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This was quite fast considering that Apple opened up booting custom objects sometime last week…it seems to still be software rendering for now, but it's good to see this progressing so quickly. It seems that there is effort being put into upstreaming this too (despite a couple of unfortunately hitches :/) so we might be seeing this ready for general-purpose use quite soon!
> Anybody wanting to build platforms/cities/anything else in the ocean

For anyone interested I think the term is "Seasteading"

And for the SV crowd, a little pie-in-the-sky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueseed
> Why is it his responsibility to fix your code? The distro extended his program, the extension broke.

cinnamon-screensaver (the repo this discussion is pertinent to) is written from scratch. The commenter's intent here is to suggest that JWZ has valid criticisms, but he has voiced them before and his latest blog post doesn't add anything to the discussion.

This blog post, which links to the issue, creates additional overhead for the project to deal with. Just like this HN link does.

I think its fair for us to give them a voice in the matter if we're showing the discussion to everyone. It would be nice to assume people read the entire discussion but clearly, that is not a reality.
Exactly! Offering to buy food rather than give the money they’ve asked for is just the worst kind of paternalism.
>% len,

Modulus (division) is slow and the length should be pow2 and the operation "& (len-1)". If you do %len, you have far greater issues. I have pretty extensive experience writing hashmap/cyclic buffers and the like. If you have auto-grow structs (and you almost always want that), you want pow2 length arrays. e.g.

addLast(e)
elements[tail++] = e;
tail &= elements.length - 1;
if (tail == head) doubleCapacity();
}
I bet Intel would use them for their 5nm process if they knew how.
Older RVs can fairly readily be acquired at zero cost if you don't mind wasting time on title issues.
I liked The City & the City by China Miéville.

It's basically a crime story based in two different cities, and I won't say more about that. :)

edit: Apart from that, if you like visual storytelling, it's great to read graphic novels, comics or webtoons in a language you're still learning. I could recommend some if you're interested.
In my experience this site still is a bastion of hardcore "free-speech-extremist" libertarians. More so than Twitter, that's for sure.
What's a tx? the '/sec' part I understand, but 'tx'?

Is it 'ticks per second'?
It could respect caching headers, just make it visible in the UI and show “expired” content if current content is unavailable. I don’t see how this would be an issue for site owners, they could adjust their content headers if they want something different.
Most people fall into a bucket in the middle of 'generally smart'. You're probably in there. Most people are in there. Few people are 'super smart' to the right of you and few people are 'idiots' to the left of you. This is a 'normal distribution', with most people in the peak you can see in the linked graph, and few people either side in the low parts.
If only the reality weren't that most sources using that ridiculous term are highly inconsistent about the meaning and use it with two different meanings in the same paragraph.

If “moe art” be what one means, then simply use that word; — there is already a perfectly good word for it.
> On the other hand it took me the better part of an hour to figure out how to change the DNS server used by an Ubuntu install.

Might I ask why/how exactly?
Are they making money, or they are going to make money in the future?

Are you getting pay a salary that is at a competitive level for a software developer, or equity or a mix? If you will get equity, is that promise in written?
It would be best if you always were learning in your job when your young and have peers who are better than you, and you can learn a lot from them.

If one of those two conditions is not met anymore, it is time to move on.
If you’re referring to me being silent, the discussion seems to have made my point for me. I didn’t see the need to further interject. But here’s my take...

If you listen to mainstream media, you’ll see them telling their audience that Parler was “deplatformed” because the planning for the Capital attack occurred there - in fact you would get the impression that the planning only occurred there. Yet it turns out that Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter users also engaged in this behavior, and most of it occurred on Facebook.

There are two possible explanations for this. The first is that these “news” sources are knowingly lying to their audience about the reason big tech colluded to kill Parler. The second is that they believe what they are saying, which means that there is a new standard by which we decide whether or not social networks are allowed to operate - if attacks are planned on a given platform, big tech colludes to instantly shut it down.

We know that as of this morning, Facebook is still fully operational. So we either have “news” sources openly lying to their almost exclusively Democratic audience, or there is extreme hypocrisy in the way that big tech applies the new “Parler Standard”. It is one or the other, and neither of these say good things about our society.
I would also have appreciated a code example above the fold, even on the press release. When I read about a new language, the first thing I want to see is what the code looks like.
"transaction"
I still remember a low-tech theft prevention device my friend invented for personal use. He stuck a 100 or so needles into a cushion and upon leaving the car he'd leave the cushion on driver's seat with needles' tips facing upwards. From the outside it looks like a normal cushion but if a thief is to sit on it...
But zero is an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number_(mathematics) .

