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It was written in B. And B was written in B. To trace the bootstrap up into the high level, you have to go further back than the PDP-11. To bootstrap B on the PDP-7 and GE-635 machines he had access too, Ritchie wrote the minimum subset required to compile a compiler in B, in a language known as TMG (in the vein of, and a big influence on, Yacc and similar). This minimal bootstrap was then used to compile a B compiler written in B, and further development was self-hosted.

Later, the language would be retargeted to the PDP-11 while on the PDP-7. Various changes, like byte-addressed rather than word-addressed memory, led to it morphing into C after it was moved. There was no clear line between B and C -- the language was self-hosting the whole time as it changed from B into C.

Mr. Ritchie wrote a history from his perspective published in 1993. I've mostly just summarized it above. It's available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150611114355/https://www.bell-...
That's what I was thinking too.

> the stream of evolution will wash the greedy and lazy out

Are there ways to speed up this tens of thousands of years of evolution? I can think of some things

On the other hand, is there a risk that instead this species gets stuck for millions of years, in a "local maximum" with somewhat bright sociopath dictators, and a huge crowd of clueless people (if there's evolutionary pressure against being a bright person? Are there such tendencies?, e.g. bright women just working, working, no babies, or political dissidents disappearing in prison?), with regularly occurring massacres of minorities, so that eventually anyone who looks slightly different is at risk? ... Well, until a 3rd world war with nukes, mostly puts an end to all of it
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> it's that there is no option on the market for a non-homebrand TV that is fully functional but doesn't show ads

Actually, Vizio tried this with their SmartCast TVs. They didn't have any built-in apps, and relied on Google Cast to work. The TVs shipped with an Android tablet so you didn't technically need a smartphone to use it.

They only lasted one year before reverting and putting apps on the TV.
Just don't connect it to WiFi. Problem solved.

I have a Mac mini serving content to the (not dumb, but deaf, dumb and blind) TV.
Reply since edit is dead - I am not crazy. Many of this user's posts were marked [dead] including this one. I see this is no longer the case for posts that earlier looked dead, and I have never seen that before.
I think of a billion as (very roughly) half of a cruise liner or half of a casino in the strip in Vegas.

Not sure how accurate that is but at $5b, I imagine zapier as a cruise ship tied up alongside a glittering glass casino.
This is about the least biased opinion you will ever find in the cryptocurrency space. David Gerard is trying to sell a book, sure, but that incentivizes him to appear knowledgeable and rigorous. There is no money to be made in crashing cryptocurrencies.

The people praising cryptocurrencies because they are quite likely to have a financial stake. On the other hand, it isn't really possible to be short cryptocurrencies so the people criticizing them can't have much to gain. The conflicts of interest mostly flow one way in this case.
> In terms of "right to repair", Apple is a big offender

Not really.

> Think of it in terms of cars -

Computers are really not like cars...

> if you bought a Honda car, would it be acceptable for it to not start if you put the "wrong brand" of tires on it?

...If tires were vulnerable to supply chain attacks, then not only would it be acceptable, some customers would demand it.
On TFWS, it asks for people to send in color pictures of the meals cooked according to the recipes in question.
My definition of "unit bath" must be different than yours. A unit bath for me is something I find in a small single room apartment in Japan. It's got the sink, tub, and toilet in the same room almost all entirely molded from one piece.

AFAIK that is not the norm in Japanese houses. A house would like have a toilet in one room, sink in separate room, bath in a 3rd room, and that bath is is about the size of 2 American bathtubs. One area of the tub, and one for watching (a wet floor).

AFAIK that's the norm in a Japanese "house" as well as most modern 2 bedroom or larger apartments. Smaller and/or older places have a "unit bath" (I lived with one for 6 years but my current place has everything separate)
you’re right! as someone who has built (and builds the future of) the testing/algorithmic machinery at the NYT, this is one of the “misses” in the post.
What procedural heritage do they have? I don't think there's anything procedural about them (unless you consider "doesn't have HKT" to be the same as "procedural").
https://github.com/Duet3D/RepRapFirmware/issues/443

It's planned. I'm unsure if I like RRF or Klipper more, so kinda keep up with both.
I doubt device manufacturers consider 5G to be a prerequisite for snarfing tracking data out of said devices and vomiting ads into them.
They've also got an IRC room full of helpful tripsitters c:
I suspect this was a cleverly intentional misunderstanding.
It was for an enterprise web app (.net) that was used to process seemingly millions of applications per month which would then pull in a whole ton of external data.
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I suspect the recipe sites care about comments and other user-generate stuff because that's how they track "engagement" and collect data to feed into their SEO/ad targeting/sales pipeline.
Your opportunity cost for the time spent maintaining, or managing people to maintain it is much higher than $20, if your business has more important problems you could spend time fixing. It’s very obvious that this is true if you’re a yc-type startup, which could be worth $0 or $1B depending on how you spend a few years.
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Hey, it says on the site that they'd like for people to contribute images, so it should get better over time.
Yeah there are definitely other reasons but this is one of the biggest in my opinion.

