skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that a "pure" 8 bit processor, one with 8 bit data and 8 bit addresses, can't do much either. That is why there were so few of them (like the Kenbak-1) and most 8 bit processor were a hybrid design with a wider address like 16 or (very rarely) 24 bits.

You could have a hybrid 4 bit processor too. In fact, unless just 16 nibbles gets the job done you pretty much have to use a larger address. Applications where binary coded decimal math is more interesting than regular binary, such as calculators, can be a good use for a 4 bit processor. This was the original application of the 4004, for example. And Intel ads always talked about fuel pumps.
I'm very torn. I'd believe that there are powers that be at Wikipedia that might do this. I also would believe that a total crank was making this up.
People Mean Two Different Things by “MVP”
...neither of those attacks you gave are unique to smartphones. Someone can leak personal information through any number of other channels - for instance, entering someone else's personal information into a website that send out emails for a group party invitation.

> Expecting them to not just click past the "scary sign", and so condition to do it again and again, so they can play Fortnite is a level of lack of understanding that borders on incredible.

That's not an excuse. This is bad behavior. It doesn't matter if it's common, or expected - it's wrong, and their responsibility for correcting - not Apple's, and especially not at the freedom of other users who have nothing to do with these idiots. If this behavior is normal, then we need to make it not normal, not continue to compensate for their ineptitude. Fix problems, don't avoid them.
They clearly tried to have this spear-regulate the ride-sharing guys without hitting anyone else but the policy is totally an "adding epicycles" style approach which is why they had to add more epicycles to exempt all those myriad occupations rather randomly.
I think your parent paints a rather extreme picture. The two examples they picked, Wiehre and Herdern, are the upscale neighborhoods with plenty of mansions, and there's rather only one area with large concrete housing blocks (Weingarten). As usual, you pay a premium for the top locations but in terms of quality of living and "greenness" there are many other good spots.
Yeah I just type the zip in to each ISP I find in that area (another fun search).. it sucks. You eventually get rate limited and it will make you constantly change addresses, so just incognito mode it. Some of the ISPs will have the distribution maps but when you're looking at something not in a suburb you're kind of at the behest of the city or a recent neighbor having built out the infra in my experience (which is mostly south/texas/pnw). SOMETIMES theres a local WIFI provider.. I haven't gone that route I'm not sure the investment or quality there. I have done a lot of satellite, BGAN internet etc. I think now everybody is just giving up and waiting on 5G.

This is the muni fiber map https://muninetworks.org/communitymap

I really wish Trulia or one of them had some way to tie into ISPs and tell us whats there.

This improved my house search a LOT; Get the Clickup (no relation) extension and create a space to send your zillow/trulia/mls links to directly, there is a template for apartment searches [1] you can edit it and put in your own fields - it basically grabs a snapshot of different keys and you can add columns and rows and start to quickly grab house listings then filter with your own database. It's stupid simple, like airtable, you can probably use that too. I added ISP sections, stars, comments.. All the real estate apps are terrible for critiquing en masse.

I never got around to checking if the ISPs have apis you can interface with..

I'm going to NEXT year try the mountain thing again.

[1]: https://clickup.com/teams/personal

edit: Wow this link is looking positive, I didnt realize there were so many 500Mbps+ connections https://broadbandnow.com/fastest-cities

edit2: Oh, another stupid ISP tip, the business ends will usually be WAY more lenient if you open your wallet. If you cant get X cable, try to get X cable biz they'll happily run a line down a pole for a new $200/mo customer, I've done it in desperation. You don't need to be an actual biz, just tell them youre hackernewsman LLC and they'll sign you up if they can.
> Or the lack of sources in Windows.

