skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might not notice the speed change but most people will definitely notice the accompanying pitch change.
> The Ukraine thing would probably be all over by now if not for the US deciding to set up a proxy war on Russia's borders.

That's like saying the Iraq War ended in 2003.

The death and repression would just be getting started.
>whereas with a variable length instruction stream you need all sorts of interconnects between the decode units, and these interconnects add significant complexity and latency.

I find worth noting this is not always the case.

e.g. RISC-V C extension provides variable length instructions, but they're still either 16 or 32 bit.

Special care has been put into making the decoding overhead of dealing with this situation negligible, and it is indeed so. There's benefit, transistor-budget-wise, the moment there's any on-die cache or on-die rom. Any chip that's smaller than that is going to be very specialized and can simply omit C. In any chip that's larger, C is a net benefit.

As a practical example, the RISC-V based Ascalon by Jim Keller's team is a 8-wide (like M1), 10-issue CPU.

However, you're absolutely right the wild sort of variable instruction length that is seen in CISC architectures like x86 is a huge issue that massively complicates implementations and outright imposes a practical limit in decoder width.

OTOH in aarch64, the adoption of a fixed instruction size, thus tanking code density, was unenlightened to the point of brain-dead, we see the cache sizes M1/M2 need just to deal with this, and I'm afraid ARM will be gone for other reasons (non-technical, to do with mismanagement) before they have a chance to correct course and re-introduce compressed instructions.

As for the rest of the article, I generally agree with you that it presents outright wrong information as facts and then tries to push the wrong conclusion. It is utter bull, practically nothing of value can be found in there. I'm not even surprised, as it is pretty much the norm in RISC opposition.
exactly this. Processes have more than 1 reason to exist.
Is it? I can open it even without an ad-blocker. Try deleting your cookies for the website. They might allow only a limited number of free articles to read.
> Little endian is not a hack. It's a natural way to represent numbers

To represent integers, for real numbers it's quite weird.
It's a pretty good approach and pretty hard to pull off. I'd be proud of it too.
The article is mostly talking about Ford.
Everything is physics. That's not an argument against copyright or patents.

Anyway the OP is about Pantome's databases, not the colors or their RGB descriptions themselves.
I find it very frustrating. There are nuggets of interesting and relevant historical info and the central message of 'ISA isn't the most important thing for high end CPUs' is something I'd broadly agree with.

But it's all mixed with factual errors and iffy opinions (the Patterson and Hennessy textbook really isn't 'horrible').
Oh, that nice. I somehow missed that feature while playing around the app. Then I guess it can be at minimum current Twitter replacement. We'll see.

PS: personally I've abandoned Mastodon and never used twitter because the feed format is really not userfriendly. I prefer forums, like those older forums or newer like Reddit.
> To my knowledge, there isn't even a formal, unambigious Markdown spec.

The spec is whatever Gruber’s script is doing, by definition.
So he needs to patchup

* all pointers in all new objects,

* all pointers into the old-range,

* and all live on-stack values into their new on-stack locations.

Did I forget something? using volatile-only vars would solve only the third problem.
I have always been skeptical of FSD because of liability. The system we have today distributes liability to the driver in almost all circumstances – 94% to 96%, according to one quick statistic. It is difficult to imagine this liability being redistributed to a handful (or even 1 or 2) auto manufacturers who remove the driver from the equation.

In other words, I am not sure that auto manufacturers can afford the liability assuming their system reaches a state in which it is 'safer' than a human driver under any condition. The cost of proving that in courts across the world may not be economically feasible.
What do you think – app to find other remote workers who like outdoor sports
I've been working remotely for a while and whilst I met some awesome people on the way, keeping in touch with them and meeting new people in new places has become increasingly difficult. Probably because I'm less keen than in the past to hang out in hostels, go out drinking, etc. and would rather find friends for sports or active things to do, e.g., hikes, surf, paddle, climbing, cycling, etc. Daily beers and eating out hit differently after 30 :)

So, I'm building an app just for that - to find other nomads/ remote workers who share your sport interests, to keep in touch as you move spots and let your friends know when you're in a new location.

Thoughts?

I need feedback and testers and you can check it out here: https://bit.ly/3zpF4Kq

Cheers!
Some variation of designing, building or extending a CPU or ISA is standard in comp-sci curricula.
You mean like on the brand brand new 10th generation usb C iPad?

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/27/ipad-10-slower-usb-c-po...
It is technically possible, but every time someone suggests self driving trams/trains/metros here, the public transport union threatens a strike.
I haven't spent this long mucking around on someone's personal website for years. Well done Simone! I'll no doubt be back.
There you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...

You can also search previous Covid related discussions here on HN for more information.
Show HN: Machine Learning with Django
This is what I wanted to say.

