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I'm happy that eslisp has inspired other language ideas. LIPS is cool. The auto-resolving Promise feature is a great idea that's only really possible when you implement the language as an interpreter like you have. Generated code for that would be a mess...

I agree about the (. console log) thing. Such a common operation should be easy to type. I only did it this way to avoid adding any more syntax to the language, because I thought I could solve that problem later by making the syntax configurable by users.

...which I haven't really done well yet. Eslisp has a system called _transform macros_, one of which is https://github.com/anko/eslisp-propertify which turns `console.log` atoms into `(. console log)`, making the syntax legal. The transform macro system is really awkward to use and limited in functionality. I'm working in private on replacing the whole parser with one that user macros could modify, based on https://github.com/anko/partser. Parser combinators are the future!
"Rage" mode, what a nice name choice coming from ex-ATi :)
This happens because the US cannot commit to proper public transport fully. In other places, there are either dedicated bus lanes or entirely separated trams which circumvent traffic all together.

They also routinely upgrade their public transport, instead of NYC which incurs massive costs as it keeps 200 yr old infrastructure barely alive.

It is also unreasonably cheap. $127 a month is lower than the cost of insurance for many.
It's not enabled yet in production - but the main mechanism is by increasing the difficulty as more requests are made from an IP in a certain timeframe (it's basically rate limiting at that point). Think: every 3rd request in a minute doubles the difficulty with some cooldown period.

With that the cost (and complexity) of an attack can hopefully be in the same ballpark (or higher) than ReCaptcha - without your end user having to label cars or send data to Google.

But in the end a determined spammer will get through any captcha cheaply (for reference: ReCaptcha solves are sold by the thousands for $1) - we just hope we can do better than ReCAPTCHA, especially UX-wise.
I was listening to a youtube recently talking about covid in Japan (their numbers are strikingly low) and the correspondent in Japan mentioned that 5 year olds commonly ride on public transit alone to school without parents. She said it was a rite of passage for 5 year olds that they ride the trains by themselves. That's just unimaginable in the US especially in a city like NYC. Huge cultural differences.
> As every CEO noted, censorship would have to (radically) increase if platforms were no longer had protection from the speech they happen to host.

If 230 was repealed, outlets could still retreat to only distributor rather than publisher liability by abandoning pro-active censorship entirely.
Consider taking unpaid time off and recover.

I work for a large company in the US. We have both unpaid FMLA and unpaid time off. The difference is that with FMLA the company still subsidizes health insurance to some degree. If you are in the US, your company has the FMLA option.

One of my coworkers (a very senior manager) is in Germany and has a serious family issue. He has been working part time for a while at a reduced salary.

How many years do you have in career? 10 years or more? If you take 6 months off, will that matter in the long run? Won't it be better if you don't have work stress on top of everything else?

>If I could get a job where I'm basically assigned tasks to code things to spec, done, next, that'd be perfect.

There's no guarantee that a job that starts like that will stay like that. All it takes is one manager to decide that you will get more responsibility and you are back to what you were trying to avoid.
GOP senators going through these motions is kind of like a weird mirror image of when the Dems bring in the relevant CEO from the latest financial fraud for grilling, but no relevant laws get changed
Google changed the interpretation of those a year ago. https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/evolving-nofollow-...
> "But the choice for the individual"

End it there and stop trying to make decisions for other people.
I love this - Flutter seems like the ideal (for embedded UIs, like automobiles and household appliances). The rich UI capability of a web-based platform without running an actual browser. As far as I can tell, the only major dependency is Dart.
is the deal with Wikimedia the reason gitlab blocked users from Iran ?
Theres a third party open source clone of the AMD settings app available on Linux: https://gitlab.com/corectrl/corectrl

It supports a lot of what the Windows version does, per application settings, frequency / temp / fan monitoring and curve adjustment, etc.
I seem to remember the 1070/1070ti/1080 being affected too. The lower and higher end (1060/1080ti) were the main ones to escape
Super Cruise is geofenced to the US interstate highway system on routes that have been pre-mapped by GM with lidar. It's not a comparable system at all.
Sorry but no - universal suffrage has been proven historically to be far less flawed than any of the other suffrage limits we've ever had - giving everyone, including the idiots and the deplorables, a voice lets us see what our society is actually made of and might just make[1] education a bigger priority in the US budget.

1. Future tense because right now the US doesn't have 1 person 1 vote equivalence for most elections.
Interaction between mixed reality and robots via cloud-based localization
Tesla tries to pretend that they're somehow so far ahead of other automakers technologically. Aside from the electric power-trains and battery tech, they're just not ahead of other manufacturers.

