skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little easier, not much easier. A number of organisations are making very wide RISC-V implementations, and one has already published how their decoder works. It's modular, with each block looking at 48 bits of code (the first 16 overlapping with the previous block) and decoding either two 16 bit instructions, or one aligned 32 bit instruction, or one misaligned 32 bit instruction with a following 16 bit instruction, or one misaligned 32 bit instruction followed by an ignored start of another misaligned 32 bit instruction.

You can put as many of these modules side by side as you want. There is a serial dependency between them in that each block has to tell the next block whether its last 16 bits are the start of a misaligned 32 bit instruction or not. That could become an issue with really really wide but for something decoding e.g. 16 bytes at a time (4 to 8 instructions) it's not an issue.

There is a trade-off between a little bit of decoder complexity and a lot of improved code density -- but nowhere near to the same extent as say x86.
You can certainly get a small room of people to agree on what's good for lunch, if the premise is that there's no lunch at all until they agree on what to have. There will be some compromising involved, so not everybody might get the dish that is their first choice, but the more important thing is that nobody gets something that they hate.

That aside, consensus always has a particular domain of applicability, and by decentralizing, you make that domain smaller - and thus make consensus easier. Federation can be used to replicate this process on as many layers as needed for decentralized organization of larger societies.
> Take that logic and apply it to crypto and hopefully that'll help you understand why crypto enthusiasts believe in it.

That's exactly the point of the article: You need some form of guardrail, and that has to be centralized.

> Crypto folks just think that a crypto foundation is better than the current foundation of our financial systems.

How so? I am not under the impression that current financial providers have significant issues in consistently exchanging numbers...
I don't see how that follows. Declarative build configuration is very good and Rust needs to lean harder in that direction and minimize the use of build.rs.
New housing or old home sales are the only way to raise money for a city like Oakland. So many houses are subsidized by prop 13 that the revenue per capita is much lower here than SF which also includes a county.
I don't think it is debatable. Users should have control over their own computers.
The abstract doesn't say too much about their methods and actual results, and the paper itself is behind a paywall. Was this published freely somewhere else perhaps?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29420965
Shifted indexed addressing is needed more seldom, but indexed addressing, i.e. register + register, is needed in every loop that accesses memory.

There are 2 ways of programming a loop that addresses memory with a minimum of instructions.

One way, which is preferable e.g. on Intel/AMD, is to reuse the loop counter as the index into the data structure that is accessed, so each load/store needs a base register + index register addressing, which is missing in RISC-V.

The second way, which is preferable e.g. on POWER and which is also available on ARM, is to use an addressing mode with auto-update, where the offset used in loads or stores is added into the base register. This is also missing in RISC-V.

Because none of the 2 methods works in RISC-V with a minimum number of instructions, like in all other CPUs, all such loops, which are very frequent, need pairs of instructions in RISC-V, corresponding to single instructions in the other CPUs.
> to believe, and in fact believe that there is an imminent threat of death or great bodily harm.

Which any reasonable person in that situation would have believed, with the information available to them at the time.

Had Rittenhouse dropped his gun, he would not have been an imminent threat to the crowd. But he did not. For all anybody on the scene knew, he would start shooting again, as soon as he had a chance to.

Disarming him was one way to remove that imminent threat of death and great bodily harm, which Huber tried to do. Killing him would have been another, which Grosskreutz considered, but did not try to do.
Note that German infrastructure is at its limits in terms of how many tests can be done or whether the health office can track down the people a known covid case has been in contact with. Due to the sheer size of the wave, the percentage of unknown covid cases has increased.

source (German): https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/rki-zahlen-corona-125.html

But yes, there is a strong west/east and north/south gradient in terms of incidence.
What about the creator who has a wife and family and passes away a day after publication in an accident?

Sure, that example is a bit constructed and imo the death+50 years or 100 years are way too long, but I see value a) in the fact that artists need some time to finance their work and b) that some degree of inheritance is good.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/lina-khans-bat...

A rather long read but it’s starting to make sense .
> Things are better than ever for all progressive issues.

Except for economic inequality and the climate.

More poor have been lifted out of poverty, but even so the gap between the richest and poorest is growing. That's a problem not just because it means the poorest could be doing even better than they are, but because inequality is itself a massively destabilizing force that undermines trust and weakens the social fabric.

Our air and water is OK to consume, and the amount of forest cover in Western countries is currently alright. But the diversity and density of natural life, especially animal life, is plummeting. We are living in a Silent Spring right now but it snuck up so fast most of us didn't notice. I remember how loud the outdoors were when I saw a children. Insects buzzing, frogs croaking, fish splashing, rodents rustling. When I go into the woods these days, it looks mostly the same, but it's so much quieter.
I agree that everybody should get vaccinated. Let's make this virus extinct.