The unintuitive step is apparently identifying the index with the cardinality of the collection from before the item arrives, not after it arrives – i.e. ‘the n-th element is the one that arrived after I had n elements’, not ‘the n-th element is the one such that I had n elements after it arrived’. The former identification results in 0-based ordinals, the latter leads to 1-based ordinals – and to some misconceptions about infinity, such as imagining an element ‘at index infinity’ in an infinite list, where no such need to exist.
It's a reference to the App Store rules.
The OS shoulders some of this blame. Apps like Adobe’s should not be able to exist using ransomware patterns. If I want the app to uninstall, nuke it Windows.
The Stalinists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion
Another tangentially linked anecdote. We had build artefacts stored on a Samba shared drive, that were write protected, since some people regularly used to move them instead of copying them. Then one day, the latest build was gone again. We asked around to see whether someone had purposefully removed the build, but no. Turns out someone on Windows 10 had tried to cut and paste the file, but his computer had crashed before pasting. Apparently the permissions were only checked on paste, but the file was unlinked on cut?
Hey, I absolutely love Graal and where it is going. Big problem for me has been the license: GPLv2+CPE. On its own this is not a problem but coming from Oracle it makes people nervous.

I think if there's ever room to move towards Apache 2 or similar license it would be really welcome.
Wonderful sentence in this link:

"But we should claim the right to suppress them (intolerant philosophies) if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols."

How relevant to our age... and this appears in a treatise by philosopher Karl Popper from 1945, who attributed the paradox to Plato's defense of "benevolent despotism"... i.e. the discussion is as old as civilisation itself!
I'd also be a little wary of Kotlin unless its for Android dev. Java is catching up a lot with Kotlin and it even looks like its going to have a much more powerful pattern matching story than Kotlin
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/amber-spec-experts/2...

I'm not sure if its worth the constant context switching to pick up Kotlin for backend development personally.
You said it yourself before you even started the list: OSX

Apple are one of the biggest offenders of "Don't you dare do what you want with your device. We'll tell you what you want to do"

Unfortunately now OSX is going in the same direction of the users not owning their hardware/software as with iOS. And many users get sucked into it because it looks pretty
Pretty much all these laws main goal is to be a pretext for an otherwise illegal fishing stop. So pretty much all of them can be overturned if someone with deep enough pockets to prople the defense up the court system waits around long enough to find a case with a sympathetic fact pattern.
Why do you feel it’s expensive though? As a software engineer making 100k in the USA it is a couple of hours of work to pay. It will save you a lot more time than that. I’ve paid from my own pocket and used in all companies I worked for ...
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In general I think it's fair to say that math has lots of crazy and just plain poor choices of conventions and notations that no sane person would ever think of now; it's just very hard to change something so widespread and ingrained, especially given the extremely cryptic and dense notation that leaves no room for evolution without ambiguity (and it's already hugely ambiguous since of course you can't prevent new concepts from being necessary, so syntax gets reused pretty confusingly, and haphazardly at that).

To put it this way: maths is the legacy codebase from hell; but it's what we have.
> rather than causing X, testosterone amplifies the power of something else to cause X.

That still means that testosterone is a cause of X, doesn't it? Not a deterministic cause of course, but in a causal graph there would be a directed path from "testosterone" to X?
Right now I'm doing my annual re-listen to John Ringo's "maple syrup trilogy" (next I'll do my annual re-listen of The Martian, narrated by R. C. Bray not Huwill Huwheaton) https://www.goodreads.com/series/51166-troy-rising

It's a really fun series, basically an alien race appears in the system and installs a gate to open up trade with the system. It has some really neat ideas in it and some good challenges they work through from fuel to interstellar war, with the primary character being your run of the mill guy with tech industry experience working in a rural community fighting his way to being fantastically wealthy and arguably the primary defender of human space.

Book 1: Live Free or Die:

>First Contact Was Friendly

>When aliens trundled a gate to other worlds into the solar system, the world reacted with awe, hope and fear. But the first aliens to come through, the Glatun, were peaceful traders and the world breathed a sigh of relief.

>Who Controls the Orbitals, Controls the World

They're a good read, but the narrator makes them quite a good listen. I've actually bought other author's entire series purely because Mark Boyett has narrated them.

Mark Boyett, R.C. Bray, and Luke Daniels are some great narrators and all do a lot of narration in the hard science fiction space. They make the audio versions of books far superior to reading it yourself, at last in my opinion.

Daemon and the sequel Freedom TM by Daniel Suarez are also a fun read. It uses near-future, or even at the time experimental tech, to weave a mostly believable near-future scenario.