There's always a tradeoff between security/bureaucracy and speed in delivery so as to remain competitive. This does matter even at large scale.

I would agree that if one were purposefully trying to cause as much damage as possible, that impact would be contained by these processes.

But one can still make mistakes or be a drain on the team's energy and focus which increases the chance of mistakes team-wide. At scale, even minor mistakes are costly, not just in terms of direct impact but in terms of the opportunity-cost of developer effort that could be better spent elsewhere.

Of course, my direct knowledge has sample size of n=1 here so it likely does not apply uniformly across all large companies.

I would love to hear contrasting opinions on this topic. I've spent a lot of time thinking about what would help developer teams increase their productivity w/ regards to adding value.
As a Floridian, I am suspicious of anything co-sponsored by Rubio and Scott and look forward to reading how they and the rest of our fine state’s Congressional clown car profited from this bill.
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That's got nothing to do with whether a school teaches carpentry?

If you want to teach your children to be racist, you'll probably have to do it yourself. You could maybe sign them up to volunteer with the kkk?
A similar system was implemented across the SEPA in 2017, although it's opt-in for banks.

https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/what-we-do/sepa-insta...
Without showering, water in bathtub getting dirty earlier. We wash hair and body with soap and shower, then bathing.

So the real question would be: Why bathing rather than just showering? It's cultural and it is considered to relaxing and healthy activity.
HDMI Enhanced Audio Return Channel (eARC) uses the two Ethernet pins.
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We can't build nuclear plants quickly. In the ten years it takes to build a nuclear plant you can build a lot of wind and solar. It's cheaper too.
Anything by Sceptre. Dirt cheap, good quality. 4K. Can't go wrong.
That explains, in part, the choice of "based" in the domain.
This isn't a technological problem, it's one of corruption, conflicts of interest, and anti-science policy.

You sound like someone who doesn't have to work out the financial engineering to back all that development. The treehuggers may be anti-nuclear, but energy investors are not. What energy investors are however, is pro-profit.

Nuclear keeps falling short in the analysis phase of a lot of energy investment firms due diligence. Probably won't be attractive unless and until the government comes in and basically nationalizes the construction of these facilities. It's unreasonable to expect the private sector to lose billions on billions building nuclear plants "cuz we should do right". Look at the mess that is Vogtie, and you'll understand clearly nuclear's problem. I would go so far as to say that even with zero taxes, and no regulations at all, most energy firms would walk away from the vast majority of nuclear projects.

Nuclear's problem is not "corruption". The pursuit of profit on the part of energy investors is not "corrupt". T Boone Pickens is not a tree hugger. He just knows that the windmills he was slapping up generated return in less than 6 months with enviable yield. Whereas a nuclear plant may not return a profit in its lifetime. The essential problem here, is financial, and no one wants to address that problem in a realistic fashion. Government, at least it seems, is simply in no hurry to intervene. (Probably because they don't have any more of an appetite for laying out those kinds of sums than the energy investors do.)
Diluting nuclear waste is a good way to deal with it. The problem with nuclear plants is that you have all this radiation sitting in one spot.
Simple- just fork the repo, add a paragraph on the recipe page, and submit a pull request!

With this method, you can be sure there won't be any low-effort comments.
Someday I need to try one of those quivering alien monstrosities. Maybe we're missing out.
The tub is for relaxing. The wash area is for washing. The Japanese tradition is first wash outside the tub. When you clean, climb in the tub and relax (like a Jacuzzi)
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Curious if, in ten years, the HomeKit appliances of today will still work. Or will you have to find a decades-old phone to control them?

It's always interesting to see vestiges of a home intercom in really old homes, the phone jacks in bedrooms, ladder-style wire for TV aerials mounted in the walls, bits of some kind of home-alarm system....
So you made me finally go look closely at a _chan board and I get your points now. TBH I see the greentext screenshots a lot and they usually trigger a dyslexic response. But after playing a bit I totally agree the way they allow for rollover views of parent and grand parents while keeping the conversation flat & chronological is effective. Cross posting a comment to multiple parents totally breaks the tree/branch/leaf logic but I can see how useful it is tying similar tangents together and riffing feedback off of each other. TIL those boards are not just the raging dumpster fires of anarchy they get labeled as by us plain old normies.

Thanks for expanding my horizon !
That doesn't mean what OP has mentioned is wrong. NYT has a history of misleading headlines [1].

