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The core concept described here significantly overlaps with an OS idea from the 90s that sadly didn't go anywhere. The system was Opal, from the OS group at UWashington CS&E and in particular Jeff Chase.

The key idea in Opal was to put all processes in the same address space (like Singularity does), but to use hardware systems to provide memory protection (whereas Singularity relies on "software mechanisms"). Communication between processes now becomes as simple as one process giving the other a pointer (obviously it has to refer to a page with appropriate access). As with Singularity, the overhead of TLB flushes and page table management goes away, making context switches much faster (especially for large working set processes). To quote:

> Protection in Opal is independent of the single address space; each Opal thread executes within a protection domain that defines which virtual pages it has the right to access. The rights to access a page can be easily transmitted from one process to another. The result is a much more flexible protection structure, permitting different (and dynamically changing) protection options depending on the trust relationship between cooperating parties. We believe that this organization can improve both the structure and performance of complex, cooperating applications.

You can read lots more about Opal here (it's all quite old now): https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/opal/opal.html

I still think it's one of the best OS ideas ever, and I'm sad that it never really came to fruition.
It's not included because US wealthy and powerful people don't need to secretly move money to US tax havens. They just wire it.
I recently bought a new house where I had to care for the yard (previously owned in a HoA which handled yard care) and tried an electric leaf blower. It made it no more than 10 mins on a charge and the batteries took 8-10 hours to get back to 100%.

I didn’t find that at all adequate to the task.
> have a polite discussion

Not always feasible. Imagine this as if it were a recurring weekly thing manifesting itself in all manner of different activities as well. At this point its probably easier to just put the house up for sale and move.
so IIUC it's an os level tripwire ?
An aside, but Y100K-limited fixed-length years are dumb. They don’t fix a Y10K problem, because untruncated variable-length years don’t have a Y10K problem. The Y2K problem was caused by truncated 2-digit years with an assumed two-digit prefix, and the problems when the assumed prefix became an incorrect assumption.

Its true that software that only reserves four digits for years becomes a problem in Y10K, but fixing that internal representation problem shouldn't have any effect on presentation, and if it does “5 digits fixed” presentation is a soft indication of the most short-sighted possible solution.
Give it a billion years or so and the aging sun will boil/blow earth's atmosphere away. So not "never".

That drop in living standards isn't required either. Some might want such a policy path, but that is a different issue.
Lynching was part of a framework of racial terror that kept (and by its legacies, continues to keep) black people from attaining social and economic equality. I'd say that very few things meet a sufficient standard for comparison with lynching, least of which is the occasional (and generally management-class or higher) white person losing their job.

> And the "right to work" (not to mention feed yourself and your family) is as important as the right to live.

"Right to work," at least in the US, is a series of laws designed to curtail labor rights by weakening unions (i.e., the institutions that usually keep people in their jobs, particularly in at-will countries like the US). Are you sure that's what you meant?
So what should we do when the government will not listen? Keep talking? A warning without the backing of consequences is not effective.
Saying that iPhones are secure and private is wishful thinking that benefits nobody but Apple shareholders.

There are no doubt some dead journalists and activists that would still be alive today if iPhones truly were secure and/or private.
As a recent switcher from macOS to Linux, I find KDE configurability most comfortable and focused on professional UX.

Gnome UI looks childish and overblown to me.

As an UI designer I can confirm that in recent years the trends to maximize engagement trough overuse of animation and unusable distractions is making me mad as hell. The useful and really effective design is invisible.

Or as the new generations of "tech founders" classify polished professional UI work - it is "not exciting enough".
I have a different view on interfaces: Never use form over function methodology, the main goal of interfaces are to be useful and accessible.
You're welcome to say whatever you want, but if you genuinely believe that the NSA gives preferential treatment to anyone from FAANG you're living a fever dream.
I would consider this project to be aiming for interoperability with the target OS (Linux, macOS, Windows), an independently developed program.
Good luck! Those HTML issues you're coming across are tough and so varied across the web!

I was working with Mercury Parser (pluggable parsing for different sites) in the past.

https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser
DOJ considers challenge to Apple’s App Store policies
Ah, good point. Thanks for the correction.
Agreed. This is not a bipedal robot. It's a drone that they added mostly useless legs to.

From the video, I'm not sure it could even walk at all without the propellers spinning.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
> The department is separately considering whether to challenge Apple’s policies for managing its App Store, a probe that was opened in the last administration but has accelerated this year, people familiar with the matter said. Decisions on both those tech-sector matters are expected in the coming months.

