skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During the eighties there was a joint research project of Intel with Siemens, for a new processor architecture named BiiN.

For some reason, the BiiN project was terminated in 1988 and Siemens was not interested any more in it.

On the other hand Intel decided to not scrap the results of that project and they introduced the 80960 series based on the architecture formerly known as BiiN.

The commercial name 80960 was derived from their previous 8096 series of 16-bit microcontrollers, so 80960 was initially presented as higher-performance 32-bit replacement for the 8096 series, which was used in various embedded computers.

One interesting feature of BiiN was that it was the first monolithic CPU with an atomic fetch-and-add instruction (first used in 1981 in the NYU Ultracomputer project).

The 80960 inherited the atomic fetch-and-add from BiiN and then Intel added it to 80486, under the XADD mnemonic, together with the atomic compare-and-swap taken from IBM 370 and Motorola 68020 (CMPXCHG).

The applications for which 80960 was best known, like I2O and laser printers, happened significantly later than its initial introduction.
POP was an exciting idea when it first came out, but in practice, it just doesn’t make sense to “orient” your codebase towards protocols. I’ve seen a project that was faithful to this and they came up with a codebase that’s extremely difficult to maintain and read because they made more abstractions than they need, and they defined so many custom types that the requisite vocabulary became huge.

Protocols have their uses, but MVC works really well and scales really well in making apps for Apple platforms.
The journalists don't come up with the titles, the editors do.

Do you take an issue with the actual, factual reporting in the article? Or even with the factual accuracy of the title?

All of your complaints on this thread come across as you desperately trying to defend Tesla for something that...actually happened. Yes, it happened "during testing." But it still happened.
Why We Killed Elixir
I was just saying I have no idea what to think, and no real way to do so.
Elon Musk: Cook and I have never spoken or written to each other ever
I am deeply, deeply cynical about the notion of "technical debt." Why?

Because it is inextricably tied to career ambitions. There is no promotion benefit to just "paying back" a small debt by fixing some kluge, while there is enormous benefit to leading a rewrite.

Furthermore, once a rewrite is in play, the temptation to "just fix" a bunch of other things and add some new features that were hitherto impossible is irresistible. Perhaps the debt repayment gets added to Version N+1.

You can say "oh, it doesn't have to be that way" and point to some glorious time when it wasn't, but in my experience, at least, it always is.
Specifically: graphic designers. There certainly are lots of competent and skilful graphic designers out there, but also a lot of people who see designing a web page like as some sort of interactive museum piece. I've had entire discussions and conflicts with designers because I changed the colours a bit so it's actually, you know, readable.
> Rumor has it (according to a report from The Information) that Google Cloud Platform is facing a 2023 deadline to beat AWS and Microsoft, or it will risk losing funding

Here's a scary scenario - Oracle Cloud is smaller but apparently trying to grow aggressively. Google might want to exit that market, and the Google/Oracle court battles aren't completely resolved yet...

What if Oracle and Google settle and swap Java for GCP ? Oracle gets a bigger cloud, Google gets to focus fully on Workplace, Ads and their consumer products, and we get to figure out if Route53s DNSSEC is now complete enough to move back from google cloud dns.
I'm not sure I like this idea: a huge reason I have a Graphene OS phone is that it completely lacks all of the Google services (an awesome side-benefit of which is that I can go a WEEK without charging the phone when it's in standby mode). If I needed Google Play I would use one of my Android handsets... I hope this is optional or at the very least Graphene allows give me the option of a no-Google-Play install like I have now.
The UK's tabloid media are even worse at reporting facts. They're also notorious for hacking phones and spying on people.

Murray may or may not have done something stupid, he may or may not have said things that were inaccurate.

But he's still basically a blogger with a relatively insignificant profile. Not a national figure with a huge reach.

When an ancient law gets dusted off and thrown at someone like him, while much more obvious media transgressions are ignored, it becomes very hard to conclude that this has anything to do with a disinterested thirst for fairness and justice.
This instantly reminded me of OJ Simpson's trials and acquittal. What makes this so believable, at least here on HN? Because she's a young beautiful woman and not a scary black man? I hope people here , which is one of the more rational communities out there, would stop applying double standards. Maybe she is an eloquent writer, but why should rhetoric (or looks) be the determining factor when it comes to public empathy? #metoo and #blacklivesmatter both happened but I'm yet to see black people being judged less harshly and trusted by the public.
meh, nothing come close to SwiftUI, and if you need something crossplatform, stick to Flutter, declarative UI in 1 single language and code base is the future

XAML? no thanks
Fireside Chat with Baiju Bhatt, Co-Founder of Robinhood (2018)
Data Trash: Theory of Virtual Class (1994)[1] is an oldie but goodie, about how cyberspace is an un-equalizer, about how more and more are left behind. Publisher's Weekly review:

> They have anticipated the debris that will be left by the traffic of the information highway-and they can't ignore the roadkill. What follows is a survey exploring the consequences of technology on culture, economy, class and individuality. They hold that virtual reality will supplant reality itself, that use of information will reinforce extant caste systems, and that ultimately the information highway will not be so much a tool providing us with usable data but rather it will provide those who control it with data to use us. Their findings, while alternately compelling and repellent, are undermined as they single-handedly double the lexicon of technobabble.

