PhantomGremlin

When it was Toyotas fictitious problem it came down to a bunch of old people.

Yeah, right. Blame it on "old people". Certainly not the code base with 10,000 global variables:

The design review found things like: Other egregious deviations from standard practice were the number of global variables in the system. (A variable is a location in memory that has a number in it. A global variable is any piece of software anywhere in the system can get to that number and read it or write it.) The academic standard is zero. Toyota had more than 10,000 global variables.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19613055 That original link is now broken. I don't think Toyota paid to scrub it, probably just decay.

My biggest takeaway from that link is: BEVs can't get here fast enough. ICEs are too complicated.

But I should be careful what I wish for. Current BEVs have many user-hostile clown-car features.

Yeah you got me.

I didn't pay careful attention to the wording of the submitted title. I may have been confused because of the wording of the actual tweet: I tested a random selection of four NVMe SSDs from four vendors.

The word "random" meant to me that Samsung drives could have been selected twice. But, yes, then there wouldn't be four distinct vendors.

Unstated but implied by you is there are only two (major) Korean vendors to choose from.

So if Samsung is a Korean winner then Hynix must be the Korean loser. Which is now clear to me.

Is it possible there's a third (minor) Korean player? Could I possibly still have a chance? :)

That said, this narrows one of the data losers down to Hynix.

Not really. Samsung builds a plethora of SSDs.

the MIPS R3000 processor ... raises an exception for signed integer overflow, unlike many other processors which silently wrap to negative values.

Too bad programmer laziness won and most current hardware doesn't support this.

As a teenager I remember getting hit by this all the time in assembly language programming for the IBM S/360. (FORTRAN turned it off).

   S0C8 Fixed-point overflow exception

Well, you still have lots of tracking stuff loaded probably, unless you got something extra for blocking trackers.

Yes I'm sure I have that stuff loaded. But I don't care because it's quite ephemeral:

I exit Firefox multiple times a day, there's really no performance cost to doing that after every group of websites. E.g. if, while reading HN, I look up something on Wikipedia, or I search with Bing or Google, everything goes away together.

In my settings: delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed

In my settings: clear history when Firefox closes, everything goes except browsing and download history

No suggestions except for bookmarks.

So when I restart Firefox to then browse reddit it starts with a clean slate.

Comcast insisted I purchase a DOCSIS3 modem quite a while ago. Once downloads are at 100 mpbs+, does it really matter if I repeatedly re-download a few items to cache?

The only noticeable downside is when I switch to Safari to view something that needs JS, I then see ads for clothing that my wife and daughters might be interested in. I presume this is due to fallback to tracking via IP address. Of course I always clear history and empty caches in Safari.

Obviously this doesn't work for someone who wants to or needs to keep 100 browser windows open at once, for months at a time. But that's not me. I don't think that way, never have.

Edit: just had to add that sites like Wikipedia are better w/o JS (unless you edit?). I don't see those annoying week-long pleas for money. Do they still do those?

I usually do read the linked content but I agree with GP poster that comments are often more informative.

Yes there is sometimes an echo chamber here, but it's only for limited topics. It very much has a Silicon Valley feel to it, but @dang and I have gone around on this and he assures us that the readership and comments have broad geographic representation.[1] It's a worldwide echo chamber. :)

Fortunately the echo chamber doesn't exist for most submissions. Most of the discussion on HN is on non-polarizing topics.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26869902

HN totally usable for basic functionality w/o JS.

profootballtalk.com works great if you don't want to vote or comment

macrumors.com great functionality

nitter.net happily takes the place of twitter.com

drudgereport.com works great and I rarely turn on JS when I go to the sites he links to, usually the text on target sites is there if not as pretty as it could be

individual subreddits (e.g. old.reddit.com/r/Portland/ ) are quite good w/o JS. But the "old." is probably important.

I admit that there are lots of sites that don't work, e.g. /r/IdiotsInCars/ doesn't work because reddit uses JS for video. For so many sites the text is there but images and videos aren't. Also need to turn off "page style" for some recalcitrant sites.

In conclusion, contrary to your JS experience, I'd say that I spend over 90% of my time browsing w/o JS and am happy with my experience. Things are lightning fast and I see few or no ads. I don't need an ad blocker since 99% of ads just don't happen w/o JS.

