories. The tech is there, just the opportunity wasn't.
Google Huawei seeds of the future and apply.
Thanks for the reply - this sounds like the right way to run an on call rotation!
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Ironic, the most complicated thing for me to understand when I started writing rust was borrowing and lifetimes. The rest of the common features of Rust isn't too complicated to understand.
I've seen the movie, and enjoyed it immensely, I don't think the ideas from the movie wholly apply here though.
It basically uses UDP because TCP is too ossified to add any improvements I think.
> I don't think you see this definition in a physics education until you do a course on statistical mechanics?

I'm over 60, and I only recent discovered the definition of entropy recently thanks to Leonard Susskind youtube videos. For 60 bloody years I only got the dumbed down version about "disorder" and it made absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. Now I see the same confusion in others - like here on HN were to people where duking it out over whether one arrangement of a pack of cards (all individually identifiable of course) had more entropy than the other.

This dumbing down does nobody any favors whatsoever. It certainly doesn't promote understanding of the basic principles.
i doubt entropic will become sth significant. it already lost the momentum it seems.
They're free, billed quarterly. Got it.
You can also store energy in various ways and change demand by large consumers.
In firefox.
I actually have a switch (TP-Link TL-SG105E "Easy Smart") that runs a whole Web UI on that built in CPU. It's quite neat, as the switch is 20$ yet has some "smart"-esque features :)
Author of the article here.

One of my many mistakes that burned me out on the whole project was trying to present X11 in a neutral way. I personally believe there's a lot broken with the architecture and the ecosystem, but wanted to let X11 sell its own ideas, slowly letting you figure out they were the wrong ones. But that never happened. I should have been more up-front by pointing out brokenness when I see it. The whole window tree was the wrong idea.

I worked closely on Wayland for a few years of my professional life, and helped design important parts. I believe X11 made plenty of wrong choices, and Wayland made much more informed ones.

But my attempt at staying neutral only fueled the Wayland vs. X11 debate. I stepped away entirely from open-source graphics in 2016, but it still goes on today.
why would you need an 8051 to do an internal testing, though? and why would make it easier to test?
What's easier? Knowing that you can use all your memory again after you've explicitly freed the resources you used, or knowing that you can use all your memory again after a call to GC.Collect() does god-knows-what?
Wow! I just went back some 20+ years ago going through 8051 instruction set while at the University. It's amazing how versatile and useful it still is.
> The former eliminates all the waste involved with paying bureaucrats to take the money as taxes and more bureaucrats to spend the money that was taken.

Correct, the former eliminates all the waste involved in a functioning democracy.
Hosted in a data center, living lives in San Junipero no less.
I run a Arch with the newest GPU drivers and the Compton compositor. I still have significant screen tearing in every app except video games with v-sync enabled and mpv with the vulkan backend.
The US has this type of prioritization enshrined in the same piece of legislation that created Amtrak in the first place.

Actual use of this almost never happens, however.
I have a problem with prosecuting crimes with evidence that is "fruit of the poisonous tree."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

The incentives become for the state to pony up bitcoin to any hacker that will obtain evidence against alleged criminals and have them "publish" it. Then the state is free to use the evidence without any pesky search warrants or judicial oversight.
You might also be interested in Shogi. Captured pieces can be redeployed onto the board with relatively few restrictions in terms of location. It's fun! https://www.chessvariants.com/shogi.html
They are not incompetent, when they can apply pressure and have a email folder that proofs they warned and are blame free.

I hate those meetings so much, where all those usless suits just state all the things they warned everyone against..
"For the protocoll, let it be noted that Mrs. Pandora kept hope in a box, and that i, CEO Cassandra warned that this violates animal cruelty laws, if hope is a animal."
So... this requires cooperation from the underlying libraries (numpy, pandas...) - what is the likelihood of said libraries adopting this upstream vs Weld having to maintain their own shadow implementations for the foreseeable future?

Numpy et al of course already have N python acceleration frameworks hammering at their doorsteps to integrate more closely...
The big difference now is computing power and resources. Everyone can connect to your cluster of machines and you can sell them access for a sweet profit. Back then there was no cloud computing. You just had bare metal to host off of or some shared hosting.
I won't be surprised if the Chinese buy it. They buy everything these days.
I zinged straight to (what is for me) the ultimate question in these matters: When will I be able to upload my mind and have it function fully in machina?

