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"What's the ULPMark (power benchmark) on any of those SiFive RISC-V chips?"

SiFive, like ARM, doesn't make chips, they license cores to people who make chips. The power characteristics are up to the chip designer -- what node they use, which "corner" of that node they use, and various other chip design features -- and not the core designer.

I don't know of anyone who is putting out stand-alone microcontroller chips using SiFive cores. They've been concentrating on getting them into larger systems. For example Qualcomm said a few months ago they've shipped 650 million SoCs (i.e. Snapdragon XXX) with RISC-V cores in them (probably SiFive as they're a SiFive investor).

The closest I know of (using SiFive cores) would be the Bouffalo Lab chips, but they are not just microcontrollers but WIFI/BlueTooth which of course by their very nature use considerable power. The BL602 datasheet says it uses 500 nA in "hibernate" (RTC or GPIO wakeup) and the CPU 22 mA at 192 MHz with radios off, so 115 µA/MHz. Certainly not in the league you quote.

Well, actually ... I just looked and the STM32U5 datasheet says 440 nA "standby" with RTC or GPIO wakeup, so actually 440 vs 500 is not all that different, comparing apples to apples.
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< That sort of content has been banned / owned by serious copyright holder, please prepare to be taken into custody as the police are on route. />

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For much anything else the user wont know it they're getting real facts or kool aide.

However maybe something else might be available with a retro revival of web in a few years, that has a better signal to noise [ie renders in average browser without last weeks new update] ratio so even simple search engines have a chance to crawl all the data.
I don't disagree with the patient's diagnosis, but my issue is with what would happen if we were living in, as you put it, "a functional democracy".

Contemporary democracy isn't new. Has it ever delivered what you claim it would if it were functional?

I could be wrong, but I can't think of a historical period where it did.

Seems to me like it's working as designed, if not what people think it's designed to do.
Oh man, this is so well said:

> it feels like it just became more about campaigning for what they had already decided was the truth rather than actually producing good journalism.

I'm really hoping at some point they'll come back because they were my favorite news source, but if they have views like many of the people I've discussed this with then they don't even realize there is a problem.
Have you tried Obsidian for prose?

https://obsidian.md
This was a YC event of other YC founders only (from the current batch). YC founders are overall very high trust of each other.
You can always get something, but most people don't have the knowledge of how to go about it without asking someone for guidance first.
For me, as a super liberal on nearly all topics, their non news stories seemed to have left me behind. I’ll be on the way to work listening to NPR and the segment will just be so off the wall I really have to do a double take. This happens with a lot of regularity I think and has turned me off on quite as much NPR as previously.
> early adopters saw some weird shit

Since I wrote this, I have seen several anecdotes that support this guess. This is a classic scaling problem. One or two users saw it, and one even says they reported it, but at small scale with immature tools and processes getting to the actual software bug is a major effort that has to be balanced around other priorities like making excessive amounts of money.
Smokers, while smoking, are also great company. They're so happy...
Seeing as we're a tech audience, I ask you (and everyone else) this: Would anyone be happy if ext4 or NTFS "told stories" of what goes on in their file systems instead of journaling everything fact-for-fact as-is? I am happy to bet noone would be.

Journalism is (and should be) nothing more than a record of what happens or happened. A proper journalist, after all, is writing a journal. If someone is writing a story, they are a storyteller and should not be relied upon as a useful source of objective and accurate information.

In this sense, C-SPAN is as journalism as it can get: Unedited recordings and presentations of the goings-on inside Congress insofar as Congress will allow.
> Absent some special explanation from Cruise, which they are not offering at the current time

This is the problem. Cruise and other operators lobby SF to hide the details of their accidents, on the grounds they are secret corporate information, as I recall. Self regulation, self measurement.

Trust is earned. Here it's not being developed.
Exactly. I'm not a lawyer but I'm baffled they went the fair use route -- fair use has nothing to do with it.

The argument that this is no different from lending temporarily to a friend seems to be much more reasonable. Especially since no money is changing hands.
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Wait, didn’t someone post about how he was still alive just today?! Way to jinx it!
Let me get this straight. A bunch of company executives/founders (37/150) provided physical access to their phones -- turned off I hope -- for the duration of the event?

And they should be proud of that? The phones used to cf. provide 2FA access to their company.

As someone commented: I am jokingly curious if they would do the same thing at DEF CON. Or provide that phone to a LEO/DoJ without a warrant.
Not unlike the method of Jussie Smollett, who was so unsatisfied with the diversity in his local hate community and was forced to generate new criminals to meet his specifications.
Yes, I’d also pay $9/month to get organisations, if I needed those.
> I love leaving my house without my phone when I have the opportunity.

