skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's really a lot of severely misinformed opinion there.
"Much of the hype of RISC-V is hoping for laptop/desktop/server class silicon."

Really? RISC-V is pitched mostly against the likes of ARM, which seems to be doing fine without laptop/desktop/server class silicon.

Several RISC-V vendors are already shipping Cortex A53/A55 class CPUs, which are used as the LITTLE cores in mobile devices -- and even still the main cores in lower end mobile. Several RISC-V vendors have formally announced A72 (SiFive U84) or A73 (Alibaba C910) class cores. Alibaba is apparently using these internally already, and boards for general sale are expected this year. SiFive's U84 will probably be shipping in around 12 months from now.

ARM is a few steps ahead with A75 and A76, but those are just incremental developments and RISC-V is catching up fast.

It seems the article was written before the HiFive Unmatched was announced -- but I don't think it was written before the U74 CPU cores in the Unmatched were announced in October 2018, so I guess the author either wasn't paying attention, or else don't understand the standard 2 to 2.5 years from announcement of a core to shipping products using an SoC with that core. There is nothing surprising about the HiFive Unmatched.

Was the article also written before Apple announced its switch to ARM64 architecture and their M1 chip?

The M1 uses ARM's 64 bit instruction set, but is far ahead of anything from ARM or its other licencees in performance.

If someone made the same level of investment in a RISC-V core and SoC as in the M1 then that RISC-V product would perform basically the same as the M1. That's a several billion dollar investment. Apple has that kind of money, but the best known RISC-V vendors such as SiFive (total funding to date under $200 million) don't.

That's an economic problem to solve, not a problem with the RISC-V ISA.

Alibaba or Huawei might well make that kind of investment in RISC-V. They are definitely both very interested in it.

The article concludes with the same old links to uninformed people making uninformed criticisms of RISC-V. I don't know who erincandescent is other than having written this rather famous post. Apparent the credibility of the post lies in them being an ARM engineer. Could be. ARM has thousands of engineers.

Here's the opinion of probably THE most important ARM engineer of the 1990s and 2000s, Dave Jaggar who developed the ARM7TDMI, Thumb, Thumb2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6sh097Dk5k

Check at 51:30 where he says "I would Google RISC-V and find out all about it. They've done a fine instruction set, a fine job [...] it's the state of the art now for 32-bit general purpose instruction sets. And it's got the 16-bit compressed stuff. So, yeah, learning about that, you're learning from the best."
My Blackberry Passport has that and it was super cool and useful. It felt great. I miss that keyboard so much.

Blackberry was innovating but nobody cared; tech media loved to mock them and push them down. They lost a marketing war in addition to a product war.
The majority of votes on HN I believe are instinctive - someone liked or didn't like what you said, or the tone or whatever and that's it. Often there isn't much rhyme or reason.

Clearly there are low/high value comments, or flame-wars but generally that's not it.

Apparently, PG himself was fond of voting for disagreement/agreement, but even he I don't think quite has seen the degree of arbitrary voting.

You will notice that people in the moments after your comment are much more likely to hate on it arbitrarily than later on when you might see some upswing.

If you comment on anything even remotely controversial, that even hints at something like Brexit, EU nationalism, Transgender etc. - expect to see a lot of volatility. It's really quite an interesting phenom to see.

Frankly it's pointless to meander about it and after much speculation I would say just don't worry about it - and - don't put too much stock in any kind of 'points system' it really doesn't matter that much at all.

The Oxford vaccine is doing well, the UK is way ahead due to the locality of it all, which is great, because they need the help what with having a considerably higher death reate.

I would recommend you see here [1] for a really good breakdown of vaccination and other COVID data.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
It's all about different kinds of experiences for me. I love certain games that are heavily metrics-based, when that's what I feel like playing. Scoreboards sometimes make those games more fun because you always have a goal to keep chasing after for as long as you want to.

The problem is when every game feels the need to have metrics, even when they fly in the face of the rest of the experience. Sometimes I want something different.
they should only remove illegal content. that's it.

act as a common carrier.
This is why we test. (In this case, header tank helium pressurization and more thermal tiles.)

At least they didn't hit SN10!

Summary tomorrow in this week's Orbital Index (https://orbitalindex.com).
> That's fine, just let me know when you have an alternative.