Autonomous driving without changing a thing, will not happen soon. But changing some things, is totally possible.
> Markdown will never get beyond developers.

My brother wrote his master thesis in LaTex. Being a non-techie (he's an archeologist) I had to do all the 'fixing'.

We switched to LaTex after both Word and OpenOffice Writer made working with the document a non-option.

I also used git to manage changes.

This was 2009.

He could not have done it without my help with this setup. But he could also not have done it without me in Word/Writer because these apps just behave 'funny' once you reach certain complexity in your document.

Fast forward to today.

My partner is writing her PhD thesis (she's an anthropologist and hates anything that has a keyboard).

Not in LaTex but in Markdown.

It lives in a GitHub repo. She is using VSCode with some extension that translates Markdown to LaTex and then to PDF so she can have a preview (inside VSCode no less) any time.

It took me half a day to research the options, settle on that one and to set it up on her laptop (she could have never done that still though).

I spent about two hours to teach her the workflows after.

Thanks to VSCode's built-in git support she manages that also from within the app. Including branches and merges.

After the initial two hours she never needed any help from me.

I think there is a business opportunity here.

Particular people in the humanities seem to dread writing stuff for one because modern word processors are just monstrous and instable as f*ck once you reach a certain document size/complexity.
Dhruvok and Jalammad at Telangana
Yup, been going with feedly.com since Google Reader shut down.
I am the furthest you can get from an Elon Musk fan, but damn if I ain't gonna watch this show.
At my work we signed a deal with one of the big three credit reporting agencies that had a well publicized security breach a little while back.

As part of this, they sent us some security due diligence questions, which is fairly routine. One of the things that they wanted us to agree was that we forced all of our employees to change their passwords every $timeperiod.

They insisted that this was important for security, and only backed off after we sent them references from all of microsoft[0], nist[1] and the uk national cyber security centre[2] saying that doing so would reduce security.

My suspicion though is that they only removed it from our specific contract, and they hadn't changed the entire process. I would have hoped that after their security breach (this happened afterwards) they would have reviewed their security and improved it but unfortunately that didn't seem to be the case. There were a fair few other things in the review that were generally poor security wise, but that one is the one that stood out to me.

[0] can't find the reference I probably used, but this talks about it https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/micro... (I think microsoft was one of the links we sent them?)

[1] https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#memsecretver

[2] https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/problems-forcing-regular-p...
Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years
I don't think Pantone will give you a license to their database if you make a product to compete with them. If they do, you can probably expect a lawsuit anyway.
Do you have any pointers to this actually happening, or is this just your prediction?

FWIW, I would not start with China if I was looking for an easy place to test self-driving cars. There's plenty of crazy drivers, remarkably heterogenous vehicles on the road including suicidal cyclists and all sorts of weird three-wheeled moped-scooter-truck things, signage is inconsistent and missing, road quality is widely variable, traffic jams can be epic, the list goes on and on.
Well, we had two successful revolutions in the 21st century, so no government here would want to fuck with people. Reforms continue.
Very unlikely. He will immediately reinstall Jack Dorsey
...

tesla doesn't have self-driving cars and doesn't even appear to have an actual plan to get them?

they're in fact under investigation for their existing "autopilot" system killing people: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/26/tesla-cri...
Pantone did invent their names for colours. You can use the colours, but not their names. These files are using their names is the issue. If the file used their own names or raw CMYK values it’s be fine.
No no, it's a combination of:

- impossible to have ONLY rational discussion

- Unfashionable points of view being suppressed on HN by those with the numbers/power.

Here's some rational discussion which I was originally unable to post because the submission had been reflexively flagged and killed:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33370251
Fortunately the system has been prepared for remotely piloted vehicles using partial AI and mostly remote humans over 5G.
Eh, the volatility from 1 year ago is so great that you shouldn't grab one date to compare to. AAPL had a good December and is down 20% YTD .

FB is down 70% though. It's different.
There's an image in Ukraine (and the EU) that Russians are corrupted. Saying no to corruption is a form of saying "I'm different from Russians"
I think it's somewhat more complicated than that.

Traditionally there was more friction to speech. I don't even mean just that the average person doesn't have access to a national platform like CNN. Even something like mailing out fliers had non-trivial costs. It's the same reason why junk mail is generally less of an issue than email spam.

In a traditional town square, people are not anonymous and the "square" was local enough for there to be social consequences to actions. On Twitter, many of the posters are anonymous and even those who aren't often live on the other side of the country.
Only the new fully underground lines are driverless. The aboveground North-South and East-West lines, which are also the backbone of the network, have human drivers.
Trains are awesome. My thinking is that the implementation sucks.

I've been on a train twice in the last ten years.

On the one ride, it was hot so it expected to arrive about 45 minutes late. You can't go full speed on hot tracks.

