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I've been meaning to run up MP/M in an emulator for a while now, and have a play.

A multi-user, multi-tasking, multi-threading[1], and multi-terminal real time OS, with a limited form of job control.

Not bad for 1979/1980 on an 8080 or Z80.

[1] when non bank-switched, or with constraints when bank switched.
in the USA the railroads consolidated after the Civil War, and certain companies were abusive about access and costs; several large fortunes were made but politics responded. One hundred plus years later, the automobile has center stage, with its road network. Other factors are also listed in other comments here..
Ticket price maybe is the same, but airports are always out of the way and either require paying for expensive parking or cab rides.

Also my experience with trains are they are way more casual of a travel experience. Show up a few minutes before and walk on. Airplanes are always an ordeal. Like You need to add security line buffer time. Or wait for for bags

Less threat of a firey death in a Boeing plane to be topical too lol
Got a reference on that claim?
> When we fly, we become one with the weather.

I read a book once about circumnavigating the world in a Zeppelin; apparently the captain had been a sailor and, in conjunction with his navigator, plotted out his course to take advantage of the reported weather systems almost as if he had been a Transpac entry.
I take it you've never been to the US.

Sofia to Bucharest is approx 400km.

San Francisco to Los Angeles is 600km.

Sofia to Bucharest is largely flat.

San Francisco to Los Angeles requires building rail lines in multiple mountain ranges that rival the Carpathians.

Imagine having to build a 600km high speed railway line through 3 mountain ranges the size and height of the Carpathians, oh and almost nobody lives in between the two metros.

It does not make financial sense.
Loki UI in Grafana Explore seems to only select 1000 lines by default for me?

Also Loki on the backend splits/parallelizes requests if it can.

The Grafana backend Mimir / Loki / Tempo products all appear to be architected pretty similar, and I'm more experienced operating Mimir, but the answer to read load often has to just do with right-sizing the deployment scale, and using caches aggressively.
128GB in one chip seems important with the rise of sparse architectures like MoE. Hopefully these are competitive with Nvidia's offerings, though in the end they will be competing for the same fab space as Nvidia if I'm not mistaken.
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"It" would become so crowded that it's not "it" anymore.

A quaint mountain town is no longer that once you double capacity and build dense housing. Which, depending on who you are, might be fine or it might not be. There's no neutral right answer here.

But if someone grew up in a small town—and is now lamenting that it's nothing but tourists—building more accommodations won't return it to its former status. It'll transform it into something else.
I think it's more of a symptom than a problem itself. It's too difficult for mom & pop developers to build things anymore, but the large companies have the resources and scale to do it. And investors know that localities are intent on making housing a good investment, so they invest in it.
> ~65% market share

Careful there: A lot of competing browsers are based on Chromium.
The towns are outsmarting Airbnb? Or are hotels bullying homeowners who compete with them?

It's unclear why this article is on hacker news.
I find it interesting that so many people want to unify all their messages. For me, I like having different apps that I can check with different frequency. I am glad that I can get my iMessages immediately but that LinkedIn messages don't get delivered to me until I open the app/website. I have literally never had an issue where I didn't get a message in time because it was sent via the wrong platform. People who need to reach me urgently know how to do so.
Fairbuds: In-ear with replaceable batteries
I get it, OTOH, humans are unfortunately selfish assholes. In any sufficiently large group of people, there are always conflicts - people attempting to assume control, marginalize/exclude/bully other individuals, etc. Which is part of the reason why people seek out these alternatives.

If they ever come out with the sexbot, then I think its all over for modern technological civilization. There will be little reason for alot of men to marry if they can get the equivalent of Ana de Armas for ~$20k or so. And which is always loyal, will never complain, or grow old. Yeah women can and do have children on their own without men, but usually not as many, and much later in life. It won't be enough. Then its a slow death spiral of not having a replacement generation. I can see this happening within ~50 years or so. ChatGPT + voice synthesis + Boston Dynamics + RealDoll. We're done.
So basically allow shitty dwellings to be thrown together for the 'servant classes', while making sure the itinerant wealthy have the pick of the nicer places.
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Well they’re paying minimum 30 mil per month until this year
Why isn’t it feasible?
I'm not adverse to the specific hypothesis, but not a fan of Freakonomics and the size of the effect they claim seems surprising.

