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by dmitrygr | 2025-04-05 06:56:41+00:00
I find the instruction set distasteful. I don’t want to start a flame war. This is just my opinion, but it is a strong one.

It was designed late enough in history to have taken advantage of a lot of available information. None of it was taken advantage of. Which is why a lot of extensions are now being proposed to actually fix things that should’ve been done right in the first place. With all the additions, it is slowly approaching sanity, only 10 years later. And I don’t buy the excuses that the learning process needed to happen. All the information was available all along, and the mistakes were obvious to basically all of us all along

Some of the extensions are only Band-Aids for the real design issues. Eg shadd2 is a bandaid for not having proper addressing modes for accessing arrays. A common refrain to answer this is composed of promises of magical instruction fusion in the core. This is often promised, but never delivered. Certainly not in the cheap kind of processors that are the only target for RISC – V. Not having instructions for a bitfield extraction and insertion is also an amateur mistake. That’s why there are extensions to fix that one too. But it should’ve been obvious from the beginning that it would be necessary. A conditional branch based on a bit in a register is another obvious thing that should’ve been considered from the very beginning as it is commonly encountered. Any analysis of modern software would’ve shown this.

What annoys me is the information was available. We know what sorts of things modern software does. It was all ignored. Instead, we got a slightly updated mips-1. And now with all the extensions, it’s fragmentation galore. You can either target the final result (RV23, I think is the name), which is somewhat sensible, but no hardware implements, or you can target the least common denominator, which will run everywhere, shittily

There are other, more serious, design issues when it comes to attempting to use RISC – V for actual high-performance computing. I’ll save those for another rant.

At approximately the same point in history, another instruction set was designed. It actually took advantage of all the knowledge available about what modern software looks like, and it shows: aarch64.
by sshine | 2025-04-05 06:57:26+00:00
> the fastest ... purposely barebones

This piece of fiber cable is the fastest static web server.

It is purposely barebones, but I bet you, it does almost nothing to reduce the delivery of a static website. The trick is: The website is already in its final state when it gets piped through the fiber cable, so no processing is required. The templating and caching mechanism is left open for most flexibility.

I call it an OSI layer 1 web server.

The trick is to use fiber instead of copper.

Many webservers don't care about this.
by RainyDayTmrw | 2025-04-05 06:58:01+00:00
Hand-solderable might be relative. Certainly, QFNs and BGAs are more difficult. But I don't think the average hobbyist can solder QFPs, especially with an exposed underside pad. Heck, as a hobbyist, I don't think I'd trust myself to solder SOICs.
by fifilura | 2025-04-05 06:58:34+00:00
> because the federal government wasn't originally intended to do most of what it currently does.

Some times it feels like USA should become more like EU and EU should become more like USA in that respect.

Like the department of education, EU does not have that thing to begin with, each country takes care of that. So I am not very upset when they threaten to close that down.

While EU does not have a common defense which could be a good idea.
by EasyMark | 2025-04-05 06:59:18+00:00
No this is because of trump and a few people he picked to agree with him, mostly from the failed Heritage Foundation. They only got a fraction of their project 2025 goals finished by trump so now they want to punish us all with suicidal economic action because they have a cache of money and gold and can weather it. Trump could have been pro business, kill of regulatory state, reduce some of the size of military obligations and government entitlement programs. Instead he pushed the economy off a ledge.
by sshine | 2025-04-05 07:00:59+00:00
> See, that's weird because that's still WebKit. Obviously there's plenty of room for variation - good and bad! - in the wrapper around the engine, but I still think of the core browser engine as being the interesting bit.

I agree that the browser engine is the interesting bit.

But nonetheless, Firefox is completely useless on iOS.

I've had to change not because I wanted to.

I still keep it around as a password manager because of Firefox Sync, because I don't need to open it.

But I really need to start investing in another password manager.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-05 07:01:18+00:00
I'm just not sure what people mean when they talk about "consolidating power" as something distinct from convincing people that you should have lots of power. "Russia style" consolidation of power under Putin involved quite a lot of winning hearts and minds. Rather than inducing a recession, for example, Putin doubled the Russian GDP over his first 4 years.

