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Intel publicly walked away from a $2B offer for SiFive, which means that at least one large chip manufacturer does not believe their IP is worth more than $2B. I'm not sure if the Round F post-money valuation was made public, but if it's more than $2B, SiFive will need to have a solid story for why a potential buyer should pay more than what Intel didn't want to pay. And if they're going to IPO, it would be helpful to have a reference customer for newer designs which seem to be on par with ARM offerings from four years ago.

It's certainly not impossible, but it seems a tough row to hoe.

But the cool part of this is that the ISA and many supporting packages (rocket, boom, etc.) are "open" and "free as in beer." Even if SiFive did fail, an IP investment in RISC-V would not necessarily have been a bad move. Which is why I said I'm fairly bullish on RISC-V (cause even if SiFive fails, customers existing investment in the ISA is not lost) but bearish on SiFive (because I fear their existing valuation may be too inflated.)

I'm not trying to tell anyone their SiFive baby is ugly. I'm not saying designing a RISC-V solution is a bad move. I'm just saying from my perspective, with incomplete information about what's going on inside SiFive, it looks like they have a difficult road ahead. I would POSITIVELY WELCOME any information regarding reference customers or catalog parts which might imply there's a large customer who's signed on the dotted line to pay SiFive a royalty for using their designs.

Full disclosure: I own no SIFIVE stock (or options) nor do I own stock in any company that competes in the RISC-V design space (Esperanto, Andes, Sandisk/WD, etc.) I still have stock in TXN though, but I haven't heard that they're deep in RISC-V. I am a former employee of SiFive, but was not employed in a management position; don't take my comments as being based on "inside information."
If this was Twitter / X having these outages every single week, the entirety of HN would come out and scream 'Twitter / X falling apart!', 'It is crumbling', 'Its grinding to a halt again!'

In comparison to GitHub which for a service to have tons of outages a week is quite atrocious for reliability.

But somehow it is acceptable to tolerate GitHub's ridiculous uptime record, but of course, on HN and in wider tech circles, a different standard of uptime is applied here to GitHub despite it being known that it has fallen over much more times than Twitter / X has done for years, week after week.

Until the next time GitHub goes down again. Probably won't be long anyway.
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To me Wayland has the problem that too much functionality is done inside it. Basically it does the function of the display manager (X), compositor and window manager. While the last two were usually done by the same component also under X (while not strictly required), having the display manager and the window manager as separate components makes sense.

i thought it was the other way around. in X11 everything including display manager and compositor are part of X itself, only the window manager is a client, whereas wayland separates the protocol and the compositor and display manager. the latter includes the window manager because a window manager always had a privileged position, and that i think interfered with the security architecture. by not having the need to allow a privileged window manager, wayland apps are more secure against interference by other apps.
Ask HN: Complex Instruction-Set Storage?
Hi HN,

I was just thinking how filesystems and data operations on files are exclusively done by the OS and applications. Why is there a need for modern hardware to stick to simple instructions for disk operations?

I'd imagine disk controllers being aware of logical segementation of their storage, supporting file systems and even APIs like SQL, Redis,Elastic,etc... why does my program perform a SQL SELECT or UPDATE which the DB then has to ask the OS to get the data from disk, the fs driver figures out the inode details and them does an open+read operation and after all this the DB will get the data, work on it and report back to my app? Why can't I tell the storage controller firmware "sectors x through y is a sql db and xn through yn is table" and then the storage controller itself runs the DB with.

Imagine searching for files meant the disk searched for them (or their content!). I can see how this would have been a crazy idea 10+ years ago, but given the role secondary storage plays as a performance bottleneck, wouldn't this cut down on operations done per cpu cycle? And the economics of the hardware doesn't seem that wild.

Another way to look at it is how GPUs implement things like OpenGL and CUDA, not just simple pixel and raster operations with their own specialized compute and storage setup.

Why haven't the brains at large done this already?
They said nothing of the sort. People in here are passing this method of farming off as a settled fact that it is better, when even Gotsch says it is still experimental and admits using fertilizer would boost yields of wheat, soy, and maize. Dropping yields of some of these key crops in the world's calorie consumption nearly 30% would be devastating to countries that depend on imports.

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World's most important sources of calories: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-important-staple-fo...
You might like the Matias Ergo Pro. It is the most comfortable keyboard I've ever typed on, and I've owned literally dozens of mechanical, ergonomic, split, and specialty keyboards. It has all the function keys, and it has these terrific large modifier keys in front. I'm a heavy VIM user, but I still appreciate the terrific arrow cluster on that keyboard. And they've got an additional Ctrl key next to N - I love it.

