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I have heard that IBM chose the 8088 because Intel sowed some FUD about Motorola's ability to supply the 68000 in sufficient quantity for IBM. The decades of insanity we could have saved if IBM had chosen differently...
I wasn't really trying to comment on their overall trustworthiness - I just don't think you have to stretch very far to imagine how a conversation between ≥1 Zoom employee who genuinely does care about privacy ("our users are demanding E2EE") and law enforcement agencies ("we demand or are entitled to certain powers") might have resulted in the offering being announced today.
It's a relatively big surface area increase and a relatively small customer count increase?
>I personally feel strongly in the other direction. We had the infamous "white flight" and car-centric communities and life.

Getting out of car-centrism doesn't require everyone to live in large cities. Small cities with good design can be more than enough. Living in a dense arrangement might be more tolerable for many people in a small city where the countryside is more accessible.
The other side to this is that it may also be time to upgrade your eyes (with glasses, by getting your eyes checked). It's more likely this is true if you don't think it's time to upgrade your HD monitor.

Somehow I went for years without realizing that I just needed glasses. I could read everything before, but after getting the glasses everything was suddenly unnaturally crisp.
That article is long and not specific to renting. Here's a HN discussion going on right now about renting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23555889
It's failing because of their mobile only idea. They've now added Chromecast and Airplay support, but it might be too little, too late. Missing Roku support leaves a huge gap (40% market share).

They sent out a questionnaire about two weeks ago asking about how the user wants to consume their content, and a few days ago they released the Chromecast and Airplay support (which came as no surprise to me) but that's just a bandage solution.

I have no issues with their content, just how they want to force me into horrible ways to consume it! Will subscribe when Roku support lands.
>My setup is 2x24" 1920x1200 monitors - so I get slightly more vertical pixels than true 1080p, but in the form of screen real estate rather than improved density.

I'm working on an old 24"16/10 display (the venerable ProLite B2403WS) and an OK 32" 4K display with a VA panel. Both are properly calibrated.

There is no amount of tinkering that can make fonts on the 24" look good. It looks like dog shit in comparison to the 4K screen. It might not be obvious when all you got in front of your eyes is the 24" display, but it's blatant side to side.

On top of it, the real life vertical real estate of the 4K display is also quite larger.

I've never been a big 16/9 fan, but frankly at the size monitors come in today and the market prices, I don't a reason not to pick a few of these for developing.
This seems like a simple thing to test. It is just you need some time to see if it works.
Thank you, that's a good context. In the building where we moved in 3 years ago from SF, they didn't offer any free rent at point as they were completely full.

However, the larger point stand. Most building did offer around a month of free rent to new tenants in last couple of years.
"Relatively unchanged" is such an interesting POV. It's been in such a stasis that I pretty much assume it is as dead as LiveJournal. Maybe not in literally the same way that LiveJournal got shuffled around in a shell game to some strange Russian owners, but in a very metaphorical sense.

At one point Blogger in the early oughts was ahead of the pack in leading mainstream acceptance and usage of blogs. At one point my feed list was over half Blogger sites, but today I can think of only a few Blogger-hosted blogs left at all in my feed list, none of them have been updated recently, and those that have updated recently were claimed by spammers and (sadly) dropped from my list.

I can't imagine there's much more than a skeleton crew at Blogger keeping the lights on, and I would be unsurprised, if in pushing the metaphor to the LiveJournal thing, to learn that they were being kept in the Bay Area equivalent of Siberia by some half-mad state actors that need Blogger's zombie to keep its current undead behavior in some strange psy ops nightmare.
Formula E is very limited compared to 1000s of cars in all condition with all driving patterns.
These days you need an internet-device and an anti-internet-device like a Pi-Hole plus half a dozen browser plugins. Every driver of every part of your computer is trying to sneak out some of you data. Every website is full of trackers. You are not only fighting off criminals but also some of the most powerful corporations and every government. A hand full of companies run large parts of the infrastructre - you couldn't live without Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon if you wanted. The central social networks are hate and manipulation machines. Everything wants to sell you something. And when you pay to buy it, it tries to steal your data anyways.
That and even post-COVID a lot of those bars, restaurants, theaters, and nightclubs may not exist any longer.
One thing I occasionally like to think about -- either in the context of writing a program, or just driving down the highway when my thoughts are wandering from controlling a two-ton vehicle going 65 MPH -- is, What would a computer on an alien spacecraft look like?

Not for how it would be different because aliens are aliens, but because you're presumably looking at something that is the result of thousands of years of iteration and refinement. If you're the Asgard from Stargate, you presumably aren't just doing OS updates and re-skinning your UIs and throwing away your old frameworks every three to five years for the fun of it. At some point you presumably figured out how your software should work, wrote it right, iterated on it until it was essentially bug free, and only extend it as needed within the same set of frameworks, languages and UI paradigms your civilization has been using for hundreds of years.