They appear to be claiming it accounts for all of the reduction in crime. This strikes me as somewhat implausible. Wouldn't better birth control be expected to show a similar impact, for similar reasons? (Though maybe the two correlate strongly in American politics?)

edit: a paper looking into that based on differential timing on legal changes

https://escholarship.org/content/qt8rw2m36w/qt8rw2m36w.pdf
And younger people are so well known for selling way below the market price. Right.
Prompts to install Chrome and make it your default browser. (Safari and Edge do the same

Where is it that people get nagged to install Safari? When visiting Apple's web site?

Since Safari is my primary browser, I don't get prompted to install it, so I'm genuinely curious.
That does not make any sense
To wander a little bit "meta" here: Property rights--and therefore zoning--are about managing collective expectations or lack-thereof. For example, the expectation that when I buy a house, the sunny lawn will continue to be in the path of sunlight, the clean air will not start smelling like a paper-mill. It also refuses to cover some unreasonable expectations, such as "my neighbor's house will continue to be a color I find pleasing."

So to some extent, these kinds of problems represent a failure of our systems to capture and model that space.
Automated Testing: How We Catch Thunderbird Bugs Before You Do
Related:

Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39981034 - April 2024
True, though don’t forget that the US consumer welfare standard dates only to the 70s, is rooted in judicial interpretation rather than explicit statutory wording, and has been challenged in recent years. In fact this is brought up in section 2.2.2 of the paper.

Further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_welfare_standard
> In short, the CPU is trusted and creates...

Here it comes the main bug.

If the data is so confidential, let's say for example "the military plans of a country, or ultra-secret technology" I don't know, I could not use a public network, or a provider that mixes it, in their infrastructure, and/or that has it's own employees.

Recently, I got a laptop and saw an option in the BIOS about Intel SGX (enable/disable/auto). After a short research, was terrified: a source of security BUGS, deprecated for Intel Core (but continued for Xeon in the cloud).

We don't need to talk about past and present hardware bugs (or software bugs and attacks), but let's put it in clear:

If some kind of data shouldn't go out, do not put it out, in the first place.

If the data should never go out, the network should be physically separated and isolated at physical level, from everything.

Otherwise, I don't know... not working with such things, but I could use incompatible custom tech at least; no something so easy to get by an adversary, read, use, study, reverse, fuzz and attack without my knowledge.

Cloud+Enclave "sounds" as secure as those "Third party VPN". Let's say your trust model is thrown to the bin, and start talking from there.
American exceptionalism means it has to stay how it is.
Roll-to-roll system points way to cheap printed perovskite solar cells
https://web.archive.org/web/20240409170956/https://www.chemi...
maybe im just a hater but rather take the 1 hour plane ride
This is hard coded to searching for service_name in the query which doesn't return any data for me.

I will stop wasting my time here and try the Metric Explore panel
Not just cities and towns. British Columbia's new Province wide mandatory regulations that cities must adopt come into force May 1st (Though cities may choose to exempt themselves if their vacancy rate exceeds 3%). Will impact 65 cities. They limit rentals to primary residences and attached basement suites.

https://vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/bc-new-short-t...

I expect if successful other Canadian provinces will have a look at a similar Province wide regulatory approach.
How would quic help here? It's relatively much overhead compared to this "one packet in, one packet out" scenario.
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Sad to see amazing service shut down
> They funded and armed separatists in this area

And sent Russian troops in to pose as separatists.
> In 2015, one study found that STRs had sucked at least 10 percent of New York’s available housing off the market… In Barcelona, the effect is even more severe, with rents rising by seven percent and housing costs rising by up to 17 percent in popular neighborhoods.

