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What does superdeterminism have to do with the Tao?
>The iPhone CPUs are already competitive with Intel chips.

In selected benchmarks. That is like saying the Qualcomm ARM Sever Chips are already competitive with Intel Chips. But it is pretty close, at least to the point for most consumer usage it doesn't matter.

>The iPhone CPUs are already competitive with Intel chips.
>What specific feature of a "high performance" node

At sub 10W ( The TDP for iPhone and iPad Pro ), not at 15W+ or 250W on the Mac Pro. You will require different tools, nodes, design guidelines operating at those TDP. No one is saying Apple cant do it, the question is if it make any financial sense doing it.

>AFAICT, nobody in the world has a production 5nm chip yet. How can you put a price on something that nobody has successfully produced yet?

https://semiengineering.com/5nm-vs-3nm/

The lead time for designing a chip / SoC with new node is roughly 2-3 years. Apple are already working ( finalising ) on 5nm SoC for next year, and they already knew the basic costing, ( excluding yield issues ). 3nm Costing Projection are also already known and are being worked on as we speak.

>If I were Apple and I were confident that just throwing $1B at it would solve all the engineering problems, I would absolutely do it. $40 per Mac for the best CPU (and independence from Intel) sounds like a steal.

Quoting myself excluding the actual cost of wafer. and yield. Apple would have made the jump if it really only cost them $40.
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One of the most impressive digital artifacts humans have yet produced, IMO.

Legend has it that Chuck Moore used to carry around his own 3D CAD system in a deck of punch cards in his shirt pocket.

> Current software is shameful.

It's not pleasant but I have to agree. I'm ashamed of my industry.

Just yesterday I watched helplessly as an office manager and her boss struggled with their computer for ten minutes to complete a task that would have taken moments with paper. The divining of intent (the UI's embodied intent, not their own), the careful collecting and passing on of cargo-cult lore, groping blindly for the correct ritual to evoke the desired state on their machine...

It's our fault. I am ashamed.

ColorForth and things like Arcfide's self-hosting GPU APL compiler are "existence proofs" that we can get the same jobs done with one or two orders of magnitude less code.

Doing that would free up dev's mental and time resources to make better software, i.e. spending time on the difficult and important chore of actually modelling the users' processes and providing automation that measurably improves their lives, rather than learning the next flash thing or reinventing the wheel for the Nth time.

In other words, your software editing environment including your language should allow for convergence and contraction of code. Refactoring (aka DRY by those who must repeat themselves) is key, and Forth is notorious for refactoring.

In Cybernetics there's a formal measure or concept called "variation". The variation of code should be at most a small constant greater than the variation in human problems the code is meant to solve.
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If I'm currently using a "9.7 inch" iPad, and I decide to upgrade it to a newer model with the same physical dimensions (because of space in my bags/compatibility with existing cases etc.), but it's now marketed as a "10.5 inch" or whatever, will I lose access to my current [free] MS Office tier?
There are alot of anecdotal incidents like that which don't attract attention for reasons unknown or because they fall short of a standard. One I'm familiar with was a cancer cluster associated with county roads, which were tarred gravel until the late 1970s. A local factory would kindly "donate" waste oil loaded with various nasties to the county, who would tar the roads with it, there were elevated rates of lung cancers along those roads. Because the "cluster" was a strip, it didn't meet a geographic threshold.

Other common nasties include old rail depots and military depots. The stuff they used to clean locomotives was awful. I read a local article about a local military depot issue and a program called "Defense Environmental Restoration Program for Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS)". The New York/New Jersey District estimates it has $500M of cleanup to do, with an annual budget of $3-5M.
A-priori truths are called axioms.

In the context of the Curry-Howard isomorphism you don't "prove things about programs".

Programs ARE proofs. Not all programs, mind you. You need to be using a dependently-typed language like Agda, Coq or Idris.

The link in my post to the UniMath project is a bunch of codified proofs to various theorems in Category theory, Topology, Combinatorics etc.
While it may appear so from a retail consumer standpoint, I don't think Canon is lagging behind in tech from an IP and R&D standpoint. The thing is they make the sensor themselves, and the fabs and tooling is super super expensive. Canons MO is to extract as much profit as possible from a pre-existing process before moving over to something new. They already have BSI tech.. they already have the means to create a 100MP sensor as well as compete on AF (for video I think dualpixel AF is already ahead of the competition). Canon has diversified product lines and doesn't want to upset its Cinema EOS lineup too much by offering "too many" features. Sony, being the newcomer has sunk a ginormous amount of capital into fabs and tooling to differentiate itself in a saturated market and it has worked for the amateur and enthusiast crowd. They have a few weaknesses, specifically ergonomics, color science, the smaller E mount diameter, and a less rugged body for professional use (compared to 1DX or D5). It will be interesting to see how they tackle the new challenger..