I used to do the same, but after a fender bender I decided to keep one with me when driving in case I need to (1) take pictures or (2) make an emergency call.

But I don’t feel any less disconnected, because my phone is kept in airplane mode except when absolutely necessary. I get the benefits, without the drawbacks.

> Giving your phone to a stranger can be daring, but it's probably the second best thing to leaving it at home.

In my opinion, developing the self control to have a phone and not use it is better than giving it to a stranger.
It's a four factor test (but the second factor rarely counts).

the purpose and character of your use

the nature of the copyrighted work

the amount and substantiality of the portion taken, and

the effect of the use upon the potential market.

The court found that Google copied the entirety of the work into their search index, but that this (taking into account the strict result snippet restrictions) didn't effect the market because no one would decide they didn't need the book now they had the snippet.
This was a YC event that was for YC founders from the current batch only, not just random people who like YC.
This one comes to mind: https://twitter.com/nprpubliceditor/status/13192811012239400...

NPR was clearly executing the same crisis management PR strategy, as instructed to all the politically aligned media outlets.

Unfortunate; I recall many driveway moments some 10-15 years ago, where the topic discussed was so compelling (this american life in particular) that I just had to stay in the car and keep listening.
Cristobal Young and Charles Varner did a study “Millionaire Migration and State Taxation of Top Incomes” and found that when taxes were jacked up on New Jersey residents they tended to stay despite low tax states (e.g. Connecticut) being quite close.

If people are reluctant to move to a nearby state to save on taxes theyre gonna be even more reluctant to move to a whole other country.
The biggest difference between a beginner and a veteran is systematic problem solving. Software development has already been reduced to bashing libraries together like rocks... It still is very effective, but frustrating to the end user. If software development gets reduced to brute forcing a prompt until it starts to look like it's working, then we might as well call it a day and promote the users to eternal QA.

It's already becoming a strain to review ChatGPT code committed by others, who try to save time by using it instead of thinking for a moment and then coming up with a proper solution to a problem.
Why? Because you can’t? You’re illustrating my point. You are asserting something about my experience without having had it, based on your own. On my teams everyone writes stuff down to their ability, for instance a lot of non native speakers just can’t do a good job of this. But I always have the writer, and everyone works with them to be sure everything of importance is written down in a high quality way. But I judge people by their contribution, not the mode of the contribution. I’ll betcha my teams are more functional, but I’m sure you will disagree so I suspect we have to agree to disagree (but I’ll still poach your nonwriters and non English speakers with aplomb!)
Well, they announced they're shuttering it. Oddly, there is zero information as to why.
That argument is just absurd, why should that matter

Is it the responsibility of the government to protect the profit opportunities of some specific people who choose to be a certain religion?
> I think you have to be willfully blind to deny this.

In the future, please follow the HN guidelines. I'm done responding to you now. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
density would double every year

I'm not a physicist, but I think they need to get smaller to do that.
There are two useful unofficial pages:

https://hnrankings.info/35285390/ It looks like it has been in the front page for a long time

https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ (no permalink :( ) It looks like the title has not changed.
Years ago tehre were t-shirts which would light up in presence of 2.4GHz frequencies.

Like http://www.xoxide.com/wifi-tshirt.html
This is a justification that makes sense in theory, but the Internet Archive doesn't own those books and can't track them. If they had asked libraries to explicitly send parts of their collection to the IA for this, that might've held some weight.
It doesn't matter what "different people's view" is. With corporations lobbying, there is no greater good, only greater wallet.
you really think americans are eating 'small surplus' ?

Last year that number was 3600 ( fda recommendation is 2000, for reference )

imagine what will happen to food prices if americans cut their consumption by half.
i think the argument is: TikTok is a tool China will use to push propaganda. The problem is that a nation state is using a viral, addictive app for its own purposes.

So the thing to stop everyone from is "letting a maybe-hostile foreign power push an agenda via a software platform."

I don't think there's easy to ban behavior here.
context `come on`, what is the point in sharing the weights ?

Someone lay out the reason they should package the weights with this, when they're allowing you to apply your own ?

This repo isn't what you think it is.
To me those are similar. Uber is addressing the universally reviled criminal organisation slash medieval guild that taxis are in every single city they operate. AirBnB really never was illegal to begin with. Internet Archive is breaking copyright law which needs a huge reform.
Who is using LoRa and large AI models at the same time?
> Only the most powerful people are capable of operating without one so there will be desire to signal that somehow.

Or those older than 30. And I can assure you, they have no desire to signal that fact.
They may also be spinning things to scare policy makers into steering things in a different direction.
CCP is a board member at ByteDance.

https://prosperousamerica.org/ccp-takes-board-seat-at-byteda...

