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Easing the transition until x86 can be relegated to emulation.

Uh, isn't that the point? X86 has been "emulated" since the P6/nexgen 586. That is why people talk about the architecture not mattering much anymore in the face of very similar OoO microarchitectures running arm/ppc/x86/etc code.

Or I guess you could look at it another way, CISC won because it turns out that implementing specific high level functions like say AES, memcpy or vector ops are better implemented with explicit hardware blocks, or provide additional hinting that gives the micro architecture an advantage, while the costs of cracking inconvenient sequences into simpler ones means that effectively the processor designer has the choice between attempting to build hardware for something like Arm's Load/store Multiple or simply breaking it into a sequence of uOps (which one might suggest is basically the modern equivilant of micro code).

And this is why I'm a bit skeptical of RISC-V at the moment. No serious architect of high performance microprocessors can think that designing an architecture to match a modern low transistor budget microcontroller is a good design choice. Because like every other single RISC processor, what happens over time is that they are forced to add higher level instructions for the additional hinting they can provide. If you look at the past 10 years of arm architecture updates you can read between the lines of "the RISC solution for X we were using couldn't compete with vendor Y's product so we added this instruction/etc to solve the problem". Same with POWER, they even gave up on their famous inverted page tables because it was basically a software managed TLB and it turns out building page walking hardware is a better solution than writing software to do it. Its also how no one takes a processor without some kind of SIMD seriously anymore.

That said, its not like RISC-V can't evolve into something "good enough" its just going to be stuck with a bunch of ugly baggage by the time it gets there because its starting with a false set of premises.
> while what's talked about in the article is widely used

Except it's not, because that functionality is basically nonexistent. All the USB-C to HDMI connectors out there are actually doing the USB-C DisplayPort mode with the equivalent of a DP->HDMI hardware dongle built in.
That’s not an agile problem so where’s the bs? If your team is not following agile you can’t just blame it.
> The question it was asking was "why can we take drugs to bring us to normal, but we can't take drugs that make us better than normal?"

Because ultimately drugs make you pay one way or another, eg dependency, liver toxicity, numbness of some other facet and so on. When none of those will be true it’s the day they become the new norm
And you won't be able to start up again if they don't have enough capacity for your free instance
HDMI was designed by the entertainment industry to connect HD televisions. Its initial version was electronically basically half of a DVI connector, with some audio data thrown into the video stream. Plenty for a 1080p 60Hz stream, but not much beyond that.

DisplayPort was developed by VESA for computer use. It supported a higher bandwidth than HDMI and rapidly gained support for features like variable refresh rates, compression, and feeding multiple monitors through a single cable.

Nowadays it doesn't really matter that much, and they both essentially have the same capabilities. It's now HDMI for televisions and DP for computers because History.
DisplayPort supports HDCP, it's not HDMI-only.
> That non-self-aware impulse-to-live is morally equivalent to a plant seeking sunlight IMO.

Do you find the practice of raising meat in factory farms to be acceptable?

> The difference is humans have an innate potential for self-awareness that the animals we eat for food do not.

There are lots of differences. This is one. But what specifically about human self awareness lessens the value of animal life?

If we were not self aware, we’d kill and eat meat without considering the morality. So what is it about self awareness that somehow becomes a deciding factor here?
A user story is good exercise for less technical people to grasp what developers need to know before starting development:

- they are easy to understand as everyone is familiar with concept of telling stories

- they enforce a way of thinking about the feature, e.g.: "when click X, then Y happens", which is easily translatable to workflows

So I wouldn't be so eager to discard them completely - they are very useful tool, although, not the only tool you should use.
Isn’t a conversational LLM going to be really good at sussing out actual requirements from people who want software but can never really explain clearly what they want? Heck, that could be a product on its own even if never even writes one line of code.
Lightweight web browsers don't have as large of an attack surface, particularly if they eschew JS, cookies, etc or you disable them. Nyxt is alpha software, so YMMV until it's more feature complete, and independently audited to correctly implement WebKit and WebExtensions. Run Tor Browser without JS in a VM for security+privacy.
Same here. I switch pretty effortlessly between Colemak (Miryoku) on a Corne and QWERTY everywhere else.
As a vim-first dvorak-second person, remapping vim is a mistake. You try it at first, then you realize it's a pointless battle. The defaults in dvorak are actually great.

11 year dvorak user.
Because of the singular "1 point" vs. "10 points". All the messages are displayed using plural and the programmer can go home at 5.
You don't have to live in San Francisco to start a company?

A company can be started from a 200$ shack in Asia.

Your apartment rent is not part of the cost of starting a company.
Double checking a math problem as a game
I read [1] but I didn’t get the impression that he “minimally” supported his kids, especially since the wife’s appeal was basically largely ruled in his favor. Also, can we talk about how toxic some of the legislation in this area?

