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Haven't written a JIT/dynamic recompiler myself, but here's how I've thought of it:

When two devices are communicating over a port, only operations writing to the port matter. If something is spinning waiting on a signal (assuming the partner isn't affected by this read repeatedly) you can simulate that by sleeping until the partner writes to the port (or another internal event occurs), updating any internal counters with how many cycles would have burned.

Where it gets more difficult is interrupts, which in the above paradigm could come at any time. If they're timers you could know before going into a "basic block" (the JITted chunk, probably larger than a classic basic block) if it would hit during the block, then just single step interpret out the rest of the cycles. If it's irregular... you might either checkpoint regularly and revert to a previous checkpoint if an interrupt comes in during a block, or batch up changes and only commit them if we hit the end of the block with no interrupt.

One big problem with this idea is that RAM is a device, probably not connected to only a single core CPU! You can get around this a little by modelling RAM over time as separate ranges, first assume that writes are only going to be visible to the device that wrote it, then if another reads/writes it, split the region, treat the ranges as separate devices (and treat this event as an interrupt to the first device).

Man now I want to write this!
Austin just built a $150 million library which is a huge waste of money, if all it did was provide a storehouse for books.

However, it is a community center where the community can get together. That is one of the key charges of a city. Libraries are like parks, while parks let us recreate outdoors, libraries let us recreate intellectually indoors, and athletic centers let us recreate physically indoors.

The austin library has kitchens for cooking classes etc. Conference rooms for community groups, class rooms, etc.

We had a techshop, but they couldnt survive. Techshop is exactly the type of thing a library could provide. Access to machines and education on how to design and build things.

While I voted against the bond that funded the library, I recognize that there is definitely value that the "free market" cant provide.

The same goes for parks, hike/bike trails, nature preserves, museums, pools, athletic centers etc.
Yeah, but if we're allowing thrusters that can generate a 1G acceleration for years at a time without using the entire ship as reaction mass, those are much smaller "gimmes". :)
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> Keep fining them more and more money
> until they stop anti-competitive practices?

I believe you're referring to the EU's fines against Google here. In that case that's pretty much the only weapon the EU has. They can ultimately deny Google market access to the EU, and argue that case at the WTO, or seize Google's assets in the EU, but they can't decide to split up a US-based legal entity.
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No. The hype is already vanishing. The new space race is the current new space race.
Thank you!

The app doesn't work like that. Please read my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17627899

Yes, the subtitle files coming from OpenSubtitles.org, they have unofficial and official subtitles too. If you use the search in the app, you can select the subtitles you want.
Do you get notifications when you are mentioned on your phone though?
Because who cares about lithium recycling? We don't need recycled lithium to maintain battery production. Realistically it's one of those resources like iron or aluminum or phosphorous which we can't meaningfully "run out of".

(Though I threw that last one in deliberately: we're pulling P out of rocks and throwing it into the biosphere at an unsustainable rate right now, and are going to have to radically adjust the way we do agriculture fertilization in the coming decades. But even then there's going to be plenty of P around, we just have to change the sources we use to extract it.)
My town just built a new library to replace the overcrowded old one a few years ago.

Just this week, they bought more property adjacent to the building because the new library is running out of parking.

That's a lot of people not going to a library. :)
As an aside, it's not super well publicized, but anyone in NYC can access Lynda.com for free via the NYPL.
And imgur. Their mobile website is almost unusable.
I dont think most people have microsoft accounts, or services so there is nothing to take out.
I, on the other hand, love the "Nothing but Trailers" show. I can watch movie trailers for hours.
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I've got another thing to become suspicious about, which again involves VPN.

I live in Turkey, I use VPN (on AWS at Ohio) not to circumvent anything else than the imposed restrictions of my own country, and not some other countries' or companies'. Along with countless others, Wikipedia and Imgur are some well-known websites that are made unaccessible from Turkey. With Windows 10's VPN client, you don't even recognize that you are on VPN. The overhead is so low (relative to the basic internet speeds), that I don't even notice that VPN is on most of the time. I usually open it when I want to visit some Wikipedia page, and turn it back off after recognizing delay/lag on the games I'm playing online. Not even videos load recognizably slower, not on my VPN on AWS at least.

Within last 10 days, I had encountered the news about Dragon Ball Z - Season 1 being free on Microsoft Store, one like this I just found searching: https://www.neowin.net/news/first-season-of-dragon-ball-z-no...

I wanted to give both the anime and the Microsoft Store's video section a try, and did nothing more than just opening the Microsoft Store, finding the content, getting it for free and watching the first episode. My guess is that this might have been the problem.