The book is both deadly-serious but also self-indulgent, playful, not serious writing per se.

It's long been a part of why I think the web is better & more interesting than most tech projects: hypertext markup language is a medium, a somewhat legible one (alas considerbly less so with the advent of webapps & especially React). There's not presently a lot of hooks, reasons why regular folk would want to tech-up themselves, the stratification will continue, but I continue to think there are some not-fully-visible tidal forces that make the web potentially one day more compelling, as an interesting empowering useful primary & general interface to computing in general. Alas we don't seem to be intertwingularizing, building things together these days on the web: apis seem out of mode, cross-site behaviors less & less (except for ads and dollars), so some of the base interest, of the web as a connective medium, are less than they could be: we're recreating isolated siloed application systems, albeit now with far away data-centers running the app, on the web, but that's not the web's fault: that's humanity, that's what we all are up to. The better information superhighway awaits if we dare rise to it.

[1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312122119
I don't get it, are they selling out to some big company soon? This feels weird. Anyhow, blogs come and go, this isn't going to be a big deal.
Is this a them being lazy thing or a German privacy thing?
IMO the best forms are the one where, if you hit the submit button with something incomplete, it auto-scrolls back to the problem field and highlights it for you.
At least it doesn't put us underwater on our mortgages, though. But yeah, I'm definitely not looking forward for my next property assessment. I expect I'll end up paying at least another 25% on top of my current property taxes, simply because every house around here now goes into bidding wars.
what's your current favorite terminal font?
It's a straitjacket to reduce inconsistency across different sections of a large app/family of apps - and which help a bit with finding common styles for refactoring.

It's not so much about what you do as a single designer on the initial design, more about what a team of designers do when adding new apos/modules to an existing product.

In theory you could use bootstrap and a theme - but your fellow team members will get lost, re-invent some styles etc.

I'm inclined to solve this problem with discipline and corporal punishment - but I'm afraid the tailwind-people are on to something.

Basically the cascading part of css does not work well for applications / a suite of applications - it works better for actual hypertext documents (like sgml might) - where you can make a layout that works, while the browser handles the user experience (UX). When layout/design becomes "just" part of how an app looks, but the important is how it beheaves (including things like hover, expanding menus etc) - bare CSS doesn't work as well. Not technically, but from a perspective of an evolving code base.
There wasn't a set of unvaccinated health care workers as a control so the science doesn't prove that TLDR. The fact that there was no severe symptoms is encouraging though.

I'm also very happy that studies like this are being done. We need a whole lot more studies looking at this, long term immunity with B and T-cells, and comparing neutralizing antibody levels between vaccinated and unvaccinated who have been infected but show little or no symptoms.
China’s Sputnik Moment? How Washington Boosted China’s Quest for Tech Dominance
The issue with Blazor is that not just JavaScript is a legacy trash but that HTML and CSS are also legacy garbage.

It falls short of fixing the issue.

We need to make web open to technologies beyond the legacy stack.
Would going through the entire course, along with coursework and readings provide enough understanding to forego Leetcode and to start interviewing?
Political violence related to Covid-19 could lead to 'unravelling of societies'
Ask HN: How many bookmarks do you have in the browser?
I got over 7000. Most of it is probably school related or something I found on HN or reddit that I saved to later but will never actually read.

I started using Chrome in 2009 as a first-year high school student so it's 12 years of high school, university, and work related bookmarks.

How do you organize and read through many bookmarks?
The best way to remove social media distractions is to not use social media.

Also, the website could use a better layout and less fade-in animations.
Back in the day it was `grep style=` in the code. All over-rides started there, then would (eventually?) get promoted.
I've heard a lot of good things about Idaho.
Building an Investment Career on Writing
Like who? I imagine anyone who goes to work at Oracle doesn't really posses the disdain for them that allows for the derivation of pleasure from hearing they lost a court case.
I think it is unclear because the top level post didn't make a conclusion, just threw out a fact.

If the implied conclusion is the fine won't hurt or have an impact because revenue >> the fine, they are missing the relevance of comparing the fine to profit.