Article uses unrelated stats from two cities to imply the same root problem in each place. The best estimate for Barcelona is that about 2.5% of housing is on Airbnb.

The problem with Barcelona is its geography and tech boom, not STR housing.

It’s all well and good banning Airbnb but the reason there is such market demand for rental units from tourists is that the modern hotel offering is so much worse unless you can afford a suite.

I like to have a base to go back to when I travel, a hotel room ain’t that. Tiny box room, no sofa, no kettle, uncomfortable balcony furniture even in the better brands. For the same price I can get a 1 or 2 bed flat with a full kitchen, decent living room and often access to a private roof terrace.
Reverse Engineering the Prev. Open Source Expressive Animator Without Its Core
That's the script but reality is not exactly as the script says.

There are a lot friend and family members of so-and-so who are "worth" a few million dollars and that money was largely a gift. They largely spend a lot of time pretending to be "founders", "advisors" and "angels" but no, they got lucky.

Not everything is like that, but there's quite a lot of that within the billions of someone else's money's ocean that flushed SF during the last +20 years.
I played it for the first time in 2017 and I was somewhat sad to have played only WoW between 2005-2013.
Does this really fix corporate real estate holders hoarding property? Seems it just hits the individuals renting a room out etc, which is not the housing problem with AirBNB.
That would explain why it never seemed to move forward.

TBF, that makes it quite explicit that the problem of Hurd never getting ready was due to the project governance (as in "this is not a goal"). A project that uses Mach could never get big.
We still do Agile Scrum, and our velocity has gone up significantly. Experienced team, mature code base, no real external forces to skew these figures.

Goodhart's Law does not apply, as we have done this for many years and are happy [1] with the way we do things.

[1] for some value of happy
Gary Kildall was a legend. YouTube “Computer Chronicles”, he appears in a lot of the 1980s episodes.
I wonder if he got the idea from Hardy, who before undertaking a journey on a very small boat sent a postcard saying he had proved the Riemann Hypothesis:

Hardy stayed in Denmark with Bohr until the very end of the summer vacation, and when he was obliged to return to England to start his lectures there was only a very small boat available…. The North Sea can be pretty rough, and the probability that such a small boat would sink was not exactly zero. Still, Hardy took the boat, but sent a postcard to Bohr: “I proved the Riemann Hypothesis. G.H. Hardy.” If the boat sinks and Hardy drowns, everybody must believe that he has proved the Riemann Hypothesis. Yet God would not let Hardy have such a great honor and so He will not let the boat sink.

-- https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~mcleod/Riemann/Hardy.html
Usually either zoning (legit zoning concerns, not NIMBY) or actual land constraints, but there can be other factors. My experience was trying to find a buildable lot years ago during COVID in Asheville, NC, and there just isn't much buildable land left (in the opinion of multiple builders and surveyors I spoke with, and I was willing to consider exotic building techniques to accommodate suboptimal lots, real "side of the mountain" sort of stuff). In some circumstances, I was told I could build but it would be uninsurable and to proceed at my own peril.

If your beach town is only so many sq miles/km and you can only build so high, that is your limit. How much could you build in say, St Pete Beach, which is only 2.2 square miles of land. Now, I am incredibly mindful this does not apply everywhere, and "buildable land" has a lot of nuance, but supply is not infinite and it is important to note that if you cannot encourage more supply (for whatever reason) you are left to twiddle the demand side of the equation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Pete_Beach,_Florida
Give YouTube lectures sick AI gen music backing tracks with linktunes
LinkTunes takes any content, starting with youtube lectures, and generates music to match it. Think of a boring physics lecture, and then imagine it being taught by Joe Rogan to Daft Punk beats syncronised to make dry content into memetic earworms.
Tokyo to Kyoto is 280mi/445km and it's an extremely fast and comfortable train ride.
> Chrome's domination has been nothing but positive for the consumer

In general, they've (Google) been controlling web standards for about a decade, if not longer.

