skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When your reliable passive income exceeds your cost of living you can probably retire.

Aside from that, the issue is too complicated and important to not seek professional guidance.
I've tried to plan and work like this but I end up getting interrupted and it goes all wrong.
Why 21 bits? The first factor is there is absolutely no need for an instruction to be 8, 16, or 32 bits. Modern processors use these sizes to be compatible with the 8-bit byte, but older processors used whatever word size was convenient: 12 bits, 13 bits, 17 bits, 27 bits, or pretty much anything.

The second factor is that (as you suspect) there isn't any connection between the size of the machine instructions and the size of the micro-instructions.

Finally, the width of a micro-instruction depends on how much you want to control at once. You can have a micro-instruction that is 100 bits wide, letting the processor do different things in parallel (e.g. IBM 360 mainframe), or a very short micro-instruction that doesn't do very much. The choice of 21 bits is enough for each micro-instruction to do two things (a data transfer and an operation). Having a 100-bit wide micro-instruction would improve performance but make the ROM too large, so it is a tradeoff. (Lookup vertical and horizontal microcode for more information.)

For your second question, the photos are all looking downward onto the chip through a microscope. In the first die photo, you're looking at the metal layer. But in the closeup photo, I've removed the metal and polysilicon layers with acid, so you see the silicon layer. It's tricky to show how all the overlapping layers are connected, so I didn't do that in this post. But I have another post that shows how the layers work together in the 6502: http://www.righto.com/2013/01/a-small-part-of-6502-chip-expl...
Yes but this is just data storage. I get it if you need to be on network, yadda, yadda, but so many people just senselessly use S3 and rack up bills that are easily avoidable.
Don't know about you guys, but I think Zoom is the last place I'll be sending AWS secrets to my team over.
I think what normally happens is people see the unbelievable claim of "6 20-minute naps" and think "wow that's incredible." Then they try it, fail horribly and never try a less extreme schedule. In my experience, Uberman requires a superhuman constitution, but some of the less-extreme schedules are perfectly viable.

I figured social distancing would be a great opportunity to give some polyphasic sleep schedules a try. I started with Uberman (6x20-minute naps), but that was awful. It was just a long slow crash, and it was totally unsustainable.

I recovered my lost sleep and then started Everyman 2 (4.5 hours at night + 2x20-minute naps) at the start of May, and I've really been enjoying it. I feel just as awake as I did before, but I'm waking up at 3:30am now. Only time will tell if my 2pm nap survives the end of social distancing, but for the moment it's going great.

Under normal circumstances, the failure of my first attempt would have totally ended the experiment, because I can't normally afford to tamper with my sleep for months on end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. But once I swallowed my pride and set some reasonable goals, I managed to have a really good experience with the whole thing. I'd definitely recommend giving it a shot if you're curious, with the caveat that anyone interested should start with a moderate plan like Everyman 2 rather than gambling on one of the extreme schedules.

https://polyphasic.net/ is a good resource for prospective polyphasic sleepers.
It would also be much more open if it required all articles with a University of California coauthor to be open access by default. If the agreement only applies to articles with UC corresponding authors, it severely limits the scope of the agreement, especially since its usually the first author, not the corresponding author, who primary conducts the research and writes the paper itself.

Edit: Still, this is good news and better than before.
I think lots of fonts actually look worse on hidpi screens, especially on Windows, probably because these fonts were specifically designed for low resolution screens. And most applications use hard-coded fonts that you can't change. Text is maybe a little easier to read on hidpi screens, but it is less aesthetically pleasing.

Linux can be made to look good in that respect, but the situation for scaling legacy applications is pretty bad.
I lived in San Mateo for a few years, right off 92 between 101 and 280 on the top of the hill.

It was an ideal spot for 92/280 access. But while it was equidistant from everything of interest on a map, traffic was often so impossibly bad that everything was equally prohibitively inconvenient to reach. And forget about parking in SF after you've managed to get there, not on any busy night everyone else is out on too.

