skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends on the toolchain. Itanium didn't sink because of the optimization it needs, but the because of the toolchain which can't do all the optimization.

So, if a complex processor comes with a toolchain which does all the tuning by itself, I think it can sell equally well, because the burden will not be reflected on the developer, again.

So, I think popularity of the language itself has a great impact on hardware design.

AMD AthonXP had an "Optimized for Windows XP" badge on it. GPUs are built upon the programming model OpenGL and DirectX puts forward. Modern processors are made to please C and its descendants, because it's the most prominent programming model.

Lisp even tried to change this with "Lisp Machines", and they failed, because Lisp was not mature/popular enough at that point.

So we can say programming model drives hardware very much.
My claim is that your compassion is being hijacked, not that you're blinding following an instruction. Compassion is one of the main emotional mechanisms of social discipline: it is the overbearing mother. Compassion is often the most vicious way of policing people, as its users takes themselves to be moral.

The sign couldve been a poster of a dog off a leach running around with another dog, having a good time. That, I imagine, would likewise trigger a positive emotion in you.

What i'm advocating for is more of a gap between the sign and the emotion. I dont think the sign would be as effective if it were a command read out by 'some average looking person'

the sign here has a special quality in triggering an emotional response, because the usual moderating triggers are absent: those of the falibility of a person
Ironically, it's a delusion of youth to assume that the older ruling class is logically or morally wrong due to age. State level management agendas are generations in their planning and execution.

See the fact that a stodgy old aristocrat wrote the defining book on this matter over a decade before the redditor class had their first epiphany on crypto.

The political class has unlimited funds for any youthful advisement needed for necessary corrections, assuming for a second that youth brings actual advantage. They have unlimited access to the smartest people, all who know what encryption and p2p is.

It couldn't matter less what mistakes they make when speaking publicly. They could communicate solely through pre-recordings of their farts and still have their way. For better or worse. The only actual arena in which the future will be decided, when and where it is actually contested at all, is that of bleeding-edge technical dominance.

I'd offer that they are less idealistic than are crypto-warriors, and therefore the bulk of the latter may not be well enough calculated in what they are wishing for. Yet, like I said, it seems that the argument ultimately will be settled in tech.
I stopped, because I know how cruel people can be. I’ve had a lifetime of doing this and seeing the outcomes. People are vengeful, but today people are more on edge and more likely to carry a weapon.

For example, I nearly gotten murdered on an Amtrak train once, because a man was talking loudly, and I asked him if he could please be quiet because he was clearly disrupting everyone and no one else was speaking up. I spoke up, and he followed me off the train and I had to run into the station to get help.
Can recommend this idea of his that is quite relevant today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_monopoly
I'd say it was damning documentation, that such a technically capable person (of whatever stripe, not of embedded obviously, but in general) had this experience.

Picking apart any particular decision along the way does not invalidate the points made.

They pointedly did not start with the least likely most obscure possible approach, exactly to avoid "well you ventured into the wilderness and so of course you got bit by a snake and fell off a cliff"
Back when people were suggesting mining it for helium-3, I remember reading a blog post that claimed the best way to get it out of the regolith would produce ridiculously high-purity metals as a side product.

It then went on to point out that the particle density of helium-3 in regolith of was so low that, despite it being a fusion fuel, it made more sense to catapult the ingots to earth and (1) magnetically decelerate them for energy, and/or (2) burn them.

I suspect one of the best things you can build on the moon and not on Earth is an orbital ring[0]. Well, two rings, first you build one orbiting the moon, learn what the failure modes are and how to mitigate them, then you use that learning experience to export the parts for another to Earth… but I am just straight up assuming that the cost of a moon-based factory won't blow away the cost savings from the difference in delta-v going down to LEO from the Moon (with or without a lunar orbital ring) vs. going up to LEO from the surface of the Earth.

(Also: not mining, but I imagine it would be a great place for dangerous research, inspired by all the people suggesting COVID leaked out of a gain-of-function research laboratory).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_ring
Because providing a product/service below cost to drive competitors out of the market followed by using your new monopoly to raise prices is exactly the definition of illegal predatory pricing.
Ideas are worthless, everyone has them, most suck.

What matters is execution, and I have neither the expertise nor the money for a good execution. And with execution I mean mainly Marketing and Business, not just the manifestation of the idea. But of course, manifesting the idea in a good product is also a crucial part. Because Ideas are simple, straight forward, but they leave out the boring nasty parts which make the product hard to build and even harder to sell.

Which is why ideas are worthless. Get a good product or service, get some even better response from other people and find your customers; then can you start building a company which has a chance to not end as the same disaster as the majority of startups.
Portugal:

P2P payments - MBWay, has taken over by storam and is the defacto method for transfering smaller amounts of money between peers. For example, rent can be payed to landlords via MBWay, cleaning lady, etc. ATMs support it to.