Non-paywalled link: http://archive.today/9BewP
Yes definitely. There are a lot of nuances in privacy. As an example, take the approach to ML and assistants, where Google collects most of everything to train models on their servers, while Apple tries to anonymize things a bit (e.g. their “differential privacy” techniques).
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What is a zero emissions gas motor anyway?
Tesla will begin production at its German Gigafactory by the end of the year
I used to write device drivers, advanced math never came up. I did devops and wrote applications still no advanced math.

Like I enjoy the fact I know calc but I’m not about to oversell it’s usefulness for most programming. Math is not the fundamental building block of software imho, logic is.
A non-disposable gas mower also cuts $500+ these days. Sure you can get cheaper ones, but they are junk that doesn't last.
If you were expecting reactionless flying cars and literal hoverboards in 2015, you probably should have found a different source for your technology predictions than a Spielberg movie.
Generally, when someone says "If X ... but if Y" they are talking about the cases X && !Y and !X && Y. For the X && Y case you need to look at other statements. In Harris' case her other statements are that she did not consider Trump a creditable source of COVID treatment information.

Harris is saying that if Dr. Fauci says to take it she would regardless of what Trump says, and that if Trump says to take it but Dr. Fauci does not she would not take it.
In school I learned it as a fourth persuasive method in addition to ethos, pathos, and logos.

“The perfect moment” is how my professor described it
Currently they bring their own fuel to worksites. What happens when there's no outlet for them to plug into? There are large numbers of landscaping scenarios where this will be the case. Do they bring a diesel generator?

All of my yard tools, including my lawnmower, are electric. For reasons of both cost and power, I went with corded rather than battery powered. Battery tech is constantly improving and maybe at some point it will get to the point where it is viable for a yard like mine but for people who are doing a large number of properties per day, it's going to be quite a while.

Seems like the better interim solution would be making the small engines used by these tools emit less. This would of course increase the complexity and cost but seems like a better tradeoff than extension cords with large voltage drops, diesel generators, or lugging around half a dozen times more batteries than devices.
> Python's bytecode compiler is generally a 1:1 translation of the AST; it never optimizes

I thought python had a "peephole optimizer" that optimises?
Professional lawn crews will use professional tools. I don't know what you bought, the Ego equipment is actually pretty good and has fast-ish chargers available.
Privacy is absolutely binary and taking a hardline approach is absolutely the proper way to protect your privacy.

You either actively choose to share information (1) or you don’t (0). The article compares who is sharing what to who — sharing info is sharing, period.

A smartphone with all the bells and whistles in 2021 is not private. I stand by my statement, hardline.
I don’t understand why it’s more reasonable to characterize those who do business in low tax areas as “tax dodgers” than it is to characterize high tax governments as “new business haters.”
For much of the 20th century, everybody from Bertrand Russell to the writers of the Jetsons seemed to think that accelerating productivity would allow everybody to work proportionally less.

The owner class disagreed, and high productivity just meant higher profits because many more (increasingly lower quality) widgits are made per worker-hour.

But just look at that GDP!!
It seems like privacy isn't popular enough to enable a third player in the market. I wonder if "cheap" would be popular enough to make a dent. Like someone churning out de-googled AOSP phones cheap enough to attract market share.
Same! In my case, I had a family member drive me up to the local Moto office. They didn't blink an eye at some kid asking for 6809 and 68K docs. The guy who walked them up to me asked a few questions. Not to qualify, but just curious about what I was doing.

At that time I had only been programming the 6809. The 68K seemed powerful and exotic to me at the time too. We had a friendly banter which left me wanting a 68K machine and a few tips filed away in my head for later.

Instant Moto fan created.
For bonus negative points, it hijacks my back button.
So, we deplatform them? Tit for tat.
Hm, reminds me of something:

http://dildo-generator.com/

Thus the question: what exactly is novel about the approach here?
> Something definitely went wrong somewhere

Yep. Not old enough to actually verify this, but somehow I have feeling that in the old days the smartest kids of the block were lured to figure out how to get to the moon and how to get electricity from splitting atoms. Then somehow, we as a society came up with this novel idea that maybe we should lure the smartest kids to figure out how to circumvent financial regulation. We all know how that went. Then, we decided that maybe it would be good that the smartest kids started to figure out how to make people click more ads. I almost feel like we deserve what is coming.
The difference is, with a good number of Android phones, you can just flash a custom rom without any tracking built in.
>The Crown Estate is not the personal property of the monarch, it's essentially just government assets. Who is the Crown Estate going to pay taxes to, itself?

Pretty ingenious way to allow "families to pass wealth from generation to generation, indefinitely, without estate taxes at each death". The UK should do something about that. I hear significant estate taxes are important to a democracy to prevent the rise of a noble class.
hard to stay consistent and coherent as your system grows. hard to control every single aspect of it.

SerenityOS is shining right now because there is a modicum of control from a few people over many aspects of it.

user land in linux is the wild west.
Perhaps it is more accurate to say a religious mind had no firewall. All good hackers lock the door behind them.

