skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instruction fusion is the magical rescue invoked by all those who believe that the RISC-V ISA is well designed.

Instruction fusion has no effect on code size, but only on execution speed.

For example RISC-V has combined compare-and-branch instructions, while the Intel/AMD ISA does not have such instructions, but all Intel & AMD CPUs fuse the compare and branch instruction pairs.

So there is no speed difference, but the separate compare and branch instructions of Intel/AMD remain longer at 5 bytes, instead of the 4 bytes of RISC-V.

Unfortunately for RISC-V, this is the only example favorable for it, because for a large number of ARM or Intel/AMD instructions RISC-V needs a pair of instructions or even more instructions.

Fusing instructions will not help RISC-V with the code density, but it is the only way available for RISC-V to match the speed of other CPUs.

Even if instruction fusion can enable an adequate speed, implementing such decoders is more expensive than implementing decoders for an ISA that does not need instruction fusion for the same performance
never seen that, so no idea. you should probably email dang too for "is this a bug" questions.
But it's not the only option. Another option is a bigger screen with bigger fonts. And that's a lot easier to adjust to than glasses. I know because I tried glasses first and then went to a bigger monitor.
This is the worst site I've ever visited. By far. It is acutely annoying. Like if I had to design something to frustrate a person, this would be the platonic ideal.
The U.S. dictating to the poor backwards nations of the asian pacific will go over well.

More likely, a company setup by the family member of several U.S. politicians will receive funds from the U.S. government to aid in "transitioning" these economies to a post-plastics world. None of which will be effective and largely be like the Clinton Foundation in Haiti.

The reality is that reducing crude oil to gasoline production will remove the ability to produce plastics. As plastics become more expensive, different materials will be utilized.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7757913/cherry-blossoms-high-park...

> During a news conference at Toronto city hall Wednesday afternoon, Mayor John Tory said the three main concentrations of cherry blossoms at High Park would be fenced off to “discourage” people from gathering.

to be fair the park closures might not have been as general as I made it sound in my original comment but there were definitely some degree of closure of parks in addition to general sentiment of people being afraid to even go outside

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/horseshoe-resort-ski-...

> Ontario ski resorts were closed for seven weeks from Christmas Day 2020 through to February of this year. Ontario was the only jurisdiction in North America to close its slopes, according to the Canadian Ski Council. The province had said the closures were needed out of an abundance of caution and at a time when cases were soaring and vaccines were new.
School children in Austria are tested three times a week, so the numbers can't be compared to other age groups.
Still less severe than long covid, sorry.
> Cloudflare (owned in part by Google)

Please elaborate. Is there a special relationship between Cloudflare and Google?
Having an LTS model is good. But when you had a single release line, it's double the cost. It's more complicated to ship patches and test/ci got harder.

So we should maybe cut them some slack for a while to bed this in.
> Everything I stated is factual, and I insinuated nothing else.

You left a pretty important bit out. Lying by omission is still lying.

> human beings have a fundamental right to not be forced into medical treatment

Thought experiment: If SARS-CoV-2 were as transmissible as it is currently, but 50% fatal, would you still hold that position?

Do human beings perhaps also have a right to life and a certain level of protection from others who might do them harm?
I think people also have an inflated recollection of how good Google actually was back in 2005.

Back then Google was only going up against indexes and link-rings, not 2021 Google/Bing/DDG/etc.
Walking through the local ikea in Northern Europe ....

That's different. Last time I bought some stuff from Ikea (in Australia), it was marked "Made in China"
Are there any vaccines that are actually 100% sterilizing?
So, how meaningful is the "projected score of 11+ SPECInt2006/GHz" as claimed here: https://www.sifive.com/press/sifive-raises-risc-v-performanc... ?
What I mean is a regression of wealth and income relative to the cost of living for most young people (ie pretty much anyone who doesn't work in tech or other STEM field). I don't mean relative to the most wealthy.

Here is some data that compares the median income to the rising cost of living in the US.
https://www.businessinsider.com/america-middle-class-living-...

I think the Bezos-Ferrari question is a good one. I feel it is personally unethical for Bezos to spend that amount of wealth on luxuries when the resources could alternatively be spent reducing the suffering of others.

However I also think it is impractical and misguided for a state to enact policies with the primary purpose of minimizing the number of Bezos Ferraris or to automatically attribute the lack of cars per capital to Bezos's excess of cars (although in some cases it might be)
Yes, very different. Starting in the 90's Norway started transitioning from large crowded buildings with long corridors to more home based care and other approaches that seek to keep people out of settings that look like nursing homes. In southern Europe more people live with family when they're old. This is common in lots of Asia as well. In the US it varies a lot regionally and by income.
Picking a side project to help your coding interviews
We're lucky where no- or very shallow- dependencies for our backend services are possible.

I hear from collegues it's different world on f/e.