Just be aware that the build quality is terrible. I had two Matias keyboards, neither lasted a year... And I type lightly, preferring 35 gram keys. At $250 each it is quite the investment. But, honestly, they are worth the price. They are _that_ comfortable.
I own one, and I found 8GB to be a bit limiting.
If you work with something like emacs or vim probably you're fine, but if you try to run Xcode or you program in Java, good luck.
This was a typo, I meant South Asian where I wrote South East Asian.
Thanks for pointing this out.
Several billion needs to be spent on collapsing schools and Birmingham has just gone bankrupt. We need a significant amount of public spending just to maintain the country.
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The revealed preferences in this story display that for these two individuals there is at least $100 of value in viewing this spectacle, and no more than $100 distaste in performing this spectacle. Sadly GDP does not measure how much surplus value was created by these two transactions, given that maximizing utility is a better normative goal than maximizing GDP, but GDP did indeed increase by $200 and it is accurate in indicating that at least total utility was increased (less unaccounted for externalities like unfertilized trees or whatever).
How does Bedframe compare with Plasmo? What are your plans moving forward?
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I've seen exactly one "Americas test kitchen" video.

It claimed with confidence that the only way to make pork skin crunchy (ie into crackling) is to fry the pork after it's been roasted (ie turn it upside down in a pan of oil/fat)

I didn't even watch the rest of the video. I don't know if they're catering to people who can't work the knob on an oven or if they themselves are just incompetent but that one claim was enough for me to never watch their shit again.
Your skepticism seems ideological, rather than practical. The FCC manages frequency bands, without which most technologies that rely on long-band EM spectrum would become a mess of conflicting signals.
> Civil liberties have been restricted in past pandemics as well.

Not universally throughout the country, no. There has been none.

I can't take seriously anyone who claims the COVID response was anything other than unprecedented
The problem is economists pretend they are a hard science, while their founding works are largely just assertions from randos in the 1600s. There's no scientific basis for any of it, and plenty of economics still stand on the stilts of things like "rational actors" and other handwaves that they use to pretend their terrible toy models can represent reality. They also do things like define market efficiency in circular ways.

Even game theory sits on top of the throne of "rational actors", meanwhile human beings are explicitly IRRATIONAL actors.

If economics was a functional science, the richest people in the world would be economists. That it isn't is strong evidence that no economics yet has produced strong predictions, which is a rather significant problem for a "science".
> Your wait for an MRI isn't because of helium, it's because insurance providers want to avoid paying for things.

More accurately, it's because of corrupt or wildly misguided politicians that are against single payer healthcare due to bribery from established healthcare and insurance companies
Having home electronics at the back of the store is a common pattern. Wal-Mart does the same thing, for example.

There are usually batteries at the checkout stands, though.
This port is ancient history.

Have a look at: https://dboddie.gitlab.io/inferno-diary/index.html
I was in the storage industry back when the unfortunate events happened (even knew an engineer who was personal friends with Reiser). My take is that:

1) ReiserFS had some innovative features, but was also known for shredding data; in fact I personally lost data to some kind of bug in the driver, not as a result of hardware failure. So it didn't have a great reputation among professionals.

2) Some of the really useful features were also provided by competing file systems like XFS and ZFS; also, EFS was getting better every day. Many sysops sidestepped to those (over a period of several years) and called it done.

3) A number of ReiserFS capabilities were focused on saving disk space at the expense of performance. (IIRC it was block packing and inode-only storage for small files, but it's been a while and I could be misremembering.) These were effectively obsoleted by the drive industry's polynomial increases in storage capacity.

4) AFAIK it was a one-man show, there wasn't a cadre of contributors and maintainers to carry it forward.

So combined with what you said, it wasn't compelling enough a project to resume development even with a rename.
Steam works very well on macOS/ARM64 (M1 or later). I didn't even know it used Rosetta until I checked out due to this article, this specific sentence:

> The bummer is that the Steam portal that runs on Linux is purely coded for x86/amd64 based system, that is why the Steam Deck is based on AMD.

Bummer to only see Nvidia GPUs in this article btw. They're only better bang for buck for AI/ML (obviously, thanks to CUDA, and therefore it makes sense Ampere focuses on these) and for 4k. Steam Deck needs to do neither as its 720p.
> stuck on a derivative of Ubuntu 18.04 [...] as our project was being developed in Python, we were stuck on 3.6

I might be missing something but why do you need to rely on the OS provided Python version? Newer versions that 3.6 should run on older Ubuntu versions. You could have installed newer versions using the deadsnake PPA for example onto 18.04 up until earlier this year (since LTS only has a 5 year support window, and deadsnakes only supports active LTS versions).
> I'm having trouble thinking of a precedent for this - an open source project that has a core API which is effectively a lead generator for their proprietary cloud service.

