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> Your best bet at running 16 bit Windows applications on a modern OS is running them via Wine.

Fun fact, you can use a WineVDM-based 16bit emulator on Windows[0] that translates 16bit calls to 32/64bit calls and install it system-wide thus allowing the use of 16bit programs in 64bit Windows. Here are two examples from screenshots i have around: Microlathe[1], a small utility to build 3D models by rotating a line around an axis (i also made my own clone[3] of it) and [2]a free Smalltalk environment (Smalltalk Express - which i actually consider one of the simplest Smalltalk environments since it only contains a small subset of what you'd find in a modern one thus making it easier to grok).

[0] https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

[1] https://i.imgur.com/e26mqWP.png

[2] https://i.imgur.com/r5aQNyJ.png

[3] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/lila/
> Executive pay makes up a tiny fraction of the total salary expense of a large corporation.

If the Activision/Blizzard CEO's pay were lowered to 100 times median income, it would be enough to give each employee an extra $16,000.
As Ben Franklin said, "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." There's no technical solution for that. End-to-end encryption will help if one person sends information to one competent, trustworthy journalist. It won't help much if large groups of people try using it to conspire to overthrow a government: someone will talk, someone will be an undercover double agent.
It would be a good way to build an appreciation how javascript makes things simple.
It is the classic example of FYGM. I'm old enough to remember when being a "good netizen" would have meant that medium-sized organizations would be pushing for the new standards and practices that would allow newcomer organizations, maybe even orgs that didn't yet exist, to join and participate on the network.

Now we've wound up where IPv4 addresses are like houses: everyone who already has one is quite content with the situation (and even sees them as "investments" to be traded and hoarded and leveraged) while newcomers are absolutely hosed. And doing the right thing of expanding the pool of availability, whether by allowing more housing to be built or by migrating to IPv6, is met with cries of "there's no money in it for me so I'm not interested."

And lest anyone thing this is petulant whining on the part of a sysadmin from a new network, where I work has several legacy IPv4 assignments and we own four or five low-digit ASNs. We are set for life for IPv4, yet we've picked up our IPv6 allocations from ARIN and have actively updated our internal network such that all applications can work in a v6-only environment and we've even donated some of our address space to new organizations in our field (medicine) who needed it to get started. That is how the Internet is supposed to work, through cooperation.
Create an html page with notepad, click on it, maybe tel Windows to open it with a browser (same or similar with most Linux desktops). It does execute in-page JS scripts too, at the very least.
The ones with internal baffles to prevent sea-sickness are still generally liked by people who try them. However, they are extremely heavy and if they leak are a potential source of significant damage (many apartment and condo complexes have a "no water bed" policy for this reason).

I'm not sure, but I think that most (if not all) of them had heaters because water can pull an awful lot of heat from your body over the course of 8 hours even if it's quite warm (if it's under 95F or so, you can cool off quite fast by sleeping on a bare waterbed mattress; a bare waterbed mattress under 80F can put you at risk of hypothermia).

That being said, the mattresses had insulating covers so it's possible there were some where heaters were not needed.
I worked at restaurants through college, ~20 years ago. initially chains (og, bj's, etc) and later on some nice hotel gigs (fanciest having a private dining room that went for $10k/night). While today I'm less certain on tips, at the time I was 100% in favor. It was clearly beneficial. Other people i knew in college were making $8/hr working as security guards, or folding clothes in a mall and i was walking out of the hotel with $200+ in cash after a 6 hour dinner shift, and $100+ for a 4 hour weekend breakfast. This was not barely above minimum wage.
Water is a pretty amazing heat carrier. I did a bit of poking around for a project idea and couldn't really find anything with a higher heat capacity, at least for things that don't undergo a phase change.

I wonder if there's a semi-low-tech way of taking advantage of a phase change for extra capacity in something like a hot water bottle.
My mom said they'd bring them to school the next day for lunch.
I didn't say it wasn't, just that it was a poor example of it as the vast majority of kids ended up okay.
This reasoning depends on how much effort has gone into the two goals.

