skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The highest clocked 386 CPU, and one of the most popular ones, was the Am386DX40, so your computer would likely have had a 40 MHz part.

It is a common misconception is that the MHz displays from this era had any kind of communication with the CPU or motherboard. They don't -- they are dumb devices that can switch between showing two arbitrary patterns on the LED display and are "programmed" by painstakingly setting jumpers on the back. Often when using 2-digit displays for computers with 3-digit clock speeds they would be programmed to display "HI" and "LO" instead of a number.

So when your display showed "20" that doesn't mean the CPU was running at 20 MHz. It might have been, because 386 CPUs always ran at the bus speed and 20 was a common 386 speed, but things get a lot more complicated when you move to the 486 platform with internal clock multipliers.

My 486 DX4/100 (33 MHz bus speed, 3x multiplier) has a turbo button that when disengaged lowers the effective speed of the system to something roughly like a 486 DX50. But this is not an exact science and does not in fact mean that the CPU is running at 50 MHz.
> The left usually cites weak antitrust enforcement.

Personally for a left view I would add cash/capital accumulation. It's kind of the same thing happening for individuals with wealth and real estate. Regulation is failing to bring the balance between the revenues of capital (which are exponential unregulated) vs the revenues of work. At one point you can't even compete anymore if you start from scratch. Competitors with billions in cash can pretty much "kill" any new business they want.
He has been wrong, partly wrong or ignorant about:

- Foreseeing the possibility of local transmission in Europe during the early stages despite first cases popping up in Italy (when many informed, interested lay people understood that this will happen with high probability).

- Not recommended any measures to prevent thousands of travelers returning form Italy, Austria and the US from spreading the virus in Sweden in early March.

- Claimed that there won't be any risk for widespread spread in Sweden.

- Over and over again made claims that "the peak of transmission has been reached" once it started in Sweden during March/April - every time incorrect.

- Underestimated the fatality rate (by being overly optimistic and by a assuming that most infected with the virus won't show any symptoms - a totally baseless assumption).

- (Ironically) denied the existence/significance of asymptomatic/presymptomatic transmission (he's still not admitting that it plays a significant role).

- Not foreseen that asymptomatic/asymptomatic transmission will, through workers, bring the virus into elderly care.

- Made multiple, way too optimistic claims about when Stockholm might have reached herd immunity (May, June) - in reality, it's far far away.

- Making assumptions about effective, lasting immunity without the existence of any actual evidence for it (thanks
tsimionescu for the addition).

- Ignored/denied the potential of wide-spread usage of masks to reduce transmission (instead, only focusing on its disadvantages "False security", "people not using them correctly")

- Claimed that children don't spread the virus in significant ways (as far as I know, there is no consensus about that).

This is just an excerpt. I'm an armchair epidemiologist (however one who has monitored this situation closely since February), so I am not stating that I got everything from the list above perfectly right. But I am informed enough to understand that he has been mostly wrong, ignorant, or unwilling to take in new information. Which makes me wonder: Why outsource everything to an "expert organization" when they perform so incompetently.

I have no time now to present you with sources for each of the things from this list. You can either do that yourself, conveniently assume that I'm making all this up (which I don't), or present me with anything he did/claimed which actually turned out to be correct. It's harder to find that, than to find things he was wrong about.

Personally I also think he lacks Charisma. But judging from how large parts of the Swedish population at least until recently loved him, some even got themselves tattoos, he clearly seem to have something which captivates the broad masses.
I wasn't ready to give an opinion! I was just stating the circumstances :)

But, if I'm going to answer I think legal issues are grey and it can be tough to accept as a programmer dealing in binary. There aren't many absolute rules and sometimes a rule works well at one scale but not another.

Part of the reason we should avoid monopolies is so people and governments can leave companies alone and those who disagree with their rules can go elsewhere because they have options. But this is in complete opposition to products and platforms that flourish because of network effects. By its very nature, Twitter wants to be the only game in town. I think that changes things and opens them up to scrutiny because we have fewer realistic options.

So as a non-answer, if we had many viable social networks or TV channels to choose from I'd be happy with them arbitrarily deciding who gets to play in their playground for any or no reason (as long as it's only in that one place, and there's no secret cabal or cartel). Protected reasons and classes aside. Keeping in mind, many times rules aren't rules, they're flagged as guidelines and subject to change for subjective reasons.

