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From Ton Roosendaal (Blender) on a GSoC mailing list [1] some years ago that stuck with me and I always tell new hires or interns when they make mention of not having anything to show.

Something I also have to remind myself of every now and then when I spend days or weeks researching a topic without anything user facing to show during that time.

> You cannot spend time on something without having done something. Progress is not a requirement. If you spend time on learning something, report on what you learned, If you read a book, write a short summary of it. If you make demo files to test things, show the demo files and report on the tests.

[1] https://archive.blender.org/lists/soc-2017-dev/2017-July/000...
Lets see, is this a commodity or a security? Did this company sell unregistered securities to unwitting buyers?

Thats supposed to be the job of the FTC, not to push an ideological agenda.
I do the same. Every quarter, I head to B&N, grab the latest 2600 and maybe browse for Make:, Nuts & Volts and Linux Format.

I formerly had a subscription to 2600, but canceled it after realizing it was sold at B&N, which surprised me. Not that B&N chose to sell it, but that I could reliably find it in every location I visit. In my head, that meant 2600, a publication I actually care about, was getting exposure to curious minds, and that was important to me. So, I figured buying one at B&N was like me casting my vote that they should continue to carry it for the benefit of a future budding computer enthusiast.
> I really wish more games shared the source, even if it's under a restrictive license. It's just interesting to get a peak under the hood.

technically true, but the risk of tainting FOSS projects to the point they can be killed by corporate lawyers could be too high. What if a FOSS developer implements in perfect good faith an algorithm that shares some resemblance to a proprietary shared source piece of code they just studied two months before? Could whoever owns that code have enough grounds to send a c&d to stop any development if not attempting to take ownership of the project? Not sure if I'd like to test that.
As much as I deeply dislike closed source, I'm convinced that having a firm distinction between open and closed helps to avoid some dangerous grey areas.
Where do they get this shit?
Happy holidays and better next year fellows.
Im only basing that on the language used on the page, which says only multiple violations may get you blocked.

Perhaps I'm just confused about who is using it, and for what; I was under the impression this was for bulk mailing. But either way the whole industry has an abuse problem thats not really being taken seriously, as $2000 is barely a slap on the wrist -- what is a company's incentive to keep their platform clean with such a paltry fine?

But maybe the SMS on ramp shouldn't be so simple? These are businesses and they have undoubtedly calculated the risk of easy onboarding vs scammers getting through
The only reason we pay is because the pro version doesn't lose jobs if a worker crashes. You would think that would be a core feature.
> This is faults found during a scheduled inspection

This implies we need an inspection regime in America. We’ve counted on servicing to catch unsafe cars. I hadn’t thought of that as something that changed.
Yeah, say I brought the car for $70K. 2 weeks later Tesla reduced the price by $12K. So, it's now $58K, and then you add depreciation...If I were to sell the car today (within 1 year of buying) I'd be looking at $35-40K!
It's not "degraded" if it has rust. Brakes rust if you look at them too hard and then they clear up when you brake again.
Corner cutter tool is a cool thing, but doing it to save weight? I re-read the post to find traces of irony, but I failed.
Pay at the pump is nearly universal in the US. The last time I encountered a station that didn't have it was ca. 2001 in rural Arkansas.

Pull up, insert card, insert filling handle, start, lock on, step to the side to avoid fumes, when it clicks off you put up handle, put gas cap on, drive away.

Electric cars have a lot of pluses, but refilling the tank as quickly as gasoline or diesel isn't one of them. I can drive at highway speeds for over thirteen hours on two refills of the tank, each of which takes less time than walking in and using the restroom.
Gleam?
Weird. Is your wife's phone nearby by chance? The only time this happens to me it's because we are both walking to the car together and her phone unlocks it before mine does.
Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!
Destructors will execute in the reverse of declaration order, so if initialization order doesnt match declaration order, and some members depend on each other somehow, things will break. At the very least, it could be surprising. Not a problem in C where destructors don't exist.
Many states (or all the ones I have lived in anyway) have regular, mandatory inspections.
Can't recall if this made it on HN, but the first photography book is widely regarded as coming from Anna Atkins.

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

Her book came out in 1843, a few years before Ichiki's work.

She used a new technique called cyanotype. Beautiful incredible blues.
It's technically the "Bengali–Assamese script". There is a difference of 3 letters between the written forms of these two languages, including the one you pointed out.

