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Noob questions:

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What's the boundary between microcode and a VM w/ JIT?

Some tidbits I've read, IIRC: Apple Silicon M1 does a surprisingly good job of running a x86 emulator. Some chips now use microcode to support novel ISA extensions. Some chips are adaptive, optimizing hot path ISA instructions. There were special purpose chips for LISP and JVM and probably others. Old school mainframes used to emulate other instruction sets.

Knowing a little bit about JVM, it's JIT, the Java Memory Model...

These (amazing) hardware advances kinda sound like a VM w/ JIT.

So at what point are these chips designed in conjunction with the JIT?

Isn't that kinda what Transmeta was trying to do?

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What can these chips and systems do to improve security? Stuff like tagged data descriptors and buffer overflow protection.

The Burroughs processors had stuff like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems_descri...

Current OSs have a smattering of features.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_space_protection

Surely more could be done? So I assume someone somewhere is already doing it.
In practice, I would be surprised if any court up to and including the Supreme Court would find this loophole an acceptable defense. It could certainly be a long complicated legal battle, but ultimately, I doubt the Supreme Court would find that the intent of the Sixth Amendment was to allow criminals to go free in this situation.
Hi, I'm Italian, too. Born in the states, but I'm an Italian citizen, learned to cook from Italian family here and there, and I know enough of the language to read that recipe. I stand corrected, cagliata isn't traditional ricotta... but it's creamier and sweeter, which makes for a better cannoli filling in my opinion. You'd probably be alarmed, but I've seen cannoli filled with everything from mascarpone to miracle whip... well, I won't vouch for the miracle whip but diaspora make do with the ingredients we've got (ugh, but I do not touch alfredo sauce).

As for the coffee. Moretta fanese is perhaps the closest traditional Italian beverage, containing lemon and coffee. Amusingly, somebody's popularized the name "Cafè Romano" for lemon zest in coffee... but, at best, it's as Italian as alfredo sauce. In Algeria, there's a drink known as a Mazagran, which appears to be an invention by or for the French Legion. So, while this combination is not from the homeland, there are plenty of folks drinking coffee with lemon.

Personally, I love citrus in black coffee. My personal favorite is peel of mandarin orange in espresso; second favorite is a sour (light roast) cold brew 3:1 with lime juice.

As for tradition: do you eat risotto, gnocchi, tomatoes, zucchini, peperoncini, or fichi d'India?
MetroMile says a website bug let a hacker obtain driver’s license numbers
Show HN: Cell Collective Now Supports Constraint-Based Modelling
When you get caught you get booted off the platform.
This happened to an empty conference room while I was working at Stanford. They noticed something was amiss when honey began dripping down the walls.
Stripe is not a good choice for Indian payments, we had trouble taking payments as the gateway rejects visa cards too. We've contacted the support multiple times but never received a solution. I recommend to try RazorPay.com (YC backed) just for Indian subcontinent.
Gigafactory Berlin will be filled with graffiti art, says Elon Musk
Ummm, no. While premeditation enhances the murder charge and mens rea is a very important legal concept, thoughts are not crimes.
Client hints (proposed successor) are the same thing but more selective. That is a site has to request extra information rather being given right away. Among them are platform and mobileness.
The key point is at the end:

> WSB's power users are younger finance bros. It's 30-something investment bankers and portfolio managers memeing with each other and cosplaying as "autists."

> If you didn't know what a gamma squeeze was 48 hours ago, you are their exit strategy and the down payment on their next Porsche.
How long can it take in the sec?

Xrp is coin or Valor?
I understand where this thinking comes from but I still think it's kind of a simplistic attitude. People depend on the technology they use. When you convince someone to rely on something you've produced (and, crucially, continue working on), I think you do actually create a duty to be responsive to them. They depend on your work. Are we really so limited in our ethical thinking that we require an exchange of money to create obligation?

I understand that people can be aggressive, rude, and downright hostile. I'm not suggesting that such behavior be rewarded. Nor am I suggesting that every open source project has to do everything any user says. I do, however, object to the notion that there is no obligation whatsoever between the producer of a technology and the users of that technology, regardless of whether money has changed hands.
I wonder if the current remote working situation is helping to normalize developer salaries worldwide.

I also foresee a few more "business events" in the future for companies that try to drag all their devs back into open office layouts.
You are correct of course, Sway does do a little more than i3 does.