Cancer therapies are a proven business model, so a lot of R&D funding has been poured into searching for them.

I'm not sure how comparably much has gone into slowing mouse aging.
> ASML machine costs

It seems that cost maybe around $300 million each: https://whbl.com/2022/01/19/intel-orders-asml-machine-still-...
Doesn't really make sense. People leave for cryptocurrency projects because they’re promised a huge portion of the tokens or pre-mined coins. The idea is that they just need to make the project work well enough to hype enough people into buying the coins, at which point they can unload them at huge returns and then move on to the next crypto project to repeat the process.

It doesn’t make sense that Google would keep people around, pay them a lot of money, have them produce useless projects without the same asymmetric upside potential, all to keep them from going to companies that weren’t even competitors in the first place.
I've seen this one, I think it was on HN about a year ago, but a lot of the forms I've been signing in the last year have been stuff containing a fair amount of personal information (e.g. wife's immigration stuff, refinancing a house, banking annoyances, etc.). I can't really audit the code for an online service, and I find it unlikely that either Krita or ImageMagick are sending this information externally, considering both seem to work fine even without an internet connection.

EDIT: Clicking on it, I see the source code is available. If I can run it on my local box then this might be a little less nasty than mucking with the `convert` command.
And another game developer [1]

> The report quality [from Linux users] is stellar. I mean we have all seen bug reports like: “it crashes for me after a few hours”. Do you know what a developer can do with such a report? Feel sorry at best. You can’t really fix any bug unless you can replicate it, see it with your own eyes, peek inside and finally see that it’s fixed. And with bug reports from Linux players is just something else. You get all the software/os versions, all the logs, you get core dumps and you get replication steps. Sometimes I got with the player over discord and we quickly iterated a few versions with progressive fixes to isolate the problem. You just don’t get that kind of engagement from anyone else.

Notably, of those bug reports, fewer than 1% (only 3 bugs) were specific to the Linux version of the game. That is, over 99% of the bugs reported by Linux gamers also affected players in other platforms. Moreover (quoting from the OP):

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/qeqn3b/despite_hav... also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28978086
I wonder, we only tend to remember that one asshole today not the other 50 people who were normal.
The science is there, but there has actually been a stigma against generalized life extension research because that particular project has been the purview of cranks for literally thousands of years.
How can you honestly say the "let a thousand flowers bloom" approach failed? Google scraps a lot of products, but they still have many great products: Gmail/GSuite, Android, YouTube, GCP, Nest...

Each of those is a successful tech company in their own right.
Yeah, indefinite life extension sounds like a fools bet. However, extending the human body's abilities in order to enjoy old age better would be something I wouldn't mind.
I don't get this, do people actually care if it looks scanned vs someone actually added a sig to it from acrobat/preview?
As an alternative, we at Careersaas https://app.careersaas.com/portal have a developer focused job search tool. We're also targeting mostly remote roles and internships. Definitely a shame to lose SO as so many found jobs through their portal.
Nope. All real, most from the last couple of months. Quite a few are In the running for the best pizza of the night on any given night.
Moosend's “Free Forever” plan no longer free
Seems like that's a disadvantage, since the plant would otherwise be perennial (if you didn't need to dig it all up to eat it). I guess if it also grows wild it may not take a lot of care.
Visual Effects artist here. Nope. We're all on EXRs mainly (and of course JPGs)

https://www.openexr.com/

Then again I can't speak for all studios and all departments. But I think it's generally true except for some outliers.
Well, i truly believe covid has already evolved to the level of influenza (high spread, less deadly), our collective immune system just needs to catch up, which at the current rate of infections will be a matter of months. Since it appears so infectuous, everybody will get in contact, a lot will get infected, some of them moderately ill for several days. The more you got in contact earlier (naturally or via an injection), the less chance of getting severely ill. Covid will be an addition to the list of active diseases, but since it will compete with other viruses, the total amount of sick people will be the same as before the pandemic. I could be wrong, but mark my words . Good point about the immune compromised... those are/will still be in though waters, as with any infectuous disease though.
Having to pay a free to get your pay is ridiculous and should be illegal. Your pay should simply be deposited in your bank account with no other obstacles to access.
I figured that the HN handbook does not link the Zapier workflows page.