But I don't think that really reflects what is going on in modern social media networks. They are similar but distinct, each is used for different types of speech, and the key players dominate their niche. Users can choose to some degree what they prefer to receive. Networks also choose for the users via their feed algorithms.

So they are already taking on the role of arbiter and have been for some time. That sounds more like a publisher to me, as you say. They don't change the content of each post - but they do change the collection of content you get presented, just like a magazine editor rejecting articles and putting together this month's issue. Except every single article is tagged opinion.

On top of that I think we are just running up against another "too big to fail" situation. They're our only platform to communicate this way, so we don't like the idea of them suppressing speech, and speech can be inflammatory, inciteful, or libelous. That's not really incompatible with free speech in other areas, and I think once a platform reaches a certain size we should treat it as a public arena. This would be consistent with not allowing them to remove posts for arbitrary reasons, but allow them to do it if they think it falls under one of those categories.
Ventilators are extremely intensive treatment.i It's forced breathing. If you're old and frail, it will kill you.
Why would it be hard to know which devices were stolen? They’d know which display models they had that were no longer there right? You can’t buy the display models.
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The UK seems to be about 50% iOS.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/271240/android-market-sh...
I'm aware. I'm in favor of flattening the curve. But we have already flattened the curve. Staying closed now does not serve a curve-flattening purpose.

Whether or not you flatten the curve, the absolute number of infections is the same. So what you want to do is keep the infection count at a level just below where it overwhelms your medical system. The goal is not zero infections. The goal is suppressing infections just enough that the medical system can cope, so that the death rate is as low as possible.

We have already kept the economy closed long enough that the curve has flattened. We should be slowly reopening it, while monitoring the infection curve so that it doesn't get too steep.
Sweden has one of the highest death rates in the EU. So they were wrong about their strategy.

They are also basing their strategy on the belief that getting the disease grants immunity, which, according to WHO, there is currently no evidence of.

Perhaps saying that they were "wrong about almost everything" is an exaggeration, but they were certainly wrong about a few very important things.
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I think Emacs is an illuminating example, since its 'GUI' interfaces really outshine emacs being run in a terminal emulator. Text interfaces are great, but terminal emulators in particular are very limiting. Inlining images always requires hacks and even with hacks a terminal emulator can't do nice things like have multiple font sizes in the same frame (discounting double height/width modes, since they're so limited I've never seen them used effectively.)
What helped we is switch from C++ to Ruby. I see analogy to guitar player here too.

And Dvorak of course. I can use it on notebook.
Completely off topic but reading this thread (without glasses in preparation to go to bed) was a bit confusing until I realized that your usernames differed by a single letter…
> Even if your claims are supported by evidence, why is it a bad thing to want to correct that disparity?

It's not "bad" as in "omg don't do that", it's just focusing on a less significant problem instead of the large problem, which it conveniently shifts focus from.

I don't think that it's intentional, but I'm absolutely sure that addressing the lacking social mobility in the US would benefit minorities much more than racism, because they are much, much more affected by it.
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First life on Earth may have been built from both RNA and DNA
The Neo2 layout optimizes for this. Ebene (Layer) 3 has <>(){}[] directly under the strongest fingers. On layer 4 you can type arrows, del, backspace, enter, pgup/down, tab, esc and insert without moving your hand. Using it for several years now and every time i have to use qwertz i realise how far the keys i have to press in sequence are distanced from each other. This layout is optimized for typing 70% of german and english words from the home row.

https://git.neo-layout.org/neo/neo-layout/wiki/Grafiken

It is included in a lot of linux distributions.

It was useable on Windows 7/10, but last time i tried on 10 (long ago) it didn't work since Microsoft changed something. Could be working, i rarely boot into Windows so i did not bother trying.

https://git.neo-layout.org/neo/neo-layout/wiki/Neo-unter-Win...

Should be useable on OSX with: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/

https://git.neo-layout.org/neo/neo-layout/wiki/Neo-auf-dem-A...

There is a graphic for users of the kinetic advantage too:

https://git.neo-layout.org/neo/neo-layout/wiki/raw/neo_advan...

A review: https://geekoverdose.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/how-i-taught-m...

(edit: added links, review and useage sentence)
nothing better?

Well, questioning about Linux depends really on what kind of distribution the author used previously. Some are less efficient than others.

