skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we look at the single benchmark available directly comparing RISC-V to x86, the SG2042 is about comparable to a Sandy Bridge CPU from 2012[0]. That's roughly 11 generations behind. There is definitely going to be a market for RISC-V, but in all likelihood that primarily means eating ARM's lunch and highly specialized workloads.

To directly compete with AMD/Intel they are going to have to be within the same ballpark of performance and cost about the same and consume about the same amount of power. There is simply no way in hell that is going to happen in 2024, not with the amount of catchup they have to do. Even Tenstorrent's own Jim Keller expects their Ascalon to be behind Zen 5 in raw performance / GHz, and Ventana's slides show it barely beating 2021 CPUs[1] which are in turn already massively outperformed by current-gen ones[2].

I fully expect a few RISC-V products to be only a generation or 2/3 behind within a couple of years, but that is simply not enough to be a direct competitor.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.00381.pdf

[1]: https://www.servethehome.com/ventana-veyron-v1-risc-v-data-c...

[2]: https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-bergamo-epyc-9754-clou...
Hardcore vim users use ctrl-[ instead. : )

Despite being two keypresses, this is usually faster to type, or at the least to return to home position from, and those keys are probably more consistently placed than the ESC key between vendors / models.
It's a 1-byte heap buffer overflow when it loads a specially-crafted UTF-16 file with an odd length over 131,076 bytes. The Windows NT heap implementation already contains a mitigation against overflows of up to 3 bytes (which, as far as I can tell, is 100% effective against 1-byte overflows), so arbitrary code execution is very implausible.
Firearms are the second-leading cause of death in children and adolescents in the US. 15%. [0]

[0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr1804754
I always find the anti-billionaire sentiment a bit weird in the sense that it's not like they have literally been given billions of dollars in cash. Most billionaires net worth is highly centralised in the stock of the companies they founded, which at some point were worth nothing.

When people say they find the "very idea of billionaires" abhorrent, what exactly is the solution here? After the stock in your company becomes worth > billion you have to give it away for free? Because selling it means you are still a billionaire. I think there is something to be said about inheritance taxes and limiting the infinite perpetuation of wealth through generations but unless we are talking asset seizure I am not quite sure how you would do away with the Musks, Brins, Gates' etc. of today.
We only call it incest when the nearest common ancestor is a parent or (depending on the jurisdiction) a grandparent.

If your nearest common ancestor is a great-great-great-great-grandparent, that's not incest (it would most likely not even be known at the time of marriage), but it still leads to large amounts of duplication in your family tree. Every family tree will have many instances of nth-cousin marriages simply because people tend to marry people who live close to them.

It's very hard to calculate what the actual number would be because it depends a lot on where your ancestors lived and how much they migrated over time.
I wasn't really aware of the embedded DSL distinction.

But even then. I was never really able to get into Observable because although it looks like JavaScript, there are kind of hidden objects and methods available to you that I found weirdly hard to discover.
How can she? The judge just declared her incompetent to make her own medical decisions.
Can you explain your opposition to Singer's views? I understand he argues in favor of legalising voluntary euthanasia, and increased abortion rights. As a non-religious person, his arguments generally seem quite rational to me, but I'm keen to understand more.
That one says "Food! Food!" That one over there is saying "Predator! Predator! Predator!"

And this one over here is saying "Hey, babe! Wanna make some eggs?"
The connectors remind me of N64 stuff: designed to be used by crustaceans with palsied claws, they are giant, have one-way-dumbass latches and notches, and also have that "yea, beige was great but we're in grey now baby" look which ages out really really fast. In some ways this was not Apples finest design era. Newton, I'm looking at you. The orginal "too soon" device.