If this really is the case, then I could not possibly know I was fooling Microsoft Store:
- I did not and still do not know if the content was not available, free or paid, from Turkey. There were no indications of the content being unavailable to Turkey on the Store page.
- Microsoft Store did not ask me if I am from Ohio, I never said I was from Ohio. I regularly use VPN for personal reasons, unrelated to this matter. I did not use VPN to make Microsoft Store think that I am from Ohio. Microsoft Store itself may have falsely assumed that I am from Ohio, and granted me the right to watch a content for free. It is Microsoft Store's fault for immediately assuming my location from the way I connect to the Internet.

If my guesses are true, then Microsoft's Microsoft Store is the culprit for being overly presumptuous about my location, not asking me for approval, hence not putting me responsible, and giving me free access to some content as a result. I may not be put responsible for Microsoft's presumptions that I haven't approved.
Yes, now that you mention it - they deliberately tried to design their dragnet to exclude victims who were likely to be problematic. :)
Personally, I believe it's the same part of your brain that forms words that also thinks conceptually. Words are never that far from human cognition.

If you want to get a sense for what non-linguistic thought would be, think more like your dog. The two language areas are the only functional difference between us and the animals. Once you start getting into the realm of things that dogs or other animals can't do, you're thinking linguistically.
Likely true, but when you drop the consumer's marginal cost to zero, consumption will increase. Even if it was reasonably high to begin with -- i.e. 3x per month to 5, 1x per week to 2-3.
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From my experience working at a movie theater this is not true. While the staff may not care, the theater ownership definitely does. Concessions are where the majority of the money is made as ticket sales have to be split with the studios.
AMC's subscription plan is especially attractive to high-volume users on which it will likely lose money, further, it encourages them to use their free tickets at peak times for the most popular movies in the most expensive formats. When an AMC subscriber in NYC reserves a seat for a Marvel film in IMAX on opening weekend, that's a $20+ ticket that AMC can't sell to a paying customer because the theater is sold out.

- AMC made a deal with the studios. All movies are accounted for as being purchased for $8.99. AMC then pays the studio 40-60% of that price.

- Thd turnover of AMC movies isn’t that great. I doubt they have more than 8 new movies in a month - even fewer that a person wants to see

- Concessions are a high profit margin product. The average movie goer was already paying around $5.00 in concessions. They will probably pay more now since the movie was “free”.

- the subscription plan is not available for anyone under 18. If you take your kids they pay full price for the movie and concessions.

I can’t find the article now where I saw this. But the $8.9@ per movie price was widely reported.
San Antonio Center is very much starting to look like a downtown, complete with the dense apartment blocks over street-level retail, underground parking garages, 11-story apartment buildings, and pedestrian-only alleyways. It's still sort of a hybrid development, because the Walmart side of the block hasn't been redeveloped yet and features a giant parking lot and all around them are tiny 1950s-style strip malls and small apartment complexes that literally were built in the 60s, but you can see in both the zoning codes and satellite photos of the area redeveloped that they were going for a real city in density & usage.

I remember thinking, when initial development started around 2010/2011 and all the news was about traffic on 101 and Google shuttle buses making life hell in the Mission, that it looked like the solution was to bring the City to Mountain View rather than bring all the workers from the City.

They get away with this because the area was basically barren strip mall & parking lot before redevelopment - it was the old Sears store, plus Shockley Semiconductor (which I think had been turned into a small grocer that nobody except tech tourists visited), plus a few other old-economy retailers that were going bankrupt. There weren't actually any neighbors to get mad, plus I doubt they'd shed a tear.
He also doesn’t seem to care very much if the things he breaks get fixed.
Thank you!

There are other apps for that, it doesn't meant to do that. Please read my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17627899
Ask HN: What docs to request from SaaS after being laid off?
I've recently been laid off from a Georgia-based SaaS. What documentation should I request?

I did not have any equity, so that simplifies things a bit.

Things that come to mind:

* compilation of permanent employment record
* letter of recommendation
* Paystubs

I'm not familiar with what I should expect to have in a permanent record.

Any advice or resources would be greatly appreciated.
With respect to electric cars the actual energy density is only half the story.

Efficiency can be gained with pack efficiency, aerodynamics, weight reduction of the vehicle, including smaller low occupancy vehicles enabled by the Mobility-As-A-Service model, and removing material with the help of better computer simulation and modeling, more efficient energy recapture systems, energy efficient accel/decel algorithms, denser destination charging network, skate systems like Boring Loop, all of which can decrease battery size which itself increases efficiency even further.

