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What's the last time you got an eye exam?
The MiSTer FPGA project is fun and easy to get started with.

You need:

1. The FPGA board from Terasic (Linux ARM host, has USB, HDMI) for $130

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/terasic-inc/P0496/...

2. To run the cores for the vast majority of supported systems you need a custom 32 MB SDRAM board. For timing reasons the DDR3 memory on the FPGA board can't be used.

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki/SDRAM-Board

I bought mine for about $30 from someone in the MiSTer forum - there are a bunch of hobbyists that sell them there.

3. Some of the more complex cores (Amiga etc) need a custom IO board (VGA, SD card slot, etc):

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki/IO-Board

This one also seems to go for around $30 in the forum.
Thanks.

On my MacBook Air, the Mojave capture looks blockier.

I won't update (I'm still on Sierra, actually, I ususally wait one year before updating anyways).
For most people the web is "better" now, because they can use it. Back in the good old days it was mostly enthusiasts and academics. To people in those groups the old web was a wonderful place gone forever. For regular folks, it bypassed them and the current state of affairs; walled gardens, huge centralised behemoths and adverts everywhere is the norm and has been since the early 2000’s.
I've been happily buying Nexus and Pixel phones for as long as they've existed, on which you can easily unlock the bootloader and build your own ROM if you want. I don't see why Google would stop doing that just because they've released a new OS.

If you're concerned about installing your own software on your own hardware, why not buy it from a manufacturer that protects your freedom to be able to do so?
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Thanks for that. Reading these comments make you feel as though we're in a weird parallel universe where the internet disappeared somehow.
So let's get rid of the NX bit, aslr, heck why even run web processes with minimum privileges as you suggest? Just write exploit free software and launch them as root.

I don't see how this polyscripting thing is any better or worse than those dozens of existing mitigation technologies, apart from your point about debugging.
Not OP. Couple of supporting points.

The "E numbers" that supposedly caused hyperactivity, mainly orange colour IIRC, were banned in the EU I think.

Ice-cream vans were always badly maintained (repurposed older vans I think), and in the 80s used leaded fuel.

Ice-cream got worse in the last decade or so as now stabilising gums and foams have been perfected somewhat and so ice-cream is mainly air (you can scoop it from the freezer). Lollies too have gums in them that I'm sure they didn't used to.
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17 and 18 year olds have no assets and no credit history, so there's no recourse for the lender. The reason for the inexpungable debt is so lenders will be willing to lend to them.

Otherwise, you'll have people graduating, declaring bankruptcy, and getting a free ride through college sticking lenders with the bill.
Informative as always, George.

> I released a build of iTerm2 last year that accidentally disabled subpixel AA and everyone flipped out. People definitely notice.

On a Retina display at least I find that the most striking difference is that most text appears to have a lighter weight. Maybe that's the difference people are perceiving, rather than color fringing or whatever?
Let me point out that you're accusing other people of glossing over what you wrote, when they're actually saying they've already heard all the stock fallacious arguments and tired marketing slogans you're regurgitating, while you're glossing over what they are writing.

So let me repeat an important point that you just now glossed over yourself: Your attempt at rewriting well known history is insulting. Hacker News is not the proper audience for your Bitcoin marketing, not the proper venue to insult people's intelligence. Please stop insulting us by acting like it is.

YOU by your own free will and greed and behavior are an integral part of the decentralized marketing team whose existence you deny, and it's insulting that you keep repeating the same things while glossing over what other people keep telling you.
Their first mistake was surely the name. "iSmell" ?! They would have done better to revive the Smell-o-vision or Aromarama brands.
The way you write this makes it seem like its 6 of one half a dozen of another. While everyone has a different favorite team some really do play objectively better than others.

There are probably over a hundred distros but most users are using some variation of 4 and those who want to use their computer not play with their computer ought to look into using a stable branch of whichever distro suits them.
Strangely the discussions seem to be focused on salaries and the cost of living in the UK.

The article talks about academics being lured away from teaching, which is a problem, I imagine that academics could perhaps guide students in the companies they employed at, like a paid course? Although there's a difference between pure research and getting stuff done.

With all these people working at US companies it creates hubs of knowledge, networks of people, that in turn could spawn new companies, which in the long run is surely a good thing.
Probably best to email info@ycombinator.com. Thanks!
That's EDID you're talking about and AFAIK, it doesn't support that. On my android now but if anyone wants to fiddle around with what their screen provides, on Linux there is read-edid and parse-edid to query and interpret the raw data directly. It's not terribly much since it's 256 bytes max iirc.
Ask HN: Are there any healthcare software incubators?
I was reading these tweets, and I wondered if something like this already exists anywhere in the world?

