skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Qualcomm develops a chip that competitive in performance to ARM

Virtually all high performance processors these days operate on their own internal “instructions”. The instruction decoder at the very front of the pipeline that actually sees ARM or RISC-V or whatever is a relatively small piece of logic.

If Qualcomm were motivated, I believe they could swap ISAs relatively easily on their flagship processors, and the rest of the core would be the same level of performance that everyone is used to from Qualcomm.

This isn’t the old days when the processor core was deeply tied to the ISA. Certainly, there are things you can optimize for the ISA to eke out a little better performance, but I don’t think this is some major obstacle like you indicate it is.

> 2. The entire software world is ready to recompile everything for RISC-V

#2 is the only sticking point. That is ARM’s only moat as far as Qualcomm is concerned.

Many Android apps don’t depend directly on “native” code, and those could potentially work on day 1. With an ARM emulation layer, those with a native dependency could likely start working too, although a native RISC-V port would improve performance.

If Qualcomm stopped making ARM processors, what alternatives are you proposing? Everyone is switching to Samsung or MediaTek processors?

If Qualcomm were switching to RISC-V, that would be a sea change that would actually move the needle. Samsung and MediaTek would probably be eager to sign on! I doubt they love paying ARM licensing fees either.

But, all of this is a very big “if”. I think ARM is bluffing here. They need Qualcomm.
It is kinda hard when there is no snow so it is really pitch black. Basically October-November sucks and then it gets easier.
That’s why do you use `border-color: transparent` instead
Until arm or risc-v fix standardize the bootloader, it’s always going to be a big deal for each arm/risc device added anywhere…
I think the reality is that most of the slaves like working the fields and living in hovels. Otherwise, they would run away more frequently.

Of course, if they do run we send the hounds after them.

Clearly this is a case of revealed preference.
I was really impressed with BQN as a modern APL. Give it a look.
Phones. He's talking about smartphones.
>"$75.99 in 1997 which is $150 in today's dollars. Today the average PS5 game price is $70. That's half the price.

If salary of the average Joe was doubled as well your logic would be ok. Bit it did not.

P.S. It appears that I am wrong about median salary growth so my point should be discarded
"What is the federal minimum wage? Who benefits from it being $7.25 an hour? Not the common people"

Can you give a source on this one, you state it like it's something obvious and studied but I don't follow? I'm curious how this policy doesn't result in increased off shoring in a world where USA doesn't control 100% of resources, and a theoretical world this would result in inflation normalizing against the increased monetary supply.
As a (lapsed) English teacher, I must point out that critically examining how others communicate is essential to improving one's own ability.

(Mind you, your teachers might not have approached your classes in that way, and high-end literary criticism tends towards performative nonsense°, so I can understand and sympathize if they were a waste of time, but they didn't have to be.)

°It's exactly analogous to Brain Fuck: huge fun if you have the background, intellectual ability, and are in on the joke. Both are mostly pursued for the opportunities they provide to show off How Smart™ you are.
> What is the federal minimum wage? Who benefits from it being $7.25 an hour? Not the common people

Not a great example. The evidence of its effectiveness is mixed, and the burden of the wage increase hits small businesses early. The Walmarts of the world are better equipped to cope.

Maybe it's a good idea, maybe not; I'm just saying it's not obvious.
This is not worth reading, because it was not generated as part of a deductive process, where you start with some facts and work your way to some entailments.

Instead, the causal process that let to the creation of this book and ad was that the political patronage relationship between American progressives and American tech companies fell apart. This leads to demand for post-hoc justifications for subsequent changes in cash allocation, lawfare budget allocation, etc.

The author started with the conclusion "... and that's why we have to disenfranchise tech companies" and worked backwards from there.

Therefore, this document cannot, on expectation, communicate to you any useful entailments, except insofar as that conclusion might incidentally be correct for reasons totally unrelated to the author's thought process.
Do you have a link to the Snowflake whitepaper?
Then everyone should pay.

For some reason, only we do. As far as the crazy-high prices.
Left wing professors outnumber right wing professors more than 12:1.
Totally counts. Although the only acceptable setup is one tab followed by 2 spaces per indent :P
Defense benefits and pensions are a tiny fraction of mandatory federal spending.
Jim Keller is actually working on this right now at Tenstorrent.
Have you given sqlx a try? Manual query writing like database/SQL but convenience wrapper functions that handle the row scanning part for you. I haven't felt the need to use anything else for years now.
We're implicitly talking about the US, though, given that the subject of the article is SV tech companies
This is what happens when you stop hiring the best people regardless of what color they are. As a minority this is incredibly embarrassing.
>What if legal wants to show a TOS page?