> Children should share in the standard of living of both parents.

> child's need is measured by the parents' current station in life.

Basically seems like a principle guaranteed to cause children of rich people to grow up entitled. Additionally, all we know here are the financial amounts. I don’t think it tells us anything about his qualities as a parent.

As for the lawsuit against a company he held a 20% stake in:

> OptumSoft's CEO Henk Goosen tells us Arista hasn't lived up to its end of the bargain, and hasn't given back all the improvements made to TACC.

I don’t really see where the spitefulness comes in here. Seems like a legitimate contracts dispute. Can you elaborate on where you’re getting this characterization of him personally?

I’m not saying he is or isn’t. I’m just saying a couple of lawsuits tell you nothing about a person and a divorce proceeding rarely gives you a good representation of that person’s behavior as a spouse and parent.
I can't speak to his personality, but 120k+/yr plus educational and housing trusts hardly seems minimal in 1990s dollars. That's about 240k/yr of child support in 2023 currency.
At my company we have a nightmarish combination of a lot of docs and meetings but also the pressure to produce a lot of artifacts, so we have “planning” but it could be a lot better, uh, planned.
I enjoy a nice positive news story.

One of the things briefly touched on in the article is that it seems these states have rediscovered teaching phonics.
I wrote something tangentially related, but for single user.

"gofwd" is a cross-platform TCP port forwarder with Duo 2FA and Geographic IP integration. Its use case is to help protect services when using a VPN is not possible. Before a connection is forwarded, the remote IP address is geographically checked against city, region (state), and/or country. Distance (in miles) can also be used. If this condition is satisfied, a Duo 2FA request can then be sent to a mobile device. The connection is only forwarded after Duo has verified the user.

https://github.com/jftuga/gofwd
Perhaps, but it doesn't mean that it's not the greatest for engineers, of does it? I've used a little bit of both and I don't see myself using anything but a prime nowadays. The new licensee (after HP completely dropped the calculators business 3 years ago or so) just put out a new os version, and there are hopes that another one soon brings up the CAS to a recent version of giac/xcas, which is completely unmatched in this field/market.
> will sell data on anyone in their database, including current address, phone number and arrest records

I see. My current address, my phone number and something called my (public) arrest records are being sold to evil China at $10/pop. My phone number must be selling like hotcakes!
Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard) Barred from Entering Russia
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100%. Same things we ran into. Definitely a trap.
What nonsense. Every single modern operating system has bindings that are usable with all keyboard layouts. Having such a default is not only possible, it's the status quo everywhere, except in software designed during the era of the moon landings.
And also, do people actually plan it out or do they just approve every idea that doesn’t sound terrible?

Software is complicated. Half the time I don’t know what the hell anyone is talking about due to labyrinthine requirements, but I’m not going to stop the meetings to ask questions unless I’m the main guy working on it.
Failure to comply with the post op diet might be fatal within the first few months of recovery (although I haven't heard of that happening, I'm sure someone has died from eating too much), but after that, you are going to be mostly healed up. And its the long term that will determine if the weight loss sticks. It certainly isn't just because the surgery selects for people with willpower. Because almost everyone who has it has gone through years of losing and gaining back their weight over and over.

Bariatric surgery usually works for 3 reasons. First and most obvious is that it reduces your stomach size so you simply can't eat as much. Second, in most cases, reducing the surface area of the stomach reduces the amount of hunger hormones that get released thus making you less hungry all the time. And the third is malabsorption. Meaning that of the food you do eat, you absorb less of the calories than you did before. So if it were possible, you could potentially eat the same amount as before but still lose weight.
>When a product is unusable without changing configuration, it absolutely is a bug

I don't think that adage applies when the target user is the average VIM user
The "woo" involved is kind of dumb, like the time traveller classified memes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_Not_Guaranteed].
But, the amount of work that went into the ancient art form of level building is unparalleled.
You don't think $250k comes with high expectations as well? Salary doesn't always correlate with stress - min. wage workers are probably just as stressed, if not more -, but from my experience, my stress level has increased the more I earn. I also used to think that I'd do anything for that kind of money, but I now realize that I wouldn't.

This discussion probably reeks of "first world problems" to people who have different stress tolerance levels or preferences in life. However, be mindful of the people around you who are functionally capable of earning $250k, but mentally more fragile to the stressors that come with that level of responsibility. There's many of us who would turn that money down, happily.

