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I was developing Open Boot - the Forth-based firmware that eventually became Open Firmware AKA the IEEE 1275-1994 Standard - at Sun back in the late '80s. It was intended to replace Sun's existing "sunmon" firmware which was written in C. The diagnostics group that maintained sunmon was adamantly opposed to Open Boot, probably mainly because it threated their ownership of the firmware. The argued against Open Boot, thinking that they had an ironclad argument: "Forth is interpreted therefore it is too slow". The argument totally backfired because I knew some facts about the hardware that had apparently escaped them. The dominant factor in the perceived firmware speed was scrolling text on the non-accelerated megapixel frame buffer. That involved a megapixel memory-to-memory copy for every line. On the monochrome display it was terrible and on the color frame buffer it was horrendous. The sunmon firmware ran from EPROM, whose access time was glacial compared to RAM and even worse compared to cache - and EPROM was not cacheable. To make matters even worse, on the SPARCstation 1 that was the first target for Open Boot, the EPROM data width was only 8 bits, so a 32-bit instruction fetch took 4 super slow EPROM accesses. You see where I am going with this, right? All it took to leave sunmon in the dust was to copy the screen-scrolling and bitblt routines into RAM. Just to pour salt on the wound, I also copied the modest-sized set of code words at the core of Forth into RAM. Direct-threaded Forth ran from RAM substantially faster than compiled C code ran from EPROM. Our project manager did not let me turn on the cache on the first shipment, worrying about bugs, but relented on later revisions. After the cache was turned on, Forth just flew. The fact that Forth is so well-factored, and the actual machine code is confined to a small compact area, meant that the cache performed extremely well. Furthermore, since Forth didn't need to use the SPARC register windowing mechanism - register windows were designed for C-style stack frames and are essentially useless for Forth stacks - the endemic SPARC problem of window spill and fill handlers didn't affect the firmware at all. That made the firmware much more adept at post-mortem examination of kernel crashes.

In a lot of system code, the performance can be dominated by access to devices that are much slower than cache. In that environment, so long as you are careful about a few CPU intensive routines like memcpy and bitblt, threaded code can be nearly as fast as compiled code, and sometimes faster. And it is much more compact, which matters a lot when you have to fit everything into some flavor of ROM.
> DigitalOcean seems to be aware that they have a spam problem. Their solution, per their FAQ, is to put the burden solely on the shoulders of maintainers.

During such events, I think maintainers(for popular projects) should get some help for spam filtering PRs.
I used to be a land surveyor. That means eating out a lot for lunch and I noticed a lot of the other staff surveyors loved Subway because I'm from a part of the US (Philadelphia) where Italian deli sub sandwiches are a thing, and there isn't usually a long wait so you can dash in, grab one, and get back to the truck fast. So Subway is hugely popular among land surveyors and probably anyone doing outdoor work.

Anyway, I knew that the bread had high sugar content but after reading this article it all makes perfect sense to me: they liked it mostly because their work is physical and the afternoons are slump time when you're trying to keep up your energy and push through to the end of the day. So they were getting Subway sandwiches and then, boom. All of a sudden you have sugar energy until quitting time!
This is another area where the headlines are far ahead of the actual science.

So far, the "long-lasting effects" have mostly been self-reported, based on surveys of people who self-select as "long-haul covid victims". Moreover, when you look at the list of symptoms, they mostly sound like depression and/or lingering cold: headache, fatigue, cough, insomnia, etc.

There have been a handful of studies based on NMR surveys that report cardiac inflammation, but several of these have been debunked completely, and the others are of questionable methodology (i.e. using ML methods to auto-find "abnormalities" in libraries of NMR scans, and reporting everything they found).

It's not to say that there won't be people with long-term symptoms, or even that there won't be people with severe long-term symptoms -- that happens all the time, for viruses we consider innocuous. The question is: at what rate, and how much risk is there relative to all other risks?

Nobody has come close to answering that question, but it seems fairly unlikely to be of high risk, considering that we've now had 34M cases worldwide, and we're not seeing huge numbers of debilitated people overwhelming hospitals.
NSFW is the furthest thing from work so, Kinbaku (Japanese Rope Bondage). The basics are quite simple. After one class you'll learn enough to apply in some form. After a couple you're able to get creative with it.
Android TV is definitely a thing for TV customers. My TV was sold to me as an "Android TV with Chrome cast built in". Now I'm worried this is going to turn into the usual Google abandon ware.
https://words.fromoldbooks.org/NathanBailey-CantingDictionar...
My belief is that public schools are part of the foundation of a community.

If you're not part of them you're not invested in improving them. And, I don't mean improving them for your child's specific sake, but overall.

