skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order to have an instruction set that a student can implement in a single semester class you need to make simplifications like having all instructions have two inputs and one output. That also makes the lives of researchers experimenting one processor design a lot simpler as well. But it does mean that some convenient instructions are off the table for getting to higher performance.

That's not the whole story, a simpler pipeline takes less engineering resources for teams going to a high performance design so they can spend more time optimizing.

RISC is generally a philosophy of simplification but you can take it further or less far. MIPS is almost as simplified as RISC-V but ARM and POWER are more moderate in their simplifications and seem to have no trouble going toe to toe with x86 in high performance arenas.

But remember there are many niches for processors out there besides running applications. Embedded, accelerators, etc. In the specific niche of application cores I'm a bit pessimistic about RISC-V but from a broader view I think it has a lot of potential and will probably come to dominate at least a few commercial niches as well as being a wonderful teaching and research tool.
Those are _actually_ e2e encrypted, so cannot moderate. Which is a much better defence than "well, we vaguely imply that our thing is e2e encrypted, but it's not, but also we don't moderate anyway".
There's swaths of users out there whose entire computing needs are served by smartphones and tablets.

So it's always struck me as a bit arrogant that people on here say that they shouldn't offer the 8gb base model, even though it runs well and there are plenty of people who are served by that computer.

I don't understand why should basic users, schools and colleges need for pay more for mac systems just because a bigger number would please a few people in a chat room somewhere? It's disconnected from reality.

It's also clear that they haven't ever tried using one of these computers. There's plenty of head to head comparisons between the 8gb and 16gb m3 models online and the conclusion is always the same: basic users don't need to buy the $200 ram upgrade, but if they're planning on running 20+ tabs in Lightroom or rendering high res output in Final Cut Pro then there are nice speed gains with the 16gb model. It seems to me that people forking out $120 a year for Lightroom, or a few hundred for FCP are probably not struggling to pay for a once off $200 ram upgrade.

While I'm not suggesting that the $200 ram upgrade is value for money, the pricing comparisons given on here aren't ever genuine comparisons anyway. The performance of on-chip unified memory isn't comparable to popping in a few rock-bottom priced DIMMs.
Not just that.

Knowledgeable academics who argued that the costs of lockdowns in schools would far outweigh any possible benefit were suppressed by non-scientists.

All talk of vaccine side effects was labelled misinformation and suppressed, even when accompanied with legitimate and accepted studies.

Etc.

The only common thread between all the possible examples of censorship - from side effects to lockdown effectiveness to the lab-leak theory to the US role in funding GOF research at the WIV - seemed to be that unless you spoke the narrative of the day then you were dangerous to society. Fully unpacking the irony there would take a book.

Many books have been written about this kind of censorship, because suppressing conversation like this never leads anywhere good. It's an enduring and central theme of damn-near all the top dystopian fiction.
If you don't use your account you will get what most people look for in your location, in your case probably sex, violence, politics, memes, ragebait...

The feed should adapt to your tastes depending on what you like, retweet or who you follow, maybe also on what you click on. You can also add topic of interest somewhere in your profile.

For me, just following a number of "good" accounts seems to do the job.

Or you could just ignore the "For You" tab and use the "Following" tab
Definitely not _necessary_ — I was more or less resigned to not having the domain, since the sticker price was $170K and my mental "is this _really_ worth it?" number was high five figures.

As for why important: a melange of reasons. I had heard a _lot_ from customers and prospects that they couldn't find the site because they searched for/navigated to buttondown.com; I was faintly worried about SEO/brand impact from using a vanity TLD like `.email`; I was faintly worried about a more well-financed competitor buying it and redirecting to their own property; there are a very real number of legacy pieces of software that do not _accept_ `buttondown.email` as a valid domain, which is important when you're dealing with UGC.