I'm not naive about the fact that Trump would like to stay in office after 2028 (he doesn't exactly keep it a secret), but the desire doesn't make him any good at it.
by weard_beard | 2025-04-05 07:02:02+00:00
Thanks, now my left ear hurts. Haha. All I know is it goes to 11

(I love that you’re passionate about the details and it is certainly beautiful to imagine it the way you describe. Im picturing an ocean and the mediation little birds flying down and sculpting the crests of waves. The attenuation is like the Venetian MOSE flood barriers.)
by nxobject | 2025-04-05 07:02:06+00:00
The running joke is that American legislators make "surprisingly" good stock trades for "reasons." Regardless or not of whether these picks actually tend to be good long term investments, it really, really rankles to know that a legislator expects poverty to come, is banking on that, but is otherwise not telling diddly squat to her constituents.

https://www.morningstar.com/funds/2-etfs-that-track-congress...
by jms55 | 2025-04-05 07:02:31+00:00
> An exception that doesn't change the rule, where are the Vulkan extensions for DirectX neural shaders, and RTX kit?

DirectX "neural shaders" is literately the VK_NV_cooperative_vector extension I mentioned previously, which is actually easier to use in Vulkan at the moment since you don't need a custom prelease version of DXC. Same for all the RTX kit stuff, e.g. https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/RTXGI has both VK and DX12 support.
by pj_mukh | 2025-04-05 07:02:37+00:00
This feels like pretty typical millennial sensibilities (including me). We don't like class differences made explicit via performative gestures. The fact that they are happening even if you don't participate is irrelevant.

I like lush beautifully designed resorts, my room cleaned, and top-notch local fare room service, but all the other service song-and-dance, the waiting on you hand and foot (as is typical in some developing nations), I can do without.
by ksec | 2025-04-05 07:03:05+00:00
On what machine is that on?

I wish these type of page animation should be rendering to 120fps with less than 20% CPU spike for seconds and no warming up of CPU / GPU on a modern 2025 machine.

Unfortunately we are still not there yet. If we achieve that the web would be much more interesting. Brining back memories of Macromedia Flash.
by riffraff | 2025-04-05 07:04:12+00:00
I'm on mobile, I clicked through and I had no idea of what I'm supposed to do. Perhaps there's a tutorial that's expected to be shown and wasn't, if not, I'd suggest you add one, the linkedin games ones have usually good ones to use as inspiration.

Otherwise, an "hint" button is always a good idea to help with frustration.

Edit: once I finally understood the rules, it's a pretty nice game!
by tzs | 2025-04-05 07:05:44+00:00
> All of the nerds will adjust their pocket protectors and spew their dubious word-salad (for or against), but the fact of the matter is that nobody truly knows what the nth-order effects will be until they happen

It doesn't really matter if they analyze the nth-order effects correctly because there is enough wrong with these tariffs that the 1st order effects will be bad enough that the higher order effects won't matter.

Even if Trump is right that the US should not have a trade deficit it only makes sense to apply that to US trade a whole, not to trade with each individual country.

If you apply it to each country independently then you cannot trade with a country that has something you need but doesn't need anything from you. That would exclude circular trade (US buys from A, A buys from B, B buys from the US) for example.
by atiedebee | 2025-04-05 07:06:13+00:00
I think "micro optimizations" would be a good category to put them in (although in my experience the term is usually used in a negative way).

> The C compiler might unroll a loop for you, for example. But often it won't

I've found that clang unrolls loops really aggressively compared to GCC on O2, to the point that I think that the majority of loops is getting unrolled
by sixpackpg | 2025-04-05 07:06:25+00:00
Thanks for the writeup I found similar difficulty parsing all of the software and firmware. The expectations of prior or "basic" knowledge throughout was frustrating. what's EEhands? or which bootloader? what's a bootloader?