Google translate added Assamese recently, that might explain the gaffes.
I frequently see ICE owners putting down EVs. And I think they will not get the picture until one of the family members buys one and they get to experience for themselves. My family owns two EVs and we will never go back to ICE cars. We've been driving around in EVs for over 5 years.

Sure there are cases where EVs are an ill-fit. For example, if you are an apartment dweller and do not have a way to charge the car at home. But many other concerns are way overblown.
I'm not sure about the origin, but for a while, several EFL developers worked directly for Samsung. It was great (as a previous user of Enlightenment) because development was super active.
Related to [1].

[1] '"King of the Cannibals": How Sam Altman Took over Silicon Valley (washingtonpost.com)' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38744021
> Trying to understand gives you a whole new appreciation than being presented the formal definition refined over many years.

This is so true, and which is why makes learning from certain professors way more enjoyable than others. What you have explained is in some sense an explanation of 'thinking from the first principles' or 'intuition behind the concept', at least imo.
How does one learn about this stuff? I learned about basic networking in college (the TCP layers) etc but people doing such stuff sounds like Greek to me.

If I want to learn more about what the author is doing, is there a resource like a udemy course or YouTube channel you guys can recommend?
Who among us has not felt,

When walking through the twilight,

Or writing down a date from the past,

That they have lost something infinite?

-- Jorge Luis Borges
Wouldn't be the first time the dealership was telling customer complete BS assuming that they don't have a clue in order to either get out of a warranty repair or to inflate an invoice.

Also dealerships not having a clue is not rare either. Many garages these days only connect a computer to the diagnostics port, download whatever error codes are shown and tell the shocked driver that half of their car is kaputt with the repair likely going to be several thousands of euro.

All the while the real problem is a blown fuse for one of the control units or a wire has chaffed and broke somewhere - and the diagnostic codes come only because the ECU can't talk to some sensors because part of the vehicle's CAN bus is down.
If you can use GCC to target all platforms, you can build with -std=gnu++XX to use C-like initializers.
(Article author here). I'm typically executing the same compile command from shell history (or via an alias) so missing off the `'; bell` isn't really a concern, but I agree that automatically triggering it after commands of a certain duration is a nicer way of avoiding that mental overhead if you're executing a wider variety of commands.
> on a path towards electrified transport

If not for Tesla, America (& the Western world in general) might not be on a path towards private inefficient electrified road transport, leaving much more room for investment in & upselling of vastly more sustainable non-road transport, as has been done in China.

Musk in particular has form here - consistently blocking & derailing all potential high-speed rail projects for the west coast in favour of white elephants (the material result being a maintained reliance on roads, and - by extension - his big cobalt-mine-dependent business).
VR in general is dying a slow death. “AI” has taken its place as the next hot thing for the 2020s. VR never demonstrated enough value for the general public. Sure there are some highly specialized niches where it excels, but it’s never gonna be the next iPhone that everyone must have to function in the world.

VR was the darling of the 2010s but it crashed and burned due to both physical limitation and lackluster technology. Microsoft throw their hat in the ring, and are now walking away as they see abysmal usage.

I don’t even know if Apple could save it. Of course there is the age old conundrum of “are people not using it because the implementation sucks, or because the concept sucks”. PDAs being the poster child of this.
> It took several service appointments and months to convince them otherwise, requiring me to mount a GoPro in my car and dangerously recreate the issue, which randomly occurred after about 45 minutes of cruise control driving.

Then post the video and publicly call them out?

> It wasn't until I contacted their PR department and threatened to involve the press that they took the matter seriously.

This is where ya lose me... Tesla doesn't have a 'PR department'
I suppose that was a sarcasm/irony ...
>Why trust the Bible?

Mystics have inclination for mysticism, and bible provides that.

>can be known with certainty

Doubtful.

Romans 11:33 "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!"

Isaiah 55:9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."
You remind me a bit of the boy (Cory Fieldman) asking "And then what happens?" in the movie "Stand By Me"
Literally any Amazon search is an OR and an AND. For example, I want products below 200 euros and brands speedo or quicksilver.

If you mean an Amazon search that allows you to explicitly type this in, they don't and, sorry, I was probably not explicit enough in what I am saying.

