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CISC is basically a compression codec based on macros. Each macro encodes a batch of micro ops and core engineers are free to decide how to implement them for the best speed vs silicon trade off for each instruction.

The thing that killed RISC (at least the true minimal kind) was the divergence of CPU and RAM speeds. All those instructions saturate the memory bus. Code density became important.

X86 is of course a bit of a legacy mess, but the worst thing about it is not too many instructions but how many instruction widths there are. The X86 stream is hard to parse compared with ARM and others with only one or two instruction word sizes.

A few ideas from RISC survived, and chief among them was fixed instruction widths, minimizing instruction dependencies, and canonical encodings. RISC-V is really not RISC in the original minimal sense, but it kept the moniker for those aspects.

Adding more instructions (macros) to X64 will not make its downsides any worse. That being said, I do wonder if maybe X64 has so many because it is using them to work around the inefficiencies in its instruction encoding. Maybe some of these ops would be just as fast without a big macro if the core instruction set were less crufty, but I am not a CPU engineer.
I'm sure there's a German word for "a company announcing a positive step that hurts its reputation because everybody thought they were doing it already". Closely related to the "software feature announcement that everyone can't believe it didn't have already".
Only in certain climates though. Heat pumps typically perform poorly in colder climates where it's difficult to extract heat from low ambient outdoor temperatures. I work in HVAC and we almost never use them here in Denver because you can't get enough heat out of them when you need it the most.
I think it's generally a poor assumption to assume that any two internet "crowds" are the same people. Some commenters care about X and some about Y and we can almost never tell what the overlap between those groups is. The hivemind is not as uniform as that.
Chat roulette is easier to use than zoom on that front and, I’d argue, for those with google accounts, it’s easier to use hangouts.
dialog is not supported on Firefox and Safari without a polyfill.
I think we need to acknowledge the fact that Zoom, and its use of cloud infra, took on 20x peak volume of 2019 within just a few months.
Chrono Trigger will always be one of my all-time favorite stories on any medium.

A few other SNES recommendations from the top of my head:

• EarthBound (aka Mother 2, another popular RPG with fun music. Combat may feel too grindy/frustrating though)

• Super Gussun Oyoyo (Lemmings + Tetris)

• Live A Live (RPG where you play characters from multiple timelines)

• Pop'n TwinBee (shoot-em-up and platformer with very colorful graphics in a pastelly palette)

• Terranigma (RPG spanning multiple eras)

• Treasure of the Rudras (Japan-only RPG with fan translation)

• Bomberman (hilarious couch PvP)

• Pocky & Rocky (cute shoot-em-up with a Japanese folklore theme)

• Yoshi's Island (one of the best platformers)

There were a bunch of other obscure titles with unique gameplay mechanics that I can't recall the names of at the moment. Will have to comb my ROMs folder.
For investigative journalism that makes sense. But for press release type content, if anything it's probably more ethical to link to the blogspam version than the original content. Otherwise you're just financially rewarding the "journalists" who only publish positive things about Bezos, the whitehouse, video games, or whatever, and economically punishing the folks we need to hold them accountable.
Well, not if you still can log in to Zoom even if your email account was deactivated.
They are making a lot of money at the cost of putting their users at risk - a big fine seems in order.
>To me this raises the question of whether clinical trials are really even possible right now in the first place, or whether making decisions based off in vitro data is the best we can do for right now.

I don't think I understand this. We have a clinical trial with in vivo data right here though, right?
Once this change is made, won't somebody just start a website that looks exactly like the Amazon Kindle Store except everything is free to download, and it's legal? You don't think that will hurt our sales at all? I know people online think "Anyone who pays for a piece of media is essentially making a voluntary donation because they could so easily pirate it if they wanted", but that actually isn't true in the real world. Making it legal, convenient and non-shady to get stuff for free would change a lot of people's behaviour.
I'd actually rather you have my username and password, since I use a password manager and every password is long and unique. I don't want to tie my Google/Apple/<X-Mega-Corp> account to my Tailscale account. This way I can also more easily keep track of which accounts I have since my password manager stores them all. So I will wait for email signup (which currently just subscribes me to a mailing list...)!
As someone who works in the telecom industry and has to deal with faxes in medical facilities all the time, no they're not. I fucking wish they were.

I beg people to use e-fax solutions if they insist on using fax at all, but there are so many damn human macros out there who learned how to do something one way and totally break down if you try to make them do something different.