Here are the alternatives: 1. prosecute the bankers and send those to jail who broke law, instead of just fining those banks a few millions.

2. severely curtail risk taking abilities and bonuses if a bank depends on any explicit or implicit govt guarantees. Implicit benefits include access to cheap fed loans (ZIRPs), QEs, counterparty risks (eg. beneficiaries of AIG bailout) etc.
I'll venture a guess: It doesn't need to. All of the "first-class citizen" packages, which are visible to everyone, were built in the same environment, just like in other distros. Alternative versions should just be held separately.

... but come to think of it - that means that you can't just put your package in /programs/MyApp/12.3.4 - because if you switch your system to that version your dependencies may well break. Hmm.
> There haven't been any studies on vaccines preventing infections

This study has looked at that. From the press release:
"Analyses of PCR positive swabs in UK population suggests vaccine may have substantial effect on transmission of the virus with 67% reduction in positive swabs among those vaccinated"
No one ever went bust by assuming the general population are morons with short attention spans.
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The big difference here is that holding GME isn't like holding BTC. Sure, many people say BTC is a scam or that it'll crash and burn, but holding through dips with BTC has historically been the correct move. I highly doubt holding GME is going to turn out well for anybody, so those losses are more "permanent" than say BTC. But you're right, a lot of people that got "burned" on BTC might not come back, but there's also a lot of people that held and are actually better off for it.
So YouTube is canceling a video about a Dr. who is an expert in the field, attempting to get more of a spotlight on a potential treatment of COVID that is not being used and widely shared.

You actually got part of your summary wrong, he's saying it can prevent the disease from infecting individuals. So it's a preventative drug not an early treatment drug.

He was also saying it's not popular because it's a COTS drug that is widely accepted.

Now, I'm no freaking scientist, but it is FAIR to say that if this guy did his homework, found evidence of this in peer reviewed studies and is trying to present it to congress for further investigation, that is a good thing.

I'm not saying he's correct, but if there is a reasonable about of evidence that it's been overlooked and it would significantly help, then that's something we should at least do more (very urgent) research on.

If instead he's completely bunk, I'd love to see an analysis of further research proving him wrong.

But taking a video down, of a scientist posing a credible, alternative solution to waiting for a vaccine is clearly a shit thing to do.

The best solution would be to allow experts to link to and from each others videos doing a "this is wrong and here's why" style conversation. Taking information away is never a good thing imo.

https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/ivermectin-treat-covid...

EDIT: This does not mean you should go self medicate, that's always an awful idea. Do not give yourself ay drugs that are not over the counter without consulting with a doctor. Seriously, that I have to say that is ridiculous, and I would totally understand if YouTube put something up on the video saying that too.

EDIT 2:
>Our manuscript needs to be reviewed by the NIH, and they need to formulate treatment recommendations, now.

https://dryburgh.com/ivermectin-pierre-kory/

This guy has said some stuff I think is overly political, but for this disease it's worth investigating if it might help prevent infection, even if we just gave it to our front line workers.
Tesla to recall 135,000 U.S. vehicles under pressure from auto safety regulators
I think it's interesting that the section on multilingual crews didn't really touch on creoles or contact languages. An interesting comparison is Pitcairnese, which resulted from mutineers of the Bounty and some Tahitians. In the resulting creole there are features that are sometimes traceable to single crew members with a specific language background.

I think another aspect which is somewhat ignored is that presumably space-faring humans could take libraries of audio and video content with them, which was not an option for Polynesians spreading to new islands. And I think we just don't know much about the actual rate of language change in environments which can include recorded spoken speech. If Chaucer had recorded an audiobook perhaps modern english speakers would be comfortable with middle english.
> He’s calling for real-time settlement which is not practical for equities.

Why not? In most cases share ownership is just a row or two in some database. If you can update those in real time (which you should; a legacy system that doesn't support this can be upgraded, even if at significant cost in implementation and testing), and do instant (or near-instant) funds transfers, you should be able to settle within minutes. Certainly same-day, at least.

Now, I would accept that maybe instant settlement is not desirable. Maybe it's good to be able to reverse fraudulent or illegal trades before money fully changes hands, for example. But that's a different thing.
According to [0]:

> 'T' is the transaction date

If that's an accurate definition, then it's safe to say it would technically mean same day.