What's released as Darwin and XNU often is several years behind what Apple is currently shipping if they choose to release parts of the source at all. The stuff that actually matters on macOS isn't open source.
That's a good question, if it's a pre-IPO, how did they get shares? Are you just buying/selling paper versions of the stock and they'll buy your shares an IPO goes live?
How do you think a review process works? It's not instant. When you try to process the payment, the OFAC check fails, and it's flagged for manual review. Only option is to show the user an error
Maybe not? But I've seen people here get mad at other employees for not disclosing, so I do it to be on the safe side.
It's decent from an economic standpoint, but it's still environmentally wasteful, and among people buying a $300 laptop, there's probably a decent number who would have a difficult time paying to replace it. Also, the actual hardware of laptops hasn't changed that quickly in a long time, and when compared to Windows (which runs on basically anything), and macOS (which officially runs on 7-8 year old devices, and can be patched to run on older ones), the ChromeOS update policy looks kind of silly to me. I'm writing this comment on a non-Chromebook laptop that was purchased in 2015 and still works perfectly fine; it's crazy to me that I would no longer be able to use it because of an arbitrary limit on software updates.
I also love this attitude but I disagree about this negative effect you're talking about in reusing problems.

What happens in practice is the interviewer compares candidates answers to each other, not to his/her own way of solving it. It doesn't matter what whether the solution is "obvious" to the interviewer. If I hired someone who only did OK on this question and they ended up being a great engineer (and that happened multiple times) that lowers the bar for the test (or tells me it's not a very good test etc)
Sure, if you only care about America. But people in other countries read books too.

Here's the best selling book in Germany:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45006237-das-geschenk
I don't see much point in it. I've proposed this change to C in front of several audiences, and it never received any traction. If you want to experiment with it, you can use DasBetterC, i.e. running the D compiler with the `-betterC` switch, which enables programs to be built requiring only the C Standard Library.

Fair warning - once you get accustomed to DasBetterC, you're not likely to want to go back to C :-)
You are not wrong

"Nvidia has been the single worst company we have ever delt with so Nvidia F_ck You!" -- Linus Torvalds [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw&t=86
Your post only goes to point out how arbitrary rating systems are since everyone brings their own ideas into the system of what ratings mean.

What you really want is some personal bookkeeping which doesn't make sense for the 5-star system. You'd want tags or the private note textarea to scribble down your arbitrary personal rating system.

Frankly I think more ratings are just worse. You're pitching 10 or 20 different options instead of 5.
Neat! If I'm reading the repository right, it looks like the avionics firmware ran on a TMS570 Cortex-R microcontroller made by TI:

https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Category:TMS570

I'm pleasantly surprised to see that instead of a big Cortex-A or x86/64 chip. It's cool to read well-funded code for a small realtime SoC.

you don't see them too often outside of things like memory controllers and safety-critical products, but Cortex-R chips can have some cool features like ECC memories and mirrored CPUs:

https://developer.arm.com/ip-products/processors/cortex-r/co...

Apparently the next generation Cortex-R82s will also have 64-bit options with an MMU, which should make it easy to run a "real" OS.

Too bad that the company didn't work out, but it was nice of them to publish this stuff.
PGP is a giant blob of byzantine implementation details and layers of accrued crust that people call a standard by convention and out of inertia.
Using the Monte Carlo Tree Search Algorithm in an AI to Beat 2048
> If the green party gets elected all of a sudden, everyone will smell a rat.

Of course, but that's not the most likely failure mode.
> Legislation should be crafted by experienced experts.

Ideally, the legislators themselves won't be experts, but they'll consult their experts and advisors to come to the best - or least worst - solution.

Given that crappy politics can happen with and without term limits, I get suspicious when anyone claims enacting or removing limits would solve problems.
I mean it in the sense of starting new development of a major new project with it. Of course, C will be around a very long time, like COBOL and FORTRAN.
I investigated the story by reading newspaper articles and government documents. I'd like to forget this ever happened, but also would like to serve as a (anonymous internet) warning. Heed it or not, up to you. I don't want to link to the paper trail and wake up any dormant monsters. The "random objects" I also don't describe, in case the objects ring a bell to someone. But you can imagine a door handle or a travel bottle of shampoo.