Daemon:

>When the obituary of legendary computer game architect Matthew Sobol appears online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events that begins to unravel our interconnected world. This daemon reads news headlines, recruits human followers, and orders assassinations. With Sobol’s secrets buried with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed, it’s up to Detective Peter Sebeck to stop a self-replicating virtual killer before it achieves its ultimate purpose - one that goes far beyond anything Sebeck could have imagined....
Show HN: Backupdrop, a backup target for secure backups with retention
https://soul-lang.github.io/SOUL/docs/SOUL_FAQ.html

> What is the licensing/business model?

> Our intention is to make SOUL entirely free and unencumbered for developers to use. All our public source code is permissively (ISC) licensed. We’re currently keeping some of our secret sauce closed-source, but the EULA allows use of it freely to encourage its adoption in 3rd party hardware and software. Ultimately, we plan to commercialise SOUL by licensing back-end drivers and other IP for use by vendors who are building SOUL-compatible hardware products.
the Adobe one is legal though, some people actually need that
"Getting away with it" like this isn't something anyone else is likely to repeat so I doubt they're pissed.
Virtually every modern language has lexical closures; dynamic typing is certainly not unique; and not everything is an expression that returns values at all.
Not really contemporary but the non-cerebral book that got me reading for reading sake without a specific purpose or objective was a second hand paperback 'The City and the Stars' by Arthur C. Clarke.

I remember only reading for a few minutes a day on the train, but it pretty much felt like watching a TV mini series where each train ride was a short episode.

I think that book in particular was the turning point for me, from only reading technical books and having no interests outside non-fiction, to realising I was just looking through fiction books that I didn't actually enjoy.
I guess they want to gather experience with TSMC's processes with a product nobody cares about, and then use that experience for the product that actually matter.
This approach reincarnated in their App Store. It’s full of documents and APIs which allow anyone to make their device do anything.
We (the UK) have already created a fast and easy path to citizenship for BNO citizens in Hong Kong. I don't think it's practical or desirable to do the same for the 1.4 billion citizens of the PRC though.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-secretary-announces-...
I hadn't thought about Yellow Dog Linux in years until seeing this. Discontinued in 2012, which is understandable after Apple's switch to Intel.
The EUV sources are just light sources. Calling them chip making machines is like calling a very expensive stove a Michelin-starred restaurant.
Is there a connection to the global shortage of semiconductors having already caused car manufacturing plants to shut down, in the sense that Intel re-purposes their existing fabs to make money in these demand-driven markets? Read an interview with GF's CEO just this week where he says their older (22nm, 45nm) processes see full capacity right now.
Pretty much everything impolite you can do in a car is illegal under some statute. None of it ever gets enforced regularly because the point isn't 100% enforcement, the point is to have pretext for fishing stops and for stopping people who did something the cop didn't like.
officially they do want you to use it, that's what the special version was for, unofficially ? just buy a new one while upgrading you Desktop on the way
Yes! One of the most relevant and useful projects!
Pirate radio stations are illegal because the radio spectrum is finite and without regulation, much of that spectrum would end up jammed and unusable. Pirate radio is illegal for approximately the same reason it’s illegal to drive on the wrong side of the road.
And by proxy it makes Taiwan more strategic. Control Taiwan, control the worlds chip supply.
And https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_SQL_Database which was truly serverless SQLite for a web browser.
You don't need it, strictly speaking, in any language. But as applications scale, often an IoC container makes managing lots of dependencies easier.
Consumer high end cpu fabrication*

intel's fabs still work for printing just about anything besides high end current gen shit.
Screen sharing of X11 windows from a Firefox running on Wayland works fine for me under Sway. Sharing of other Wayland windows, or the whole screen, however, does not.
We might know each other. I was head of web at The Science Museum from 2000-2007 :-)
> is a general concept that by definition is part of any language featuring mutation.

One counter-example is Mathematica. I can mutate any object any time I like, and doing so is extremely common. Yet under "pointer" its help tells me about some unicode symbols, and some GUI stuff about mouse pointers.

In reality, some of its lists are dense memory like C, some contain arbitrary objects (such as expressions, or high-precision numbers), but these implementation details aren't part of the language, and most users never know them.
Zeiss is making the optics, ASML is making the integrated EUV machine.
> “Terrorism” isn't an actual crime you can be charged for regarding acts within the US

Sounds like a case is being made for it, that’s what I’m concerned about. Those laws will be permanent and will continue to creep their way into daily life.
"I'm quite rich so those prices don't seem very expensive to me"
The programmer and his friends then don't have a ground to complain that the other person in the relationship refactored the rest.

When you approach people as if they were things or code, then those people eventually have only one smart option left - cut you out. It is not because they are evil, but because they are hurt and protecting themselves from further hurt from you. And this approach does guarantee you will hurt them again and again.
No, there aren't any on supply side. It's just overwhelming demand for every kind of ICs across the industry. From 200mm fabs to mid-tier to cutting edge.