Similar to density in chip design, as density hits fundamental limits, other axes of power can help keep improvement at least linear.
in my view, the grays are better at vanilla development, while the upstarts want to spend their time diving into an endless parade of frameworks. freaking annoying.
This is the kind of thing you can look at using MRI scans and not all thoughts involve the linguistic centers of the brain.
> No libraries would never be invented today.

If libraries didn't already exist, I can't imagine the copyright lobby allowing them to be invented.
I thought they have a number of sources, of which bing is the primary, but sole?
I think they did it for investors, not for the sake of regulators. Investors were, I think, beginning to get a little tired of Google's string of goofy product flops — investors wanted Google to focus on what makes it money: ads.
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If the other isn't YouTube, you may be missing something.
Glad someone asked.

Supercapacitors are the thing that halves the requirement for these lithium iron batteries that we are supposed to be running out of. The good news is that fantastic work is being done in this area, making those Tesla things rather quaint old technology.

It is all going on in Estonia and you are well advised to watch this recent episode of Fully Charged to see what a wonderful place Estonia is and why it should be where you next go on holiday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ2Eo6wl5r0

So, 'spoiler alert', a supercapacitor in a vehicle compliments the battery and stores the energy from re-gen and gets you away from the lights at super fast speed without having to have some huge Tesla-esque American sized battery providing the oomph. It is win win as the vehicle is lighter.

The other benefit of supercapacitors is that they can also be used to provide smoothing of electricity supply, e.g. when the cup final is on and everyone goes to turn their kettle on at half time.

As mentioned, watch the Fully Charged episode about Estonia and what lovely people there are there, including a few doing great things with supercapacitors.
Leading off with a word long naturalized from Hebrew suggests that perhaps the English language has all along been letting the planet take it over.
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Fun fact about WASPs: back in the day, they used to hang signs that said "No Irish Need Apply". Even though Irish people are quite genetically similar to English people, and indeed today in America most bloodlines are mixed, the English still felt a need to classify Irish and Italians as "Ethnic White".
The problem I try to solve is different. Please read my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17627899
It’s literally guaranteed that some of them would have.
It compares itself to Lua in terms of speed and ease of embedding, but it looks more like JavaScript. Going through the tutorial and loving it so far!
I feel like this article would call MySpace the king circa 1990. Real Team Chat clients are in their infancy. Microsoft is still baking Teams. Slack still has bug issues. Google can't decide on a product. Discord is starting to really start to get footing in gaming circles. Slack maybe has a head start, but they haven't won anything.
I wanted to solve a different problem. Please read my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17627899
Hell, all I had to do was overhear a few conversations between librarians and customers to dispel the misplaced idea I had that librarians were an archaic form of Google's search product.

It's embarrassing to admit that, but it's the truth.
Isn't this supposed to be illegal? I was once taught that anti-trust laws were put in place to prevent predatory pricing. Amazon doesn't need to make any profit on retail as long as AWS can support it.
Alcopops are a recent example of the alcohol industry finding a way to make their product more addictive (by adding sugar, another addictive substance).
It provides a defense -- you can say 'I wasn't laundering money' if that's their claim for what you did, and you can possibly provide evidence that you weren't laundering money; there's no way for you to say that you weren't violating an unknown term because you don't know what that is.
Also, the Google SRE book makes the point that they couldn't have achieved their scale w/out approaching ops from an engineering perspective. Linearly hiring ops people as services scale would have been too expensive.
Seems a bit premature to claim that Slack "won" considering the market itself is growing and that some of their newish competitors (MS, kind of Google, perhaps even Facebook in the future) have very deep pockets.

The article makes a point that the first movers don't always win in the long term and I agree. Slack had the right user experience to make people want to use team chats, but that doesn't mean that experience won't be improved on. Instant messaging/chat apps' popularities have proven to be quite ephemeral over the years and I doubt the current generation will be different
English is the de facto lingua franca, and the fact I can use that phrase and you all know what it means proves there’s no “taking over”, English is uniquely welcoming to others
Why is Google being big a problem? Who are they hurting by being big at this time?

[edit]: to elaborate, I was under the impression that the whole point of anti-monopoly regulations was to protect consumers from monopolistic predatory practices, not to prevent monopolies from actually existing per se.

Hence my question: is there anyone actually being hurt by the currently limited choice of search engines or phone operating systems?

Also, what prevents someone from trying to build a much better one?

If Google starts to misbehave as a monopoly, fine, let the USG (themselves a monopoly, btw) do their thing go after them.