That being said, you can still get the same experience as you are used to by dropping in your i3 config file. I'm not saying that you "Need to move! Using X still is evil!", I'm just saying dismissing Sway out of hand because it's "Not i3" isn't fair either.
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Roadster is looking for full-stack, backend and devops software engineers to join our team of 12 developers in a 130+ person company. We focus obsessively on both the consumer experience as well as building the most complete and accurate content and workflow for automotive transactions. If you love to ship product with a small friendly team, own features, and contribute to a successful growing business, we'd like to talk.

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> you could replace "writer" with almost anything and make the same analogy. Even something like "hitman"!

This is some extraordinary specious reasoning, comparing "writer" with "hitman". How is "hitman" a creative force for good for society?

There is value in good writing. We haven't figured out how to judge and pay for it directly. It's not hard to see that if you continue to not pay for something, it doesn't get done. And one day a billionaire will pay for it, as some special project. Bezos owns the WaPo, I'm not making any statement about editorial influence, but is it a reach to surmise the WaPo is more hesitant in publishing negative articles about things in Bezos' influence? He can probably give the paper away for free, or subsidize it. Then you will say, is everything bought and paid for by the billionaires? Do I declare for the fiefdom of Elon or the barony of Zuckerberg? It's miserable. This was literally a comment on HN last week.

There's value in writing, music-making, art, cooking, photography. That the world doesn't pay well for these things, or the pay curve is depressed except for the very few, is not a convincing argument that they are inherently not valuable. The HN crowd is in the Maslow hierarchy to be able to afford to pay for it.

Pay for the things you want more of. If you don't pay for independent writing, someone else will pay for it, and it's not to support your interests.
Wow, that's low... They are the same type of people that would steal money from a homeless' cup? And no criminal charges, of course.
You got me! The word defense is, in fact, only used in courts of law.
So that means that 99% of the population should not use a smartphone. Compare the downsides of that with the intangible benefit of more privacy.
This is quite ridiculous. I’d say it’s obviously ridiculous but others may have a different point of view. The government there is eager to side with Murdoch and his friends for favorable coverage so that they can pocket money from this extortion stunt while disregarding the impact to its many many citizens. Suggesting Bing is good enough is stupid because if their citizens were to use it over google if google quits that market, what then ? Government goes after them and if it does what if Microsoft also gets out? And if government doesn’t then doesn’t that show to the world that it was personal with google? People shouldn’t be stupid. It’s a low bar to clear.
For containers Go static binaries are great. Used to build Docker containers for Kubernetes using a 8 MB Go binary. That was all you needed. No libraries. No "minimum OS' Alpine or Ubuntu image.
> Plus more people are becoming aware of how rigged the whole financial system is, how its a boys club that will attack any outsider at sight.

Are they though? I mean the idea that hedge funds are rigging the system is so well established in the public psyche it drove the meme stocks in the first place.

If people's conclusions from all this are that Melvin Capital lied about unwinding their shorts and Robinhood rigged it for them but those nice people saying BUY AND HOLD YOLO on reddit were fighting their corner, has the state of their knowledge advanced?
We increased the data limits of our Free Plan by 100x. Here’s why
> No known felonies have been committed in the Zone of Death since Kalt's discovery. However, a poacher named Michael Belderrain illegally shot an elk in the Montana section of Yellowstone. While that section of the park does have enough residents to form a jury, it might be difficult to put together a standing and fair one due to travel or unwillingness of members of the small population there to serve. A federal judge ruled that Belderrain could be tried in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming, despite the Sixth Amendment problem. Belderrain cited Kalt's paper "The Perfect Crime" to explain why he believed it was illegal to have his trial with a jury from a state other than where the crime was committed. The court dismissed this argument. Belderrain took a plea deal conditioned on him not appealing the Zone of Death issue to the 10th Circuit, and the issue was left unresolved.

This (and countless other actions) show how meaningless laws are as anything but an arbitrary threat of force. Governments and other organizations that make laws don't consider themselves bound by them, and why should they? They are institutions of force, not reason. An accusation of hypocrisy does nothing against a gun.
I was working at a large real estate marketplace. Product management came up with a nice new UI for the backend every two months, because that was what they loved to do - also lots of designers hanging around that need to work! Real estate broker - the customers - hated it of course, they only wanted to get their job done, not relearn the UI every two months.
that's something I don't understand. the Dev tools in Chrome and Firefox make it really easy to test through every resolution without problems. every UI change I make I view in all possible resolutions and its quite obvious of something breaks and I adjust accordingly.
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The problem with these types of "I'm an audiophile, so you should listen to me" type reviews are they can go both ways. For example, here's one I read recently that was on the other extreme of the spectrum. Also, written by an audiophile, supposedly.

https://critically.medium.com/apples-airpods-max-is-an-insul...
I'm unaware of deteriorating community relations with Manjaro. Care to elaborate?
A lot of OP seems to be him complaining about that same behavior in users, which is straight up hypocrisy. It’s bad for his mental health when people do it to him, but he’s not part of the problem or anything.
I think this is a great point. Products succeed by doing well in a specific market and branching out from there to cover more use cases. RISC-V is not going to succeed in the Desktop / Laptop / Server CPU markets because the designs are nowhere near as specialized as what AMD/Intel (along with Apple I guess..) are putting out.

