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> What’s the strategy for operating systems, compilers, and/or language runtimes to figure out what a RISC-V chip supports?

Same as for x86, Power, ARM, MIPS, systemz, sparc, ... ISAs: there is a flag register that the OS can query to test whether the hardware supports something.

I only know one ISA that works in a completely different way (WebAssembly), by requiring the user to attempt to perform an operation, and if that faults, then the operation is not supported. The reason WASM can do this is because it is a virtual ISA. This approach does not work well for real hardware because it makes instruction decoders larger and slower, since it prevents them from assuming that they will only be fed instructions they do know.
I do think it is something which is greatly variables among individuals. I have felt that I have a dampened sense of anger, that people find it weird/strange that I did not become angry in such and such situations. This could be problematic in some situations including at work, sometimes if you don't have or show anger then your motives can be viewed with suspicion.
Murdoch is the Australian Bezos - except he has way more political clout in a larger area of the world, and has been running his empire for 30+ years. Bezos is building those relationships with his expansions, and he's obviously got more cash to fund them - but Murdoch's empire shouldn't be underestimated.
Vegans are immoral.
I set a custom uBlock filter to be rid of it.
It does seem to be an innate part of our behavior. It's interesting because the interviewee strongly suggests that we forgive others when it no longer makes sense to hold a grudge.

On the other hand, she also recommends that we cultivate that feeling because it often gives no benefit to not move on from the wrong that was visited upon us.
that was definitely not my experience when I bought a macbook air a decade ago. after a year it was unusuably slow, and the insulation at some point flaked off the charger wire. i went with a thinkpad in the same form factor after that (a year later), and I'm still using that today
My concern would be whether people who take the bootcamp or self taught approach would have the grounding in engineering and CS theory that someone with a degree has.

I tend to feel that under-emphasizing these things are why the software industry has so much of a problem with poor designs, low code quality, and missed deadlines.

Maybe it would be possible to create a two year degree that would fill in those gaps.
The baby seal analogy is extreme. But the base point, dont complain people do something bad, when you do it yourself. If you think Amazon is great and unskilled labor doesn't deserve equal rights, that's fine. I can't argue with your personal logic or habits. Youre... true to your ethos? What my real problem is, people walking around without taking responsibility for their own actions and that's become the cool, normal thing to do. It's not their fault they do something they dont agree with, it's the gov fault that they aren't led around correctly. Thus, they want the government to have a heavier and heavier hand in the public's lives. And no, I'm not a libertarian. We need laws and people to lay down the law. But, for example, that doesn't absolve me from doing what I think is morally correct. I think all humans have rights and should be treated fairly in a workplace. I technically dont have to give a shit about any of this. I've been a straight up asshole to protect my own rights in the workplace. I dont need the gov to protect me, mostly because I know how to negotiate and strategically position myself in a work environment. Not everyone has those skills and/or circumstance to do the same. A collar and muzzle needs to be put on some (eh, a lot) managers/businesses to help out people not like me. I get that and agree. But I also refuse to fund and support a company that openly takes advantage of people. They dont even bother hiding it anymore. I dont need help to stand for my own beliefs.

With that, I'm more afraid that because people want the gov to interfere rashly, they're just going to pull a Standard Oil break up. Rockefeller became far richer after the monopoly breakup. Can you imagine the same gaffe happening to Bezos? Amazon gets broken up and in 10 years he'll look back to 2020 and say, "Ah yes, the year I went from being poor to rich."

Or, everyone goes, "yes, i believe in workers rights and refuse to aid a company taking advantage of its employees." Then Amazon must change something when their profits take a hit.

And dont get me wrong, lots of companies are shitheads. Hell, it's part of the world economy that you buy something from abused labor somewhere down the chain. Pretty much all food, clothing, batteries, rare earth minerals... the world is generally a mess and a half. But something like Amazon is far easier to give up than eating food... unless you have a victory garden.

Now, if we can get gov to help break localized telecommunications monopoly control... that'd be great.
I'd add to the disadvantages:

* Cold start time may hurt your latency

* Max timeout which makes serverless a non-option for long-running processes
In the great scheme of things, knowing what Trump (or any other US politician) says to other people is worth relatively little.

Having insider knowledge of what certain billionaires say to whom, though, can be immensely valuable. It might well be that a few of them will lit a fire under FBI and friends. We'll see.
what about making sure the person who did it to you does not profit from it?
It's a great browser, as customizable as you'd expect a spiritual successor to Opera to be. Unfortunately you largely have to take their word when it comes to privacy, but they seem trustworthy enough.
I’m using lattice (line) diagrams to understand intersection concepts like this. They’re easy to generate from cross tables using FCA tools such as the “concepts”
Python available in pip.
Zero Trust != VPN. Zero Trust means that the network is not what determines trust.