I'm in my 20s and I've realized that there is little point in killing myself to retire early at 40. By that time, the best years of my life have passed. For what? All to earn a high salary and be proud, while hating my life.
Dependant types or it's a toy.
I'm curious about what "decades of UX research" improvements you are talking about, to me everything about the UI for text editors or browsers hasn't improved much in decades. If you have a laptop with just a touchpad, chances are you'll never get better than vim keybindings. Moreover, the keyboard layouts themselves are centuries old.
I have a PhD in particle physics (and work in the field). So more than a layman's familiarity with quantum mechanics/field theory. I have no idea who this guy is; I know the name and for some reason I know he looks like a white-haired composer (I guess that's a publicist doing their job well) but other than that I literally have no clue. Is he a professor somewhere?

Similarly, I know the name Brian Greene; my grandma bought me one of his books when I was in highschool, which I never read.

On the other hand, I know very well who Penrose and Susskind are, familiar with their research, have met them both at normal academic events. So, n=1 but take what you will from that information...
I completely excluded the GTI and Golf R from my recent car buying experience because of this.

Bought a Mazda 3 Turbo because Mazda seems to actually give a damn about UX with respect to safety.
>Every single modern operating system

So something completely unattainable by a small dev team on a startup budget. Great! These are the standards by which we prevent any good things from being created.
I get you, because I’ve been down this line of thought as well. But I’ve concluded the whip hand is not even that of society, but nature itself. Everyone is driven by the biological need to eat, at the end of the day.

So how did your great grandfather eat? Where did this readily available food come from?

Would other people provide him with endless food while he did this philosophizing? I imagine that any society, whether advanced megalopolis or tribal village, has a limit to their generosity towards complete nonproducers and would eventually demand something out of them, even if it’s just the output of that philosophizing. Someone had to work to produce that readily available food, I would think.

If he grew/harvested his own food, then he’d be lucky if he never experienced a stressful or even deadly event of pestilence, drought, or even injury to himself rendering him incapable of doing the quite hard work of growing and harvesting it.

Producing food is hard work and modern technological capitalism can be seen as a process of creating more and more layers of abstraction between food producers and the mouths that need to be fed, and doing it more efficiently at that to generate more spare time for other activities like leisure or philosophizing.
In a sense this didn’t work out for you either - financially anyway
Is there an update on #1? Appeals court sent it back and I don’t see a conclusion.
I second this.

I switched to Dvorak on regular staggered keyboards and got to 80-90 WPM or so, but pretty much lost my ability to QWERTY.

Then I switched back to QWERTY full time for 5+ years.

Then I switched to Norman on an ErgoDox, getting to 80-90 WPM or so again. This time around, I could still QWERTY on a staggered keyboard just fine. Night and day vs. the first attempt.

(Then I switched back to QWERTY again. Now I can't Dvorak or Norman or ErgoDox!)
Drugs that target the GLP-1 and GIP pathways can suppress appetite, potentially leading to a significant caloric deficit.

This can lead to the body to break down muscle tissue to obtain protein for energy which could lead to a loss of lean muscle mass

However, maintaining regular exercise and consuming sufficient protein can help to minimize the impact of lean muscle mass loss
knowing what to do drives productivity.
What was most shocking to me was that it took a week to migrate 40GB.

I once migrated 1TB from RDS Oracle to RDS Aurora MySQL in 6 hours. I'm not familiar with Supabase, maybe there's a lot more to the data migration process?
> At whatever point repeated luck is a signal of skill

Has he invested in anything that didn’t work out?
It’s totally reasonable to criticize the status quo, and to me at least it is totally okay if that is coming from a place of privilege. But there are also so many out there(most even) who can’t afford to think about anything but the next paycheck to put food on the table for their family or for themselves. I think replacing “modern slavery” with “modern society” is a great improvement! They don’t call it the rat race for nothin!
Yep, just about everyone who wanted to connect to and browse The Net over dialup in the mid-90s. It was conveniently sold at Price Club (which was eventually merged into Costco of today).
I’m an engineer at FAANG and it seems absurd, though, that we have so many resources but can’t apply some craftsmanship every so often.

Instead, we churn out features, and everyone cheers when someone adds a new button to the UI.
soon the news will be when a human is spotted, among the ocean of bot content
People are going to do a lot of stupid stuff in the next 2 years. "What? It thought the most likely response to your carefully crafted prompt was to say you transfer all your rights to your lawyer because most of its training text had employees giving up rights."
I had no "sheep knowledge" before some quick googling...

They are not making it up, extreme gratuitous cruelty has been documented in commercial sheep shearing if you care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeKbMRlJUU

That video link was from:

https://www.woolfacts.com/wool-and-animal-welfare/shearing/

That article goes on to state that the same investigators uncovered cruelty at 117 separate operations, so does not appear to be an isolated incident by, "a few bad apples".
I suspect that this approach might not be the best fit for more "fluent" projects as you are unable to reevaluate how things should work until the whole feature is finished, but that's just my wild guess as I've never worked in such setup.
How does this remind you of this strange story.
Nicotine was the hardest thing I have ever given up - three years later and I still get the occasional craving or dream where I have an excuse to smoke. This tracks with the experience of other smokes I have known. All else being equal and given you have reason to believe the drug reduces cravings, I'd guess that it is a strong factor
>written in JavaScript

Really though? Why
The shard theory of human values
UNIX-like is having your session or app time out because it gets no output. going all the way back to HP Omniback 2 running BCV split pre-exec scripts on an EMC array to back up a database to tape off a split mirror. Then aborting the backup because the array-side mirror split took over 15min, with no output.

