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I too am pretty happy overall with it. The web portal is pretty bad though. Its very finicky about logging in and maintaining its session. The app "Just Works" for the most part.
Make your Voice count within your Tribe – Feedback BlackBird (social-voice-app)
Hello everyone! After watching a few years ago a video about coffeehouses in the 18th century and why they were the center of innovations within that time, I finally made the step of starting Blackbird!

Interesting fact is that, in those coffeehouses people thought coffee made them more creative and helped them come up with new ideas such as the lightbulb but actually it was the community! People would meet and just talk and brainstorm together for hours drinking coffee. I felt like this is missing nowadays and new things we learn can't be shared as easy as in that time only through voice.

That's why I started BlackBird! To help people like you and me to discover new interesting topics, enter those channels with other users and simply talk about the given topic with a bunch of people.

Link: https://blackbird.launchaco.com/

Hope to get some feedback from you guys and ofc some interested users hopefully who might be interested in joining the first version of it! Thank you all and wish you great holidays with your families and a great start into 2021.
I know your point of view is the accepted mainstream view, but I disagree and I never did it in 15 years.

Maintaining a gitlab instance, a mattermost instance, a kubernetes instance, an elk instance on a cheap VPS provider gets you in a pretty good place for very little money.
Your internal tools won't need much attention until you hit a higher number of employees.

Also with three employees you can still get away with a lot of free stuff (eg. a discord or matrix server for chatting, private GitHub repos)
Why are you viewing ads at all? Not trying to be disparaging or snide, just really want to understand why anyone tolerates them.
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Show HN: SIMD-accelerated varint encoder and decoder in Rust
180000 dollars doesn't seem lenient to me.

But really, I don't care if it's extremely lenient by some standard. I care what policy will best dissuade antisocial behaviour with the minimal necessary fines imposed.

Clearly, in your view, a written warning from the FCC is obviously serious business, and if you got one you'd interpret it as such and immediately desist from whatever incited it. As this guy and the people disagreeing with you show, this attitude isn't universal.

Two warnings and then immediate financial execution just seems insane. If the the first and second letters had come with 1000 and 10000 dollar fines attached, almost everyone would have stopped by the first, let alone the second. There, no need to turn people into lifelong indentured servants.

(Of course, I imagine there's an incentive to maximize the amount of fines you collect, so that explains why it wouldn't happen that way.)
Bash runs on a lot more than Linux.

I ran a Docker container and copied a statically-linked curl and bash onto a scratch image and ran it, it does not work:

$ docker run -it --rm $(docker build -q .)
/srvmon.sh: line 162: date: command not found

$ cat Dockerfile
FROM scratch
COPY bash /usr/bin/bash
COPY curl /usr/bin/curl
COPY srvmon.sh /srvmon.sh
CMD ["/usr/bin/bash", "/srvmon.sh"]

I'm not pointing this out to be pedantic. I'm pointing it out because there is a common misconception that all these things like "date" and "cat" and "mkdir" are part of Bash, but they're not, they're part of coreutils and there are dramatically different versions of coreutils on different installations of Linux, macOS, BSD, etc., and some environments (like barebones Docker containers) don't have coreutils at all.
Microfarm on the International Space Station Grows Radishes in One Month
This is the first I’ve heard of this description of a separate crew module.

This sounds even crazier than the bellyflop-swivel-to-suicide-burn (BSTSB).

So the Starship system is some type of 3 piece mechanism? Where the 3rd piece is the human module?

And they’re going to land this with parachutes? Where? In the ocean?

Won’t this kill the reusability of the plan, for quick turn around time?

Granted, if the BSTSB is to only be used for transporting inorganic materials, like fuel, then G-forces does not matter for human usage.
To me a major difference (besides dice) is that Backgammon has the concept of points which a player can double the value of during a game and if the opponent refuses then they forfeit. But once you’ve doubled then the opposing player gets the next opportunity to double. This is the part of the gave that really sets apart the good players I think? Over a series of games you have to calculate your advantage at certain points. I think this element makes it more a game of skill (like chess where there is no randomness and all game knowledge is shared at all times) than people give it credit for.

I can also see why gamblers like it so much. Nothing like a mid game “more action” button.
China Orders Ant Group to Revamp Its Business
They will for this too. Github actions aren't free. They just have a generous free tier.
I think you have missed the point.

GP’s argument wasn’t that the Scandinavian model is better, they were instead forcefully rejecting the idea that everyone is as bad or worse than America. It is very common for liberals to point at Scandinavia as the ideal model, but that is not core at all to their argument.

