skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RISC-V is inherently a customizable ISA though, whereas ARM implementations are very specific about what they require to be called an "ARM processor". This wouldnt change from this acq.
> Yes. This right here. This is typical HN. You have absolutely no idea about what it takes to build or police this feature. You have no data about how much this feature is used and abused and by who.

As someone working in the field it's at least possible to make an educated guess about such things.

> Without knowing anything you are confidently asserting that it costs very little to maintain this feature.

No. You are primarily coming up with phrases like this, like "typical for HN" above to make it sound like everyone complaining is a pleb with no clue and you are far superior. You then go on to claim the reason people do this is to "farm upvotes" as a blanket invalidation, instead of contributing anything of substance.

> I trust them a lot more than people who speak authoritatively while knowing very little

I initially criticized that you suggested going by share of users when judging the usefulness of this feature, by comparing it to CC on TV and similar technologies. I tried reasoning why I believe this is an important and valuable feature that should not be removed. Only in my third comment did I mention that I can't imagine that it takes too much work to maintain this feature. But you immediately jumped at it, screaming THIS!! and continued your arrogant ramble about stupid HNers. The only one in this whole comment thread coming across as authoritative is you.

> I'd ask you to reconsider this approach [...] So you do you.

Sometimes it's best to follow your own advice.

Over and out.
My suggestion to achieve this is to cap repayments (of non-dischargable loans), perhaps at 15% of taxable income, and written off 20 years after signing. That would make lenders very interested in the outcomes of various courses. And their offers to prospective students would convey useful career advice, too.
Some commercial lenders do consider degree/program.
It was whatever Simula and then Smalltalk's goals were.
Marginal tax rates in California for top earners (including the medicare surcharge) are already about equivalent to France. 37% fed + 13.3% CA + 1.45% Medicare = 52%. Compared to France's 45% income + 7.5% social security taxes.
Yo, is that an $85 dollar straw?
> Why would institutes put such high sticker price or why wouldn't they put price clearly based on income level.

they don't put a clear price because they take a lot of different factors into account. take a look at this tuition estimator for vassar: https://studentfinancialservices.vassar.edu/calculator/quick...

the grant is calculated based on your family's income, home value, savings, investments, number of children, and a couple other data points. they can't give an exact number until they see your FAFSA. it sucks that this is so complicated, but I argue most of this is necessary to fairly calculate grants. two different households making $60k might have wildly different abilities to pay for tuition.
> Businesses have too strong of a lobby. Same with the landlords.

Pretty much every homeowner in the state would vote against it too.
I agree many people can study law / arts or even nothing at all and just do a bootcamp (or even just study at home without a bootcamp) and become a software engineer / data analyst / etc.
But the closer you are to the average, the harder it will probably get to successfully make those switches. Someone who is 30 and finished liberal arts has a big psychological hurdle that works against him when he'll try to switch occupations. Self doubt often creeps, sunk cost fallacy etc.
Now the closer you are to average in iq / will power / whatever it is that determines success in engineering, the harder making this switch gets, especially when you're not in your 20s anymore.
So to sum up my point is yes everything is possible in theory, but no - we are not created equal. We differ greatly by intelligence, background, emotional intelligence, our ability to change etc etc. The more closer you are to the average part of the curve the smarter you have to play the hand you were dealt.
I like to characterize it as "selling education vs. selling diplomas"
These are tiny satellites, you’re not sending them up one by one. Starlink launch 60 satellites at a time.
So true. Even if Apple kills a small company dependent on targeted advertising, I would cheer.

I'm not cheering because it's FB, I'm cheering because it strikes at targeted advertising. If you're a small company out tracking people to try to sell them an Oklahoma City Thunder dart board, I'm gonna cheer just as loudly when Apple sticks it to you.
Or just buy Nvidia
AMD bet on APUs more than a decade ago, hoping to grab the market with better GPUs than Intel, and have been offering a better product about as long.

But the reality is that vast majority of business desktops and laptop don't need anything better than what Intel offers.

If AMD gains share in that segment (and it looks like they are), it will IMO be because of finally having a better CPU, not because of a better GPU.
I suppose by 5G helping you mean non-mmWave having more bandwidth to go around per tower? (If that’s true, I’m just guessing it is.)

Which I suppose does help, but only for people who probably already have 4G. So, not very rural.
The Arm people would still be there running the company, it's not like they all get fired and overnight it's Nvidia people with no experience doing it.
"MIPS Open" came after the RISC-V announcement, and is still currently somewhat of a joke. Half the links on the MIPS Open site are dead.