A few months ago, I tried Tesla's autopilot and found it extremely poor. It frequently took more time than expected for possible objects (that I saw) to appear on the head-unit. Further, the autopilot didn't detect a garbage can on the side of the road and almost tried to drive me into it.

Why does the Tesla still refuse to put in blind-spot monitors? Why does elon still refuse to give us HUDs? Where is Android Auto / Apple CarPlay?
> gimped ML functionality

curious what is that?
And mirroring! Reminds me of those wooden games with just four pieces.
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I'm torn between HN rules that we shouldn't talk politics, & Ted talking BS tech out his bunghole. He's making his hamfisted politics a mortal threat to tech (and sowing rabid dissent & unrest).
Those hearings are also used to get representatives of these organizations on the record. Cruz certainly asked pointed questions, albeit driven by his political interest.

I'm still surprised how unprepared and naïve Jack seems to be for these kinds of procedures. The NYPost article in question and the entire account is still blocked to this day. I can only assume that they squashed it in such a way that they cannot recover it anymore.
I know people find a GOP election win unlikely (Not including me), but he is doing his investors a great disservice by not being prepared for a landslide GOP win that could transform Sec 230 greatly.
Glad to see competition returning to this space, consumers are in a great place right now.
It's effectively similar to a force-push.
There are countless examples on the internet of people adding laser engraver modules and pens to their 3d Printers. They're designed to be modified, they use an open source control language utilized by industry, unlike that pen device using a proprietary language.

The $150 laser engravers from Eleksmaker for example have an unused servo pinout on their control boards specifically for adding an accessory like an actuator for a pen. It would be trivially simple to swap out the laser module, which is held in by thumb screws, and replace it with a pen.
I spent the first part of my career as a network engineer, moved into management, started doing "cloud" stuff for whatever that means, and have very obviously not been an IC for a long while. Been in the bay area tech scene for over 20 years.

I'll still get pinged by recruiters for a senior network engineering job in Idaho or some such.
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I always wanted to use pouchdb as a self-hosted firebase for small projects but I have trouble reasoning about the cost.

How much load can a cheap VPS handle in terms of concurrent live syncing users?
The gap is closing, but Nvidia is still a clear leader.
I tend to repeat these types of concerns: the number of powerful and complex black boxes are increasing, with things like 5G making it even easier to low-key pass information without us knowing.

A common counterargument comes up when discussing devices like smart speakers. Defenders say that the devices are too low-power and that we would be able to notice power usage changes and sniff network data being sent if spying were happening. IMO, this is true to an extent, but also any onboard preconfigured recognition of certain products could easily send info back to, say, Amazon servers and you wouldn't be able to distinguish it from a "false positive" question to "Alexa". Knowing the extent to which these capabilities are plausible and/or would have been caught by now if they existed is, to me, murky.

This also applies to on-board chips and wireless data. Would we not notice from power usage and sniffing?
I prefer Lane Keeping Assist to Lane Centering.

The Ford system is the only LKA I have experience with. It has me drive but warns and intervenes when I get close to the line without signalling. Before it nudges the steering it shakes the wheel and it feels just like rolling over a rumble strip.

In cases where I do legitimately get distracted and start to drift that rumble snaps me back to driving before things go awry.

False positives almost completely come from changing lanes or exiting the highway without signaling. The rumble strip feeling and then the steering input isn't strong enough to prevent the lane change but does give me that reminded to signal next time.

The nudge is strong enough to keep the car in lane but no one in their right mind would let the car go down the road bouncing off the lines like this.

To me there's no question that I'm driving. I stay engaged and alert without every having to be monitored and nagged. It helps me when I slip but doesn't make me complacent.

With a Lane Centering systems the car is doing all of the subtle corrections. I don't feel like I'm driving and I totally drift off. I feel much more checked out and thinking about it after the fact I feel much less safe over time.
no you actually don't. you can right click any tab and mute it.
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I thought fair use was automatically disclaimed when you receive an explicit licence, reducing the baseline to taint=derivation (which is the main reason open source developers avoid looking at closed source software that performs similar function), unless your licence specifies otherwise.

And some countries are not signatory to Berne convention, instead to Buenos Aires convention, which is much stricter and does not have a common fair use stipulation.

> Criticism is never a matter of editing someone else's work; it's commenting about the work.

It is. Every consumption is an edit. You edit to remove everything not related to your criticism and add your opinion.
It's community edition.
Technologies like Chisel can make this a lot easier I think: https://www.chisel-lang.org

I'm not super familiar with it, but one day perhaps hardware verification becomes as easy as software testing someday?
Isn't the proximity of your compute to your data a huge consideration too? I imagine that the egress data costs (cloud storage to your local GPU) could grow quite significantly if you're crunching enough data.