This whole thing is so strange. People in the US were so concerned about Russia running ads for a few thousand dollars in 2016 during the elections but are now ok with TikTok being controlled by CCP?
> The problem I have with this line of thinking is that there's no attempt to even engage in any serious discussion about whether rogue AI is actually likely at all.

By "no attempt" are you criticizing that my comment doesn't quantify the likelihood or that no one is quantifying the likelihood? If it's the latter, have you looked? There is definitely serious discussion happening.

The difference between AI and your other examples is trend. The ability of computers is growing superlinearly. Nothing related to aliens is changing much at all (some extra noise in the news about UFOs?), rapture has nothing going on. Maybe zombie apocalypse gets a tiny bump for there having been a global pandemic, but it's still approximately nothing. All of those are very different from what's happening with AI.
I wonder if there could be a new secure cookie/session token standard that makes use of hardware security keys like TPM/Secure Enclave to prevent them from being exfiltrated. They could be domain scoped for access like Passkeys are. Maybe DNSSEC could prevent MITM attacks of it as well.
There is no jurisdiction in America that will let you retroactively decide the strings you want your past donations to come attached with. What are you talking about?
I think this is tautological - this is how it must always be, and I would guess has been the common view at any given point of time in history.

You can only properly assess and appreciate the impact sufficient to assign 'legend' status to an individual or institution retroactively, decades hence from the actions that elevated them there.
I hate all these conspiracy theories. And you know why?

It's because they imply hubris, arrogance, control.

Let's just realize that we all have a lot less control over our environment than we think we do, and some things are just forces beyond anyone's control.
There is something I don't understand about the legal/political (theatrical?) wrangling surrounding TikTok:

Can't they just sanction the parent company if they want to kill it that badly? Control of the sanctioned entities list is under the executive branch, so all they have to do is place Bytedance on that list; no CDN in the country or App Store is allowed to do business with them, TikTok is gone overnight. The website would probably be accessible and there is always the sideloading gambit but it would perform like crap.

What am I missing?
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They all just got half a million in funding. That may not meet your definition of “rich”, but it at least makes the economics of stealing a $500 phone pretty silly
“This” Supreme Court? As opposed to any other Supreme Court?

Which Supreme Courts have been friendly to fair use and opposed copyright expansionist arguments?
Airbnb is worse than a casino addiction
I’ve worked on and with SOTA facial recognition, there’s largely two separate claims about the intersection of facial recognition and racial discrimination. One is that it’s inaccurate on minorities, and the other is that it’s used to target minorities.

First claim is false, and as far as we could tell rests largely on one experiment a researcher did with a database of a few hundred faces and the default settings on Amazon’s Rekognition. That test demonstrated worse accuracy on minorities and therefore “facial recognition is inaccurate on minorities” became true enough to become a reportable fact - which it was, at the time and scoped to that instantiation of that technology, but from there it got included hundreds or thousands of future articles on facial recognition and racial discrimination, which probably creates an incorrect impression of the overall technology. Reality is that SOTA face rec uses large enough training sets to be “colorblind”, at least in the object level sense of not being more likely to confuse two different people for each other just because they are both minorities of the same ethnicity (I fondly recall an Asian-American CEO saying “hey, it can tell apart Asians better than I can!”).

Second claim is true, the high-impact pointy end of facial recognition usage is tackling crime, so it necessarily inherits all the racial discrimination issues in law enforcement.
Yikes. I borrow books constantly from the IA that are hard/impossible to find elsewhere because they've gone out of print. A lot of academic-ish non-fiction from the 1960s-1980s, stuff you can only otherwise get through inter-library loan that takes weeks rather than seconds.

Any idea if this means IA has to shut down lending by when? Tomorrow? Next month?

Any chances for appeal here? Or any chance they relocate the books division to another country or something?

It's just so sad if something so valuable is forced to go "poof". A real loss.
I think that most regular NPR listeners, including me, are on board with helping “the least of these brothers and sisters”.

The issue I have is when NPR uses sources theoretically representing “the least of these brothers and sisters” who do one or more of the following:

- refuse help

- actively sabotage themselves or their situation

- leave out key details of the story

- lie about key details of the story

It’s these types of folks who both undercut the veracity of NPR coverage and push away moderate listeners (again, most of whom are on board with helping those in need).
I've used a mailbox.org account multiple times to send an identical email to about 500 addresses within a couple hours. Beforehand I checked their support section and they stated some limits there which seemed to be fine for my purposes, with much higher limits for business plans. Note that this is likely different for the first 30 days as those are considered a testing period (and usually free iirc).
A lot of their funding is from foundations. The big ones are often mentioned. Foundations fund things that meet their goals.
> "Why should the state be mandating this? Isn't it better to use state power to prevent employers from being able to coerce employees into working"

Remember when Arkansas rolled back some child labour laws? Hopefully you do, it was last week[1]. The reason why not "just do something good for workers instead" is because companies want cheaper employees with fewer options to leave, not better protections for workers.