Annoyingly while most modern fax machines are also network printers and support email in both directions, the majority do not provide any way to configure a mapping so that a user can type in a number like a normal fax machine and the machine will convert it to the required email format for an e-fax service. This would be so easy and solve so many problems.
I will get banned for this in a matter of minutes but I will say the truth to whoever think HN is fair. For the past 3 months, every, again EVERY post that was linked to Tailscale (not just the company domain but also the blog posts of the founders' websites), has gotten to the frontpage within minutes, with a full 100% hit rate. This cannot happen for any company, any project or anything else to be honest since there is a thread that gets posted every minute on average, and almost every thread, no matter how great it is, goes forgotten forever without a single upvote. This doesn't happen to even trillion dollar companies that are known by almost everybody so certainly this can't happen for a company of 5 people that was started only last year and hardly known by anybody. Nothing can get to HN's frontpage at a hit rate of 100% especially when you know this has been happening on almost a weekly basis since last December not to mention the daily promotion in comments on literally everything that has anything to do with WireGuard or even VPNs.

HN simply favors some founders who have good network over the rest of us. I know that organized upovting and astroturfing isn't uncommon here, but there has never been anything anywhere near that's being done by this company and its founders here. This is simply free advertising worth of hundreds of thousands of dollars for free simply because the founders "know people".

EDIT: Thank you HN for proving me right! This comment has 42 points as of now and it's buried in the bottom below almost every other comment. Still not a response from the founders who very coincidentally happen to exist literally during every time a post about their company gets submitted!
Temperature checks don't seem to work particularly well if enough people carry the virus without symptoms, but if I'm to believe that masks don't impede the movement of sneeze droplets, then I'm the King of Finland.
The Guardian claims the US stole masks from France
In the current live update about COVID in the Guardian there is the following news:

"A consignment of masks heading from China to one of the worst-hit coronavirus areas of France was hijacked by American buyers as it was about to be dispatched, it was reported on Thursday, writes Kim Willsher.

The masks were on a plane on the tarmac at Shanghai airport ready to take off when US buyers turned up reportedly waving wads of cash and offered three times what the French were paying.

The plane later left for an unreported destination in the US.[...]"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/apr/02/coronavirus-live-news-global-cases-latest-updates
I use Loopback on Mac, and its never let me down! https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/
That’s a different issue than the one we’re talking about here.
So it wasn't a hoax and this is really a distinction without a difference.
Is talescale really that popular? Who are upvoting these articles?
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Do you think it should be restricted to SaaS? I know of some desktop software with free or discounted licensing that I'd like to share too
Using a delay-adjusted case fatality ratio to estimate under-reporting
I've been using OBS for quite a while now and I absolutely love it!
The speech that you are referring to is unrelated to my comment.
This actually happened once before -- Cyanogen himself spent several years working as an engineer at Samsung. The project didn't actually start running into serious sustainability issues until the team tried to build it into a company.

Of course, that's probably got to do with bus factor. A similar story happened w Paranoid Android, only OnePlus hired several of their devs to work on OxygenOS, and the project hasn't been the same since.
To me, this quote gave the impression that Jitsi developers similarly (and falsely) claim that it is end-to-end encrypted:

> Is Jitsi Meet end-to-end encrypted? #409

> ... "yes, https://meet.jit.si/ encrypts the communication, only the two clients and our server has access to them". ... [1]

In fact, "yes, .. " is an answer to the question "is it reasonable to use Jitsi Meet from an untrusted wifi network?". It was written by a user of Jitsi and not one of the developers.

A developer answers "when talking on meet.jit.si your stream is encrypted on the network but decrypted on the machine that hosts the bridge."
On what legal grounds?
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I asked the same thing over 3 weeks ago, and the general response on HN was interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22543327
Ask HN: How does your team manage the change to remote work due to Covid-19?
I'm wondering how other teams around the world are doing. The sudden change to 100% remote work due to COVID-19 must have some effects on all of us. What did your team change to keep up productivity and team spirit? Are you using new tools? Did you adapt processes?

I personally love home office. But some of my team members said, that they believe our team gets less done now. We had remote work before COVID-19, but limited to one day per week. They mostly miss the fluent ad hoc exchange between team members, pair coding, being together in front of a whiteboard or simply walking to our business stakeholders to clarify a story.
Just go look on Twitter, in the Clojure hashtag at least, something that rarely sees people needing jobs, there have been a hire me thread, a several individual posts for people asking work, and more and more post about people getting laid off. This will just continue to increase as the virus does it's thing.
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Browser APIs have changed quite a bit in the last 10 years. Yes, the same approaches are still supported, but there have been many additions and modifications to core APIs. Ten years ago you would have never dreamed of trying to build complex front end behavior without something like JQuery, but now it’s totally unnecessary as all browsers mostly adhere to the standards. I guess my point is I don’t think React has changed any more or less than browser APIs - both have just steadily updated best practices just like any other piece of software since ever.
That is because those statements are really written for you in the first place. They are really written by and for lawyers. This is about finding a balance between comforting as many users as they can, which is lip service, and not say anything that will result as evidence in a lawsuit. For most of the people griping here, saying anything they would want to hear (which would amount to grovelling and still be "not enough") does not fit that criteria.
General relativity is (sort of) a classical field theory; it isn't crazy to put it under models, in the same way that QFT is under 'theory' but the standard model is under 'models'.
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We could read the PR blurb from the company that engineered for security and privacy before getting features in place users wanted, but we can't. They're not making a blog post because they ran out of runway money, having failed to get a product in user's hands in time for anyone to care about their existence.
I thought a fair amount of the contact work was done by robots, at least for the inner packaged items.

