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OpenPower was not 'open'. They were fake open for marketing reasons. You could not simply build an OpenPower chip and sell it.

Actually only long after RISC-V both OpenPower and MIPS opened up more.

The only thing that was actually open was SPARCv8 and that had a number of limitations that the creates of RISC-V didn't want. And Oracle had closed it up again after that.

OpenRISC was more a chip, not really an ISA design. And it wasn't 64 Bit when RISC-V started either.

And RISC-V also does a number of new things and removes some other things.

All of this has been extensively written about by the creators of RISC-V, you could just go read it.
>I don't know the margins in each trade but I guess at least half of the quote is costs?

Costs are likely more 80-85% in building/construction, margins are thin.

Electricians/plumbers may have something more, but not much.
I’ve tried to avoid Zoom as much as possible. Is there any reason to use the desktop app instead of the web client?
I use my Raspberry Pi's for a variety of purposes. I have individual Pi's operating as a home router, retro gaming system, home automation hub, and 3D printer management system. I have a cluster of Pi's which runs several applications including a Plex server, Ubiquit UniFi server, BitTorrent rig, Nextcloud server and some other miscellaneous projects of mine.
DR DOS 7 did have built-in peer-to-peer networking: Netware Lite.

MS DOS did not, because that was the main selling point of Windows for Workgroups.
> but you have baseline level of commitment to every relationship.

Well, the issue is that baseline level of commitment is extremely low, to the point where I don't think it's an actual relationship if you only talk once a year. Once a year and zero are practically the same.

> You, obviously, SHOULD try to read blog/twitter/whatever BEFORE contacting that person, try to find something interesting there and talk about it. Or check notes about person's interests and bring up something you recently saw/heard, that is related to their interests. And some people don't use social media, and asking about their wellbeing is completely normal.

I know what the author is saying. That's why I say it would get weird. First time that you say "I just read your update from a month ago" or "two weeks ago I read something about DnD and now I remembered you like DnD" you can make it seem organic. Second, maybe still. Third one, fourth one? At some point the other person is going to notice that the triggers are never connected to the actual contacts. That's what I mean. If you have all these sources of information for this person and things that remind you of their interests, you probably don't need a reminder system on top of that (scheduling is a different issue, but I don't think a daily email is the best tool to solve schedule issues).
wi.wang.com is blocked

a-di.wang works

Wang roughly translates to the character 网, meaning “website” in Chinese.

The warning -

(#368) The Action Attempted Has Been Deemed Abusive Or Is Otherwise Disallowed

Enjoy the CTF, I'm stumped
This story is almost certainly bullshit, it’s hard to fuck up modern lawful intercept setups in a way that would introduce notable latency.
I did a maths degree with the Open University. Most of the students are adults and sometimes it seemed half were programmers wanting to become teachers and the other half were teachers wanting to become programmers.
> the embarrassment that is cookie banners

The idea is great, but shady websites make it so you hate it, so that you hate privacy laws instead of the shady companies tracking your children.
Running Docker with CDKTF(Terraform)
That's a very naive and wrong way to do subpixel-AA. Roughly, to calculate the light intensity of a red subpixel, you must also take into account the red light intensity around a whole pixel area around that subpixel, centered on that subpixel. There are better filters to use here, this would be a box filter, which is 1-pixel wide.
In other words, it is a hit piece to spread FUD against the indian pharmaceutical and biotech industry that is one of the largest and cheapest suppliers of generic drugs to the world.

Instead of focusing on the regulator and the greed of ethically and morally dubious capitalists, this seems an attempt to deliberately tarnish the reputation of the whole industry.

