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DE-9 was used for MDA, CGA, EGA, and Hercules. Also some early VGA hardware used it, before DE-15 became sort of a de facto standard. (EGA had separate wires for red, green, and blue, they just carried digital signals. VGA used analog signals for red, green, and blue, so it was sensible to just map them to the same pins. Some monitors could accept either signal format and adapt to the timing of almost anything, the NEC MultiSync and Samsung Syncmaster for two.)

The Tektronics TDS-4xx oscilloscopes produced VGA-signals-on-EGA-pinout, for one example I've encountered in the wild.

DE9 connectors were also used for RS232C serial ports, which included mice and modems and all manner of other things speaking RS232. Wand-style barcode scanners were quite frequently on a DE9 connector, speaking some obscure protocol which may be at RS232C-compatible voltages but probably had positively Martian numbers of data/stop bits, etc. Or maybe just a raw photodiode signal so plugging into a serial port wouldn't do anything useful at all. Heaven help you.

Beyond that they were also used on Token Ring network cards (the hermaphroditic connector being to large to fit on a slot bracket), Fibre Channel in its copper variant (using the same pinout as Token ring, thank goodness they wouldn't blow each other up if mistaken), and pretty much anything else that only needed a few signals. It's a durable, ubiquitous, easy-to-work-with connector.

And of course in industry, the DE9 connector is still used for a zillion more things, like CAN. Pretty much every CAN test tool you'll find uses pins 2 and 7 for CANL and CANH respectively, with 3 and 5 as ground.

Pin 9 has quietly emerged as a sort of de facto phantom power supply, and if you stick 9-to-12-ish volts on it with a polyfuse, a lot of devices will run from that and not need batteries. Some RS232 GPS receivers would accept that, and the Toughbooks with serial ports still produce it.

Here's a funny: RS232 on DE9 is still produced today by the millions, on the backs of fancy TVs, because it's still the most sensible way to interface with high-end home automation systems. (USB never arrived at a good way to do peer-to-peer, and requires entirely too much software.) It's a 60-year-old standard and still has legs.
Comments like this are completely unacceptable on Hacker News and we ban accounts that post this way. I've addressed this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26548697.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26547861.
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Sure but in practice Rust is as performant as C/C++ in benchmarks, so IMHO 'integer overflow is UB' should be scrapped..
I would answer that question by asking how much lower do you think rates will go? And how long do you think the current IR will last? Rates were rising from about 1951 (when the Fed first gained independence) to about 1980. The've been falling from the mid 80s until the present. Whatever happens, everything comes to an end, and the current regime is a bit long in the tooth already.

Bottom line, rates will change when there is a financial regime change due to the current system no longer working. I think it's obvious that what we are doing now is unsustainable: running massive deficits, enormous capital account inflows, and dollar appreciation. In terms of what would be the breaking point, one can only speculate as to whether it is too much inflation, or too many defaults, etc. At some point, the snowballing side effects of our current policies will just stop working, at which point a new regime will be needed. I don't know when.

For a big picture view, I recommend Sydney Homer's A History of Interest Rates. It's a great read and discusses long term interest rate regimes as well as various triggers that changed them.

In terms of trying to time these regime changes, I wouldn't bother. What you can do is hedge a bit so that you are not financially ruined in case there is a regime change. I would not use the low IR regime we have now to massively go into long term variable rate debt, for example, or massively go into long term fixed rate debt if you can't handle a rate increase. So just be aware that rates will go up at some point, and make sure you can handle that before taking on a lot of leverage.
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> out of good faith

This is weird to me - the renter wouldn't get an extension on remaining in their domicile if they payed for ten years straight and then hit financial hardships - if the renter is going to be bankrupted by Covid then they're better off hording as much as possible until that point.

Also, you need to remember that, during this pandemic, people are feeling real financial pain. There is a possibility this renter is trying to stretch their budget to afford food and power as-is, the landlord is, at worst, going to lose some value out of their held properties which may hurt their long term financial health but won't threaten them with immediate homelessness unless they're extremely overleveraged.

This isn't to dismiss the pain and stress of being a landlord - but there is a lot of pain going around right now and if your representative in congress or senators aren't fighting to distribute some relief for it then it'd be better to take that up with them. The economy is under heavy stress.
The older engineering orgs are on IRC, partially because many of the upstream communities were on IRC. It's slowly changing for the same reason (IRC falling out of favor in the broader community).

There's a mix of IRC, Slack, RocketChat, and GChat.
I agree, I don't like key travel. I guess I am in the minority of people, because my RSI symptoms are actually lessened by lowering my key travel and trigger force. How I differ though is that I really would prefer a more quiet key than the Butterfly style. It's hard to type quietly on the toilet or in a meeting.
If cold fusion exists that produces more energy than it consumes, it would take some extreme conditions. If cold fusion could appear under normal-ish conditions, we would have already observed it and tapped into it
> The same logic applies to "Let's make sure that other party chooses the worst possible candidate, thus compeling everyone to vote for the candidate we prefer in the general election."