Simultaneously, if we want to be technically accurate to a pedantic level, "instant" would be impossible given speed limits of information transmission (speed of light), etc. So "T+0" couldn't mean "instant" in any case.

Maybe some settlements are, in fact, near-instant but I don't think that's implied by "T+0".

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/what-do-t1-t2-and-t...
A straightforward conclusion from that data would be that universities are overwhelmingly conservative, having donated to the more conservative candidate. But really it just shows the futility of discussing things in terms of group affiliations when one of the major parties in the middle of an upheaval.
To be frank, I do not think they feel such a need, I was just trying to get the conversation in the comments started because I feel the need to attract as much attention to this as I personally can.
Which can be a problem when you plug them into the phone - you probably don't want your plug to be more robust than the socket.
For flash memory? No. Once the max lifetime write cycles are reached at best it becomes read-only memory.
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Obviously a variety of thought within "Christians", but I think the main view would be that Zoroastrianism has elements of truth (monotheism, dualism, for example), but not the "fullness of Truth". So, possibly one could consider that a gradient. May seem a little stubborn, but then again most people think their own worldview is best.
No, brokers must front collateral to clearing firms simply because there's no inherent reason to trust any of the firms will have their capital or equity obligations in T+2 days. ACH transfers and margin, although possible reasons why a firm wouldn't have funds, are not the direct reason, which is DTCC requirements.
My father had a pretty impressive hi-fi setup that he gave me years ago. It was mostly mid-late 80s-90s Panasonic equipment that he didn't have room for in the new house. I carried it around for a while, but moving it was a pain and in by the late 00s, hi-fi systems were passe, so I sold it for peanuts to my cousin.

The speakers were nice when new, but after 20 or so years, the rubber around the cones began to deteriorate and the cloth covers frayed and developed runs. Even these M-Audio studio monitors I picked up in around 2005 are starting to have issues with the plug jacks.

I imagine it's worth with headphones ear cushions are usually made from synthetic materials that tend not to wear well. Plus they get moved around a lot and are at risk of getting dropped or crushed. I can't say that I've owned a pair of headphones that received frequent use for more than 15 years.
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Fascinating argument! If I may distill it, it sounds like

Low-cost server software -> more power to server-based systems and companies -> more centralization of data -> less privacy

Expensive server software -> more power to standalone computing and individual users -> more decentralization of data -> more privacy

On a related note, I wonder what would be the threshold at which the cost of servers and software would make social media and ad-tech companies economically unviable, and which would have prevented Facebook, Google, and others from becoming what they've become.
Apple’s updated App Store guidelines clarify positions on recent controversies
Related from 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25838364
I'm not this space but is this like bill.com where users can schedule payments? I'm assuming it is more advanced but don't have experience in this workflow.
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We try hard to buy things that are not wrapped in plastic and yet we still throw away at least a 10l bag of unrecyclable thin plastic every two weeks. Even a new pair of AirPods once a year would pale in comparison to all my other environmental waste.
I still don't get why customer capital can't be used as collateral. Which scenario is this rule protecting the customer from?
How about an unattended online gambling server?
It's hard to believe that someone advocating for the censorship of opposing arguments has any interest in a serious discussion either.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26005872
Was this video just raw testimony without being wrapped in opinion? Was it located on an official US Congress channel? If so then I do agree. If not then I don’t necessarily agree, and it’s not necessarily so cut and dry. This opinion piece doesn’t give any hard information in that regard.
I've been so conditioned by how flawless SpaceX launches have tended to be over the last few years. It's exciting going back to not knowing what will happen during the stream. I'm reminded of the enthusiasm around the early Falcon 9 first-stage landing tests, when folks were attempting to reconstruct individual frames of footage from the first "ocean landings" just to get a small taste of what happened. I'm sure they'll nail this landing before too long.
TL;DR; A company that sells Go consulting services bad mouths JVM JIT while completely ignoring JIT caches and AOT compilers that exist since around 2000.
I dont think your view is naive. I think people read statements like yours naively.

Hedge funds reliably do what they are designed to do, as you say: funnel capital into the hands of people who will dump it back into multinational economic acceleration.