Big Pharma has an axe to grind with India and China. After all, how is it "capitalism" when India produces and charges only 4% of Big Pharma's price for an HIV drug instead of colluding with them to sell the same drugs for a huge profit? /s
Apache Arrow Rust Implementation Highlights
Security, performance and async parquet reader for the rustlang implementation of Apache Arrow
All you say are plausible scenarios. But there is also another one: the developers were simply not very good at writing code - neither diligent, thorough, or aware of good practices. Or they simply didn't care about the bugs or errors even if they knew about them. They never had to suffer the consequences.
Yea, there was alot of features that one is used to in modern OS that was missing in MS-DOS.
It does not mean those features didnt exist or wasnt being used.

We used 3rd party TSR drivers for it.

Examples:

- MOUSE.COM driver https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=58777

- CDROM driver http://manmrk.net/tutorials/DOS/cdrom.htm

- Network stack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPX/SPX

- Graphics driver https://dosdriver.de/graph.php

- Sound card drivers https://dosdriver.de/sound.php
In the 1800s, Valentine’s Meant a Bottle of Meat Juice
Is that so? Here in The Netherlands fixed rate is pretty common.
This is how it happens in meatspace: http://web.archive.org/web/20210831185116/https://www.wdsu.c...
All the opposite. the effort you put into keeping a social circle of quality friends and acquaintances in your 30s and beyond can be extremely rich in terms of pleasure, social activities, and even work or business connections, and there's nothing whatsoever about being older that makes you a "child" if you actively cultivate irreplaceable time with good friends. Nothing about cultivating and keeping friendships in your later years stops you from pursuing rich personal interests either. It sometimes even achieves the opposite and nurtures rich experiences or interesting projects.

We are fundamentally, innately social animals, and that extends to more than just family and work circles. To each their own, but your view is snidely dismissive of an enormous source of happiness in so many people's lives.
> enemies frequently don't respect that red cross. (...) it is a target

This is also what i've witnessed in the past decade of protests in France. I remember when i was younger there were not many casualties and they were easily taken away by firefighters or volunteer medics. Since at least 2016 though, i've personally witnessed (and heard many more instances of) cops explicitly targeting medics with their weapons, destroying their medical equipment, or otherwise preventing medics from reaching a person in need of medical attention.

I'm not saying medical duty is not worth doing or that we should not protest the government, though. But to heartless attackers, a "journalist" or "medic" sign attests you're on the 'wrong' side and should be attacked.
You might want to check out the Renegade Project: https://github.com/edk2-porting
This assumes a naive and wrong way to do subpixel-AA. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30330936
It's really not. It's a hellscape of insanely rapid platform churn, abandonware, payware and half-assed bug-ridden copy implementations of libraries from other ecosystems all stuck together with marketing crowed from a bunch of people with Stockholm syndrome.

I have literally used it along side several other ecosystems for the full lifespan of it from beta, and it has in large been a very very expensive mistake in the long run compared to the other platforms.
British authorities just seized NFTs for the first time, in a £1.4 M fraud probe
It's kind of an off-putting title for a good article, to be honest.
That is false. Businesses outside EU are not bound by GDPR.

The problem is when websites in EU, which are expected to follow GDPR, randomly leak information to businesses outside EU.
Yeah, you're right. I'm just talking about spherical chickens here. In real life, if your bank quotes you an APY they've already annualized it. I just think it's interesting to think about how in a perfect world, the rule is actually really good. Reality is just way less elegant than a classroom, unfortunately.

So I should have been clearer that I'm not criticizing the article, just offering another perspective on the how and why the rule is imperfect, which the article acknowledges as well.
> Daryl realized that most members of the KKK are down on their luck people who've been abused by the system for most of their lives. These people tend to look for scapegoats that they can rally their anger against. They have legitimate grievances that they channel into illegitimate beliefs, because of various failures of reasoning. These are not highly educated and powerful people with agendas.

I’ll take a pass on the political stuff, but this is similar to what Michael Moore was saying prior to the 2016 elections in the US. Paraphrasing, he said we were about to see how many upset, middle aged, white people feel like they’ve been disenfranchised because a lot of them would vote for Trump with the sentiment that if no one is trying to fix the system for them they figure it might as well be broken for everyone.