Alas, still (for practical purposes) never.

Why you’ll never be able to upload your brain to the cloud - https://theconversation.com/why-youll-never-be-able-to-uploa...
Honestly attempting to balance Amtrak’s finances at this time is the wrong choice - there are some serious operational realities that need to be changed before it can run with balanced finances while providing worthwhile service.
Its not deemphasized- its actively sabotaged on many levels. Innovation destabilizes these feudalistic systems, the whole environment from the investers (major pension funds), to the regulators and the CEOs is designed to prevent disruption of any kind.

Add to that IP-Laws and patent minefields, with whole industries owned by one owner, and you get why we are not getting anywhere, while the need to move was never greater today.
How close is the "e-paper" screen to real e-ink?
To gnaritas (comment dead):

Things don't usually start out bad, but they become bad only after you have a more complex codebase with many users (ie many queries). Its at this point that you need to know what a query is doing, yet its at this point that the query logs are full of queries, so finding the ones I want becomes hard. Putting a trace on the queries also becomes hard when you have a large codebase where the query logic is intermingled with application logic. I mentioned this in my comment.

You say it's my "refusal to want to change the way you work that is the issue", but I never chose to work that way. All of the codebases where I've had this issue were inherited: I was not the one to decide to work like this and I did not mix the query logic into the application logic. But that was my point: I've had the same experience across multiple teams in multiple companies, so blaming the developers seems like a cop out and not much of a solution. I'll happily adapt the way I work, but I can't force existing teams to change. Maybe discipline could fix it, but I have not experienced this discipline anywhere I've worked. But sure, its my fault somehow.
Ah my mistake, I meant to say proceeds on endowment. The development office is always hounding people for more gifts though
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Yeah, I also should have said that the response of the other part of the community isn't exactly sympathetic (or useful), either.

Truth is, a lot of the reason why X11 works so well today is that a bunch of us put up with a lot of X11 crap back in the day. E.g. things like xdotool haven't existed forever, either, and it took a lot of itches (and imperfect way of scratching them) before someone wrote that. X11 wasn't exactly hassle-free for a very long time. And you get to fiddle with config files with Wayland, too, but none of these files are as long as a small section in XF86Config.

That's how free software matures -- in the open. If you want to contribute towards hiring a team of testers, you're welcome, because no one does that as a hobby. And all this is in a context were fewer and fewer developers are interested in desktop development, and fewer and fewer companies are interested in investing in desktop development.
Agree. I flew both Ryanair and EasyJet on a recent European trip and they were fine. The base cost of the flight was ~$26. We had to check luggage so they ended up closer to $50.

In this case it wasn't that the trains were more or less expensive, but they were just slow from point A to B. I think Americans have a romantic notion that trains are great all over Europe, but it really does depend on the country. Western Europe, with Italy and Germany in particular seem to have a great high speed rail system. Eastern Europe has trains, but they are not nearly as efficient time wise.
The question is, why do people do as the system rewards? Why do they strenuously seek out rewards to be gained in any system, to such an extent that they'll change their apparent nature to do it? That sounds like greed to me. The fact that capitalism sets up the reward structure so that if you're really greedy one of the best ways to succeed is make something people really want, or something that increases efficiency, it's a really useful coincidence.

Also, you say humans have been the same for a 100,000 years, which seems to indicate that there is a human nature, and that society hasn't really changed them. Isn't that the opposite of your earlier point? It certainly supports the capitalist point, if you actually examine how people acted in history. Especially if you look at what happens to systems of government and economics that rely on people being altruistic and not greedy (the Church, communism, monarchy to an extent).

Also, I'd like to point out that in any society, but especially in a humanist, free society where being altruistic is a choice and not something forced upon you, there is always a reward for being altruistic, whether it's internal conscience assuaging, or extrnal favor-gaining. Furthermore, it is completely possible to be greedy in the persuits of gaining money, and then altruistic later: the whole point of getting money is not to have it, but to use it they way you want to use it. That can include charity.
I'm pretty sure that is affected by the search engine (google?) knowing enough about you that you're probably interested in programming languages/frameworks.