Considering hardware, the whole set of AMD Ryzen3 and Ryzen4 based laptops are much better than a MacBook, in computing power, flexibility, energy efficiency and lately also in price, plus they have the advantage that you can later upgrade SSD or RAM, while on MBP everything is soldered and you're out of luck later on.

The day MacOS will be fully virtualized, it might be the doom of the MBP and iMac.
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I thought Shakti started at k7, and k5 and k6 have also a Kx implementation.
BTW, https://ngn.bitbucket.io/k.html is a great overview of K implementations and which version they are implementing.

edit: k5, k6, k8 were apparently never released (https://aplwiki.com/wiki/K)
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WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus directly pointed out the Lancet paper in a press conference as the reason to pause the trials and start a safety review. You can see the video here: https://time.com/5842264/hydroxychloroquine-testing-who/
Bitwarden is the answer for an average user.
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/Byk2axDVNHE

These are the people you are defending.

> Where are news reports of protesters throwing rocks at riot police?

Yes, where are they? After all, you have to have this from somewhere. And after seeing the above scenes, keep in mind that this isn't two soccer teams who both have the same job. The police's job is to uphold the law, citizens don't have a job as such. They don't get paid to not break the law, they pay for the apparatus that punishes them if they break it (and let's too many cops go free when they do). The cops are armed, they get paid, they have special privileges to prevent such things, not to use them to do them.

Imagine a little child hitting an adult with all their force, and then the adult hitting back with all their force, and someone just saying "they're both being bad". Not that the cops are adults versus infants, but they do have levers and enjoy protections -- all paid for by the people they or their colleagues brutalize -- that multiply their force by many orders of magnitude.
The author is complaining about the twitter accounts of open source contributors. Should they withhold their views on justice because it offends some of their followers?

Yes, weakening free licenses with constraints aligned to individual causes is problematic but that doesn't mean we should ignore all other issues of justice outside of those related to ownership and control. If anything, we need more conversations about the increasing inequalities and injustices caused by technology and the role we play within that. How can we do that without having "political" discussions in public? Why shouldn't entire open source communities have these discussions collectively?
Hard Fork Sets Stage for Ethereum Classic's Second Major Departure from Ethereum
Tracking miscompilations in LLVM using its own unit tests
But in real world that is not possible. There's somewhere a line you have to draw. How many man-hours would you be willing to spend to save someone who would die in a week anyway?

According to that logic you should have all 7+ billion people working that whole week to keep this person alive.

Would the man-hours spent saving that person have to be exactly the same as saving someone who has further life expectancy of 70 years?
No, the point here is that the fuzzer "caught" a bug in sqlite. The blog post mostly clears things up. To me it seemed pretty neutral just explaining it was actually with clang. No snarkyness our anything.
Haha, glad you cleared it up so that you can sleep easily now :-)
Isn't webpack open source? I mean seriously, most devs I know aren't paying them a dime to use it...so stop complaining.

Use something else if you don't like it. Why does it matter how many people use webpack if their just an open source library providing a service to all devs for free?
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I expect "Blame it on AI" to become a thing, before AI winter happens.
Ask HN: How do you organise your contacts list on your phone?
I have over 2000 contacts on my phone. I managed them by adding the context (work/meetup/cycling etc) to the name itself but now I'm drowning in contacts I don't remember when or where I met them and why I bothered to save their number or email. Just adding one context to the name field didn't help me at all.

So, how do you manage and organise your contacts and add context on your contacts app?
Sandboxing has been possible for many years before Deno. Running untrusted code is not popular for good reasons.
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Attack architecture

Erebus falls under the general “man-in-middle” attack scheme made possible through the P2P nature of bitcoin. Greek for “shadow,” Erebus is itself a derivative of the “Eclipse” attack first described in 2015.

As theorized, the malicious actor will try and connect to as many nodes as possible around one node that the attacker wishes to isolate (an exchange’s node, for example). The malicious node can begin to influence the victim node by connecting to its peers. The end goal is to make the victim node’s eight external connections pass through the malicious party.

Once accomplished, the victim is isolated from the rest of the network. The malicious actor can decide what transactions and information are sent to the victim; this information can be completely different from the rest of the network and could even lead to a chain split or censorship.
Police in Germany definitely are armed. As far as I know they always have a Pistol and they might have less lethal options as well. Sometimes you see them with a MP5 as well which is a compact submachine gun.

