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> sure, not so for 3rd party apps.

Ideally, once there is a JVM that runs on riscv, those apps are ported for free. An openJDK port is underway.

I have no idea how much work it would be for Android to port its APIs, but Google certainly has the manpower if this is something they want.
Ask HN: How long do you wait for a great candidate?
Hiring for a fairly senior position, but the best option candidate keeps asking for more time to consider the offer. I have a few candidates in the wings that are reasonable but not ideal replacements. How long do you wait?
Hmm, but I also pay Georgia income tax. Indeed there are a lot of government programs funded by income tax that I do not take advantage of. I'm not sure if you're trying to make me feel like a tax burden or not, but... I don't feel bad.
Bell Telephone videos around the time touch tone dialing was introduced called it the tictactoe symbol. Seemed like a rather informal name from such a formal organization but I guess they wanted something that all of the public would know.
> Poor people in the US, the demographic being discussed here, all have access to free medical care at the same clinics middle class people use.

No, they don't. Poor people in the US have access to emergency care from the same hospital ERs other people use. They do not, as a rule, have access to general healthcare from the same clinics middle class people use; some of them may have Medicaid managed care plans that cover clinics otherwise used by the middle class, and some clinics that also have a middle class clientele may take fee-for-service Medicaid, but neither of those is generally the case. And some of the poor being discussed will not have access to Medicaid, anyway (not all states participate in expansion, and not all the poor are covered, especially in non-expansion states.)
My point is that not everybody lives in upper middle class existence where you need good credit for everything. There's plenty of people out there who will never buy anything other than a house on credit and who never do any of the things you're supposed to do to have a good credit score.
The reversed SM64 binary was compiled without optim IIRC though.

Of couse you can reverse an optimized binary, just launch IDA and start to have fun to get an idea of the work. Doable, but of course harder.
Not to be confused with the long-scale numbers: milliard/billiard/trilliard
https://github.com/alexreg/libsbuf
I honestly love coming to HN to see posts like this and comments like yours. It is always so neat to see the other sides of software engineering. You listed 4 acronyms and I have no idea what any of them are or how they fit into this story but all I want to do is deep dive into each one. It is also awesome to see people so interested in things that I've never even encountered before.
Chemists discover water microdroplets spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide
True.

If we're all just gonna take our marbles and go home, I guess there's nothing really stopping any of us from just making our own marbles.

Still pretty dumb to make your own marbles though. But I get your point there.
I wouldn't recommend One Hundred Years of Solitude for a novice reader -- that's quite a heavy book to start with. You (I had to) have to also constantly refer to the large family tree at the beginning of the book, as people are given the same two names, generation after generation. There's a good reason for it, though; still, confusing and tedious.

I tried it in my initial years of reading, some 13 years ago. I gave it up after some 90 pages. Maybe the current, disciplined me, should give it a retry.

As for the OP's question, I would suggest a book like Sapiens, by Yuval Harari. It's written in uncomplicated language, a broad topic, engagingly written. FWIW, I gave out at least seven copies of it as a present to friends (who are not serious readers). Most of them really appreciated it.
Artificial Muscles Bloom, Dance, and Wave
However tasty meat may be, it’s ethically and environmentally bad.

I disagree entirely, but there is no need to relitigate this debate here. If by any chance you have never read the pro-meat argument, the book The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith is a pretty good primer.
Wow. I've bought cars for less than that.
You don't need to find and fix all the bugs to make fuzzing less useful for an attacker - just finding and fixing the low-hanging fruit that's easily detected by fuzzing is enough to make it a lot less productive for everyone else.
Doesn't look like IBM Logo, from a glance at the manual on my shelf. IBM Logo did have a `startup` feature, which Rebol and Red (pending security design issues) use, so you can pre-load things into your environment.
Zelda OoT was based on the Mario 64 engine
I care about the nutritional value of food deeply, and I eat fast food occasionally. A McDonald's quarter pounder with cheese and a medium fries has really good macronutrient ratios. And a burger from Mickey D's is one of the most cost effective sources of protein you can find.
Helping large-scale property owners to collect unearned economic rents was the primary motivation for Prop 13. Crippling the state and local governments’ democratic power to collect taxes was the secondary motivation.

Sob stories about retirees on fixed incomes getting taxed out of their homes was only the propagandistic sales pitch, a clever way to convince a majority of voters to support the referendum.

The wealthy anti-tax activists who promoted prop 13 didn’t actually care about unwealthy elderly people per se. If such people had been the main focus, it would have been straightforward to come up with a much less dramatic remedy.
Choosing your partner with the intent of having particular genes for your child (other than, as I said, general physical health) seems unethical to me too. People do choose their partners on the basis of particular characteristics, but I would hope not for any reason so crass as manipulating the genes of their future children.
I believe Hawking thought so, but that's just one possible explanation. Others think it all escapes at the very end.
I went the opposite direction, Ubuntu to arch.