That was the first time I realized Trump might get elected. I understand the sentiment, but breaking the system completely will just make things worse for those people. Wealthy people can capitalize on instability. Poor people can’t.
> and like all Bosons are massless and hence always travel at the speed of light

Not every boson is massless and not every boson is travelling at the speed of light (because there are bosons with mass).

Take for example the Higgs boson or the W-bosons.
I know its off topic, but I created a tool which converts simple text to PostgreSQL tables with foreign key relation ships, It reduces time to create database structure

https://text2db.com/
> if people aren't contacting me, why should I care about contacting them?

That’s my current main interrogation in life and honestly, I have not found the answer.

I feel alone, but I have a fair number of "old friends" I barely contact anymore. I want to keep in touch but don’t know what to say. And they don’t spontaneously contact me, neither do I. It’s a chicken and egg problem. Maybe people don’t care about me. But they could feel the same about me.

Am I strange or is everyone just bad at keeping in touch ?

The few times I did spontaneously contact old friends, it was pretty cool. We had some drink and updates, and enjoyed it. So I think it’s just we are all bad. But it’s exhausting.
> the Volkswagen emissions scandal, ad-tech, or widespread online tracking

Those aren't bugs. The first was a fraud that developers actively participated in.
well the term 'elite' means being superior in comparison to the rest. refering to yourself like this is just strange to me

competitive cannot have negative connotations in sport by very nature of sport
I don’t see why I wouldn’t at least. I think we’re really fortunate to be in the business of using our heads and our experience in a field where neither degrades until you’re well into retirement.

Imagine being a 73 year old bricklayer by comparison.
[2019] (still awesome!)
If you dig deep enough, you always end with Vannevar Bush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think
I don't think that's a good idea. If you set aside some time every few weeks to do that it won't fell good. You will be contacting many people in the little span of time and won't be able to have a conversation with all of them. On the other side, if you have your contact reminders distributed so you have just a couple of them per day, that way you can really care about each and every time you contact a person.
That's a very fair criticism of my use of "exploited". And also I accept that "ecosystem" could be a descriptive stretch for Docker's release day.

I think in the same way that you're concerned I'm misrepresenting Google, I'm concerned that the documentary misrepresents the landscape of developers and projects that set the scene for Google's Kubernetes. Yes Google made significant contributions to the story that led up to Kubernetes, but crucially, I believe they didn't nurture the culture, they didn't create the mindset that makes developers (and managers) ready to think in a containerised way. And I think that's important because the smaller voices that did make those innovations easily get drowned out by the might of Google.
I never came across code older than 2-3 years that’s not a complete clusterfuck. So looking at it from this side, the fact that it still runs is more of a sign of quality, what do you think?
On an episonde of Corecursive [1] there's a great discussion/explanation about how following robustness principle can lead to a massive burden in having to develop extremely complex software (like browser engines) because you need to keep supporting everything that was "was allowed" in past versions. They include a quote from Martin Thomas who observed that:

> "The problem with the robustness principle is a flaw can become entrenched as the defacto standard. Any implementation of a protocol is required to replicate the apparent behavior."

If web browsers enforced a very strict protocol of what is "acceptable" HTML and CSS from the very beginning, they would be a lot more simple to build today. Now it's too late and bc of the complexity of "robust" input out there, it's almost impossible for anyone other than one of the giants to create a working implementation.

[1] https://corecursive.com/internet-is-duct-tape/#chuck-norris-...
> Can you elucidate what you see the relationship between them as being?

Grammar covers the correct use of the syntax of a language. With syntax alone you cannot know whether a program is a correct use of a language -- that is, it will parse or compile, even if its output is nonsensical. A grammar lets you do that.

So for example an unambiguous grammar is essential to being able to translate higher level language into assembly language.

> What do you mean by that? Why does being a "pattern-based processor" imply something has "no official grammar"?