Where I think you and I might disagree is whether that's a good thing.
For those interested in the clinical details the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) has extensive information about ivermectin including links to the the latest research.

https://covid19criticalcare.com/medical-evidence/ivermectin/

It's bizarre and horrifying that YouTube is censoring legitimate scientific debate. Sure it's their platform and they can do what they want, but in this case YouTube is putting public health at risk. COVID-19 care practices are evolving rapidly so what was true last month might be false next month. There's a lot we don't know, and some of what we think we know will eventually turn out to be wrong.
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Same day settlement. Definitely not instant.
I've plotted a graph with these two data points and predict that it will successfully re-light all three engines in only two more tries.
The op-ed is from a US senator who has partnered with Dr Kory to actively promote ivermectin, an anti-parasitic, as a treatment for COVID. The NIH is assessing the drug clinically. The FDA has not recommended it for COVID, though a January 19, 2021 article in The Lancet indicated that it may offer some value if introduced early in the infection in high doses.

However, for the past year, Dr Kory has promoted the use of ivermectin with minimal clinical evidence. It's the overstatement of efficacy in treating COVID, as promoted by Dr Kory, which Google is suppressing as overstated and irresponsible. The Lancet article does not endorse the use of ivermectin to the degree that Dr Kory does (or Sen. Johnson).

Thuis Sen Johnson's claim that Google has "canceled the US Senate" is thus unwarranted, overwrought, and misleading.
Is remote learning causing a mental health crisis among teens and children?
> the overwhelming majority of the applicants are run-of-the-mill (say, "white male")

See, people keep saying this, but when I was in school (in the U.S.) - especially when I was in grad school in the mid 00's - I was the lone white male in a sea of Indians. My teachers were Indian. The TA's were Indian. My classmates were Indian. There was one class where there were two Americans, including me - and the other one was born to Indian immigrants.

And today, all my co-workers are Indian.
I've been using it for almost 3 years on my laptop with no issues. As far as disk-space 50GB is generally enough if you collect the garbage periodically (my workstation is using a bit over 100GB after almost 2 years of running NixOS, but I don't think I've ever done garbage collection on it).
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The op-ed is from a US senator who has partnered with Dr Kory to actively promote ivermectin, an anti-parasitic, as a treatment for COVID. The NIH is assessing the drug clinically. The FDA has not recommended it for COVID, though a January 19, 2021 article in The Lancet indicated that it may offer some value if introduced early in the infection in high doses.

However, for the past year, Dr Kory has promoted the use of ivermectin with minimal clinical evidence. It's the overstatement of efficacy in treating COVID, as promoted by Dr Kory, which Google is suppressing as overstated and irresponsible. The Lancet article does not endorse the use of ivermectin to the degree that Dr Kory does (or Sen. Johnson).

Thus Sen Johnson's claim that Google has "canceled the US Senate" is thus unwarranted, overwrought, and misleading.
Which is why you push back and tell the clearinghouse to make a public statement to that effect.

The CH is faced with two options: One, make the statement and hurt a public reputation they don't care about in the first place. Or they could cut off all trading to RH, which puts RH on the same side of the fight as they have been trying to market themselves as being on from the beginning. Win win.
Yeah, the police are probably corrupt (random URL to back up my hypothesis: [0]), I remember reading a great book about corruption, Thieves of State, discussed here [1], it talks why the police would be defending the system:

> Any highly corrupt society is bound together by a series of interlocking reciprocities: the local policeman who shakes down a passing civilian must in turn pay tribute to his police supervisor, who must pay his supervisor, and so forth; favors or spoils may be distributed in the other direction.

My guess is the cops justify their work like in Stanford prison experiment, and they accept without further thinking what Putin says that the protesters are "foreign agents".

[0] https://nationalpost.com/news/world/cost-of-corruption-in-ru...
[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/corruption-rev...
People say this about tech, too, and I'm in tech and not particularly left by the standards here (I support free enterprise way more than anything else and can easily say X lives are worth less than Y money) and people haven't been dicks to me at all. In fact, people quite like me.

So considering that there's all this wolf-crying about tech, and the warnings about universities sound almost exactly the same, I'm going to go ahead and just assume they're also wolf-crying.
Lots of controlled movements near the range of success. Within a few iterative steps it will be foolproof. That is why they called it SN9 instead of SNFinal. Seems to me that it went as well as planned.
The Stax SR-1 was released in 1960. They are still amazing. I inherited a SR-Lambda (made since 1979) from by dad.