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BTW - in listening to that podcast I found a lot of parallels with database design.

whenever I'm asked to design a database for an early-stage system (I work in early stage tech ventures), I ask the following:

- what are the questions that this database should answer for you? How are those questions supporting your business goals 3,6,12 months out? (I'm trying to get to the business requirements here)

- who will be asking those questions (I'm trying to put together some user personas in my head)

- how frequently will they be asking these questions? corollary: how often will historical data be needed? (I'm thinking hot vs cold and complexity of retrieval, minimally required performance)

- how much data to we anticipate is needed to answer the questions (this is really tricky in new ventures - often the answer is more data than what will actually occur in practice in the first year)?

- finally, what systems & tools are people using to ask the questions and be notified of events? (I'm thinking about interfacing, apis)

its all an attempt to stay very focused on the questions and business drivers and the people who use the answers.
This is super-awesome. Any chance you get all the online course providers (like Coursera) to adopt this ASAP? :) The only thing that is missing there now is the ability to make bookmarks, and have those to be able to reference externally (i.e. go to bookmark by URL) and the thing is very close to perfect. Oh, and maybe also make an option to do horizontal split instead of vertical - since most videos are wider than they are tall you get bigger video with the same split.
Great article on that here: https://fightersweep.com/3955/exactly-auto-gcas/

It would be a fair question to wonder what GCAS does when a pilotless plane is heading into the ground. I'm going to guess that the folks who built GCAS have a test to see if there is a pilot in the plane or not. And in the absence of a pilot just augur in, but that is just a guess.
There was serious talk about introducing this in civil planes too:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304791204576402...
I believe the term "tiger mother" was popularised by Amy Chua's book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" which is a great read for people interested in parenting.

It's been a few years since I've read the book, but your upbringing sounds extreme dissimilar from what Chua calls tiger parenting. Where you start to diverge is where you have time for video games once academics are taken care of.

In the tiger parent model there are no video games or playtime with friends when academics are done. That is when you do additional academics or learn foreign languages or practice classical music.

Getting good grades is not an accomplishment to be rewarded and straight A's don't get you any latitude. These accomplishments are the bare minimum of expected behavior for your child.

A gifted child can become a high achiever with a casual approach to academics. With a rigorous approach the idea is that average children become high achievers and gifted children become world class.
Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that the ant's ant hill gets destroyed if the freeway is built over it. Or that the ant itself gets crushed if it gets run over while walking across the freeway. The ant will notice those things even if it doesn't understand what caused them.
Could you please point me to reputable studies that back up your claim that storage will be needed before very high penetration?

Even for extremely high carbon reductions (95% on 1990) the best models I've seen consider transmission lines and sector coupling considerably cheaper. And these models make very aggressive assumptions on the fall of battery prices. E.g.:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.05290.pdf

Edit:
The thing to look at is figure 11. on page 16. It gives a policy trade off. Given political limits on the amount of transmission grid extension (x axis) what is the cost of the economically optimal mix of technologies (y axis). Left graph shows sector coupling, right graph shows sector coupling. The second graph almost completely eliminates the need for battery storage.

Nuclear is not in this mix, partly because this is exploring policy constraints on transmission capacity in the context of Europe (and nuclear is pretty much a non-starter politically) but it clearly shows that the idea that large amounts of battery are inevitable is outdated.

I'll leave you with a quote from the conclusions:

"The All-Flex-Central scenario with optimal transmission costs just 13% more than today’s system [even when excluding health benefits]"
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Because books with solutions give a false sense of security. The goal of exercises is to have the students to think for themselves about the solution. It really doesn't matter if they can solve the problem perfectly. People concerned about solutions are in fact thinking about a quick way to get the best grades for an exam. Which is fine, but it should not the first goal of anyone writing a text book on a mathematical topic.
It could always be used as leverage if the appropriate situation arose.
You just assumed an autopilots gender.
There's also quite a bit of talk going on between scientists on both projects. If I remember correctly, the microwave heating design of Wendelstein 7-X also solved a few problems for ITER and in general it's more of a friendly competition.
All of what you describe are not done, or guaranteed, by RISC-V. RISC-V only refers to the CPU cores, the same way Arm refers to the CPUs as well.