Consider this:
* You go to your office, connect to the network
* Now you have access to internal services, by virtue of being on the network

In a Zero Trust network it does not matter what network you are on. Trust is handed out individually, based on the identity/ role of the user and the context of their session (is their os patched? running security tools?).
Imagine if cyanobacteria were as conscious about the change they were about to introduce…
Yes, you're right. I'm being rather over-generous to the UBI case here.
The Spectrum had a different design; there was main memory, and the ULA chip (Uncomitted Logic Array) Would read it or it’s own time and generate the display (it had priority over the CPU as was usual those days of single port memory if you didnt want static like noise).

The sound, and just about everything else, was not mapped to memory but through an I/O address space which the Z80 and 8080 (and 80x86 and even AMD64 still have.

This address space, pins, chip select, etc were all distinct from main memory - unlike the C64 where everything was memory mapped.
I experimented with it's ability to explain why something is nonsensical yesterday, and it did better than I thought it would: https://twitter.com/danielbigham/status/1288853412713508864/...
But then

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question."

-- J S Mill
Ok, I am not paying for reading the news feed on HackerNews. I suppose you aren't paying either. Are both of us HackerNews' products?
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Describe in details, how do you kill the planet.

Spoiler: you cannot. If humans were to set their purpose to kill the planet, they would kill themselves at best, and I am not even so sure of that.
I got a 'Subscribe or turn off your ad blocker' notice, which pretty much amounts to a paywall.
I made an extension to save web pages as eBooks: https://github.com/alexadam/save-as-ebook. You can easily modify it to remove the images (or scale them down) and invoke it automatically on each page visit or refresh.
Yeah, I have built a proof of concept for this, but without GPT-3.

Works well except for the edge cases. Aka not fully automatable yet so I never showed it to anyone.
Disability benefits are means tested by checking if you're disabled, so I think we're talking at cross purposes. Abolishing means testing for that would mean abolishing disability benefits entirely. It'd just be rolled into general welfare or UBI. Is that what you want to see?

What about income tax? Shall we set a single income tax band for everyone? You say no but where's the consistency? Means testing is good when taking money but bad when giving it? Why?

The logic of a strictly egalitarian universal welfare system would also suggest governments be strictly egalitarian in all ways, meaning all taxes would be poll taxes. Everyone treated the same. But nobody is arguing for that, which makes it look like they're not working from a general principle of lower bureaucracy and more equality, just a general love of welfare.
In which we learn that forgiveness is a suitcase word (prone to useless debate as each party uses a different definition)

https://alexvermeer.com/unpacking-suitcase-words/
If only they could encrypt the links! Austria had them beat though, they outlawed it before this one two punch! Google is over!
I guess in this context that's what it means. Giving money out simple based off someone's skin tone doesn't make much sense to me. Don't think America invented slavery.
I think you can torrent the video and they should then also be served from your machine.
>Judging by the number of people who don't show up to class or otherwise just "get by",

I mean, I've heard of this happening a lot in community college, but in my private university I didn't regularly see this behavior, and certainly not in the upper level classes.
I think you'd be hard pressed to find a board or shareholders who think 'support contract for essential component of our infrastructure' is 'unnecessary'.
It's good for Dropbox, since they use Bazel.
>Are both of us HackerNews' products?

At least the product supporter ;)
If they would utilize the green light they would not reflect it - so should exactly not be seen as green by your eyes.
The C128 PLA chip is in essence an ASIC. It's using a PLA design but it's only programmable during the mask creation. Using a PLA logic array is just a very efficient way of achieving the design that they wanted.

I don't think they sold them to other companies, MOS was at this stage fully part of Commodore. Commodore was really big on vertical integration, they didn't like buying components from other companies if they could help it. They even manufactured a few 74xx logic chips sometimes used in their 8-bit computers.
I saw someone on Twitter complaining that this behavior can be confusing since without being aware of it you can create drastically slower code. However, I must say that I find this approach quite pragmatic and neat. In most cases, string concatenation is not going to be a performance issue, and then you never care about these details at all. If you're in a performance-oriented setting you need to be aware of this, but as long as it's well-understood and documented (which it unfortunately doesn't seem to be) then it's quite easy to make it fast.

The big advantage is that there is just a single "string" type. Compare this with Java or Rust where you have separate types for mutable strings (StringBuilder in Java; String in Rust) and immutable strings (String in Java; str in Rust). This is nice both for newcomers (which don't have to learn about all the details about how to optimize concatenation) and if you're just writing code which is never going to be in the hot path anyway.