Almost every business allows payment with cards and the central bank is rumored to want to enforce digital payments for every business in the future.

Personally, I hardly use cash now, heck, I hardly use any cards now. I use my phone for almost all payments.
Thank you. I mostly use it for very basic calculations. I had started to re-teach myself linear algebra with the hopes of heading into trig and calculus. But ended up losing interest/energy.

Practically speaking, I probably would have been better off getting a much simpler calculator with bigger number buttons. But I do love the aesthetic of the scientific calculator, it seems to hold so much potential.
They can, but it's really expensive so most devs avoid it. Currently the performance hit is not worth it.

Games could render realtime reflections using various tricks even 20 years ago.

I remember that in Hitman Blood money enemies could spot you in a mirror and mirrors were functional in that game. It's a game from 2006 and mirrors were placed only in small rooms.
Australia: almost all cashless. You only get some cash when you buy a used car, pay a tutor or something else like that.

The govt endgame seems to be forcing most of the cash out of circulation, a ban on cash purchases of more that $10000 (with some exceptions) is already in place.

https://treasury.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-10/28454_fa...
I mean isn't automating important decisions line insurance claims or life and death decisions a beneficial thing. Sure the tech isn't ready yet but I think even now AI with a human overlooking it who has the power to override the system would provide people with a better experience
Netherlands also here so commenting on yours - I effectively never use cash. I don't actually like this (I prefer privacy), but I also know that my own personal actions won't matter a lot.

I moved here a few months ago from Ireland where cash was still around but a fairly small percentage of retail transactions, but _very_ common for paying for services. Every tradesperson I used wanted me to pay cash and would charge me more if I didn't (they were committing tax fraud). At one point I was expected to have €3,000 in cash just lying around for a stonemason.
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I passed by a coffee shop this morning to go to another one in the US Midwest. The one that I passed takes your credit of debit card inside and does it "the regular way. I often forget to give a tip. The one I went to was newer, used square, made me tap or swipe, but I always give a tip since I'm asked and reminded. This seems to be the pattern, newer places tend to be better. Also in the American Midwest, Dollar General of all places will take every payment system, it's super fast, so there is basically where is always where is test new phones / watches / cards. Walmart, which is pervasive here, only does payments on their app, so no Apple, Google or Samsung pay.
I managed to play Control and really enjoy it on an RX590 and an Intel i5 processor.
To add, Germany is an outlier when it comes to cashless payment adoption, even (and especially when) compared to its neighbours.

Overall, our experience is that it is impossible to be out and about cashless in Germany as there is no telling which bar / beergarten / restaurant / shop only accepts cash.
If your bank leaks data, you would be in so much trouble that thinking about privacy implications of that would be pretty low on your list.

That's just your bank. If a global payment processor like Visa would leak data, there probably would be ripples going through most financial system (i.e. whole countries abandoning it, etc).
I would still love to hear SiFive say what business they're in. From the context they're licensing cores, but making a SoC from those cores is still up to the customer. Still... would be nice to get that confirmed by the company themselves.
> Most mathematics originates from trying to solve physical or engineering problems.

Has this been true since the early 20th century? I have no feel for what constitutes "most" in the vast corpus of pure mathematics, so am not challenging your claim but rather am curious.
Same here, haven't touched cash in the Netherlands in years.

It's interesting to see how it varies in other European countries. In Germany and Belgium you kind of have to carry some cash or you will find yourself unable to pay at many small restaurants and shops.

On the other hand, in Sweden, Spain, UK, etc., I also never touch cash. I have been to Sweden multiple times and I have no idea what Swedish money even looks like.
My credit card purchases? Not really. I'm more worried about some of my teenage Reddit posts being tied to me than what brand of soap I buy on Amazon.
Not accepting cash should be illegal everywhere across the world. What if your battery dies?
If anything, it's a measured, realistic, and pragmatic statement.
I detest it, but more on a broad societal level than individual. But I still use card (I don't really care for involving Google in yet another part of my life) because, well, what I do individually doesn't matter.
The designs are smart. The CPUs themselves are still dumb, which is precisely the reason why speculative execution bugs exist. It's magic up until the point all the tricks spill out. In the end, it's always just logic gates wired together to do certain things — whether it's a Z80 or an M2 Max. All this layered complexity is simply the product of 50 years of iterative improvements.
This post has sloppy editing:

then it i was Eric Weinstein

You’re basis for truth (should be "Your")