I think one of the major points for RISC-V was to avoid the possibility of patent encumbrance of the ISA so that it can be freely used for educational purposes. My computer architecture courses 5-6 years ago used MIPS I heavily. MIPS was not open at the time, but any patents for the MIPS-I ISA had long since expired.

POWER is actually open, but it is tremendously more complicated. RISC-V by comparison feels like it borrows heavily from the early MIPS ISAs, just with a relaxation of the fixed sized instructions and no architectural delay slots and a commitment to an extensible ISA (MIPS had the coprocessor interface, but I digress).

The following is my own experience - while obviously high performance CPU cores are the product of intelligent multi-person teams and many resources, I believe RISC-V is simple enough that a college student or two could implement a compliant RV32I core in an HDL course if they knew anything about computer architecture. It wouldn't be a peak performance design by any measure (if it was they should be hired by a CPU company), but I think that's actually a point of RISC-V as an educational platform AND a platform for production CPU cores.
Sure, if one is willing to stay at 50's living standard. Trouble is what used to be luxury then is now basic necessity and "everyone" must have it.
Seeing worse ads (or none if you install an adblocker), but there's less info about you floating around the web, beyond your control. I'll take that any day of that week.
Indeed. Most Europeans badmouthing US military spending don't fully grasp how much they have benefited from it.

It is hard to imagine a European lifestyle as we know it today without the advantage of the US military being a deterrent to Russia/China and the latest wannabe dictator.

Please note, I am not blaming the Europeans here, just trying to be realistic and look at a bigger picture.
Are you talking about Spotify or Bandcamp? I believe OP was talking about Bandcamp.
I'm no expert, but the mental model of an interface is so simple. The inheritance model I liked in school, but practically the payoff just never seems to show up.
So not only must we let those who wrong us off the hook and feel for them, if we can't it's because we aren't virtuous enough.

I'm perfectly comfortable ignoring that moral claim.

If people want to talk about letting go, talk about letting go. Talk of forgiveness is simply misleading.
No but it is clearly far left to take over city blocks, declare autonomous zones, destroy public property, terrorize citizens and public officials, etc. and there's plenty of Antifa sympathizers or supporters on Twitter. There's plenty of moral hazard with the amount of influence and propaganda power that tech companies have today and it's a very corrosive, dangerous, long-term destructive thing that scares me far more than David Duke.
Lots of things in software development have an is-a relationship. The only time inheritance is an antipattern is when it's used for code-reuse and it isn't modeling an is-a relationship.

Once you get to application code there aren't a lot of is-a relationships but inside operating systems, libraries, and frameworks it does come up legitimately.
>> The music isn’t your product, the music is your marketing. The shows, the merch, your influence - that’s your product.

> Man, that's depressing.

If the CEO of an open-source company said, "Software isn't our product, software is our marketing", would you feel the same way?
What do you think Bandcamp should be improving? What would a better alternative look like? Genuinely curious as an artist pretty satisfied with Bandcamp.
it's not what I meant, not seeing the band is not 'not being live'
The Kinesis is based on sound research. The Maltrons have a lot of keys positioned in ways that add nothing to ergonomics.

Maltron also makes the claim that you can type 80 wpm with their 1 handed keyboard but there seems to be no publicly available evidence of anyone getting anywhere near that fast.

I agree its pretty easy to switch back and forth between different split keyboards and to traditional keyboards.

I use an Ergodox-EZ and a Dactyl Manuform on a daily basis for 2 different systems.
I wouldn't even give them warning, they deserve no such consideration.
> So on AWS, segment revenue, what we see are companies working really hard right now to cut expenses, especially in the more challenged businesses like hospitality and travel, but pretty much across the board. We're helping them, we're actively, with our sales force, looking for ways that we can help them save money.

Yes, of course, you want them to save money! How nice of you, Amazon!

I read this statement by Amazon's CFO as: lots of companies were spending a fortune on AWS, using it inefficiently. Because of the current crisis, they had to take a closer look at their spend, and realized they could quickly cut some of these AWS expenses easily.

Further down in the article, and referring to Google:

> And on Thursday Google parent Alphabet said its second-quarter cloud revenue, including G Suite productivity software subscriptions, came to $3.01 billion, which was up 43% and down from 52% in the first quarter.

Ah, the old practice of boosting your cloud revenues by adding a different, not relevant "consumer" business (Microsoft used to do this a lot in 2010-2011, and I'm sure they somehow do it now as well). I'm surprised analysts still believe this crap and don't revolt in unison.

