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That happened to me yesterday on my work laptop. System 76's help documentation said to chroot in from rescue media, uninstall the drivers, then reinstall, and that worked fine, so it's now running 465 perfectly well. No idea why the straight upgrade path doesn't work.

But that's completely an Ubuntu problem, not NVIDIA. Like a (currently) higher up comment says, NVIDIA on Linux works fine as long as you're running the latest version of everything. My main desktop was built last April and I've been running Arch with RTX 2070 and the latest NVIDIA drivers ever since first boot and it has never given me any trouble, video or audio. My display is a 50 inch OLED connected via HDMI and audio a 5-channel soundbar with external subwoofer using eARC from the display. Everything is fine using GNOME defaults.

NVIDIA provides the nvidia-xconfig tool to autogenerate the X configuration, but you don't need it. It runs fine with no config. Wayland has worked for over a year, too. You can go look at the PKGBUILD file for Arch's PulseAudio installer and it isn't doing anything special, either, just applying the suggest default from PulseAudio's documentation making the ALSA default module pulse.

The only reason NVIDIA on Linux gives people so many problems is they're trying to run old versions of everything on enterprise-oriented Linux distros or "long-term support" without purchasing support. If you want the latest hardware, use the latest software.
A cloud based CSV exporter to search Twitter users and profile info
I don't see why getting support tickets is a problem, surely you triage and prioritize them anyway, and if fixing that problem is for a small percentage of customers then it's not going to be a high priority.

I think it's unreasonable for any software developer to release a product and expect no bug reports to come back at them, but it still doesn't mean they have to tackle everything.
Which is dumb. All this made me do is think about getting an old iPod again. Seems like a missed opportunity on Apple's part tbh, especially now that people are getting tired of being 'online' all the time.
> Why is MS encouraging people to have one giant admin account with a work or school account connected?

Because it makes us easier to track and make money out of, would be my first thought. Seems to be why everyone else want my everything to be connected to my everything else.
I'm not sure this is true. At least in my friend circle most people put a lot of care into their nutrition and fitness.

Maybe talk to your friends about it and get them to be healthier?
Looks like less is done now than before. Chris roberts and sandi Gardner are theives and prey on the dreams of hopeful space gamers. Shame.
Bitcoin to become legal tender in El Salvador on Sept 7
FBI Director Wray urges companies to stop paying ransoms to hackers
> Half of Europe has already announced phasing out ICE-based cars in the next 10-15 years, Audi has announced they're shifting off of ICEs. A shift towards fully electric is inevitable.

Lots of things get announced, particularly from governments and auto manufacturers.[1] Doesn't mean anything.

[1] If all their (government and automakers) announcements led somewhere by now I'd be able to sleep while my car self-drove me to my vacation destination. Governments particularly are prone to be wrongly optimistic when announcing their policies.
I’ve mostly used Word for requirements/user stories, you can turn on track changes. I’ve mostly used excel for WBS.

I’ve also seen things like JIRA and Trello used for small projects where you don’t need a formal requirements doc and you’re running it scrum or Kanban.

My experience is mostly in non-technology industries.
In the beginning of this year my 80 years old dad went to a hospital due to a broken back (after he fell of a ladder... and down some stairs), he was in pain and shock as he was presenting to the hospital so lets say he was not in the best mental state...

The first few days after we got him his mobile phone and he settled in he - as we know him - texted via instant messenger and called frequently. Then, he got more and more disoriented while speaking and ignored texts or replyed with incomprehensible texts. As the situation were (covid and so on) we were not allowed to visit him in the hospital and where only able to call to the station, the nurses and the doctors... they all told us, that it is not that uncommon that we have to live with the fact, that older people have sometimes demenita.

Hint: He didn't had any dementia before he fell of this ladder. Or any other mental problems.

A few days later he got total delirious, and the hospital informed us that we had to prepare to give hime full care. It was a nightmare for us.