Fixed in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_request...
> Does anyone know why Intel would want to build a "mega-site" in the city of Columbus Ohio?

My guess would be access to talent and costs. Columbus is more than 2x bigger than Cleveland. Building cars is also an international affair and we see those plants all over the place.
You need workarounds but you can make it work. Though you can say the same thing for Linux too, it is just that Windows coming out of the box with a much richer API (e.g. for GUI functionality) makes things easier.
That's all solved. We catch readonly errors from Postgres and issue the replay. Preemptively sending a POST to the primary region is an optimization, it works fine without doing that!

Replication lag is handled too in the Ruby library we pin requests to the for a few seconds. In our Elixir library, we actually monitor the read replica directly and reroute writes until it's caught up.
People Who Still Have AOL Email Addresses
Whole home climate control costs money. Why run up your gas or electric bill to heat your entire 2000 sqft house to 78 degrees, when the only thing that needs that much heat is your own body?
They publish data dumps on archive.org: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Stack+Exch...
I have been told, but can't verify, that Intel was looking at placing this in Texas but that the power grid issues ruled that out. Can anyone confirm?
Probably trucking it for 1 day isn't a big deal
What do you mean? Developing a chip with contained firmware isn't free or equivalent to software definitions, if that feature was necessary you may not even yet be in a position where you have a pinephone the even flash a new OS onto.

Further the article has domain knowledge and knew about this issue. Making my point about the type of person capable of flashing another OS as being someone capable of understanding the risks.
> But, in WebAssembly you get a few more things. One is fast start.

This is one of the key things I think is differentiating versus the container world. The idea of per-request instantiation is possibly within reach. This is a possible return to a very old, very simple architectural pattern, of cgi-bin! Running a process per request. Which we left because creating processes was expensive. Our new architectures- discussed in this write up- revolve around long running applications, which are compelled upon us for performance reasons. But WebAssembly seems well suited to very fast instantiation of new contexts. It re-opens the possibility that we can have (return to) smaller more discrete chunks of work, safer little units of execution running. We could go back to a Apache HTTPD style prefork world, the very old[1]!

This is part of the gradient we've been walking down, it feels like. VMs -> containers -> lighter weight containers. Returning to finer grained processes.

For anyone interested in a deep dive into some of the super neat systems programming going into making WebAssembly starts/instantiation fast, there's a bunch of active work to reengineer module instantiation, using memfd [2][3]. Really fun to see this getting hashed out.

> * So one answer to the question as initially posed is that no, WebAssembly is not the next Kubernetes; that next thing is waiting to be built, though I know of a few organizations that have started already.*

And as others have recommended, worth noting Krustlet[4], which allows running WebAssembly instances via Kubernetes. This could definitely make sense for a lot of our workloads. I think a lot of people also expect though that the cloud infrastructure itself will get rewritten or recompiled into webassembly. Where-as today we tend to wire systems together over protocols, via http or grpc, we'll be able to more directly stitch together plugably modular systems, where a generic control process to govern, i dunno pick an example, load balancers say, has a bunch of specific webassembly modules plugged in with the specific actuators / configuration for your set up. There's a real potential to fulfill much of the idea of micro-kernels here, of decomposing big applications into looser assemblages of generic code, drivers, and configuration.

[1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/misc/perf-tuning.html#comp...