I understand that in some settings (when you really care about performance) it's good to have an explicit difference between these, but I quite like the reduced complexity.
How do they have no encryption in Australia and yet Google still have offices there? Seems very strange to me, don't even know how it works.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24007807
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think of the money they could have made writing the article 15 years ago, and then selling it with a few word changes and a new title every year.

Is a College Degree Worth It?

College Degrees are no longer worth it!

College Degrees - not worth the paper they're printed on.

A College Degree - what does it really get you?

And so on and so forth.
As far as I know all coniferous (Pinophyta) have waxy coatings, black spruces are a species of Pinophyta so I'd assume they do.

I might be wrong, I'm no botanist.
Someone with enough clout and reach should start a mass movement spanning the world. There will be lots of supporters. Clearly people who create news (and legally should be considered owners of that news) should be compensated by publishers who profit from that news. It will have far reaching social impact. It will provide monetary benefits to people who decide to sell their news stories and also solve the problem of online privacy. Point is sports bodies have long argued that they own the content they create. Why is the same not true for individuals as well? Of course politics will have to be made an exception.
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The article seemed underwhelming to me. TLDR: college doesn't guarantee future happiness (uhm, what does guarantee it?) some kids would be happier just going to work.

That's fair, but while some kids would thrive going to work after college many more would be hampered by a lack of a college education for the rest of their lives.

Probably US specific but, in most schools, education sucks and all good colleges (not just super expensive; state schools, too) offer a solid STEM background to fix the damage after lousy schools. College should not be necessary, but in the US it kind of is.

So to make college optional, fix schools: reduce hours and drudgery, focus on consistent STEM background, give extra support to kids that excel in a subjext. My 2c.
Aha! that is the eternal question.

TL;DR:

almost never. structured logs are expensive in terms of infra, management and query time. Storing logs just in case is much more expensive at any kind of scale compared to metrics alone.

Long answer:

A lot of it depends on what the service/program is meant to be doing.

If we take a proxying webs service router for example listening on example.com/* We would want metrics to tell us how well its doing for its specific job, and any upstream services.

So for each service URL we'd want at least a hit count for 2xx, 3xx, specific 4xx and 5xx return codes. We'd also want the time taken to process that request.

We'd also probably want to know the total number of active connection to back end, and total clients connected. Memory and CPU usage would also be a given.

From that we could easily ascertain the health of upstream services, the performance, and total load (which is useful for autoscaling of either the service router, or the upstream apps)

I think it requires sitting down with a peice of paper and imagining your service/app breaking, and then working back to see how that would look. Once you've done that, you can figure out some counters to keep track of those thins.
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Lower volume (also quality is bottomless hole, I know people that own PVD coating equipment because they find that the kind of finish taht you can buy isn't good enough). I have built myself a couple of Nyquist ortho splits and with my even lower volume I spent even more despite providing the labor and part of the design work.
We can have cookie and eat it to: stop being angry at those who wronged you, just start plotting your revenge :) Treat revenge as just another item on your todo list, just like shopping or dentist visit. Or maybe even outsource your revenge by hiring a lawyer/PI/hitman to enact it.
That's why Macintosh and he was a perfect match, one took pictures the other took windows-es (xerox) ;)
How many truly non-invading species there are if you wind back far enough?
auto translate and location based results in general drive me up the wall. I always go to google.com/ncr because I really hate googling something in English and then getting a ton of German results that are super irrelevant.

On Bing this is somehow even worse, if you do a video search and you have the location setting wrong it just flatout doesn't show 90% of the reuslts for some queries.
Most of those famous people don't manage their own accounts though. Some do, like Musk. That's why I'd consider stealing his DMs to be more dangerous than running a Bitcoin scam - it could easily upset Musk enough that he bugs the FBI to investigate seriously or, more likely, uses his own considerable resources to run an investigation. See how Bezos hired investigators when his data was leaked, and they did get to the bottom of it.

Trump is a bit of a special case because he's POTUS. I'm pretty sure there are no remotely interesting DMs on his account, but if there's one thing the US doesn't like, it's anyone even perceived of messing with national security. An attacker merely logging into Trump's account could be seen as a national security issue, and attract an entirely different level of law enforcement attention.
All those things are fixable by using curves instead of hard thresholding points. A largely USA specific set of incentives problems isn't a general argument for UBI, which claims to be a global solution.