But what you describe is majoritarianism. It is a form of democracy but a very weak form. For a lot of people, who are from minority groups, it is indistinguishable from totalitarianism.

Why do 30% of people refuse to get vaccinated? (here in Aotearoa it is 5%). Something is happening, people are getting left behind, in vast numbers. Forcing them to comply is probably a cure worse than the disease - even a disease like COVID
It seems extremely unlikely that the UK will allow this deal anyway so it is somewhat moot what the FTC does.

The original ARM sale to Softbank was made while everybody was distracted by Brexit, and is regarded as somewhat of an embarrassment. However Softbank appears to have played themselves because any attempt to sell ARM to a non-British owner will likely be denied as politically unacceptable.
Seems he passed just recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justo_Gallego_Mart%C3%ADnez
That is an exhilarating yet bewildering yet funny read. I’m not sure it’s enough to make me check Bloomberg repeatedly, however I’m shocked at how hip postmodern and stuff they went here. I suppose it’s just op-Ed and they can afford a little silliness now and again, probably by running the opposite of this piece, whatever the hello that would be, an elephant toaster mug singing fígaro?
Because your refusal to wear a seatbelt presents no risk to others. But vaccine refusal does present a risk. So the stakes of the game are not the same.
Can you show evidence of this?

There has never been a good open ARM processor for mobile computing ever, the Jetson is the best open one while the Apple chips and M1 is the technically best one.
Vaccines do reduce spread.

While vaccinated people who get infected still spread the virus, they’re less likely to get infected in the first place, which is a necessary precursor to spreading.
Did you read the full article? It sounds like you are misrepresenting the quote.

It’s apparently industry standard to have the cinemas set their volume to value 7. The sound engineers then prepare the soundtrack with the expectation it will be set to 7.
This particular theatre was set to 5.5 (perhaps to compensate for a previous movie that didn’t follow the standard and was mixed “too loud”), and hence the movie was significantly more quiet than the sound engineer intended.
I agree that walkability is bad. IMO, it should be 0-100 based on the minutes to walk to a grocery store with the score being minutes it takes to walk to a grocery store. The lower the better.
Let me be clear: no place that has not put these measures in place has, or will, experience "complete failure" of their healthcare system. What you stated is a false dichotomy.
#6. limit foreign (even other states) residential real estate investments. (exception maybe for high density ones)
I sense a disturbance in the force..
No, because at the end of the day, we're not going to literally let them die on the sidewalk outside the hospital just because they can't pay.

That means that somebody has to pay for them. Given that unavoidable but inconvenient fact, basic health care and life support might as well be organized under the auspices of the state and the costs shared among all residents.
As far as I know vaccinated people (like myself) can also spread the virus, the vaccination helps only your immune system to combat the disease. So don't blame the unvaccinated for this. But I'm with you in the medical care part, vaccinated people should get priority. But they won't...
There is nothing interesting or crazy about my statement. Microsoft sells software and services and has done so for the past 35 years. They started getting interested in people data recently but it is not their CORE business. How is this controversial?
How impressive that number is rather depends on how many GHz they're managing. In general the slower you design your clock to clock, the faster you can make all your caches. Plus the slower you clock your core, designed in or not, the lower the number of clock cycles it takes to talk to main memory.
They did loudly proclaim 100% efficacy against infection when vaccines were firstly introduced. Like many other such proclamations that turned out to be wildly incorrect. No surprise people learned to discredit all such claims and their sources.
One thing that bothers me: RISC-V seems to use up a lot of the available instruction set space with "HINT" instructions that nobody has (yet) found a use for. Is it anticipated that all of the available HINTs will actually be used, or is the hope that the compressed version of the instruction set will avoid the wasted space?
This may be based on this technology from Qualcomm [1, 2]. The first article talks about privacy too.

A similar thing is mentioned in [3]: "In response to a question about the ethics of an always-on camera, Asghar noted that Qualcomm attempts to “make sure that the data that is there stays on the device.” Any images captured by the camera will be kept on the device itself. “As you know, these are capabilities that add to experiences…and [we want] to make sure that we have solutions that are abiding by all the privacy parameters and everything,” Asghar added."

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/03/29/243161/qualcomm-...

[2] https://rebootingcomputing.ieee.org/images/files/pdf/iccv-20...

[3] https://www.pcworld.com/article/556345/qualcomms-next-snapdr...
The only way to reduce the dependency on cars is to build units w/o parking and then raise money to improve transit.
> If I get work done early, I now just call it a day. Why bother with ad-hoc testing, documentation, checking in on that new hire, proposing a conference paper, investigating technical debt, etc.

