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Rupert Murdoch seems to be able to select the Australian prime minister; certainly, two former prime ministers whose parties dumped them between elections have gone on the record saying they believe he has a significant amount of power.

Consequently, since his company owns the governing Liberal party, it's no surprise that his interests magically become the interests of the government and through them the country.

You are of course right. But there is very little media competition in Australia. In a best case scenario, the opposition wins the election expected later this year and drops this policy. But is that a likely scenario? I wouldn't bet a horse on it.
Does this support DNS-over-HTTPS or DNS-over-TLS?
Unexpected Quantum Behavior in Insulators Suggests New Type of Particle
Yes, Serverless Inc. creators of the serverless framework (but it went the other direction). The framework is an open source tool that you can use to "deploy" "serverless" assets. Basically it covers most of those scripts you usually have to write and gives you a declarative format with some great variable capabilities that help you managed config and declare your components clearly. Running the tool deploys to your cloud of choice and results in functions, APIs, workflows, databases, or whatever you declare now existing and ready for use.

Far more seriously in usage, the framework is separate from the class of services regarded as serverless. The star that kicked it off was AWS Lambda. Serverless colloquially means you are dealing with an abstract service contract rather than a server (e.g. the oldest is S3). This removes patching and other maintenance that usually does not directly support business value. More formally, serverless includes auto-scaling to zero, paying only for what you use, high availability, and other design patterns most outside the large tech houses cannot use at low to no cost.

Full disclosure: I contributed to the serverless framework. I'm a biased fanboy.
Nintendo is taking down hardware hacking videos
I've always liked this design philosophy by Alan Kay[1]:

> Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible.

[1]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-story-behind-Alan-Kay-s-ad...
As if ... take a look outside of your bubble, nobody besides us uses it.
Iridium seems to be backed by a consulting business. I suppose your point is that it is not developed by an ad-driven company, which is fair.
Using the same chip from the ~$1k air in the >$3k pro seems like an odd request.

I doubt any Macbook Pro will ever have an M1. I would expect significantly more and faster cores.

EDIT: I'm stupid - there is a shipping M1 MBP today.
"On the contrary, that guides register allocation"

I agree that you are right that for simple programs you can use the x86 registers for the purpose chosen by Intel, e.g. CX for storing a loop counter and so on.

Nevertheless, in my experience that are a lot of programs where you also want to use the registers for other things and if you would want to ensure that the program has the minimal size possible with the x86 encoding, you would have to move that variable from one register to another many times, to be able to use the shorter instructions possible with certain registers.

Of course, you can just ignore a large number of the 8086 special instruction encodings that were designed to enable shorter programs, in which case you can use most registers in an almost orthogonal way.

However, that is not very satisfying, to waste the extra existing hardware, just because it is hard to use. I prefer a CPU which does not implement features with little benefits, but if the features have already been implemented, I will rather use them.

"The "high registers" are all accessed with an extra prefix byte."

This is how it should have been, except that AMD was super lazy for unknown reasons and they saved a few decoding gates in a 64-bit CPU with millions of gates by not fully-decoding that extra prefix byte.

Because of that, there are addressing modes where you cannot encode R12 and other addressing modes where you cannot encode R13. When using R12 or R13, certain instructions are longer than when using other registers and those instructions are not the same for R12 and for R13.

So, to write the minimum-length program you must allocate differently R12, R13 and the other high registers. Moreover, there are other differences in the high registers that are not enforced by hardware, but they are enforced by the AMD64 ABI conventions about register usage, further dividing the high registers into groups with different properties.

Also the high number of registers in RISC CPUs vs. CISC CPUs has almost no relationship with the RISC concept.

One or two extra registers in a RISC are enough to cover the fact that a CISC instruction that combines a load with an operation uses an implicit register, besides the architectural registers.

The fact that most RISC ISAs have more registers than older ISAs, which happened to be CISC, is due to the need for higher performance in modern CPUs.

When you have more registers, you can interleave more chains of dependent operations, being thus able to hide the latencies of various execution units or to fully use all the execution units that would have stayed idle otherwise.

Too many registers can lower the performance, due to the need for saving and restoring them, but 32 registers are definitely better than 16, because they frequently enable faster programs.

Register renaming does not help with this. Register renaming eliminates the problem of shared resources (i.e. shared registers) in concurrent instructions, but it does not enable you to write a program that will hide the latencies caused by dependencies between instructions or that will be able to fully use all the execution units.
> I have not found a single device that satisfies all three of these requirements. Any two, sure, but not all three.