I'd estimate 10 hours to build and 30 to get the software working which surprised me as I thought the software would be the easy part going into the project. A great learning experience though, and let me dip my toe into hardware development which was a nice side bonus.
by florbnit | 2025-04-05 07:09:04+00:00
Don’t know about you, but personally I want the extensions I create to be available widely. The fact that vs code market place is used as an easy place for me to distribute it only to limit the reach based on the business needs of Microsoft sure does feel like being embraced extended in the attempt of extinguishing usecases that I do in fact support.

Can’t fault cursor for letting people install extensions when most of those, if not all of those, developers want their extensions on cursor.
by low_tech_love | 2025-04-05 07:09:52+00:00
In that specific quote he’s talking about Ivy League universities, not Wesleyan, but the quote would be too long. I thought it was clear, sorry for the misunderstanding.

Regardless, I absolutely agree with you, except for one thing: I would have no problem being under care of a Hungarian, but I doubt you’d ever see a MAGA enthusiast saying he prefers that than an American doctor.
by someNameIG | 2025-04-05 07:10:22+00:00
The US economy is the largest in the world, disposable income, both average and median, are highest and second highest respectively. Median income is 30-40% higher than comparable developed economies, and significant higher than China.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per...

Even industrial output the US is second highest, and it's closer to first place than second.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_sec...

And supporting a whole family on a single income well was a very narrow window of time, and it required the US to have no real economic competitors. Where US workers had no competition on the world stage, but their output was sold on the world stage. So even if the US go isolationist that's still never coming back.
by defrost | 2025-04-05 07:10:24+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(YouTuber)

On the basis that the only response to a youtube claim is a better informed youtube rebuttal, see (say):

Dr. Offit describes what would have to happen in order for DNA fragments to cause harm by explaining three protective mechanisms in our cells that DNA fragments from mRNA vaccines cannot overcome. First, the cytoplasm has immune mechanisms and enzymes that destroy foreign DNA. Second, the fragments would have to enter the nucleus, which requires a nuclear membrane access signal that these DNA fragments don't have. Third, even if they were able to enter the nucleus, the fragments would need to have an enzyme called integrase to become part of our DNA, which they also don’t have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=596spFgx6vg
by tene80i | 2025-04-05 07:10:38+00:00
It’s right and wrong. Globalisation has hurt the rust belt, but it’s also allowed for much cheaper goods, which many people have enjoyed. It’s also made other economies much richer, which has allowed them to purchase U.S. goods (China being an immense iPhone market, for example). It’s not zero sum. If the world economy grows, and the USA holds onto a massive slice of that growing pie, then the USA wins - as it has been doing.

And the part about life just being totally unaffordable now isn’t really to do with China stealing from the US - housing is catastrophically expensive in many countries, and is more to do with how it has evolved as an asset class than trade relationships.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-04-05 07:15:31+00:00
> If you are referring to taking wealth by force from people that earned it and giving to people that didn't earn it, yes it's 'communist'.

Like taking money generated by the labourer and giving it to the company owners to share with their idle families? And threatening unemployment and precariousness/homelessness for those who disagree? This seems to have failed again indeed
by iJohnDoe | 2025-04-05 07:15:45+00:00
I think this is really interesting and would be fun to find out what really happened.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revea...

I have three theories, based this article.

1. The administration used an LLM on certain data and it incorrectly conflated the countries.

2. Certain companies listed regions of export to avoid customs, duties, or for other reasons and it now indirectly got exposed. The article alludes to this without saying so?

3. The administration listed what seemed like inconsequential regions for the purpose of preventing Australia, for this example, of just saying it was exported from Norfolk Islands to dodge tariffs. Although, this is giving the administration way too much credit and if they are reading this don’t steal this as reason. :-)
by mythz | 2025-04-05 07:15:49+00:00
Took a bit of research and trial and error to get to a solution we liked, but as it's just deploying and managing Docker Apps, deploying .NET Docker Apps was ok but a bit of time was spent supporting DB Migrations and litestream and running it from GitHub Actions, we've documented our support for Deploying with Kamal (inc YouTube Guide) at:

https://docs.servicestack.net/kamal-deploy
by o1o1o1 | 2025-04-05 07:16:15+00:00
He did not say "companies vs individuals", he said "single maintainer", which is obviously a high risk factor to consider IMHO.