Bouncy-castle keyboards should be a thing.
thislocationdoesnotexist.com seems like it'll be a thing created just to mess with these people. why? because someone can.
I'm kinda wrapping my head around the DAG thing (but still have no clue how large of an effect it has on the overall calculation) but don't get how 25 years per generation is off. I know that in the last few centuries people have been having children at older and older ages but you're saying that an average like that doesn't hold for the long-term? Or maybe it's just very complicated? E.g. some 60 year-old man gets a 20 year-old woman pregnant 700 years ago and it has a dramatic change on the calculation?
I believe i wore out about 5-6 chains before I wore out the gears. To be fair, I rarely oiled my chains, and gear wear was probably minimized by it being only a single-gear.
How Worried Should We Be About AI’s Threat to Humanity?
In your experience, is it accurate that farming practices are a function of labour costs, and what is the time horizon where robotics changes the game for high density farming with diverse crops? There is a video about using machine vision and lasers for weeding, and I'm wondering whether we are close to full automation and don't need nearly as much land to generate higher yields.

Something like what these people do (shipping container farms) https://www.cropbox.co/ seems like we're really close to being able to run restaurants off them.
I wouldn't label the Chinese SG2042 as representative of RISC-V as a whole.

It is the XuanTie C910 open source core. It has been available for many years.

I have no reason to question Jim Keller nor Wei-han Lien ability to deliver, with their proven track record of delivering.

Tenstorrent presentation late last year talked chiplet availability in 2024. That's the best estimate we can work with, for Tenstorrent specifically.

There's multiple other companies and cores we're aware of, and then the others we don't even know of.

e.g. Rivos has a strong team that's been silently cooking something for a very long time now. It could emerge at any time.
"Real GDP", which is the one usually reported on, is already adjusted for inflation and is usually reported as a percentage (i.e. it is unitless).

What this means is that if 100% of growth comes just from inflation then "GDP" will have increased but "Real GDP" wouldn't have.
Homesickness is also possible here. For those that have lived in California for over 10 years, you can get very attached to this state even given its high costs and other problems. There is a lot of diversity, good restaurants, good weather, beaches, and a sense of belonging in Silicon Valley. Giving up those things is not easy even if it comes with other benefits.
Nice try low effort article...
I think FarSide beat us to the punchline:
https://ifunny.co/picture/donning-his-new-canine-decoder-pro...

(or if that link doesn't work, try this one: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/09/ac/49/09ac494b1ff20a19812ea8ba0...)
I'm surprised at people who can't imagine what's theoretically possible. I always assumed someone could identify my location from a photo if they tried hard enough, even many decades ago before I'd heard of geoguessing or AI. It's just obvious that there's usually enough information in a photo to do that. Even for a grassy field.

There's a simple solution - don't publish your private information. That's how to use the internet 101. If you already did, then maybe it wasn't a very important secret anyway.
PDF format does not give you enough semantic information to understand there is a table. The stream contains instructions such as moving to a coordinate, adding some text, adding some lines. No tool can extract tables with 100% precision.
IME, kids at that age learn through play/engagement, not reading reference books. Have them come up an idea of a fun project and do it with whatever tools they are familiar with.
Yeah, the tree-sitter situation needs some work for sure. I considered adding the treesit-auto [1] package, but that's not in /(non)?GNU-ELPA/, so I left it out.

> Isn't even a list of URLs for grammars

Actually there is: if you run `treesit-install-language-grammar` and answer, say, `python`, it will auto-populate with the right URL. This doesn't work with every language, (e.g. Elixir isn't on the list) but it's a start.

Again: definitely needs some more work.

