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> What I don't miss are the days of thunking, marshalling, bank switching, and segmented memory.

Been thinking about this for a while. Why don't instruction sets define arrays at the hardware level? That seems to be where practically all the pain of memory management comes from - dynamically sized arrays (and 2D arrays i.e. matrices) that grow or shrink throughout the program's lifecycle. Why aren't `malloc` and `free` architecture-level instructions? Let the hardware worry about finding space within memory, it'll almost certainly be faster than any software algorithm. And if you can do that, can't you putdynamically sized arrays into the architecture as well? This solves so many software related problems. x86 is CISC so it's not like they bother with instruction count; is there something I'm missing? Has this been tried before? I know SIMD is something similar, but I don't think anything exists that tries to replace malloc/free.
"Show me the man and I'll show you the crime."

-Lavrentiy Beria

That quote was from the soviet side of the Cold War, but both sides did and still follow it's spirit.
In which case the cost of housing will level out across the country and again you end up with people being paid roughly the same amount no matter where they live.
iwantmyname is solid, been using them for over 5 years.
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Yeah, I am planning to do that.
Sadly that option doesn't even exist on the Canadian site for whatever reason.

I did manage to find this (https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=3&lang=en) which they claim to honour.

I probably should be purging cookies more often :/
Sarcasm? Do you not believe that our law enforcement officers are actually chasing real bad guys? Are "bad guys" just a made up strawman in your mind?
It’s not so draconian when the major drive behind what most people say is the benefit of cryptocurrencies is explicitly money laundering.
1) Yes, even if you're sure

2) The running theory is that an immunological response is primed by a first infection, so you'll probably benefit little
> The only difference is that the bitcoin/gold side keeps on trying to think of US Dollars as a store of value while the government and economists know it's a medium of exchange.

Both. In the end, everything is a commodity

— Apologies to Baudrillard
I learnt a lot from Factfulness. Great book!

My concern is mainly an ecological one, which I don't recall Factfulness really addressing. While human welfare continues to improve in most of the world, our sustainable use of natural resources does not, reducing our access to fertile land and fresh water in years to come. I hope technology can get us out of the giant pickle coming our way because I don't put much faith in our long term planning at a national or global level.
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Incidentally, I don't like living in a country where some yahoo can pack a truck with explosives, but here we are.
This trend will hopefully give rise to the linux of hardware, with opensourced IP that anyone can improve upon, and in a lot of ways it could be better than any one company's product, but this is still distant (because it takes a small nations GDP to make a chip that is a commercial success)......
Reminds me of another bombing incident, where the FBI was warned by the Russian FSB that the Boston Bombers, the Tsarnaevs, had associated with Islamist militant extremists: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-explosions-boston-con...

Yet, millions of dollars were being poured into "Fusion Centers", efforts to coordinate activities between intelligence agencies and local law enforcement: what were they doing? Turns out they were busy monitoring Occupy Boston, same as Fusion Centers across the country: http://www.justiceonline.org/unaware_of_tsarnaev_warnings

They always ask for more surveillance funding/powers, yet they never have a good answer when it comes to what they do when they're granted such powers.
I’m sure at some point people said similar things about stuff like hot shower and telephone.
If your ISP is swapping prefixes on you without warning (vs giving you lifetimes and chance to deprecate old addresses) then they are providing bad v6 service and you should complain loudly. That said, it's still no worse than what you get with v4...
I 'believe' is different from 'I have seen vorticalbox making a bomb in his car'
There is something almost Shakespearean about some of those sentences. I guess it's the combination of regular English words with highly unusual grammar.
As I understand it mRNA is one of the latter steps before a cell produces proteins that make up cells. The mRNA in the COVID vaccines is a precursor to immune system cells that can recognize COVID and deal with it. This represents a new way of training an immune system. The classical method is to put some dead or weakened disease cells in your body for your immune system to learn and practice defeating.

One method of approaching a cancer treatment might be to train the immune system to recognize cancer cells as something to be defeated. This on its own isn't new. What's new is the approach toward making a pipeline that can be tested for efficacy/safety/etc. The Bio Eats World podcast linked below has an explainer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_RNA