I wonder why they all start their own projects instead of putting their heads together. They could achieve so much more and make a bit more money on the side, while each of them would have to spend less time on it. It would also attract risk-averse companies.
by vivzkestrel | 2025-04-05 07:16:58+00:00
while this book is simpler, i am still struggling with a lot of stuff, here page 6 https://imgur.com/a/83FQnAx What graph did they plot to derive delta Q / delta T I can tell that on the y axis they had time but I would have loved to see a representation of what the curve on the x axis would look like. A wire is uniform only in theory, in reality its area would keep fluctuating at every mm by very small amounts. Does this equation actually take the effect of this fluctuation. What does A1 and A2 look like, I am assuming A2- A1 = delta Q right? There needs to be an even more grounded book in electronics, something that you can show to a guy who literally has no idea about electronics in the slightest bit and by the end of the book, the guy is a master at it
by brudgers | 2025-04-05 07:19:05+00:00
The the fine article is about listening to music alone fostering a sense of well being.

The comment to which I responded was about how degraded that experience is relative to music in social settings.

When a person does not have access to those social settings they are not better for that person…and as your comments suggest, often worse than nothing. On the other hand headphones are better than nothing.

The bread and cake are an historical reference.

HN guidelines are to make the charitable readings of other people’s comments. They are linked at the bottom of the page.
by JackYoustra | 2025-04-05 07:19:20+00:00
> And that's what we saw in '21 and '22. You had someone handing out PPP loans like candy and forgiving them outright, you had stimmy checks (that weren't backed by anything real, but that's another story), you had people sitting around looking for stuff to pass lockdown with, etc.

Yes, this is my whole point. The American Rescue Act and subsequent policies that were very much propping up salient jobs (certainly not wfh tech jobs that are, definitionally, resistant to lockdowns) fueled inflation that led to the end of zero interest rate period which led to large layoffs in tech.

> Wanna have a bottle of water from Flint, MI?

Flint falsifies your point, it is a democratic bastion. If you'd expect that to radicalize people, it should be deep deep read.

> yeah, it is out-of-bounds conduct

Out of bounds is a social norm over time. Donald Trump, their far and away champion, gives such egregious conduct I can't read this with a straight face.

But we can go further back. Was 'just say no' not egregious enough for you? AIDS shaming? The vicious anger against gay people? I can take any snapshot of the past - conservatives will always be the cry bully at any of the years in time you want to pick.
by antman | 2025-04-05 07:19:56+00:00
I’ve grown older, but I don’t think I’ll ever stop traveling. There’s something enriching about setting out alone, discovering new places, and connecting with people but not just on the surface. Before I go somewhere, I take the time to learn about its history, its society, its ways. That way, when I meet someone, there’s a chance for real connection, not just polite small talk. Because if you only skim the surface, everything can seem familiar,sometimes even too Westernized once u look closer, the uniqueness reveals itself.

There’s also something powerful in returning to a place after many years. When you see how it’s changed, you might begin to understand how societies grow, shift, and evolve. And in doing so, you also begin to see your own world more clearly how it too has changed, often in ways you might not notice from inside your everyday bubble.

Different societies don’t just look different they understand the world differently. And sometimes that can be painful to confront. In Western cultures, individualism often makes it seem logical to live and work far from family, sometimes because your hometown couldn’t offer things. But maybe that wasn’t a failure of the system, maybe that was the system. One that only works when social bonds are weakened, everyones reflexes on human connection and personal sacrifice (grinding) is normalized.