[1]: https://github.com/renzmann/treesit-auto
i wonder how long before every living person has an ancestor who was a billionaire in 2023
You have just given a list of achievable technologies which would allow growth within the current resource constraints. What do you think "new energy sources" are if not economic growth?
Would love to see a modern AI trained on geo-guessing compete with a human.
I'm a gun owner and I believe in the rights of citizens to be armed, but I'm still not sure this is a good argument. On principle, anything that causes unnecessary deaths should be curtailed unless the benefits somehow outweigh the damage. We still have people driving cars who kill each other every day by accident, but there's a general feeling that it would be better to do away with that if we could find a way to eliminate private transportation without destroying our economy in the process. To make a strong argument for firearms ownership requires not just downplaying the harm but actually explaining why the public good of an armed populace outweighs the many and obvious evils it inflicts on innocent people. That's a much tougher case to make to someone who's lost a family member to gun violence, but nonetheless it's a case that needs to be made (in my opinion) if we're going to remain an unruly bunch who won't be led down the road to either a right-wing or left-wing police state.

[edit: Just to clarify, I think there's an equally strong argument to be made about freedom of movement as a societal benefit, and an individual right, that outweighs the harms caused by humans driving their own cars.]
One quote, and one bit of 5-month USPS change-of-address data not specific to techies or those who'd recently moved-to-Austin? Not much to hang a trend story on. This kind of story is just pandering to some readers' desired headlines.
still won't prevent me from wasting time on configuring from scratch though. I think I'll wait... LOL. Maybe.
Both Keller joining and announcing they were going to use RISC-V happened in 2021.

Why on earth would you expect to already be falling over hardware in 2023?

CPU core design takes a couple of years, getting to the first test chips a couple more, and then to mass production a couple more after that.
Here he is asking for help to figure out where an old photo was taken ("a follower sent this to me in december, she had lost her mom 5 years ago and wants to know where they took this")

https://twitter.com/georainbolt/status/1698888344451867039

I like that he cares more about that than keeping up appearances
"Communicate" is a vague word. I guess I could communicate with you by hitting you upside the head, which is way more than I can say for plants communicating with each other, and for that matter about as much as I can say for most animals communicating with others of their species.
Generating PDFs are incredibly easy. I just generate LaTeX and run it through lualatex. When precise positioning is needed, I just use a giant tikzpicture.
Big disclaimer - this is a moot point outside bay area. If you are willing to do a startup for 170k because it is lot more than 110k, why wouldn't you leetcode your way into a fang say as an L5 (adjust level to YoE) making atleast 350-400k?
Seems like a bit of a combination of "sar" (sysstat) and pt-stalk - a percona-toolkit tool originally designed for MySQL DBAs that would let you wait until a certain system or MySQL condition happened (high cpu, disk I/O, connections maxed out, etc) and then start collecting lots of system and MySQL stats. Rather than having to do them all the time.

Plus a nice TUI :)
The validation curves will look identical. These models are far too small to overfit to the training set.

With a large enough model and many epochs, you can certainly get overfitting, but for one epoch val/train curves look exactly the same and I'd expect that a 7B model will never overfit on 2T tokens no matter how many epochs you do.
It is impossible to lump all US gun owners into a single stereotype, when a third of Americans own one. Any chunk of the population that large includes people of all kinds. In my experience, the people who are most responsible are the ones who you don't even know own guns, because they keep them locked up and out of sight.
Wouldn't that be ascendant? Or well ancestor to use the common term.
Sigh. I cannot believe people write such shit job postings with a straight face!
I don't want the stranger deciding to save the content as .bash_profile or such.
What's the difference between "cooking a steak and sautéing some veggies" and "trying to get a healthy balance of protein, carbs and veggies"?

OK, sure, baking bread takes a while.
Everybody with a few million dollars to spend per training run of their model in pure compute cost…
California partly took the tech industry from the old tech centers (Texas, Massachusetts, etc) due to regressive (or progressive, on California's part, if you choose to see it that way) policies regarding Non-Competes and other executive/corporate limits. It's become so entrenched in the economy now, with so many protective policies and huge VC centrality, that it's unlikely WFH and housing prices are going to dismantle that monopoly in a couple years.