The people who genuinely have no firewall are not so much the overtly religious as the ones we might broadly class as "new age" - the kind of people whose sole criterion for belief is whether or not it makes them feel good to believe it. There's a lot of them.
Electric equipment is just not practical or realistic for these landscaping operations where you are working 50-60 hours a week. They would have to replace batteries constantly as they get worn out from being constantly depleted and charging. Not to mention you would have to run your chargers off a generator in the truck bed anyhow, negating any green benefit since these things are noisy and pollute just as much as a hand tool. If they didn't need power offered by commercial grade gas equipment, they would be using cheaper handheld blowers rather than heavier and more expensive backpack models. Plus brands like STIHL are practically bulletproof in terms of reliability.
Ask HN: What can you do to help the grieving?
all in the title.
We (our entire society) should really be reconsidering lawns and "attractive lawns" in general. The care and maintenance of Kentucky bluegrass is a tremendous drain on resources, a significant cause of pollution (air and water), and destroys the habitats of native plants, insects and animals. It is just bad all around.
> What we dislike is everything talking about the costs, and not the benefits.

Exactly. I tried to push really hard our company to use Nix/NixOS (and maybe in our case nix-darwin too, since the majority of engineering uses macOS), but it never went anywhere (I did convert a few of my colleagues to use NixOS though).

But why? Well, onboarding is a pain in my company. We have some Ansible scripts that always break in some innovative ways, so it takes a whole day to setup a new machine for a bunch of engineers. Sure, partly of the fault is the fact that our Ansible scripts are really hacky (in some steps they still call some Bash scripts instead of using Ansible DSL for example), but Ansible is simply lacking in some places to have a really pleasant experience.

If we could use NixOS though, this would be a very different matter. I use NixOS in the same company, had the same configuration for pretty much 1 year, and also survived a broken laptop and setup my whole setup in like 30 minutes (most of time spend downloading packages actually). I even separated part of my NixOS configuration in another repository so other engineers using NixOS can also make use of it.

Yeah, it took a long time to get where I am currently, but nowadays I just stopped worrying about managing system, system update breakages, and anything like this. I can just use my system, fully up-to-date, and I know if something breaks, I can revert. It is beautiful.
A web app that can play musical scales according to mathematical equations
People always get confused about dystopias, it seems. Even Star Trek's Federation can be seen as a post-apocalyptic dystopia. You don't get to see much of life outside a few locations from the perspective of Starfleet's freakishly accomplished officers and mostly empty cities between warp nacelles, but I suspect things aren't as peachy as presented by Starfleet propaganda.
So, quantitative definition: noise from X, benefit, social context (responsibility) and avoidability of X, for each X - children, blowers, dogs, stereos... I do not see the discrimination too difficult. What can be avoided, what should be avoided, what should be replaced, what should be regulated...
I hope they get to charge by hour, not by job.
> Why would Microsoft do this?

Probably because Google already did all the hard work -- it's a Chrome fork -- and it's good press in tech circles.
It's a weak argument. First, there's a big gap between "canceling talks" and "no longer welcome on campus." Secondly, it's not like it was a recanted off-the-cuff remark or an ill-advised mailing list post dredged up from his grad student days - he published it in a national periodical[1] not two months ago. This at least suggests he's not a good communicator.

[1] With all the usual caveats about Newsweek today being a weird semi-propaganda arm of The Community and not particularly reputable despite its brand and reach. If that's the place you go to get published, maybe that's already a sign you don't have the banger essay you thought you did.
Well, here’s the thing, the pragmatic developer is not his market. It’s the newbies or those who are deeply associating their new career with the identity of a ‘legit’ developer. This is the group that will pay him.

It’s really none of my business, one can spend their time and money however they like. But, they do show up to work and advocate for these types of setups and that leads to bad codebases.

I’m not sure how any of us can solve it since Frontend is the port of entry for vast swaths of career-changers and new grads. Then again, I also see the over-engineering on devops, a group that should be a little more experienced. I don’t know where people get these ideas, so we might all be correct in shaking our fist at the Kent C Dobb types for fundamentally being a bad influence.

Just taking a look at one part of the stack, Xstate, how anyone can advocate for this is, I really just don’t know. This is a simple todo list example from it’s docs:

https://github.com/statelyai/xstate/tree/main/examples/todo-...

Eh, I give up. I really have no words for any of this.
Some of the best talent is working hard to make the world a better place… at Facebook.

No wonder why society hasn’t transformed into a solarpunk utopia
> ICE generators

These can be made to be far quieter than the engine strapped to a human's back. A truck-bound genset can weigh 2000lbs+ no problem, which means it can house the same engine you would see in a honda civic, along with all of the same emissions and noise control devices.