If you want specifics, I suppose I could mail you those. I fully agree that the account sounds fantastical and psychotic, but it is what I was comfortable sharing. I also think it is a smart tactic if you wanted to discredit someone. I never told anyone close to me either and completely submitted after the article was deleted.
That's definitely a factor, but seems surmountable with a modest amount of training for the proctors. You also want to watch out for proctors that have an unusually high/low pass rate. You might go as far as being strict with them about what hints are permissible, and/or audio recording the whole session to see what hints they had (and also to impartially evaluate soft questions).

I would say it's still an improvement over leaving the whole thing up to the whims it the interviewer.
The people advocating dense inner-city housing for everyone don't plan to make it a choice. They know better than the rest of us, you see.
It's hit and miss.

Sometimes it's very decent. Most of the time my discover weekly playlist contains 95% of music I find plain bad.
I find a lot of the lines that come out of ride-sharing companies just absurd:

> A Lyft spokeswoman said: “If the legislature had done its job and made policy that actually protected drivers, the ballot initiative wouldn’t have been necessary.”

This reads like "if you twisted our arm in a way we would have preferred (in approximately 0 preferred ways), then we wouldn't be pulling out our political spin machine against you to continue exploiting drivers."

Comedians and yoga studios should not be caught in this crossfire at all, but it's clear that these ride-sharing companies are acting in extremely bad will, and the system lets them get away with it.
I can't read the article (paywall), but I can say that two of my friends who drove for Uber don't anymore, and they say it's because it's too hard to make money.

I'd like every job to have a living wage.
Also note that term limits have their own second- and third-order effects: the lobbying firms on K Street and whatever the equivalent is in Sacramento/your state are able to recruit from a pipeline of lame duck and soon-to-be lame duck legislators. The influence peddling hasn't stopped, it has merely moved into the periphery, which is more opaque and even less accountable to the people than the government is today. And any law enacted to prohibit such arrangements (and have teeth) would very likely run afoul of the First Amendment.
A thing that happens to me is that, even though the problem is not hard, the interviewer attitude puts me off. More often than not the interviewers are arrogant and act like they don’t want to be there - and the make sure I am aware of that. That is enough to make me get things wrong and fail.
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I dunno, it might be interesting to have conferences where Einstein, Newton, Hawking, and others were in attendance at the same time.
Also an account less than an hour old. GP's post would be a great example for a critical thinking class.
Interesting. Does anyone ever fail this part of the interview?
>Arguably, guerilla warfare has given defense an edge again. It's a defense based on hiding and disappearing into the general population, but a defense nevertheless.

Guerilla warfare has a different purpose than total war and it should not be compared. Guerilla warfare basically happened in the american revolution.
An A press is an A press. You can't say it's only a half.
Holy cow, thank you for pointing this out and, well, building it in the first place. For me at least this is immediately looking better than Goodreads, which I've always kind of used begrudgingly.
Huh. Not great... but credit where credit is due, some of those are much better than I expected.
> They clearly tried to have this spear-regulate the ride-sharing guys without hitting anyone else

No, they didn't. It's true that a big point of AB5 was to limit the reach of the rule from the California Supreme Court decision in Dynamex which it codified by also adding a bunch of exceptions, but it was very (explicitly) not intended to be limited to ride-sharing; codifying Dynamex with additional exceptions instead of legislatively reversing it was because the legislature felt that classifying vulnerable workers as contractors was leading to abuses in an expanding range of fields, not just ride-sharing (or even just app-based gig-work.)
Because it is weird to force people to do things that they don't want to if it doesn't harm another person. In this instance, forcing a vote can actually harm others if someone votes randomly.