Where RISC-V can show its value is in the IoT / Embedded markets. There are not high requirements for speed or efficiency, cheapness and ease of integration is going to win out there. If RISC-V can win in those markets the designs made using it can improve over time to take on markets with higher requirements.
Anyone who makes ridiculous statements like White men are so fragile and the mere presence of a Black person challenges every single thing in them should not be taken seriously by the intellectually honest. It’s an absurd statement and deserves excoriating - as would you, in my opinion, if, as you say, you made such an asinine and racist suggestion, especially as a white male who should know it’s demonstrably false (you haven’t seen it happen by the way, what you saw was a failure in your own understanding and the limits of your capabilities to empathize).

Yet it deserves neither a warning nor a ban. Even more ridiculous than the statement itself is the idea that someone needs to protect our eyes from seeing it, and that FB’s random content moderator contractor knows what is best for us and will be our protector. I am familiar with someone who used to do content moderation working for Cognizant in AZ. He seems plenty likable, but he is certainly not someone who knows what opinions will hurt me. And even if he were, I shouldn’t expect to be protected from hurt feelings when engaging controversial topics. That’s for me to navigate, and if it proves more than I can handle, it’s incredibly easy to block people.
It is reasonable to want remote desktop access. I am unfamiliar with the RDP technique you raise, but expect it could be achieved through VNC or similar systems.

X-Windows is itself a weak response to remote access. I have memories of trying to use Oracle Forms over a modem connection to uni, and finding it far inferior to VNC connections to work systems - effectively unusable.

The remote-windowing mechanisms of X-Windows are coupled to aspects of X-Windows that Wayland was created to overcome. The video 'The Real Story Behind Wayland and X - Daniel Stone' discusses this.

Microsoft Windows does not do remote-windowing in the X-Windows sense. RDP is not Explorer. From what I read, a RDP-like-thing could be built, and Wayland would not get in the way of this. I think the Wayland team make a clear case for why this is out-of-scope for them.
what is the truth though?
As someone who only knows about stocks from 'big short' film and 5min video on youtube and wsb thread. I genuinely curious what are the ways this could play out.

is there a deadline on short sellers to close their positions?
what is reasonable limit for the stock to go to?
what happens if hypothetically nobody of wsb would sell their stocks?
The original paper (reference 6 on the wiki page) also mentions they could still constitutionally get you for a misdemeanor

> Another possibility is for prosecutors to concentrate on lesser offenses - those with maximum sentences of six months or less - that do not require a jury trial. Again, these misdemeanors may be lesser charges than the ones to which you would be subject in other districts, but they are better than nothing, they will dissuade some criminals, and, most important, they can be prosecuted
constitutionally.

And also that if you actually committed a very serious crime, it's very likely you committed some other crime along the way while outside of the "zone of death", conspiracy, firearm violation, or something.
Ah, good point. The real cost difference is the difference between heating your house with electricity or gas (or your landlord's gas). I think of that when I run my oven in the winter too.
"dies with". Cause of death is not listed in this article. I'm guessing pneumonia, but that's not headline worthy. Anyways, RIP. 100 is a great run. I hope to make it there too.
For more related discussion, see /r/LockdownSkepticism
This. Any article that doesn’t mention risc-v in the context of fpga design is missing the use cases that put it on my radar originally.
Tesla Recalls 134,951 U.S. Vehicles Following NHTSA Pressure
The difference, of course, is that one population was just playing a game in a novel way. Doing this by fibbing to real people who bet real money is fraud.
Equating between flatearthers/antivaxers and criticism of Wayland has got to be a prime example of False equivalence [1].

This style of argumentation is as bad (if not worse) than baseless rejection of Wayland because of "vague" criticism.

If I try to read between the lines, the author is worried that if more people don't jump ship and switch to Wayland, suffering through whatever trouble they might face, Wayland won't get better faster. Which although true, is a very selfish argument that does not see beyond the author's own use case.