On the same ride, there was construction, so we sat and waited for about 45 minutes in the middle of no where, in the dark. It was long enough they told us to just let our kids run around and brought the snack cart around for free.

That's a lot of delay for a 3.5h ride.

Ontario, Canada.

My in-laws use trains to travel between cities a fair amount. More delayed trips than not.

If you’re not talking about long distances, don’t get me started on the LRT in Ottawa and the months of downtime it has had.
A TTA CPU that fits on a bread board (2016)
Well they are "just" HD44780 driven LCD displays (which are sold on eBay pretty cheap these days). Back in the day when every machine had a parallel port we used to just drive them directly bit banging out what we wanted. These days you can just slap an Arduino inbetween one and a USB port and jobs pretty much done.
The problem is 100% of economical, and not technical nature.

The car manufacturers are afraid of being made responsible for that deaths, even when you could prove a human would not have been smarter.
> Pantone did not invent colors... physics did. Who the fuck allowed this company to register colors under copy rights?

The point is communication, usability, and reproduction.

Communication because "Pantone 123" is easier to convey throughout the chain than "C:11,Y:22,M:33,K:44".

Usability because Pantone swatches are easier to use in a design environment, and also easier to choose the swatch number in Adobe than to mess around choosing "C:11,Y:22,M:33,K:44". You can also give your client a Pantone swatch book and let them loose without them having to know about CMYK, substrates etc. etc.

Reproduction because you can ensure you consistently achieve the same output irrespective of substrate (uncoated,coated,glossy, paper, fabric yada yada yada ...). It also gives printers a well defined reference for ink mixing, quality checks etc.

TL;DR: It makes everyone's life easier, clients, designers, printers etc.
Mercedes already assumes liability for their L3 system, let’s see when others follow
Wondering—is it easier to buy an existing entity?
In these circumstances, does it matter to public safety whether it did or didn't? It seems more important to me whether it COULD or COULD NEVER originate like this. I think things are tilted pretty heavily towards the COULD side. So if we, as a species, continue research like this (and I think we need to), it needs to be strictly quarantined. If you set foot in a facility like this, you don't get to rejoin the rest of society until you go through a multi-week quarantine site. It's remote work.
Most of the time, the problem lays with the users. Once (a long time ago) I RDP'ed into a Windows Server 2003 (or so) for some checking and saw it running a eDonkey or some other P2P download utility, as Administrator.
It appears to be some sort of special ruggedized sealed chassis, I wonder what the main application is.
There is a single window, but it's only open on the third monday of every other month, and the person manning it is illiterate - unless you pay them a small fee to activate their reading skills.
Apple clarifies security update policy: Only the latest OSes are fully patched
The claim that Markdown will never go beyond developers is kind of ironic considering markdown was co-invented by John Gruber, a non-developer.

There’s a lot of issues with this post, which basically completely misunderstands what markdown is, what its purpose is, and why it’s successful.

Btw, why are numbered lists so hard in Markdown?
> a functional company and added his brand of PR on top

Which company would that be?
> The HTML output is antiquated at best. Though the basic structure of headers and paragraphs is generally semantic, there's no modern semantic elements such as main, article, section, nav, header, footer, figure, picture, etc. Embedding videos, social media widgets, etc. isn't possible at all.

I don't think that's what Markdown is for.

I think Markdown is meant for the content that would appear inside the `article` tag. You're not meant to use it to create an entire website layout.
What “viable search engine competition” looks like (2014)
In a way, this isn't new, people have been using toxic colors for quite a while. The innovation here is really that Pantone managed to get toxic color without using heavy metals or any other chemical ingredient.

Another proof that too much money destroys everything at some point, much as you need water but too much water will kill you.

In Germany, Deutsche Telekom has long tried to own the letter U+0054 Latin Capital Letter T and the color magenta. Use any of those and you risk being sued.
Find a way to eliminate mode switching and you might be on to something. Even transit activists recognize the high cost of mode switching and how much of a negative it is for practical use.
Just use trains and bicycles. We've had the answer for 100 years.

I live where driving is a requirement. Self driving cars will not handle rural roads for a LONG time. And I really don't want something the size of a Cybertruck hurtling along the roads around where I live without someone actually doing some thinking.
I don't see any videos at all, only black boxes :(
This is not about the colors, FYI. This is about someone referencing a specific Pantone product as a spot color. And the automatic conversion from that spot color name to the regular RGB / CMYK color values is now gone. But if you embedded the actual RGB/CMYK values into your file, then it'll still open just fine and display those colors just fine.

Edit: Also, converting from Pantone to regular RGB/CMYK is a lot more lossy than one would think. If I reference a Pantone product, that pretty much covers all properties of the printed surface, including things like reflectivity angles, fluorescence and phosphorescence. A cheap xRite will already measure reflectivity in 13 wavelength bands. And then it'll average those 13 characteristics into 3 RGB numbers. Professional color measurement tools can have hundreds of properties per ink type, thereby making reduction to 3 values even more lossy.