>but they've made huge leaps in R&D for large telephotos with usable fresnel lenses at 300mm and 500mm focal length.

Canon already has this tech, as they showed in their 400 DO II, which is a freakishly awesome lens.

>his too has been challenged lately by Sony and their partnership with Zeiss

Hmm, have there been any sony-zeiss lenses since Sony started their GM lineup?
My D500 also has no problem doing this via SnapBridge. It was total crap when it launched (the app, the D500 was stellar from the offset) but has been gradually improving.
My dog is a 1 year old animal. Of course he is a problem. But he isn't the one exploding shit to amuse himself.
I'm picking up a very defensive vibe about your own degree here. Are you worried about getting replaced?
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Thanks for explaining what I was trying to say much better than myself.
This is a poor take away. Even in a monolith, you still want to separate your concerns, yes? Your code should be almost as abstracted in a monolith as they are in micro services. In microservices the code is just deployed across multiple instances.

RPCs and local method calls both need to be fault tolerant and race condition free. As you break up datastores, transactions become more complex but certainly you had a specific reason to do that so the complexity isn't a choice.

Sure the communication layer is added complexity but that too is should be abstracted into boilerplate such that you shouldn't have to think about it. Overall the added complexity requires more work but it shouldn't really make your business logic problems more complicated.
While the C5A has the ability to carry a single M1, it's not really intended for ferrying armored vehicles that large. REFORGER relied largely on both pre-positioned stocks of arms as well as merchant vessels to carry the heavy gear.
This is especially true for businesses. I've had a few cases where clients balked at browser support policies but when presented them with the cost multiplier it'd add, not to mention the cost of features / security, that clicked it into a calculation and suddenly it turned out that the “hard requirement” was actually one VP who refused to upgrade from IE5 Mac and they decided not to pay more for that.
Can only agree to certain extent.Lenovo ThinkPads retain exceptionally good keyboard design despite being wafer thin.I have a bulky Toshiba made in 2015 and the keyboard is just very so so. At work I've got XPS 13 and the keyboard is really nice,so ultimately its down to the industrial designers.
Companies that don't value these practices exist. They're everywhere. That's no excuse not to sharpen your skills, but hopefully it'll help you rest a little easier.

That said, the best medicine is practice.

To practice unit tests (or TDD when you feel like you're ready), do some katas. There are plenty of popular ones, and sites like http://www.codewars.com/ offer great challenges.

As you're working through your katas, make sure you check in to source control as you go. Learn the basics well, and pick up the rest as you go. You can always Google the more advanced stuff if you need it (most of the time, the basics are all you'll need).

For code reviews, read code. Read your own, certainly, but also read others. Hit up github. Find a repo you like, and then hit the 'commits' button. Read through the list of changes, and then write down what you think.

In real life, code reviews will be a little more tricky. You'll have to navigate a social structure and determine what is and isn't okay to say in a code review. Some groups are ruthless. Some are academic. Most, however, will be regular developers who are proud of their work, and the ability to criticize constructively will be of great value.

Two other suggestion come to mind for new team members. The first - be an apprentice first. Ask questions and learn. Especially in the beginning, your #1 job is to understand your environment - the people, processes, patterns, and practices that compose the overall work.

The second, take a shower. Nobody likes smelly teammates.
The article seems to claim the issue is with fabrication tolerances. Two issues come to mind.

1) How to fabricate to those tolerances reliably? (Robots come to mind).

2) How easy is it to operate these shafts in a degraded capacity if there is physical damage to the vessel during operations?

The first issue probably should be solved by improving automated construction tech. The second issue... these things need to operate well under worst case load scenarios, not just right out of the dry-dock... and it sounds like they can't even get the ideal scenario working.
Not sure what you're implying about mononoke but the readme says:

> The version that we provide on GitHub does not build yet.

So, maybe eventually. They found that Git didn't do well at their scale, so they modified mercurial instead.

I'm all in favor of a company-wide mono-repo if it doesn't have scaling issues.
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No worries, fair question. It worth noting that my job is not data analysis. So I do use data analysis to evaluate our metrics and model performance.

Really none of it is really automatable. I'm working developing NLP features for our product (question answering, search, neural machine translation, dialog, etc). Our customer data is diverse, in different formats, and thier use cases are all distinct. So most of my work is novel applied research and development.
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oh, I thought the same!! took me a few seconds to realize it's not about the Protoss cheese :D
That is really sad if true.