[1] https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/3697

[2] https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/3691

[3] https://krustlet.dev/
> Having your lively hood to depend on the whims of strangers is no way to operate.

Your lively hood ALWAYS depends on the whims of strangers. It doesn't matter what you do, you depend on strangers to support you.
What would you be advocating for and whose behalf? There's many industries and positions where a 4-day work week doesn't fit. There are other where it's already possible and it's happening. So where does the advocacy fit in and what does it do?

What happens when some % of employees say that they'll happily take a pay cut to work 4 days, and others say that they would only do 4 days if it doesn't result in pay reduction and if that's not possible they'd rather keep working 5 days a week? It feels like it opens the door for employers to give everyone a 20% pay cut and dress it up as empowering people to do more impactful stuff with their free time.
That won't really help them-- their UI is so horrific for search, especially in the market place -- that it won't improve anyone's experience there.
I am the admin account for my org and didn't get anything.
People who actually get tipped (servers, bartenders, baristas, caddies, drivers, delivery people) are by far the biggest proponents of keeping the current system in place.
I’d really recommend adding a section to this* page something like “existing Docker containers” ! I would not have found out that it’s possible based on your current docs layout.

* https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/

Also, I noticed that the Speedrun page a) in step 3, doesn’t tell you to CD into your source code directory before running the launch command to autobuild, and b) is missing links to all the autobuild supported languages
When you move to a new state, I suppose you don't fill in a bunch of forms to register yourself as a resident in the state then? So that when DMV and other institutions ask for residency they could just check back in the states records (or have you bring a copy of the state's residency certificate) ?

The state surely must know how to tax you, and thus they need to know who you are and that you're a resident in the state... It seems the information inevitably must be there already so why try to imitate that with a bunch of random tokens such as bills sent to an address where they could go straight to the source?

Just curious.
It will definitely cripple progress. Even with our current lifespans we see past generations blocking progression with their death grips on powerful positions
Is the Media Doomed?
Federal Court Issues Nationwide Pause on Biden's Fed Employee Vaccine Mandate
Now all that is needed is a decent way to cool all that corefest, in a 9.x mm package. Somehow, that seems tricky. But perhaps it will be solved. Or not, and thermal throttling will continue to be the bane of laptops.
While I agree that "the customer is always right" attitude has actuality just become a policy of non-confrontation...

>I want the meat of sandwich A, the bread off sandwich B, the condiments from an item on the Sunday Brunch menu

If they think bread +meat +condiment is a highly demanding, needy sandwich order, then perhaps waiting tables isn't for them.

It at least suggests why they might find their tip-based compensation to be insufficient.
> US military involvement in the creation of the internet is a bit of a myth

It was relatively front and centre. SAGE was the Air Force’s networked radar system in the 1950s [1]. Its vulnerability directly lead to the work at RAND, in the U.S., on packet switching in the 1960s. Academia then took the mantle, but never far from the military’s aegis. (The UK took a parallel path through the NPL that wasn’t as martial, but still quite so.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Enviro...
Vanguard?

They're ridiculous with this. It's a huge pain with trusts.
> In some sense, the problem isn't that the compiler "can't" detect that an integer addition will overflow.

It absolutely can't if it doesn't know what the values are going to be.

> the compiler will have to flag every integer addition as UB

No, I disagree. If it has no knowledge of my runtime values, it can't flag addition as UB because it isn't. It's UB only if I'm using values that would overflow, and the compiler in general can't know that. If I've done my program right, it will never overflow. There is no UB, any flag would be just absolutely wrong. The compiler couldn't detect UB. There's nothing to flag.

If it knows the values, then of course it can detect it and flag it:

x.c:3:18: warning: integer overflow in expression of type ‘int’ results in ‘-2’ [-Woverflow]
3 | int a=2147483647+2147483647;

> Programmers do not, in general, want to do the amount of work it takes to safely add two numbers together.