Can you parse and transform arbitrary HTML correctly with only regular expressions? The answer as I am sure you will know is no. That is your answer here too.

> So, if people have produced grammars for it, it has a grammar, no?

I don't know if any Markdown grammar exists that expresses all of what you can do in the reference implementation of Markdown, so *shrug*. Maybe, maybe not. The fact that it has no deliberately designed grammar is an interoperability problem though.

> How and why are they different?

Because you are comparing extending semantics within what is allowed by the grammar (writing functions in the programming language it concerns) (e.g. in Java), and extending the interpreter itself (Tcl as a "language" changes according to which extensions are compiled in, and the extensions determine what the symbols mean).

The fundamental question here is this:

Can a program conclude that a Tcl program will parse correctly (even if the code itself has errors) without running the specific Tcl interpreter for which it is designed (or at least without knowledge of the implementation of its extensions)? No, it essentially cannot.

That is what a grammar gives you. You can stare at a bit of C code you do not understand and at least say "it is valid C". And so can another program (a static analyser/explorer, a linter, etc.)

More difficult with Tcl. (And perl4, for example)
No, it is not. It is the physically correct way to do it. 50% more red light is emitted than blue or green. That is a red tint. Your eyes aren't going to see that as anything other than a red-tinted line. That is what you will see. Sub-pixel antialiased text looks like it has colourful fringes. People see this. It is not in their imagination. It actually is there, and it is exactly because of sub-pixel antialiasing.
>> .. at any given point almost half of us have less than 5 years of experience. When half the people don't know any better, it's really hard to use democracy to get anything 'good' done.

This is really a problem, there's inherent value in egalitarianism or democracy, but perhaps due to a lack of deeply technical managers it often plays as you say hard to get anything good done due to bike-shedding and not being led by experience.
We're broadly in agreement - my concern was the implication that Apple can't switch because they'd be sued and therefore there is a wider concern for the broader RISC-V ecosystem.

Apple would deserve to be sued if they tried to take Arm's IP that they've had access to for years and apply it to another ISA for free. Doesn't have any read across for a RISC-V designer that doesn't have access to / isn't using that IP.
Show HN: I use this distraction free writing tool for all my writing
Yeah, that's correct.

But that's no why that particular guy had two strings :). He just wanted to be double sure that his aircraft will perform at all times. I think he even had 3 certified flight recorders since misconfiguration or other failure of the certified flight recorder is the most common technical problem during a competition flight (you might not be aware that this little box is faulty until after you land). Actually quite a few "serious" glider pilots carry a second flight recorder.
It was very normal for those in the Elite Athlete program at my uni to refer to themselves as elite athletes
Performance vs. Scalability
As someone just getting into .NET (c# desktop applications) anything I should know about .NET and/or it's history?
Would this allow me to plug an Android phone into a monitor and have it boot windows/linux like DeX? (so keeping android on the phone, but the desktop on the external display)

This would be a pretty strong argument for me to move away from iOS.
Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring Support Engineers
> In a free market it will be unlikely to have many poor people, as they will see the reality and settle where they are truly productive

That's a very wild claim, unsubstantiated by anything. The history of industrial revolution shows otherwise ( regular people are exploited to death until some regulations come to stop the most rampant abuses). Do you have anything to support your case?

> And yes, I believe everyone will be better off with free markets, otherwise i’d be a commie too.