Actually, Arm cores don't force any kind of proprietary board architectures or binary blobs in order to be manufactured and shipped. Why do people expect that this will change with RISC-V?
If actuaries don’t have business problems that could use ML what the heck do they do all day? Insurance is a great target for ML.
The assumption inherent in the question is that there is some kind of autopilot mode or logic change based on whether ejection has occurred or not. It is pretty unlikely that such explicit logic exists.

Also, ejection only makes sense in the context of a manned military aircraft. For the question to make sense as posed, the implication is that the pilot had engaged the autopilot and then ejected while the autopilot had meaningful control authority over the aircraft. That's not a scenario the airworthiness certification authorities probably consider as critical. Manned aircraft require deliberate human action to engage the autopilot. What the flight control computers do in general (e.g., limit control inputs to keep aircraft within acceleration/maneuvering limits, automatically enter a stable attitude when stick forces are not present) is not considered the "autopilot".

You could ask the question, "If the pilot ejects, do flight control computers attempt to fly the aircraft in any particular way?" At least for U.S. aircraft, recent ejections (e.g. the Thunderbird ejection near the end of Obama's tenure), suggest the answer is "no". If an automated flight termination system is installed, when safety constraints are violated (e.g., heartbeat signal or veering outside of geographic limits) it usually takes action to put the aircraft into the ground as quickly as possible (e.g., cut power to actuators on an unstable aircraft). This is common with UAVs. I don't think this is the case with manned aircraft.
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I think it's important to know that other boundaries exist, at least conceptually, but, ultimately, it's the practical considerations that are important. For example, for what you listed, what would you say are the storage cutoffs for each tier today?

> data problems

I find there is also, occasionally, a lack of awareness of when a problem is data-heavy, encouraged by abstraction layers like ORMs.

This can lead to casual or naive (neither meant derogatorily) distributed computing, where the app hoovers up the data from database to be processed. This can be great for anything CPU-intensive but terrible for the I/O-intensive.

> Fits on one Big Hardware (Mainframe or other Specialized equipment)

I don't think this really exists today, unless you're including an otherwise commodity high-end (e.g. 8-socket) server that carries up to a 4x price premium in "specialized equipment".

I'm aware that mainframes still exist, but, for a variety of reasons [1], I'd consider them as being in a world of their own, rather than a step on this continuum.

[1] e.g. inherently distributed architecture, not obvious if storage scale actually greater than high-end commodity, interop issues
Which isn't the VM, right?
There's not much question that a recession is coming. But when? And what form will it take?

The last recession was driven by a price collapse in housing. That was unusual. The next one is more likely to be driven by trade problems, which is more common historically. Also, the last few years have seen a lot of investment into stuff that's not paying off, and after a few years, that comes back to bite you.
Once the PIP starts, start asking coworkers you trust if they'll provide a reference and looking for a new gig. Your chances of coming back from a PIP are non-zero, but at the same time exceedingly low. You'll expend less effort moving to another gig with a chance you'll land with a better skilled manager (assuming your manager is the problem, and not you). You might even get a salary/comp bump out of the move.

This advice is more valid in our current, exceedingly tight, labor market and less so when unemployment goes up again (be prepared for a longer search, network more aggressively, and have a longer emergency fund runway).
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So many ads and things that prompt for attention on this page! I needed to press "x" on 3 things to be able to read. And once read to the end, it refers to a "video above" that won't open under Chrome for mobile. Wired, calm down on crap!
What are the 170,000 discrete actions?

Rough guesses for available actions:

32 (directions for movement)

+ 10 (spell/item activations)

* 20 (potential targets. heroes + near by creeps)

+ 15 (attack commands. 5 enemy heroes and ~10 near by creeps)

Which still leaves... approximately 170,000 actions unaccounted for
Orthogonal. Once you have tabs, any viewing of that file will rely on the tab size set by whatever viewer you're using: mixing tabs and spaces basically never works. At least if it's just tabs everything will be seen wrong consistently.

The only reliable mechanism is spaces-only.

:p
Yes, especially having gone to math grad school and then working on applied problems in industry. Most of my peers have way less math training, many never took any discrete math. It would be incredibly foolish of me to presume that it someone makes me perform better or think better.

In the spirit of a well-rounded college math education, sure, taking one or even two classes on this topic would be fine, for basic literacy.