Many new work trucks (F150 electric-only, for instance) output 240v, which would be more than enough to run a wide range of yard equipment (at the same time).

Alternatively, I'll agree that my yard guys can plug into my outside power outlets when they are doing the yard. I'll even let them plug in for my neighbor's yard too, if its more convenient for them. This level of intermittent use is negligible on someone's bill.
Modern battery technology is way better than it used to be. Today, you can use the same battery you use to power your cordless drill to power radios, vacuum cleaners, circular saws/table saws, chainsaws, trimmers, and even lawnmowers. DeWalt's 20V MAX system in particular is pretty neat.
Fair point but as it relates to technology.. we can't progress if things hold us back. Wealth inequality being the greatest thing doing so.
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That's the very reason why I stopped following TechCrunch and HackerNoon. It stopped being about tech content and nowadays it's all about the next shiny unicorn or cryptocurrency, IPOs, VCs and interviews with CEOs that sound like TED talks.

Another signal of this direction of things: last year's HackerNoon prizes were for the best (individual) contributors (and back then I managed to grab one of them). This year they were all about the best startups. Why should I spend a few days to put together a comprehensive technical article that eventually doesn't get enough eyeballs because the network is more interested in boosting visibility for (often well-paying) startups and VCs?

I understand that the IT biz side is also important and we need to follow what's going on that side too. The problem is that the IT biz side is cannibalizing everything else and there aren't many large platforms with deep technical content left.

I also understand why things are going in this direction - sponsors and VCs pay better than individual contributors, and by diluting the technical content one widens the potential audience. But it's not a healthy trend for the IT industry. The best ideas come when many technical minds meet and speak in the same place, not when the talk is all about the next unicorn to invest on or the next scandal in <put the name of humungous IT company here>.

In the meantime, I've moved my content to my private blog, and many other technical writers have been doing the same. Going back to private blogs because your content doesn't get enough visibility on large platforms feels like moving back the clock of innovation by at least two decades though, and it's not a good thing.
Thesaurized means “hoarded” for anyone else wondering :)
Can’t wait for ban on farting in public restrooms.
The "cheaper" customers you get, the less they demand.

That includes privacy, unfortunately.
How do you define antivax? Pretty sure you would be defined as an antivaxxer by most people as a result of your opinion that some people don't need to get vaccines
As of a few years ago you could still get the HP DY651A or IBM 40K9201 mouse (identical apart from logos) with a bit of hunting. Unfortunately I just looked and at a cursory glance I can’t find anyone who has them in stock, so they may have been discontinued, but you may be able to call around and find someone who still has a few in a corner somewhere.
It seems like commercial should be granted an exemption here. It's just not realistic to run battery operated hand tools like it is if you are only maintaining one single family home sized lot for all the reasons you mentioned. Plus gardeners can repair and maintain their own gas powered tools themselves, can't do that with electronic equipment that is built to be disposed of rather than fixed.
Reproducibility is not the only issue they're facing. I think the mentality extends to more than just fixing linker issues, e.g. this https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9656

At the end of the day, I much prefer trusting upstream than having to trust packagers to do everything right.
These engines are not great and I don’t mind the ban in my town. That said it was temporarily an excuse for people to be incredibly rude to folks who keep our homes maintained. I paid a my landscaper’s fine while they figured out the ordinance.

Reading a little further this is a comprehensive ban on an engine class…I wonder if the CA legislature understands that small engine chainsaws are an essential tool in wildland firefighting?
>Tell me, why would a person whose accomplishments are ~99.99999% based on the work and accomplishments of others be allowed to monopolize it as if they were truly responsible for everything?

Wealth is the incentive for the wealth creation you're observing here.
Just stop using browser extensions.

No you don’t need a JSON prettifier that has full powers and can read data from web pages on any domain. You don’t need a thing to help you to compose English prose better (or maybe you do but don’t use the extension).

The browser is the modern operating system, and we have made it trivial to allow users to pwn themselves with two clicks.
Negotiating with Compilers
I feel like it's a case where you the stereotypes exist to backwards explain any outcome that you want.

Like NYC and Boston famously have a "fuck you, mind you own business" stereotype contrasted with a rural stereotype expectation of cooperating for the community.

I think the higher order bit is Repliblicans pushing an anti-institutional agenda more recently (including Trump saying bad things about historically conservative institutions like the FBI) which naturally lines up with an antivax agenda.
But that's good. Because a string just needs to know aboit interable to perform that operation whereas every iterable would need to implement it's own join if you had it the other way around.
I never realized I wasn’t the only oddball who had so little connection with other computer people that they didn’t know anyone to let them into lobste.rs.
Apple's App Tracking Transparency Feature Doesn't Stop Tracking