Hasn't been corrected in ten months?
I wouldn't be surprised if things got so bad that people would get used to the rough edges as the alternative is worse.
My statement was about information content. It was really never about Jesus at all. My point is that it's really rare to have so many interesting or new things to say, and anyone who says interesting and novel things all the time for a long time(not jesus) would either have to be redundant, bs-ing, or trying to say things beyond their ken.
OpenAI, Anthropic Microsoft and Google are not your friends and the regulatory capture scam is being executed to destroy open source and $0 AI models since they are indeed a threat to their business models.
Tell HN: Add nfpr=1 in Google for exact match instead of quotes
I just searched for "ZeroNVS" (a recent research project someone shared on twitter) and Google returns results for "Zero VS" instead.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ZeroNVS

Does this even if I added double or triple quotes.

https://www.google.com/search?q="ZeroNVS"

Showing results for Zero VS
Search instead for ZeroNVS

Now I expect that when I click the suggested link, it will add quotes around ZeroNVS. But now it adds a param "nfpr=1" in URL to search exactly what I wrote.

It looks like nfpr=1 is old thing when I look it up. e.g. this 2014 link https://forums.opera.com/topic/1652/o20-adding-nfpr-1-to-google and this greasmonkey script which is suppose to resolve this https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5195-google-searches-exactly-what-you-type

I am not sure if google will keep ignoring quotes for everything from now on or was it just for this search. This is not a very nice behaviour anyway.
An app for sending cash? How does that work exactly? Out of curiosity.
In tier 2 and tier 3 cities almost everyone uses UPI. And every lower middleclass home has a smartphone. Low income workers such as security guards, factory workers, all have smartphones with a 4G plan.
If we stick to the strictest sense of the word, "need", then sure.

It does provide benefit, though. By being able to scroll I don't have to re-run the thing or juggle countless files if my recollection needs help.

Was that file on my machine or another, did I already delete it? Did it have sensitive information to mind? Nobody knows!

Of course one can make due with less, but I'd personally rather not.

It is odd for people at large to decide to apply patches for this. I'd hope someone would release it for others to benefit, or simply moving to something with a desirable feature set to start with.
I recently visited Dublin from Germany and was positively surprised that they also still use cash in a lot of places. I even saw two pro-cash posters that read something like

Using cash, we only spend 70% of what we spend using electronic payments

and the other one was privacy-related. I agree with both of them and your comment that it's easier to keep track of your expenses with cash.
Yes, in embedded roles. Western Digital's hard driver controllers, NVidia's power controllers, stuff like that and probably a lot more too. Probably more that don't make the news, though this is mostly a thing for companies with the scale and silicon experience that customizing a core to their needs makes business sense.
Agree with most points.

But there's quite a bit of redundancy in the list. Would be more powerful (and easier for readers to absorb) if cut down to its core points.
Not true. I live in India and have traveled to smaller villages in the south and some in the north. People have started to avoid cash altogether because of few reasons. They do have UPI they just don’t like it cause they like cash. There is never any issue with UPI, it’s just an excuse.

Cash creates a problem of giving change that end up dissatisfying the customer or the customer just leaves. Only after UPI people understood this so now they want you to buy it as payments are not a hassle. Rickshaws in cities have lost interest in random hires. I have waited 45 minutes for rickshaws. Everyone is on Uber or Ola cause they will show up and say cancel the request and give me little less money instead. Pretty common. So they don’t have the option to say no to UPI. They try to give you reasons why it’s not working but they just want cash for obvious reasons.

UPI also allows people to have multiple accounts in family to accept payments. This way they can avoid any tax payments as small amounts in small villages are not scrutinised by the income tax department.

UPI has created more and easier transactions. Small village or big town, I’ve never seen a shop without a QR code in the last year or so.
I haven't used cash in at least 10 years. And contactless for the last 7-8 years, just using my Garmin watch to pay everywhere.

We have rules saying that accepting cash as payment is "mandatory", but the way the rule is written makes it so that it's only mandatory for settling debt. Aka the service is already rendered, and now you need to pay, you can demand to use cash. But when the service isn't rendered yet, a store could claim that they only sell to people using card, for instance.
In Poland, there's still places that use cash, for obvious reasons, I am thinking of tattoo/piercing shops, small shops that function as courier hubs, etc.

In general, I simply use a card (phone), and have used over the past N years in Poland, Denmark, and Cyprus.
It's half and half here in the Lithuania where I live, i'm just glad that I don't see crypto anywhere.
Deferring to others seems fine, no? Going on a weekly podcast to recite the entire OT over and over is what influencers-that-are-not-jesus are doing.
Sybil problem? You'd have to connect that signature to a unique real identity.
It would make far more sense to spend less and simply rent for the 99th percentile use (which btw most people probably actually never use). The issue with these big trucks is severe negative externalities for other road users and pedestrians - if that didn't exist I would not care at all if people wasted money.

