skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its an eye-raising decision for sure, but this is literally Microchip's most recent MPU design. Microchip has Cortex-A5 and Cortex-A7 chips available for those who want them. But the most recently released chip is in fact SAM9X60.

My assumption is that Microchip has a large customer who is demanding as perfect of a match to some 20+ year old design, and Microchip is more than happy to produce this ancient design for them.

ARM926EJ-S gives us a big hint: J for Jazelle. If some customer has some old Embedded Jazelle/Java code that they haven't bothered to update in the last 20 years, perhaps its easier for Microchip to just keep making ARM926EJ-S rather than forcing them to upgrade to Cortex-A5 or A7 (which although newer... these newer chips have all gotten rid of Jazelle / hardware execution of Java code).

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Code-wise, there's probably a lot of downsides. But electrically speaking, the SAM9X60 is an extremely well designed BGA with well-matched VCC/GND pins that has a 4-layer reference design. (Or at least: the SiP version SAM9X60-D1G). In a world where 6, 8, or 10-layer designs are commonly needed to route DDR-RAM, seeing a 4-layer board reference design is pretty nuts (https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/Appnotes/AN_3311_SAM9... as well as the 4-layer DDR2 layout that was validated on: https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/Appnotes/AN_3310_Conn...).

Designing an 14mm x 14mm BGA223 that can be routed on a 4-layer board is no small feat. And therefore, this is probably one of the easiest BGAs to layout for a beginner, and lowers your PCB production costs.
I'm in the U.S. and it is still a 404
Reminds me of using VPNs in hotels in China some years ago. Traffic would work for a few minutes and then the Great Firewall kicks in, fingerprints the traffic as VPN and the IP address and the MAC gets blocked. I'd rotate the endpoint and the MAC address and get a few more minutes, rinse and repeat.

I think I had to use Shadowsocks or something at the end to completely bypass it.
Definitely a sticking point for me as well.
> The goal is to grow, not set back.

If you're a university, the goal is to fill up your university with satisfied customers and increase revenue.

If you're a student, the goal is to form social networks that you can later use to help in business.

If you're a politician, the goal is to increase college attendance rates.

If you're a hard-line right winger, the goal is actually to set undesirable groups back, but that's a pretty fringe position.

If you just want to learn and grow, you should avoid the university system entirely.
I suppose given the enormous force gradients around even a basketball sized black hole, it could potentially be turned into one of the most efficient ways to convert matter into energy by building an accretion disk around it?
It's also dark for 6 months there.. staying over the winter through that is not easy. They're mostly locked inside all winter having to figure out how to not go stir crazy.
Broadly speaking, it seems society is best served by these laws being bright lines both in terms of category of the aggrieved and category of participation in society. Otherwise, we leave much open to court and enforcement interpretation.

In this example, I'm reluctant to hand either the executive or the court as much leeway as "actual relevance" would hand them.

Trying to list all possible factors is a never-ending task, but these are issues society itself tends to be contentious on; given that people don't fully agree on the underlying philosophy of why we pass these laws, and the laws carry the threat of government force with them, it's probably wise to make them clear.
I still see people riding rental electric scooters all over most major cities. Seems like a viable business, although mostly commoditized now.
I use a Pixel 5a with GrapheneOS with full storage encryption and even when it stops getting updates no matter the security situation I don't plan on upgrading at all if ever, I already don't want any banking or authentication to rely on a phone so that's not a big issue. Of course I still have machines at home running Windows XP (updated to 2019 albeit) so do not listen to me on security.
In the Milky Way’s Stars, a History of Violence
Windows has a special rendering mode for applications when RDP is being used to optimise the connection by redrawing as little as possible. It has the ability to dynamically switch between crisp, pixel accurate forward-chunked-GDI-draw-calls mode to a connection speed based compression level of an H.264/H.265 stream. There are also a bunch of extensions related to GPU acceleration.

If you use RDP on a Windows server with a consumer GPU, you van hack the Nvidia driver to make more NVENC streams available (they're capped in software) to run more RDP heads without overhead.

RDP also does sound forwarding, local drive forwarding, printer forwarding, and USB device forwarding (up to a point). It also supports a wide range of security features and authentication as security requirements have increased over the years, and has built-in support for bastion hosts/gateways.

One very interesting feature is the ability to RDP only specific applications rather than the desktop. Cassowary will let you "use Windows applications" by using a Windows VM and using RDP to run the applications on Linux as if they were running locally (Cassowary also automatically suspends the VM which is what sets it apart). It's a bit like X11 forwarding, except your local files and drives available without extra commands to set up reverse SSHFS mounts.