I think that archlinuxs advantage is that it's minimalistic, the philosophy is simple, you know what is running on your computer and generally why.

Tinkering with arch itself isn't that time consuming because the package management is so incredibly good, along with the AUR and wiki. These are invaluable.

I really do think the difficulty is overhyped though, it's really not hard at all.
While Processing isn't logo-like in syntax it is logo-like in intention as in it tries to make it very easy for users to get graphics on to screen.

Processing is java-based, but it has spawned both a js verison 'p5.js' and a python version 'processing.py'.

https://processing.org/
https://p5js.org/
https://py.processing.org/
Software.

There's tremendous inertia in apps which is what gave x86 an effective monopoly in the 90'es, even when superior options were available (hello Alpha). Today the situation is actually better and with RISC-V having the same memory model as Arm, porting from an Arm version is way easier (Neon code not withstanding) but it's obviously way less attractive than running running existing code.
I don't get it... If you acknowledge that there are reasons why people would be interested in participating in this project, then why wouldn't people be interested in reading about it?
Using MHz as a divisor really benefits BOOM and extrapolating from IPC makes some assumptions regarding the future ability of the chip to scale to similar frequencies as Intel's product line.

Assuming the best performing BOOM chip refers to the 2018 HotChips tapeout, that chip operated at 1.0 GHz. The lowest speed Ivy Bridge Core/Pentium (a design getting close to a decade old, FWIW) was 2.5 GHz. This means on a core-to-core basis Ivy Bridge is 2.7x more performant. This ignores the benefit of the additional core count of the Core series of Ivy Bridge procs.

Today's 9900K is also around 40% more performant than the comparable Ivy Bridge (4960X). That would suggest the performance gains modern Intel design holds over BOOM is closer to 3.8x on a core-to-core basis.

Being within an order of magnitude performance-wise is impressive given that BOOM is mainly a one-man show. That said, having about a quarter of Intel's present chips' performance doesn't strike me as particularly "close".
Editing X configs was how a lot of people got started with VIM
"The Pew Research Center defines millennials as born from 1981 to 1996, choosing these dates for "key political, economic and social factors", including the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Great Recession, and the Internet explosion.[36]"

I wouldn't say it's arbitrary. People who've spent their lives studying the sociology of generations came up with those ranges.
Charlie Munger said - "I've never seen a board vote against the CEO when their livelihood depends on keeping the job".

Boards are dysfunctional, in the best of times.
Saucy.

I know a few people who really swear by the "great hack" theory. I think the observation that this indicates a lack of - in effect - empathy with the "manipulated" lower classes is a very astute one. I'm also not surprised that these magic data companies aren't what they're claimed to be - it's terrifying but not in the way that's implied.

I think it's well meaning, but I see an awful lot of media-this media-that, but I think it's a cop out for one's own failing to convince (At least partly). I have literally been told (in passing) something along the lines of you seem too intelligent to disagree with me
U.S. officials fear ransomware attack against 2020 election
Chess Players Show Why Intelligence Alone Isn't Enough to Become a Master
Thanks! I hope you'll like it :)!
> to a nice quiet farm upstate doesn't sound so bad to me.

Just so you're aware, the phrase "sent to a quiet farm upstate" is a euphemism for "killed", usually applied to animals like family pets.
Maybe you would need help later. At some point. I can help.
Similar experience though it differed in the details. Downloaded disks from the internet at work. Never had problems with IDE CDROM or booting. Those parts easy.

Getting X or sound working, incredibly hard. Scary warnings about frying the monitor and manually writing "modelines."

I remember wasting an entire weekend, morning until night tinkering with zero progress to show for it. After about a week you'd give up and accept that you made "this much" progress, and would never go further. At least until the next major version came out with improved drivers.

Believe I tried the Caldera (or Mandrake?) linux in the late 90s and it was easier to install.
Whoa, please keep internet psychiatric diagnosis off HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Again, I’d say you’re misunderstanding the point. The branches aren’t a real thing in quantum mechanics. They’re just a particular way of looking at the wave function of the universe. In the evolution of the wave function, it sometimes will ‘split’ into two parts that are essentially independent of each other and may have different amplitudes associated with them. These amplitudes may be shown to correspond to the (square root of the) probability of finding yourself in one branch or another.

However, if you knew about the entire wavefunction as an outside godly observer to the universe might, then there’d be no point in speaking of ‘branches’.
Here is a link to the first Linux I encountered that had this CD setup: Yggdrasil. The installation notes show what hardware was required [0]. I remember figuring out how to install Linux from these CDs only to say — what now? Strangely, the version that I remember trying was the 1993 release that is pictured on the wikipedia page[1].