I'm not sure what other conclusion they would want people to take from the fact presented
Couldn't the small penis be considered part of the slander?
The article (light on details, as usual) mentions that a slightly different configuration of a tetraquark would be very stable (again, not sure if that means nanoseconds or hours). If such stable multiquarks exist, without an electric charge they would be effectively untraceable, right? The only way to see such a particle would be to hit it precisely with an even smaller particle and get it to bounce back.
Crux 1.18.0 Is Out
How do you deal with media queries/responsiveness?
This: To be honest, 99% of my job is just to be the outsider that's not playing politics and not stuck in a narrow job description. I'm told to "fix it", so that's what I do. The internal staff have "roles and responsibilities", and they fight with other teams more than they cooperate. Some people actively hate each other. I come in as the neutral party and for a brief shining moment I can get everybody to row in the same direction.

That is the single reason driving external consultant hire in many enterprises.
I’m not sure “reputation laundering” is the right term, since these folks don’t have any reputational problems. One site is their institute’s home page with news on all their research. The other is a website focused on COVID19 only, aggregating relevant info, with a more semantic URL and probably some SEO, and including team members outside of NECSI. They don’t hide their connection to NECSI, but the organization is more than just NECSI.

As for the disagreement, it probably stems from the fact that with other outbreaks like Ebola, with known ~50% mortality rates, there’s unanimous consensus that they must be shut down early, and so they are.

That common cause and singled-minded focus and coordination is a major factor in successfully eradicating the pandemic. And doing it early before it can become widespread is obviously more viable than shutting it down after it’s gone global.

These folks are asserting that the methodologies used for shutting down other pandemics early can still be effectively scaled up to shut down a widespread pandemic like COVID19 that we failed to shut down early. And that’s where the disagreement is with the consensus you linked.

The thing is, global pandemics aren’t over, they’re just beginning, and we could be hit by something worse later. It behooves all of society to use COVID19 as a not-too-deadly trial run for learning how to quickly shut down something worse in the future, rather than fatalistically accepting it.
Yeah. It seems he (indirectly) released the names of (alleged) sexual assault victims, against a court order.

Regardless of what he's done otherwise, it seems pretty clear he was in the wrong here.
Launch HN: Matrubials (YC S21) Milk-derived therapeutics for infectious diseases
Hi, I'm Ishita, cofounder of Matrubials (https://matrubials.com/). We are developing milk-derived therapeutics to address infectious diseases.

I have extensive experience in microbiology and infectious diseases in both academia and industry. Taken together, our founding team has ~100 years of combined experience in microbiology and ecology, food science and chemistry. My cofounders have previously founded other health companies with specialized products (eg. Evolve Biosystems and BCD Bioscience).

We have been focused on structure-function analysis of mammalian milk and the benefits individual components can bring to human health for about two decades. In recent years, we discovered peptides in milk that have selective antimicrobial activity, meaning that they know who the pathogens are, and essentially go after them fast for elimination while bypassing the "good" bugs, leaving them around to continue their jobs. That was the moment we decided we needed to bring these to the market.

One niche in the human body where the imbalance between the good and the bad is really bad, is the human vagina. We've been focusing on specific bacteria that reside in the normal human vagina and those that take over to cause disease. In particular, we hope to reduce the burden of bacterial vaginosis, which remains unresolved with current antibiotics. This is especially important because these infections tend to recur, and can lead to secondary infections and reproductive issues.

Antibiotic discovery is hard, technically and financially. To develop candidate molecules from early stage research to clinically viable products, with efficacy and safety that do better than current standard-of-care, is a major challenge. An opportunity like this one doesn't come around often so we're pretty excited about it.

Converting milk components into therapeutics- now isn't that a great hack? We think so! Happy to hear your thoughts and answer questions!
You all are lucky, I had a pretty bad reaction from the second dose(pfizer) wiped out for two solid days, started feeling better and then boomerang fatigue hit, a half mile walk would leave me so tired I needed to rest for an hour after. I also had heart issues and as a runner(I run 20-30 miles a week) had to stop for almost 2 weeks. Interestingly enough I have a garmin watch and it showed my v02 max also drop by 10% during that time, Dr's attributed it to the vaccine but couldn't be sure. That being said I'll still get the booster if and when it arrives as I would rather deal with those side effects than severe covid or death.
> You can always build more houses, start new cities, its not a real problem.

Of course, but that would devalue the existing housing stock, which for the vast majority of politicians would mean a loss on their real estate investments.

Why would they give a shit about young and future people being able to afford a place to live, when they can make a mint by denying these people housing?
Huge fan of Inter - I use Inter for all of my projects, this is my go-to font for everything. It's not simple and looks modern.