The virus apparently doesn't do great on cardboard; you've got a day or so of transit time for it to wear down...
That's great and was bound to happen, which reminds me of all of the pessimistic and negative comments about the browser made on this site in 2019.

I now use Chrome about 1-2 times per month, when all the other browsers fail. MS needs to be kept honest but like Chrome, their Edge is becoming new default go-to browser for those who don't care what browser they use.
That can't be right, as e.foundation sell S7 and S9 preloaded. I haven't done it, but flashing instructions are at https://doc.e.foundation/devices/starlte/install for example.
I have a hard time believing that everyone wearing a mask when interacting doesn't inhibit a disease transmitted via vapor in our breath.
You haven't given an argument for why "undecidability" would be a problem in this case. Please give a compelling example.

We're not banning regular applications either because they are undecidable.

Also, we could change Turing completeness into something less powerful, for instance programs without loops.
What's clear is that the entire system has degenerated as the competence of the average person has been eroded over the last few decades.

Failures across the board. Federal government, state government, local government, hospitals, insurance companies - no one in positions of authority saw this coming in January? No one with clout or power had the foresight to stockpile masks or other PPE, just in case?

Why isn't a national emergency stockpile being maintained when we've seen a dozen potential global pandemics in the last decade alone?

Apparently even officials aren't immune to senseless groupthink.
ReaFIR works quite well and has very low latency. It's a bit fiddly to auto-generate a noise profile due to the architecture of Equalizer APO (the entire audio processing runs inside the Windows audio stack, so the VST panels in the configuration editor don't have a signal). Basically you use another VST host (e.g. Lighthost or OBS), generate your noise profile there and then copy/paste the chunk data into the APO config file.

Some general EQ'ing on the mic also works wonders for how well it sounds, but that's very specific to your voice and mic.

--

Another use case of Equalizer APO where it is much better than everything else is compressing game audio. Some games simply have audio that was designed without regard for hearing safety (CS:GO is a strong contender for #1 here), and this helps immensely with it.
Having your friends upvote your posts on HN doesn't mean HN "favors" you.
Most unions don't have "union" in their name, I don't think it's an issue of nomenclature. People know which organizations can be colloquially referred to as a labor union.

That said people just have problems understanding how unions work. It's a collective voice. How that voice is used is up to the union members. If you want that to include gate keeping and seniority protections that's up to the members. If you want it to be a political lobby, same thing.
In fairness, it sounds like it’s end to end encrypted until a legacy device connects.

Am I misunderstanding something? This doesn’t seem like it should be controversial.
There seems to be a meme that the plan is to ban private insurance entirely? When even the UK system allows you to have it, it's just not grated huge tax breaks and is generally something only higher-paid professionals and those working for US employers have.
You do realize that proposing that NVC is a cancer is a negative and threatening statement, right? (Cancer is generally considered negative, being that it's a fatal disease...) People who don't already agree with you are going to have a negative emotional reaction to this and immediately disagree without trying to understand your point of view.

If you are trying to convince someone of your opinion, you are failing. If you are trying to assert your opinion forcefully without caring what others think, you are succeeding.
it is unclear how key exchanges can be handled securely in these cases. The post seems to suggest Zoom cannot insert itself as middleman ("without showing on the participant list"). But that contradicts directly to how these "connectors" work.
>As an engineer, I live in a world full of definitions and determinate actions and consequences. Literature is what I have access to that constantly reminds me that there is more that meets the eye and truths are relative

It's a truth I dreadfully came to realize over the last few years. Not about literature, although that is a great way to figure it out and enforce the sensation, but about the world. Ideas, things that I took for granted for so long with my scientific and data nurtured mind no longer have the same hold. Like a glacier that forever seemed eternal they are now melting but not have not yet melted completely, I cannot see what's behind the glacier. That's were the dread comes in.
They've made mistakes in the past, but their privacy model is actually pretty good as long as your risk assessment includes the carve out "I'm comfortable with Google knowing a lot about me."