That's not to say it's a permanent monopoly, but if those other states want to actually take any of that influence, they need to morph their policies to at least match the kind of privileges California offers. There are other places that have actually been working to do this for a decade or two that have grown permanent economies in the tech realm (Boston rebuilding their tech economy, Colorado, Utah, Oregon). Texas is simply not one of them, despite Austin doing its best.
That doesn't mean the death rate of children due to firearms is high, it could just mean there isn't really anything else that kills children i.e. they mostly have parents looking out for them, don't have to work dangerous jobs, and haven't lived long enough for lifestyle factors to take effect yet.
Defense contractors beg to differ
I'm kinda grokking it but still have no clue how far off the calculation is. To go back to the blog title, are you saying that the number of your ancestors is more like hundreds rather than thousands? Or is it just impossible to even put a number behind it due to how complicated the real-world relationships are?

Edit: Just saw your other comment here. The answer seems to be more along the lines of "impossible to put a number behind": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37387655
What a thread. Guy randomly claiming “the racism” with literally no evidence gets upvoted, while you who know what you’re talking about try pointing out that it’s nonsense and get downvoted and flagged.

I know it’s an old guideline to not claim HN is turning into Reddit, and I used to agree with it, but at least since Reddit killed Apollo etc and drove people away a lot of them seem to have come here, so it may really be happening this time. HN was pretty good while it lasted I guess.
The nytimes is that far behind on this whole blacksmith 'revival'? Hell, there's been a blacksmith show on one of the 'bad reality show networks' (History, Discovery, etc) for like 10 years. So it wasn't a new thing in the 2000s.
This. Only sad thing is how normalized/formulaic perf reviews have become. You have to hit X rubriks and have to show potential for growth and you have to be a leader and ....
I think it's mostly a numbers thing. Willing to bet that most people take owning a gun seriously, but there's a loooooooooot of guns in the US. There's enough in US circulation alone to give a gun to every citizen of the US, Canada, and the UK. That much floating around and there's bound to be some dumb fuck in the news waving around their new bang stick.

Like others have said, you've got a lot of other things in the US to worry about than guns. However, since we're sharing gun incidents, mine is that I had a sheriff's deputy LARPing as a SWAT officer bust in to the bathroom at work and point a rifle at me while I was trying to use the urinal. Lots of yelling until they realized that I was not a part of the drill and had my pants unzipped. Not happy that they didn't inform us that the cops were going to use the building we're in for school shooting training. Dangers of working in a repurposed school I guess?
Why, just because it's 110F every day and the electricity costs $50/kWh on weekdays from 6pm-8pm?

SF paper had a longer treatment of the report 2 days ago https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/california-transplants-... and it links to the original, paywalled report.
It's more or less correct because you must remember people don't live forever. Every time you go back more than a couple generations you're starting back at 0.

It's why evolution is such a no brainer. Think of a creature with just a few years of life. They have countless ancestors every century, every millenia. Countless millions and billions of parents came before us.
> When people say they find the "very idea of billionaires" abhorrent, what exactly is the solution here? After the stock in your company becomes worth > billion you have to give it away for free?

Yes. Arguably it was never rightfully theirs to begin with—owning someone else's labor output without working yourself is a pretty antisocial act.

Furthermore I'd argue that billionaires have repeatedly demonstrated they are unable to invest in public good. Philanthropy used to be a thing; even the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is a pathetic shadow of that practice with obvious ideological blind spots.
This could basically have been written by ChatGPT with the prompt "write a story about USPS change of address data showing movement out of X as it relates to the tech industry"
Not sure exactly what you're saying, but: Bible translators regularly translate the Bible into other languages, including the kind of "tribal" languages you refer to. The people they translate for are fine with saying "there are fish in the pond over there", and they can also talk about abstract concepts. They may not have vocabulary for all the same concepts we have, whether abstract ("justification") or concrete (the Inuit didn't have words for sheep), but they have plenty of words for things for which we don't have individual words, and those other concepts can be described in phrases. And of course they have grammars.
> They're just auctioning off empty seats to cut costs.