Office workers can have this attitude as well. If you'd think poorly of others having this attitude in the office perhaps you should look at your own attitude with remote work.

I have formed bonds through remote work, and yes, they are different, but a lot of the difference you describe is because of you. That's ok, people are different, just don't assume everyone else is the same.
If 70% of people have a tattoo of a cross the remaining 30% have to get it because of the "democratic process"?

In Florida the summer outbreak stopped by itself and the hospital capacity did not break down completely. The outbreak will stop by itself in Germany, too. But of course Germans need to dramatize everything ...
I am spreading propaganda by mentioning a fictional book I read, which made me think of potential security vulnerabilities? Things like a LAN Turtle exist, and have probably existed long before most people were aware of them.
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Investigations show pathophysiological alterations from Covid vaccines
The C extension is that, an extension. A RISC-V core with the C extension should still support the long encoding as well. There is no 16-bit variant specified, only 32, 64 and 128.

There is an E version of the ISA with a reduced register set, but this is a separate thing.
Intuitively I would encode the rules of the game, then the program would let you perform N moves (where N is hardcoded in the circuit, or is a public input but then the circuit must allow for N or more moves) and check at the end that there's a checkmate.
Re-read what was written. He is saying exactly that the RISCV code size is larger, but to see it you need the right tool used the right way to actually look at the code, not debug info, constant sections, etc.
Sec: you need to be a certified investor to invest in PE and hedge funds because they risky.

Also SEC: yolo volatility you buy from a team of phds at citadel if you want.
I recommend rob pike's talk on Go concurrency patterns.
> absolutely not a single convincing reason why shots should not be mandatory.

what if you are wrong?
Soviet Russia actually had to reintroduce markets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy) to dig itself out of the economic hole caused by the hyper-centralized planning of "military communism".
>Innovators/Inventors are driven by their needs, not by other people's complaints.

A need is the solution to a complaint, no?
> The vaccines were never proven to reduce virus spread, were they? I mean, the clinical trials were about reducing susceptibility, not infectivity.

Populations where people are less likely to get infected are less likely to spread. You have to be infected before you can spread.
Is more housing really the answer? I keep thinking of induced demand increasing traffic on the roads, and I wonder whether California would just have more people consume the additional housing. Instead of increasing the supply, perhaps addressing the demand is the only way out.
Advent of Go Profiling: Day 1-1
It's a valid one. Engineering teams work with AWS kinda in the same way mass market 90s C code was written. They get it running, but boy are there huge leaks and crashes hiding in plain sight.

From that perspective, I think it might be ok to say that most eng folk complaining about AWS billing need a safer language (higher level abstraction) where they are protected from causing harm or being harmed.
Here's the thing.

If we're talking about a material object, there would be a more or less clear distinction between "what it is", "how it's made", "how it's used", etc.

If we're talking about software, I don't think that's the case any more.
My biggest pain point with big monitor tiling setups is nested/incompatible windowing/tiling management.

for example i often use Pop Shell, VSCode, tmux and firefox. So now I have many different layers of windows -

Pop Shell
- Desktop/Monitor 1
- Firefox
- tab1
- tab2
- Terminal
- tmux
- pane1
- pane2
- VSCode
- tab1
- tab2
- splitleft
- splitright
- Desktop/Monitor 2

All of these layers are different keybinds and windowing systems with no smooth integration. Pop Shell has one way of stacking windows into tabs, tmux has another, firefox has another. Ideally i want one set of keybinds that can seamlessly let me search for a firefox tab or an open editor tab, or move a tmux pane into a terminal window into a stacked pop shell window. Like one set of controls and UI for all the windowing. Currently i think we all are juggling multiple nested paradigms and sets of shortcuts for no good reason (besides it being hard to implement)

Does anyone have a nice solution for that?
Any ARM hardware that isn’t? Jetson was way more open compared to all other ARM hardware I know of.
Wow both those numbers are lower than here in Canada.
It's not too surprising. Load, store, move, add, subtract, shift, branch, jump. These are definitely the most common instructions used.

Put it side-by-side with Thumb and it also looks pretty similar (thumb has a multiply instruction IIRC).

Put it side-by-side with short x86 instructions accounting for the outdated ones and the list is pretty similar (down to having 8 registers).