And for even more fun you can add a 4th: ECC.
Ah, that makes sense! Sounds like they'll have to make up a lot of trust to users, assuming they have since changed their model or become more transparent.
In the same family: Uncensored DNS ⌘ https://blog.uncensoreddns.org/
Seems a bit extreme don't you think ? Getting rid of the sugar by getting rid of the host, sounds like those AI fatalistic movies where curing misery involves killing all humans.
Except that many programmers, including parent, happen to agree that with what the beginner is saying. That it is so obviously true that even a beginner can see it is evidence that the people who can't see it have conflated the way things are with the way things need to be.
My deeply unscientific opinion on the cause of the difference between the 2016 and 2020 election discussions on Reddit:

- As you said, concern about Covid diluted the vitriol in a lot of political threads

- In 2016, t_d was in ascendancy, and its members would flood other subreddits with their talking points. After that, sub moderators established stronger anti-brigading rules. In 2020, t_d was either banned or made private, I forget which.

- A lot of the highly charged flash points of 2016 were no longer that relevant in 2020: Syrian refugees, trans bathrooms, 'identity politics'

- 2016 also had 2 polarizing candidates. In 2020 only one was still looked at that way.
ah, that would do it, I was trying to figure out what the issue would be with it.

Is it possible that they just don't sell 4:3 screens very much anymore? I can't imagine why.

(Google tells me this is the case, 4:3 is the old standard and not made much anymore).
That would be the most ethical, sure. But this was a faster and safer course of action. And it wasn’t unethical.
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As an avid past user of Google Notebook, this really takes me back. Feels very familiar. Makes you wonder again why Google shuttered the project or why they replaced it with something like Keep.
(continued from OP)

Now came the time to get users. We were targeting mostly designers and non-technical folks – so we posted it on Digg (heh, remember those days?), Reddit, and several designer-centric forums. But none of those posts got any meaningful traction. We were at a loss.

Then, with tempered expectations about how a visual development tool for designers would be received in the hacker community, we posted here to HN. The title was “Show HN: Webflow – design responsive websites visually” [1] and we crossed our fingers really hard at this last-ditch effort.

What happened next was nothing short of life-changing. The post took off like wildfire, staying at #1 for the entire day. Incredible words of encouragement were all over the comments. Over 25,000 people signed up for our beta list. VentureBeat wrote a story about us that same day. Tons of people started talking about Webflow on Twitter, Reddit, etc as a result. This led to a ton of word of mouth and even more signups.

This amazing traction helped us get into YC several months later, gave us momentum to raise some funding from some angel investors, and most importantly gave us the confidence that we were truly on to something that can be really valuable for the world.

Since then, Webflow has grown to millions of users, over a hundred thousand customers, and over 200 team members. I still have to pinch myself when I see that Webflow has somehow become one of the top YC companies of all time. Out of our customers, tens of thousands use Webflow exclusively to make a living – to run an agency, build websites and light applications, create websites for clients, or for their own startups. Tons of YC startups (e.g. lattice.com, hellosign.com, many many more) now use Webflow to run their marketing.

I’m 1000% convinced that if that HN post did not take off, we would have gone back to our jobs and that early Webflow demo would have been a mere mention on our resumes somewhere. Thousands of people wouldn’t be empowered to build for the web the way they can now. I can’t imagine what that alternate future would be like, and it hinged seemingly on just one submission to this community.

So this is a very belated, but very huge THANK YOU to HN for being kind to a trio of co-founders who wanted to make something valuable for the world, and were at the end of their rope in many ways. You gave us confidence, hope, encouragement, and a lifeline that got us through the lows of building a startup.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499
As it happens Qualcomm was one of Xiaomi's early/initial investors. I don't know if they still own a stake.
This is unusual, and probably in part due to the influx of many new users, such as yourself. Stick with it, they'll have it back up.

I just upped my monthly donation to the Signal Technology Foundation to help them offset some of their costs.

https://www.signal.org/donate/
It seems clear to me that they're going to incorporate the exact same Mag Safe charger as they did on the iPhone 12. Same magnetic paddle, but it will attach to the lid or the back or something.
It's for people who use the keyboard for more then typing! That's the point of the OP you responded to.

Computers are for more than essays and coding.
Of course it's real, and most DDOS-as-a-service providers claim that they are offering load testing as a service.
I'm sure if I would tell you about the death of my dog in this thread, you would complain that I bring it up in the context of somebody with a horrible chronic disease.

I just want to understand your motivation, and the motivation of the OP. I guess I have a feeling you like to lord it over other people with the help of victims of diseases. (Similar things tend to happen when somebody dies - there are always people who then order other people around on the basis of "the deceased would want us to do x").

I never once said that the spoon women doesn't have it hard, btw. That is your interpretation. I want to know why it annoys you if people are not sufficiently sad about it. I probably live at the other end of the world, so I just wonder why it is so important to you.