Crazy how evil Google is. Just wow.

Yeah, but there are a lot of employees there who check their bank accounts twice a month and say: "Just wow".

Venial evil is easily bought.

Edit:

As a EU citizen

I really hate to even say this, but "Crazy Vlad" nearby is what true evil is about.

Maybe using an archive.is-like service

No that has turned to shit (for me anyway). Used to be fine, now presents a captcha when JS off. Okay so I switch from Firefox to Safari (where I leave JS on) and it still presents a captcha. I'd rather use the original site with JS than solve captchas.

That has been my consistent recent experience for a multitude of those.

or a Tor-like service

I've never used Tor, but aren't there a lot of complaints of repetitive captchas when using it?

randomizes one's IP address and browser fingerprint

I haven't followed this closely, but didn't Apple make claims that they would soon have an opt-in service that did something like this?

I'm curious what evidence do you have that he is any better?

I don't have any such evidence. I don't think the way I phrased my question implied I did.

awarding his brother the top NYPD job

There's a long history of nepotism in politics. Here's a famous case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kennedy#Attorney_Genera... I think there are now laws against that at the federal level.

"all that matters" is being just slightly less incompetent

Many are upset about that reality. But I've been observing politics for many decades and I haven't seen anything better. NY doesn't do recalls (or didn't when I lived there, maybe it changed). California does allow them but that seems to result in an altogether different clown show.

He does seem utterly clueless.

However, is he better than de Blasio? Is he better than Sliwa?

That's all that matters.

Needs 2006 in title. Needs stupid JavaScript needed just to read it. Does stupid JavaScript games.

But it's actually decent content. It's an overview of how Babbage's Analytical Engine was intended to function. The implementation problem was that what Babbage wanted was way way way over-designed. E.g. 50 decimal digit arithmetic.

You know who are true geniuses in my book? The guys who wrote this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC

They started a trillion dollar company because they were smart enough to write a program that actually worked, that turned 1970s hardware into something that was useful to a lot of people.

Here's the really sad part: The agency acted in response to a petition filed by Toyota Motor Corp in 2013 to allow the lights.

Perhaps something by the end of 2023. So it took a full decade for them to act!

rate-limiting is manually applied by the moderators

Given:

1) HN was started by / is moderated by "computer nerds" (IMO you're hardcore if you write it in lisp)

2) 'dang' is the only acknowledged public moderator (some small? number of additional secret moderators also exist)

It follows that:

It's difficult and doesn’t scale to "manually" apply rate limiting. Most / all such action is highly automated.

At least that's my wild, possibly way-off-base guess.

There's probably a market for a sub $1 "smart chip" that can be added to a design. Something that can be factory programmed with a unique serial number. To keep from being cloned, verification operation wouldn't be as simple as reading out the number. Instead, the chip would respond with some sort of hash. Similar to how Apple secures their SOCs.

The security wouldn't need to be perfect. Even something simple would be sufficient to deter an unscrupulous reseller.

the openbsd community seems to like calling people idiots

Even the title of this article reflects that mindset

There's cultural history about that very phrase. There was a series of books written with that exact title. They were intended to "provide a basic understanding of a complex and popular topics. The term 'idiot' is used as hyperbole". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_Idiot%27s_Guides

Edit: I want to add that apparently the author put a lot of effort into writing a fairly comprehensive document. It will probably be quite helpful for someone attempting that install.

The document shouldn't be dismissed just because of the title.

Special shares having 20x the votes of plebeian shares is still better than the Snapchat situation.

As someone on HN quipped at the time: No, the shares have no voting power. They are Snapchat fun bucks basically.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13807515

CBP is still chasing people down and turning them away.

If you make it into this country it becomes mostly catch and release.

And then comical stuff like this happens: TSA reveals illegal migrants flying without proper ID can use an ARREST WARRANT as identification

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10418877/TSA-reveal...

I think in English exclusively

But can you still think in your native language if you try to?

I was born in the USA, a child of immigrants. So I didn't speak English until perhaps 3 or 4 years old.

But I can still think in my native language if I really try.