Is this not Vercel’s entire business model? I don’t think they invented it either.
The dimensionality isn't really a problem if you are selecting the right features, which is usually the secret sauce for any particular application.

It's funny seeing this come up now as this was my full time job ten years ago and even then most of the research had been completed decades prior.
The cost per shot of film adds up quickly, and I'm always sure to emphasize that to friends who ask about film photography as a cheap option, but the price of the cameras seems exaggerated to me, especially given how much a used DSLR or mirrorless of equal "reputation" would cost. If you're buying one of the iconic cameras, or whatever one the "influencers" have declared a "hidden gem" this week then sure, but there's plenty of good used SLRs and point-and-shoots to be bought for comfortably under $100 (perhaps rangefinders are harder to find cheap, I've never looked). And of course there's no image sensor to differentiate the price, so a top-of-the-range SLR and a cheap one with the same lens mount should theoretically take equivalent images
This looks great. I would love to be able to use this to create UIs if it were to support integration with GraphQL data sources.
Not to imply playing video games is as intellectually stimulating as reading, but I feel like some games really challenge you in a positive manner. The ability to manage your inventory, interact with characters, make choices and deal with the consequences are all great for expanding your mind. Essentially, playing some RPGs (I feel) can make you a slightly better person whereas I have a hard time seeing the intellectual value in something like Fortnite.
I really jive with CBT methods. Unfortunately, health care allotments even for the otherwise securely insured is VERY limiting. After my initial three visits, I had to start ponying up. After a while whether it helps or not it becomes part of the same calculation most middle and lower class americans have to make when it comes to bills/utilities/food vs "niceties" ie our health.
it's be nice to have links to the companies.
> Getting companies to not delete posts if they want to not be held liable for stuff their users posts helps prevent this issue.

If you return to the “any effort to moderate lawful content at all gives you publisher-style liability over the whole service” rule that existed pre-230, you destroy all commercial UGC sites pretty quickly. Because flawless moderation at scale isn't possible, and the market for unmoderated sites is pretty limited. (Especially because either way you have to respond to reports of certain potentially unlawful content to avoid criminal liability, and that rule creates a huge risk that a slight error in that response suddenly opens you up to unlimited civil liability for other content.)

We know this because that was the emerging situation that Section 230 was the response to.
To expand on this, since it's not explicit in Marco's comment: The statutory authority is section 302(a) of the Communications Act, which authorizes the FCC to regulate devices that can interfere with radio communication. Their reasoning is that IOT devices fit this category, so regulations on security updates are within scope.

Full quote from the notice of proposed rulemaking: "In particular, section 302(a) of the Communications Act authorizes the FCC “consistent with the public interest, convenience, and necessity, [to] make reasonable regulations (1) governing the interference potential of devices which in their operation are capable of emitting radio frequency energy by radiation, conduction, or other means in sufficient degree to cause harmful interference to radio communications; . . .” While this program would be voluntary, entities that elect to participate would need to do so in accordance with the regulations the Commission adopts in this proceeding, including but not limited to the IoT security standards, compliance requirements, and the labeling program’s operating framework. We tentatively conclude that the standards the Commission proposes to apply when administering the proposed labeling program fall within the scope of “reasonable regulations… governing the interference potential of devices….” We seek comment on this reasoning."
There's really no case to be made from the CDDL side. It's a weak per-file copyleft.

If anyone (Oracle or Linus Torvalds) launches a ZFS-related lawsuit, it'll be as an author of GPLv2 kernel code. For the time being the solution has been to ship ZFS separate from the kernel, as any module with a non-GPL licence typically does.

The biggest hurdle to ZFS isn't legal, but technical. The various teams working on ZFS has so far been able to keep up with kernel churn and symbols (eg FPU ones) being made GPL-only.

That said, the kernel devs have made it clear that they don't care if you're open source or proprietary, they will make changes and mark new symbols GPL-only to fuck with you regardless.
Understanding what the compiler outputs is also essential to debug the inevitable issues that come up when porting an existing program to WASM. Since it's a different platform with significant limitations, it's important to know how to replace some core APIs and capabilities and how to interface with these alternatives.

By limitations I mean things that a POSIX program would expect that aren't generally available from WASM, like network programming, file system access, processes and threads, pipes and signals. Emscripten and WASI help to some extent, but the replacement APIs are rarely fully compatible.
Green isn't audiophile enough. Needs to shine in royal purple pink, or something like that.
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Machine Learning Games, a repository containing set of games and simulations designed to experiment with QLearning, Neuroevolution, and PoseNet.
Here are the games and simulations available in this repository:

* Ball_Q-Learning: A simulation of a ball learning how to reach a target with Q-Learning.