All in all, when old and new instruction sets are taking the same approach, you can be reasonably sure it's not the absolute worst choice.
Then you surely can link such an announcement?
The difference is that the load on hospitals will be far lower, which means better care for people that are hospitalized for covid, and people who need to be in the hospitals for other reasons.
text data bss dec hex filename
311218 2284 36 313538 4c8c2 arm-linux-gnueabihf/libgmp.so.10
374878 4328 56 379262 5c97e riscv64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10
480289 4624 56 484969 76669 aarch64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10
511604 4720 72 516396 7e12c x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10

Strange, that's not what I see.
Its the worst of times, its the best of times. The digital revolution (or whatever this is) has degenerated into a bizarre mix of speculative frenzy, unprecedented concentration of control on a background of complete disregard for societal impact. Phoneyness and false representations abound - there are no repercussions. The "market" applauds.

Its time to go back to the roots of computing. Reinvent what the digital age means. Imbue it with soul and values in an inalienable way. 100% human-centric. Augmenting human ability, augmenting human society. There is enormous value in that. Not manufactured Ponzi value. Real value. Improving our lot. Solving the real problems of sustainability, persistent inequality, debilitating ignorance and suffering.

If you have talent now is the time to change the world. You know its not utopic because you have seen the extreme leverage of the digital toolkit.
> Yet I don't think that precludes the possibility of pre-loading information and injecting it at runtime.

Can you explain?
So uh, maybe we decide that life doesn’t need to be permanently centered around Covid and just move on?

And realistically that is what society will do. Move on. There are infinitely more problems in the world than just Covid. Solving for exactly Covid to the exclusion of literally everything else is complete madness. Any rational person will tell you that. Life is to short to maintain a Covid centric lifestyle… life is meant to be lived.

Oh yeah, and we’ve been wringing our hands about hospital capacity for 2 years now. Perhaps we should ask why there isn’t any effort at all into increasing it? Forcing society to do all these restrictions to “protect hospitals” while doing fuck all to increase capacity is also madness… perhaps hospitals are actually just fine? If they were actually “full” why has nothing been done to address the problem? This is an emergency, right?
Since when do Nvidia and ARM compete?
I'm aware of the reason for the black bars. The point is that the captions that are not part of the video stream (I believe on DVDs they are not) can be presented below the video if that space exists and the user desires.
Note that it's true for any cryptographic algorithm.
You cannot make this virus extinct. These vaccines do not accomplish this goal, the end.
No, it's not totalitarian.

In Germany we have a constitution that protects all human's right equally. If there's good reasons why you can't receive a vaccination, I'm pretty sure nobody can force you. Not even the state. Go to your doctor to get an attest that exempts you from the mandatory vaccination. Nothing easier than that in Germany.

And again: You are just speculating. Nobody knows if a vaccine mandate leaves people behind it tropes. You cannot know it, because it hasn't happened.

I'd rather make decisions based on facts than just speculating about hypotheticals.
The crux of the issue is that there is a cutoff point somewhere, where lives saved outstrips the burden to the individual, but we cannot agree on a cutoff point because it involves a variety of subjective value judgements. We probably agree that there are cases where the value of individual freedom is more important than the lives saved (e.g. most people would be against banning sugar in soda pop), and that there are cases where lives saved is more important than individual freedoms (e.g. most people would be in favor of banning cyanide in soda pop).

Then there are cases where there is a pretty healthy debate, e.g. "should sarsaparilla be banned in soda pop?" Sarsaparilla, the traditional flavor of root beer, contains safrole, which has been shown to be highly carcinogenic in mice, which is why the FDA recently banned it. But if you ask the people who are against the ban, they might give you a variety of reasons you don't expect, which is a good exercise because there are some decent analogues to the anti-mask argument, even if it's not a perfect analogy obviously:

* the evidence that it's harmful is humans is somewhat debatable (anti-mask-mandate people might argue about the quality of the evidence that wearing masks reduces deaths)

* other foods like nutmeg contain safrole but aren't banned (anti-mask-mandate people might argue that restrictions are arbitrary and thus may have an ulterior motive)

* sarsaparilla has a quality that some people prefer to the non-toxic alternatives for subjective reasons such as the taste (anti-mask-mandate people might say that they subjectively prefer not wearing masks, e.g. because they find them uncomfortable or inconvenient)

* sarsaparilla farmers may be impacted particularly heavily even if most people are not (anti-mask-mandate people might suggest that while most people, even themselves, are not heavily burdened by wearing masks, it might more seriously burden a smaller minority of people [1])

* people with certain moral/ethical/religious/political beliefs might be fundamentally against the idea of a government forcing such a ban on the population, or even the government having the authority in the first place to impose such a ban, even if they agreed with the rationale and personally stopped drinking sarsaparilla soda (the anti-mask-mandate argument is roughly identical of course)

Hopefully the analogy isn't too out-there. I'm still ambivalent personally on mask mandates myself to be clear, for a combination of some of the arguments above.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417296/
The rest of the piece is so much fun too.

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