Btw there is also a story about Buddha who told one of his suffering disciples to find somebody who doesn't have a hard fate, and they were unable to find somebody. I guess Buddha was a real asshole, according to you (he did exactly the thing you claim is a big no no).
I think you have a good point.

I know an fairly good amateur folk musician who can't read music at all. He relies entirely on his ability to learn music by ear. But he can usually play something after listening to it a few times, and he mostly plays solo folk music. So because he's talented and happy in his niche, he can get by without many typical professional skills.

Similarly, I know a CS researcher who hates to use anything but MatLab, and his MatLab code is not exactly an example of good software engineering. But he's published a stack of really great papers. He's brilliant and he works in a niche.

But the average novice would not be well served by imitating either of these people. They can do what they do because they're above average in specific skills, and because they've found a niche where they can thrive.
It has been down for roughly 90 minutes at my end. Previous thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25792136
Valter Longo’s lab at USC has done extensive research on this, and developed a fasting mimicking diet that can be used in conjunction with cancer treatments. They found that it increases resiliency from chemotherapy in healthy cells and makes cancer cells more vulnerable.

This interview with Rhonda Patrick is a good introduction to his research, but it’s quite extensive and the papers are worth checking out if you’re interested in this topic.

https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/valter-longo-2
Incoming Intel CEO Derides Inability to 'Deliver Better Products' Than Apple
Yes, exactly. Have the Navy design, deploy, and operate reactors for that very reason. They've already done it, instead of startups attempting to start from zero. Even if you don't generate a profit, or operate at a reasonable loss, you're projecting soft power a la China's Belt and Road while providing humanitarian and environmental benefits.

You might even deploy them as marine vessels in ports [1], so that in the event of a (hopefully rare!) catastrophic failure, flooding the reactor with water is trivial.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power...
I want the play the piano but don't want to put in the time. Answer "don't be lazy". I want the learn to dance but don't want to put the time. Response: "Don't be lazy".

What is special about programming that should be easy where playing the piano or learning to draw well is not? Maybe it's just fundamentally hard?

I'm not suggesting it can't be made more approachable for beginners and for small tasks but most non-trivial things someone wants to make, they have 1000s of questions that need to be answered and even more combinations. Making the tools better, for the most part, won't remove that complexity IMO.

Take the stereotypical "To Do" starter app. First you just have an array (db) of todos and they have title, text, done fields, and that's it. Then you add due dates, dependent tasks, assigning ownership for tasks, oh, you just made it multi-user, you now need login, ownership, editing rights, migrations when someone quits. You probably have user settings, machine local settings, user account setting, People want different displays of the data, sorted different ways, or with graphs. They need formatting for printing. You want notifications when a task gets reassigned but you don't want them notified on every device. Oh, suddenly you have users in foreign office, they need it localized., etc.. It gets extremely complicated very quickly.
To my knowledge sometimes are setting are locked behind an institution's setup. You might need to log in to the Zoom website where your preferences are and see if there is a setting to enable advanced settings or something to that effect.

Then prior to screen sharing or audio sharing there is a button on the top left for "original audio".
I was using the docker image with my own ansible/nginx setup before but I found that maintaining required a little more attention that I'd like to give it, so I decided to give the snap package a go. One nice thing is that it self-updates automatically. What sort of issues did you encounter?
All alternatives, like Signal, are getting a huge unexpected influx of new users from Parler's shutdown. One of the others was having similar problems a day or two ago. I think I remember seeing that Signal had the biggest boost, too.
And THAT will make me finally replace my MacBook Pro 2015. No touch bar, MagSafe, good amount of ports. The iPhone 12-esque design is a good bonus too (I like it more than all others before it).

Only took 5-6 years but I am again excited about MacBooks.
What about VISA?
This is happening as many groups of friends/colleagues are trying it out.. Not a great start for most of us, I wonder how many will give up instead of trying again next week or so.
The SCOTUS cases covered two situations - a guy convicted of murder and another (the one that was deceided) was related to child sex abuse.

The decision was that congress had not disestablished the reservation as part of the Oklahoma Enabling Act of 1906, and so they could not be convicted in Oklahoma courts.

This emphasizes, not diminishes, congresses role in deciding what reservations are established or not.
Sods law, been setting up the matrix bridge, and wondered why I couldn't get anything to authenticate!
Here's how I'm aging gracefully.

Assume young people are more capable than I was and know more than I did and be right every day of the week.

Listen to hundreds of new artists every year and be blown away by how good many of them are.

Know that my understanding is incomplete.

Keep making mistakes. Keep learning from them.

Turn assumptions on their head. eg: Failure is awesome.