Furthermore, while you might have a point about the geographic size of the US, as an individual it’s not clear why I should care. Living under corruption sucks, regardless of the root cause. The size of ones nation doesn’t really provide a lot of psychological protection against country specific negative experiences.
Your answer, while interesting, hasn’t changed my confusion.

When you wrote that “funds” mostly stayed put, what do you mean by “fund”? An ELI5 style explanation would be great, because to me (with no economics/finance qualifications) a “fund” is the money.
You might need to adjust how you're praising people. A simple earnest slack DM of "thanks for the hand with that thing! i really appreciate you taking the time to do that" will still make people feel great.
PRC's economy is quite capitalistic. They do have important sectors like banking under government control though.
Number 1 wouldn't have to be a problem if we changed the social contract. The literal contract (nearly always) states your employment is at will. You can be let go at any time, for any reason or no reason at all. Employers should be more willing to (1) take a risk on a hire, and (2) let them go if it doesn't work out.

Then, hiring doesn't have to be this grandiose, talk to 20 people over 2 days in 20 30-minute session, but actually the VP has a final call, sort of decisions.
I think he has failed precisely because he wanted not to succeed.
They're not perfectly aligned but the relevant competitor for the PS2 and Dreamcast would probably be the GameCube, not the N64. Though it's about the same story, just with slightly lower sales for Nintendo.

Or, for that matter, the same basic story as the prior generation as a whole: PS1 sold about 100 million, N64 33 million, Saturn 9 million. The Saturn got undercut by the Dreamcast but both were clear also-rans while Sony just ran away with the market.

Thinking about Sega kind of straddling the generations also just drives home how many moves in a row for them just didn't work: the 32X, the Sega CD, the Saturn, the Dreamcast.
omg. Do yourself a favor, come visit Italy one day and go the museum or two. See whole range of stuff from stone age, to etruscan art, to roman, to early medieval. It's not like it was buried only in one particular place, and period attribution isn't that hard and very visible from the art style. Italy is a giant museum under the open sky, some buildings are still standing, rebuilt and repurposed multiple times.
In many ways Chinese (and perhaps those in Japan, Korea and Vietnam) are still prisoners of Confucianism, the (deeply misogynist and authoritarian) philosophy of a man who lived 551–479 BCE.
This is why I made a graph: https://flatline.org.uk/daystats.html (click top graph for intraday detail). It's both, really, but then I am fairly far north. There's a three month period of daily production being <20% of summer peak.
This entire comments section reminds me of every econ discussion I've seen on the web for the past 25 years: wall-to-wall hubris. So, allow me to throw two more tires on this fire:

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."

"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."
We just need a new awful Netflix series about a backgammon hustler.
Indeed and ARM7TDMI with Thumb was released in 1994 so clearly Arm had forgotten about it by 2011!
Ah right, ha, that Matt Levine article is where I first saw this idea.

My point actually wasn't that this is a good idea, but that it's a superior idea to doing the same thing with a blockchain based ledger. All the problems you outline are true for the blockchain solution as well.
> When I'm retired, I don't want to be broke and penniless and I certainly wouldn't be thinking that the free healthcare I received was worth the amount I was scammed.

> On what planet is healthcare worth many millions of dollars? It's not worth it. You're better off by any calculation in the US. Substantially so.

You're missing pensions, which EU countries have, which mean in most cases you won't find yourself broke and penniless when you retire. And work hours, which are substantially less. And vacation time, which is literally multiple times more ( 5 weeks paid minimum in France for instance), and "unlimited sick time" ( it's sick there's even such a concept in the US). What good are your millions if you have to wait to retirement to actually use them, being too busy working 60 hour weeks? Or having to go into work sick? Or ffs, after the birth of a child?
As a Ruby, Node or Python language user, you may want to try rbenv, nodenv or pyenv respectively.
Saxo Bank 2021 Outrageous Predictions: The Future Is Now
Inflation and tax increases. If you really think that this stimulus will not be used as an inexcuse to raise taxes/levies whatever upon the all of us you've been living under a rock. Whether or not countries have been carrying debt or not is irrelevant because that will not be the narrative.
I could see inverters going the way of the dodo. 48VDC may pickup.

More and more electronics are rectifying the AC to DC anyway (e.g. my fridge is variable-frequency drive), but usually stepping it down since they'll have a transformer for isolation anyway.

The current losses may be less than inversion (and rectification) losses.

The big problem these days is that AC appliances are cheap and DC appliances get charged the 'off-grid' tax, so you just throw more cheap panels at the problem.
I think the instruction is just misnamed. It definitely shouldn't have the word Javascript in it. It's just a different floating point format. As others have noted, it's not more complicated than any other floating point instruction.
From what timeframe is your information?

I noticed a lot of institutions switching to Risc-V recently.

