skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Compilers have had many years of work put into generating optimal instruction sequences for POWER. That is all flushed away moving to RISC-V.

Well, to an extent. If one looks at GCC at least (presumably LLVM as well, although I don't follow it as much), POWER-specific patches seem to amount to enabling and optimizing the latest POWER server CPU's. I can't offhand actually recall much if any work on other POWER CPU's. So all that work won't really benefit an embedded POWER core. And further, which core would that be? I haven't seen anything new in the embedded POWER market for a very long time, but maybe I'm missing something? You're certainly not going to put a POWER10 on a space probe and call it a day.

So if NASA was really wedded to POWER, would they have to foot the bill to develop a new POWER core, and maintain the compiler backend for that one? Sounds a lot more expensive than picking an existing core developed by someone else, and compiler backend maintenance done by someone else as well, and rad-hardening it.

> Momentary "vitality of the ecosystem" just seems like a poor basis to choose the underpinnings for decades of future work.

Well, AFAICS it's not momentary but terminal decline. Now of course it might be that RISC-V dies away as well after the current excitement, but at least to me that looks much less likely than POWER reversing its fortunes in the embedded market.

As to why not ARM then, I'm not sure. Might have to do with such government contracts requiring working with US companies, and both Microchip and SiFive are US, whereas ARM is British/Japanese?

> But we seem to do that every time.

Sure. I do think that if IBM had done the OpenPOWER thing 15 years ago and put serious money behind it, POWER could have been a worthy competitor to ARM in the embedded market, and RISC-V might never have seen the light of day. But, they didn't, and here we are.
Then you need to ask the principal if you can now please use the teachers toilets.. Or start teaching the kids not to be gross little bastards, but that's probably a lost cause ;)
I have often wondered if the concept of encoding politeness/formalism at language level was common in other cultures outside Indian subcontinent. Interesting to see this confirmed.

In southern Indian languages, a similar differentiation of formal/informal exists. In northern/eastern languages things are even more nuanced because three levels of politeness exist. This sometimes results in some very awkward scenarios when someone from south is erroneously interpreted as being impolite even when they themselves think they are being polite (I am from a place in north which is frequented by many pilgrims from south).

In the north, esp. in business contexts a dialect of Hindi is getting popular which eschews these levels of formalisms and blends idioms to be closer to English.
Let's Encrypt played a tremendously important part in furthering HTTPS everywhere.

One might argue that it was the right idea at the right time, and someone else would have come along and done the same thing.

But I can easily see us still being stuck with expensive and cumbersome to provision certificate systems.
Corner offices are where individual motivations go to die.
Previous discussion 4 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32700066
> I recently read that Marseilles is a prison of rival drug cartels.

You've read rubbish. Marseille has gang issues in some neighborhood but it's not a « prison ». It's certainly paying the price for poor urbanism in the 50s, though. But things are generally improving.
Critical Importance of Data Visualization
It's not a discount.
It's a special account that forces you to have 4TB minimum which used to be 1TB, so it's not cheap just to have a small amount of data. In that case, better to just spin up your $5 instance and put zfs on it.
Self sacrifice by emptying the fridge of soda might be someone who cares deeply about his colleagues' health.
Despite its anti-speculative emission, Grin still has more demand than all but 25 PoW coins [1] and a G1-mini ASIC miner costs as little as $289. Since 1 miner does about 1.2G/s the overall graph rate of 8830 G/s suggests about 7360 of these have been bought.

[1] https://www.f2pool.com/coins
Primary one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32700066

Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32735749

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32743643

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32699011

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32698836

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32698748

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32714862
When people you don't know come to you to force themselves into your business and push for a vision that is not yours, and you are wondering if you are weirdo for not wanting them to do so? I would say you are very normal.

Money is not everything and if the time come when you have a vision that requires capital and you know what you want to do with this extra cash, then you will know where to look, but don't feel bad for willing to be in charge of your business.
> It probably won't last forever, but it's simple and it feels authentic.