https://bio-eats-world.simplecast.com/episodes/moderna-covid...
Sure, but that's not normality, no one wants that to be standard police response. The whole point of the recent protests is to get real protections for all people, regardless of race or nationaloty, not to strip white Americans of theirs.
of course. and at the same time, the Power Mac G3 All In One was being sold to education customers too.
How can I calculate an evaluation for my ecommerce business?
Some folks get way too entitled about a product that a private company puts out for free.
A fully peer-to-peer network is arguably how the IPv4 internet still works, as hosts behind NAT are not really part of it. But of course it hurts the network effect when fewer users are on the network proper.
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Steve hated it. Bill hated what it turned out to be by 1999 (I left around then). Dave Cutler hated it. Eric Engstrom saw it more as a defensive strategy. Microsoft poured an incredible amount of talent and resources that would have gone towards the Web into Xbox.
The voters voted that only people who are silly enough to not already own a house will foot the bill. If I own a multi million dollar house and pay $1k in taxes per year, why wouldn't I vote for all the tax increases in the world (save for repealing prop 13)?
Does it matter? I really feel like I am missing some key knowledge about why people care that their credit card number might be stolen—especially when compared to much more immutable private information like your email address, home address, or phone number.

Cardholder agreements for credit cards typically say that you aren’t liable for any fraudulent charges so long as you report them within a couple of billing cycles. I once had my credit card number stolen, called the bank to report it, and they reversed the charge and sent me a new card via FedEx Express. The whole process took less than ten minutes.

What don’t I know? Is it just that when companies emphasise “no credit card information was stolen” in their data breach announcements that this gives a false impression that this data is more important to keep secret, or what?
You are right, but it's because people are generally not willing to enter a proper debate on the issues in China. Take the Uigher issue, it is ALWAYS reported with a lack of context.

No mention of the bombings, the mass killing events, the huge domestic terrorism issue it has caused China for the last 20 years. Instead we just get reports of China "randomly" persecuting these people for seemingly no reason.

When you have people showing up at one of the largest train stations[0] in the country openly representing an ethnic minority and randomly stabbing men, woman and children of Han decent... what is the correct government response?

This isn't even the debate that we have. We don't ask this question at all, we instead publish photos of prisons, and reeducation camps, but no one ever seems to ask "Why is china doing this?" because the assumption that Western Media would like you to make is "Because they are just evil communists".

It would be like reporting on Guantanamo as an "off shore prison where America kidnaps people from foreign countries and keeps them there for no reason, most have never even been the the US" --- There would be uproar if news was reported that way. But when it's China, everyone is happy to have their blinders on, and not understand or explore the full context of a difficult issue.

[0] https://time.com/88941/not-again-knife-attack-at-train-stati...
It's not at all surprising to see i2net and Tor growing, and people even putting Gopher servers and proxies back online.

Then again, I'm all about people putting information out there because they have something to share, not because their primary focus is "how can I monetize this?"

I can spend less on a VPS for a month than I can at a morning of Starbucks. I can do a whole lot more (and share a lot more) with the VPS. No expectation of making money from it either.

I miss the days of /~ pages too.
There is buster: https://github.com/dessant/buster

Wasn't something I mentioned earlier but using the reCAPTCHA audio is also another solution for gcap. I haven't ever used it personally but always seemed like a cool idea.
I think providing programmable money to the masses could be really beneficial.

Unfortunately institutions exist to maximise control, and the horror of a CBDC just gets worse the more you think about it.
200,000+ people work at those companies. I'm guessing not all of them are being held hostage there.
> People should be paid according to the value they bring to the company.

How do you translate value to a $$ amount?
They certainly could have done more within the law. The FBI has been successful at snaring people who were merely thinking of committing terrorism, through elaborate sting operations.
Delegation of operations outside of one's core competencies to others with proven track records of success seems smarter than reinventing the wheel from first principles. Employers, insurance companies and providers from med centers to corner pharmacies have a wealth of experience in delivering products into people's arms. Why let that go to waste?
Inflation is highly variable, and the body that can turn the most knobs (the Fed) doesn't have a good track record of predicting what the effect of that knob turning will do lately.

Also, when the government borrows money and the fed buys notes to keep borrowing rates low, that still produces inflation. The fed is sitting on about 4T$ in bonds as of now.
Yes, good show, PageRank. Slight problem, though -- that measures popularity, which correlates with outrage rather than quality. Then you end up with results full of OAN and CNN.
Unfortunately the laws of physics and chemistry work everywhere. We have to solve this kind of problem at the human level.
That was my comment actually. You could be right, as I’ve only used visa data for advertising which was merchant names only. Lots of merchants do sell itemized data though.

Stripe/etc definitely get itemized, but credits cards get less as far as I know.
I have an iMac G4 as well. One day it'll get an SSD upgrade but for now, the original drive is still working.

all these years later and it's still looking almost new. Mac OS 9 and everything.

I have a lot of love for the old PowerPC units. Even fire up Hotline sometimes.
Nice list thanks.