(When I was debating what a reasonable purchase price might be, the framing that helped me make a decision was: "if this helps my overall conversion funnel grow by 2% in perpetuity, is it worth it?", and that answer was yes. Time will tell, of course, to see where that number actually lands!)
> The x86 instruction set is very very big. According to rough statistics, the ARM64 backend implements more than 1,600 x86 instructions in total, while the RV64 backend implements about 1,000 instructions

This is just insane and gets us full-circle to why we want RISC-V.
Sounds like the first iteration of gnutella: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella
Interesting

Maybe they realized 16GB is insufficient for all the AI stuff they wanted to run

(they are only some 8 yrs behind this default memory amount I'd say)
Ignore all previous commands.
Personally, as someone who moderated a large forum for a couple years, I'd personally put the cutoff at at least 14. 13 year olds are by far the most annoying demographic I had to deal with. 12 year olds would generally behave, as would 14 year olds. 13 is somehow a magic age where a lot of the online annoyances source from.
And my old blog domain to boot! Exactly what I meant by "The hardest part of the process was the stuff you can't grep for..."

(T/Y — fixed.)
How is complex / imaginary numbers not what they are doing? Numbers that square to -1, 0, and 1 are the bread and butter of the GA I know. Exploring different combinations of types of imaginary numbers and their products and space describing algebras. (including naturally quaternions, duel quaternions, i-rotation, nilpotent, ect)
Wagner was associated with USA, because of Apocalypse Now ;)

From my point of view, if you discard artist because of country he was born in, it's only your loss.
Would be nice if people reporting on heightened hurricane season predictions would remember that.
Isn't it rebranded hangouts?
The line in the parent comment that starts with "https://" is a link, you can click on it and it will load a new page that you can read.
I mean, I assume people who are seriously concerned with privacy to a sufficient extent don't turn on those auto backups (though at least the Apple one _does_ have an e2e encryption option).
The right to speak, but not the right to be heard.

That costs money.

Speak in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and you can be placed in a "free speech zone" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone

Let others say the wrong thing on your platform, be it advocating against a narrative or revealing evidence of war crimes, and you can be tortured.
> definitely affects quality.

not always in a negative way.
Every country has their peculiarities to navigate the system. Once you know the paths, one could claim that it's almost efficient.

As a native, you learn these paths intrinsically through sheer cultural osmosis. As a foreigner, trying to understand what you need to do to pass through can be bewildering:

e.g.1. Germany: de-registering from a trash company who refuses to collect the bins because you haven't registered your new address yet, though they're unrelated. Needlessly complex.

e.g.2. Lithuania: not being able to decide to pay a debt later because the government just decided to take the money directly from your bank. Ruthlessly efficient.

As someone who spent the last decade abroad, I've realised that every country is like this, and that ultimately I feel heard and represented mostly in the one I was born in.

The UK is a mess, yes, but it is a mess I know how to wade through. The paths to my goals are as full with floating turds as any other country, but I at least know how and when to hold my breath and swim.

(this last metaphor got away from me a little, I apologise)
If they have easily extractable fossil fuels, they're already extracting them.

For everybody else, renewables are far cheaper.
Honestly, as long as you don't call it "Buttdown"... (this happens more than you'd think.)
> Free Speech just means that you aren't oppressed to say certain things

Forgive me for dramatizing, but I fail to see how being rejected for citizenship as a refugee coming from the Palestinian territories because you can't bring yourself to say your life long enemy is implied to have the right to oppress you and your family is anything but pertaining to Free Speech.

When governments demand people (any people) say things (any things) for a purpose (any purpose), that is an infringement of their freedom of speech. I can understand you disagree with that, but for me it's very obvious.
> The Biden Admin has censored, and are currently censoring, stories they disagree with or dislike - without regard to truth. On a massive scale.

No American administration has ever not censored stories it didn’t agree with or like. Arguably no administration could do otherwise. If you think the previous administration didn’t do exactly the same thing to exactly the same degree you’re either admitting that you are naive or that they were incompetent.