And, if you're not, you're not really invested in your community.

Private schooling and homeschooling are options that I view as opting for the privilege to be above or separate from the community that I live in. My values prioritized equity, and yours may be different.
You can't just take a legacy telco CO full of things like Cisco 15454s with OC-12/OC-48 SDH/SONET interface cards, linked to the nearest major city by SDH/TDM circuits, and pipe it through a gigabit ethernet link into a power over ethernet powered (microwave, millimeter wave or satellte) thing on the roof.

If you look around in a place like that you'll see fun things like 1RU rackmount DS3-to-DS1 mux devices connected to legacy TDM transport gear, for SS7/PSTN links, 911 and such.
must be a lot of Hacker's eatin' Subway...
I was a bit suspicious, but I looked at an old IBM manual [1, page 23] and the characters match up. Keep in mind though, that the 3270 didn't display lower case, (until later dual-case models), so the examples don't look like the classic 3270. Also, characters were generated from a 7x9 matrix, not the smooth lines in the font.

For those not familiar with old IBM systems, I'll point out that the 3270 is not a specific machine, but an "Information Display System", made up of various control units, display stations, and printers. As time went on, different models in the 3270 line appeared such as the color 3279 display with 4 color text, expandable to 7 colors. So there's not the "one true 3270 display".

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/3270/GA27-2749-1_IBM_3270_I...
Hey domenic - I work for DigitalOcean on the Community team.

We also noticed an uptick in spammy PR's and we are working on a bunch of immediate and long term changes to improve the situation for Open Source maintainers like you.

Here's an official post where we walk through currently proposed changes: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-update
I swear when they first opened they smelled amazing. Fresh baked bread but something changed...
Usually this is termed “quantum advantage”, when it’s better than classical at some commercial metric that “matters”.
The fact that our elites are saying such things openly does not augur well.
Technical glitch halts trading on Japan's exchanges
There's also detention and "in-school suspension" (which is basically a big detention).

I think these punishments are commonly decided by administrators, not teachers. The teacher just reports them up the chain for misbehavior.

Suspension and expulsion are becoming embroiled in the anti-racism crusade due to some high-profile incidents, so blunt laws are being written to outlaw them altogether.
It is accurate - I live in Japan, it’s a city that’s been destroyed pretty much every few decades either by war or natural calamity - houses beyond 30 years are generally worthless beyond their land value, probably negative since the next tenant will just demolish them. People feel unsafe about earthquake safety of buildings built before the earthquake code changed around 40 years ago and generally wary of older houses in general. Plus people just want creature comforts of better soundproofing, climate control and so on.
A Return to ‘Hackers’ Is “Being Actively Considered,” Says Director
There's a few out there; here's a couple that I'm familiar with.

https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/Dwave_Menten%20...

https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/Dwave_Groovenau...

There's quite a few technical reports by partners out there, as well.

https://www.dwavesys.com/resources/publications?type=externa...
At least the school district in the suburb near Seattle that I live in has signs in front of the schools mentioning the lunch program is still providing food for such families and students in need.
The OP has a point though.

The hospitalization rates generally lag about 2 weeks and they are not going up very much.

Province of BC has a lot of very detailed data on who gets it for what reason (they contact trace everything) and it's definitely younger people getting it right now.

Google 'Dr. Bonnie Henry'.

I think the media is purposefully underreporting the hospitalizations for the national interest and it's probably a good thing. The 'Freedom / Liberty' crowd hates to hear this kind of stuff, but the reality is, people are not very smart, even educated people can be easily misinformed and make bad decisions, which is why in a crisis we need constant behavioural reinforcement.

It's been 2 generations since the Western world has had a crisis in which everyone has had to participate and 'play their role' so it's almost out of living memory, but I suggest this is normal.

Smart people can read more and use the Internet for more detailed information.
Similary if butter does not contain 82% of milk fat you cant call it a butter in Lithuania.
Yeah, I recall when NPR had an "expert" on All Things Considered who advised holding your breath when walking by someone on the street (this was back in March/April, when they were doing "the conversation" segments during the national lockdown).

Their science reporting on the whole has not been great, but some programs (e.g. Science Friday) are better than others.
The country is in decline but cities like Tokyo and Osaka continue to experience significant growth - it’s the large number of small rural towns that are getting eviscerated.
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I’ll admit, it’s quite a feat if the machine can be self-regulated without scientist hand-holding. Is that true? Does that machine self-correct from calibration drift?
Ok, my brief reading suggests the thesis is that everyone wants to be at the top, but to grow the number of people at the top you must grow the number of people below that by some larger number.