How do they work? Doesn anyone have any advice?

https://twitter.com/Mark_A_Jones_/status/1015527343992041478

> Imagine @NHSDigital if we created (and funded) dedicated incubator spaces for startups and SMEs to work in like @TheLandingMCUK do and directly incubated by the NHS, linking clinicians, patients and carers directly to innovators to create true fit for purpose tech for healthcare

> It could provide the technology people need in their lives to connect to our NHS but also provide a potential revenue stream to fund Healthcare into the future. Successful products could be free to the NHS but could be marketed for worldwide Healthcare. It would pay for itself.
> Google Chrome or Chromium (depending on how open you like things) can keep pace with Safari in terms of general usability and extension ecosystem

Google Chrome's extension ecosystem is undoubtably far, far ahead of what Safari has. As for usability, and…

> I found Google Chrome to be more performant than Safari on the regular

People use Safari because it integrates so well with macOS, is performant, and doesn't kill resources (CPU, RAM, battery, you name it). No other browser comes close, even on other platforms. Apple's just spent too much time here optimizing their browser that nobody else can match it (maybe Edge on Windows?).

> There are MANY good terminal clients for Linux.

iTerm just has everything and the kitchen sink. Like, it has some flaws, but it just does so many things that I haven't seen any other emulator do. Plus the author is really smart (he's at the top of the comments currently, if you want to check his stuff out)

> Xcode

Xcode can be surprisingly nice for C/C++ development, when it decides it wants to work.
When should a computer fail silently?
How about ranking posts by latest submitted comment? Excluding people that have already commented on the post and the submitter themselves.
It depends on the part of the industry one works in. I'm basically a backend developer of web and mobile applications. I don't only code them, I also design or help designing most of the ones I work on.

Most of what we do in this market is reading some form data, JSON, XML, parse it, read/write to a database or some other API, gather results, send them back to the browser as either HTML or JSON.

I checked right now when it was the last time I had to devise some clever algorithm. I was at the end of 2015 in a Rails project. I remembered all the stuff about invariants from my CTO back in 1995 and it did really help. However in this market that's a once in 10 years occurrence, unless one keeps grinding through coding interviews on artificial problems (because those companies are affected by the streetlight effect.)

So, from my point of view "for most applications it does not matter, but for a few of them it does." It probably matters when writing some of the algorithm in the web browser I'm using right now.
> “If I’m on rev 1000 and see the bug and you are on rev 990 and don’t see the bug then we have 9 possible culprit commits”

Sure, that's easy for humans, but on the other hand “If I’m on rev 4093e8 and see the bug and you are on rev 9b6dd8 and don’t see the bug then we have $(git log --oneline 4093e8..9b6dd8) possible culprit commits” works just as well.

As for why there is no blessed-branch-on-blessed-server-and-commits-are-numbered-there behavior, it's just not conceptually clean for a distributed, decentralized version control system. GitHub or GitLab or Bitbucket could build this sort of behavior... but it still doesn't feel very Git-y.
I use a USB-C only macbook pro and I absolutely love it, I would not want to go back to a laptop with a lot of IO.

The main reason is that when I have to move somewhere, it is only one thing to remove (and then add back in) compared to the 5 minute shuffle I used to do.

There have only been one or two situations in a year where it caused a slight annoyance.
http://files.pushshift.io/reddit/

I have a little open source project for rudimentary indexing and search of the dataset as well as adding sentiment data: https://github.com/dewarim/reddit-data-tools
This turns off smoothing across pixels, rather than subpixel antialiasing. Not the same thing.
“Probability theory: The logic of science” by Jaynes is an amazing book on Bayesian statistics.
> Or if you can install or somehow use the beta without nuking what you already have?

Yes, I'm running the beta right now. If you're scared about your data, create a new partition or virtual machine and install macOS to that.
I can't stand the expanded view, so I'm 100% on your side, just saying that the actual majority might not prefer it and consider it even bad.
Tech literate people know how hard this is to do securely and without bugs.
There have already been massive bugs:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/05/24...
Believe it or not but 1USD per hour is not poor country. Poor country be like 1 USD per day.
Definitely the DB Browser for SQLite team (sqlitebrowser.org). :)

We recently created a Patron account, if that helps:

https://www.patreon.com/db4s
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I'm on the Mojave beta and the difference is noticeable–it's just not the end of the world as many here are complaining.
Side note, but GlobaLeaks requires JavaScript. This is an issue if you fear someone might try to exploit your browser.
I doubt that many people will be able to tell the difference in your presentation if they're sitting twenty feet away.
There's a broader change that is an improvement to the abstraction devs work with, which simplifies coding and results in more GPU acceleration.