If you want to access the SF night life regularly, San Mateo isn't really a convenient place for it. Maybe via Caltrain+BART@Millbrae? That wasn't easy from my place, our location was very car-optimized.

I did prefer the San Mateo weather to SF or Berkeley though, even up on the hill we got way less cold damp crap weather ruining our nights out on the deck.
I do prefer TypeScript’s version of Pascal-style declarations now. Though I really don’t like how Go doesn’t have a colon between the name and the type, it makes it harder to scan-through parameter lists when you aren’t using an editor with syntax colouring.

(I had to write a lot of Go code in Notepad for a while in 2017 - never again)
It's not useful if its true cost isn't being reflected
If I contrasted indigenous Americans with "European" culture rather than a "western" one, you would completely understand the meaning and it wouldn't be a big deal.
I knew a black developer once on the job, but he was a contractor and not on my team. There's a joke in there somewhere, but I can't find it :-) I've gotten so used to it that it simply never occurs to me any more.

Some companies are genuinely concerned. When I left a major corp, the VP of Software Development called me into his office and said (paraphrasing) "since you're leaving I can count on you to be honest with me. Are our diversity programs doing anything useful or are we just kidding ourselves?"

The company I went to after that (another large corporation) hired a consultant to interview a set of women and minorities to try to understand how comfortable they felt in their day-to-day roles. Again, knowing the HR people there, I felt they were genuinely trying to foster a pleasant environment, but that's also the company where I came across that one black developer.

Then again, I do recall travelling across the country to be my company's Expert for a deposition for a lawsuit over a project I was on and having the opposing party think I was the cab driver...
If you use squash and merge this won't be a problem, you will have a "clean history with self-contained logical commits and good commit history", and intermediary commits won't matter anyway.
8x8 is valued at about 1/10 of what zoom is worth, and has seen a declining valuation over the last 1 year.

most of 8x8 revenue comes from sources and products unrelated to jitsi.

so, i don't think you can say that it seems to work fine for them compared to zoom.
Which makes it interesting in the other direction. If this box is worth two hundred dollars a month and two thousand dollars upon loss, why not put in a drive twice as big for an extra $200?
With you on this. There was never a lack of things to do in new York and with a tiny apartment little incentive to stay home.

Back in the suburbs now and the kid would spend his Saturdays watching TV if I didn't stop him because the alternative is ... the one playground in driving distance? The movies? Target?

People really underestimate the volume of activity you can put in front of a young kid in a city.
Yeah... Almost like a cute cub to a carnivorous monster.
remote work has a self-reinforcing dynamic. the office is not as attractive when half the employees are not around. people get spoiled by having so much more control of their time. Plus the pandemic is dragging too long already and we are still nowhere near next winter's wave.
probably not, but the data from this project should make that pretty easy

However to be useful you need to know what each of those 21-bits is connected to, some will essentially be risc-like uCode instructions, the others will be tied to particular functions in the CPU or memory interface
DeepFaceDrawing: Deep Generation of Face Images from Sketches
Thats possible now, right. If they supported it more I’m not sure how much value over just encrypting blobs. I wouldn’t trust github’s clients or servers to do it for me.
> Also, I don't have any trouble with plugging my highDPI MacBook into a crappy 1080p display at work.

Low DPI monitors are pretty much unusable since MacOS dropped subpixel rendering - with fonts being a blurry mess. You can only really use MacOS with high DPI monitors now for all day working. It’s a huge problem for everyone I know who wants to plug their MacBook into a normal DPI display. Not that the subpixel/hinting was ever that good - Linux has always had much better font rendering in my opinion across a wider range of displays.
i don't think it'd work particularly well. people pay for zoom not because of 'enterprise support', but because they want features that they need (eg. meetings not automatically ending after 40 minutes).
A dramatic part of the answer may involve answering the question "WHERE can you retire". If you are willing or interested in retiring in another country, there seem to be several lovely choices where you can have a good life at a fraction of the cost of retiring in the USA.
What does that have to do with the price of bandwidth?
And Boston was still losing population into the 90s. The last major "tech" employer of the era in the city, Teradyne, finally moved out entirely in the 2000s.