(Inexperienced armchair take:) it's more likely to last 'forever' (which I take to mean 'to retirement'/'as long as you want it to'/etc.) than taking investment/being acquired. Sure that could lead to lasting 'forever' on a bigger scale (as a more stable bigger company, or a longer 'forever'), but at a much lower probability.

I don't think you're weird - I'd love to be in your shoes in this regard. Can't say for sure I'd have the stomach to turn down cash offers of course, but the VC route has never been a dream/had the appeal for me it obviously does to many. I think perhaps because I'm not so interested in 'having a successful company' for its own sake, I wouldn't want to have to 'pivot' for example, I'd rather build something I care about, and the business side would be just doing the best I could to support that; maybe that would be a large cash injection in exchange for equity, but you don't mention any massive expensive changes you want/need to make. (That sounds pretty stupid and obvious when I write it out, but it's definitely a lot more of a traditional approach than taken by most that would use the term 'startup', or really the vast majority of new software/genuine tech companies.)
It’s a waste of time for me to evaluate something whose cost definitely won’t be approved. $25M revenue doesn’t mean a company is actually profitable yet.
It is blogspam. The OG article on this subject would be much more interesting.
Storage Box only has European presence. (Finland and Germany)
After getting an offer letter, ask if you can come over and have one last chat with the dev team. If the hiring manager says no, walk away.
It helps that Carmack is a talented coder too.
I don't like this take. On one hand I feel naive for thinking we don't have to play prisoner's dilemma. On the other, this feels depressingly fatalistic.

Not saying it's wrong. It just feels bad.
The Korean system is famously complex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_speech_levels
Actual human lives depend on software development. Hospitals, Airports, Airplanes, missiles, satellites. If any of these are attacked via supply chain lives will be lost and countries could even collapse if the attack was severe enough.
Can be accessed with:

julia --lisp
If you don't need their snapshotting, there's borg discount if you search for it.

I just found out that now you need to pay annually for this.

Their deals are simply getting worse and worse.
They reject apps for being too simple so meeting technical requirements is clearly not enough.
Looooooots of red flags for my current employer, when I see your canaries posted here. :-D
Sure, it will only get better not worse.

But for know, the stunning stuff tends to be fantasy, sci-fi, impressionistic. Photos of people that are not a portrait are pretty often anatomically impossible. Getting hands, arms and stuff right seems quite difficult for these networks.

Funny enough, I've seen underwater pictures that to me looked quite believable, but to they expert are ridiculous. Lot's of impossible stuff going on. Human brains are ready to fill in a lot of detail.
Yeah but 'user consent' don't make using assets legal.
I've often wondered this -- why isn't it normal for consumer systems to support more RAM? I built a PC with 256GB DDR4 in 2016 for working with large pointclouds, but most motherboards I looked at only supported 64GB max, and the situation doesn't seem to have changed in the last 6 years. I guess it's because the emphasis with RAM has been on improving speed rather than volume.
Americans seems to be enamored with credit unions, when I went to one to look into it, they told me they don’t do international wires and that only big banks do it (I didn’t go check at other unions).
Pure bullshit, I was top 1% in school and I was born in December
How so? Aren't they the most significant contributor by far?
Linux for Cheri RISC-V
Who says we have to use transistors? Moore's Law says nothing about transistors.
I lived in a city where Little Free Library system worked really well. There were library boxes all over the city. You take a book and you leave a book. Or bring it back next time. Or put it in the different box. There were people who scavanged those libraries for books they could sell, but overall the system worked well. There was always something random to take and read, something you'd normally not read, but because it was there and it was free I read many books I otherwise wouldn't have.
IPFS is built to work reasonably well with ephemeral connections. Sure, not everyone is interested in serving content but for those who are it seems to be a reasonable choice.
The dollar has risen vs almost every other currency. The DXY is back to 2003 levels. Bitcoin fell from $67k
to $18.8k.