Essentially, this article: http://darknoon.com/2011/02/07/mac-ui-in-the-age-of-ios/ will be obsolete.

If it's possible to realise those benefits while retaining subpixel antialiasing, it would entail a complete reimplementation.

On the other side of things -- Light-on-dark subpixel antialiasing has always been a little wonky, and Apple disables it in most dark UIs. Without significant changes, dark mode would've been greyscale either way,
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I wonder whether that's what https://news.ycombinator.com/active uses.
It would be revolutionary to get rid of all anonymity. I think the term revolutionary applies to the cyber realm only.
I'm ok with being tactless, if it highlights something important. :)

eg I just pointed out the project (DB Browser for SQLite) that I've been helping out for years. We're widely used, people say very good things about us, and we could definitely use more funding. ;)
Web development has jumped the shark. I feel sorry for this industry.
I complain about the Mac from time to time. I just think the alternatives are much worse.
I know of many companies that issue their developers 4K screens, so…
Can you post some screenshots? I find hard to believe that fonts on a retina display can be blurry and indistinct, when the antialiasing text weight is almost the same.
As of "lately" in the sense of "in the last 10 years", it was always great. Freetype always had great rendering, on part and often superior to both ClearType and OSX to my eyes.

I attribute the bad perceived performance of freetype to the lack of good and/or commercial fonts.

The default configuration in most distributions is decent, but with little tuning everything can be changed to your taste. I ran with grayscale AA since the beginning because I find the color fringing annoying.

I also used to like the bytecode hinter, but in the last years with my laptop having 120+ dpi, I find the freetype autohinter to be actually superior as it better preserves the letterform and provides sharper results even without subpixel AA.

The settings can also be tailored per-font, and apply system-wide, with the exception of some stupid QML and Electron apps.
Older people are less likely to participate than normal, boomers are a population hump and America is a pretty ageist work place.
This is the approach we’ve taken with other similar systems too. Things can go so horribly wrong underneath your containers that the concept of having only one cluster in a prod scenario and maintaining it mid-air would be unthinkable.

Also agree on keeping state outside. Maybe the relevant tech will be mature sometime soon but we’ve seen orchestration bugs do nasty things to stateless containers that would have been a nightmare if state had been involved.
Mojave doesn't ship with subpixel antialiasing. The "LCD font smoothing" checkbox disables greyscale smoothing.
This wouldn't be a problem, if

1) They had Retina MacBook Air
2) They actually have a Monitor Line, that is Retina+ Display, Super great colour accuracy etc.

For 1st point Apple doesn't seems to care, and 2nd point, Apple should at least have a list of Monitor that work best or up to their "Standards". Or on sale at Apple Store.

These attention to details, in its ecosystem weren't as obvious when Steve were here. But recently they have started to show cracks everywhere.
72 hours... is certainly a lot more than the 12 or so they had at Fukushima. But it's really not that much considering just how many things can go wrong at once.
"There's way more to it than the size of off_t"

Nope, the change to off_t is literally all that's behind this claim. It's not Be's claim, explicitly, although they were of course in no hurry to clear it up.

BFS is specifically _not_ itself suitable for huge files. Last time I looked the default Haiku BFS settings won't allow files to grow beyond about 140GB. Which is fine for an ordinary file of course, but you certainly won't be happy if you expected to store a filesystem image _inside_ a file.

This happens because it's a rush job. For example there's lots of special corner case code needed for the extent handling in the multiple indirection case. I can easily imagine a week or two of work just to develop, let alone test, this part of the system. So, instead BFS although it labels these "extents" still just uses a fixed size block so that the code is simpler. It's not a problem at all, for small to medium size files on a defragmented or largely empty disk. But as files get bigger and disks get fragmented... oops.

NTFS dates back to 1993, it takes some real dodging and diving to conclude that NT 3.1 (in 1993) isn't a "consumer system" and yet somehow BeOS, available only to people who swore they were software developers who wanted to write software for Be's new BeBox architecture was.
I have doubts about the ergonomics of the keyboard, now days I'm used to almost flat keyboard (Apple ones). Sometimes I miss my A500, but not for the keyboard :)
Obviously the right direction is replacing sub-pixels with pixels. Maybe you meant this is premature?
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"Listen guys the code for this is a mess. Can you just buy the new Macbook?"