This link is from a few years before the Debian described in the OP, but it was about the same scenario. But either way, these were way before the commercial boxed Linux OSs were available. And this was still back in the day when having CDROMs pressed and shipped was still more efficient and cheaper than online access.

[0] https://www.linux.co.cr/distributions/review/1995/0920-a.htm...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X
We've been doing just fine running elections for a couple centuries without a national ID card. I'd focus on voting machine and ballot security.
You would definitely still get that with the people I work with, though perhaps they wouldn't bother arguing with you on it, instead writing you of completely (nothing I personally do will have any influence the Amazon burning or not).
So QWERTY keyboards all over again, basically.
'designed without a global audience in mind' - it was exactly designed with a global audience in mind - but I think Zemnhof didn't have the exposure to the width of linguistic research he would have now
bump the compensation up $30K - $50K ... should fix your problem.
I agree with the article's premise that CA itself was not actually that consequential to the election, however I disagree with where this article goes, with a blanket "paid political persuasion doesn't change people's minds", that's very much out of context. If you are someone who is inclined to be a bit thoughtful about issues, but unfortunately for you your whole down has turned into a mob of "LOCK HER UP!" robots fueled by daily facebook posts to this effect, that is going to have a neutralizing effect on the potential pursuit of alternate narratives within these communities. The ready availability, if not total immersion, of completely made up propaganda on the internet made it very easy for people who leaned one way or the other to ignore other perspectives that might have made them a little less likely to show up and vote the way they did.
One person's "gambled" is often another person's (e.g., entrepreneur)opportunity. Musk and his ilk are where they are for a reason. They don't fear risk, they go toe-to-toe with it and mitigate it.

Words like "gambled" fit a narrative and get attention, but they are also misleading.
There is pretty-much only copyrighted material in this repo.

Copyright is not purely literal, especially when it's copyright of computer code...
> Tesla was founded in July 2003, by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, under the name Tesla Motors. The company's name is a tribute to engineer Nikola Tesla. In early Series A funding, Tesla Motors was joined by Elon Musk, J. B. Straubel and Ian Wright, all of whom are retroactively allowed to call themselves co-founders of the company.

from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.
I'm surprised that it's only 1 in 5 companies. Based on prior client experiences with Chinese contractors, I would have expected it to be 5 of 5 foreign companies doing business in China.
> The CA scandal coincides with a lot of doubt about trusting large tech companies, which is why it's a big deal now.

The very same institutions pushing the CA scandal are the ones who lauded the Obama campaign for its savvy use of technology. It is easier to blame large tech companies for the election than to accept any blame.
When you say something brand new and made from vegetables must cause cancer I think the burden of proof is absolutely on you, and so far you haven't given a single reason why that might be true.
But that's an uninsightful distinction. There's no real difference between the experience of a bu'er sayer and an arabic speaker. If the sounds are noticeable to native speakers, calling them merely phonetic is simply a dubious scientific analysis not representative of the real world.
I'd argue it was because of battery technology. There was a substantial advance at around 2004 by decreasing the diameter of lithium iron phosphate particles. This increased the capacity significantly of LIB's. Then you have a couple of years of commercialization, then you bring it to market at high cost, then manufacturing process improvements drive the cost lower.

Other improvements drive the capacity even higher through packaging innovations and possible manufacturing improvements as well.

I highly doubt it was due to range anxiety. Even the early Tesla roadster could, at most, go 200 miles. That's nothing on a gasoline engine.

The Nissan Leaf does not look that ugly. It looked like your standard hatchback for the time.
Tons of environmental consequences for mining lithium and cobalt that are swept under the rug, not to mention battery disposal costs, when talking about electric cars -- https://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDes...
Carlos Ghosn Ran Tech Fund Using Millions from an Executive at a Nissan Partner
He might believe that (which is rather questionable), but extending that to robotaxis at scale... no, I don't believe he believes that. I hope he doesn't believe that.
> Is `git status` / `git diff` etc relying only on the timestamp of modified local files to decide if a diff is needed?

Of course. There's no other way to implement these commands efficiently.

But you don't even need to play with timestamps. You can ask git to pretend not to see the changes:

git update-index --assume-unchanged password_change.cgi
Apple will be donating to help preserve Amazon rainforest
There's a lot of arguing here about the true cost of a Model 3. But the larger question is trends. The only reason electrics have a higher sticker prices today is the huge cost of the battery pack. But cell prices are dropping rapidly. They went down 35% in the last year alone.