The reality is that nobody wants to bother with any of that.

Either just connect me to the internet without extra steps, or don't at all. Don't waste my time.
>Rolling black and brown outs happen every summer on a hot, cloudy, still day.

Perhaps it's different in the US, but here in Toronto I've noticed the frequency and especially the severity of such events decrease over time. It's been 21 years since "the big one" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003). This year's biggest event was much less impressive (https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/07/16/power-outages-toronto...), and that was caused by exceptional storms (https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-parade-of-storms-how-toro...).
EVERYTHING can be outsourced. And if there are employees actually getting paid, the first thing to oursource is payroll processing.
ARM already did the hard work. Once you've ported your app to ARM, you've no doubt made sure all the ISA-specific bits are isolated while the rest is generic and portable. This means you already know where to go and what to change and hopefully already have testing in place to make sure your changes work correctly.

Aside from the philosophy, lots of practical work has been done and is ongoing. On the systems level, there has already been massive ongoing work. Alibaba for example ported the entirety of Android to RISC-V then handed it off to Google. Lots of other big companies have tons of coders working on porting all kinds of libraries to RISC-V and progress has been quite rapid.

And of course, it is worth pointing out that an overwhelming majority of day-to-day software is written in managed languages on runtimes that have already been ported to RISC-V.
There already was! It was called Passpoint R2 Online Sign-Up, but it never got traction on the phone side of things, so it's now being deprecated by the Wi-Fi alliance.

It's really a business problem. IMO you shouldn't have to solve this just because you've gone indoors – you already pay a carrier for connectivity – but many carriers don't want to own that responsibility.
Ah? ARM doesn't build chips but provides the architecture and license it to other companies.

There are plenty of ARM chips designed by multiple companies and built by multiple foundries
Always nice to see CSS on here, but we figured this out 15yrs ago. Are the kids rediscovering hover styles?
No, it isn't; it can't be, because none of the major email domains are DNSSEC-signed to begin with.

Let me know if I've misunderstood your point, and there some other widespread niche usage DANE finds in SMTP.
https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/AI-poised-to-...
This.

It is evident to anybody paying attention that Microsoft has RISC-V support well underway.

But even if they had to start from scratch, it would be much easier, thanks to ARM having paved the way.
There are lots of examples of countries having much higher minimum wages without the consequences you mentioned.
Standard deduction is also up $400 to $15,000.
I don't think you can accurately identify "good" weather for even a modest group of random people, because people want different things, for different reasons.

More likely would be identifying locations with similar weather/climate - or even partially similar;

- X has weather very similar to Y;
- A has weather similar to B, but gets colder in winter.

Imagine trying to define a "goodness" of food. It's impossible. But identifying similar dishes is much easier and much more useful.
One of my first programs was a number puzzle. It would present the player a string of random numbers. To solve the puzzle you have to write a math equation that uses all the numbers in order. For example, for the numbers

97424

One solution is

log(9)/log(7-4)=-2+4

I wrote the program because i used to play the game in my head with the number on clocks and other things.
Man is that db-15 port on the back of that thing? Lol.

I want one of these just to be different and cool.

Btw the article website is so plastered with ads its totally unusable on mobile. Joke level bad.
Vite minimizes prod builds by default. Generates three bundles, html, js, css. Plus sourcemaps. Can’t tell if any of it can be turned off.

As of bloat, it depends on your tsconfig (ts part, not vite). If you set ts up to modern standards (es20xx), it emits code basically verbatim. If you’re gonna support ancient browsers, it will have to emit some es-to-es boilerplate. See tsconfig.json reference for details. Everyone - editor/lsp, tsc, vite, eslint - look into this file.

Typescript’s general idea is to just erase types, but they added some es version practicalities cause otherwise that would create a whole “pipeline” yet again for a common use case.
Yeah, but there are more atoms than grains of sand. We can still be grains of sand in someone's universe.
I know, I think this was always a joke, especially with the yellow liquid.
Current LLMs lack the ability to perform abstraction at the right level a problem requires. When this gets solved, we’d be quite a bit closer to AGI, which has implications far beyond job displacement.

ARC-AGI Benchmark might serve as a canary in the coal mine.

https://github.com/fchollet/ARC-AGI
> that misrepresent the experience of the person giving it.

I guess the FTC will be handing out fines for improper personal experiences now?
Russian government is cancer but this is pointless. It would be much easier to hide a backdoor in an npm or python package.
True. The best outcome would be a bailout with a breakup for both of them.
https://brutalisthackernews.com/
>result of systematic academic capture by Austro-libertarian economists and right wing libertarians.