(love my latest gen Macbook Pro, but this is the classic problem with Apple's approach to product design)
This is a good indication they will remove the Air from the lineup this fall and replace it with a lower-end MacBook.
Moderators can lock such threads/posts or even delete them.
With this rating system, they're highly visible.
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Yeah, but that's at a profit, so the costs are less, which makes vertical agriculture even less competitive.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ve never used Windows beyond 7.
Yes, it looks like it.
Just like they did with USB and Displayport, while PCs continued to come with PS/2 and VGA ports for 10 years after Apple switched.

Legacy is technical debt. You have to move on eventually; for many, the pain is worth doing it early.
Thanks for that detailed response. I last used Linux full-time as my main machine in 2009 or so. It has indeed been a while. Good to know that it has improved since that time.
That is kinda ironic.
I know Mojave doesn't ship with subpixel anti-aliasing. That is my whole complaint.

My point was if that box is checked in Mojave (that is, greyscale anti-aliasing is on) the fonts still look atrocious. Sorry if that was not clear.
This perfectly illustrates why I'm absolutely against nuclear energy. You know, all those pro nuclear advocates apparently assume that powerplants will be run by selfless companies that only care about safety and human well being and are content as soon as they can cover their expenses. I can't fathom how you can be this disconnected from reality.

Reality is that you cut costs, and keep cutting costs more and more as long as that thing doesn't blow up, and if you have problems or minor leakage that you would have to report but can cover up, you do so.

And we didn't even get started with nuclear waste. What could and should be done and what is currently being done is again miles apart in many instances.
I don't remember that, but, if you do, I trust your memory (and your hypothesis) over mine.
It is, however, not forbidden to charge extra for calls/SMS from your home country to the EU. (A confusing fact, as calling from non-home EU countries to the EU can _not_ carry extra charges.)
Very strange, this has been configurable in System Preferences > General (currently "Use LCD font smoothing when available", previously there were more choices) for ages.
I'd argue 'a new way to let people communicate' is exactly in line with broadening the forms of communication to things other than just pieces of text.

There's plenty 'wrong' with the web as it has evolved, but I don't think it's a bad thing to make it easier to use a variety of ways to communicate. Text is just the one that is easiest to implement.
With the Amiga 500 I as a teenager learnt assembler - which was mostly about controlling hardware (graphics, disc drive, sound, etc.). It gave me a solid foundation in understanding bits and bytes, hex and octal. And last but not least, as a programmer always make programs fast and memory efficient. Today we always assume there is a lot of memory. Back then we were counting bytes and processor cycles.

It would be beneficial for the whole computer industry if every programmer get a year where they have to develope under similar constraints as we were under.
Link to the Official Page with paper and demo: http://sound-of-pixels.csail.mit.edu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17459204
I like the design. Assuming this is for adults? I do these with my kids but didn’t think it went further. How did you validate your customer base and pricing model?
My problem was with frogpelt's statement - the quote I started with. I wasn't addressing what FB did at all.
I think it's really cool, and I'll rummage about in the near future. I do find the font a bit difficult to read, and perhaps that might be something to focus on improving (assuming you value the content of your site more than aesthetics).
These are cheap 27" screens though, which are not ideal for macOS, which is optimized for running at either 100% or 200% zoom. It's a shame that 4K screens at 24" and 5K screens at 27" are so hard to find. Apple uses these panels in their iMac line, but refuses to sell them as standalone displays.
From the link:

> Work made for hire and commissioned work are different from one another because work made for hire involves an employee and commissioned work is executed by an independent contractor.
Because some computers can’t drive them > 30hz
Most 4K monitors are too small to run native resolution

The rest are too large to run 2x

And those monitors have too low of a ppi to run scaled
Screenshots available below. This is the only screenshot I took beforehand, so sorry it has some cursing in it:

http://www.technologyasnature.com/screenshot-comparison
My eyes are bleeding, please use a non-condensed font.
Certain features of human behavior recur regardless of culture
Everything was better in the good old days, harrumph!
Can we not just meme here please? This doesn't belong on HN.
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States partition the surface of the world and each person withing their borders is subject to their law (even foreign people passing by.) They have exclusive access to people.

Multinationals don't have borders and don't have exclusive access to people and they don't (currently) wish to because they sell different products and it would be pointless for them and for people to be able to buy from only one company.

So that endgame would work only if multinationals take over and rule the world together. That happened in Continuum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(TV_series) a Canadian dystopian sci-fi TV series.
I've heard good things about Lev Tarasov's "The World is Built on Probability", but haven't dived into it so can't offer my own opinion
On the other hand, what if you say, for instance, that you got your degree in '93, but actually it was '92? The trouble with the law is that it doesn't distinguish between whoppers, fibs and clerical errors. They are all falsehoods, and all are grounds for deportation if the government decides it wants you out of the country.