My grad school cohort in the late 80s, many of whom worked for Boston area computer companies or in finance, basically none of them actually lived in the city.

Which plays into a lot of the noise about city housing prices. Basically, the urge among young wealthy urban professionals to live in cities is mostly quite recent.
So one month. Not long.
You might want to look into tools like knime, for graph based data processing
> There's a reason why developers have voted en-masse to avoid proportional fonts, and it's not because we are nostalgic for typewriters.

This is sad in itself. Proportional fonts are vastly superior to type writer fonts in presenting code. The kerning even makes for better readability even if it comes at the expense of the ability to do ASCII art.
I bought a 4k screen for same programming rationale. Deep regret.

From CRT days I know I can see 60hz but not 75hz. I had stupidly assumed that modern 60hz with freesync would be ok. It's not. Especially @ grey colour for some reason (Asus screen).

The fact that I was coming from a 120hz laptop screen didn't help the situation either.

Anyway...so I'm buying a 144hz 1440p gaming screen next. Screw this resolution game...I need flicker free for my sanity.
I doubt that it will devolve into 4chan & 8chan which are abhorrent to common people, there's no money in doing that.

The internet will find a different way to appeal to the mainstream, probably by becoming more similar to cable TV & Netflix & Disney: practically eliminate amateur content and stick to professional, big budget productions.
Its a problem if you have a nvidia gpu (forcing you on x11) and have 2 different dpi screens. On AMD/Intel/Nvidia open source drivers it works fine.
Brpc industrial-grade RPC framework
Well, the biggest problems with the internet seems to be the World Wide Web. NNTP has improved (some of these improvements at my suggestions, such as support for 63-bit article numbers), and Gopher has also improved since the original specification (now there are "i" type lines in menus, which are useful), but WWW has just gotten worse (and that includes Hacker News to some degree too, but not as much as Google and Facebook and so on). I have set up not only HTTP but also NNTP, Gopher, QOTD, SMTP, etc, and may later also set up IRC, Telnet, Viewdata, etc. Additionally, many things I serve on the HTTP are just direct downloads anyways; no need to deal with 100 megabyte files just to access a text file or other file that you wanted to download. And, you can do it too, if you want to do, I suppose.
Yes, I'm referring to "no sugar added" really. As you mentioned, there is some natural sugar.
> 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?

There is no direct correlation between the external instruction size and the internal microcode width. The microcode ROM only needs enough bit width to generate all the control signals necessary to drive the hardware. And when laying out a mask ROM on an IC, the designer can make the ROM any bit-unit width they need for the task at hand.

In this case, the 8086 only needed 21 bits to drive the hardware and so the layout was a 21 bit wide ROM.
> And why does "Law Enforcement" do this? Because it means they can murder black people with impunity. It means the people behind the DEA can scare white people into voting a certain way.

I appreciate and sympathise with the sentiment - but this just isn’t true. I agree that ACAB - but drugs aren’t illegal “so the police can murder black people with impunity”. Arguments like yours damage the credibility of the civil-rights movement.

(Yes, cops routinely plant drugs on black suspects; yes, black people are unfairly targeted and prosecuted for drugs offenses; yes, penalties for crack-contained are far worse than normal concaine due to racial bias and prejudice in the system; yes, cops murder black people on the job and get away with it; yes, to a thousand and one other things - but “murdering black people” is not a significant motivator behind federal-level policymaking at-present).
I know you you meant it tongue-in-cheek, but when I was investigating computer crimes in 2003/4/5, the criminals would often sign their work on the assumption that the police were stupid.
problem endemic to business? that doesn't make a lot of sense.

it would be very dangerous for the primary value add to be in hosting services. any hyperscale cloud provider could offer the service and undercut zoom (based on superior unit economics and market reach)
Well for the hypothetical I'd just have all your screens double in resolution.
Difficulty lot of people want to retire where their friends and family are.
I mean people are torching stuff in entirely different cities. It's not like they're torching chauvin's car then going home. Still illegal, but I guess I could understand the process behind that. Burning some cop car in Atlanta, what? That's just mob rage.
I have a funny story about how I told a colleague who was really into blockchain how I had updated our project to use a blockchain.