So for you there's only communism and absolute free markets? So you're in the clueless libertarian case. Considering the freeish markets available today fail miserably at correcting for externalities such as pollution and climate change, how do you imagine absolutely free ones would do so?
Depends how much legacy .Net classic stuff you have that is in no way portable to .Net core.
Yes, they were involved in the prosecutions and had their own internal coverup.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252509066/Fujitsu-escape...
Rather than making EULAs simple and clear, how about simply making them void? They don't serve any valid purpose.
You're really missing my point. It's not always enough to create a technically successful project. Docker was a _cultural_ revolution, it had its finger on the pulse, and without that revolution Kubernetes would not have the traction it does.
Have you looked into harfbuzz? afaik it's designed to solve that problem, for all languages.

https://harfbuzz.github.io/
You can build not-so-complex user-cases faster and you can allow your non-tech team members to build and maintain internal tools (which eradicates the bottleneck between tech teams and business teams)
> Right, so an underlying problem here is the optimization of our tools for "fun" and stimulation and little dopamine hits, instead of actual work.

It’s really not a question of fun, but of flexibility and convenience. Of being able to send message and have them not look like garbage, of being able to send a file and not need to open ports on your router, of sending a graph and it actually showing up.

That’s why tools like notebooks are valued. Or even godbolt: your way is that I tell you to install gigabytes worth of compilers (half of which you might not even be able to get let alone know how to use) and provide a program listing you can’t even paste properly.
Where is the RSS feed for https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b006qshd ?
My physics education just has me aggressively rounding toward the nearest easy calculation while keeping the error term in my pocket.

72/3 = 60/3 + error ~= 20 (it's 24)

72/4 = 80/4 - error ~= 20 (it's 18)

72/5 = 80/5 - error ~= 16 (it's 14.4)

72/6 = 60/6 + error ~= 10 (it's 12)

For ballpark estimations on the back of an envelope, it can go a surprisingly long way.
> According to one interview I heard, part of the problem is that the level of compensation that's actually required in this case is enough to render the Post Office insolvent

From a legal perspective that shouldn't be a problem, and isn't a good argument for lesser compensation. Either Post Office Ltd can get a loan, get bought or go bankrupt, like any private company. If it's the last one that will obviously create political fallout, but resolving that isn't the job of the justice system.
That was uncalled for and unneceserally rude. If you have constructive criticism, you're still welcome
I wish it was just consumption! If houses always depreciated in value, then they would cost about as much as it costs to build them.

Unfortunately, because a bunch of political factors, they endlessly balloon in price.
I strongly believe they're going to remove old.reddit in the near future, and this problem will solve itself because most of us will leave for good. Every once in a while I'm thrown into the new layout and it's just awful. Unbelievably bad. I can't believe people accept it.

The problem is: I don't see a strong Reddit alternative. I really like the structure of nested conversations. I think it's a lot more efficient than forums and emails and chat rooms. Certain platforms like Gab are taking off, but that is more or less a Facebook clone. Getr is seeing enormous growth after Joe Rogan signed up, but that is a Twitter clone.

Honestly, just give me Reddit of 10 years ago and don't mess it up again.
The BBC has just posted another article with further background on this:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036

"So far, nobody at the Post Office or Fujitsu has been held accountable, although the High Court judge said he would refer Fujitsu to the Director of Public Prosecutions for possible further action because he had "grave concerns" about the evidence of the company's employees."

I find it astounding that Fujitsu is only now being referred to Public Prosecutions over this.

That said, the British Post Office administration is at least as culpable for using the Horizon system to bring prosecutions against the sub postmasters even though they had years of reports that the system was full of errors..
Fascinating company, fascinating product.

I still kinda wish they'd done something other than x86-32 support for their VLIW chips.

In principle, I see no reason that they couldn't have supported Motorola 68000, for instance. Even that (not 68030 or 68040, just 68000) would have been of considerable interest to hundreds of thousands of Commodore Amiga and Atari ST fans and users, enabling them to run their old OSes and apps at speeds equivalent to a 68000 at 500-600MHz or more.

(I am intentionally excluding Apple as the company was and is alive and well and would not only not have permitted classic MacOS 8.1 to run, but it offered PowerPC versions on hardware in that class of performance.)

Alpha Micro might have been interested for AMOS, too.

Now, 2 decades later, that is possible with FPGA hardware, but it wasn't then.