I guess "we all have to eat".
> "Tightly binding data and code" allows you to maintain complex invariants via code

Not sure I understand what this means. Could you give an example?
not really considering artists can actually get paid now
If you think that you have an algorithmic shortcut when parsing code, try cramming even a moderate amount of code into a single line with no indentation, and go by the token syntax alone. You will find yourself doing ad hoc parsing: scanning the code for matching tokens to extract what goes with what to reconstruct the tree structure.

Humans don't have a magic algorithmic shortcut. If I give you scrambled word decks of various sizes to sort manually, the best time performance you will be able to show will appear as an N log N curve. Maybe you can instantly sort seven objects just by looking at
them, but not 17.
I never understood the appeal of wireless keyboards. Sure I understand for mobile but for a primary workspace the wire has never bothered me on the keyboard. I mean it just sits there and replacing batteries is a pain. Mouse is a different story since it moves. Is it just mobile or is there some other reason you hate wires on a keyboard?
Huawei somehow becomes the #1 phone manufacturer, thanks to the coronavirus
I know! If we tax them too much, they'll have to... live like 98% of the country already does[1]. That's totally comparable to being killed. Good analogy.

[1] Top 1% of earners are those above $750,000 https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/how-much-incom...
They're nowhere the altitude to do any harm.
A year ago, it would not have been easy for high earners to leave the state.

Now, with working remotely becoming more normal, a lot of people who wanted to leave may now have the opportunity to do so.
OOP is a crazy academic-esque idea that happened to stick because it works at scale. When you have hundreds of programmers working on a codebase, it's useful to constrain people with UML diagrams and rigid hierarchy. Otherwise, cowboy coders hack up something the other 90% of coders can't understand. This is why languages like Scala and Haskell haven't taken off outside of a few small-team-focused niches, like data science.
> When books or pictures in reproduction are thrown on the market cheaply and attain huge sales, this does not affect the nature of the objects in question. But their nature is affected when these objects themselves are changed, rewritten, condensed, digested, reduced to kitsch in reproduction, or in preparation for the movies. This does not mean that culture spreads to the masses, but that culture is being destroyed in order to yield entertainment.

-- Hannah Arendt, "The Crisis in Culture - Its Social and Its Political Significance"
Because they aren’t as open in reality as they sounded when announced.

The advantages of those two (and of ARM) is that there actual Implementations with decades of development behind them, Yes, some technical debt but also many painfully-learned good decisions.

RISC V, which I’m really excited about, you can think of as a PRD (customer’s perspective product requirements document). That’s what an ISA is. Each team builds to meet that using their own iomplemetation, none of which is more than a few years old yet. But the teams incorporate decades of learning , and have largely a blank sheet to start with. I think it will be great....but isn’t yet.
"California's still experiencing a housing shortage"

It is, indeed -- a result of the very policy-making I'm referring to. I'll enthusiastically leave that, the ever-increasing homeless population, the high taxes, and all the rest behind when I leave.
The National Theatre released their production of Amadeus on YouTube for a week a few weeks ago, and I truly wish I could have it for all time. It was a truly special performance by everyone involved.

I know that much of the drama is just that, but the love for the music was clearly there, the performance of every single person on stage was incredible, and they made the orchestra into the chorus, which was very special to see.

As a (somewhat) classically trained musician, it was truly special, and I wish I could watch it again
What you allude to is not really mania or hypomania. It's just having a lot of energy and focus. Manic people have a lot of energy for sure, but it's defined by its harmful consequences. They drive too fast, they sleep too little, they talk too much and keep interrupting people, they have sexual urges that are as strong as they're inappropriate.

Take this older lady I knew of who, when she was stopped by a traffic cop for speeding, was absolutely convinced he was just hitting on her. Seriously. Or that guy I knew personally who squandered his sizable inheritance within just a couple years on ... escorts. I don't know the exact numbers but it was over a million €.

The family I referenced earlier struck me as subclinically hypomanic not because they had lots of energy, but because they approached the limits of harmful behavior.
I prefer the Kanye West model in which every 8 months or so you promise to release an album on a specific date. Then that date comes and you go completely MIA, and pretend you never even announced the album. Then a few weeks later once all the hype has turned to dismay you quietly release the album and the dismay turns back into hype. Maybe that model only works if you're Kanye though.
Fortunately there's a market for stocks.
Why such corporate lobbying isn't illegal?
> The work is being given away so cheaply by tech companies

I disagree with your characterization: The work is being given away by artists, who are welcome to accept the terms that tech companies offer them.

The artists are welcome to reconsider, renegotiate.

> Why should the creators lose by default?

The creators are offered terms by tech companies. They are welcome to turn down those terms, and seek better ones.

If they lack the power to negotiate a better deal, then I suggest forming a negotiating block of some kind.

The tech companies are welcome to think those negotiations are not favorable and not accept the terms.