UNIX-like is not a convention of UNIX - it's a convention of "we didn't get to making that useful thing yet, there's other stuff to do."
... except in this case (and many others), where it was written for-purpose and then never tuned.
not just lost muscle mass, but also lost organ mass?
Mark Cuban says Elon Musk’s Twitter plan goes deeper than anyone realizes
I think LLMs have closed the window for such a concept.

Maybe a company could have gained traction and survived now... But now anyone trying to make a external comment system is going to be bombarded with hard to detect spam before they get enough capital to fight it.
> "Regardless of how the various European waves of the second pandemic began, both wild and non-wild rodents - rats, first and foremost - move much slower than the pace of transmission around the continent."

OK but rats can also move with humans, in boats and carriages or when any other kind of goods or merchandise are transported.
New Supernova Going On
Hello, I work on CLI full time. Things have certainly improved over the last few months on using this tool for migrating self-hosted databases.

Currently all supabase db and migration commands support --db-url flag [1] which allows you to point the CLI to any Postgres database by a connection string.

If there's any use case I missed, please feel free to open a GitHub issue and I will look into it promptly.

[1] https://supabase.com/docs/reference/cli/supabase-db
If you had done your due diligence, you’d know that power requirement is feasible and been demonstrated before.
You imply that all companies add value to society and all jobs are meaningful. That’s simply not true. Most people also don’t and won’t have the power to fix these issues even if they wanted to.

Even if the company as a whole adds value there are lots of pockets of politically charged actions e.g. for promotions. Like are we doing anything meaningful to society by building 1 of those Google projects that gets killed in a few months?
Wealth helps you stay in good health - you don’t need to stress about money and can afford the best medical treatments available.
This has nothing to do with a homespun wool contest. This isn’t a commercial setting.

As your link mentions, these sheep have been selectively bred to require shearing.
how could you separate actually will power from the illusion of will power?
Taiwan and US prepare landmark trade pact
You don't have to "develop" anything, you just have to follow the binding conventions for the platform(s). In practice, this simply means using Ctrl/Cmd+[LETTER/NUMBER] for everything, and the problem is solved.
But given that the actual health benefits of ozempic(for me weight loss is not indicative of better health) have not actually been seen yet, you are quite possibly just taking on both evils at the same time.
Ask HN: Is Paul Graham's article, “Change Your Name”, still relevant today?
PG wrote this article in 2015, http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html, which unequivocally states that the ".com" TLD should be prioritized above all else.

I'm curious if this still feels true?

From my perspective, there's been an explosion of TLDs over the past decade and ".com" feels like less of a given than it was prior. I've got docs.rs and twitch.tv open right now and I keep thinking about how poignant the domain brr.fyi is for a blog about cold weather.

I'm trying to decide if there's actually a change occurring here, or if I'm just biased because it's a lot easier, and cheaper, to find a short, trendy domain name when I allow myself to consider non-traditional TLDs.
No 1 says you have to have the meeting in the meeting room. You could do it in a cafe or elsewhere. Not everything has to be so strict. Depends on your team and environment.
I use it with the documentation of what I'm building.

Paste in the relevant section of the developer docs, ask it to write a function, or ask it to produce a valid API request, etc.

I suppose it's like a junior dev in a sense but it's very fast, can correct its own mistakes if you point them out, and has an internet worth of knowledge about various approaches and troubleshooting techniques.

I find most people who don't see value haven't actually used GPT-4 yet. Have you?
Sarah Comrie Deserves Her Good Name Back
Just to be clear, I mean 'enough saved across all pay-per-second ec2 users', not a given specific account or user, which, yeah, it's probably minimal. The scale of lambda and ec2 is...enough to make any small change a very large number in aggregate.
I'm sorry that PT was not fruitful. Frozen Shoulder is rough. From what I hear, the surgery route is a lot more successful, but it seems like the main roadblock is convincing a surgeon to perform the surgery. They want you to exhaust all other options (e.g. PT) and run a myriad of tests and scans to be as sure as possible that TOS is what you have. I have also heard often that finding a good PT (PT meaning physical therapist OR personal trainer, I technically have a personal trainer) makes all the difference. All the best.
>didn’t require much more than a few hours of maintenance to set wingtips up.

Try 14+ days for commercial aircraft.