Perhaps you can add "High Performance Browser Networking" in your networking book section:

https://hpbn.co/
I have had this discussion so many times with employers. It makes little sense that the company should earn more from some employees than others for the same work.

I get it that often companies are specifically trying to encourage people to live near their office in expensive cities, but from a standpoint of value created for the company it seems irrelevant what an employees outgoings are.

Presumably greater competition from more places around the world would eventually drive down developer wages in major cities. I do hear a lot of justification in terms of market costs for labour varying by region, but it frequently comes from people who benefit from stock market prices that are not priced depending differently on region.

Maybe it's naive and unrealistic but I'd actually like to see it cause cities to get too expensive and actually create benefit for bringing economic activity to places with lower market wages.

I know the UK most intimately, and I can only imagine how areas like the North East might look if money had flown out of London and allowed more people who can work remotely to live there at higher wages. Would it have caused rifts and gentrification? Would the additional money have made it into the local economy and created more local businesses and a better economy?

There are a lot of open questions and I'm certainly in the camp that supports non-regionalised pay - to the extent I'd sooner work for someone else than accept a pay cut for doing exactly the same work.
It sounds like we're cancelling someone for saying that we should cancel someone for saying something and dressing that up as some grand ideological battle
You asserted it was just. I just don't think that's axiomatic. I'm not here to argue whether it's true, just to say that you shouldn't take it as necessarily factual.
How often do calls about potential bombers result in police shootings? If your comment is in earnest, I think you'd be relieved to know that it's very rare, regardless of the ethnicity of the people who are being searched/detained/arrested (feel free to ignore my comment if you were just going for hyperbolic cynicism)

I remember the HN post about Marak Squirs getting arrested for homemade explosives going off in his apartment and AFAIK the police didn't killed him.

(edited to make the tone a bit less pointed)
You can schedule a test online. Took me 3 days to get tested and 1 day to get the results.
This is correct. I worked at oracle, who is the go between for advertisers/agencies and vendors like visa who sell data but don’t do the “client facing” kind of stuff.
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> train the immune system to recognize cancer

Interesting parallel between the immune system and machine learning - they both need to train and curriculum training (vaccination) is more efficient.
Near me Google maps displays a road that has been removed in 2008. When I found that out earlier last year, I used exactly this feature to suggest a removal. As of now, the road is still on Google Maps and the only response I've ever gotten was the automated email reply.
I use physical cash at every opportunity already.

How do you buy airline tickets that way? How do you purchase things online for delivery during a pandemic?
What do you mean? There's been a bunch of emergency funding bills passed.
My Pixelbook seems to hit most of those points (though unfortunately not quite all):

- Ships with CoreBoot

- Much nicer fit/finish than the average non-Apple laptop (all metal, aside from the rubber palm rest)

- Display wasn't defective :)

- There's a logo, alas

- Comparing to my work Macbook Pro, I'd say viewing angle and brightness are both on par, and the screen is indeed glossy

- I don't know if the trackpad is actually glass, but it does feel nicer nicer than pretty much any other trackpad I've used (to the point where I don't miss having a nub like on my usual Latitudes/Precisions and ThinkPads)

- No crazy vertical integration hardware-wise, but it being one of the main targets for Fuchsia is kinda cool, I guess

- It has both touch and screen-flipping, but it's easy enough to just... not use them (and indeed, most of the time I don't)

- I can't speak to the support aspect (since I've never had to put in a support request, and typically prefer fixing things myself anyway), but Google unfortunately has a, um, reputation...

I've been pretty happy with it; it's a nice solid machine, and while I ain't a fan of Chrome OS at all, the Crostini support makes it at least usable for my purposes (and the first-class Android app support is a nice bonus).

The main downside for me is that Chrome OS seems to be the only option for it that doesn't have some major drawbacks like missing audio support or suspend/resume issues.
The problem is, in most parts of the country that will mean cost of living will increase. People who can't do their jobs remotely will suffer because of that.
You're right that volatility would be a large issue too.

But I also don't want to be the accountant that's trying to figure out the tax implications of a company that has 50 workers and 18000 line items denominated in bitcoin. Not to mention dealing with first in, first out accounting.
The certificate used on this website says it’s owned by Cloudflare. That doesn’t help in this instance.

Especially since this means anything you submit will be decrypted by Cloudflare. It may then be transmitted in the clear to whoever runs the backend sever that Cloudflare is proxying for.
The situation is even more complicated in ND where some section line roads are sketchy as hell but if they stop being used the adjacent landowner can take them over. This has led to some bad behavior like landowners putting up (illegal) signs and gates and it seems getting google to remove some legitimate roads from google maps.
>In my view the biggest issue with the whole "robots unite to violently overthrow humanity" trope ... but rather the fact that it presupposes an AI that is essentially human; with all the same emotions, goals, and vices that a human would have.