Or possibly the artists should form their own new tech company (cf. Patreon, Band Camp)

It's not the job of tech companies to provide a living to artists. That's what your characterization implies, and it's just not the case.
I guess we'll just have to put some telescopes on the Moon!
How many of the people in Google’s market would prefer an iPhone but can’t afford one? I suspect some Android users don’t really have a meaningful choice but to allow tracking.
To be fair most news outlets get their news from news aggregators like Reuters. Hardly any news outlet does its own investigation/News
search these days. So what stops Google to do the same and buy its news from a news aggregator instead of showing the Australian
news site links and yet not leaving a space for competitors.
If the buyers that keep pushing the high end of the market higher, are the ones who leave, then the likely result is prices will fall until properties start moving again.

Else how do the realtors get their commissions?
I love my Kinesis Advantage, but there's definitely a learning curve that new users should expect.
Pres. Trump to order Chinese company to sell TikTok U.S. operations
People decide if protest is legal by whether it agrees with their own politics
As a small time musician with about 20 albums in as many years up on the streaming services, I am 100% fine with this trade-off. I get basically nothing, but in return I can share my musically instantly with anyone. It's pretty awesome really. It would suck to have to make a living off music or art.
Unironically agree with this.
If that person hears that they have been forgiven, how do you think that will guide their future actions?

There's a big gap in all the highly psychologized/desocialized talk of forgiveness in this discussion. That is one of its problems.
"Some kids think they know what they want to do after college, but others don’t, so for them college is like buying an expensive insurance policy"

Expensive is an understatement. At the same time, being unsure of what you want to do before college is what makes it a great place to sow the seeds for what you do in life. Funnily enough that happens mostly outside of class through people you meet and projects you work on.

Since the physical aspect of college is in question this upcoming year, I feel that it isn't worth it. You can probably do a lot of school without actually paying tuition, and find new ways to meet people and work on projects.
> You can go to college in most countries in Europe even if you are a 40yo High school dropout for little money compared with US prices (2500€/year).

US has cheap prices too (see: community colleges). Doesn't have the prestige factor of ultra expensive universities, but great if you are looking for education.
The people collectively provide the initial funding when stuff is still too high risk for private investors but they rarely sees any of the upside when it hits explosive growth except in a hand wavy "high tide raises all boats" or "cheaper widgets means more buying power" kind of way. In extreme cases it means we fund technologies that generate wealth that is immediately extracted by foreign entities but even in the best of cases, it creates a moral hazard that is best exemplified by the military industrial complex.

It's a resource allocation efficiency issue, through and through. The government is always going to pick "winners and losers" in high value industries like defense, resource extraction, and aerospace but all of those investments have very rough feedback loops that are disconnected from the decision making process. If government investments/grants came at least with profit/revenue sharing arrangements, there would be a positive feedback loop and an opportunity for the system to evolve and improve even if the net income change after administration overhead is zero or even slightly negative.

Obviously this isn't tenable for basic scientific research but our industries do very little of that anyway, even with government funding available.
Real Challenge When HODLing Bitcoin Will Start When the Price Becomes Parabolic
This sounds like a recipe for redirecting the grudge toward some other external target

I think that's antithetical to the term forgiveness, so I suspect that's not intended by the parent comment(s). In fact, the exact opposite is how I read their comment, that is that you take your grudges toward external targets and let them go.
The reason why the largest telescope observatories are on earth is because it's I feasible to get them into orbit.

And it's not a theoretical problem - there's plenty of people who have already had their work impacted

Software to remove the satellites would be great, given that the satellites are already interfering with astrophotography, can someone point me to the software to remove the starlink satellites from my images?
> Recommendations (e-commerce, advertising, music, etc) have been pretty revolutionized by it.

I'd like to learn more about how they've been revolutionized by it. Any sources you could share?
I'm sure a lot of the accounts of ISIS members and supporters that Twitter banned weren't "relevant" people either. Still happy they're gone from the platform. David Duke did have tens of thousands of followers and was a head of the KKK terrorist group, so he probably wasn't a complete nobody like you suggest. I'm not tied into white supremacist circles to know how much sway he still has there, but good riddance.
Unless I've grossly misunderstood, it seems that the bill would apply only to Google and Facebook right now.
Don't forget the GeForce Partner Program they pushed a while back which required partners to make their gaming brands exclusive to GeForce products. They ended up cancelling it and I bet the reason was due to all the anti-competitive violations the FTC would have slapped on them.
Even when there's not enough data to train on, it might still be possible to generate something in a desired rare style - provided this style is a mixture of several more common styles. Modern generative models are pretty good at interpolating.