The idea behind freedom is not absolute freedom. It is a balance of the contract with society vs individual freedom. You want to maximize individual freedom, but for everyone (not a singular person). Clearly things like the "freedom" to murder someone doesn't outweigh that person's individual freedom to live and thus we make laws (and ways to enforce them). Mandating voting decreases individual freedom and has a potential for reduced societal freedom (while little to no real potential for increase. Much prone to populist candidates). So why mandate? Don't solve problems that aren't problems. If someone doesn't want to vote, how does that harm you?
I don't see a mistake here, certainly not a "biggest mistake".

This is C, not C++. Keep it simple.

Here, the idea is that there is no special type for "pointer+size" (what the author proposes as an array). Ok, let's add one and see the implications.

- How do I get the size, the number of elements? A "sizeof" like operator?

- Can I resize the array? If yes, how? If no, why?

- What happens if I overflow? Undefined behavior?

- A memcpy-like would be an obvious function to implement, what happens if sizes differ?

- What is the relationship between static arrays (ex: int a[5]) and "pointer+size" arrays? Are these completely different types? Is there an implicit cast between the two?

- About casting, how can I go from a separate pointer and size to an array and vice versa? If it is possible at all.

- What if I do a bit of pointer magic to access the internal representation of the array? Probably undefined behavior.

It is much more complex than "just add array[..]", I expect more tradeoffs, more undefined behaviors (C wouldn't be C without them). Adding complexity to the language can actually make things worse.

As for zero-terminated strings, they have advantages and drawbacks. They are preferred by the C library, but you can do pointer+size if you want by using mem* instead of str* , or %.*s instead of %s in printf (not sure about this one).
I don't agree. It's more energy efficient and less environmentally destructive for you (or I) to walk everywhere we need to get to and yet here we are with bicycles, cars, airplanes, etc.
SoftBank really really needs that money
You might not have "Customers"

$100 is a barrier to entry for someone who is distributing software that they give away for free. It's not a high-bar but it's still a bar. If that software would otherwise work except for the fact you didn't pay Apple, it's kind of shitty.
I think "deforming accident" is a lot easier than some might realize. I personally have had an injury that probably changed the shape of my face, and it wasn't super note-worthy. Especially if someone gets something like a broken jaw, you can look almost unrecognizable.
> If you want "informed voters" then you actually have to work to have an informed populace

Yes, and the solution to this is not mandating that they vote. If they are uninformed forcing them to vote doesn't cause them to be informed. It makes the system more vulnerable to populism.
There are a lot of things where that adage doesn't work.

Risking losing an important account due to TOS violations is one.

Also, you don't see a lot of people in jail saying that.
Ok, but do any of them take seriously the idea that it doesn't exist at all? It was my impression that even theories that try to modify gravity in ways that also explain stuff like the CMB spectrum sort of end up inventing dark matter anyway (IIRC TeVeS was the big one like that).
Fascinating story but one that begs to have the other side heard.
Large M&A have always been a mixed bag of success. Large ones have failed spectacularly in the past so not an unreasonable expectation

In this case the ROI does not depend on nvidia able to leverage ARM in their portfolio, even if they stopped developing ARM now , the licensing alone is worth a lot, while they hope to do more than that they don't have to.

IP can be extremely valuable in a merger like this ,
Google bought motorola and Microsoft bought nokia for largely IP reasons at 15B and 8 B
I made no secret about using a throwaway.
> the lobbying firms on K Street and whatever the equivalent is in Sacramento/your state are able to recruit from a pipeline of lame duck and soon-to-be lame duck legislators.

Sure, they could, but those that aren't playing the term limit shuffle between different positions aren't building up either durable connections or deep knowledge that would be useful to lobbying firms, and the ones that are doing the shuffle aren't any more of a pipeline than legislators in a non-term-limited scheme (career unelected staffers, on the other hand, flow freely back and forth between legislative and lobbying work, and unlike fly-by-night legislators do have both durable connections and deep knowledge.)
Former Makanite, and current abc employee here. Happy to answer questions.
I don't know how you reach that conclusion without pre-existing bias against the ride-sharing companies.