After 1,5 months he finally was released, and merely a shadow of the man i knew. We found out, that he was heavily drugged with melperon and risperidon for nearly the whole time he was there. We slowly took him of the medication and now he is slowly gaining back his old self, drives again and is recovering... we are evaluating legal actions against the hospital.
What's worse, in several jurisdictions (some places in the US included, IIRC), if a company is found to have caused damages based on this sort of "negligence", the developers are legally to blame - not management.
A lot of android phones have a manufacturer provided camera app which has special abilities - for example, it uses private API's to adjust focus, do zero shutter delay capturing, select which camera to use on 'quad camera' phones, do 'auto expose on faces in the scene', do various HDR in signal processing hardware that regular apps don't have access to, etc.

Any app which just uses the android camera API doesn't have access to this stuff - and usually ends up with very poor quality images as a result. On my phone, apps that use the android API can't adjust focus at all, which makes even things like a barcode scanning app useless. Things that say "please take a photo of your ID card in this box" are unusable!
Walmarts finances are public, you need only read their latest 10-K and youll have a pretty good idea of how much money they make.
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I Created ‘The X-Files.’ Here’s What I Want to Believe
Second time a new account posts this 2014 article in 2 weeks.

Flagged, here's some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=yager.io
Perhaps worth mentioning that "you" is "ambiguous" in exactly the same way: it's grammatically and historically plural but can now refer to either a single person or a group.

French and German also use a grammatically/historically plural form for polite "you". But Italian seems to use a feminine third-person pronoun for that purpose ...
That doesn't make any sense to me. Human ML/AI researchers are also users and NVIDIA clearly intentionally targets them as a market segment. They don't only care about pleasing gamers running Windows.
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You cant afford food when you dont have a job.
Contamination is a huge problem with this allergy, and most kitchens don't understand or don't care. You pretty much learn that eating out is too dangerous.

Those who end up with this allergy pretty much have to not eat out, as the risk is too high. Imagine not being able to eat out?

Imagine not being able to travel! It's the worst!
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France charges 5.5% VAT on food. Why not cut a bit from their welfare budget and reduce this to 0%?
The latest statistics I've seen, show that child slavery accounts for about 12% of the overall cobalt production. Because 60% of the Cobalt comes from DNC and within DNC its about 20%[1].

So, while this is an issue that needs to be addressed, it is not much of an issue in terms of electric cars. They need in an order of magnitude, that they have the control over where the Cobalt actually comes from.

Nevertheless the automotive industry works hard on Cobalt-free batteries.

If child labour is a thing for you, then you should think about the cheap stuff from China, that contains any sort of battery.

[1] https://www.humanium.org/en/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-child-...
I bought a ship relatively late, in 2013. I also built my gaming PC that I'm still using to this day around then hoping to have something beefy enough to play Star Citizen. Obviously that was stupid, lesson learned.

Chris Roberts has made some phenomenal games that I absolutely love, but even Freelancer was in production hell for years before being reigned in by Microsoft. Star Citizen is pretty much all of those huge ideas he has always wanted to build on but now with an essentially unlimited budget funded by idiots like me that believed he'd actually be able to deliver an actual game.

Seeing a progress tracker for it is just a slap in the face. They aren't being held accountable by anyone but themselves and they've proved time and time again that they're incapable of sticking to timelines. They'll just create more awesome looking tech demos that are probably not even linked together into a fully realized and playable game.

If Star Citizen could actually deliver everything it promised, it'd be a damned near perfect game for a nerd like me who loves science fiction, outer space, and epic space operas. The idea of zooming through the cosmos on my ship "Freelancer" with a group of friends doing whatever we feel like, exploring new worlds, fighting space pirates, and getting a drink on an old and decrepit space station built a century ago sounds like everything I ever wanted in a video game.

Sadly, Star Citizen will never be that game.
It was presumably the upper threshold before air conditioning came on.