I think there's also a problem with arguing the solution to badly designed welfare systems is a far bigger one. What makes you think it'd be run better? As I point out elsewhere, UBI will still be means tested and still require administration, if only to restrict it to residency in a local jurisdiction.
I used to use Google News to find different articles from different companies whenever a news story interested me. It was good to get often very different points of view.

I now just spend a little time on Apple News+ to skim what is happening. While I am locking myself more into a mono culture just looking at US news, I decided that I needed to greatly decrease the amount of time I spent on the news every day.

The world situation is what it is. I try to accept the world as-is, invest as little time as possible understanding the world and concentrate on my own productivity, fellowship with friends and family, and generally appreciating culture and nature.

News watching is an addiction that too many of my friends have.
> In most cases, string concatenation is not going to be a performance issue, and then you never care about these details at all.

I would have thought if the performance of anything in a language like Python mattered, it'd be how quickly you can build up a text response, like a JSON document or rendered HTML?

In my implementation of Ruby I use immutable ropes for strings - so instead of mutable arrays of characters I have persistent trees of immutable arrays of characters. This makes a massive literal 10x impact on real-world code like template rendering.
My major takeaway from Johnny Mnemonic was the efficacy of cybernetic hacker dolphins, so I can tell this is going to be successful.
Have you stopped to think what YCombinator is getting out of paying the bills to keen this site running?
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There are certainly cases where it can. In a repeating game, revenge can be a useful tool to signal to the other party that their actions were not acceptable and to impose a cost on present and potentially future actions of the same type. That's not to say it's typically a good idea.
By itself, that seems like sunk costs to me - preventing someone else from profiting from a disadvantage they put you at does not necessarily remediate said disadvantage.

But there's certain ways in which it could be "rational" - e.g. preventing them from doing you harm again in the future by scaring them off with your revenge, evening out some sort of competitive position so that you are on the same level again, or if your revenge actually re-balances some material loss you suffered at their hands.
Out of curiousity, where on Earth can you find "an unbiased neutral source of information about politics"?
The article introduces a problem as though the author is a neutral third-party, and that's slimey. I generally enjoy write-ups from companies that explain why they exist. Reading this one felt like being invited over for dinner and then finding out it's a timeshare pitch.
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want published; everything else is public relations.

-- George Orwell (possibly wrongly attributed)
The only reason everything isn't done by robots is a social question of fair allocation?

I'd be fascinated to know what the people working on self driving cars think of that logic. Because the tech is very hard to get right. The problems are not merely sociological.
No love lost between Google and newspapers. Money is gonna from their ads to Google. So have readers.
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>Ask the average person if they'd rather pay to have the paper degree and not have to attend any classes, or get the education for free but not receive any paper credentials. You'll have your answer.

This is an interesting thought, however I don't think it is a good test for whether someone wants to be in college/uni or not. It is reasonable to enjoy the education and be realistic about the value of the paper certificate at the same time.

The overall point about social pressures etc. is well taken though.
>No, it is the coal they burn in Australia

Yeah ok that too then :)
can you provide some examples?
We can perceive the absence of consciousness in others?
You kind of answered the question: revenge does not help the victim. It might feel necessary, but it does not actually help.
I've tested a couple of the popular free ones, and settled on Aegisub. The default keybindings drove me nuts, they're not very ergonomic, but at least you can fix that easily.

.srt is the lowest common denominator for subtitle files, every subtitling program can import and export those. It's a pretty dumb format though, my biggest issue with it is that it doesn't have support for fixed-position left-aligned subtitles, and it doesn't have support for specifying the font. I understand why, it's to make playback much simpler and resolution-independent, which is why every single video player program or hardware device in existence has support for it.

But if you left-align it with a fixed margin, choose a good font, and use white text on black background, your subtitles are going to be so much easier to read.

(Here's a sample of what I prefer: https://skamenglishsubs.tumblr.com/post/188037245260/subtext...)
Really? Why not develop something you can use to stop wasting fossile fuels on trucking stuff around? A rail system using small electrical vehicles instead of diesel would make more sense with an option to move people as well.

Since I live in EU that would only make sense for this to be multinational and therefore probably never get built.
Also it would require our leaders to think about the future and not just about how to get more votes.
Let's gucking get shitlisted. Dang is going to salivate while downngrading your post. Abd mine too.
? It sounds very similar to how we domicile bills from utilities to banks in Italy, you provide the account number a document and of they go.
Most engineering problems aren't up the engineers to invent or propose. What you're describing sound more like product design. A lot of companies face a problem such as "We need a bridge an we have X money for it". The engineering is in meeting spec with those constraints. The great engineering is doing that and not baking in a hidden cost of support, maintenance etc.