It's true there are tons of poor quality libraries - both in pure js and ts. We try to avoid this transitive dependency explosion nonsense alltogether.

Even well known libraries like lodash, which are not typescript first – are simply too dynamic. If ts doesn't offer precise types on functions – we avoid those.

From our experience it looks like it pays off well to put an extra effort to guarantee that static types are correct and precise – no dependencies or trimmed to absolute minimum, rely on ts first code (usually ours), no dynamic fiddling that can't be expressed in ts, no any, no pretending via casting/non-null assertions, parsing/runtime-assertions on io-boundaries etc. Together with other techniques like branded types typescript can enter critial systems in enterprices – areas where js would never be allowed to exist. As you say it requires discipline – but I wouldn't call it "a lot", not in our case at least, the effort/benefit ratio is no-brainer in our case and at the end – it's honestly very pleasant language to work with.
Regression testing with production traffic at Mixpanel
+ a €49 setup fee.

I've never really understood Hetzner's offering, I can get paying €2.4 for a quick one off or a once a month build but I don't get how €98 + €49 per additional month is better than buying a Mac Mini on a payment plan.
Mind over Milkshake: How Your Thoughts Fool Your Stomach
Isn't this exactly what measuring excess mortality is for? But it's not reported anymore since there is none, and media has instead shifted to infection rate.

If you were old and had little time left, and had a compromised immune system that made any slight infection possibly lethal, and you had the choice to close down society to lower your risk of infection, would you do it?
The machine itself would ideally not be a black box, so Bob could verify that the machine places 3 identical cards
Unfortunately, it seems that, at least for gmp, the shared objects balloon in comparison to all other architectures. It is about three times bigger (6000 instead of 2000kB): https://packages.debian.org/sid/libgmp-dev. I am hopeful that this may improve with extensions, though I know little about the details.
Ask HN: What field should I bet my career on Enterprise, ML/AI or Blockchain?
Hey HN,

I'm shortly finishing up my studies and I wanted to chose a field to deepen my knowledge in.
This way I can hopefully become really competent.

I've worked in Enterprise as a intern for a comparably long time, but I'm having doubts if it is the right choice. (Maybe not so fun, moves slowly)

Machine Learning and Crypto seem in comparison really interesting fields but they may not pan out. (higher risk)

That's why I'm looking for the opinion of more veteran players on how they made their decisions in the younger years and if you have any advice.

Thanks in advance :)
what is the difference? isn't a complaint essentially just stating that you have a problem
TbDEX
We have very different ideas about what this thread of discussion was about!
Pulumi's biggest benefit is if you want to manage resources outside of AWS.
There are providers for Azure, GCP, GitHub, Postgres, Datadog, etc.

It's also nice if you want to be able to manage resources in multiple AWS regions or accounts from a single stack.
Yes! The ability to hover over parts of the DOM and grab screenshots is a big upgrade from the built-in OS functionality on Mac and Linux, since it removes the fiddling I normally have to do to grab the optimal region. I don't use Windows, so I'm not sure about the comparison there.
Is this the same as enclosing the terms in quotes and using the !g bang?
It's actually cheaper if you already have access to cheap broadband such as fibre internet where the GB can be as little as 10 cent/gb. But if you're reselling the telco bandwidth then it doesn't make sense
I get a ton of questions on this topic, so I figured I'd write up my advice!
Because there will be a time where for every 1+% that USD inflates, bitcoin won’t.
What is this obsession with limiting comparison of Sweden with "other scandanavian countries"? Is there some sort of special risk factor that only applies to scandanavia? Does COVID know what people look like? Why not compare stats of major metro areas with other similar metro areas in the world?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_in_public_domain#Entering...
I think mask mandates and ratcheting up the pressure to get vaccinated is a far better use of the "restriction budget" than full lockdowns on the entire population, yes. Lockdowns on people who aren't yet vaccinated by choice seem pretty great to me.
Having car infrastructure paid for by the users is a much more fiscally responsible way to account for the cost of that infrastructure. If the option of building parking was left up to the developer, they would have to weigh whether the income from parking spaces would be greater than the income for residences. At a certain point, people will try to go from a 2 car household to 1 to save money, or go carless. The city shouldn't mandate how many people should have available parking, it makes more sense for the market to decide and allow people to have some flexibility if they so desire.

Making a requirement will just incentivize more people to drive and the costs will be baked in whether they do have a car or not, so they might as well get a car.
I'll be slightly contrarian here... the Go concurrency model is not the panacea and channels are overused. It works brilliantly for certain types of usecases (straightforward producer consumer usecases). But unfortunately in the early years of the language there was so dogma pushing people to solely lean on channels and actively avoid traditional concurrency primitives like mutexes and condition variables. Some of that dogma still exists although nowadays "channels are a shotgun that can hurt you" opinion is starting to be more prevalent in the community.

