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Re:16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:52AM (#20826787)
No, there is a 16-bit version https://content.riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/riscv-s... See chapter 12, “C” Standard Extension for Compressed Instructions

> This chapter describes the current draft proposal for the RISC-V standard compressed instruction set extension, named “C”, which reduces static and dynamic code size by adding short 16-bit instruction encodings for common operations.

Re:Async-std: an async port of the Rust standard library on Saturday August 17, 2019 @01:15AM (#20722238)
It looks great.

But it's odd that they do not cite Tokio. I know this isn't an academic paper, but come on have some professional curtesy and discuss the contributions made in prior art.

I've got a LimeSDR-mini (which is more economical). If you're only interested in RX, you should definitely consider the cheaper RTL-SDR. I'm just starting to learn about SDR, and am far from sending anything. I wish I had gone with an entry-level device first.
Re:Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files on Saturday June 22, 2019 @10:59AM (#20249938)
Try it with deno:

deno install catj https://deno.land/std/examples/catjson.ts --allow-read

Re:Websocketd on Saturday January 26, 2019 @12:49AM (#19004995)
It's not so much the fork but the memory cost. Each of those subprocesses has at least one call stack = 2 megabytes of memory. 2 megabytes per connection is many many orders of magnitude more that you would use in an asynchronous server.
Re:We Should Teach Music History Backwards on Sunday June 17, 2018 @04:25PM (#17334160)
Not for science history. It's very hard to grasp what the hell the LHC is about. First tell me why how they figured out water wasn't an element but a combination of two.
Re:Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter on Saturday May 26, 2018 @11:48AM (#17162647)
I exclusively program on a small laptop and don't have great eyesight. Formatting code such that it only looks good on huge displays makes my life more difficult.
Re:Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter on Friday May 25, 2018 @01:28PM (#17155977)
80 columns is very standard.
Re:Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter on Friday May 25, 2018 @12:40PM (#17155411)
88 column wrap? Yeah - no thanks.
Wow. The fact that they can just get this with "oral approval" (relayed by them to your carrier) is shocking to me. This is ridiculous.
Check in your node_modules. You are badly correcting the wrong problem. npm repo should not be hit for every checkout, deploy, and CI test. Just commit your dependencies - and if you need to hack them, you can float a patch with git.
Consider the proportion of the cost of an Uber ride that goes to the driver compared with the proportion of the cost of an airplane ticket that goes to the pilot. A driverless car has the potential to be much cheaper, but a pilotless plane would not be much different. Many new train systems are automated. The cost of retrofitting older systems is just too great.
His low point was when Yahoo offered to buy FB for a billion dollars. Dark times.
Re:Hello, Tensorflow on Monday June 20, 2016 @12:08PM (#11938921)
clearly you haven't tried to install caffe
Re:Three ideas about text messages on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @02:28AM (#11665492)
iMessage is the standard messaging app in the US... or at least in my life.
Re:Neural Networks Demystified on Monday March 14, 2016 @04:51PM (#11285486)
people are mostly interested in what is successful and backprop/gradient descent (with certain specific architectures) is what has been dropping error rates on all sorts of tasks in recent years.
Re:GCC has built in support for compiling Go on Monday February 23, 2015 @09:48AM (#9094517)
anyone know recent performance numbers of gccgo vs the go compiler?
Re:Chrome for Mac 64-bit Support on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @06:38PM (#8627128)
Can someone explain why this wasn't done long ago? What are the difficulties of putting out a 64 bit build?
Re:Tell HN: Wear a Helmet on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @05:58PM (#8626958)
I think there's something to say about it being safer to bike in general in Netherlands vs in the US. Often in the US you are riding next to busy traffic, while in NE the bikes are better protected. Along with other things too: like a car driving population that is careful about bicyclists.

So, it's not exactly like saying I don't wear a seatbelt because I drive the speed limit. Rather it's like saying I don't wear a seat belt because I live in a different country where accidents are less probable.

Re:React v0.12 on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @04:53PM (#8523523)
Can someone explain what the "spread operator" is and how to use it?
Re:Why Not Eat Octopus? on Saturday October 04, 2014 @03:36PM (#8410373)
We can live perfectly healthy lives without meat. That said, I have no problem killing an animal that lived a full non-tortured life for food. I do think we owe more than buying the expensive whole foods meat. I think we should all go through the experience of killing a cow, pig, lamb, and chicken. Killing animals shouldn't be completely abstracted away from society - we need to understand what we are doing in a hands on way.
I see that this didn't get much attention on HN, but I think it's a great idea. A step towards a purely client-side static blog - which would be cool.
Re:How Times Square Works on Monday August 11, 2014 @01:46AM (#8162095)
Times Square generates 11% of NYC's economic output? 385k jobs? I find these numbers difficult to believe.
Re:First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos on Monday August 11, 2014 @01:05AM (#8162008)
time is kind of an essential component to music...
Re:Atlantropa on Monday July 28, 2014 @05:53PM (#8099550)
Dude, it's totally fucked. Like removing the sea from seaside towns. i'm sure if you're a mediterranean fisherman you would not be happy having the sea forcibly moved away from your home... The environmental impact is probably immeasurable.

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