I’m only saying that it doesn’t come up as a needed skillset in applied math or computer scuence jobs. Virtually never. So to whatever extent people say it helps develop systems thinking, algorithmic thinking, complexity thinking, it’s just not true.
Being rules based isn't necessarily a bad thing or disingenuous. I develop healthcare AI products (ML/DL researcher) and we actually aim to be able to translate our models into a rules based engine (find a strong signal, interpret/understand model well enough to translate/embed into a rules engine, look for a new signal in our models, rinse + repeat). We end up deploying a mix of rules based and true ML based models into production but it may not be immediately obvious to the end user which type of model they are using.
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I think this is incorrect. Renewables + Storage is possible now. It's only a matter of price. At marginal cost right now solar+wind are cheaper than alternatives, at total system costs it's within a factor of two (or at break even for optimistic studies) of the current system and falling.

Fusion is not possible now. As climate change is happening now, any delay in transitioning to clean and available solutions is purely ideology driven.
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> In contrast, if you had put an open source license on it, then anyone would be well within their rights (assuming the license allows it) to compile and release a version to whatever app store they want.

This is actually potentially untrue, as some versions of the GPL require that the end user must not be restricted wrt the app they download, and that's not compatible with the Apple's store requirements. See e.g. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/6109/is-it-possibl...
Silo'd specialized software engineers often don't have the benefit of these relationships with other employees

Whether it is for nomination for employee of the month

or being acquitted in a workplace tribunal

the most introverted people have to go out of their way to let people know how productive and beneficial they've been, and that is a losing proposition
The headline and article are written as if it's somehow outrageous that a text could do this, but when an old-school verbal shout can trigger a lynching, if anything, it would be a letdown if an electronic message couldn't.
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> Here’s the problem. Imagine you have two random number generators, each producing a sequence of digits. The question for your computer is this: Are the two sequences completely independent from each other, or are they related in a hidden way (where one sequence is the “Fourier transform” of the other)?

and then

> The new paper by Raz and Tal proves that a quantum computer needs far fewer hints than a classical computer to solve the forrelation problem. In fact, a quantum computer needs just one hint, while even with unlimited hints, there’s no algorithm in PH that can solve the problem.

At the risk of someone winning buzzword bingo, this feels very AGI-esque. It seems to me that right now, our best classification algorithms are very bad at extrapolating related patterns on sequences that are related, but that the classifier has never seen. Or, more clearly, it is bad at correlating pattern unless the success heuristic has been tuned to look for it. If we have proved that classical computers cannot escape their heuristic, but quantum computers could (i.e. "dear computer, find related patterns, ready, go"), that seems like a very compelling reason to dump money into quantum computers.

Anyone more knowledgeable care to temper my excitement?
>I'm sorry, but me and you don't matter. And any believe that we do is to satisfy our egos only.

True.

> Its our kids that matter.

If you and I don't matter, neither do the kids.

>And with this mentality humanity will prevail. If we loose sight of this humanity will eventually not.

This also doesn't matter.
that's not correct. It's definitely about fusion and to test a different concept as the tomahawk, the problem is that you need a self sustaining fusion and that happens at 100M°C. Of course there're lots of other experiments and interesting stuff happening, but it's also to find a viable concept to generate power (that's also why they get lots of european funding). There's a good interview with a scientist and a director from wendelstein 7-X but it's in german https://alternativlos.org/36/
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Have IBM released open DRAM initialization hardware, and if so under what precise license and where's the Verilog for it? As far as I know, OpenPOWER hardware is not open source in anything like the same way as RISC-V's Rocket and BOOM cores.
So as someone getting AT&T Fiber this week, what VPNs should I look at using?
A video of someone actually building and typing on one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIDs8tq5Pa4
Or: When lynching can be triggered by a text. The incendiary culture of India.
And that's all this article is bringing attention to.

Some people care about open-source, and they care quite strongly. I'm not necessarily part of open-boot or coreboot... but I at least understand their sentiment.

For these OSS advocates, they really believe in controlling the full computer with fully open source hardware. They feel like calling RISC-V an "Open Source" core dillutes the term.

At the end of the day, its just a blogpost on a popular OSS benchmarking website dedicated to the server market. RISC-V doesn't serve their purposes (yet), so that's all they're writing about.

99% of the Phoronix content is about Linux Benchmarks btw. So its not like they publish these internet politics issues too often.
As it relates to sponsorship transparency, I think platforms such as instagram, youtube, etc have broader issues with their influencers whether CGI'ed or not...

I did find it really interesting that a CGI character could be more appealing to brands as there is much more complete control over image, no past issues, etc.