I do agree with the training in de-escalation though. German Police has a much more extensive training then the US.
The actual violent crime is not overall that much higher in United States. Majority of homicides are people who know each other, killing family and friends.

I dont think actual crime situation in United States explains tanks and no knock raids.
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Ask HN: Secure Zoom Alternative
What is everyone using instead of zoom given the security concerns?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322793
OK, so let's pull this apart:

> The thing I'm interested in when using Google Analytics is tracking user path to see the bounce rate in a checkout process for example

There are lots of ways to get this data direct from the servers, and much, much more reliably and effectively.

> You can calculate conversion rates for different user segments.

Maybe. You only have data on those people who don't have adblockers that block GA. Which is a sizable segment of the internet. Also that they're not using a VPN, etc. Stats collected via GA are inherently less reliable than stats collected from your own site because GA is easily blocked.

Plus, there have been reports since forever that GA's stats are just not that reliable in the first place.

I've experienced this myself - I used to admin a WP blog, and the numbers from the site log and GA were around 20% different.

If you're relying on GA stats to calculate the results of any a/b testing, then you need to put in at least a +/- 25% error factor (i.e. if the A test converts 10% better than the B test, you have no idea whether that's a real thing, or a product of GA giving you inaccurate data - you'd need at least a 25% swing to begin to think it might be a real customer preference).

> Developers often miss the point of GA, because they do not work in sales.

Yes. But have you listened to their objections, rather than dismissing them as "not working in sales"? Developers do have some knowledge of this subject. And there are lots of ways of getting this data that doesn't increase page load and compromise security like GA does.
Signal does.
I'm not sure the incentives align for Amazon to use it's absolute best preference algorithm.
Note that I have no idea how to make a recommender engine and if they can make it any better than they have, but I suspect the real value for revenue is to make people think that the algorithm is finely tailored to their tastes, but is really just pushing whatever crap has the highest margins.
I think that is the entire point of the article.
Nah, perfectly reasonable. “Private” doesn’t mean that copyright ceases to apply; you’re still distributing a work.
Other languages had all that, plus a better standard library, plus a type system, for years before Node was a thing.

Node got popular because it enabled frontend devs that only knew JavaScript to move easily to backend, not any technical reason.
First of all, while the 1993 flu pandemic in Sweden was a severe one, the total number of deaths linked to the flu in 1993 is 566, according to the Swedish Central Statistics Bureau.

Second, there was also a massive (and local) financial crisis in Sweden during 1992 and 1993, resulting in mass unemployment. The federal interest rate peaked at ~500% in 1992. While influenza deaths are always tragic, the financial crisis is what most people will remember from those years.

Also, the population was roughly 15% smaller in 1993 compared to 2019, not 25%. No matter how you measure it, COVID-19 has proven to be far deadlier over the span of a few months.
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No, that list does not show that. The examples from physics and chemistry, at least, are of nonsense papers being published by "predatory journals", which will publish pretty much anything as long as the author pays their fee. They aren't examples of serious journals being hoaxed.
Are quantum computers even relevant to AGI? I'm under the impression that the belief that human brains are quantum computers is considered fringe in both computer science and particularly neuroscience, despite having a handful of high profile proponents (notably Penrose.)
Why does free and open source status exempt someone from criticism? They have the right to take actions to interfere with people's work for political reasons and I have the right to criticise those decisions.

If "free" was an excuse out of poor behavior then surely Google and Facebook are exempt from criticism about data collection practices because they provide free services.
I find it very surprising that someone would rely on unvalidated mathematical models for this, that goes for the Imperial College people as well as Sweden. Are they even able to fit the parameters in retrospect?

Anyone with a background in mathematical modelling should be extremely cautious of applying models in situations where there are serious ramifications to getting the wrong answer.

Hubris.
In my social circle everyone uses something completely different, not just for messaging.

I need all of Threema, Signal, Skype, iMessage and email just for my closest friends and family.

I also need Google Photos, Google Drive and OneDrive to share data with them.

Apple is the most anti-social platform of them all. I can't even use it to share photos with my wife.

I have never used FaceTime with anyone, because no one uses it, not even those who do have iPhones, because they all have to use something else to communicate with others.