Where have you been the last few months?
Also cakeml.
They do snapshotting on your behalf, so all you need to do is rsync.

Also bandwidth is free in and out which is far better than some pricey ones.
The fact that they closed his account frankly sounds like the outcome of an AML review.

Banks are deputized by the government to check for all sorts of suspicious transaction. They get fined when their procedures are not sufficiently stringent. They're not allowed to tip you as to why your account is being suspended or closed.

At any moment, any bank can lock your account for months without informing you of anything. It's unfortunately the power we decided to give them to prevent money laundering.
Some banks try and entice people with nice offers (£100 cash, free overdraft for months etc). To get the offer, you need to start paying your salary into the account and use it for bill payments.

Without the deal, there's no restrictions.
Kids usually can't even get 1 credit card in the US. Any tips?
Why would it matter who produces them? They would be bought where it's cheapest to buy them, that doesn't necessary mean they lack the ability to produce them domestically if needed. Russia's military expenditure adjusted for purchasing power is far more than any individual country in the EU indeed it's more than all the great powers of the EU combined. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/roiw.12536

Russia's air force pilots would be getting more combat experience compared to French pilots whose only would are less active in doing strikes in Africa and the Middle East. This applies to their armed forces in general in comparison to EU armies. I would agree their electronic warfare has been lackluster so far in Ukraine and that sanctions will continue to cause problems but in the long term I am not so sure their effect would be so great if Russia was planning years ahead. Also I would mention there's lots of Russian sympathizers in the EU and the increased amount of espionage that would occur beforehand, it would likely be a lot more brazen than it currently is. I can't find the source right now but recently I read some military commentators talking about how Russia has a much higher industrial capacity than the US currently has too. I would assume this applies to the EU. Even if they lack lots of high tech stuff they can still mass produce more lower tech fighters and so on.

I would be very cautious underestimating Russia's military ability just because of the fuck up in Ukraine. At the start people were calling it the end of the tank in the modern military too but now more wiser heads are prevailing.
Except when someone wants to drill a hole to hang a painting. You can hear that multiple floors up or down. I live in a 30 story building and the drilling noise in a real nuisance.
If its hard to find out the owner of the company, cause everyone could be it.

People who are self-secure, are empowered to solve problems on there own, do not get bogged down in useless hierarchys, can be easily mistaken for the boss of the shop.
Hydrogen is pretty neat as a storage medium. It's easier to store a few terawatthours in gas than in batteries.
all the psych degree people I know work in HR

I would figure that the whole point of getting a psychology degree (as opposed to taking some psychology courses as part of your main degree) is to work as a psychologist? Why are all these people failing to get their psychologist qualifications?

Where I live, I've never met or heard of anyone who went for a psychology degree without the intention of becoming a psychologist. Sure, not everybody makes it to the end, and few end up doing research instead, but the whole goal of the degree is to produce qualified psychologists.
I feel like this is something you’d hear in 1500 about America.

“A forlorn land covered in crages and stormes, and wholly bereft of life giving aether, this continente of ‘Columbia’ is a kingdom moste unsuitable for a civilised Englishman.”
Apple is more than willing to reject apps that follow all the guidelines.
Ask HN: Who uses ad blocking browser extensions? What do you recommend?
I like ad blocking browser extensions because they're easy to install and configure. However it looks like they're becoming more and more unreliable.

- websites ask you to disable ad blockers, or refuse to work when ads aren't shown (YouTube won't play a video unless I disable uBlock Origin in my desktop Firefox).

- extensions either become unmaintained, or start allowing ads; e.g. uBlock (not Origin), AdBlock and AdBlock Plus all permit "acceptable ads".