But having said that I am suddenly hit with the urge to make something popular and useful that I will name something like God, Sex, or Pizza.
Maybe not as much interest or ability to visualize the big picture as you would think.
I don't know. I can't even say if society stagnating is bad. I think society improved over the centuries and millennia, but of course I agree that the values I was raised into are the right ones. I don't have objective measures to verify this. I think I have good reasons and could argue them for hours, but in the end it's no different than arguing religion. The best chain of reasoning is worthless if the axioms are chosen arbitrarily.
How many sequoias should the parks department own? All of them?
"I'm not entirely sure what the point of sending humans to the moon is, though'

Part of the progress of humanity, to colonize the universe?

Also, lot's of fun, wouldn't you like to jump around the moon and see into the infinite stars without filter?

I suppose that could give quite some people some needed perspective ..
I'm trying to remember the last time I was on a train (a real intercity train, not a commuter train or light rail). It's been at least a decade.
Why is Greta Thunberg so triggering for certain men?
Your ignorance doesn't make me a troll, and your citations for "working very well" are laughable.

Check my comment history, I've been here almost four times longer than you, with over ten times more karma than you, and have had the same view of political authority for the entire time. Your unfamiliarity with the dangers of political authority and the idea held by many people for the past half century that it must be destroyed doesn't change any of that. In fact in light of it, I'm probably also significantly older and better read on the associated topics than you.

https://youtu.be/jTYkdEU_B4o

Mark my words; unless political authority is destroyed there is no future that isn't a dystopia once this technology is widely available and employed.

It's quite depressing to see this venue spiral into the lack of critical thinking necessary to not see the blazingly obvious, irreconcilable and irreparable problem of allocating these powers to an agency that also has the unlimited undischargeable right to coercion, but I guess that's just the way the world is failing these days.
That's fair. The issue with a "start here" page is the site is not designed to be a journey necessarily.

Obviously all the beginner articles are first, but then you have different language articles, serverless articles, intermediate articles etc. You could take any of those paths.

Does that make sense?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-16/alder-cr...

"After more than seven decades of ownership, the Rouchs have struck a deal to sell their sequoia-studded piece of the Sierra Nevada to the Save the Redwoods League, a century-old conservation group that has long hankered after the property."
There's Arcan: https://github.com/letoram/arcan . In the words of the developer, it is a "multimedia engine" (a combination of display server, game engine and multimedia framework).

It is an interesting project and the YouTube presentation is pretty convincing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07nqZIFRDJg

A great example of what a motivated and disciplined developer can achieve.
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GraalSqueak: Toward a Smalltalk-Based Tooling Platform for Polyglot Programming [pdf]
And then (earlier this year) some independent researchers replicated the model and found out it wasn't as good as OpenAI "feared" -- making the whole thing look like a publicity stunt.
Interesting. Would you pick up anything with a geiger counter on the island?

Prince Edward island is only 12 miles or so from Marion and visible from the base so it certainly did not happen in the waters between them.
What I need in my work life is an e ink tablet and the software to draw diagrams.

I have terrible legibility. Using mouse based draw apps feel so tedious for rough iterative sketches that it's hard to ever justify.

The app would ideally be like the Newton in the way it autocompletes the shapes. The tablet would likely be something like this one.
> I had tried the various ipad and equivalents, and the RM's big advantage is that it feels like reading/writing on paper, mostly - something about the matte screen and stylus, though the stylus is sort of craptastic.

I have a few artist friends who said the same thing about the iPad and Apple Pencil, but then they started buying paper-like non-glossy protective sheets and said it improved the experience immeasurably. I don't know how appropriate that would be for you, but they're apparently relatively cheap, so maybe you could give that a shot if you still have an iPad sitting around?
For one, unlike most Android devices, you don't have to root the RM. It comes with SSH running and you have the root password. The company's Github [1] has most of the source code, from their Linux kernel to the software update daemon.

Their CTO, Martin Sandsmark, is a long-time KDE developer.

Unfortunately, xochitl (the device's main UI) isn't open. It's a major miss in their open approach, and frankly I don't get why they would keep it closed - the RM's competitive advantage is in the hardware design, the xochitl software is merely okay and could only benefit from user patches.

[1] https://github.com/reMarkable
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20996771
What's even more impressive than Sam's web site (which has been online for years) is that he and his two Hong Kong-based co-founders bootstrapped Bitmex, a multi-billion dollar company that handled over US$1 trillion of trading volume over the past year with almost no investment.