Stop typing this and talk to my adult kids.
I wonder if the "MagSafe" they are talking about is the new magsafe wireless charging on the iphone 12?

It would be nice to be able to have a charging pad for my laptop rather than needing to mess with wires at all.

Speculation time! I wonder if they will be able to put a magsafe wireless charging spot both under the laptop, and on top next to the trackpad! They could let you charge your iphone from your laptop, and charge the laptop via some fancy new magsafe pad.

In fact I wonder if this could include some of the "air power" tech that was reportedly cut a while back?
I'm trying to create a better stranger chat experience. Services like chatroulette and omegle have been around for around 10 years, and haven't really evolved much since then. I think this can be done a lot better. My version focuses on topic based chat, and uses machine learning to optimize for more civil conversations.
It seems that this guy decided to go heavily into Bitcoin because of a mistaken belief that seems all too common: "At the time, I saw a market dislocation and the likelihood of significant dollar inflation due to the US Government’s likely response to the unfolding pandemic."

He thought that government responses to severe crises that inject lots of money into the economy will cause "significant dollar inflation". In the real world, over the full year of 2020 inflation was 1.4% in the US (food costs went up a bit more, energy costs went down). Failure to inject money into a failing economy results in massive deflation. That's because money was rapidly disappearing from the economy. Money isn't created primarily because governments print it; whenever a bank creates a loan money is created, and when they call in loans money disappears. Central banks control the money supply by regulating banks, and their goal is to keep things stable.

Source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
A system I built in Java, in 1998, was replaced in favour of an attempted rewrite in Oberon.

My Swiss colleagues had convinced themselves that Java had no future and ETHZ-alumni could do no wrong, ever.

I believe the project failed and people lost their jobs because of this decision.
Same here, love it!
2160×1440 (185ppi) is a touch on the low side, though admittedly very close to 2560×1440 on a 15.6″ display (188ppi; I confess I had that resolution more in mind for a 13″ or 14″ chassis). But definitely far less than the ~275ppi of my Surface Book’s 3000×2000!

This definitely looks an interesting machine, but it seems they’re not selling it in Australia, so alas, I can’t get it. Otherwise I’d be very strongly considering it.
British conductor Simon Rattle applies for German citizenship
It is? To this day I'm buying new peripherals that only offer micro-USB and come with a cable with regular USB on the other end. I'm talking devices made within the last couple of years. In fact I'd say that's been my experience with every purchase I've made besides my refurbed Pixel 3 XL. USB-C definitely doesn't seem ubiquitous to me.
> "It would be unfortunate and detrimental to The Intercept for this story to be published elsewhere." --Betsy Reed

> So that is stating very clearly: No we won't publish it. No you can't publish it elsewhere.

You are just embarrassing yourself here.

> “Make of the story Greenwald wrote what you will. There's been plenty of opportunity to falsify it and discredit it.“

It has already been widely discredited by every major news room, including the Republican-leaning Wall Street Journal.

At this point, there is utterly no sense in which a person can believe the unsubstantiated allegations against Hunter Biden or the completely ridiculous found laptop story, other than literally supporting a fascist presidential regime.

What you’re suggesting is a deeply radical and extreme point of view that has been overwhelmingly dismissed by every credible news source. You’re taking a stance on both the Greenwald story and the Hunter Biden story that is wildly and ridiculously decoupled from reality, in a seriously extreme manner that deserves to be called out as totally debunked and inappropriate.
It will not be the magsafe of old. I could see them making a magsafe adapter similar to the iphone’s, that snaps onto the back of the screen on either side.
Yeah, I quite like System.CommandLine.DragonFruit particularly for what should be throwaway test apps, I like the way you just add the parameters into main.
RG351P does look nice.

In the end, I just fall victim to no time for emulation, though picking up a Vita would be nice...
or deuxnut.c
I played around with the "seamless view" and found it very appealing. I wish my twitter timeline could look like that...
You wish! Intel only very recently (e.g. 3 years ago) brought 4 cores to mainstream in the mobile segment.

Low power mobile chips were dual core until Q3 2017 when Kaby Lake refresh was released and brought 4 cores to the i5 and i7 line-up. Even then, entry level and mainstream versions (i3 in particular) remained dual core configs.
> I'm saying the tools are not weird if you understand them

No, they are still weird. They are only not weird if you've become accustomed to the weirdness.

I primarily develop on Windows, and when I come to Linux to work on things I am astonished to find that Linux developers think nothing of using upwards of half a dozen different languages to build one thing. CMake, autoconf, shell, and python all being used to build a single C++ program is weird and unnecessary. If you don't think so I submit you've merely become accustomed to doing things in this incredibly weird way!

PS: Windows has its own developer tendencies that are weird and unnecessary, but I will at least readily admit that about them.