For example, a manager earns more, people want to be managers. Only way to get more managers is to grow and get more workers. Now you have even more people who want to be managers.

It's an interesting idea, and sort of a novel (to me, at least) framing of the ideas behind a ponzi scheme or keeping up with the Joneses or the American dream (that we could all be millionaires). It also seems to be the natural order for the capitalist economy, if I understand the thesis correctly. ( Capital must beget capital, else no one would invest. As more people invest, we must grow to sustain the growth in capital.)

I need to think about it a bit more, but it seems to me that the theory assumes the actor is a solipsist or predominantly interested in their own self. I'm not sure that's necessarily axiomatic in American culture.

Thanks for sharing the concept, and feel free to offer suggestions or corrections where I misunderstood it.
I can't find my source[1], but the amount of fructose converted to glucose is highly dose dependent. Over 30 grams (if i remember correctly) it basically all gets shunted to fat.

edit:
[1]https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/joim.12993
Yeah, to my extremely limited understanding currently quantum algorithms are best for optimization problems in terms of obvious business value. Meaning their utilization does not need innovation, just a quantum compute platform to a known but currently intractable problem.

Old big companies with lots of logistics presumably have lots of logistics problems (optimization) they would not mind solving.

So I would expect the first customers of any relevant quantum stack to be the companies whose business depends on large scale physical, not the digital world. With problems that are already analyzed, but lack agreeable solution.

Hence FAANG are not necessarily the first clients.
I’ve been down that rabbit hole myself. My blog is still running Jekyll but my comments are now on a self-hosted install of Commento. It works pretty well. For me the main feature is that it’s not Disqus, but another nice benefit is that comments support Markdown now!
Concepts are part of the language from C++20.
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I wonder if the inflation from money printing can be used to level out deflation from 90's bad debt/bankruptcy/shrinking population?

The only issue will be when Japan has an ungodly amount of old people with no money to take care of them because the gov spent it all. And no population to tax because they stopped having children.

And no goods or services because not enough people are providing them.
More like, let's sacrifice the young in poor countries to protect the elderly in rich countries: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-childr...
I found the use of "gentler age" to be a fun satirical note
2:1 flour to sugar ratio in banana bread and that's not counting the sugar in the bananas. But banana bread is only named bread. It is technically a cake.
Reality is, as often, more complex. I highly recommend the feature length fly on the wall style documentary 'divorce iranian style'. Entirely recorded in an Iranian divorce court:

https://youtu.be/BBm8GqMNwXU
> I think the irony here is that MVC in its original form has largely fallen out of fashion the last few years.

Not really — unless React is the only library you use.. MVC is still the best pattern. If you are an iOS developer you may already be familiar with MVC in Cocoa. Most UI frameworks, including ASP.NET Core, JSP and JSF (Java based frameworks), Ruby on Rails, and Django (Python) are all based on MVC. That's no accident. These disparate platforms — mobile and Web — all converged on MVC because it is the best architectural pattern for developing user interfaces.
Try tmux with my extrakto

https://github.com/laktak/extrakto
I think many of the points in the article directly make us happier, and others at least give us the opportunity to be happier:

- people are less sick
- infants do not die as easily
- people are less hungry
- people are cleaner
- people do less grueling manual labor
- people are more comfortable
- people have more free time

These aren’t happiness in and of themselves, but it’s obvious that if you take it all away, people are much more likely to be dead, or at least very uncomfortable and strained.

I think other modern amenities, like cars and computers have less of an affect on happiness. But certainly, being alive is a prerequisite to being happy!
Social cooling is one of the main causes why such regimes stay afloat without popular support.
It is kind of an ancillary type of post for HN, but there's a lot of people here who love anything that talks about business legal loopholes, even if it's food related and not tech related.
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Common cold: not worth it, and is caused by a lot of different viruses, making vaccination even harder.

SARS1: the virus was eradicated before trials could complete.

MERS: There are several vaccines in testing, however MERS comes and goes randomly, so it takes a lot of time to gather events.

HIV: Apparently there's a trial in Uganda going on since quite a while, which looks better than the past ones (which were failures), but with HIV, it takes years to see if it works or not

That said, betting all your options on a vaccine is not what I'd call sound policy. In fact, there are several drugs in the pipeline, but few if any report that.
Swrdish culture, support systems and economic incentives, and consequently behavior in the absence of mandates, and the Swedish health Systems, aren't the same as, for instance, the American versions of each of those. So, it makes little sense to assume that the behaviors necessary to protect the Swedish health system are identical to those which would be necessary for a dissimilar country, or that even if they were that they would necessarily be acheived by the same policies.