Also these big trucks have really sucky hauling capacity, it's actually a weird part about them that few people seem to note (and confirms my suspicion most people get them for other reasons).
> Couldn't one argue that there is not that much engineering needed to keep producing emergency vehicles that we already have

And what you would do when the necessary knowledge would be lost? 'It wouldn't be' you want to say? But who would want to spend an entire life for doing things what would be replaced like once in a decade?

> It's not like an ambulance fundamentally changes every year.

Not every year but modern ambulance and the one from 30 years are quite a different things, despite they are both just box on wheels and a stretcher.

> Would each unit be more expensive without mass production? Most likely, but... it's not like firefighter trucks are mass-produced for people who use them to go to work

But ambulances are produced on the chassis of the common (and cheap) designs which are mass-produced for all other markets and sectors. If your idea of firetruck is American behemoths then sure, they are not like firetrucks in other countries which just use... the common chassis from the cargo trucks. Yes, they are deeply overhauled, but the main benefit is what they get that chassis and parts cheap because they are mass-produced. And if they are not - they are no longer cheap.

> Military equipment is typically much more expensive than consumer products, but still... it's there.

And just like American firetrucks they share a lot of parts (and means of production) with their civilian counterparts.

And by the way, ambulances and firetrucks, good. What about delivering a new AC unit to you? It's no longer 40 minutes on the highway from the warehouse. It's a multiday affair and hours and hours of manual labor. Do you expect to still pay $20 for that?
Agreed, a hybrid system is nice. What bothers me are bakeries getting upset at you when trying to pay <10€ and you dare to attempt to use a card.
> Please note that cash payments are not at all popular in India and UPI is the most common means of digital payment.

This is false. https://www.orfonline.org/research/indias-upi-market/ (article from last month, citing the latest figures available to it.) "While India has recorded a significant increase in digital transactions, cash is still the dominant payment mechanism, with cash usage accounting for 59.3 percent of transactions volume in 2021."
It doesn't bother me, no.

I think what I've realised (at least personally), is that we only have a short time to live on this planet, and if life can be made more convenient by offering up my data, allowing me to spend my time doing stuff I actually care about, then I'll do it.
> Electronic computers are useful because they're electronic -- they can power devices, and modulate devices using that power. This cannot be done with wood, or most anything else.

On the contrary. That's an implementation detail. You can "power devices, and modulate devices" by having a clockwork computer with transducers at the I/O boundary, converting between electricity and mechanical energy at the edge. It would work exactly like a fully electronic computer, if built to implement the same abstract computations - and as long as you use it within its operational envelope[0], you wouldn't be able to tell the difference (except for the ticking noise).

> The causal properties of matter are essential to any really-existing system. Non-causal, purely formal properties of systems which can be modelled as functions from the naturals to the naturals (ie., those which are computable) are useless.

Yes and no. Of course the causal properties of matter... matter. But the breakthrough in understanding, that came with development of computer science and information theory, is that you can take the "non-casual, purely formal" mathematical models of computation, and define some bounds on them (no infinite tapes), you can then use the real-world matter to construct a physical system following that mathematical model within the bounds, and any such system is equivalent to any other one, within those bounds. The choice of what to use for actual implementation is done on practical grounds - i.e. engineering constraints and economics.

It's how my comment reached your screen, despite being sent through some combination of electrons in wires, photons down a glass fibre, radio signals at various frequencies - hell, maybe even audio signals through the air, or printouts carried by pidgeons[1]. Computer networks are a living proof that substrate doesn't matter - as long as you stick to the abstract models and bounds described in the specs for the first three layers of ISO/OSI model, you can hook up absolutely anything whatsoever to the Internet and run TCP/IP over it, and it will work.

I bet there's at least one node on the Internet somewhere whose substantial compute is done in a purely mechanical fashion. And even if not, it could be done if someone wanted - figuring out how to implement a minimal TCP/IP stack using gears and switches is something a computer can do for you, because it's literally just a case of cross-compilation.

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[0] - As opposed to e.g. plugging 230V AC to its GPIO port; the failure modes will be different, but that has no bearing on either machine being equivalent within the operational bounds they were designed for.

[1] - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1149
The way I understand it is applying Chomsky grammar rules (eg. A -> ABF; B -> CFF) but in singular passes rather than expanding to its full length. Eg:

Let
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A -> BFC
B -> CF+
C -> F-

0. ABC
1. BFCCF+F-
2. CF+FF-F-F+F-
3. F-F+FF-F-F+F-

By drawing/considering these iterations you can model cell/biological growth over time; applying the grammar in its whole immediately would only get you to the end result, plus would never end if you had fractal/infinite sequences.