What does that software look like?
Some conspiracy theory, they have a price list. https://www.ambrosiaplasma.com/
If that's the answer to "what's the term for encryption that a middle man cannot decrypt", NO: peer-to-peer simply means... well, pretty much it means sending IP packets directly to each other rather than through a central server (yes, not much of a thing, but it meant you could get free music more easily, so the term got a lot of traction)
The satellites orbit the earth every 1.6 hours. They're not in geo-stationary orbit, they're in very low earth orbit to reduce latency. And any orbit will spend a significant portion of it's time over water.

Also, only the green circled satellites are in their final orbit, the yellow circled ones were recently launched and are not yet at their final altitude and position. It takes a couple of months for orbit raising.
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> The PLAs on the Z80 and 6502 aren't user programmable,

I never said they were.

I said: "and in the form that gave it the name, it is end user programmable (the P stands for Programmable)" which is in the context of generic PLA's, not the specific PLA in a Z80 or 6502.
New techniques improve quantum communication, entangle phonons
Then why are the profits privatized?
I guess libsignal-service-java might be used in the Android app?
Thank you, that's an excellent point. We (meaning often times me) have a tendency to think about the extremes as on/off. I have personally passed through a lot of pleasant, walkable small towns in the US, mostly they were laid out in the 19th century and often along a train line or river.
Ah, thanks for clarifying. I just assumed for some reason they were geostationary satellites.
I'd be fine if any post with references to "liberal amounts", "conservative approaches", or "right wing nut" was excised because my friends don't talk that way when they are posting pictures of their kids or the bike they just bought.

> For every problem, there is a simple solution that is wrong.

As with most flippant axioms and generalities this catch-phrase is quite often just wrong. Often there are simple solutions that are just fine.

I used Facebook Purity for quite a while and set up simple keyword based filters and while they weren't perfect, it was a lot better than the default feed.
I like HN’s approach and wish more platforms would follow a similar format. As far as I know, nothing is ever “removed” from the site - it’s just greyed out or hidden by default. Anyone who wants to read the bothersome comments can flip the switch to see them but no one can reply to them which seems like a really effective approach to me.

If a “censored” tweet couldn’t be shared/retweeted/replied to but was still available for anyone who wanted to seek it out then the idea (however distasteful) hasn’t been censored strictly speaking but it also hasn’t been amplified. I’d prefer a compromise that leaves control over acceptable content in the hands of the platform owner or the users rather than the government.
That's what I do on most machines I use, but it just feels kinda wrong to not only have to use a bloated app, but also install add-ons to said app, when I just want to read some text

This is probably just me being picky though.
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Unfortunately I think it's going to be a long time before web apps stop using dark patterns like infinite scroll. It's not good for their bottom line.
A good analysis of how to reduce college administrative costs to 1980s levels would be helpful. I occasionally point out that Stanford has a Redwood City "campus" for lesser administrative functions. It has more administrators than Stanford has professors.

(On the other hand, having been through Stanford CS for a Masters back in the 1980s, back then they really did need more administration. CS used to be in Arts and Sciences, run by a rotating chairmanship, and just wasn't well organized. It was a bunch of professors each doing their own thing, without much of an overall plan. When CS opened an undergrad program, the department was transferred to Engineering, which had deans and associate deans to put together a curriculum and schedule.)
Doesn't solve
* Drives would get damaged during shipping.
* Stuff would go missing in shipping.
You should also mention step 4b. Zoom admits it censors accounts for China, losing any and all hope of being trustworthy.
To be more precise, some of the lowest flying Starlink satellites will be at 340km, which is very low — lower than the ISS, even. By contrast, traditional internet satellites orbit at ~35,700km.
So in every other way, whatever you do, you require a skill
20 years ago when GeForce 2 MX appeared I switched to 2 monitors; in the next 6 months the software department (that was the name) switched to 2 monitors by contagion; I was in the infrastructure department, they just saw the benefits. Since then, I never worked with less than 2 monitors. I can use productively 3 if I have it, otherwise (and most of the time) I use 2.

I am not a good developer, it is not my job, but I started coding on a Commodore 64 in text mode, then I did Cobol and FoxPro for DOS on 80x25 screen with no problem. But when larger monitors appeared, I used it, when the possibility to use more than one monitor appeared, I used it. It is a case of technology helping you, not making you better but helping - I am more productive using 2 monitors than limiting to just one. Because of this, I use the laptop (1366x768 screen) only as a portable email tool, everything else is on a pair of 24" monitors, in the office or at home. Sometimes I pull a monitor from another desk (in the office) or other computer (at home) when I do specific work that benefits of 3 monitors, but it is not a matter of preference, just specific use cases where 3 is better than 2.
This is close, but misses the mark slightly I think. The cpu/disk/bandwidth to store and serve text are so small as to be irrelevant. I don't think it's a cost issue.