I agree that overflow-checking is needlessly sucky in C but that's not "the problem." I usually make sure my arithmetic is safe but the compiler won't know it.
I send "fax" via https://epost.de which is incredibly useful public authorities. You upload a PDF and they print it and send it as snailmail. Since they verify your identity, it has the legal status of a fax (is my understanding).
I once needed to pivot a table. Tried it with excel, spent an hour googling, couldn't get it to work. Then exported it into SQL server, googled how to do it in T-sql, and was done shortly after.

Respect for people who work with excel, but it's not for me.
and on zoom itself https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2022/01/zooming-in-on... also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29982954
"Zooming in on Zero-click Exploits "

the researcher used the Linux client to do the RE work... so I guess it's not just for 'bug' but also for free security audit! (2 CVE were reported)
There's a long weird history of this; the bottom line is that interest groups on all political sides hate it:

1. The ACLU-style left fear it will lead to more pervasive, easier surveillance, and more "papers please" style checks on poor people and immigrants.

2. The right hates it because it's an extension of government power, arguably a 10th amendment violation, and it would greatly simplify voting for people who traditionally vote democrat.

3. A nontrivial number of people believe (no-joke) that it would be a portent of the apocalypse, relating to the number of the beast in the book of revelation. This actually came up in a number of state legislatures as they standardized drivers licenses after 9/11.

The few polls I've ever seen actually say it's fairly popular with people, but those interest groups are non trivial.
People take advantage of phase changes as a way to store thermal capacity frequently. Here[0] is one designed to keep your coffee hot by using a material with a phase change temperature similar to a temperature folks like to drink coffee.

[0] https://www.joulies.com/
This is really neat, thanks for sharing!
14/3 was right. They were trying to describe a MWBC. Though you can have 20 A MWBCs too (12/3)
There's the problem of the elderly continuing to accumulate wealth and power without ceding any to the younger generations.

It's already happening. Look no further than the geriatric US lawmakers and how out of touch they are with the future.
Yes, it's correct non-ionzing radation has detectable effects on cells, some of which are deleterious.

It's still not quite enough (given the lack of strong epidemiological evidence) to make any arguments for or against 5G.
Apologies, but "ignoring the situation completely" is the exact opposite of "assuming the situation cannot occur and acting on that assumption".
They're aware of it, and gradually updating it.

There's a diorama right up front that they have deliberately kept in all its racist glory. They've annotated it with over a dozen signs explaining everything that's wrong with it, from the literally-identical Native American faces to their supplicating postures.

The signage explains how they're working on fixing that throughout the museum, but that it's going to take time.
Ahem ... Cortez and the Aztecs? Pizarro and the Incas? Wiped out the natives and their lifestyles long before there was a United States.
> You do realize ... right?

maybe drop that condescending tone repeating the TV wisdom? You know, that "wisdom" that comes from "journalists" reporting on the latest "studies"?
> Just use Matrix instead.

No just don't. Matrix exposes metadata to every connected server.
I just remembered I inherited a "termofor" from my grandmother.

It's filled now with hot water after 7 years.
Do the sums behind Musk’s space colony mission add up?
https://archive.is/TJAMH
A single day would be insignificant and very hard to measure.
All it needs is for someone to come along with a vision for a residence for the Canadian head of state that embodies Canadian ideals, is environmentally conscious, appears timelessly grand, yet is inexpensive to construct and maintain. It'd be interesting if it somehow included a nod to Canada's logging and energy industries. It would be really cool if... since Superman is half-Canadian, being built with a Fortress of Solitude architectural theme, which would increase the desire of the head of state to live there. If built using dirt bags (an unfortunate name for an economical building material) using volunteer Canadian citizen labor, nearly all of the cost would be clearing the previous structure.
I think that task/project management is also starting to go through that with Clubhouse, Linear, Height, Notion/Coda/Knowledge-bases (trying to solve it). I would not be surprised to hear that there are a couple in "Stealth" as well.