I'd like to try Wayland sometime, so far I haven't. I don't think there will be a lot of issues that I'll have to get around, but honestly I'm not looking to find out right now. I use Xorg and I'm happy. At some point, I'll try Wayland.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
* It's not exactly the same, but I use Kanshi for dynamic output configuration. https://github.com/emersion/kanshi
* https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard
* https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi
* https://github.com/yory8/clipman
* There's wlrobs for OBS. There's grim/slurp/wl-recorder for use outside of OBS.
* You can use grim to grab a particular color on the screen, but the UI wouldn't be as good, of course.
Seems like a substance-free criticism of the Big Sur UI.

There are very few specifics. Also, the spacing and size of icons in finder and on the menu bar can be adjusted to suit. Not to mention general display scaling. So the author might end up happy with those aspects of Big Sur after all.

Generally, the op is unhappy that things aren’t the way they used to be and probably will keep changing. True, but purely a matter of personal opinion.

I like the finder window changes, especially the title moving to the left. Seems to be more visible somehow and makes more sense to me (I mostly use list and column views, and the title is the folder name and generally sits above the space where the files are listed below. And things seem to collapse better when the window is thinner.
Why are these people not part of the decison making process?
> We're asking them to stop claiming their new software works for practically every use case

Who is 'them' here? Is that Drew DeVault, or can you point to someone else specifically?
I see so many comments here about RISC-V fragmentation. This is not my expertise, so correct me if I am wrong, but if this means that the particular RISC-V CPU has to be able to execute some instruction, from what I understand the RISC-V designers expect to happen is missing instructions will be implemented in software.

So if the CPU runs into an instruction that it doesn't understand, this will trigger a missing instruction trap and software can implement the instruction. Fragmentation problem solved, no?
A few observations - I’m a beekeeper.

The brood pattern on that comb is horrible - I suspect a lot of varroa, but there are other potential causes.
Varroa can be tidied up if the colony isn’t too far gone. Once it’s removed it needs to be kept under observation for a bit, and kept away from clean hives.

If it’s carrying something like American Foul Brood, it shouldn’t be spread. Here in NZ the ‘treatment’ for AFB is to burn the colony and the hive.

A colony is unlikely to die if the queen is killed (assuming it isn’t winter). They will make a new one from an existing egg.

This is a neat write up - and good on the person who removed them. Cutting a colony out of a building is a horrible, messy chore. Catching a swarm is very wary in comparison.

Edit: one more thought, comb is white, then it goes yellow, then brown and finally black.
This is from use, bee feet and the cocoons that are inside each cell.

That process takes time, usually a season of two at least. I retire my comb at about 3 years old.

That comb looks quite black - I think it a been there for more than a season (dead bees noticed in April).
Another thing here is -- I'm not sure how many people here have had to sort through their parents' and older relatives' stuff after they're gone, but I'm sure it's more than a few.

How many kids will want Dad's headphones from the 70s? Probably a few, but I would wager that for a lot of us, sifting through our parents' old hardware probably means a lot of figuring out what has sentimental value, what has actual use (e.g. even if I wanted to keep my folks' nice old record player, none of my music is on records and I'm not about to start buying physical media just because the player's there), and what's headed off to Goodwill.

It's nice to imagine a world where your re-padded headphones are still in use in 2070 when you're long in the cold ground, but that seems like a nostalgic fantasy more than reality for the vast majority of people and hardware.
I've been using NixOS for 2 years now, my general impression is that even if Nix isn't the popular solution, it'll probably inspire the right way of doing things for the next years. It might not look like much, but representing the whole system's dependencies as a Graph database, then using a purely functional language to define such database has happily prevented me from shooting myself in the foot many times over the past year.
I have no idea why it has become so common on here to dog on GNOME for being "user-hostile" because they targeted a different kind of user than the average HN engineer/startup person. You can use one of the "GNOME 2 revival" type desktop environments if that's your fancy.
I expected a different Wayland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_the_Smith which I thought, anti-Wayland horseshit! I agree, that must be stopped!
I did. Entry level is around €50k base in Germany. 20-40% more in other EU countries. 100% more in the US (or Canada for certain employers)

If you think Levels.FYI caters to a niche, you’re playing yourself.
That is inaccurate.
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Your calculation doesn't take into account the time savings for brand new users. Since they don't have to unlearn anything, they start saving the time immediately.

Not saying it is right or wrong, but a lot of the upsetting changes for existing users are for the benefit of new users.