If I give you RGB, that merely specifies the color at direct reflection under normal light. If I give you a Pantone ID, you also now how it'll look from the side or under UV light. RGB specifies an averaged wavelength mixture, Pantone specifies a chemical ink mixture.

Edit2: You know these car paints that have fresnel reflections, meaning they appear to have a different color of you look at them from a different angle? That's an excellent example of a case where you need to specify a specific ink type like Pantone, because the RGB value changes based on the viewing angle.
Don't use Pantone 123 in your product because that's Fluke trade dress. =)
The biggest obstacle is "if compiles, ship it" mentality.
Just like when a human drives: cutting corners increases the risk of accidents.
Exodus? Isn’t he firing them all?

Anyway will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Self driving cars can react on what is happening around them (if sensor suite will catch that information) but are unable to predict what is happening around them, because they don't understand situation they are in.
Ask HN: You just bought Twitter, not Elon. What changes are you making?
And these battery-based storage are also exploding in more frequency.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/20/pge-says-tesla-battery-was...
> Something for free? That had never been the point of FOSS.

FOSS = Free Open Source Software
> That's what Bolsonaro did in Brazil. In his campaign, he demonstrated to be a good christian and a person of faith. In Brazil, people strongly associate that with being a good person.

Wasn't Bolsonaro elected because the previous president and his main opponent (Lula?) was so corrupt that he even landed in jail, which is a rare event for a prominent politician?

> Guess what happened after.

Care to explain to non Brazilians?
"washing machines are, by a very large margin, the largest source of wear in clothing"

...And the sodium percarbonate used as a stain remover in washing powders rots the fabric and also attacks the metal in zippers.
Maybe you can compensate with higher pay?
There's an option to post in markdown instead of WYSIWYG. The one and only reason I use Slack's WYSIWYG instead of markdown is because their markdown parser doesn't handle links. If they just fixed that, I could stop using their WYSIWYG and its atrocious handling of inline code blocks.
I remember these displays too, for fan control and stuff right? There used to be a website of basically show and tell of tower machines with cool upgrades. All pre RGB, but there were plenty of lights fans switches, all of it. It had to be popular around 2000/2001. Anyone remember the site?
I have terrible hearing (plus age) and I still find most devices have uselessly coarse AND loud volume levels. I almost never exceed the first 2-3 'clicks' unless I want to wake my neighbors. Worst offenders are cheap monitor and/or laptop builtin speakers. I remember one where out of 15 avalable clicks, level 2 was already unbearably loud.

When PulseAudio added "absolute volume control" support, I found out it would sometimes fake in extra clicks in which the actual volume would NOT change, but gave the impression of granularity. Wonders of HDA & usb audio...
There is no possible good-faith way to draw that conclusion from a statement someone was making about the rail system in the world's largest urban area.
It's not even an Adobe fault likely. It's Pantone's market segmentation, AFAICT. "We don't want cheapskates who would ever mind paying mere $21/mo for access to Pantone™ colors", they could say. They want to deal with larger print shops / agencies, and better monetize their chokehold on the industry-accepted color-matching system.

This makes a niche for a more open, non-commercial color-matching system for print. Which has few incentives to happen: print color is hard, buy-in from paint producers is likely even harder.

For Web and other screen-only work, I suppose you don't need Pantone.
Making remote and asynchronous work, work
I do exactly that with Telegram, I have a private channel with myself and a bot I was making to do all sort of stuff like to-dos etc.

At the end of the day I stopped developing the bot, the only thing I need is somewhere to offload information from my brain in to a place I can check later, already timestamped for me.

Aside from the "Journal - Logs" I have other channel "Quest Book" with a chat connected "Quest Pages", so for every quest I add to the channel, I can add more information editing the message, or going to the "thread" (inside the connected chat) of that quest to add more info.

Been working on a thing, and will continue later? I send a message to "Quest Book" with the task, maybe add more information in the thread, and when it's done I delete it.

I'm speaking with someone, and it recommends me a film I would like to watch? Throw it to "Journal - Logs" and keep with the conversation.

Got a free evening and want to watch "the film your friend told you, but cannot remember"? Check the logs.
Yes I think cache was an important motivator for some early designs (eg the IBM 801 - shameless plug below! [1]) as the central idea was that fast instruction cache would replace fast microcode store thus removing any code size penalty.

In fact I don't think code size was that much bigger for these designs so cache was probably less important than they initially thought.

The Arm team recognised that memory bandwidth was key for a cache less design and so designed to maximise this and make the most of it - hence the outperformance.

[1] https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-first-risc-john-coc...