Interestingly, wikileaks dumps revealed that exactly this occurred in 2016. Google "pied piper strategy" for the relevant coverage. Spoiler alert: didn't work out quite as they expected.
Is that at all possible on the time scales we're talking about? It depends so much on the distribution networks, health services, willingness of population and everything else of each individual country.

Unless I read this wrong. You are seriously suggesting that we should do global risk-factor prioritization? Meaning that the 50year olds in New York are not allowed to take their doses until 70 year old anti-vaxxerss in the Slovenian alps have had theirs?
Fusors aren't room temperature.

It looks like positive-return-on-energy fusion will almost certainly be achievable in 5-10 years, though it won't be commercializable for a lot longer than that.
The only reason I wouldn't 100% agree with you, is that I recall thinking this about real estate agents several times in the last 13 years, and it hasn't apparently ever been true yet.
I completely understand that. Still, it's a shame not even the mechanical design wizards at Apple couldn't make it reliable.

I have a couple scissor keyboards (the pre-magic ones) and, alternating between the laptop and the desktop one just makes it clear how much the butterfly feels better.
Yea... idk how I feel about this. It's definitely the responsibility of a country to protect its citizens first and foremost above all others. On the other hand, maybe once the majority of what would be considered at-risk is vaccinated then a country could export vaccines, but that's really just the prerogative of the country. As a citizen of the U.S. I would be livid if we were exporting vaccines to other countries before we were mostly vaccinated here in my country. It would also severely undermine trust in the U.S. government and give fuel to those who seek to isolate the country from the rest of the world. What better example of "put others ahead of your own countrymen" could you make up?

Anyway - the US is exporting vaccines to Mexico and Canada [1]. You should (as a Canadian) start to see lots of vaccine shipments come in from the U.S. as the supply chain juggernaut awakens. I'm not sure what help Canada will actually get from the EU. So far I've seen little in the way of actual numbers.

I see the U.S. and U.K. looking very strong after initially not so great reactions to the virus.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-to-send-combined-...
Ezra Klein on aligning journalism, politics, and what matters most
Ask HN: Should we push for email portability, like phone number portability?
I constantly hear stories about people getting locked out of their email accounts and unable to restore access.

Should we push for an email portability and a framework of regulations to support like, like telephone number portability?

There are obviously some interesting technical problems to be solved, but it would be great if I can switch providers without having to update my email address everywhere.
Ah yes, I know of many great companies that were founded by democratically-elected boards for experts.

Imaginatron, Fantasticallipsis, Non-existamatica, and of course many others.

Can you honestly name a single company that was founded in this way you claim would be better?
Why Did I Pay To Go To College?
I’d be very surprised if Elon consistently works more than 60 hours a week, and pretty surprised if it was more than 50. It’d be a waste of his position and talent if he did. He has the capital and influence to have others do almost all other tasks, his main focus is likely to be on longer term strategy and thinking. He’s also a dad of 5 or so kids. His health is far more valuable than working 2 typical work weeks every week.

He plays up the uberworker shtick for the same reason Warren Buffet in his 80s tells everyone he has a coke and Dairy Queen everyday: because it’s part of his brand and very conducive to moving forward his pursuits. Warren buffet definitely doesn’t have coke and Dairy Queen everyday either.

Elon’s days of working to the bone everyday are likely long behind him, by decades.
It would, but would likely be too late for most of the impacts of climate change
Don't forget the whining from bureaucrats when American tech takes over the local market, and ships profits back to it's headquarter where... they employ Romanians expats!
Thanks for illustrating so well the flamewar mode dang just mentionned.

--"The truth hurts"

You are just accusing people of refusing to see "the truth" which may be true but is not a argument about the validity of your thesis. That common rethoric. That also preemptively invalidates any counter-argument to your thesis because you know we're just deceived out of (fill in what you want).

-- "China released a deadly virus into the world."

China is not just one person. Even the Chinese gov is too big an entity to be given a single will and agency. This kind of abstraction is fine for everyday talk but must be discarded whenever you try to have an intelligent debate about something.
--" the Chinese people must accept their responsibility"
Wow, like if I am working as a coal miner in remote China I must be held accountable by "my" poor control of high tech labs? Come on I live in a "democracy" that has conducted nuclear trials in the Pacific nearby living places which I was totally against. Do I need to be held responsible?