Reminds me of Hatsune Miku, virtual pop singer in Japan. As CGI continues to improve, wouldn't be surprised if we start to see entire digital labels churning out multitudes of artists/bankds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku
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I didn't mean it as being disingenuous - that's precisely the value that was sold and if you could do the proper "knowledge engineering", it worked well. It's just interesting to me having seen the previous turn of the AI hype wheel, how much is being repeated.

Another interesting thing was the transition from special purpose hardware - Lisp machines - to C code on commodity platforms. A contrast from today's ML moving in the other direction.
Agree. Consultancies rarely sell products or solutions. Instead they sell project management by making it sound like you are a more safe bet than a smaller product studio who actually do make products work. Its a real shame but i mostly blame the zero mistake KPI culture primarily fueled by how managers on the client side are promoted.
... in the scope of a public forum, I don't want to go off-topic or give advice (which may well be wrong and cost you money). But you should ask yourself what your investments are worth, and why they are worth that. If you can't answer those questions, that is your first problem. Then you should ask if you have better returns elsewhere in various scenarios (repaying debt, moving to more fixed/safer income streams) based on your personal situation and goals. Best of luck, I hope that is useful. Don't underestimate your personal agency to change the world around you.
> what is the theoretical basis for arguing that the US should nonetheless allow Chinese ownership of US companies?

Why shouldn't it? Neither the stock market, nor capitalism cares who buys shares of a company. If China isn't interested in investments from the US, wouldn't that just make their own markets less efficient?

If your goal is efficient markets, then it shouldn't matter where your investment dollars are coming from.

I don't understand where this ridiculous notion of 'fairness' in capital markets is coming from. Money is money, if you want to ascribe morality to it, then this is not the economic system to do so in.

Consider this question: Should, say Nigeria allow US-based companies or persons to buy Nigerian companies/mineral rights/agricultural land?

If so, why? Under a reciprocal agreement, it's not like Nigerian companies are able to buy US companies/mineral rights/agricultural land. Even if they were allowed to in theory, they wouldn't have the money.

Does this mean that Nigeria should close itself to outside investment? Would Nigeria be better off if it did so? Is it only hurting itself by being closed to American investment?
The same was said of Microsoft, as Office was held back by the need to always be in lock step with Windows.

Microsoft got past that problem, and I’m sure Intel will too. Like 1990-2010 intel, the foundry companies have been able to hide a lot of their warts through growth. IMO, the smartphone revolution will peak much more quickly than PCs, and Intel competitors will gave their own life threatening challenges.
I meant the more abstract pain of introducing the new ISA and probably taking blame for problems with functionality and performance. Yes, Google would probably be the ones executing this task.
That's pretty much the diametrical opposite of the book's message, at least in my reading of it. Most of the book has been spent, as I remember it, decrying features that look cool for developers but useless for the users, such as overly-complex configuration panels, or interfaces that emphasize "cool" features at the expense of reliable basic function, etc.
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Why is it unclear? AFAICT, it lies outside the shaded region (just below the bottom left part). The scale is in the chart is a little unclear, but all the data is in the article.
> an easily usable, yet ... utterly unusable

I love it.
But consulting using your work experience of 10, 20 or 30 years is something that can happen and everyone in the economic rung could rise up 1 spot.

Also, your work experience in 1960s/70s isn't so relevant to most anything today. Especially in a technologically driven environment.

Besides most of these "consulting" work are government, union or private company jobs where nepotism or corruption plays a big role.

I know HN userbase skews very old, but old people "consulting" is just in everyone's way. Like I said, if you want to consult, then don't retire and keeping working. So exploit the system by collecting social security/pensions/etc and screwing over a tons of younger people.
I don't know.

I just know when people get fired, the "Betriebsrat" can save the.
As a data point: A lot of the UberBLACK cars in Amsterdam are Tesla Model S's
That's not rigorously supported. It's just an anecdote they mention off-hand. The final version of the bot does use the creep block reward.
Over the past 10 years I’ve been surprised when anyone smart would join IBM. I understand why people hung on, but why join that dying ship? Now I can’t think of any still there.
That's StackExchange for you. If they don't mark your question as irrelevant and off-topic, they write a smug reply that doesn't answer the question.
Anyone who's interested in learning about how RISC-V works via open source should check out the Bitwise project. It's a series of coding streams building a RISC-V based computer from scratch on an FPGA, all open source.
https://github.com/pervognsen/bitwise/
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