VNC is to RDP what telnet is to HTTP/3. The underlying concepts are the same, but the implementations have very different feature sets and advancements. Does VNC even support passwords longer than right characters yet? Last time I checked, VNC servers still truncated your password.

Being proprietary, RDP support on Linux is very limited in comparison. RDP clients like Remmina support a surprising amount of features, but on the server side things aren't as compatible. For example, connecting to xrdp works great from desktop clients, but the Microsoft client on Android is slow as hell.

I've also experienced buggy behaviour on Gnome when FreeRDP tries to render window borders in app mode. Window borders don't get drawn right and clicks seem to be shifted by it for some reason.

I don't blame the FreeRDP/xrdp developers for any bugs or problems because RDP is a terribly complex protocol with tons of features, but sadly Linux doesn't seem to have an implementation or alternative that compares to Windows and RDP together.
Is that only a client? Or is there also a server that can run on Linux?
Also Internet over ICMP, for when captive portals used to let those through.
Why glibc's fstat() is slow
Words mean things, especially when communicating in professional or semi-professional settings with terminology with longstanding meaning. To not do so is poor communication, and irresponsible depending on the stakes.

Codegen's long history of macro-fied (or similar kind of scripting) source writing matters here. It has the very important property of having consistent/deterministic output from a process that can be verified with very high confidence by rudimentary human inspection.

It's like calling autocomplete "codegen".

I truly love LLM-assisted coding. I would never call it codegen, and think it can even be unethical to do so when the stakes are high, because it gives it the veneer of trustworthiness that lends one to carelessly not audit it.

LLM-aided code writing should, IMO, be called "code assist", not "codegen".
Check audio settings. There are selection for audio output (Settings Menu -> Audio -> Audio Device). I didn't have any sound but selecting anything else than "Default Device" worked.
Comparing reactivity models: Redux vs. MobX vs. Vuex vs. others
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That's a lot of JS and CSS to render the page to look like YAML.
1.
As I said in the original thread:

There is already a check at the beginning of the function:
if (index > PT_FPSCR)
return -EIO;

2. fpscr will actually be written to by this line of code:

+ ((unsigned int \*)child->thread.fp_state.fpr)
+ [FPRINDEX(index)] = data;

3. This is a nitpick.

So please tell me how my patch was buggy.
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“For a while now, we’ve been spending way more money than we earn,” wrote Chief Executive Officer Tim Sweeney.

Fortnite has generated a revenue of over $26 billion since its release in 2017.

How in the world could they possibly have spent more than they make? I mean, how is that remotely possible?

16% of its staff is 870. They had 5,437 staff?

That's $797,008 per employee per year. And that's just from Fortnite alone, ignoring all of their other sources of revenue. Imagine spending "way more" than that.

What am I missing?
It would probably be better to incinerate the waste plastic after a chance at reuse. LDPE bottles wont be releasing much aside from that cut across the top to form the lid if not cut with a hot knife. Any reuse could prevent someone from buying a bag that most likely would be made from polyester that sheds incredible amounts of microplastics. Reduce, Reuse and finally Recycle.

I am much more concerned about all the rubber particles on the roadways from tires, especially with the new Japanese research that suggests the microplastics in clouds are a rubber product.
If I'm hiring a programmer can I discriminate based on skill and experience?
And smaller aircraft often have nearly zero useful load with full fuel. So if you want to actually carry something, you’re going to only filling up, say, half way. (The reason they do this is to have a useful ferry range when empty).
This is all correct, IMHO, and in addition: so many physicians have complained to me, in private/confidence, that they don't try to "help, above and beyond" anymore simply because they feel helpless, ineffective to implement actual useful changes to a profoundly corrupt system of pay-to-live healthcare.

When you're at a point that 45% of US healthcare (already the most-expensive, GDP%-wise) is already paid for by a US government entity... we might as well admit that a single-payer system MIGHT make a little more sense.?! Perhaps.?!

--

myPOV: dropped out after intro ER med school rotation, 15+ years ago.
Interesting how they chose to make more general `vehicleId` instead of `planeId` or `tailNumber` or something. I wonder if Delta's fleet includes other things that have matching APIs to this one. I also wonder how much of their internal system structure one could learn from the `flightId` if they knew about other systems. It doesn't look like much beyond a composite key of otherwise knowable data, but still interesting.
New JWST results show we’re on a path to finding alien life
I live in Oxford, UK, and there was plenty of mask wearing here. I did't notice dirty looks, but one time someone actually lunged for my face in the street to pull my mask off and I had to defend myslf. Another time someone in a restaurant asked in a challenging manner why I was wearing a mask.