-- "this crime"

Plain flamewar mode

--" it can provably meet western safety standards"

Did you even read the article?!
This is what the article should've been about. OP's implementation is pretty impractical
I agree, although I've never heard them referred to as DuPont connectors ever, regardless of context - this is a completely new name to me. I've always seen these referred to as 0.1" pin headers or just pcb pin headers. When I buy them from electronics stores here in Australia I see them listed as 0.1" pin connectors.
MMM is almost certainly wealthier than he lets on, started from a position of wealth more than he lets on, and derived substantial income in his “retirement” from his work on his site.
For myself, the biggest circumstantial evidence I've seen is the manipulation of discourse on social media by state-sponsored trolls and bots. Whenever the downvote bots, US #metoo, charges of racism, and astroturfing begins, there is usually a big thing they are trying to hide. Even when discarding lots of evidence tainted by politics, this one remains. What would be the motive?
>I can't listen to anyone complain about climate change while they fill their homes with cheap consumer electronics from globalized supply chains that spy on them.

IoT thermostats can save an ton of carbon emissions, and spying seems to have nothing to do with climate change. Just put it all on a separate subnet and you can solve a lot of the spying/vulnerability issues though not all.
Yep, the rampant racism and fascism of the left go hand in hand with their violent reaction to any opposition.
every day I wish I could just drop a comment in the webIDE for an MR..

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/48790
I agree, but I play Marathon, and it sucks. :(

Tetris Effect would have been so much better if EasySpin could be turned off.
It’s probably important to point out that a “lab leak” is a result of human-clumsiness or similar, and not the sci-fi movie bad guys engineering a virus. A lot of the non-HN crowd don’t get the difference.
> Those language-specific package managers do not auto-update the packages you have installed with them

Adding a new package often triggers a re-resolve of all installed versions. Whether any updates happen at that time depend on how you've set versions bounds: e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48911625/npm-how-to-inst...

> the conclusion that auto-updates are a "better experience"

I don't know that they are necessarily a better experience overall, but it is certainly a worse experience to run into a bug or limitation that has already been resolved in a newer version.
It would be great if a nonprofit decided to come up with its own internet index and duplicate the functionality of circa-2000 google.

Imagine it could be done for under 10M?
Yeah. I had decent karma or whatever on a ten year old account and got banned for not having an email address. Shrug. Pretty much killed my reddit habit.
I would classify that as "organic" criticism.

To put another way: are people on twitter criticizing him because they don't like his articles, or because other people on twitter have said that you shouldn't like his articles?
It’s the regime that’s the problem not the culture
https://medium.com/drive-insider/the-quantum-attack-on-bitco...

Not just Bitcoin, and not just all other popular cryptocurrencies, but all your web traffic and more are all susceptible to quantum attack.
That's true of new grads in general.

When you complete a course there's an exam, and labs and assignments typically have a set of instructions to get started and a list of requirements.

And there is always a domain expert (TA) not far. Now they are learning to become the domain expert in their own (limited) area.
The opposite. They are very senior.
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Hey, congrats on the launch!

After scrolling through the home page, the value prop is definitely clear, and overall the site is clean and visually appealing.

Just a couple of notes at first glance: (1) for whatever reason the phrase "Log parcels" doesn't immediately click in my mind as a user (might just be me), and (2) it may be helpful to include one or more screenshots of the app on the landing page (such as the one on the about page [1]).

[1] https://www.parcelfriends.com/about
More like upper-middle, because those activities aren’t cheap. Ballet: lessons, costumes and shoes (make it onto pointe? New shoes every few weeks) Swimming: new suits every few weeks when the chlorine starts eating through and travel to swim meets. Baseball: if you want to really compete, you’re going to be on a travel team.

And those SUVs require parents (usually moms) with the free time to do all that driving and managing.
In France at least I believe there was (and probably still is) also a distribution problem.

Also health authorities flip-flopping on the benefits and side effects is disastrous from an adoption point of view. First it is not efficient for people over 65, then it is, then it will only be distributed to people over 50, then it is dangerous, then it is not dangerous anymore. You couldn't manufacture reluctance to getting vaccinated more if you wanted to.
> $50m is still a lot, and not every sat costs that much. How does a corporate bean counter justify spending $50m more than they have to?

That's seems pretty easy? The satellite easily has a 2 year lead time, and it's 100s of millions so you can't afford to build a spare 'just in case'. At that point, spending an extra $50M to reduce the (perceived?) chance of a 2-year project delay starts to look pretty cheap.

Of course, this is dependent on there being a material reduction in the probability of RUD. And as SpaceX has accumulated more data on reliability, it starts to get very hard to argue that there is indeed a material reduction.
> Where the opportunities for sex exist in multitudes?