[1] https://thepostmillennial.com/nyt-makes-terrorism-story-into...
Most tv manufacturers are on my shitlist because of that.

I bought a Panasonic OLED a couple years ago. It’s 55” and it’s top of the range (same panel as the LGs, better software. They’re the reference screens they use in Hollywood to color movies in post apparently)

I paid 1000$ for it, new, with two years of warranty. It has no ads, period. Except on the YouTube app but these are from YouTube themselves. I use Kodi to stream YT instead. Oh and it boots in 5 seconds flat, from pressing the power button to content on screen.

I guess there might still be a few reputable tv makers that don’t do ads or content recognition. Panasonic is one at least on that particular model. I’ll never buy an LG or Samsung for these reasons and will probably stick to Panasonic.
That would normally be called "hassling" someone.

It's annoying but not dishonest.
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The article mentions its the HLS frontend that was open-sourced, not the backend. I see no evidence of any HDL codegen here at all yet. I'll keep looking though.

The full HLS tool that they ship does produce full verilog/vhdl, and doesn't go to the bitstream level. It would be a huge improvement if they would open-source the whole thing. I suspect they will not, however, as code generator likely has a fairly complex FPGA Fabric/Slice timing model used to schedule operations into clocks, and that is something they would probably consider proprietary. Hopefully they can strip out those bits out and release the rest.
Just look at the thumbnails. Right-wing memes all around, including one with a MAGA hat.
I heard rumor (that sounded believable enough to me) that the content-detection part of "smart TVs" (i.e. they sample pixels in each frame to figure out what show you're watching) is valuable enough that the software will try any unsecured wifi network in the area to phone home. On hearing that, I immediately password-protected my guest network that had previously been open (I live in the boonies),

Internet of "Things" indeed. John Carpenter, eat your heart out.
Amazon runs on AWS, Google does not run on GCP.

Or am I missing something?
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You’re purposely being obtuse so I’m going to stop responding to you now.

To everyone else, hedge funds don’t give a shit about what actually happens except that they can make money on it. And if you’re curious about how salty hedge funds can get when they lose on a trade, I recommend looking up the Herbalife saga. Tesla and GameStop are still currently ongoing examples as well.
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It looks like HDMI uses separate pins from the video signal for Ethernet and Audio Return Channel. I originally thought it was using a shared packetized bus for HEC, but it's actually kind of clever -- differential mode signal on those two pins is HEC, common mode signal is ARC.

HEAC utilizes two lines from the connector: the previously unused Reserved pin (called HEAC+) and the Hot Plug Detect pin (called HEAC−).

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#HDMI_Ethernet_and_Audio_R...

So if you don't need ARC, it should be possible to make a simple filter that blocks both HEC and ARC. Older HDMI cables that might not connect the Reserved pin might also block HEC+ARC. And it also seems like you can get ARC-only by disconnecting the Reserved pin.

I'd guess HEC is most commonly going to be used in situations where you'd also want ARC -- to provide network access from an A/V receiver to a smart TV, and then get the audio back into the receiver.
Oh, this is great. Thanks for posting.
Some TVs will actively try and connect to any open wifi they can see without your consent or intervention. And wait until 5G is cheap enough so that any device can embed an always on cellular connection.
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If you bought it from costco.. you should take it back.
> if you have a network outage your appliances revert to “normal” behavior.

Would that that were true. Internet of Shit is rife with examples of products that fail completely without connectivity.

https://twitter.com/internetofshit
You don't have to go "very" high end. Nearly everyone I know who isn't under 35 lives in a 2 bedroom apartment with a tub larger than most western tubs and a shower (wash area) which just as much space as that tub

Something like this

https://i0.wp.com/easylifejapan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/...

That's tub is the same length and wider than any of the 25 places I've lived in the USA and the shower would just be an attachment in the tub and I wouldn't have the wash area next to the tub.
The cave walk-through in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC5KtatMcUw
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If it’s been years the problem is definitely not the difficulty of construction. Probably funding issues or unreliable contractor.
The original commenteer I responded to (not you), said:

>Multiplication has nothing to do with addition and at some point we have to stop teaching students that it's related.

So thank you for explaining the actual relationship!
Haha, sure, thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, I hate using the Apple TV remote, so I’ll stick to the classic UX on my roku remote
If it’s a re-hashed hot take, I just skip to the comments.
I've always wondered how you can have a large portion of you military essentially be slaves. I would imagine that it would be very possible for them to rebel during a critical battle and the join the enemy.
> To paraphrase Peter Thiel, new technology is probably so fertile and productive simply because there are so few rules. It’s essentially illegal for you to build anything physical these days from a toothbrush (FDA regulates that) to a skyscraper, but there’s zero restriction on creating a website. Hence, that’s where all the value is today.