But as long as they provide a superior service for free (yeah, I know, you're the product, blah, blah), I'm not sure I'm seeing the problem.
Amazon operated under a loss for so long they have a ton of carryover tax credits

The fact they are not paying taxes right now is not a bad thing. We've benefited from them pushing commerce for the last decade
In the cultural context where I come from (Estonia), using ones name while NOT being friends is a sure way to sound very passive aggressive.
Doing this in a formal dialogue pretty much guarantees that the person on the receiving end will consider the other party to be very much a dick.
I am pretty sure that it's not just Estonia, but Finland too.
It's a lot more than that. For instance you can't remember things more than a second except to the extent that you become consciously aware of them.
Isn't it dumping though? That's very bad for competition in the long run, lack of which is bad for consumers.
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> A natural answer might suggest itself: “I must have been unconsciously working away on these images—and solved or partially solved the mystery without even knowing it. Then the answer ‘broke through’ into consciousness, when I saw the image again.” Yet this would be quite wrong—the same sudden “pop out” occurs when we continuously contemplate the image, and there has been no opportunity for unconscious background pondering.

The statement "and there has been no opportunity for unconscious background pondering" doesn't seem true here. There is always opportunity for "background pondering", even if you're apparently focusing on something. There's no reason to think two parts of the brain aren't working in parallel.

Something close to the reverse might be true. It's possible the apparent act of focusing may not have helped solve the problem, and it's always solved by some background effort. I can't say that I'm consciously aware of how to analyze an image, in the same way that I'm aware of how to multiply.
Google got so big by causing its server-side adtech businesses to collude in such a way as to restrain trade and forestall competitors.
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A few years ago, google tried introducing a real name policy on google plus. Accounts were being banned left and right. Google removed everything including gmail when they decided your name was wrong on plus.

That was when I realized I could not participate in plus: I realized how important my gmail account had become. I am diversifying and backing up today, but gmail stays a single point of failure.

The result: Even if google drive and a lot of their services sound really nice, I simply do not dare using them. I can't even take the risk of paying them: Anything non-gmail is a chance for them to obliterate my digital life.

Opening a second account is probably a bad idea: One day some algorithm will find out and either merge them or simply nuke both.

Not shooting at google specifically, this AskHN proves microsoft is just as bad. But it sounds to me these companies will have to do something or lose user trust.
Why Franz and not LispWorks?

20 minutes into a Franz video about single-step debugging and they still hadn’t set it up yet. Maybe that was impressive 30 years ago?
They attracted (some of) the best talent.
I would still see if I could get the university involved. A request from a university will get more attention than from an individual, since a) Microsoft wants to be responsive to education b) they are selling anywhere from several hundred to several thousand of licenses (depending on your university's size).
> - "Do more with Microsoft Edge!" (this one shows up when you change your default browser)

lol, "do more ..." a browser that doesn't even support basic API like EventTarget or CustomEvent constructors. they learned nothing since IE debacle.
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They left out the best part: The use of the word "redhead," for people with hair that is decidedly orange rather than red, predates the emergence of the color name "orange." Otherwise, they would presumably have been called "orangeheads."
OK, maybe I wasn't clear enough with my words: I meant "the business". People who understand the needs of that business and their processes because they are the business. Not necessarily the end users themselves. Although it's your business experts who trickle the needs up the ladder.

IT taking decisions in a vacuum without implicating the people who know the business is how you end up spending millions to implement some solution only to see how things get even slower and people spend more time avoiding it, adapting it to their needs, complaining about it, than doing actual work.

Good IT is based on a set of principles that tend to be more stable, not on a set of tools that can change from one day to the next. And when you overlay the needs of your business over those principles you'll come up with the best tool to use. Putting the tools first means you're doing it wrong.

So if it's an accounting firm you might want to talk to some accountants or to someone who really understands their work and their needs before deciding that "EZ Spreadsheets" is the way to go because it's free, or because it's open source (and you love open source), or you worked with it in the past and liked it.
90s users, not just 90s sysadmins.
Someday Google's going to have to list the risk of Jeff Dean leaving on their 10-K ... (not entirely joking)
How many Netflix subscriptions could we subsidize if they were just replaced with a sign? /s
>it’s sustainable

Is it? 3 movies/week for $20/month is about $1.67/ movie.

I think it is just around until movie pass kicks the bucket (at least at that price)
Some more insight into how cards are fulfilled would be nice, virtual I get but how are we going to be able to customize card design (kind of don't want an ugly card for my users), since there are many card types and will he card support NFC? This seems very early and lots of stuff needs to be thought out, for our use case we need details before evaluating this.
It is necessary that there should be a common global language that everyone speaks, in addition to their native tongue. It might as well as be English rather than any other language. The other options are Spanish, French, Hindi, Chinese, or Arabic. It makes little difference as each of these are not going extinct any time soon.
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