Most of the tropes I remember revolve around AI being sentient, logical, but lacking human emotion. The trope is that without their judgement being clouded by human emotions and desires, that they come to the logical conclusion that humanity is the most negative and destructive force on the planet and that we must be removed or regulated.

I guess you could still argue we're forcing human values onto such an AI by assuming it even cares what happens to the planet though.
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Game of Drones?
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I was in one of the first waves of AppleCare representatives at the then-brand new call center in Elk Grove, CA. We had an iMac as our workstation. There was a lot of "eat your own dog food" going on and I loved it. It was really exciting for me to see Apple start to rebound like it did. I have a lot of happy memories there and I love to see the older machines still bringing joy to people.

I'm still kicking myself for not buying stock when I could.
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Which doesn't seem bad. That would massively increase people's freedom to move around and to work for different employers based in different regions and probably work out well for everyone in the long run.

Very rich hub cities seem to draw so much money away from less wealthy cities. Certainly in UK London has much greater spending and better public transport than basically the entire rest of the UK.

It might be a first step to more equal competition for labour (and naturally for jobs) around a country.
Might need to add an explicit /s tag to this, even if it is just the plot of Minority Report :)
Challenge trials aren't something that is normally done since they are considered high risk and of questionable morality
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> Also, when the government borrows money and the fed buys notes to keep borrowing rates low, that still produces inflation.

Assuming interest rates aren't 0 or near 0 that's true. But recently inflation has been consistently lower than historical norms.
The quoted person says he had none.
If Google is anything like other companies, internal employees' own support requests are prioritized, even on external-facing channels.
I love how this article talks about the neglect of the process from Google and probably says something significant about russia's relationship with google in general and google maps at the cost of two of their own citizens needlessly dying by freezing to death and in the top rated comments is bicker about whether an old couple should be the one to pay for a gate to stop accidental trespassing.

I get the problems are both of the same origin, but the discussion has a much better chance of making progress and getting Google's attention which is hard to do when people's lives are at stake. Or when they have been lost directly due to their own oversights.
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I asked myself the same question but in my country (in E.E.) I discovered the government has created an app for self registration in 3 stages - medical personnel first, then elderly and at risk people, then general population. I can't register yet. I assume US has something similar at the very least.
You obviously didn't go to a school with metal detectors...
> I'd probably go Google since they would be the hardest for someone to get ahold of.

If customers can't reach the support centre, neither can scammers.
“With limited exceptions, a tech worker's location has zero affect on their value to the company.”

I disagree. I believe continued personal interaction with team mates to produce better outcomes. Not everyone can function at their best, remotely.
Ask HN: Ads-B Tracking PD Helicopters in South SF Bay Area
Any ADS-B heads in the SF Bay Area can help me track the answer down.

A couple months ago if I heard the ghetto bird flying overhead I could jump on adsbexchange.com and find the details. It was always a tail number ending in PD.

Now I can't, for about the last 2 months, see that info anymore. It's clearly PD overhead, but I just see MLAT info now. Like this. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=~2b093f

I know buzzfeed put out that article about tracking military/police flights in June, which drew a lot of attention to this info. Even though it had been available for a while by then.

Why did this info only recently get censored? Any change in law or is this just someone finally realizing the info was there and squashing it?
"what most people say about X" is not possible to disprove or have an argument about and is questionable as motivation for regulation in the first place.
I don’t know, I think if white Americans were subjected to the same experiences as non-white Americans, then perhaps police reform would become an important topic for white Americans.
It only takes one contact:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/29/us/covid-coronavirus-vict...
That would depend on whether or not local pay ended up increasing more generally or not. It makes sense this would actually lead to greater spending in localities that didn't have it before.

Admittedly that could lead to the more toxic gentrification form that you mention, but it could make it more possible for local people in an area like that to start businesses due to the larger local economy. Really depends on so many factors it's hard to be confident.
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I was making a list, but if you really need a list, then you’ve not been following the news. Ever hear of a woman called Breonna?
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Windows 8 is the win OS I have happiest experiences with. It has far less bugs than windows 10, even today's windows 10.

It is windows 8 let me return from Linux to Windows, and it is windows 10 let me back to Linux again.
A few reasons I don't want paid in Bitcoin:
* There are no proper, FDIC insured Bitcoin banks

* Taxes are significantly more complicated

* No 401K

* Volatility

* Lack of privacy

* Need to convert to USD to pay my bills