> "Why is it Sunday? Why not Saturday?"

Great, well done, you've bikeshedded it from "mandatory day off" to "no mandatory day off" because you can't see a difference between them. Religion bad, Atheism good, therefore roll back labour protections?

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/08/politics/sarah-huckabee-s...
The logic you use to dismiss the sandwich example extrapolates to your own examples. "Shut off the lights and go to bed or go to the ER" "Stuff a cloth in your underwear" "Don't have sex" "Don't you have any sterno or mouthwash?!"

Why even do this to someone if you understood their meaning and more or less agree?
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I mean when enough people are unemployed they will just vote to socialize the society. Also, massive deflation will reset the global economy. The social ladder as you call it will flatten pretty hard. At that point we nationalize and ubi with work being some kind of minimum amount a year to qualify for ubi. Work hours per year will drop alot. I think society will transform for the better where we start developing towards a post scarcity deflationary future rather than the inflationary rat race we have now.
I didn’t downvote you.

The choice is often between private investment and no investment at all. It’s all well and good to say the world shouldn’t work that way but meanwhile people need water infrastructure while you are going about changing the world.
I don’t see how banning TikTok would infringe on anyone’s freedom of expression (other than possibly for TikTok’s own self-produced videos). There is no right to distribution over a specific channel.
Doesn't that go against the entire ethos of the YC community? Is this post going to stay up?
This is a strange argument: I mean if TikTok were not owned by CCP and were a public company, I am sure a lot of folks in congress would have invested in it due to its size.
Isn't Nova PBS? They are both nonprofit organizations but I think that's a separate organization from NPR correct?
There's actually a bigger story to what you're saying. Public radio (NPR, APM, et al.) hasn't come up with new hit shows with longevity, while some are aging out. The format of Wait Wait is fine, but the references are 40 years too old. Terry Gross, while an amazing interviewer, is in her 70's. On KQED, Michael Krasny retired from forum, and his replacements aren't as good. As it currently exists, public radio in the US feels like a thing for coastal liberals between the ages of 50 and 70. It's trying here and there to find a new voice, but it hasn't.
Next steps:

1) Run a Phone Check at a Y Combinator Event... when there is no Phone Check at that event.

2) ???

3) PROFIT
Shifting the blame to open source isn't a good look. I like what Bryan Cantrill had to say about it:
https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/1638707484620902401
Nearly $100B in deposits pulled from banks
Valve is privately owned. TikTok is owned by an adversarial govt with one of the worst human rights violations in the modern world. The two are not comparable.
Does GitHub kind of suck now?
Random cert expirations, exposed their private key, Actions outages regularly now. Man, I miss the GitHub of 2 years ago.

Does anyone else think GitHub kind of sucks these days?
Lol thanks chase
RIP he funded a park near me. Did more than just computers.
That's probably legal if you are careful enough. You might get railroaded though, political prosecutions are a thing in the US.
> This is not how your OS works. Your OS itself works with an allocator

This is exactly how your OS works. There is no malloc syscall. You call sbrk [1] (the modern mechanism to do that on Linux eludes me, maybe it's through mmap), get a chunk of memory and do your thing. malloc is implemented in glibc, and you can swap it out with any other allocator, but your kernel just gives you a chunk of memory and it is your job (as userland process) to suballocate it, deal with fragmentation, etc.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbrk
Man people have to get over this joke. Its been like 10 years of every time WebAssembly comes up somebody has to make this 'joke'. Like it was never funny, and it was always fucking dumb.

Java isn't the first language base on bytecode, and WebAssembly will not be the last.
I haven't looked into this in detail but I'm excited for this. A company I used to work with had a tool a lot like this and it was very useful as it allowed us to build dashboards that could pull data from anything or join/transform data through code. Very very handy.

One thing I found annoying about our internal tool is I often found myself duplicating boilerplate code for simple things. Like, initialize a MySQL connection, run a query, and render it with a graphing library. I don't know what your tool does, but it would be nice if it had the ability to insert a "SQL query line graph" rather than making me write those 10 lines of python.
Analogies are good as long as they’re good. If they’re not good they just leave people more confused / argumentative
An easy out. I stand by my comment completely.