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17 days ago, Western Digital announce "Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-V Cores a Year": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15801044
by frik 9y ago
17 days ago, Western Digital announce "Western Digital Plans to Ship More Than One Billion RISC-V Cores a Year":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15801044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15801044
And one needed only calc one and one together to came to the conclusion WD will use RISC-V as HDD controller - yet my comment got down voted on HN. It would be better if HN only has upvotes, and no downvoting/flagging feature and instead a "report" button.
- squarefoot 9y agoI've learned to not give a rat's ass about downvoters. If I could change something I'd maybe remove the anonymity or at least enforce a response comment on the reason for downvoting, so that it becomes more informative and less of a hobby for trigger happy lurkers. Back on the topic, WD also manufactures media players, but surely not over a billion per year.
- frik 9y ago> I've learned to not give a rat's ass about downvoters. Well. I wouldn't care that much too. BUT HN comment rely on an invisible karma value and if it is below a certain threshold, the accounts "suffers" aka, certain functions have no visible effect. Then suddenly upvoting other comments/stories doesn't do anything (looks fine to you, but doesn't increase the value for everyone but you) and your comments start with an (invisible) negative score, so you will find your comments instantly on the bottom, almost no matter how many upvotes. It's an intransparent system, and it used to be more transparent, when HN was still open source software. Correct me if I am wrong, but that's how I experienced it and put together the puzzle. I certainly would prefer if there would be only upvotes (like Facebook) and no downvotes/flagging - it doesn't work anymore, the community got too big and changed.
- rbanffy 9y agoOnly people with a karma above a certain level can downvote comments. I expect it to be adjusted over time, as people acquire more karma.
- dang 9y ago> Correct me if I am wrong, but that's how I experienced it and put together the puzzle Assuming I understand you, that's wrong. PG always had two different versions of HN. The open-source one was a working subset of the production one, but only a subset, and there were always aspects that weren't public—necessarily so, to avoid abuse and gaming of the system. Moreover there were always downvotes and flags, or at least from very early on.
- 0xFFFE 9y agoI am relatively new here, obviously I don't have enough karma points to down vote, but even if I did, I wouldn't down vote for an opposing view point. This is one thing I don't like about the commenting system here. It discourages people from presenting their opinion without worrying about getting down voted. Secondly, I would expect people who have accumulated enough karma points to down vote, to have an open mind about entertaining different takes on the matters being discussed.
- icebraining 9y agoI see a comment by Symmetry saying essentially that, and it wasn't downvoted. I then see your later comment which is not saying that, but instead wondering if they will be used to create "smart HDs" and run full OSs like Minix.
- rbanffy 9y agoAn embedded multi-tasking OS inside the device opens up a lot of interesting applications. And vulnerabilities.
- Symmetry 9y agoI think your comment there was downvoted, correctly, for implying that having a RISC-V microcontroller in the hard drive would be more dangerous from a security standpoint than the ARM or MIPS microcontroller it was replacing.