The proof of this is that, Sweden, without a firm mandatory lockdown, experienced pretty much all the economic consequences of one—because without a mandate for lockdown, Sweden acheived the near behavioral equivalent.
>Why is religion bad?

Take a look around this planet and oppression done in the name of religious superstition, but for a more charitable argument, even if religion is good, children deserve to have a diverse and secular upbringing if we care about the religious freedom of the child.

I'm also German, and here children are essentially mini-citizens, not some sort of property of their parents, with about as much autonomy as a mule. It's not about whether religion is good, it's about whether children have the right to be brought up, from an early age, in an impartial, dvierse and social environment, rather than being indoctrinated by their parents.

the US system doesn't treat children like citizens with autonomy and rights in their own right, but leaves them to the whim of their parents, regardless of what quality of education or values they can provide. That is incomprehensible to me,and I'd argue it actually harms the freedoms and rights of children and their autonomy. It's outright medieval to me to be honest.
Debt, Service, and the Origins of Capitalism
Whoops, ya, not as a service. There's some companies that do that already. Just a personal pitch for me to do it for you.
My wife's family speak Cantonese at home and I could instantly recognise words. Latvian was far more difficult for me.
good summary of areas of where git falls short.

i'm curious if the above are compatible with a patch-based VCS. if so, maybe good areas for would-be future VCSs to focus on, to establish a niche...
Neat idea here

> ...internal protections which are activated when there is memory pressure, such as closing idle connections or refusing to accept new connections, allowing them to keep running despite a memory shortage.

What does the second tier do exactly?

> second tier of GFEs providing additional functionality
"...detest it even more of there is some show/celebrity I don't want to see but every day for a week/month whatever it's shoved in my face."

I literally stopped using Google Play Music for podcasts because that Adam Ruins Everything guy is always at the top of their recommendations. No problem with the guy or his content, just, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, seeing that guy, every time I switch podcasts, with no way not to see it.

Doesn't matter now anyway, Google Play Music is another service that lost the PM wars
Let's chat! I'm the same handle on twitter.
We did something similar about 6 years ago. The user gets a chat interface while one of our operators transcribe the conversation both ways.

I believe Path Talk did something similar too.

I'm curious about how you raised so much money?
Right. This is just one of those cases where people get confused about different definitions in different contexts.

This is about the "statutory definition of bread" for the purposes of being considered a "staple food" for tax purposes.

The only reason this is of any interest at all is because it makes fun of how sweet mass-market American bread tends to be. "Your bread's so sweet the Irish government doesn't consider it bread!" Which is a fun point that I wholeheartedly endorse, but it doesn't make any difference to what we call "bread" in everyday life.
"Working people had to pay these other people and for what?"

The productive capacity this money enabled. Except instead of the gov doing it 1000 miles away, they had skin in the game, took risks and monitored the situation to ensure success.
Github's notification system is incredibly spammy if you have a lot of repos, and there's no obvious way to manage it. There's also a huge need for an "unsubscribe all" in the notification inbox.

There's also not a severity indicator - some minor issue not encountered in normal use is just as noisy as an extremely important issue that affects every user.

Other tools like Jira and Gerrit are far better at this.
I can queue for a game of mahjong, so why can't I queue for a support call?

It's appalling there's no protocol extending phone calls for this yet.
Thank you for the feedback! It is incredibly stressful and honestly I left because I was seeing how it affected my personal life and vice versa. To be a trader, you need to lead a simple life.

General stress coping methods however are the basics - 8 hours sleep, 1 hour exercise everyday, socialise once or two a week and have family time!
> In that file would be css, html and the js to make the component.

You can do that. Here's an example Web Component that contains the css, html and javascript:

https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder/blob/master/WebCompo...
> You can buy a 880 home for 90k in Gilroy CA just 52 miles from Stanford.

That's a mobile home, which does not include any land, that's a separate rent.

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Gilroy_CA/...

(Add: The space rent is an additional $760/month and it is a 55+ park.)
"Early reports truly weren't that earth shattering when one looked at the numbers."

I don't understand how someone can say this.

COVID has a reasonably high CFR/IFR - you see the data there.

Notably, as well, the R0 is very high, it transmits very easily.

There have been 200 000 deaths in a few short months and without aggressive suppression it would easily be in the millions.

In what world do 'millions of dead Americans and and out of control pandemic' not seem 'earth shattering' when it would be easily the worst disaster in American history (if it isn't already)?

'When one looks at the numbers', especially the totality of 'the figures' such as R0, % serious cases, lingering risk factors (and they are not new to me, these are figures I had assumed most HN readers would be somewhat familiar with) ... it's very bad.