For anything to "result" from this, it would have to happen. What evidence do you offer for such a phenomenon?
>Larry came with a plan to upgrade the US electrical system with long-range DC.

I feel like some crucial detail is missing here. They already use HVDC for long-distance transmission lines, inside and outside of the US. Texas could benefit from it I suppose, but the US in general already uses it where appropriate AFAIK.
> If salary of the average Joe was doubled as well your logic would be ok. Bit it did not.

Using the most recent numbers against the last quarter of 1997, it actually increased to 2.29× the 1997 amount, well over double:

Employed full time: Median usual weekly nominal earnings (second quartile): Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over

Q4 1997: $508 /
Q3 2024: $1,165

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881500Q
> This was a huge barrier of entry for a lot of people who now have the ability to afford it and can make a living using it. Today photoshop is $9.99 per month

It wasn’t though. People learned photoshop on a pirated copy and used that to make art that Adobe didn’t care about. Companies are the ones who paid the $1000/seat license for their professional designers.
Yeah, underground brine is rarely nice to be around, especially when concentrated, but does often have a lot of useful minerals. Related facts, I’m guessing.
An IRC bot that would kindly insult project managers should they join our engineering chat channel while doing a deployment.
A Stacktrace Puzzle
Not much software is really all that useful, let alone necessary, though. And only a little bit of that isn’t provided by one vendor or another as part of delivering whatever other actual service you were after (e.g. banking apps).
That can make the image take up excessive space, or as the article says:

> ..., or an always-on transparent border that only changes colour when you hover – but those can interfere with other CSS rules
Ro CEO Zachariah Reitano says benefits of being a private company are growing
That is so frickin cool!
Congress plays whack-a-mole with policy while importers shuffle goods or various parts of the manufacturing process to neighboring countries or follow tighter packaging constraints to avoid specific tax rules or earn specific tax incentives. Tariffs are political showmanship. It's not really a viable nor an enforceable option in the modern economy, at least not based on my experience in the industry.
Two Rust web frameworks in one day!

If you add the new micro frameworks and Rails/Django-like frameworks to the pre-existing Flask-like frameworks (Actix, Axum, etc.), then you can see that the web backend development story in Rust is really starting to feel robust.

Rust is a fantastic language to write backend logic in. It's incredibly fast and can serve thousands of requests per second from the tiniest VMs.

The language has the right abstractions, is not difficult to write (it's similar to writing Golang or Java), and results in code with far fewer defects.

Rust is a great place to be for web development.
Additionally, that area in Nevada can be - at best - charitably described as moonscape.

Which, for those of us that like moonscape, is a bit sad. But there is a lot of moonscape in that region, and there aren’t a huge number of moonscape fans. At least that are going to try to picket any projects. So overall, meh.

That area of Nevada is also pretty economically ‘challenged’, so why not.
> or you want finer grained authentication than a shared key?

Configure your access points to use RADIUS or SAML for auth?
Reality? What sources are you citing? Are you paid to post this?
The social icons are neat, but using filter would be shorter than manually setting normal and hover styles, at the cost of having inconsistent gray colors:

.icon:not(:hover) {
filter: grayscale(1);
}
Interesting, I would've thought that to be impossible. Would you happen to have any places I can learn more about tools that can do that?
Diffusion models are trained to denoise.
Last time I checked, DDR5 and DDR4 latency was basically the same. Very little progress there. May be with integrating DRAM and CPU on the same package, some latency wins will be available just because wires will be shorter, but nothing groundbreaking.
The trouble with your position is that economic conditions haven't changed through the rise of college. Incomes have held stagnant as can be from when college was unheard of right through until today. While the labour market is certainly driven by supply and demand like any other, college doesn't have an impact on the supply or demand in any meaningful way.
Interesting, does anyone know what percentage of top Android apps run on RISC-V? I'd expect a lot of apps like games to only have binaries for ARM
I bought the domain http://ftp.computer because it made me laugh.

I set up the site using an MS-DOS stysheet. It had a single button and it said “feed me”.

Clicking the button let you upload a file. It would spin for a while and then say “thank you, I am sated”.

In the background it would chop the file up into 140-character pieces of base64 and then tweet them out in order. There was also a Slack bot that would reassemble files for you by scraping the Twitter feed.

I did all of this because it was the dumbest thing I could think of that day.

I wish it was still up, but the domain was $65/year renewal and it wasn’t that funny to me.
That quote seems about right. Nice connection. Thanks for sharing.