Now my point is, OR does show up very often in product search, but, it's usually very limited in that it's OR within a category and AND across categories, and there is a pretty standard interface for expressing this.
I'd really love to see a language with primitives for entity-component-system paradigm and convenient syntax for hierarchical finite state machines.

Just doing types, classes, interfaces again and again isn't really interesting.

Most interesting thing in Rust is not the type system or borrow checker but value semantics.
Oooh, I wanted this but didn't think it would happen. And now it's here, around the same time that we can finally use their extension on Firefox for Android, too.
Rule of 10x per 9
Yes but by saying those particular words, thousands of dollars left your bank account and entered theirs. Is it possible that is the only reason they said them?
Last week I read a fascinating thesis in HN that steam engines only could have been invented on top of a flooded coal mine, because it was the only place where significant rotational energy could be used to acquire more energy in a virtuous cycle. Those two constraints happened to take place in the UK, starting the industrial revolution.

I wonder if we will find another such situation in a future where there might be an abundance of electrical energy due to renewables.

Perhaps there's another research area that just isn't worth pursuing unless electricity has a zero or negative cost.
It's definitely not superior in quality compared to a good flatbed but speed is much better.
Moses' parting of the Red Sea may not have been a miracle after all
I'm no linguist but even I could tell that the first 3 (which Google tells me are Norwegian, Icelandic and Danish) belong to the same language family.
Set Taxonomies to Neutral – Humanistic Systems
I've used a few foldable and of course regular style smartphones. Imo the biggest difference is weight. Ergonomics vary by manufacturer (I think Samsung makes the best specced foldable but actually prefer the Pixel Fold because of how it feels to operate when closed) but in general you're going to have a heavier device if you cram in twice as much device into roughly the same space. I think the people discussing the crease here are right. Foldables aren't perfect, issues like dust resistance persist and battery life can be a thing, but I think the real issue for Apple is that the current top of the line still comes with some stylistic compromises which mean that folding isn't just a zero cost feature to be added.
I'm often told we can afford all this debt and war but then I take note of homeless veterans and I am told we can't afford to house them.

We have different priorities.

It's Christmas, instead of consuming 5 plus percent of a single mothers efforts over the year that instead couldve went under the tree, did we ask her what she could afford?
Deep in the granite mountain where the internet Kill Switch is located, there is also the US national Internet Reset switch.

What exactly, in this fictional universe, is the restoration flow if it is pressed?
No /s required, Wirth's law holds far more solidly than Moore's law. You may live to see man made software bloat beyond your comprehension.
I will admit that I paused after typing that, but then I figured, as another commenter mentioned, that with PagerDuty being popular, it wasn't too much of a stretch.

Admittedly, I'm someone who has carried an honest-to-god pager, the "start the number with 911 if it's an emergency" sort of 10 digit segmented LCD ones. Even remember enjoying the freedom of getting upgraded to one of the national ones when traveling!

Though I'm currently thinking about switching from PagerDuty to ntfy.sh/pushover, as it's really hard to justify almost $50/mo per person with Pager Duty for the use my small team makes of it.
Self-plug: Old World, a 4X game from the lead of Civ4, has from day one shipped with a copy of the entire gameplay source code. It's not the full source of the game as the rendering-related parts and a couple systems classes are excluded but most of that is handled by Unity anyway, but every bit of game logic is public.
I'm logged in, no bans
Zotero is an offline software with syncing capability. They charge for extra storage beyond 200MB, which is their only streams of revenue, you can setup a WebDAV server and point Zotero there
I wonder if there's a way to implement this without storing the code with a central authority, e.g. by encrypting the code so that it can only be decrypted in X years. You'd probably still have to have a central authority involved to ensure people can't just fast-forward - but a system similar to TOTP codes could be a neat mechanism!
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I just tried "শুভ বৰদিন" and Google translated it correctly as Assamese. Weird.
I know it’s irrational but this bothers me.
> derailing all potential high-speed rail projects for the west coast

Musk ran California’s high-speed rail through the Central Valley?

I like public transport. But America isn’t built for it. Switching to trains would mean upending and dissolving tens of millions’ communities. There was no other path without EVs and trains galore; it was—and is—between EVs and ICE cars.
> On the cheaper end of cars, a lot of those are not maintained regularly,

Heh, by this logic Tesla as somehow expensive brand should be wa-a-ay below Dacia.
>Norway has been has been massively subsidising EVs for a decade.