The simple core instruction set is very appealing for teaching. It makes implementing a full interpreter in a semester attainable.

Also compiling some C code and have students actually know/understand all instructions is a big win.

All while having access to open source and already solid tooling (compilers, emulators)
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America Online Exploits Bug in Own Software
A successful genocide, interesting take.
I'm an average player it seems, but I've had the problem of easily beating every free backgammon app on Android, that is until I discovered Backgammon NJ. It was $10 when I purchased it years ago, but it's well worth the money.

One of these days I'll have to actually try to study the game and work on strategy, but until then, I like pitting myself against the difficult computer every-so-often.
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There were cheaper players by LG and Philips at the time, but more importantly the PS3 was the fastest to boot up and play a Blu-ray disc. Boot to playback times on 2006-era standalone Blu-ray players were abysmal, anywhere between 2 to 3 minutes.
This is great, I don't understand why there are not more reusable cloud formation templates and similar building blocks that make this easy to do.
https://outline.com/n56qHm
That's not really much different than having a terrace or a green roof to deal with when roof problems occur. Sure you can make a plain roof but it is a ridiculous waste of outdoor space, which leads you to need to reserve other space.

I would like to see terrace materials with mediocre efficiency solar collection, similar to the solar streets idea, but dealing with a realistic amount of wear and tear.
Why would you need more that 32 bits for an instruction, (other than backward compatibility, which I'm assuming riscv is free from.)
It's interesting that the idea for ES was born while working on a cooking app.

I'm working on an open source alternative to Algolia, called Typesense (https://github.com/typesense/typesense) and just earlier this month I built a site to showcase Typesense search on a 2M cooking recipes dataset:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25365397

There's something about searching and cooking I guess!
This probably happens because these links aren't paywalled for everyone. I, for instance, have never encountered any paywall on any medium.com article; whether that is because I have my browser configured to discard all cookies whenever the browser is closed (and I close my browser very often), or because I have it configured to disable Javascript by default unless the site is whitelisted (and medium.com is not on the whitelist), or something else, I don't know.
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It's already become securitized. Some solar co will pay you up-front for 25y access to your roof, because they'll find an investor happy enough for a 5% return on a project with an >10% yield.
Right, even if all
the wrongdoing had all happened together, but the rest of the economic and financial system had been sound, we’d have been ok.
Always fascinating to watch. Thanks for the link.
Agreed. I too want everyone to know that I am very respectable and mature and disapprove of anything inappropriate, especially if it comes from the internet on a site whose sole purpose, (which I knew when I visited it) is to give you unfiltered links other users submitted.
> as far as we can see, our solar system has more planets than any other system we have been able to observe

I may be out of date, but I thought that was an artefact of our methods and equipment rather than anything else — we can only see big things close to their stars, so if we were looking at our own system we’d miss (I forget, so e.g.) Mars, Uranus and Neptune?
The chicken looks amazing and looks like it it could have been painted today, both style and preservation.

I interpreted the image to the right of it as a dog.
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It would be nice if more hardware vendors got out of their own way and supported HomeKit. It’s not perfect, at all, but it is far ahead of the typical vendor provided software experience.
This is so counter-intuitive. I couldn't wrap my head around this and wikipedia article was more helpful to me than the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(land_yacht)

Thanks for the link.
I've noticed many GPT-3 article tending to wander into being article about AI, fear of AI and GPT-3-itself without any prompting. Many people's speech tends to become discussions about themselves, so that might demonstrate "humanity" in an odd sense.
Nvidia intentionally compromised the RTX 3080 with a quantity of memory that was not ideal for true 4k gaming in the near future in order to launch the new 20 gig model a bit later and have gamers justify the upgrade.

People bought the hell out of it anyway, even with the "measly" 10 gigs so why launch the 20 gig from the start and sell people something once when you can sell them the same thing twice? It's genius.

Mot hardware manufacturers do this and you can see it best in OnePlus devices where they are shipped with a compromise only to have that compromise addressed 6 months later with the new T update.

It feels nearly like the HW business is going down the SaaS route basically but for hardware.
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I got a similar impression. Discussing addressing modes,

> This is probably a more faithful representation of what happens in the x86 code as well. I doubt you can multiply with anything but multiples of 2, since multiplication is a fairly complex operation.

For an article comparing instruction sets, ‘I dunno and didn't care enough to spend 30 seconds Googling’ does not inspire confidence.
>That's literally the only thing that prevents work from becoming a sterile factory.

There is a difference between everyone being cold and taking it to such an extreme, everyone has to essentially be, ironically, the same robot in the rainbows and sunshine "work family".

>Well that gave me a good laugh.