Explanation for those wondering why this needed explanation: Most thermostats set the lower threshold before heating comes on, so turning it up would use more energy.
You'd presumably be fired or PIPed if you often held back releases for security reasons so the liability seems poorly placed.
TenVer v.10 – The version of your product is and always will be 10
Great video interview with the founder of Northvolt on Fully Charged:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOHjIav97HM
I have a small "normal pc-like" box with up-to date Linux. It required some initial setup but it will be supported forever and almost any software can be installed there.
The game I regularly forget I own.
Go seems to be a favorite language to hate, and yet, there's a lot of awesome software in the world because of it. It's simply and lack of features was intentional; not a design flaw. It was built by some of the premier computer scientists of our age not for lacking of knowledge of modern language features but intentionally avoiding complexity.

Choose Rust and C++ for building your next OS, but Go is great when I need to build a web service that's fast enough and hire a team that may not know the language walking in the door but can be productive quickly.
Inside Northvolt – Scandinavia's 'Gigafactory' [video]
This is an incredible ongoing project that just sums up all of the pitfalls in development.

Bad initial design, change of engines, licensing issues, unbelievable feature creep, questionable management..

And I'm not sure exactly, but this progress tracker suggests the game will be complete by March 2022 ? Its just begging for criticism.
Because wealth generation is a positive feedback loop which creates a winner-take-all situation. And a persons starting conditions are based on luck. And roughly speaking, the relationship between money and well-being is non-linear, shaped like a log curve. So three kinds of unfair.
The weird exception is Microsoft which isn't in FAANG but hit 2T market cap recently. These days both Microsoft and Amazon are primarily cloud server providers.
The idea is that treatment also has risks and false positives are an issue.

If you gave a mammogram to every 20 year old woman, you would end up doing a large number of unnecessary biopsies and you’d find almost no real cancer. In the end, you’d lose more people than you would save.

Or that’s the idea. I’m no expert in this but it makes sense to me conceptually.
This is thuggish behavior condoned by the city government of Marseilles. The occupied McDonald's is not responsible for the economic problems there. Some HN readers seem to approve of this criminality, but a businessperson reading about this would be disinclined to start a new business in Marseilles. Without employers there will be more poverty and hunger.
> Did you encounter any trade-offs or downsides in choosing this over a traditional s-expression style lisp?

No downsides for `f[x]` instead of `(f x)`. It really does fix the problem of overnesting without any significant trade-off that I can see. Net value of this improvement is the highest.

For `foo | bar` instead of `foo[bar]` I see some downsides from a minimalist point of view. Slight complexity is added to the parser. The `|` is right-associative which has to be kept in mind when reading the code:

foo | bar | baz

might be less clear/more difficult to grasp for somebody who is learning the language than:

foo[bar[baz]]

As for the zero-argument sugar `foo!` -- its value is marginal, so also might not be worth it from a minimalist point of view.

> I am curious why this hasn’t been seen in a mainstream lisp before.

Not sure. Certainly I have not seen this exact improvement anywhere before or since. I think it's mostly a matter of tradition. Somehow S-expressions stuck as the defining feature of Lisp and a fundamental ALGOL-like change like that would be too much to stay in the family, certainly not in the mainstream.

Indeed, as @wgoodall01 mentions there is the Wolfram Language based around something similar to M-expressions, but it is neither mainstream nor (classified as) a Lisp. The syntax is also more complex overall.

There is also Rebol[0] and its variants, but it is also not mainstream and diverges from Lisp substantially.

Nothing else of note comes to mind.

I think John McCarthy had the right idea with M-expressions. Perhaps the definition should have been a bit more minimal back then and today we would have a major Lisp with this sort of syntax.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebol
I launched Trivia (app for remote team bonding for Slack and MS Teams) last year after we built it for our own (then forced-to-be-remote overnight) team. Would love to know what you folks think of it.

Since its launch a year ago on June 19, 2020:

- installed in 10,492+ Slack/ Teams workspaces
- 321,550+ players
- 53+ countries
- 10x-ed team bonding

Trivia now has:

Instant Quizzes: MCQ quizzes on 50+ categories updated every month. In fact, we pick out the most trending topics and build 5-6 quizzes every month specifically on them.