Personally I found them comforting to wear. Recently I'm seeing a slight uptick in other people wearing masks locally (yes in September 2023), and I find that comforting too. It shows people care a little. Having caught Covid earlier this year (May 2023) the only time I travelled into London, then gave it to my family before we realised, I'm not eager to do that repeatedly, as the risk of Long Covid is said to be a new roll of the dice for all of us each time.
Also, before the Swiss start congratulating themselves too much, it is not becoming green in any meaningful sense of the word, and its ecological footprint is waaaay larger than justified by its size and than most other parts of the world.
> protected minority race

Is this a legal concept in the USA? I thought it just left it at “race” and everything legally was symmetric across all “races” (though perhaps not always in practice).
It's not about cost, it's about quality
Can someone explain to me why there are so many category theory posts in HN? To me it's just a pretty obscure branch of mathematics and there are almost no posts about any of the more popular branches of mathematics.
Fairphones are more bulky because they are modular, are easy to open, and don't use glue. If there is space for 3.5mm you might have a point.

I would prefer two USB-C over one USB-C plus one 3.5mm. It would be more useful to a lot of customers.
> If users can’t be arsed to turn off privacy settings maybe privacy isn’t as important as we think it is

Or perhaps... users don't have the technical literacy necessary to understand what expectations of privacy aren't being met.
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They don't really make guarantees about the reliability of push notifications (IIRC), so it's unlikely you'd see anything about downtime unless it was sustained for some time.
Whatever, they all knew they were going to die by putting their name on that document big or small.

Point still stands.
+10, yes, don't make people recreate all the filtering for something you're putting in their hands.
I went to school to learn what they were teaching in class and I did actually learn it.
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I majored in CS and followed two graduate level courses on category theory. If it's any consolation I have no idea either.
“Stop eating salt. Take a piece of chocolate. Eat it.”

You can use language to guide and point. Talking about chocolate is difficult. Pointing to chocolate is not.

Ceasing the consumption of “salt” may be difficult and the “chocolate” in question may be subtle so you may need many intermediate steps.

Nothing we experience can be transcribed into words. Literally nothing. There is not one thing you can experience that’s possible to pin down into script. It’s pointers all the way down.
Why four different line items for IQ8+ inverters? I see 18 @ $133.81 each, 1 @ $150.56, 3 @ $128.45, and 9 @ 130.55.

Buying from multiple sellers to take advantage of deals?
I think this is the partial reason, over the past decade, many programs have changes from "Masters"-level to "Doctorate"-level (e.g. NP, PT).
I didn't recognize the name but figured he was the guy who came up with M-theory, and sure enough, that's him. I believe the point here is achieving a legacy within the academy, not being known in pop culture. I think there's a lot of ambivalence about his influence, but it's definitely been large. His papers revealing how the whole superstring thing can be constructed in a way that doesn't blatantly contradict observed reality diverted at least a generation of theorists into the search for the holy grail of a theory of everything, but because we have no means of experiementally probing anything at the scales involved, it has also turned a generation of physicists into algebraic topologists largely divorced from experimental practice.

You can think of him maybe like the Velvet Underground of physicists. They never achieved much popularity themselves, but virtually every rock band of the past 40 years that has gotten popular cites them as an influence, and many artists would rather have that as a legacy than popularity. Similarity, I think a lot of physicists would rather be well known and influential to other physicists rather than becoming the next Michio Kaku or someone else who shows up on television a lot.
> Now around every corner lies a brand you’ve never heard of, selling a product you’re not sure about.

Which is actually great! I'm not even joking. There has been an explosion of helpful products that simply didn't exist before, because these Chinese manufacturers are so willing to experiment.

Consumer-friendly shelves of every type and dimension. Massage balls/tools of a wide variety of textures and hardnesses. Highly specific niche costumes. And a million other things.

I used to think "I really need this exact thing in this exact size but it doesn't exist", and 10 years it never did. These days, I look on Amazon, and -- son of a gun, there are 5 different versions of it all from the past year. You can see that the newest model from last month fixes problems that reviewers of the previous model were complaining about.

No recognizable American brand has bothered to satisfy the market, but 5 different random Chinese "brands" have. And that's an amazing thing.

> Good deals on name brands are harder to come by.