Pulling out random numbers (goes for grandparent and your comment) doesn't help. Many people work in 1:5 manager:dev overhead, often more, due to multiple management layers all applying pressure on the bottom level. Not everyone is mentally a child that still needs to be babysat while an adult. Heck, college, university and all that are exactly there to ensure one is self-sufficient to an extend you don't need to manually moderate their every move.

It is fairly ironic you're devolving into the same behavior you accuse GP of, when a much more intellectual discussion can be held.
Nitpicking, but the documented RISC-V encoding supports anything from 16-bit through 176-bit long instruction words in 16-bit increments, with instruction length being determined by the first 16 bits of the instruction word. Some encoding space has been reserved for 192-bits or longer. Recent versions of the RISC-V spec have actually de-emphasized this length encoding, so implementations may well be allowed to use the encoding space in different ways as long as they don't conflict with existing 32-bit (or 16-bit if the C extension is specified) instructions.
> Software architecture is fundamentally about understanding the shape and structure of the problem domain, understanding the capabilities of your engineering tools, and creating an architecture where both domains support each other. Your overall system architecture should flex where the problem domain flexes, and may be rigid where the problem doman is rigid. (It really does "depend on your use-case".)

Can I just say that I really like this framing, I think it succinctly captures why you see such a broad range in languages/frameworks and why there hasn't been one software solution that fits most problems.
We actually know more about our ancient history than ancient people knew about few generations before them.

I am from Rome and live near the Colosseum, the connection with our past is very strong, especially now that we are uncovering more and more ancient relics thanks to modern archeology.

A friend of mine is a guide and we go visit the archeological sites at least once a month.

Ancient romans used to make fun of each other, regardless of the cetus

When the Roman army won some important battle the Emperor himself could be mocked for a day, to express the human nature of every Roman in contrast to the divine nature of many ruling classes of their times.

As an anecdote: Julius Caesar was bald and suffered about his condition, after a very important battle won by the Roman army he was made fun all day by his soldiers for being bald, despite being their general and one of the most important men in Rome.

They had a very peculiar relation with death, the funerary inscriptions are particularly interesting

https://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/galleries/Exhibits/...

It's a tradition in Rome to joke about death, even today.

Saying to a friend "ti ammazzo" (I'm gonna kill you) it's considered normal, in Rome if you hear "mortacci tua" (to your lousy bad ancestors!) you can be sure it's two friends that met after a long time and are saluting each other.

Romans built their cemeteries outside the city walls to not pollute the urban space, except for the Monumental Cemetery of Campo Verano (simply Verano in Rome) and the Protestant Cemetery, both built in 19th century, there are no other burial sites in Rome and the city's cemetery is located 30 Kms away from the city centre.

A lot of the Roman culture has survived through the centuries, it's the base of our society after all. We still use Roman roads and aqueducts, our cities are built on Roman settlements and follow the same structure, Roman law is a course and matter of examination at law university.

My "real Roman" friends can trace back their family roots to Roman people and have Roman family names (Fabi, Crescenzi, Emiliano, Lattanzi etc.)

Also we should not forget that Christians took a lot from the Hebrew tradition (angels in the old testament were inspired to mythological Egyptian or Mesopotamian creatures) and you can find testimony of their original form here, for example this Tetramorphous as Ezekiel described it, can be found at Anagni, a small city outside Rome. AFAIK there aren't many other places in the west where you can find them.

http://www.lundici.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Cattedrale-...

So, in a way, we are more connected to our past history than ever.
Ask HN: Sign Up with Facebook/Apple/Google – API or OAuth?
What is this technology called? An API, OAuth? I'm trying to do some research on how this works but I'm not sure what I should be researching.
> (1) the panels have a lifespan of 25 years, far below the desirable value for the lifetime of any house, but we have barely begun to figure out how to recycle them

meh if they lose 20% of their production after 25 years.

Someone without a Homeowners' Association will put them on lumber Toblerones all across their yard and happily use them for another several decades. When do they hit 33% or less efficiency? That's when you shred them up, recover the metals and grind them into dust for concrete. They're mostly sand products anyway.
I think that's the wrong question to ask. Aside from those writing kernels, compilers, JITs, etc., developers don't need to care, that's the point of programming languages and compilers. Throw a toolchain at a developer and tell them to do it and they can do it.

Comparing RISC-V to OpenSPARC is comparing apples to oranges. One is an ISA, the other is a hardware project.

What do you mean by "We barely have a decent ARM ecosystem". Are you talking about the tools to build for those processors? Or the tools to build new ones of those processors? Or the actual chips that are available?

I'm basically always within 10m of at least a half dozen ARM processors, and a handful of 8051s. At worst, RISC-V could be equivalent to ARM, without many of the parts that suck about it.