The legislature is absolutely to blame for comedians and yoga studios getting caught in the crossfire. They are the ones that passed the regulation.
ok but make them retire at 65. before mental decline really kicks in
you give 'em an arm, they take a leg. after ARM, what else is in their portfolio that's not a flop like WeWork, Theranos, etc? It wouldn't be surprising to find SoftBank needing to sell other appendages too
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You can already invest in pre-IPO companies, at least indirectly. Some holdings offer exposure to them, but you won't get to be very picky.
> While long-term this might end up being great for RISC-V, it's going to cause a huge fracture in software stacks at the exact WORST time. Finally we're starting seeing huge convergence on ARM in Mobile/Desktop/Server space. One ISA to rule them all! Nope, now Nvidia is going to destroy that progress and set everything back another 5+ years.

As someone who is not that well versed in hardware, can someone explain to me why it would be good to converge towards ARM? Why there is disdain for x86?
Yeah, we use a tool like this. I agree it would be crazy to ask someone to code by voice over the phone, I assumed it was given that we were using a tool that let them write and share code.
I don't remember it being all that cutthroat tbh. 3dfx was arguably the only game in down and ATi was it's whipping boy. Matrox was over in the corner saying "look nah two monitors at once!"

3dfx stumbled right as nVidia dropped the GeForce and blew everything away.

ATi became nVidia's whipping boy and Matrox just added the ability to drive more monitors.

I mean aside from not knowing if Matrox is still around, not much has changed from what I can see.
> Genre(s): Fantasy
All? No. Some if not most? Yes.

There are many cases to be made against minimum wage laws and anti-compete laws.

A laws designed to affect everyone but instead has hundreds of exemptions carved out has no place existing.
Not entirely true. The actual autopilot (the controller + estimator) runs on an imx6. The tms570 are the sensor / actuator nodes.

Edit: just to add some detail. The autopilot and aio (avionics io, i.e. the tmd570s) communicate over a ring ethernet topology.
I would think that Amazon with Look Inside The Book and Kindle eBooks has enough data to do this, if anyone can?
When did you work at Facebook? Things used to be bad, but improved greatly after Eden was introduced around 2018. Eden is a FUSE filesystem which uses hg as the backing store.

(I also worked at Google but not the google3 monorepo - instead I got emerge, which was misery.)
For others, this is the Dynamex case that started this off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamex_Operations_West,_Inc._...
At first I was inclined to agree with the parent comment, but your counter-argument is something I didn't consider. While there is unquestionably a role for government in consumer and child protection, to what degree should the government be able to limit freedom for safety. I personally believe freedom includes the freedom to be stupid so long as it doesn't hurt anybody else however others would disagree.
I have a couple of Thinkpad T60 laptops, I think they were made in 2006 or 2007. Perhaps surprisingly, they are perfectly usable for many tasks. The obvious big exception is the "modern" web, but that can actually be a benefit when you want to put in some focused time and avoid distractions. Coincidentally, a lot of my best work in the recent past has been done on one of these antiques or one of my only-slightly-newer Thinkpads.

It's pretty amazing if you consider what it would be like using a 13 or 14 year old computer in 2006-7.
Hyperbole does not make for a valid argument and this is what the laws supporters seem to always resort to. Throwing up absurd requests that those with an opposing view are not requesting.

No, no one is asking to throw out worker protections. You would think this site would be free of such shit but at times this place is worse than reddit

That California further manipulated the law at the last moment to excuse certain professions over others should be a red flag to how politically targeted this originally was.

That taxi drivers are not protected by the law because cities and counties can choose to not apply it should be a big hint here.

love the cry babies that were offended, but HN is no better than reddit and the amounts of hyperbole here is astounding
Watchman is gone!
I'm really glad that video became a meme (probably because of the completely unnecessary argument about what a half-A press is) because it got me interested in how a lot of these old games work. The engineering that went into optimizing them is incredible and it's a shame that newer games typically don't bother as much.