Hmmm. Maybe that's why we haven't detected any signs of an advanced civilization elsewhere in the universe.

Steps:

1) quantum mechanics

2) semiconductors

3) AGI

4) the machines take over

We're about 100 years into that progression, and we're well into step 2. How many years do we have left? Another 100?

The machines are probably not "foolish" enough to announce themselves to the rest of the universe.

I used a Superbrain way back when and it was wonderful for its time.

Laptops didn't exist. Most other computers had separate boxes (screen, CPU, keyboard, floppies) that needed to be connected together. This thing was a practical, relatively nice looking all-in-one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertec_Superbrain

Then the IBM PC and its clones came, and the world changed.

No idea why they are higher ranked than the original GitHub issues.

Not to be too cynical about it, but who serves the ads on those sites?

If it's Google Ads, then I think you have your answer as to why they are higher ranked.

Could you get by if you just charged while in the shower?

How long of a shower do you take? :-) A very related question is just how intensively will you use it. Here are some guidelines from Apple: https://www.apple.com/watch/battery/

My Series 6 watch is on my wrist for up to 23 hours a day. My battery is usually above 50% after a full day of use. I charge every day but for less than 30 minutes. (I usually take it off the charger before it is completely charged.)

Depending on your work and living arrangement (e.g. I'm mostly home) it's also so easy to drop onto the charger for just a few minutes. E.g. I can top-off the watch while I go into kitchen for a cup of coffee or a snack. So no need to devote a 30 minute continuous block of time.

I have low battery use because I mostly use the watch for notifications and activity tracking. I keep the display off by default (which is probably the main power draw).

The aluminum watch with sport loop is very light and comfortable. It's easy to forget you're wearing it.

I’ve had multiple comments removed over the years

By "removed" do you mean:

a) "flagged" such that only people who are logged in and have changed their preferences to showdead -> yes can see them?

or b) the words not visible even with showdead -> yes?

I'm curious because my setting is showdead -> yes and I see many otherwise suppressed comments. In fact there are people who are "banned" and I still see their comments (but not possible to reply).

My info was about the current Minutemen silos. I figured they were all the same.

The older missiles were liquid fueled, unlike Minuteman. Which means kerosene added when placed on alert, LOX added just before launch. Probably much simpler to have people do that on-site than try to automate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-65_Atlas#SM-65F_Atlas

And as to the (perhaps somewhat facetious) comment elsewhere in the thread that the Russkies might still have "2 nukes" pointed at this silo, there are currently 400 active Minuteman silos. I'm sure the Russians would rather target those than sites that were decommissioned in 1965.

it's just amazing how little abstraction there was

That was deliberate and made a lot of sense. The functionality was split between two programs. The VM/370 part emulates the raw machine. CMS is the "operating system" on top of the VM "hardware".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversational_Monitor_System

So many sites.

For example much of MSN is totally non-functional w/o Javascript. E.g. this brings up a totally blank page: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/they-had-covid-19-once-the...

And of course Google really really wants JS to make it easier for them to spy on you. Youtube isn't useful w/o JS (but IIRC it used to at least somewhat function): https://www.youtube.com/ Fortunately search still works.

Twitter are twats and broke all functionality w/o JS, but nitter.net is a workaround! Just replace twitter.com with nitter.net to see the tweet.

Fortunately many sites that start out blank are quite functional w/o JS, just need to View -> Page Style -> No Styles. E.g. this one: https://www.politico.com/ ugly but readable.

I use a netcat and similar TCP clients and a text-only browser on today's web and this works quite well for mine own purposes.

For 99% of what I do I use Firefox + NoScript and I think I'm relatively secure. My solution probably provides more functionality than yours, but it's still a hassle to use some sites. Other sites simply don't exist w/o JavaScript. The situation isn't getting better.

Let's hope he's a lot more careful with the chemicals than the early chip makers were. Most are now Superfund sites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Superfund_sites_in_Ca...

These are just the semiconductor manufacturer names I recognize offhand. Many more companies on the full list:

   Advanced Micro Devices
   Fairchild Semiconductor
   Hewlett-Packard
   Intel
   Intersil
   Monolithic Memories
   National Semiconductor
   Synertek