The issue is one of association. There are strong social forces that punish association with any distasteful speech. The association taints everything (and everyone) it touches, and the liability in the form of negative blowback can grow far beyond whatever costs were involved in actually serving the content.

Even if some set of individuals were willing to donate all the hosting costs of the distasteful speech, there would be strong social pressure for hosting platforms not to accept the money.
On a related topic, for those of you who maybe unemployed or know someone who is unemployed.

Beware of rumor spreading when you are looking for work there are companies that are setup for a single purpose. They keep track of the recently unemployed and specialize in spreading rumors at every and any company that you interview at (They masquerade as in-person advertisers or MLM companies). They do this to keep you unemployed long enough so that they can force you into certain places at ridiculously low salaries, they then keep you in debt slavery to force you to purchase from certain places that landlords or shop owners benefit from. This happens all over the country and these vultures are taking advantage of people all over the place.
Building a seamless experience to request a Lyft ride for others
If the cost to return the box is more than a cardboard box, its not feasible.
Wow another great post!

I had a question about the following passage:

>"The photo above shows part of the microcode ROM. Under a microscope, the contents of the microcode ROM are visible, and the bits can be read out, based on the presence or absence of transistors in each position. The ROM consists of 512 micro-instructions, each 21 bits wide."

I was curious why 21 bits? I would have expected this would have been a multiple or instruction size or perhaps also 16 bits. Or is there really no correlation between size of an instruction and it's underlying micro-ops?

One other question I had was in regards to the "Closeup of some transistors in the 8086" photo where the author states:

>"The circles are connections (called vias) between the silicon layer and the metal wiring, while the small squares are connections between the silicon layer and the polysilicon."

Vias are alway vertical correct? So are we looking at the chip from the top looking downward then? Why don't we see the metal layers then? Or do the metal wires themselves constitute the metal layer?
This is, of course, an issue of personal preference and I do not work for a monitor manufacturer so I'm not trying to talk anybody into buying anything hahaha.

Also I prefer my main monitor exactly in the middle
in front of me and an actual 2nd monitor

I don't understand how dual 16:9 screens help with this! But I agree with you that I hate having a "split" in the middle. I need my main monitor centered.

My monitor arrangement is:

- Dell 38" ultrawide (centered in front of me). Work happens here, obviously. MacOS virtual desktops, while not the most feature-heavy, cover my needs well enough here. Of course I respect that some people lean into virtual desktops/workspaces harder and need more.

- Compact ("portable") 15" 1080p monitor, centered in front of me under the ultrawide. This is essentially dedicated to Slack and my notetaking app. This leaves the Dell at a decent ergonomic height at my eye level.

- Laptop off to the side, for nonessential stuff - typically music app, sometimes Twitter or news feeds
Note that the whole point of my post is that there are different risk profiles for different kinds of software (or even within one kind of software--e.g., the data security subsystems in saas apps have a different profile than the UI widget library). If the parent's point is "some bugs are serious!" then that's not a rebuttal to my post--don't use weak type systems for those projects or those parts of the project. You don't rebut "You don't have to write all software like it is space shuttle software" with "some software is space shuttle software!".
Intel leaned into this with the 286's protected mode - segments became references to "selectors" so the OS could place your 64k chunks of code/data wherever it wanted within 16M.

I think the existing base of 8080 software (including CP/M software) was on their minds. You see the same thing in the 386/486, they have the large flat virtual address space software devs wanted, but until the early 90s their commercial value was running 8088 software really fast.
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In middle school I started playing chess at a local club that met at a Barnes and Noble. I was 1/3 of the age of the next youngest person and I doubt I ever won a single game, but I learned so much.

My favorite person at the club, and I tried to play with him as often as I could, was this boisterous old man who would drop movie one-liners constantly. He'd take a pawn with his knight and bellow "I HAVE YOU NOW." I'd occasionally grab one of his rooks, "Great kid, but don't get cocky!"
Do the ISPs have enough outgoing bandwidth to the internet for all their 1 Gbps symmetric fiber customers to maintain a 1 Gbps sustained upload simultaneously?
> We have function types literally at the same exression, but Go requires to repeat it.

It does not require it, the author chose to do it.

t1 := hashtable.New(8, func(key string, m int) int {

is perfectly valid.

https://go2goplay.golang.org/p/SbEXpyVl-V3
> medical industry (for example to diagnose certain visual disorders,

I think I can guess what's this is about but do tell
> You can’t even have more than 250k in a bank that’s FDIC insured.