I demo’d github and described the distributed features with pull requests and stuff “oracle-based mediation.”

It was funny because this was maybe 3 years ago and had never heard about GitHub but had read all the blockchain literature.
The central server is the "middleman" as I am using that term. Routers are not middlemen under the meaning I am using. I am referring to peer-to-peer without any supernode forwarding traffic. No central server. There may be a "rendezvous server" involved in allowing two nodes to discover how to connect to one another, however that server does not route traffic.

I never implied a need for encryption associated with peer-to-peer. The parent comment asked about avoiding a middleman.

I have no idea what "end-to-end encryption" means, nor do I seek to know. I do not wish to be part of that debate. The record of how that term is being applied speaks for itself.

I do know of the term "end-to-end" as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_to_end_principle One can find this concept in many of the early RFCs.

To me, "peer-to-peer" (with no central server) is in the spirit of end-to-end. This is why for example, people will sometimes say, "The internet was originally peer-to-peer."
I have a 4k 27" monitor and I have had to run it in 1440p recently because its all my dell xps can manage and its usable but a noticeable downgrade. My 24" 1440p monitor at work looks perfectly fine though.
Something's off with the analysis here.

> According to my research among programmers, 43% are still using monitors with pixel per inch density less than 150

OK...

> Let's take Consolas [...] at 14px, which is default in VS Code

A 14 pixel font at 150 DPI is a 6.75 point type size in real world units! Good grief, I can't read that anymore. Frankly I doubt I could have read it in my 20's. I certainly never would have wanted to code in it under any circumstances.
99% of people do not care about privacy. They won't switch programs because a nation state might spy on them.
The Fed will move away from ETFs to direct corporate bond purchases, Powell says
Is there any better way to bring down China than them latching onto quarterly reporting and shareholder pressure?
In case anyone looking through the linked article is also wondering why the images look odd, it's because (buried in the middle):

> motivated by early color display palettes, we create our own 9-bit color palette to represent pixels. Using this palette yields an input sequence length 3 times shorter than the standard (R, G, B) palette, while still encoding color faithfully.

Makes total sense now. In fact, those images remind me so much of how photos looked on the early internet, since many were palletized.
Scientists May Have Just Observed Axions for the First Time
You're getting downvoted but you're probably 1/2 right. It probably wasn't a "hive mind" but it probably was a 3rd party that is an expert in computer forensics. It's pretty common for the government to hire 3rd party contractors for this type of thing.
Can you clarify what you meant with "experimenting with markdown"? (since I see you're not a new user)
I'm typing this from a surface. And I have an iPad Air 3 too.
There are people who get eyestrain and headaches from using both devices, due to font rendering system and frequency of lamp oscillating to adjust bright.

I even installed something called Dithering Settings for Intel Graphics and bought/installed a program called Iris on my Surface Pro.

I searched this article for both "eyestrain" and "fatigue" with no results.

I think engineers and nerds should resolve problems regarding ergonomics and eyestrain.

I feel like being cheated by the industry since my first Samsung Syncmaster 3, running at 60 Hz and everyone saying it was safe and that the eye could see no more than 60 Hz (BS!!)
I believe they were contacted yeah, but at that point I washed my hands of the project.
I second Jitsi. For me, the value is in hosting your own Jitsi server. Really not that hard to do.

Mind you, I only host it at home on a VM for personal use. Have had sessions with 6 people with one of them a Europe-Australia connection. All fine on default 720p.