But porn is easier...
Admiring your efforts as an admin to maintain a civil discourse. I wish the remaining handful of scientists who dismiss lab-associated escape pathways as unworthy of investigation would be so civil: https://twitter.com/BlockedVirology

Particularly the mudslinging ('It's plausible she can't assemble them [referring to a Broad Institute genomicist supporting investigation into both lab-leak & zoonosis], but that's because of a lack of expertise'): https://twitter.com/K_G_Andersen/status/1373027946684837893?...
No, because that puts company management in the crosshairs. You don't let some developer do that without first getting the spin machine time to come up with a reason why it's good for the users. Otherwise people question the vendor's ability to provide the product they want.
an immediate immunization of your population would drive to a raise of suspicion and if someone found china guilty of that, would mean a world war against them.
Do you mind articulating how specifically Skiena's book helped you, and what was your approach? If I have to do Skiena's book cover to cover, it'll likely take few months.
Normally you won't have an incidence rate this high, therefore you need to run the trails for longer to get enough people in the control group sick. Massive amounts of volunteers and a high prevalence made sound statistics possible in a relatively short amount of time.

"Long term" side effects mean weeks or few month later, not years as many people assume. In the past things like rare autoimmune disease associated with vaccination appeared within weeks after the dose, but it may take years to pick up the statistical signal, which may explain this belief. There is literally no reason to assume the mRNA vaccines will cause side effects 5 years later or something.
"within a week" is an eternity in journalism.
If you're looking for me to argue with you that C is an acceptable substitute for languages like Rust and Go, you're barking up the wrong tree. It's not. But that doesn't mean we can simply bucket every vulnerability in a memory-unsafe program as a casualty of memory-unsafety, especially in programs like OpenSSL, which host a large domain of other vulnerabilities that are equally present in Rust and Go code.
1. Search "<product name> reddit"
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3. "See Reddit in... App or Browser?" banner w/ grayed out page. Tap Browser.
4. Click through the AMP page to the real Reddit page.
5. Second "See Reddit in... App or Browser?" banner w/ grayed out page. Tap Browser.
6. Fail to read the majority of comments, which are hidden by New Reddit.
6. Manually edit URL bar to replace "www." with "old."
7. Read the comments.
It's a sign of a frothy housing market when there gets to be a bubble in buying real estate agents. But be careful, in California if you even just rent someone your real estate agent for more than 30 days, it becomes very hard to get your real estate agent back.
My presumption is the notion is that if people would read the correct things, their minds would be expanded in the correct direction and suddenly they too would see that advertising is wrong (or any other preferred moral position). But let's say you're right and the person's idea was that if people would just read enough they'd come to the correct conclusion. Either way, it is not correct. That's now how reading works. You can find someone with any moral perspective who is widely read. Being widely read unlikely implies any moral perspective besides as a proxy for affluence and education.
Came here to say exactly this. This feels like asking why my dad, who has all of the skills to build a house from scratch if he wanted to, bothered to buy one that already existed instead. Because it's easier and he's busy. I can write my own blogging platform if I wanted to, but I can't conjure one from thin air in the two minutes it takes to sign up for one that someone else already built.
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He got it from here https://www.businesstoday.in/current/corporate/indian-engine...

Completely unrelated to IITs.
Thank you for showing more restraint than I did. I'm sorry for being incendiary, I did not mean to use any slurs. I've removed what I thought might be construed as slurs from my comments. I won't post further on this topic. Thank you for shaming me, I feel guilty and will do better.
Google still loads the AMP page instead, which looks like New Reddit.
Unless you are a part fo google search engineering this is a lot of assumptions about their tech. How do you know they don't use those techniques?

Undeniably they are the largest, most successful at search and they spend huge amounts of money on it.

And google is probably the biggest producer of ML research including? including a TON of NLP as it's a driver of their profit.
This isn't always a scam. I'm not saying one way or another what this was, but I have been solicited for a purchase on my home as well and I'm not old and certainly not in cognitive decline.
*Gild, geld means to castrate an animal.
Thanks man. OMG yandex blows google out of the water. Totally forgot about it
Unless you're planning on building a microservices-based house of cards, you may not need Docker or similar. I run Django apps just fine with a combination of Python (via Pyenv), Postgres and Redis all running locally on a Mac.
Yeah it’s not like it was really that much of his fault or anything (though I found it a bit fishy why he couldn’t get another job). Everyone’s mentality up until ~September was “oh just another month or two then everything will be back to normal”.

But my point is how could you expect landlords to rent to anyone without a very stable income? They could be out tens of thousands of dollars.
I like Ring but I don't think there's a lot of evidence that Rust's type system has effectively prevented cryptography errors, either in protocol state machines or in primitive implementations.

The challenge in avoiding cryptography mistakes is that you have to understand the errors before you can avoid them. Short of formal analysis with provers, I don't think there's a level of programming rigor that gets you away from most (maybe any?) of the last 10-15 years of (say) {TLS,JWT} bugs.