And every country has been massively subsidizing ICEs since their creation, both explicitly and implicitly (by failing to price in the enormous externalities, engaging in nasty geopolitics up to and including war for oil, tolerance for enormous human atrocities and authoritarian regimes, etc).

Economics certainly matters, but there still have to be vehicles people want to actually buy and can perform as they wish. For me BEVs haven't hit that yet even though I could afford one. Like, there's been a surprisingly slow rollout when it comes to trucks, I think the Cybertruck is the first one I'd consider a real useful (in theory) truck with a minimum of a 6.5' bed. Except build quality is apparently pants, there is all the Tesla spying, and they downgraded the max range option from 500 (paper, which they also apparently lied about) miles (which even on paper would be like 300-350 miles in winter which would be a good useful range), and other problems. Even if the US Government offered me 50% subsidies or something ludicrous for a BEV truck it wouldn't matter if there's literally nothing I want to buy. I think building cars that were actively good vs what came before mattered, as does the charging network. Even if Tesla has run into awful scaling problems and founder-syndrome as happens so often that doesn't IMO negate that.
A cynic might say the Biden administration precisely achieved its goal. Appoint someone progressive with the right optics who has zero experience getting things done or governing in a larger organization. Gets nothing done. Corporate donors are happy.
Production Postmortem: The Spawn of Denial of Service
How is Apple the world’s largest company when they bet on the wrong horse (AR/VR)?

Satya Nadella saw the writing on the wall many months ago and dissolved their VR/AR team and focused all their attention on LLM’s instead. ChatGPT is the fastest growing product in human history. It’s changing the world. Meanwhile, Apple has spent billions of dollars and some of their brightest employees on a product that is DOA.

People praise Tom Cook but there’s a clear difference between Satya Nadella and all the other Silicon Valley CEO’s.
> This implies we need an inspection regime in America.

Many states require yearly inspections already.

> Fifteen states have a periodic (annual or biennial) safety inspection program, while Maryland requires a safety inspection and Alabama requires a VIN inspection on sale or transfer of vehicles which were previously registered in another state. An additional 16 states require periodic emissions inspections.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit...
To me teslas are still annoying and dangerous because of a bunch of small things last time i rented one, like buying a great computer, but the screen colours are inverted:

1) No buttons but shit quality touch "areas in places you have to guess" on steering wheel, is straight up dangerous, and incredibly annoying because you can't "get a feel" for anything you have to do, ie. turn lights, wipers etc.

2) No other knobs for sound, climate etc. instead touch screen. Same thing stupid, slow and dangerous.

3) No speedometer, "just look constantly to the right and down" ok now it's getting in to joke territory.

4) Shit interior.

A Renault Zoe cheap mini car is easier in day to day use because of this.
And why would that feature rely on a phone in the first place instead of letting the driver change the profile when getting behind the wheel? Or e.g. use a fingerprint sensor or interior camera (which some of the Teslas do have)?

That sounds like some software guy somewhere didn't realize that those seats in the car aren't only for carrying air but that actual people or, gosh, occasional other drivers ride in them too.

Sadly this is rather symptomatic for many things coming out of Silicon Valley (not only Tesla).
There's another one in the cockpit, marked "Avionics Reset".
Moore's law will die when we have 3D stacks of silicon thick enough that even integrated liquid cooling can't keep it cool. With feature sizes measured in a few atoms.

Or when economics of fabricating such structures just aren't worth it.
Interesting read for learning about crypto security.
Indeed, more than Microsoft, I don't understand how can Meta could fail miserably in their business execution. VR could perfectly fail but launching Oculus headsets with basically no apps is not following basic business rules than companies such Sony and Nintendo know for decades.

Personally I was disappointed when I discovered than the Playstation console only works with PS VR. I understand Sony classic business play here but returning to the decades when an expensive computer devices couldn't interoperate with others makes me "cry". Just a rant but I love Thunderbolt and its high-end (e.g. CalDigit) docks.

Returning to the core topic, Microsoft is well known for its business success beyond all these failures.
Seems overly complicated; sshpass works fine for me. (And the passh examples of why sshpass is broken seem contrived to me.)