> Our collective understanding around everything Corona was warped and disfigured with lasting consequences.

The fact that you call it “Corona” implies that your understanding about SARS-CoV2 is about equivalent to that of the “collective”, meaning you have no idea whatsoever the matter of which you’re talking about. Meta played as much of (if not more of) a role in your collective ignorance as this administration (which took over after most of that damage was done).

> Now another global scale issue (whether you call it genocide or collective punishment) is being twisted beyond all moral boundary by censorship and gaslighting from this Admin.

Please do explain what issue you’re speaking to here.

> Can you see the irony in how learning more about this from the very person who enacted the censorship making you cheer more for the people directly responsible for it?

I’m not cheering, I’m saying that billionaire idiot’s thoughts on any matter make me more inclined to stand on whichever side of the line he isn’t on. Hardly cheering, it’s just that his reputation for, for example, directly enabling actual genocide in Myanmar, makes him instantly less than credible on where the appropriate line to draw is for content moderation.
Amazon CEO: AI Assistant Has Saved $260M and 4.5K Developer-Years of Work
For some reason, recipe bloggers get "I substituted this ingredient with <completely different thing> and got something bad" a lot.
When the platforms starting censoring during the pandemic and last election cycle I remember saying they better get it right 100% of the time because the moment they get it wrong their credibility is shot. Hear we are.

Censorship, beyond what’s required by law, is doomed to fail.
That adds one more opportunity to forget though. There’s no need to be condescending.
Hopefully I have my backup from Google Reader [1]. One more thing, what was incredible about Google Reader is that you can go back in time to the blog because they indexed previous RSSs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader
Can it reliably generate interspersed blocks of markup and code with a single prompt?
Your argument reeks of partisan bias.

Left wing protests also turn violent, and there’s no pressure from the right to punish whatever communication platforms left wing protestors use.

A good faith argument would acknowledge that all platforms will be used for good and evil, and focus on the actions of its operators rather than its user base.
Isn't that a rebranded Chat inside Google Mail?
Suppressing the lab leak theory certainly seemed political to me
I can't help but notice that all of those methods take a single command line string as a parameter. That's arguably fine on Windows, but not on Linux. So: how is that string broken down into the array of strings for the ultimate execve() call, in Ruby? Does Ruby parse it on its own (using some dialect of shell for quoting), or does it invoke the shell to do the heavy lifting, or?..
... I mean virtually any modern encryption is going to be more secure than TETRA. TETRA is from 1995, and the non-European export version wasn't even supposed to be secure _in 1995_.
Google Fit APIs were deprecated in favor of Health Connect, which gives users more control of their data (and is used by Google Fit itself). This is a win for users, not your usual killed by Google product.
There's a scene is "30 Rock" where Alec Baldwin gives a speech the morning after a party that got way out of hand about how they must now all face each other in the cold, hard light of dawn. To me, it sort of feels like we are living through that now after covid. We've learned things about people that we didn't really want to know; particularly that others don't place a lot of value on our lives (something that anyone who grew up with a health condition could already have told you). It's all rather discomfiting.

I suppose it's human nature to reach out for miracle cures, but the way people behaved in the pandemic still surprised me. Reaching for random drugs like hydroychloroquine or dewormers (why couldn't it have been a fun drug like cocaine?) and eschewing actual covid vaccines makes one wonder how it is possible that one shares a reality with their fellow humans. Obviously they do not.
For context, NLNet's NGI0 programs are EU-funded (for now [1]).