I have seen Go code that twists and contorts itself to solely use channels when straightforward mutexes would have made the code easier to understand and reason about.

Libraries like this and channels should only be seen as another tool to consider when writing concurrent software rather than treating them like the panacea for concurrent software.
We've seen a couple of these that have gone through to the strategic partership/investor where they are using a customer to front the capital as a form of risk-sharing.
My question is what changed now as we all knew the potential anti-competitive practices that could emanate from such a merger. Why did they wait so long?
PyTorch for Time-Series Using Pandas as Deep Learning
What exactly do those studies compare? How countries without lockdown coped in the same wave?

Lockdowns were called because hospitals were at capacity and immediate risk of failing to keep up service - as is currently again the case e.g in Germany.

Remember, the first lockdowns in Europe were mandated after hospitals in Italy were forced to conduct triage. (The "who do I have to let die" kind of triage)

Why did that not happen in whatever control groups the studies were looking at?
There are entire consulting businesses based on the idea of helping people understand their AWS bill.

But I'm not sure what the tradeoff is. They have a lot of services with a lot of options. The pricing is designed to meet everyone's needs.
Advertising clearly wont "go die in a fire", no matter how frictionless the payments are. There was a conversation on hacker news just a few days ago about 'smart' TVs all getting ads, spying on the user, etc.

This is an example where people do have a way to pay for TVs (no need for microtransactions, TVs cost hundreds of dollars already!). But the TV makers have decided they can make more money by adding Ads, so why would they not?

This happened with cable TV too. You pay for the TV already, as a subscription even, why do you also get Ads? Because the cable company gets more money.

Can companies live while just charging for their services? absolutely. Will a lot of companies try to add additional revenue flows anyways? Also yes. In theory a company could compete on a 'no ads' platform. In practice, industry after industry realizes that they can just make more money at the turn of a switch. DeFi doesn't fix that. The advertisers are still going to come calling with their checkbooks.

I grant that DeFi does have some potential for micropayments that are hard with traditional finance. That could help make some blogs and small things ad free. But my point is that making payments has not at all stopped ads from invading every other industry. TV ads are not because your purchase had too much finance overhead. The advertisers will still be there, checkbook in hand.
Beyond Nine to Five: Is Working To Excess Bad for Health?
Order out, take home?
Sort of eating out.
At least you are not cooking.
:)
A lot of that can be attributed to a relatively huge early spike in deaths at nursing homes.

Rightly, Sweden decided it was a bad idea to do go about business as usual at nursing homes. After this, their relative difference to other Scandinavian countries is much smaller.
Yes, we are aware. There is more ideology behind this case than just guns, for most people. My perspective: There has been an increase in violent rioting and looting across the country. The city governments are largely complicit in this and refuse to stop it from happening. The police are restricted by the city governments from performing their duty as public defenders. This unlawful behavior — and I don't just mean rioting, but also simple crimes like shoplifting distinct from any protest; cities such as Seattle have declined to prosecute all such crimes for a long while now — has become so ubiquitous as to be obviously trending toward ruination of communities. In brief, small business has already started to leave these areas, and large businesses are shuttering as well. They simply cannot remain open in the face of unchecked crime.

Now, when the state fails to uphold its obligations and the social contract is broken, what happens is that people either flee the area, or they turn to vigilantism. Doing nothing is a privilege few can afford. The people living in these communities do not want to flee. They have tried calling the police, but the police do not come. They have tried voting, but it doesn't work. They hear of another impending riot. They decide to defend their community. This is the setting of the Rittenhouse saga, and many other such sagas soon to come. Yes, it is a 'weird' situation in a first world country, but it is not weird at all in the annals of history. The case resonates emotionally about more than guns — he is either a hero who stood up when no one else would to stop this madness and defended himself from the violent hordes, or he is an instigator who inserted himself into a lawful anti-racism event and joyfully gunned down the peaceful protesters.
That’s why you don’t make it a hard dependency and let people curate their own list of taste makers. They can share and exchange info about who good taste makers are and good one might even charge for access to exclusive flavors.
I think it actually took quite a while for outdoor safety to be firmly established. Canada was meanwhile having a very hard time sourcing medical supplies (and eventually also vaccines), meaning there was fear that a real blowup could be much worse than in the US.
SystemD and the Gnome file picker don't look so bad now, do they?

At least Pottering isn't trying to extort loans from me when I start/stop a service.
Was on a call ahead of the RISC-V Summit last night where the topic came up.

Not to name drop but here's what David Patterson had to say (he's vice chair of RISC-V BoD among other things).

"One of brilliant features of RISC-v is modularity. Everyone wants an ecosystem that is adaptable but runs standard software. Defining profiles and platforms is the next thing on their slate. Binary compatibility is not the overwhelming thing in the SoC world that it was with microprocessors. Flexibility is one of the various attractive features of RISC-V."