You can have more than 250k, it's just the amount over 250k won't be FDIC-insured. There is no law or rule saying you can't have more than 250k in a single bank account.
I found it quite interesting as well. I stumbled across this page because I was trying to find the number of post offices in the US after noticing the sheer number of tiny towns in Kansas. The scale of their operations is mind boggling to me.
This is what makes me the saddest. The internet has so much potential for good, but it doesn't appear to be heading that direction.

Every couple months I get an urge to give up on tech and start subsistence farming in the middle of nowhere.
I got into MIT without a conventional resume
It takes up zero desk space (one monitor arm that lets me adjust it anytime I want), and I don't need to rotate it. I've never found that a useful thing to do.

On the other hand, when you're done work its amazing for flight simulator or other games that support the aspect ratio properly.
Some mathematicians think that human understanding of every step is critical. That doesn't actually make it critical.

At one time it was very important to have humans weave cloth. Now we generally expect machines to do that. Computers will not eliminate the need for human mathematicians. It will merely change what they do. In many ways it will be more freeing, because no one will need to review a proof to see if its steps are correct.

Mathematicians will still need to develop definitions and determine what is important to prove, and at least in the short-term they will need to do much of the proving since machines are not yet very good at that. Many other fields have changed with computers, there's no reason to believe mathematics cannot be changed.
Apple accused of 'hostile' app fee policies
Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World
It is crazy to think that this is happening in the world. Very well explained!
Something related from my previous job, for data storage there's Serverpack 35 from Acromove. 120 TB per box, suitcase form factor, includes tracking and remote control. You seal it and you load it in courier car.

https://acromove.com/products/serverpack-35/

They also have Serverpack Edge which is supposed to do the same.
Is this including options trading?
Thank you for sharing Josh Mitteldorf's blog on this paper. I think that he has some useful ideas on how to interpret this in light of Harold Katcher's work.
I really think the only way forward long-term is to build on hardware with mainlined drivers. This is so far outside the norm in the mobile ecosystem though that it's a huge uphill battle to get something working even passably.

Purism and Pine64 have made great strides in that regard though.
If you have to lie to announce bad news either you're too hypersensitive or your team members are too hypersensitive. People need to grow up and accept that working for any company isn't all sunshine and roses.
Pulse: Self-Supervised Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration
You can change the font size everywhere.
they didn't have a choice not to use servers in China?
Well said. This one is a refreshingly minimal AND beautiful dev tool.
Hey, do you mind sharing more info. on how to get the monitor? I'm looking to invest in a curved one since it's an experience I've never had. And are there retina models out there, or is it not worth it, in your view?
I want to push the US public out of industries we’re about to financially destroy, yes.

If the Saudis want to invest and take a bath like their SoftBank and Uber investments, I have no qualms.
Microsoft should put out a statement clarifying this then.
What stack did you go with for this?
The point of this paper is no harvesting needed.
From interview with the authors, why you should be a bit careful with just going ahead and trying this out

"This is a somewhat invasive procedure where your whole blood goes through a machine and the cells are returned to you and the plasma is diluted. It is not completely benign, and you cannot just keep doing it every day. So, to know how long the effects last and to know it for each individual is an additional know-how part that we found out from a couple of years of research and are studying further. I’m sure there will be competition, but I just want to warn everybody, do not go somewhere and get your blood replaced with saline. Wait until there are reputable clinical trials and people know a little bit more."
> Saying they are politically popular to hate on sounds as if the criticism is not warranted.

The criticism is definitely warranted, but that is a very shallow take on things.

Privacy issues with incognito mode have been known about for years[1]. But all of a sudden, suing Google (and making a spectacle of it) is a big priority. I think it is pretty likely that the government is trying to make some easy money and publicity points after current events have left them hurting for both.

Maybe the government is full of altruists, doing what is warranted when it is warranted, but I think starting from that assumption is pretty naive.

[1] https://nypost.com/2018/08/22/googles-incognito-mode-isnt-as...
Old school administrators that are stuck on the idea that amounts of published work in only certain journals is the only signal of prestige.

"Science advances one funeral at a time."

When prestige signalling is no longer tied to those journals, the publishers will lose their leverage.

I'd love to see a group of researchers band together and all agree to publish in some alternative to Nature. Leave no 'prestigious' authors publishing there. And let the cabal that are stuck in that thinking realize everyone is walking away from them and making them irrelevant.
DEVS(show): The Universe is (not) deterministic. Is it a bootstrapping compiler?
Oh wow, for some reason I totally zoned out and finally understand what you mean. Yes, you're right! I should fix that.
I have a Dell 38" 3840 x 1600 Ultrawide and it is bliss. I don't think of it as two screens, I think of it as three. I can comfortably have three applications displayed side by side with no seam down the middle. For me, it isn't about the crispest font I can get. It is good resolution and tons of real estate.
It's going to work even more in the future as antitrust cases start piling up. The EU court could even use this instance as a demonstration of monopolistic gatekeeping.