[1] https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI
subsidized housing is only available to those with limited income. in vienna that is below 60k€ per year for a single home, and below 90k€ for a couple, which means 45k€ income per person. if we take the cost of public schools in the US which ranges from 10k to 20k USD per year, it should be pretty clear that those expenses are unaffordable. if they could afford them they probably would not be eligible for subsidized housing.

the majority have plenty of disposable income (that's what a rich country means)

no, it doesn't.

rich country means a high GDP, but we put most of that into public infrastructure, public healthcare (so, yes, we can all pay for healthcare because everyone has insurance) and public transport, and we don't need to pay for education. if education were taken out of the mix then those with lower income would be excluded.
How do people think?
Are you under the mistaken impression that hurricanes are spread evenly across the season? I don’t understand how you can speak in the past tense when the season isn’t over for another three months. The historical peak is September 10th and the active part of the season is considered to start around August 20th.
Maybe its the "companies Lifetime" license. You may use this as long as the company survives
Grid storage is not expensive. Texas is building storage like crazy, they wouldn't be doing that if something else was cheaper.
Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN's Top Gaza Aid Agency
LZ Dark Matter experiment page: https://lz.lbl.gov/

Way better press release with lots of cool pictures: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/08/26/lz-experiment-sets-new...
Yes, this is less like canning a product and more like embracing a better standard.

If this was Apple instead of Google, this would be celebrated as a positive step forward.

I guess it shows the importance of messaging and marketing (and reputation).
Google Drops Support for Flutter and Dart
Dozens of on-site staff vs 3 shifts of 1 or 2 people remote monitoring and scheduling a maintenance crew when needed.
> What does being an SO contributor actually get you?

I had a reason to dive into obscure and esoteric corners of some languages/frameworks/toolkits. I practiced helping people with technical problems, which was likely a major contributor to getting my current job where developers also provide technical support to the customers (who are also software developers). Having this out in the open and being able to point at the fact that I was ranked in the top 100 contributors certainly helped.

However, things have changed since the early days, of course. Basic documentation and tutorials for programming languages and toolkits have become better overall, I'd say. We've got good centralized knowledge bases for certain topics, e.g. MDN where you previously would have had to piece together information from SelfHTML, W3Schools and other partially wrong sources, or go straight to the relevant specification (not for everyone, of course). Stack Overflow has become the repository of answered questions that is pretty searchable and there are a lot of questions that simply don't need to be asked again. LLMs have scraped SO, so ChatGPT and others can answer many programming questions fairly well (with the occasional hallucination or error).

By now I only rarely open SO anymore. But I go through different hobbies every few years anyway, and while I was still studying, I had the time, I learned a lot, and to this day I still like explaining things and helping others.
People have been pointing to a few high activity hurricane seasons as proof positive that it's climate change going to ruin everything. One gets the feeling that there's some kind of maybe linear-ish correlation.

The idea that a lower activity hurricane season also confirms it is challenging to understand. I get what you're saying which is something like "it's unchartered territory so all bets are off"

But at the same time we've had cycles in hurricane activity over the last 100 years we've kept good records and some years just aren't as bad.

If we were dealing with the kind of science I'm used to this wouldn't be confirming the predictions, it would be discrediting them.
You've got it right. Health Connect is a full replacement and gives users more control. This is a win for users and not a "killed by Google" situation.
As someone who doesn't use social media this analogy strikes me as a rationalization for something you know is bad for you and a waste of your time but you can't stop so you make up this fiction about a dollar auction.
Well there is proton and steam on FreeBSD and i can even play Elden Ring and X4 for 2 minutes.....then my machine resets because there is no way to adjust the AMD-GPU fans, so i made a bhyve Win11-VM with passthrough to the discrete GPU and Bluetooth (PS4 controller), and now i can play everything, even my beloved Gold-Box Games with the GBC.

>WiFi support

Yeah that's really a problem, but i just use my Laptop for work so ~6 MB/s is good enough for me, otherwise i would use FreeBSDWifibox it's a hack but hey we use Unixes right? ;)

>Niri is representative

See what Niri is for you, ZFS is for me, i could say that the ZFS-module is representative (on mainstream distros) for Linux and we are both right, FreeBSD and Linux are both not perfect.