If I were looking for 20+ meeting software though I'd consider something else.
I would consider it a case for streaming to faceless attendees. I have never had a meeting with useful input from more than 10 people.
In plenty of cases, administration may require academics to publish in journals considered "prestigious". Before a shakeup at my undergrad, that was the case. If you published in something the Chair didn't think was of merit, it would reflect negatively on a researcher/professor, and could (unofficially) count against you or set you back in working towards tenure.

I once spoke to someone at a conference on the subject of publishing (maybe some 6 years ago) who told me about a journal coup where a large majority of the editors and staff for a journal quit and started their own journal which was well received in the field and quickly becoming the journal of record. I can't quite remember what field it was, but I think it may have been related to neurology (non-human IIRC, as the individual had just given a presentation on cuttlefish cognition).
So it looks like it supported 10 bit frame buffers, but not necessarily 10 bit output. A quick search suggests it only supported DVI, which didn't support 10 bit output. In the context of talking about monitors, this essentially means that 10 bit wasn't supported at the time. Otherwise you could claim you have 192 bit color by software rendering at 64 bits per color, but outputting at 8 bits.
It seems kind of unsurprising to me, given dialysis is a thing.

Actually, now I'm wondering, could this be a simpler substitute for dialysis in some cases?
This is an interesting position. I have always thought that font and font rendering were always an especially pernicious issue with Linux and a relative joy on MacOS?
That's interesting about the cheese-like product. Just recently I left some paneer in the fridge for a few days too many. When I took it out to use it in a dish, I saw it had a cheese-like consistency (harder than the original paneer) and smell. Used it in the (Indian) dish anyway, tasted different but fine.
Wow haha, I wonder what caused them to fail so badly?
I think most of the need for more monitors can be solved with a tiling window manager.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and know the OpenAI folks).

Fwiw, I think 2500 "V100-days" here is an extrapolation of ~1 2048-TPUv3 day. So approximately $8/hr * 24 hours * 2048 => $400k, if you know, you could make use of that TPU Pod for much of the rest of the days of the year :).

But yes, this is still the realm of "Do you have millions of dollars of ML infrastructure" (if you want it quickly). I'm kind of hoping gwern et al. will use Colab to slowly train a variant of this for free :).
From the link:

"various videos captured her wearing protective goggles and gloves, taking a flaming piece of wooden police barricade from the rear window of the sedan that was already on fire, and then shoving the flaming wood into the SUV that was not on fire."

Having protective goggles and gloves?
CIA Unit That Crafts Hacking Tools Didn't Protect Itself
A long time ago, resolutions got better, but when we got more pixels...we didn't make the characters smaller, we just made them more crisp. What changed? Why is the transition from 110 PPI to 220 PPI being handled differently than the one from 50 PPI to 110 PPI?
Huh.

At work I have a mac mini and a Windows box, and I use three crapola Asus monitors between them, and my impression has been that macOS does a better job rendering text on said crapola monitors (the Windows box does a better job at compiling C++ in a timely fashion, though, so I mostly work on that one).
Also, therere 100s of millions of ppl at these places so not that hard to find good ppl for those work tasks even if you restrict yourself: eg qa only India, like they did
Yikes. That good faith exception example is particularly troubling. I think the only way that should be construed as constitutional is if, when the illegal search was uncovered, it resulted in serious consequences for the offender. But I highly doubt that happens. System is broken.
Observation of excess events in the XENON1T dark matter experiment
It looks like it can't work without the users's real identity known to the app.

If it's available for download on Google Play and iOS there's probably something wrong with it... If it works like it says it should get banned soon.
You could just put a stereo or such in the dashboard in keeping with the UI and play music in the background with nothing spotify visible and just have a keypress trigger switching the playlist or something.

Either way, the app is awesome with or without any music features - it's not exactly a hassle to play my own music! Only mentioned it due to the theme of OP.

Will keep watching updates!
German Official Leaks Report Denouncing Corona as a Global False Alarm
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