If you folks have not used, I highly recommend it to try it out!
Yes, but Flutter uses a strange little JS dialect nobody wants to learn. Were both created due to the way Google gives out bonuses and promotions?
He has no excuse for using Ø for zero then!
Can you call it Itanic if it was around for more than a decade because of how well it sold and how many supercomputers chose to use it? I am familiar with the pain of Itanium, and I understand how hard it was to work with. I've kernel debugged an operating system on it. Yet it was still successful enough to be around for this long. I wouldn't call it "Itanic."
CareRev (YC S16) Is Hiring Staff Back End Engineers (Ruby/Rails and Remote USA)
Mastodon for iOS
>Such proximity in mass makes the decay "difficult," resulting in a longer lifetime of the particle, and indeed Tcc+, is the longest-lived exotic hadron found to date.

So... how long does it live?
Why the Stock Market Has Gone Up So Much
> Is this really fundamentally different to existing syscalls?

Originally & perhaps still DragonflyBSD was attempting to become a Single-System-Image OS, was supposed to allow multiple boxes to work together in a way that looked like a single computer.

I could definitely see making syscalls be more like messages as being a useful starting abstraction for this scenario.
I love splay trees, skew heaps, etc. data structures that get very little love.

But I’ve actually tried to use splay trees in production code. The performance benefits versus a simple Patricia tree seemed totally absent in actual practice even for things like very frequent adjacent queries. The structure is neat but paying attention to memory layout and cache line size is far, far more important.
> There was no sure proof she did it

Exactly. And yet she was treated as one by the media and justice system. She even spent time in prison for it. Even though there was no proof she did it.

> nor that she was innocent

There's no proof that you're innocent either, maybe you did it and should spend a few years in prison until later acquitted? Absence of proof of innocence does NOT imply guilt.

> of course claiming she is the victim

She was a victim. Not the same as the murder victim, but she got her reputation ruined, had her family go into debt trying to pay legal fees and SPENT YEARS IN PRISON. For something that there was no evidence she did, was evidence someone else did (who by the way got less time than she got, before she was acquitted), and for which she was eventually found innocent of and acquitted for.

Maybe develop some empathy.
This looks nice but I've never seen ¿¡ combined into a single glyph before and found it hard to recognize.
It's almost entirely foreign buyers, as investments or for money laundering.

If Trudeau would rub some brain cells together, we'd get changes to the law that would limit foreign real estate ownership, and close loopholes allowing the banks or other Canadian investment firms to hold real estate on behalf of foreign owners.
> but I don't think anyone wants that

I really hope that's true...
And people wonder why Snowden didn't turn himself in
I was similar. My salary doubled then pretty much was flat for 10 years and only recently went up again.
Home Depot has a pro service.
> when health experts universally agree they're safe and effective and everyone should get one

This is not true.
It's especially difficult to find licensed and bonded contractors and handymen who won't straight up ghost a project.
> I haven't even seen a coherent rebuttal yet. I'm not sure it's even possible, given that the evidence in this trial would, conveniently, have to be kept secret.

This guy claims he read the original posts and was able to identify one of the complainants from the information there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28009316

But my point was mainly the Murray is so obviously biased that his statements need to be read with that in mind. Plus denials like "I do not know" and "I don't recall" are some of the vaguest and least credible (since they're almost impossible to prove or disprove).
JSDocs: It's like TypeScript but without all that TypeScript
This article claims that Coca Cola switched to high fructose corn syrup in 1984 which was a year before the debut of New Coke

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2019/07/the-secret-history-...
The member states care about America's friendship and cooperation on many things. You have to follow the power to see what the results will be.

Personally, I think he's just doing it to have a record for posterity once it's rejected, to turn common knowledge about EU-USA corrupting power relationships into public knowledge (although I don't share his hope that this will ever become public knowledge - but then again it takes an idealist to fight these kinds of battles).
I hope this is the start of global regulatory changes to remove the opaque processes that govern management of information on social media or other digital public town squares. I know the word "propaganda" is loaded and means different things to different people, but to me an opaque, sometimes politically-biased process that divulges little about how society-wide information is being shaped, feels like propaganda. The fact that it is done by a Silicon Valley tech company doesn't suddenly make it less dystopian or benevolent.
This Cruise Line Is Courting Remote Workers With Fast, Reliable Wi-Fi
>Absolutely disgusting. Lawyers must be thrilled to have it.

Well, if a company's determined not to comply with GDPR, then it's going to be on the lookout for loopholes, and ways around the legislation. And indeed, if that's its plan, and the legislation is vague, it's going to need a much bigger legal department. That's not the law's fault; that's because the company doesn't want to comply.

If on the other hand a company wants to comply, then that very vagueness protects it, on my reading. It's hard to imagine being done for GDPR violations, if you've familiarised yourself with the provisions; and if you are affected, have a concrete plan to ensure you are in compliance.

I confess that I don't like the vagueness. It gives greater discretion to the judge. I've lived all of my life under UK law, which is more specific and prescriptive than the laws of most EU states, where judges have much more power.
Like GP said: "almost never"
Probably because of this behavior it was in the top three.