No, they are selling off seats that aren't taken. They are making more money since those seats would be empty.

Cutting costs would not be selling the seats and saving on fuel.
My parents are related through one set of grandparents four or five generations back.

My wife and I are related through the same grandparents.

These are weird, but it makes sense - we're from smaller towns, which were settled not that long ago in the grand scheme of things. If you trace enough of us back, we're all probably related.

But the seriously trippy part is - my younger sibling and their spouse are related through the same great(x4 or so) grandparents. The sibling is from a different country that isn't even close to where we're from. Like literally the other side of the planet.

It blew my mind.
You skipped the naan and lassi and samosa/pakora and sauces.
Vi, you despicable emacs heretic.
That was funny, thank you
Yeah, nowadays a DSL is almost never a good idea. A library for some pre-existing flexible language can do the job without reinventing a whole lot of wheels. The most specific languages I can think of that make sense are SQL and Solidity.

But DSLs are tempting, especially among the more passionate programmers, so at work we've ended up with a lot of them. All of them are tripping hazards.
TL/DR: this is super generic "convert serial device to LCD display using Arduino" tutorial, this time talking to RS-485 equipped anemometer.

Looks like the anemometer itself can only be purchased from manufacturer, for $73 + unknown shipping, and using "contact us" form only (there is no web store) [0]. And the datasheet is available by request only. Normally this would disqualify any product, but $73 is very cheap for ultrasonic anemometers, so if you really have a need for one, this is something to consider.

(but the implementation in the article itself is NOT the approach I'd recommend.. If you are buying $100 sensor, don't pair it with tiny $3 display with tiny hard-to-read letters, spend a few dollars more and get yourself a nicer, bigger display. And while at it, might as well take advantage of RS485 multipoint nature and stick a thermometer in that empty louver box underneath the device)

[0] https://www.renkeer.com/product/ultrasonic-anemometer/
As nice as the technology is as long as there's the potential of a Damoclean license issue I'll always feel hesitant around ZFS.

(Hey looks like it's a sore spot!)
I would argue that government could desperately use improved software, but on the other hand I’m not sure how much developers could influence things there.

Anecdotally, dev is viewed as an Oompa Loompa job in government. Tools to execute the vision of others.
Sure, he's made mistakes, that doesn't make his cooking "unclean". Unless people are getting sick from it (and they're not), his cooking is fine.

And I'm not taking it personally btw, I just think it's silly to claim you know more about kitchen hygiene than a literal professional.
"The CUDA Handbook" does a great job introducing GPU programming and explaining the hardware capabilities of GPUs
On macOS using Preview you can add textual comments on otherwise uneditable PDFs. Then you can simply print the commented PDF as a new PDF.

Converting to JPG unnecessarily rasterizes text and introduces ugly compression artefacts.
Solving for Hidden Data
https://archive.is/y0UYL
It's easy to start learning another language without an interpreter or dictionary, you just start with concrete objects and actions. The hard part is representing the sounds (phonemes), which are often quite different from the language the learner knows. It helps that there is a way of writing all the known sounds of all the studied languages (the IPA, which Wikipedia uses), and it's pretty rare these days that a "new" sound is found.
Zero user control over technical functionality is totally Apple's MO these days. They were a lot better at this in the early OSX days, they only used to hide technical details but the user could still control them if they knew what they were doing.

But since iOS they've been slowly pushing this model to Mac. It pushed me away from the Mac platform, I only use it for work now.
Linking to a grab-bag of random claims by people with their own axes to grind is not terribly convincing or conducive to productive discussion. Do you think EA people haven't saved as many lives as they claim (just in the here and now, disregarding the minority of funding going to speculative future causes), or that this is not as important as they claim?
Check out a documentary called "The Biggest Little Farm" for a US based farm that created true bio-diversity/ecosystem, and used it instead of pesticides to grow food.