It's hard for me to believe that "number of rules" is the main determiner of how much value is created. Wouldn't that make failed states the most economically productive places? Where are all the innovative toothbrush designs coming out of Somalia that the FDA is suppressing? Why isn't California (the most regulated state in the country) the source of the least innovation?

Do we really need an explanation for why new technology is so productive? Maybe because new technology allows you to do new things?
I honestly read comments more often than reading the post since I discover alot of new things in the comment section of the post
I remember learning algebra between 3rd and 6th grade. It was hidden within word problems, but 7 was exponents and everything after had a Cartesian plane
I believe we were talking about all the major "smart" television manufacturers.

Wether they use a Zigbee under the hood is orthogonal.
I’m really happy that folks are digging into the perceptual outcomes of the AB testing from headlines. Frankly, it provides context to the NYT’s own research and development of the algorithms and human processes that go into such efforts.

If the narrative is entirely that if we dont actively consider capturing interest, we’d be doddering and hard to track, if we do we’re abusive, then media is forever doomed to be unsatisfactory. We all hope to improve.

In the world of headlines, the “spiciness” that’s been advanced as a function of engagement hunting is something that’s currently contended with through human intervention. All headlines are human created and the outcomes of AB tests are more about improving the understanding between author/editor and captured audience than manipulation or future interest conditioning.

[disclosure: i lead ML platforms and the algo related eng products at NYT. all thoughts are my own presentation of what i have experienced, and not company opinions]
There is usually a path to upgrade without internet access. You usually get the firmware from the manufacturer website, put it on a usb stick, plug it into the tv and it picks up the upgrade from there.
The thing I don't like is if you click on a timestamp in the comments, it zooms you up to the video, so you lose where you were up to in the comments.

I wonder if there's any way to get it to not do that, even on a one-time basis? If I want to go back to the top, I'll press the Home key, thank you very much.
DISCLAIMER: I haven't seen the full video yet but a quick search brings up recent issues with 737NG [1] [2]
Especially [2] is crazy and I'm quoting "airlines must inspect any Boeing 737NG aircraft that have been parked for more than a week for corrosion of engine bleed air valves"

more than a week ? is this acceptable?

[1] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/29/boeing-...

[2] https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/corrosion-can-prompt...
This looks really interesting. Will read it later :)
Lil B tha Based God was definitely where I heard it first.

I think it was something with Lil Wayne a long time ago.

Most slang I can suss out but I don’t think I ever had any idea what it meant to be based then or now.

Grounded?
Zig is much easier to learn and simpler and has much of the safety when compared to the Rust-C spectrum. It also seems to be fun to write for lots of people. The metaprogramming system is also first rate and easy to understand.
Then you open the back of the TV, find the WiFi antenna, and clip it or scratch it off the PCB. :-)
I think it's just too little volume for the savings to trickle down. The majority of houses built today are still done in traditional ways, very few new homes are prefab homes (in the US and Europe). Most of the people buying prefab homes in these regions today are doing so because it's faster (weeks to months instead of 6 months+) or easier (only need heavy equipment on site for a couple of days), so those benefits can be sold as a premium service.

I am having a new home built right now, and the costs are roughly 50% for the 'shell', e.g. to the level where you have a water proof building with roof and windows, and 50% for all the work inside. For the 'shell' it's actually quite simple work, and doesn't take too much time, it's basically just LEGO :D The complicated parts like doors and windows are made off-site, so when they arrive you just need to fit the house around them. We are having a traditional A-style roof, so the roof joists are made off site too. Most of the costs are on the materials, not the work. Materials that reduce the work like ICF or SIPPs also increase the material costs - in my case to a point greater than what you save in labour costs.

For the interiors nothing can really be prefabricated at volume, as everything is completely custom to the project. That's not going to change unless these Japanese standard measurements that article talks about spread elsewhere. For large projects its a bit different though, I've heard for hotels they sometimes prefabricate large parts of the bathroom and lift it into place before the next floor is put on. That makes sense though as you are building a few hundred things that are exactly the same.
Both of these viewpoints are true. While I wholeheartedly support the use of the word "based" in the sense that you put it, it is also slang in a certain online subculture and a nod to that subculture. OP was dead on about that in this case: the author's other works include "Why I don't use Cuck Licenses" and "Science vs. Soyence."
I always read the article first, then the comments. I want to form my own thoughts before seeing it from someone's else's perspective.
Based on the amount of click-bait from the BBC that gets posted to HN, I’m not sure your state funded option is much better.

I know the CBC in Canada is absolute crap - 80% of the reporting is sensationalistic and for the past 4 years has been focused on the nuances of Trump - not exactly relevant to Canada. At least not deserving of more coverage than domestic issues.
Enable WiFI, Update, disable WiFi.

(May have to change your WiFi password as well.)
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