Indeed, desire and dissatisfaction are quite productive forces! They don't necessarily entail dysphoria, though. Or more pithily if you prefer, "lack is a kind of abundance."

GP's "near infinite backlog" framing still implicitly hints at something like an underlying state of pure satisfaction if only we could address all the issues or whatnot. IMHO, desire actively functions in its own peculiar ways, and the personal narratives we attach to those functions can frame them as a helpful, collaborative things, rather than obstacles to be overcome.
I seriously doubt there's very much highly relevant old knowledge locked away somewhere. Is there interesting stuff we don't have good access to? Sure, but mainly of interest to historians (pro or amateur). You're not likely to find the cure for cancer written down in some 1000-year-old book somewhere. And while a few people might really be interested in reading decades or centuries-old novels that weren't popular enough to be called "classics" now, the vast majority of people aren't going to find such stories about people in the distant past all that interesting.

Of course, it's best to preserve past knowledge, but I think the idea that this is part of some kind of conspiracy to keep people buying new stuff is pretty silly. People are always going to want new stuff, as society grows and changes.
Show HN: Hype – a Rust Web Framework
One oil well can produce an amount of free energy (24/7) that a 100 acre wind farm can only produce sporadically, assuming the well is a reasonably high volume producer. It depends on the specific well/geology.

The issue with fossil fuels is that they liberate fossil carbon, which has larger macro effects on the global environment. (It injects a lot of ‘new’ carbon into the carbon cycle)

They also do sometimes have some medium sized local effects from spills or contamination. But those can usually be controlled.

Geothermal is also usually ‘low footprint/high value’, but is only viable in specific limited locations.

Solar, wind, hydropower, tidal energy all have large physical footprints for the amount of energy they produce. Aka ‘low density’. All are also somewhat tied to specific, and often limited geology.

For solar for instance, areas with a lot of desert or other open ‘non productive’ land nearby, it’s great (assuming decent insolation). In areas where land is at a premium for other uses, or is very rugged/high maintenance, it definitely is a problem. Aka cities, certain types of high intensity farmland, heavily forested areas, high snow load/storm areas, etc.

Solar is not an awesome economic choice in Siberia, for example. It is an awesome economic choice in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, etc.

For areas with geography that supports it (typically the right kind of mountain ranges) and rainfall, hydropower is awesome, though has serious side effects on wildlife and river health. For a place that doesn’t have the right geography (say England), it’s a non starter.
Stackoverflow Is Down?
Looks like the scheduled maintenance led to unexpected downtime?
for controller routing. I think pavex have great idea (https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/pavex-progress-report-02/) for using rustdoc json
Years ago now iTunes didn't have any feature to use notifications to display the currently playing song. So I wrote a simple AppleScript to use what was already available and do it. Not a big deal but shared with a couple friends and coworkers who found use for it. Later on apple implemented it themselves.
I don’t have a PS5 but my Xbox (my first one ever) is an absolute nightmare to play, even if I have the physical media. Still demands an internet connection. Still demands updates before I play. Typically I would expect to wait 2+ hours before I’m allowed to play a game I have on physical media. Often the estimated time is so long I just give up and don’t play. I let it update and then forget about it. Come back a week later and it says my system is out of date and needs an update before I play.

Not the same experience at all compared to N64.
is risc-v anywhere near the same efficiency ballpark?
How do you end up in a position where governments aren't monoliths? You decentralize the power. Adding more and more state control concentrates power into the monoliths.
What's the ratio in the economics department?
Live imaging of ovulation in action reveals three distinct phases in mice
No, author very much says the Gaussian has definite scale:

> There are a few distributions like this with a definite scale, but the Gaussian is the most famous one.
Agreed. I’m pretty sure future generations will look at our social media habits like we look at this https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7355737/amp/The-chi...
Stronger voter ID laws are nice too, until the political will was expended into making it happen. By the same token, smarter ID laws can also be enacted if appropriate effort is undertaken.
Tracks left by a bird-sized dinosaur suggest it used wings to run faster
> Then everyone should pay.
For some reason, only we do. As far as the crazy-high prices.

Who are the “we” and who are the “they” in your telling?
Aren’t Android binaries in Dalvik so you only need to port that to get it to run on RISC-V?
Wow this thing has everything under the sun it. Anyone know the unit cost?
IMHO, it's the companies AND the government against the people.

The government twists the companies' arm to make it do things that the government is not allowed to do. Company refuses to play along? Threaten to break it up. There's a reason why AT&T has dedicated wiretap rooms for the NSA. DJI not selling drones to Ukraine? Threaten to ban it in one of its biggest markets.