Citation needed. All my Under Armour workout gear, for example, is usually 30-50% cheaper on Amazon that it is on the Under Armour site itself, or from somewhere like Macy's. Apple laptops and iPads are regularly 10-20% cheaper than from Apple. Name brand merchandise sold on Amazon is more consistently cheaper than from anywhere else in my experience. (It is highly dependent on the specific brand though, so I'm talking about in aggregate -- some brands just aren't discounted on Amazon or anywhere else at all.)
I strongly agree that it is anti-competitive and anti-consumer to not allow crossplay.

That's not blaming Valve for being successful. That's calling them out for anti-consume practices.
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> If you just want to learn and grow, you should avoid the university system entirely.

I disagree with this. The university system is really good for exposure, assuming that people who are attending the system actually take advantage of the exposure. e.g. I was able to take dedicated lessons in multiple languages, artistic mediums, theories in various fields, by experts in each field. Many of these experts were presenting their work for free outside of lessons, and often times provided free food and drink to boot! Also, because my institution was larger, we often had scholars travel here to present their various works and even little get-togethers where multiple scholars from multiple fields collaborated and presented work. For free! With free food and drink!

I can't get a single dedicated language instructor for my life nowadays, it's bullshit apps or stuff oriented towards children only. Same if I wanted to learn the basics of, say, a performance art, or painting. The best system I have nowadays for learning is mostly hacker spaces and maker spaces, but they're specialized in what they can teach me and don't often have the kind of dedicated experts "office hours" or anything like that.
Here's the thing. We've basically been using TOML since the INI file format from MS-DOS. It works, and it's useable, and we've all seen it. TOML is just an evolution of the INI format to fix some of its shortcomings. YAML blasts onto the scene like "hey, what if we just rewrite the JSON format to make it legible?" which brings with it a million edge cases of problems.

YAML is the new kid on the block. And despite having several great formats for different use cases already, some kind of mass hysteria caused big players to adopt YAML. I suspect everyone who adopted YAML is either a Python dev or they were drawn in by the legibility of the format. It's easy to read. While that's true, did anyone stop to think about what it's like to actually use the format?
Of course not, you do that based on leet code, don't you?
Sorry, but no.

A supernova-born black hole ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_mass_black_hole ) would be far more massive than the sun - so the entire solar system would obviously revolve around it, not the sun.

Also, the birth of such a black hole is a supernova explosion - which would not leave any solar-system-forming remains kicking around nearby.
It’s a tense that speaks of the future as if it’s already happened. The only time you’d do this is when God Himself guarantees the results. He’s the source of all truth who keeps every promise. All He declares will come to pass.

Hebrews 6:13-20 explains the certainty tied to God’s character:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Heb.+6%3A13-20&...

Here’s some examples of it in use in the New Testament:

Ephesians 2

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2&ver...

Especially: “ But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,”

In Romans 8…

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8&versio...

…we see it in v29-30: “For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.”

In Colossians 3:1: “ If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.”

In Hebrews 12, which has been future tense with exhortation for the audience, we see it talk about future promises like they’ve happened:

“But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.“

That’s all for that. Whereas, anyone interested in Biblical prophecy proving Jesus is the Christ might enjoy my article that builds a profile out of messianic prophecies and uses the covenant promises:

https://www.heswithjesus.com/messianicprophecy.html
If you've been chasing a bug for a while and finally have a fix, you may have code blindness to ever-important issues not related to the fix. The testing you're doing is whether or not that problem went away. This is true even if you're familiar with the code base.

That's why we have pair programming and code reviews.

That same developer who spotted your code blindness today will exhibit that themself tomorrow.

The person not involved in the feature or fix is completely free to think about nothing else but "in what ways is this change wrong"?
"Privatize profits, socialize losses."

Everything working, as intended.

45% US Healthcare is paid for by government, already; might as well universalize with the rest of the world's healthcare minimums.
Wow, really? You've never heard of Ed Witten?
>said that the bill would give California businesses a “license to discriminate against South Asians”

How?
That said, it sounds like Henry Ford expressed that he wanted to hire more people, make up for lower prices with more volume, and invest in more plants, but seemed also motivated by cutting off dividend payments to the Dodge bros. Their payments had reached a megadollar a year, after initially putting in 10 kilobucks for 10%, and Ford correctly suspected they were using the payments to fund a rival car company. Courts ruled he couldn't cut off dividends so he bought everybody out.
> merely point out that this is, in my view, no different than the already existing surveillance we live under.

Just because a Bad Thing is already foisted on us to the point where it's impossible to avoid doesn't make it OK to make that situation even worse.