And if you aren't, there are plenty of alternatives. But unlike Google, they often don't have a security or privacy model to speak of because they haven't taken the lumps Google has in the past for messing up.
> Coming soon: End-to-end Encryption. Your most confidential conversations belong to you, and just you.

Although this seems so be a good intention, I question:

do the regular conversations _not_ belong to yourself?
Early user here. This has been great. It is hard to overstate the difference it makes to not be bombarded by random messages with constant fear of missing out on important conversations.
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Mitsubishi and Fujitsu both have models that are rated efficient down to -15F now, with anecdotal reports they can handle -25F.
You are talking about the president as if he is just some guy BSing at a BBQ. By discussing an unproven treatment he knowingly or not put his thumb on the scale of science, which is generally something we do not want.

We don't want scientific investments made because the president seems into them. We want those choices made by experts who are hopefully disinterested as possible. We want them considering the most likely successful treatments from their expert point of view.

You essentially can't have that now. And this goes beyond influence. The administration has been leaning on the FDA to give this ememgency approval.

This appears safe from the very preliminary studies we have but problems can develop at scale. These drugs are known to cause heart rhythm issues. It's conceivable that deploying then at scale in an emergency could lead to increase in fatal cardiac episodes. Were this drug not to actually work, large scale deployment would almost certainly do more harm than good.

The presidential podium confers added weight to everything a person says for good or ill and therefore should be used cautiously.
What's the context for that quote? The main page of the linked site doesn't have it.

I was wondering something similar while looking at https://htmldom.dev/toggle-password-visibility

This could be done inline with
<input type="password" id="password" />
<button onclick="password.type = password.type
== 'text' ? 'password' : 'text'">Toggle</button>

...instead of 10 lines of code. Is it ever ok to use the fact that window.elementID works? even for exposition? (it works in all browsers, not sure if its standardized...) Why use setAttribute? Again, setting via element.type = ... works in all browsers.
This is definitely true and not just about Tailscale.
In my opinion they seem better off from this blog post. For example yesterday I read this comment[1] and it seemed to say Zoom always decrypts the content on the servers, in which case it's very bad to say it's "end-to-end encrypted". But this blog post explains that if you don't have any external connector attached, it in fact is end-to-end encrypted, no false advertising. When you have an external connector attached it seems to me very difficult if not impossible to make it end-to-end encrypted, so it's reasonable that it's not. The problem is that they continued to say it was end-to-end encrypted even in that case when it's not and not possible to do so.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22754699
I guess for any given public assistance you could demand something about layoffs ... but I would be wary of side effects / worry about killing the company through such policies.
GDPR, CCPA, etc. Things are changing in the industry and law makers are slowly catching up to protect their citizens.
Could you show me the statistics/theory that show that this is too small a sample size to make meaningful decisions from?
Another American white man receiving the Nobel for literature? <- This will be the headlines in the Guardian. Why not pick African or Asian writers who don't write in English and aren't famous?

My point is that no matter who the Committee in Sweden choses, there will be people writing how stupid that decision was.
> Can I ask people to upvote my submission? [1]

> No. Users should vote for a story because they personally find it intellectually interesting, not because someone has content to promote. HN's software penalizes submissions, accounts, and sites that break this rule, so please don't.

"A "voting ring" is when people get friends to upvote their stuff. This is against the rules. We want stories to be on HN because they're good, not because they were promoted." [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7543910
You’re right about batteries not included in Phoenix. The jinja2 extends sounds a bit terrifying to me.. Not only do you have to deal with figuring out Python class inheritance you have to figure out template ones in a pseudo-language?! It doesn’t look as bad as I feared but still [1]. Despite that I made a recent comment on HN regarding Jinja templates [2]. EEx looks basic but since Elixir is functional the templates are pretty powerful. I’m working on a LiveView wrapper for Bulma, which essentially needs “blocks” and was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to embed multiple layers of templates and it mostly Just Worked(tm) [3]. That was amazing to me! No need to deal with extra pseudo language inheritance. I'd like to use macros to simplify specifying child blocks and provide compile time check of block types, but I’ve got work todo.

1: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/patterns/template...
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22746088
3: https://github.com/elcritch/bulma_widgets
Right. Let's assume I refuse to take on the responsibility of a videoconferencing server. What are my options to get Jitsi Meet? Can I pay a company to set up and maintain it? Or do I have to hunt for a videoconferencing engineer?
Have you considered integrating with Keybase? I think the identity system of Keybase coupled with the secure mesh networking of Tailscale would be a really powerful combination.