Now, we live in a world where people struggle to understand how others think, vote, feel. A village in Uzbekistan, a town in Sicily, a city in the Midwest, or a neighborhood in New York they’re worlds apart, thats is very very obvious. I’ve been to many of these places, sometimes twice, and they’re not the same planet. And they’re drifting further apart.

But this isn’t new. The ancient Athenians were explorers, traders, thinkers, learners. They brought ideas home and reshaped their world. Yet, with time, even they began to say, "This is how it’s always been. Things are the same" They were resistant to understand the underlying mechanisms, as the world around them shifted. Their knowledge came through a lens that blinded them to the reasons of transformation. And eventually, their dominance faded suddenly and decisively driven by the same forces they could no longer truly understand.

It’s a pattern worth remembering. Because maybe, just maybe, we’re living through something similar today. Seeling the world is an enabler for effective introspection. I avoid the touristy places though, they feel like crowded movie sets.
by netsharc | 2025-04-05 07:20:05+00:00
It's incredible how glowy orange that clown sometimes look...

And I'm going to continue my attempts of turning people off him by repeating that apparently he smells like shit: "I've heard from a reliable source, that Trump smells of soiled diapers, Axe Body Spray and hotdog burps.": https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/trump-smell-kinzinger...
by nprateem | 2025-04-05 07:20:14+00:00
Have you read the mar a lago accord essay?

In it, the author says:

- 10% global baseline tariffs

- Countries can be penalised with higher rates as negotiating tactic

- Countries that retaliate will be outside the defence umbrella

So the points aren't contradictory, just the comms is typically ham-fisted.
by tastyface | 2025-04-05 07:21:34+00:00
If there are 10,000 murderers out there and you lock up most of them along with 20,000 innocent people, you get the same result. (Bonus points if you happen to snag some annoying journalists, activists, and civil rights leaders in your dragnet, since they can push back on your power play and cast doubt on your stats.)

But you can just read the article if you don't believe me: "While polling consistently shows that Bukele is quite popular in El Salvador, surveys also show a steady increase in fear of public criticism of the government — to degrees that sometimes match the president’s approval rating. 'There’s a sector of the population that feels better, because it’s true that we perceive more security, we’re no longer afraid of the gangs. Now we’re afraid of the regime,' says Ramirez. 'We see soldiers everywhere, police everywhere, patrol cars, and they’re arresting people.'"
by ringeryless | 2025-04-05 07:22:00+00:00
It's so strange how all the federal agencies all spout obvious propaganda now with this new regime and its loyalty tests. Just know that the entire rest of the world will generally not be queueing up to kiss the ring. Absolutely no human being, let alone nations full of them, enjoys being humiliated and ground into the dust as a mere opening ploy in negotiations. Humanity will route around the USA. What sane actor will make deals with a psychopath that rips up contracts it made yesterday?
by o1o1o1 | 2025-04-05 07:22:13+00:00
Second this! I just got hired for a short-term project to extend a payment solution I once wrote when I was employed by that company.

I was amazed to find that a) nobody maintained the project after I left, there were only two minor fixes because their house was on fire, and b) I really took the time to write almost complete documentation on all the important topics, which helped me get back on track faster.

You are absolutely right, and I have experienced this most of the time. The problem is that it is an uphill battle to explain to most stakeholders why you are "wasting" so much time on non-customer facing documentation.

It is hard enough to convince even technical stakeholders (e.g. product owners) to write automated tests.

While at the time I mostly think it's bad, later on it forces them to pay me twice as much, so I guess it's not as bad as I always think in those moments :D
by Uzmanali | 2025-04-05 07:22:24+00:00
This piece hit me hard. I always stop myself from writing because I think no one will care or that my ideas aren’t good enough. But when I don’t write, I feel upset and frustrated.

I’ve learned that writing is the only thing that helps me feel better. It doesn’t matter if it’s messy or not perfect. I just need to write. It’s okay to make mistakes. Writing helps me be myself and feel free.

Thank you. you reminded me that I don’t have to be perfect. I just have to write. Even if it’s messy, it’s okay.

So here’s to messy words and broken rules. And to hell with perfection.