Just that none of the parsing methods I learned are actually used commonly in most real compilers.

Applying pure computer science to real-world problems is of course its own field of study ;)

I find it exceedingly likely that they lose money on every kindle fire sold (at least during one of their regular sales), unless it causes more content sales. So the solution is of course to make it as useless as possible for anything else, otherwise they would just lose more. Same as inkjet printers.

I've had the same thought, though if true I wish they'd sell an unlocked version for more money, similar to how they did the ads on lock screen

Same here. My ISP recently did a promo to try out 1G/1G for free for a few months. I decided not to buy it after the free trial and went back to my old 500/200 line instead of paying 40% more. Yeah, it takes a minute longer downloading the latest LLM from huggingface, so what.

> I'm told similar economics are why you can't buy laptops with cellular modems in them

I don't know what you mean. My current laptop (Lenovo L13) has a cellular modem that I don't need. And I am certainly a cost conscious buyer. It's also not the first time that this happened as well.

Interestingly page 2 of the file doesn't seem to indicate a crisis. All the numbers a roughly stable, some are actually improving (for example less people struggling with housing costs in Germany and generally fewer people struggling in France). What sticks out is that more Germans expect a recession around the corner.

Also I thank that moderating a popular forum is dang hard.

Idk if dang was in charge back in the day, but I remember HN used to shut off sign-ups whenever Reddit went down (very frequently like 10 years ago) so they didn’t get a flood of users looking for a low-effort Reddit like experience. Those are the kinds of things I’d never think about but are also what has kept HN so great. Genuinely glad this bit of internet has been so well maintained over the years.

So the secret to "hn for X" is "dang for X"

Now we need to make dang as a service.

I see what you did there, well played! :o)

This logic makes absolutely zero sense. If a house is uninsurable, people will choose to live there without insurance. But if the house is insurable for a high cost people will not? They can still choose to not buy the expensive insurable and be in the same boat as inunsurable home owners.

Will banks give out loans for houses without insurance?

> how to do it has been well known for more than 3 quarters of century

Don't leave me hanging! How to do it?

Direct reading without the risk of reading incorrect values is possible only when the timer is implemented using a synchronous counter instead of an asynchronous counter and the synchronous counter must be fast enough to ensure a stable correct value by the time when it is read, and the reading signal must be synchronized with the timer clock signal.

Synchronous counters are more expensive in die area than asynchronous counters, especially at high clock frequencies. Moreover, it may be difficult to also synchronize the reading signal with the timer clock. Therefore the second solution may be preferable, which uses a separate capture register for reading the timer value.

This was implemented in the timer described in TFA, but it was done in a wrong way.

The capture register must either ensure that the capture is already complete by the time when it is possible to read its value after giving a capture command, or it must have some extra bit that indicates when its value is valid.

In this case, one can read the capture register until the valid bit is on, having a complete certainty that the end value is correct.

When adding some arbitrary delay between the capture command and reading the capture register, you can never be certain that the delay value is good.

Even when the chosen delay is 100% effective during testing, it can result in failures on other computers or when the ambient temperature is different.

Mixtral and Deepseek use MOE. Most others don't.

While reading the definitions I was imagining this flat male comic with gender jokes "monosaturated, am I right?" When I came to the quotes I was kind of relieved to see women representing this experience.

I think evolutionary speaking, it is neither that humans are by nature strictly monogamous nor polyamorous. I think what people are confused about is that evolution often benefits from conflicts of interest between individuals. It also can both benefit from societal norms and from deviations from them. It can benefit from honesty and from deception. It can benefit from people doing their best to figure out and live by what their personal nature is and by people trying to overcome their nature to become something they think is better than that.