Custom Quizzes: Make & run your own Quizzes
Gotcha!: A revamped MCQ-quiz format for all the smart ones
(Un)Popular Opinion Polls: Pineapple on Pizza? Let’s settle that for once and for all!
Custom Poll Maker: Decisions made easy. Be it for the next movie night or townhall meeting

Jumbled Words: Rearrange letters to form meaningful words
Crossword Puzzles: Play the classic crossword puzzle game right inside your channels

Pictionary: Sketch, guess and make fun of your friend’s drawing skills
GIF Charades: Watch the GIF and guess the movie/TV show it’s from!

True or False: Let’s see if you can tell what’s true & what’s false.
This or That: There’s no right or wrong choice. It’s the popular one that wins!

Water Cooler conversation starters: Open up conversations in your channels on fun topics
VirtualCoffee meetups (coming soon): Introduce teammates and break the ice with 1v1 calls

Leaderboards: Beat your teammates and win the crown
Automatic scheduling: Automate Trivia to start games for you, regularly
Global Challenges: Play against Trivia players from companies across the world
> We're still on something like HTTP 1.0 and HTML 2.0 when it comes to crypto.

I agree, and even though avalanche (one of a16z investments in ava-labs works on this) seems to have solved the consensus problem, I have yet to see an l1 tackle the state growth issues similarly.

I think it will require some novel ways of information compression, mapping and/or storage/revival, and I suspect at least one l1 way will be related to the the DAG approach with avalanche however with the relationship between prior blocks (if you consider a block a matrix related to it block size limit at max) a series of transformations such that block x_n = sum of block transformations from 0 to n (this will be heavily reliant upon group theory) so instead of storing blocks themselves, you store the transformation matrices mapped to the hashes (sacrificing some compute for less storage).

[0] https://thecontrol.co/state-growth-a-look-at-the-problem-and...
How do they have so little done after so long? And with so much money? I understand game development is very difficult but I don’t think games normally take over 10 years to make.
> If people getting paid over six-figures at a two-trillion-dollar company refuse to come into work at the spectacular billion-dollar headquarters where every luxury is provided, then those employees have lost all grasp on reality and have no right to petition anyone about anything.

This is same argument used about football players taking a knee. Shut up and play ball, right?

Nobody cares what you think when you work minimum wage. The waiter at your favorite restaurant has zero power to change the way the place is run.

Working at faang is basically a golden ticket. You aren't going to have any trouble finding that next job. You have a bunch of people with job security, most of whom probably have money saved as well.

As to being a family or a team, it's easy for the CEO to say. Most people see their coworkers more hours per week than they do their families.
"If it was easy, we would have done it" is just not true.

Companies have little to no incentive and consumers have little to no power. Barring some very unlikely industry-wide agreement, it requires legislation.

(Note I'm not replying to your first paragraph at all, only the last)
That actually looks amazing. Hope they can get it to an appealing state before the engine is outdated again!
Cause things break down all the time. And everything can look like early signs of trouble.

There are lot useless docs and surgeons waiting to perform unnecessary expensive procedures much like building contractors. Oh that pipe is leaking let's just replace this entire load bearing wall etc cause we have this new cool machine that can. Second opinions are over rated cause the majority don't care. There is an endless demand for their trade.

My dad lost his hearing at 35 after they performed surgery to remove a tumor they detected. They detected the same Tumor in my brother when he was in his 20s and wanted to operate with no guarantee of hearing preservation. He declined. He is going to turn 40 soon and would have most likely been deaf for 20 years if he had gone through with it. Minor issues with his balance but other than that he is fine even though tumor gets tracked every couple years and is still growing.
Microsoft Reaches 2T Market Cap
This is a positive feedback loop. Low rates make it easy to borrow $$ to build houses. People must be housed = they will find ways to pay that rent.
The only way to stop a runaway train = apply brakes.
In this situation you need to extract money from the buy-at-low-rate + rent-it-out cycle.
Best way is to extract taxes by applying business taxes or hotel taxes to rented units(short or long term) to break that positive feedback cycle.
Then land and house prices will decline to affordable levels
Am I the only one who thinks this development is a bad idea?