When they launched in 2014, no one on HN cared! 2 points and 1 sarcastic comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8750453
While Pascal is indeed strong typing and C is weak typing, casting is allowed on both at compile time and introducing bugs this way is not going to be stopped by compiler. Here is what a compile will behave in C vs Pascal:

C code:

int i = 1;
char s = "1";

{

if (i == s) //<--- this will be allowed by compiler in C because C is weak typing, and will comeback later to bite you at runtime

{

//bla bla

}

}

Pascal code:

var

i : integer = 1;

s : string = '1';

begin

if i = s then begin //<--- this will not be allowed by compiler in Pascal because Pascal is strong typing

//bla bla

end;

end.
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There's even some existing code to manipulate the firmware:

http://arny.tjps.eu/OpenWrt/EasyBox904xDSL/oem-firmware-info...

And

https://github.com/uwehermann/easybox-904-xdsl-firmware/blob...
They claim that what3words is the answer to this problem, except they themselves admit (on their website) it is no substitute for addresses since many people live in multiple occupancy buildings, and their system is only for use at ground level. You still need to know the address at the end of the day.
Oh, there are a lot of options to make people install them. The easiest being, make it desirable to have one.

If smartphones are any indication, people would either straight-up not know about the issues with control/surveillance or have them as one factor of many to trade-off against.

And there are likely lots of benefits that brain implants could offer. If we go full sci-fi, some things they could enable:

- Perfect memory (thanks to digital storage, built-in or in the cloud).

- A perfect sense of location (thanks to built-in GPS and a direct uplink to a Maps-like service).

- Automation of tedious mental tasks (thanks to a bult-in scripting engine).

- Perfect control over your emotions.

- The ability to record and replay any experience.

- Telepathic communication.

- Taking part in fully immersive virtual worlds.

- Seamless interaction with electronic devices, to a point where they bahave and feel like a literal part of your body.

- etc etc.

So if you're a rational consumer, your choice is to have all of that and more - or to throw it all away, based on the seemingly remote possibility that the company could monitor or manipulate your thoughts or make you jump out of the nearest window. And the company is giving their strongest pinkie-promise that they would never do such things.

Even if you stay strong, if enough people take up the offer, network effects will kick in and make "not installing" an increasingly difficult choice:

- Employers will take the enhanced abilities for granted, so you'll have trouble getting a job.

- Operating devices could become difficult to impossible because manual controls will be seen as an unnecessary expense by manufacturers.

- You will be socially isolated, because taking part in telepathic communication will be difficult and you plainly can't visit virtual locations.

- etc etc.

If all that's to much of a hassle to you and you just want to force people to get the implants, you can just hire a "private security contractor" (or build your own army) and force people at gunpoint. If there is no state, who is gonna stop you?
"never need to be used" is different from "are unwilling to use if attacked"
The Irish system,"eircode", is actually more exact. Much more exact. I live in a regular semi split into two flats, and upstairs have a different eircode to me. Because we both share the same front door, our letter-box is actually mapped to three eircodes - eg 1 (the address of the house before it was split), 1A & 1B (downstairs/upstairs, post-split). I also find it interesting that the three are non-sequential.
It could have evolved into REST (which it didn't, but they're deceptively similar).
To some degree the sensor fusion actually helps the case for sensor malfunction. It would explain why it was detected by multiple "independent" systems if in fact those systems are not independent.
These discussions of "unintended consequences of AI" always seem to ignore that those behaviours emerge during the training phase of the models. But then generally you take a trained model and deploy it into production where it doesn't learn any new behaviour anymore.

You train them for a specific ability in a controlled environment that reflects deployment environment and after that the deployed system no longer has an ability to learn and will just fail if the environment is different.

Journalist in particular seem to be blissfully unaware of this distinction and always cast "artificial intelligence" as following similar mechanics then human brains.
Or maybe, the free market is just delivering a judgment you don't like.
> being hit by a second strike is already much better than a first strike, or, even better, not being hit at all.

Your "even better" clause is a dramatic understatement of the difference. This is the crucial point upon which nuclear deterrence strategies are based.
Yeah, drone strikes are a tricky situation. On one hand, it's great that no Americans are put in harms way (other than the philosophical question if war should be so 'easy'), but I think we have seen time and again that intelligence is not good enough to kill others without having people on the ground.

This is not a new problem though. Cruise missiles did this for years before drones. Drones are just more prolific now, and we are more likely to see the aftermath.
I put a paper feel screen protector on an iPad Pro. Using GoodNotes feels just like writing on paper with a pen now.