It's almost impossible to create your own browser from scratch, which is why so many competing browsers are based on Chromium.

It's getting similar to the Windows monopoly all over again, where web developers write to Chrome instead of open standards. The difference is that the existence of Mozilla and Safari as alternate implementations, and other browsers being Chromium based, make it harder to see the consolidation around a proprietary technology stack.
How Presidents Got Consumed By Culture Wars
And how would you stop all these new houses being turned into AirBnBs? As soon as the extra supply dips the tourist price, a whole swath more tourists can afford to come and stay. Locals will remain in their cars/tents/parents' basements.
Speak for yourself pal. Trains being politically difficult doesn't make them unappealing, train lovers just don't have the industrial weight of aviation and big car behind them.
Thank you. To whoever designed that site: do you realize how much a pain in the ass it is to view? Even on a desktop there was some bs check to make sure the window was wide enough to suit you.

It might be an interesting article but I gave up after that.
Sofia to Bucharest is approx 400km.

San Francisco to Los Angeles is approx 630-700km.

Sofia to Bucharest is largely flat.

San Francisco to Los Angeles requires building rail lines in multiple mountain ranges that rival the Carpathians.

Imagine having to build a 600km high speed railway line through 3 mountain ranges the size and height of the Carpathians, oh and almost nobody lives in between the two metros.

It does not make financial sense.
There are alternative hypothesis for their finding; eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
I really felt for the Santa Monica beach town of 90,000 mentioned in the article.
Per the chain above, if you also exist in some state where you are effectively, permanently downhill in computation, then entities which exist at some state upward are "effectively" indistinguishable, no matter their relative "up".

In Greek theology, all "deities" are effectively "up" and normal humans have very little way of telling which entity is "really" in charge. To much information disparity. Zeus, Hera? Hephaestus? Has it already done the entire Titans storyline again with Zeus, and humans don't even know?

Below some resolution, the lines on the chip are indistinguishable from a pixel. [1] Most creatures need significant advancement to comprehend anything other than "glowing texture."

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312346271/figure/fi...
Thank you for the clarification. And shame on me for talking out of my ass!
Just to focus a bit on DRM/Widevine: the fact that Google decides who can use Widevine absolutely helps them to weaken competing platforms / OSes.

If you are an upcoming OS and want to get well known apps like Netflix and Spotify, you need to get Widevine support from Google. I'll let you imagine how that can go, from actual technical issues to bullshit reasons to slow down progress.

If we accept the idea that DRM is useful, at least the DRM vendors should be independent from OS vendors.
I dunno, I think we're still in a zone where Amtrak derailments have killed more people in the last decade than domestic aviation issues, and that's even before you account for the fact that there's probably multiple magnitudes more passenger/miles by plane than train.

I definitely prefer the experience of rail travel - boarding and riding though.
Woah how does it work? I'd imagine some kind of piston where the tank is closed solid but a piston exerts a pressure?
How do you transfer these animals to and from it while keeping pressure?
I agree with you, but we've overweighted the desires of the "haves" too much and for too long. Communities change and they need to get over it.
I absolutely believe big urban areas like NYC should be building wherever they can. But somewhere reliant on tourism like a small beach town has a much more delicate dance to do. If you mindlessly build up you will alter the “product” you are offering your tourist customers and could easily wreck that balance of livable for locals and desirable for tourists.

Before the boom in short term rentals a lot of these places simply had a set capacity. Only so many hotel rooms available on any given night and when the town’s capacity for tourism is full, it’s full. The locals lived in properties that weren’t suitable for tourists, the local businesses made enough money to thrive. There’s not actually anything inherently wrong with that. A tourist town doesn’t have to keep expanding to meet demand.
In Europe the train often costs more than flying in my (rather limited) experience.