Are ad blocking browser plugins still relevant in 2022? Is there any new development that brings them up to date? Is there an alternative that is similarly easy to install and configure?
I bought an individual license for MATLAB some years ago. Was ~$100 iirc. Deployment is presumably more expensive.
We generally found our tutors via modulo.app. The percent I spend personally varies quite a bit. We'll homeschool as long as it seems the best for our child and as long as she wants to.
Did we get a black bar for this one? This was a very important person in technology.
The EU's AI Act Could Have a Chilling Effect on Open Source Efforts
I helped curate this list: https://www.modulo.app/all-resources/bestappsforlearning

Glad you liked course.fast.ai :D
Because it solves nothing standard C++ style OO doesn't, and misses out on some of the good stuff that OO does.

Passing a map around in FP, and modifying it as it moves is virtually identical to adjusting a member_variable. Now however you can't protect the changes by having a setter.

After years in c and then c++ then rails and now elixir. I honestly don't see that there is a benefit to functional programming. My unit tests are the same, and the code is just as buggy regardless of approach.

It is never the OO vs FP that make the difference.
As head of eng in a ftse100, this is so far from the truth. .Net is a heavily targeted ecosphere, possibly moreso than npm, precisely because of its relation with finance.

We have to contend with not only nuget and the sheer abundance of packages available (with their own transitive dependencies similar to the problems with npm - yes, even Microsoft packages have this risk) posing problems, but also the tooling itself.

VS/Code is a fucking minefield of potential threats. Their extensions market place(s) are automatic RCE risks, and a developer/admin/whomever box getting pwned is a monumental risk.

Zero-Trust applies to everyone and everything. Microsoft don't get a pass just for being Microsoft.
Rammed earth is more abundant, potentially cheaper, and has far better sound and thermal insulation properties:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220705-the-sustainable-...

It is more labor-intensive but easily automated, at least one start-up has worked/is working on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TXj5IIkUIY

Rammed earth panels can also be prefabricated and delivered to build site via truck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFddMSRel4A

The city of Shibam in Yemen shows how a high-rise rammed earth/adobe city might look. It's possible to adapt this technique to wet climates with appropriate plasters and maintenance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm8OGIZ7tag
WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon housing
If you want to take a middle ground, so you can get some funding without the pressure of high-powered VCs you could look at something like Calm Fund: https://calmfund.com/
I don't think there's one real reason but a combination, but I can list the features that C# and Java ecosystems had since the early 00s, and javascript/Rust have since they came around, but C++ hasn't had until recently.

1. one or more major package hubs

2. one package manager, or at least, a package standard

3. easy to consume/build (source code to binary)

4. easy to publish

5. easy to download (one liner in your build script, e.g. package.json, vcproj, cargo.toml, build.gradle etc.)

At the moment C++ only really has 5. - easy to download: cmake, conan, vcpkg, build2, can all download easily.

1-4 are a work in progress for C++, but are far better than 10 years ago.
OK, so you are going to use something that Amazon has built with great effort (the universal catalogue) for free, to do something that directly helps Amazon's competitors.

I know that not many people are defending capitalism, and even less people think that Amazon is basically OK. However, at the very least, they most definitely won't be happy about it, and will do everything to shut down this ability. Which would be bad, as Amazon product IDs can be fairly used for many other nice things.
Oh wow. seven levels !
If you want to rollback things build that into your smart contract and stop pretending. If you think your code is mature enough to survive attacks then disable the rollback feature forever.
That's ret-conning a correlation. Npm aren't _generating_ packages themselves. The community at large is generating them.
> "The idea of harvesting energy from graphene is controversial because it refutes physicist Richard Feynman's well-known assertion that the thermal motion of atoms, known as Brownian motion, cannot do work. Thibado's team found that at room temperature the thermal motion of graphene does in fact induce an alternating current (AC) in a circuit, an achievement thought to be impossible."

The crucial question here is: Can this alternating current do work?
Yes, agreed.

And as someone who used RISC OS 2, I should point out that RO2 was significantly smaller, faster, and far more responsive than RO3 -- and that's on an 8MHz ARM2.

RO is much smaller and quicker than any other modern GUI OS. I believe, from faint memory, that the first Raspberry Pi version the ROOL organisation demoed to Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton didn't have drivers to access the SD card yet, so it booted into RAM and then couldn't load anything else.