The idea with profiles is that you create groupings of modules aimed at a specific use case.

So, yes, there needs to be some balancing of flexibility and compatibility/interoperability and there are concerns around this. (One of the processor analysts brought this up.) But people are aware and thinking about it.
Yep… “There’s nothing we can do” is just flatly unacceptable to the majority of the population. That’s when religion gets invented to create rituals to ward away evil.
Sounds like the Doors may slip through.
Oh, I missed that part, now its clear.
One is the rate in the total population, the other is the vaccination rate for the 18+ part of the population.

The numbers in the Netherlands are similar but both a bit lower.
> When people claiming to suffer from long covid are tested for antibodies, a substantial portion of them are revealed to have never had covid in the first place.

Source?
I did. He told me that I just have the normal symptoms of getting old. I miss my 20s when I could read tiny text on a 19inch screen (CRT). Now I magnify everything, 250% really messages with a lot of websites, but at least I can read. (I'm writing this on a pinebook pro, so the screen is not large to begin with)
You can take the seat belt off when the car ride is over. Also if you are caught without one you get a small fine, but you don't lose your job and the ability to participate in society.
"We found meaningful ways of disincentivizing X".

Take that logic and apply it to crypto and hopefully that'll help you understand why crypto enthusiasts believe in it.

The fact is that we can and do find ways around flaws in a system. Crypto folks just think that a crypto foundation is better than the current foundation of our financial systems.
U.S. Federal Trade Commission Sues to Block Nvidia's Planned Arm Acquisition
Well if the result didn't appear in the first 5-10 pages, it's probably not in the index.

You can see it with other search engines. I challenge you to come up with a Google query for which a first-page result won't be seen within the first 10 pages of Bing results for the same query.

(Bonus points if that result is relevant).

There's only so much tweaking that personalization and other heuristic can do.

But if something is missing from them index, that's it.
I think there is a class action law suit waiting to happen to be honest, it's clearly deliberate and everyone who has set up AWS personally is being charged $2-5 per month for services that are still running but they cannot find.

As long as Jeff gets richer.
We were also told if we got the shot we would be done with it. Now we need boosters, potentially indefinitely.
is softbank (ARM owner) in need of cash?
It was myopic cargo-culting since day one. I used to think that over the years I'd gotten smarter and subtler from my initial libertarian leanings, but this has opened up my eyes on how bad authorities can mess up, and more worryingly convince their people they're doing the right thing.
That's not what I said. I just said that the rate more like 2x higher in Sweden when considering population - but I was incorrectly reading the case-fatality rate. The actual mortality rate is much worse in Sweden.

The GP was comparing raw mortality counts, which isn't meaningful without dividing by population.

The difference in mortality rates is complex, but public policy around masking and gathering in groups has a significant effect. Sweden's relatively lax restrictions probably play a big role in their higher mortality rates and case fatality rates
Yeah because people who get severe covid are immune compromised, and that means they get are at high risk for severe illness/death from any infection, not just covid. And remember that most people who "die from covid" are old and frail and more or less at end of life. Median age for covid deaths in germany is 85.
The ARMv8-M profile is Thumb-only, so on ARM microcontroller platforms there is no switching at all, and it does do everything, or at least everything you might want to do on a microcontroller, and has of course gotten a very large amount of use, considering how widely deployed those cores are.
The greatest works of past times are "shitty fan works". In the eras before copyright, people were taking each other's works all the time, and improving upon it.
None of this is true. The vaccination rate in Denmark is 77%, not 90% [1]. The number of hospital admissions and the death rate are lower than during the first and second waves [2, 3] despite a significantly larger infection rate [4].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-people-fully-vaccin...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

[4] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
For generalised signed addition, the overhead is 3 instructions per addition. It can be one in specific contexts where more is known about the operands (e.g. addition of immediates).

It’s always 1 in x64/ARM64 as they have built-in support for overflow.
> That sounds problematic for general public Alice and clever trickster Bob scenarios, which I suspect would be a common use case.

The general public isn't involved in constructing the proofs, just as they don't manually engage in cryptographic exchanges of any kind. Absent cryptographic expertise, the general public is forced to delegate their trust to cryptographic experts, whose code they execute when making exchanges with tricksters.
And some other people call it delusion, hubris, flawed epistemology, ironic, etc.
Would you support a comprehensive healthcare opt-out, where an unvaccinated person would forego right to treatment, and also not have to pay taxes for public healthcare?
If I was working for Qualcomm... I would say that the FTC suing right now is almost maliciously late.

Edit: So much so, that I would almost start my defense with claiming that the FTC's charges are in bad-faith.
Oh wow, everybody else is debating the specific intricacies of the design decisions, and I'm here wondering why you would complain about not enough instructions in an architecture with "RISC" in the name.