Electronics, and semiconductor industries just had the best year on record.

It seems just everything electronic related saw huge sales.
Wikipedia says that Egyptians had a 0 as early as 1770 BC - almost 4000 years ago. If that's a "relatively recent" invention, what about computers?

0 comes up if you're doing any arithmetic at all. It's a natural and useful concept for almost anything. As long as you always can take something aways where there is something, you'll need 0. It wouldn't be very useful to make something such as a non-empty list type, to then be able to take away all elements except the last one, which must remain.

In more mathematical terms, 0 is called a neutral element (relative to the addition operation), and almost anything you might want to do (for example subtraction) requires as a consequence a neutral element.
In the 90s, it was Intel that were so far ahead. And the barrier of entry was sky-high then. From that perspective this story is amazing.
This is cool but technically I'd say it would need to use the disk in the Mac to be running "on" the Mac.
> You're supposed to start out by teaching them pointers

you can just show them a ruler and ask them where does the first centimeter starts
There's a bit of competition now going between asahi and corellium. While most of the spicy tweets have been removed, there's a summary https://twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/1350547056679477250

Essentially, while this project may be quicker to get visible results, they may not be able to release all the code kosher for merging upstream. It will be interesting to see the next steps.
I have to give 4chan credits where it's due, the weakness of the human mind is fully exploited like what happens when nations use massive propaganda machines. A complete non-issue of people "accidently" making a hand gesture has turned into a full-blown conspiracy theory that validates itself by groups willfully coopting part of the ruse. Whats the use of knowing the hand gesture for white supremacy? we've always had gang signs and they were similarly irrelivant outside the groups that use them.

Really makes one think what I believe to be true that just aint so.
FYI these results were presented at the Go Systems Conf SF last December: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inrqE0Grgk0&t=15126s
Why not simply use Javascript? Today it's a fine language. You may complain about fatigue etc which I can buy, but Rescript is simply not solving that.
> Running HelloWorld on three nested layers of Espresso takes ~15 minutes.

It’s like how time works in “Inception”.
LG has the worst software of any smart phone developer

Still I really would prefer more manufacturers rather than less
I'm not sure we should get rid of them because a corrupt sociopath misused the power. We should have gotten rid of the sociopath far sooner however.
> magic

I'd say yes, this, though you don't actually manipulate a proper AST, but a list (tree) of program instructions. An AST would be given by a "code walker". Plus, the syntax is small and coherent, the language is stable, the syntax makes it straightforward to add new language constructs that would need a language release for another classical language. With most implementations of Common Lisp, you code against a live image, so you get instant feedback: compile a function with a keybinding, see compiler warnings or errors instantly, try it right away in the REPL (no process had to restart), get an interactive debugger on an error, fix it and resume the execution from a chosen frame (no stack unbinding), inspect objects, change a class definition and have existing objects being (lazely) updated, given rules in the standard that you can control… when ready, build a binary, and deploy. Today, SBCL's compile-time type-inference warnings are very helpful.

Of course, some companies use CL in a million-sized codebase (if that helps as a counter example): Google (ITA software), SISCOG (underground and rail transport optimisation), ACL2 (industry-strength theorem prover)…

https://lisp-lang.org/success/

https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies (disclaimer: these resources are not complete)
> If you listen to mainstream media, you’ll see them telling their audience that Parler was “deplatformed” because the planning for the Capital attack occurred there

I do listen to, and read, mainstream media (and others), and I haven't seen that explanation. I've seen lots of people on the right attributing it vaguely to the MSM to lead into arguments against it, but that's the only place I've seen that explanation of the deplatforming, rather than the failure to moderate when unacceptable content was identified.

> in fact you would get the impression that the planning only occurred there.

Again, no, I've seen plenty of references to planning elsewhere, social media and otherwise, in the MSM. Again, this is a frequent thing I've seen people with a right-wing media preference attribute without detail to the MSM, but not actually seen in the MSM.
please forgive my ignorance, what is the point of tailscale in this? i read it but couldnt understand? is it like one of those "this assumes everyone is in the same local network witout firewall hassles?
why not use something like zerotier?

does this do something else?
Tech world needs a TSMC competitor.
From article: "The super heavy lift launch vehicle will have a large blast danger area and pose noise concerns if launched frequently near populated areas."

Why a sea platform vs a remote area? It can't be that hard to find a few remote areas and significantly cheaper being on land?

Any other reason to do this? Ability to move? Stay within range of key cities where remote areas are harder to find?
Well put..
ASML is making more than "just light sources". (indeed the "light source" part of their photolitography machines is something they bought a company from the US for - the entire industry has supply chains spanning the world, so attributing it to countries makes not that much sense IMHO)