* Flappy_Bird_PoseNet: Flappy Bird controlled with PoseNet.

* Stickman_PoseNet: A sample jumping game with PoseNet.

* Drone_Q-Learning: A Unity simulation of a drone learning how to fly with Q-Learning.

* Wolf3d_PoseNet: Wolf3d controlled PoseNet and pose classification.

* Worm-Q-Learning: A simulation of a worm learning how to jump with Q-Learning.

* Worm_Neuroevolution: A simulation of a worm learning how to jump with Neuroevolution.
I recently started to have the same ideas, and I have created 3 bookmarklets and 1 userscript https://github.com/madacol/web-automation
Speaking of tools, I want to add keyword search to my CEQ project. I’m currently just using pinecone for retrieval, but I’m not always getting results for specific niche technical terms. Do you have any advice?
Reddit banning all the gender-critical feminist subreddits, and anyone expressing these viewpoints. Twitter of old doing similar.

I agree with you that this isn't about silencing conservatives, but rather anyone who refuses to accept the ideological stance that men can be women and vice versa.
It does. Each DMCA requires “A statement that the information in the complaint is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.”
Free with more options: https://github.com/nathan-fiscaletti/keyboardsounds
I don't think people on HN understand what a derivative work is, considering how often I see it referenced incorrectly. You can't make a derivative work without a license. That's why it's derivative. It derivates from the copyrighted work and is therefore within the domain of the copyright and under the control of the copyright's owner.

A Harry Potter spin-off about Hermione (I don't know anything about HP, sorry in advanced) is a derivative of the original Harry Potter work. As I'm sure you are well aware, you cannot sell copies of your Hermione spin-off, because that'd be copyright infringement, because it is a derivative work.
In reply to your other post (I could not comment on it directly)

> ... then is there really still any meaningful relationship between helium supply and the patient wait time for MRIs as westcort complained? Or is it just that there are too few MRI machines in the healthcare system?

The US is second highest in number of MRI machines per capita after Japan. Its probably staffing issues or maybe MRI scans are used much more widely in the US.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/282401/density-of-magnet...
They've had a lot of practice
It's been a minute since I've looked at embeddings in this context but isn't Johnson-Lindenstrauss going to be applicable here so that you can get away with 1024-long (or shorter) vectors?
A YAML based DSL for testing and No-code test builder for generating the tests
Do you find it useful?

The goal is to have a human readable and writable format for describing API tests and API call workflows.
This format then also serves as a target which a postman like GUI could also generate. It's very inspired by postman and by httpie
without the express permission of those other people.

That is false. They simply have to use the other software, i.e., the crack, within the terms of its license.

In this case, the crack was distributed widely with a permissive use license. My hazy memories of that era specifically mention giving them credit and nothing else. There was definitely no commercial use restriction.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/03/natural-d...
There's a difference between constructive feedback and toxic. Your comment falls in the latter category.
>> I'm genuinely curious: what is the difference between hourly and daily/weekly rates?

Clients start haggling on a hour by hour basis sometimes. Some want to review tasks and how long each took and whether the hours add up. Sometimes, it takes so long to figure out the conclusion of the haggling, that you've already lost 2 or 3 hours of non-billable time on the haggling itself.

With weekly billing, the haggling is reduced.
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I was a big Chromebook supporter for a number of years--especially for travel. But the model I really liked, a ~11" ASUS doesn't seem to have a current equivalent and I generally just travel with an old MacBook now (or don't travel with a laptop at all depending on the nature of the trip). If I'm basically going to need the form factor of a 13" laptop I might as well carry the more general-purpose laptop--even if I mostly use it as a browser.
It's not just pharma. It's a big revenue driver for the entire healthcare industry for the past decade. Billions have been spent trying to generate demand and create'awareness'. Everyone is in on it, including HR people at your companies trying to stay relevant, countless mental health related start-ups, insurance companies, and providers.
It's been years since I've seen a landline, but as of a ~decade ago you could still dial "rotary" by tapping the receiver hook with the correct spacing. (1 click to dial a "1," 2 clicks to dial a "2," etc. with a pause between digits.)
I wonder if commenters on Psych News question the professional judgement of IT workers based on second hand reports of their behavior.
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I used to frequently attend music festivals in the early 00s. A 5-hour-queue to leave a festival site strikes me as perfectly reasonable for something as large as Burning Man. I was at a festival for NYE 1999 and it was 11 hours from the moment we started driving to the moment we got out of the jam.