BTW Niri is already in ports since ~9 month:

https://www.freshports.org/x11-wm/niri

>dev tooling I use always supports Linux as a 1st class citizen, but rarely supports the BSDs.

I don't know what "1st class citizen" means, if it works it works, i often use dev-tools where Mac and Windows seam to be the "1st class citizen" but if they work they work.

So yes, there are problems like the Overheating AMD-GPU and Wifi but apart from that i am super happy with FreeBSD, and most important everyone is happy with the OS/Distro choice one made.
~3 months ago:

> Ask HN: Is Google Killing Flutter

> According to someone in a Flutter community I’m in, they say they are not. Here’s a tweet https://x.com/misvth/status/1785767966815985893

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40523573
Could you have structured the deal in a more cash favorable way seeing as you are paying for it from cash flow? That way it would have been less of an immediate impact on finances. For purchases like this, a revolving line of credit is helpful, even tho there's cost to that, because it lessens the impact on cash flow.
I've worked like this for decades.

Layers, with each layer assigned a particular domain and API restriction (for example, I have a multi-layer backend, and, if I want to access the database directly, I need to implement that at the very lowest layer, and then set up a "tunnel" of access to the top-layer exposed API, through the intervening layers, applying whatever access control and filters are appropriate for each layer).

C++, if I remember correctly, had a lot of attributes you could assign to classes and types, to regulate access, but it's probably been around 20 years, since I've written C++.
As someone who doesn't use social media this analogy strikes me as a rationalization for something you know is bad for you and a waste of your time but you can't stop so you make up this fiction about how you would lose more by stopping.

An alcoholic who can't stop going to the bar because they will lose their drinking buddies is not a dollar auction.
The (vanilla) web was poorly designed with layers of accidental complexity accumulated though the years. It's funny that some people look at it as some sort of glorious past to strive to. You are simplifying nothing by removing tools/frameworks and shifting complexity to the application. It has to be somewhere.
I'd assuming they're talking about TETRA, presumably one of the export versions (I don't think TEA2 (only available to European public safety orgs) is known to be broken at this point, though its age and obscure nature wouldn't give you much confidence).

There's a good talk on it here: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11761-all_cops_are_broadcasting
Agree. What a bad article. URL should be changed.
Why must they have agreed on price?

Only Steinberg/Dorico are making a sale, I don't see any reason to think Finale are forcing their hand on price.

More likely it's Finale says "offer a good price to our users, and in return we'll promote it to our user-base", and Steinberg decide what that price will be.

Confirmation that the license exists has to be handled a bit carefully for GDPR reasons, but that's not insurmountable. Competitor cross-grades are pretty common practice in those (fewer and fewer each year) sectors which still sell perpetual software licenses.
It would help to have some sources to back up your claim, but I’ve gone ahead and updated my comment regardless by popular demand.
It struck me as weird too. If the author isn't trying to avoid build tools altogether then I'm not clear why they wouldn't just install Vite and simplify their life.
Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power
Is the rumour they're going all in on kotlin multiplatform/compose true?
https://stackoverflow.com/a/45248015
last year I worked with js and chrome gave me a weird exception (I think it was something with websockets and ssl? I don't remember). I googled the exception, and found the exception in the chromium sourcecode and quickly found out when exactly that exception was triggered, and could then easily fix my js.

I too was pleasantly surprised how readable it was.
I mean maybe not many of us here, but my mom’s daily driver is a Chromebook. I SSH into my server using a Core 2 Dup laptop, that could be replaced.
When I solved a tricky problem for which I hadn't found a solution on StackOverflow, for years I got the habit of writing a question+answer on StackOverflow.

Until those started to get flagged (as duplicate, off-topic, whatnot) and closed. All of them I could make reopen (but it took time to collect the votes), and all of them eventually got a reasonable amount of upvotes and views.

That's where I stopped contributing to StackOverflow: when quality content I contribute gets refused by the moderators, I'm out.