He asked how big it was: they told him, it's about 6MB, compressed.

He said, "no, not the kernel, the whole OS."

They said "that is the whole OS!"

6MB for kernel, filesystems, GUI, desktop, terminal emulator, core apps (text and image editors, BASIC interpreter, etc.)

I've only ever seen 3 OSes that compare at all to RO in terms of snappy responsiveness.

1. Psion EPOC16 (Psion 3, 3A, 3C, 3MX PDAs) and EPOC32 (Psion 5, 5MX, netBook PDAs).

2. The 1990s QNX Demo Disk showed that a desktop PC OS can rival RISC OS in compactness. It's the only one that could, though, and due to heavy compression it wasn't super fast.

3. BeOS was very close to as snappy and responsive, albeit ~2-3 orders of magnitude bigger. BeOS showed that PC hardware could compete: a PC in the hundreds-of-MHz class, with a 3-digit number of megabytes of RAM, could boot in seconds off a spinning rust HDD, and present a desktop with exceptional responsiveness.

Today, even a multi-core multi-gigahertz class machine running Windows or Linux or macOS feels like wading in molasses by comparison with RISC OS or BeOS.

Sadly, this includes Haiku and M1 Macs.

I've had no difficulty setting RISC OS on a Pi to whatever the native res of the connected screen was. Can't reproduce that one.

Modern browsers are coming; a WebKit-based browser is in testing now, as is a new TCP/IP stack with IPv6 and Wifi support.
> How do you think a tube of toothpaste gets to "Ye Olde Mum and Pop's Auntie Emma's Down Home Crunchy Granola Authentic and Real Indie Small Business"? Trucks.

With one truck every two weeks that deliver toothpastes as boxes of 1000s. That’s one truck for all the customers that will go in that shop over two weeks.

Compare that to 2-3 trucks to directly deliver all these people one package per toothpaste. The only way to lower the delivery times is to increase the number of trucks.

Think of a tree where leaves are customers and the root is the producer. Each other node is an intermediary. In the worst case, if all customers go by foot in one shop that gets direct deliveries from the producer, you use only one truck (producer->shop). If all N customers are delivered by the producer, in the worst case, you use N trucks (producer->customer).
Proof of stake still follows longest chain rules.
Show HN: WASM/TS crypto library for Ed25519, Shamir sharing, AEAD secret boxes
Hello HN,

I made this library because I wanted better performance than tweetnacl and I also wanted Shamir secret sharing.
I wrote some C functions that use libsodium and compiled them to WASM with emscripten and everything is fully typed.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this. Try it out, and of course feedback and contributions are very welcome!
At an old office we had a bit of a meme around yomamma jokes.

They were always nonsensical and certainly not graphic or directed at any actual mothers but one person randomly got super mad about it and complained to upper management and such jokes were explicitly banned on company property.

Then the nerf guns were banned.

Then all lights had to be on 100% migrane inducing brightness.

Then all desks had to be clean and free of any non-essential objects.

Most of engineering quit around that point.
I am in Germany, and I have several free bank accounts (I have DKB, ING, and Revolut, but I could easily also get e.g. N26 or comdirect). A quick Google search for "freies girokonto" results in a comparison between the 31 best offers here: https://www.biallo.de/girokonto/ratgeber/kostenloses-girokon... (no affiliation), so I have no idea what you mean by that.
If you are not talking about solar panels, you are not in the conversation. Photovoltaic solar is vastly cheaper than any known photochemical process. It is strongly carbon-negative. The metals involved do not make it a polluter.

It is possible that a direct photochemical process cheaper than photovoltaics + electrolysis will be discovered, but none is known today, and photovoltaics cost is still in free fall, a moving target.
Scientists Discovered an Antibody That Can Take Out All Covid-19 Variants
If lack of watercooler talk is a reason to build the wrong thing, there are bigger problems in a company to fix before focusing on forcing people to work in the office.