The experts say this is going to continue, and in another 2 or 3 years ev's will equal ice's in sticker price, and then continue to fall. That plus various other factors will lead to ev sales skyrocketing and ice sales plummeting. A lot of the ice manufacturers like VW and GM have realized this is coming, and so they are working hard to convert over to ev's.
Yes, "retroactively allowed to call themselves co-founders".
Why is there such a big difference in the number of packages in stable and unstable? I always thought that stable was mostly just a snapshot of the testing branch, and that everything in unstable would make into testing before the freeze period.
That's a twiddle (I think I was influenced by Intercal).

Sometimes single quotes to me are "ticks," with the grave accent being a "back-tick."
Ask HN: Programmers, what is your “scotch file”?
I perhaps the greatest Programming quote of all time, Peter Welch writes:

"All code is bad. Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. It’s a different file for every programmer. Sometimes they wrote it, sometimes they found it and knew they had to save it. They read over the lines, and weep at their beauty, then the tears turn bitter as they remember the rest of the files and the inevitable collapse of all that is good and true in the world.

This file is Good Code. It has sensible and consistent names for functions and variables. It’s concise. It doesn’t do anything obviously stupid. It has never had to live in the wild, or answer to a sales team. It does exactly one, mundane, specific thing, and it does it well. It was written by a single person, and never touched by another. It reads like poetry written by someone over thirty."

So, what's _your_ "scotch file"?
Something Little to Save Big Online
I thought it's common knowledge the Nazi symbol is rotated 45° and vents clockwise. Still, agree that removing it is the smart move to increase adoption.
>Generational benchmarks show big leaps in every new arch on userbenchmark,

That is because GPU scales very well with Transistor count, throw in more transistor and memory bandwidth and you are good. On the CPU you could have doubled the transistor budget and get marginal improvement in IPC.
A child that you know doesn't possess your genes but you still accept, is your child. Adoption doesn't count less. If you knew the child wasn't "yours" before the test, why would the test make a difference? If you didn't know the child wasn't yours before the test, surely the most significant part of the result for you is that there is some reason that you didn't know before. That is, that you had been lied to, and were in the relationship and parenting the child under false pretenses.

I don't think that most people distinguish between a child from their own genes with an adopted child, unless there's some falsehood in play. At least I hope not.
PhpCE gets cancelled after complaints about low number of female speakers
150m Hop of SpaceX Starship Prototype [Live Stream, T-10min]
Or as they say in Yorkshire: all fur coat and no knickers
I like the concept of living near strong connectivity; however there are other downsides that NEED to be addressed.

1) The building code isn't good enough. I should not be able to hear my neighbors, let alone the train, at all when things are closed. I should also have fresh air that doesn't smell like laundry, perfumes, the garbage chute, or whatever cooking experiments are happening in other apartments.

2) Outside of cities cars are still needed; more so in America. That rail network needs to connect to multiple potential 'apartments for my car'. Those are also the places that would be a dropoff / interface for external to the city users to drive to and then take transit infrastructure the rest of the way in.
I would assume that it's due to a limited number of companies having useful IP to steal. I have had similar experience with several companies, and hear similar stats from those who work with other companies, but that is anecdotal. I would also hazard a guess that many companies don't want to admit it, even if it does happen.
I came to Debian slightly later than 98, but memories of the floppy net install image fill me with joy. A whole OS bootstrapped from a 1.44MB medium was very cool.
The Story of Us
They financed them. They moved money around, they didn't build anything. I've never seen an "Enron" logo on any actual products.

Enron accomplished nothing that wouldn't have happened without them, in one form or another. Agree with him or not, Musk tackles things that either wouldn't happen at all without him, or that would happen too slowly to matter.

The reality is, we need both kinds of companies, but we also need them to behave ethically.
Another option is "sound money" (historically, this was gold). If you had a sound money option available, people could save wealth without going further out on the risk curve.

At this point, even high-quality corporate bonds are going negative in Europe, so people who want to save have to take a big risk.

In my opinion that is unnatural; it's a creation of central planners who forced everyone away from gold and into fiat currencies.

Gold is pretty risky now because it's not actually used as a currency and thus has low liquidity. If we all used gold as a currency, it would have high liquidity and it would be very stable. (I don't want to go back to gold because digital currency is far more practical, but I'm just making a historical point.)

> I think the only way forward is actually gov't spending sprees

That is going further in the direction of central planning and also further inhibits regular people from saving and investing safely and wisely. How is the middle class going to save and invest under this paradigm? I think the most likely answer is that they won't/can't, and the middle class disappears (like what happens with hyperinflation, e.g. Weimar Germany).

A recurring theme: I am really against central planning. The planners do not always get it right, and when they screw up big time, it makes the system collapse. When people are free to make their own choices the economy adjusts dynamically.
Relevant: the yuri visual novel "The Expression Amrilato" about a girl that is stranded in a world where everybody speaks Juliamo (the in-game name for Esperanto) instead of Japanese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Expression_Am...

https://www.gog.com/game/the_expression_amrilato