Just extrapolate the obvious into the future. When everyone can create good art, despite being actually completely unskilled and untalented, then good art ceases to exist.

When everyone's an artist no one's an artist. It doesn't matter if we're not there yet, we will get there eventually and at that point it's too late.

... not that it's stoppable anyway.
It's not really about the cost. We are working on a greenhouse with raised beds. Between parts, tools, and piles of topsoil, I think we are $2-3k in (upstate NY). It was never gonna break even. It's a fun project, and it gives you unbelievable freshness and quality.

Robot might help in a greenhouse setting but outdoors it's just gonna get mudded up and get fine, abrasive clay dust in everything. Needs to be way more ruggedized.
> Generic Programming

The author does not seem to be aware that generics are coming in Go 1.18.

> Language Extensibility

Go was carefully designed to disallow this kind of extensibility. The point is that operators and other language constructs like `for ... range` always can be trusted and have a known cost. The author basically lists a pro as a con.
I prefer a strong-typed, compiled language for an internet exposed service any day over a dyn typed, interpreted language.

See how many remote exploits are due to languages allowing "eval(..)" or allowing disk access.

Also: Postgres is in C mostly, not a very hackable language, though no-body complains because it is infra. To me Hasura is the same: infra.

The code I write on top of PG/Hasura is in Elm and runs directly in the browser (as transpiled JS).
Because Kaggle is owned by Google, so it's unpredictable how long it will exist.
"This is it! This is the big one!" ~ Discovery Channel production executive
I still play Freelancer sometimes. It's a great game.
> Wildly off topic ranting about the balance of embodied versus emitted CO2 for the typical ICE vehicle omitted. Clue: 10 years is about the break-even point

Do you mean it takes about 10 years for the car to emit the same amount of co2 that was used in producing it?
Remote Work Won't Save the Heartland
https://tinyacquisitions.com/search

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I've started using that when working from home, putting the work stuff on a separate activity.
In europe, meaning shorter shipping routes, recycling existing batteries, and doing that using a novel hydrometallurgy process with 97% lithium recovery rate, lower emissions and a factory powered 100% from renewable energy. Plus they have $27B in orders already.

You left that little part out :)
Yeeah, it's a good one by Mead. :P ;) xx
More technologies like this are coming...

Is it worth taking blood samples now, keeping them in a freezer, and then waiting for the test tech to come so I can get it tested to see disease progression of whatever disease I get when I get older?
These are only alternatives, a complete replacement .... I doubt
Lithium Batteries: Manufacturing Them Leaves Massive Carbon Footprint (2018)
Does it? The current construction severely limits the scale at which it could operate, so it will run out of work to do pretty quickly. That means it'll be idle most of the time. If you have a similar complexity robot but mobile, it could be trucking around a much larger field.
So they don't have enough manpower to maintain features people actually want (like the JavaScript toggle in settings which Chrome apparently has) but they do to make things no one will use that will get shut down in a few years?
Well, it must be good at _something_, or it wouldn't be as popular as it is. Perhaps it's not a perfect language and perhaps that is not important at all. I use Go on a daily basis and even after doing that for years am still very happy with it.

I read lists like these, try to understand what the complaint is and then... I realize that I just don't care. There have been two or three occasions in my career that I thought "Man, it would be nice if I could use some generics now", but other than that: I don't give a fuck.

Go is simple enough that I can do whatever I want with it, without holding me back. It is simple enough that I can understand what my colleagues try to do without much effort. It may miss some convenient short cuts, but it is trivial to implement them yourself on the spot.

If it feels therapeutic to write down you annoyances, by all means go ahead. Let it out and get some peace of mind. Other than that: stop whining and just go build something useful with whatever language you prefer.
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