I guess if you're rolling your own compute clusters, you've probably rolled your own storage solution too?
Quake III is always fun reading: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena
The game is quite pretty, and fun for a minute, but it didn't seem to actually get more challenging as I played, and it got old quickly. And yes, the "oh yeah" is super weird.
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It's nice how the page design / typography is reminiscent of an 80's Byte magazine ad.
Interesting idea but disappointing that the versions on the websites are just gif images, not actual demos we can test.

[Probably just as well, as I can only solve the 'mate in one' puzzle, in two!]
However, they benefitted greatly in the early ‘00s. If you had them in your Apple Music library, iTunes always put them at the top of your alphabetical music library, keeping them top of mind, ! comes before A. There might have a similar iTunes Store benefit too.

Terrible Google SEO, great accidental Apple SEO.
Great observation! I was lost in Cruz's angry theatrics, did not even catch the invalidity of his premise.
And yet the stock price is down 5% ; I don't know how the market works...
I'd never heard of tangrams until one day, many many years ago, I stumbled across a tangram book at a second hand shop, bought it, and built a Flash tangram game thing in Flash 4 (with all the pain that coding Flash 4 entailed). When Flash 5 came out I rewrote it with the ability to save your creations. It was quite popular for a while.
> even CR agrees that tesla's autopilot outperforms supercruise

where?

> They just don't like the amount of freedom tesla's system gives the driver while supercruise forces the driver to stare straight ahead the entire time.

That's L2 sir. L2.
Oscar Wilde: "Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised [sic (wink gbr)] by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, [...], the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good."

Better to have all the cards face up on the table. You want to shadowban or outright censor the Right, fine so be it, just have a backbone and do it in the open. It will allow competitors to come in and fill the market for people who don't take their marching orders from the Left, and vice versa.

Just put the shoe on the other foot. What if NYT was banned for publishing an article about Trump's stolen tax information? What if anyone who tried to share NYT article was similarly banned or muted? NYPost is mostly trash, but the only way we can be sure the NYT has their rights protected is to ensure NYP has their rights protected.
Dang i might have to order some, thanks!
The most common use case for CAPTCHAs is to prevent or reduce automated spam bots that crawl around the web looking for input fields to fill. For that purpose, the CAPTCHA doesn't have to be perfect, just better than what some other sites have (i.e. no CAPTCHA at all) so that it's not worth it to spend time breaking into your input fields specifically when there's easier targets.

I'm not aware of any CAPTCHA solution that would protect you from actual targeted attacks where the attacker is determined to spend time on breaking your protection specifically.
DLSS 2.0, even though it doesn't require individual game training like 1.0, still isn't a generic feature available to any game that puts in the effort to support it, because Nvidia locks it down with watermarks and a non-redistribute let dll until you get approval and are added to their whitelist. Only a handful of games are whitelisted, giving a big disadvantage to indie games vs AAA.
Cool! I’d say that’s the very low end for us, but we think that it should be possible to create decent UIs also for such configurations. It would require additional work for us to target that right now but we’d be happy to take that offline. Drop us an email at info@sixtyfps.io please if you’re interested:)
> I do machine learning work and research, and when I upgrade I will pay the Nvidia “premium” without hesitation

Would you still do it without hesitation if the money was coming of your own pocket?
Thanks so much for the comment! You can check out the live progress on the memos here: http://publish.obsidian.md/stim
I've also tweeted about this the other day: https://twitter.com/fulopattila122/status/132098641078723379...

I've found this HN thread, and thanks for your link - I've figured it out that a) there's a migration going on at Travis b) I am affected and I have to migrate until Dec 31.

I don't know what the folks at Travis are doing, but I haven't received any notification about these changes. Is "dimming the light" the way they communicate?

I would definitely pay for them to keep my Open Source builds up and running. I evaluated their paid plans a few times, but their pricing really sucks. At the open source plan I (used to) have 5 concurrent jobs. That costs $0. If I would buy the $69 plan I would have 2. So if I start paying I'll face an immediate 60% performance penalty.

I tried to "migrate" to .com today, and I bailed out. It is not taking my existing .org settings into account at all. It just connects to my github account and enables all my repositories for travis.

That is definitely not what I want. I'm working with 5 Github organizations and have access to 100+ repositories. It took me years to set up everything at travis-ci.org:
- hand selected repos that are enabled
- build badges linking to .org repos added to README files
- webhooks in the github repos
- notifications and slack webhooks

I don't know what their plan is, but they managed to piss me off.
I live in Berlin and their office is about 10 minutes from here. I'm thinking to visit them for advice :)
The xserver code base is huge and supports a lot of stuff. It supports drawing through hardware-backed drivers (e.g., xf86-video-radeon on Xorg), through generic drivers (e.g., xf86-video-modesetting on Xorg) and even through weirder drivers (e.g., xf86-video-nested). It also supports servers other than Xorg (e.g., Xephyr, Xvfb) and many other things.