But you start and end your train ride very close to your destination and you aren’t locked in a shitty small seat. Every single bit of the trip is better, with the possible exception of the travel time. Even this might be better if you measure door to door.
David Whyte has a excellent passage about anger, from his book "Consolations". I'm not sure if this is an excerpt or the full thing (don't have the book on me to check), but in either case it's worth reading: https://www.dannabeal.com/understanding-anger-david-whyte/
>> What smartphone is made anywhere else? <<

smartphones are "assembled" and "packaged" in China. Most components, or over 90%, in Apple iPhones are sourced from non-Chinese sources; then imported into China for assembly and packaging; then exported out to the world.

The world's largest smartphone maker, Samsung, pulled out of China and closed the last factory in 2019 -- they are either made in Vietnam, India, or South Korea.
Yes, from the post:

> Automattic is doubling down on chat after their acquisition last year of Texts.com, a messaging app with a similar mission. Our teams and products will merge, and I will take on the role leading the team as Head of Messaging.
It fairly risky to download 500MB of log and analyse it locally in the machine. I know People do it anyways. Just saying.
> This API considers toxicity as “a rude, disrespectful or unreasonable comment likely to make someone leave a discussion”.

This seems to be incredibly subjective.

According to this, "toxic" content could include a serious discussion about contentious subject matter, a terse comment, or even a off-color joke.
this is mentioned and addressed in the article.
3M finalises PFAS settlement with US water suppliers
https://web.archive.org/web/20240408181522/https://www.chemi...
Not the person you replied to, but yes. "I feel angry that you keep touching my leg. Maybe you're even unaware that you're doing it, I don't know. Will you stop touching my leg?"
And what prevents these aggregator apps from having different settings for each network?
Chemists and linguists encode Confucian proverb using sequence-defined polymers
https://web.archive.org/web/20240409171340/https://www.chemi...
the auto lobby convinced major cities to completely overhaul their transport infrastructure too.
It's only somewhat related to Chrome, but I'm surprised this doesn't mention Google AMP - probably because it's thankfully on its way out. AMP broke web browsing on non-Google browsers, especially IMHO in iOS where scrolling was borked on every AMP page.

There's also the Chrome "feature" where logging into a Google property automatically logs you into a Chrome "profile" whether you like it or not. I don't want a Chrome "profile", I didn't give Google permission to create one, but I'm still apparently logged into one. Gee, thanks...
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They are already burning through names. No more pentium or celeron its called “intel processor” or something that tries and avoid any kind of taste in the mouth. They stopped calling it intel hd for no other reason than everyone who needs graphical utility installing a gpu first thing they do as soon as they see intel hd. Now they are calling it Xe. Lets see how long these names last before they burn more goodwill and have to find new ones again in a couple years.
Thus, laws and regulations, as per TFA. Limiting competitive options is the point. Anyway it's a suicide pact so if there are no state-level regulations and a town decides to try to take a bigger share of the tourism dollars, the town dies and is eaten from the inside-out by tourism. It will still exist, but it will become a less and less desirable tourism location for many.
ScreenAI: A visual LLM for UI and visually-situated language understanding
A wood fired steam train is carbon neutral.
Not always the case

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/climate/trains-planes-car...
In between Tokyo and Kyoto you have Nagoya Metropolitan Region, which has a population of 10 million.

There is no similar sized city in between the Bay Area and LA MSA.

This impacts the incentives to build in the US.

Metropolitan Areas in the Western United States are VERY far from each other. And this isn't because of sprawl.

Take a look at a satellite map of the Western US sometime.
What else could it mean? I'm not sure I understand the point of your comment.
It isn't a big issue. But ARM doesn't have a universal boot loader/device discovery/etc standard like EFI/ACPI, so there is some more work to support them.
You aren't a hater, just a rational human.
At the risk of sounding insensitive, I know Lisbon is going through a big change at the moment, but this isn’t a short term rental problem. This is a big city developing to the next stage problem and this is Lisbon’s version of it.

London, New York, Paris, Madrid, LA, etc all became too expensive for locals at some point in their history. Lisbon is next up and in a few years there will be other cities this happens to.

I’m not saying it’s right but it seems, inevitable?