In an ideal world where everything uses KMS or everybody uses something like Xwayland we would be able to kill million of lines of code from the Xserver. While this doesn't happen, those millions of lines not exercised by these paths remain unmaintand.

Remember, Ajax works for Red Hat, which is trying to push really hard for Wayland on Gnome. They don't seem to care about anything graphics-related that's not Wayland+Gnome. Red Hat has much more decision power on the Linux community than people imagine it has.

A huge problem here is that a lot of efforts that were previously redirected at X11 are now being done on the Gnome compositor, due to Red Hat. We just won't get to see a solution to the fragmentation power unless someone with a lot of money decides to play Linux Graphics.
Senate hearings have become a circus. It is only a matter of time before one of the CEOs will deliver a Henry Reardon (Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged) styled speech which will leave these smarty pant Senators with an egg on face. It wont come from Sundar, Jack or Zuck but it will come from someone. Perhaps someone like Musk.

Instead of using these hearings to genuinely uncover information we don't have, Senators are using this to ask rhetorical questions that can give sensational headlines for the partisan websites e.g. "Who elected you ? Angry Cruz flays far left tech company Twitter's CEO". I have seen ordinary journalists asking more relevant and better questions to Jack and others than these Senators.

These hearings were once about people holding other powerful individuals accountable. Now they are about clever soundbytes ironically optimized for platforms like Twitter.
NewSQL database systems are failing to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner
None of your captcha settings work, not even the invisible captcha setting that requires enabling a feature flag.
Some of the stuff Mike Lee is talking about is very troubling. He is saying the mere act of "labeling: content is censorship. This would classify things like spam filters (or hell, email with an important flag set) as mechanisms for censorship.
Heh, there's a grain of truth to that. I think the metaphor I'd use is to try building a table or felling and trimming a tree using hand tools before getting out the power gear. Some people do like the manual approach, sometimes it's even the right choice, but generally letting the tools do the work is the better idea.
Most browsers show a little speaker icon on a tab playing sound, that you can click to mute the tab.
Dart is easily my favorite programing language.

It's the best parts of C# plus real dynamics. The Flutter ecosystem is already above and ahead of React Native , a big part of it is it doesn't have the baggage of npm, Babel and JavaScript.

For a friend's side project I've been using Flutter Web and I couldn't be happier with it
It's not scary, it's promising. It means both sides understand the harm Section 230 causes, even if they disagree on how it plays out on their party specifically.

It allows platforms to be judge, jury, and executioner, while insulating them from any risk of appeal (being taken to court and held liable). It's an incredibly bad law, and it took election tampering for politicians to realize it also harms them, not just the little people who voted for them.

Politicians mostly care about themselves, and 2016 finally proved that 230 is a mistake that can no longer be ignored.
Kasparov's amusing comment about a chess captcha: "Nice, but I have some bad news about using this to defend against the robots..."

https://twitter.com/kasparov63/status/905179347560124416

(Background: in 1997, Kasparov, the world chess champion, was famously defeated by IBM's Deep Blue computer, the first time a computer beat a world chess champion in a tournament.)
"We charge $15 per phone call after the first 5 per tenancy".
> Until liability switches away from the driver to the manufacturer, no driving system should be considered "safe"

Strict liability for manufacturing defects already rests with the manufacturer of the defective product (and everyone in the chain of commerce for the defective product, though with Tesla's direct-to-consumer sales model, there are fewer parties there than is typically the case with autos.)
Weston has better support for some things embedded developers care about, e.g. fallback codepaths for multi-plane buffer formats doing the blend in a shader, support for certain deprecated protocols (e.g. ivi-shell) and partial support for using hardware overlay planes for power-conscious compositing. It also doesn't have any of the Gnome dependencies. These are blanket statements; the devil is very often deep in the details.

Depending on the OEM you work for and how vertically integrated your organization is, you may also have a large and complex supply chain catering towards your products, with complicated RASIC matrices for who supplies you want and vendors held to KPIs for their BSP and their hardware. Due to various factors Weston may be what they already have patches in hand for, e.g. for proprietary buffer integration, etc.

(I work on KDE Plasma, including its Wayland support, and am a system architect for a large automotive OEM making Wayland-based infotainment systems, neither of which use Weston however.)
What the heck is the value of “-n % n” in programming languages?
I think that package management is very different from an ecosystem. I'm somewhat aware of rust and gos' package managers, but I'm really curious about if they have ecosystems similar to Apache. I wouldn't be too surprise if the Apache ecosystem embraces more and more go and rust projects as time goes on...