It's ok to say that cracking the entrance exam is going to give them a great platform on which they can build their future.

But telling a 16 year old to clear it believing it's a matter of life and death . That has to be one of the biggest failure of the parents/society/educational system.

I really hope that Internet education reaches a stage where no one has to face such a situation.
Being one of those failed students, I would like to tell any one who is trying to clear the exam and reading this. Try your best, it's ok if you don't clear.
If you persist and keep working hard with whatever you have, you will do wonders.(Ignore people who say otherwise).
I watch porn. Like everybody else on the planet.

Why hide something so mundane? It’s like pretending you don’t poop. We all know you poop. You’re human.

Reminds me of a failed study I read about. Researchers wanted to look into the effects of porn and couldn’t find a big enough control group. There simply aren’t enough people who don’t watch porn to make the study viable.

PS: in terms of malware it’s religious sites you gotta worry about. https://www.pcworld.com/article/254694/religious_sites_carry...
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I'm with CobrastanJorji on this one: the tutorial is fine, good even and may persuade someone to use your tool for a chat system on their site.

I think the title being "Build a Vue Chat App" (not so much in the context of your site as that title makes sense there as there is an assumption you're using CometChat to do it, but in the HN post that highlights it) may've been a bit of a letdown to some though.
> could easily sink a carrier or any other surface ship with hypersonic anti-ship missiles

There is a tradeoff between speed and maneuverability. Ballistic missiles are hypersonic, for example, and have almost zero post-launch maneuverability. Cruise missiles are subsonic, but have a tremendous amount of maneuverability.

Low-speed projectiles are vulnerable to jamming and shipboard defenses. High-speed projectiles are vulnerable to targets leaving the strike zone.

Anyone claiming a carrier strike group can "easily" be sunk misunderstands not only anti-ship missile technology but also the strategic role of carrier systems. (The ships hold back at a safe distance from which they monitor for incoming projectiles. Planes and missiles do the close-range work.)
I'd really like to see someone target federal politicians. Get their data and just destroy their finances. Now that would get their attention and result in rapid changes.
Would be interesting to hear more about this. Considering it was only an algorithm,was there no way to migrate it?
Fun implication being there exists a trading strategy that consistently make $1M a day for 40+ years (I guess what isn't mentioned is how much capital was backing up that strategy)?
> Why would sequencing follow Moore's law

It doesn't, the whole point is it was far faster. This is what it's rate of change was famous for.

The rate of change is now so slow it's comparable to Moore's law.

Being as 'slow' as Moore's law means it's effectively stopped.

It's just a layperson point gene tech has stalled.

Not sure why you don't want it cheaper, strange point. Having access to cheap tech even for vets and animal production would be interesting. Let alone human hobbiest or researchers, they don't have unlimited budgets.

Read the article on Moneyball and cattle
Ton Roosendaal started out as a programmer on the Amiga. I'm probably somewhat biased here, but I expect that he has strong feelings about avoiding bloatware
wow now thats a hustle LOL
As someone responsible for Cloud security for the last several years at a couple of companies, I can tell you exactly how this happens.

You, the sec-ops engineer, propose your pie-in the sky, compartmentalized fortress. There is no one security domain, but many, with barriers in between them, so that having one part of your org compromised leaves the rest intact.

Then, you talk to your peers, and have many discussions of the form, "yes, that's secure, but it's really annoying to work with, and my engineers won't be able to monkey-patch the production environment to test stuff". you say, that's the point, the CTO says, you can't slow down dev.

So, you come up with something that's as secure as you can make it within the limited ability you have to impose inconvenience. Then it comes to implementing the thing.

You don't have time to implement everything yourself, so you delegate. Some people now have credentials to the production systems, and to ease their own debugging, or deployment, spin up little helper bastion instances, so they don't have to use 2FA each time to use SSH or don't have to deal with limited-time SSH cert authorities, or whatever. They roll out your fairly secure design, and forget about the little bastion they've left hanging around, open to 0.0.0.0 with the default SSH private key every dev checks into git. So, any former employee can get into the bastion.

Now, that's what happens when someone designs something secure from the outset.

When you start out with everything being in the default VPC, initially brought up by hand, with a subnet setting which default-assigns public IP addresses, you're basically boned, but that's where most companies which roll service in the cloud start.
Or do you use micro service architectures where some of your services (eg ML training) runs on dedicated/specialized hardware and traditional event/request based business logic can be written more quickly and only moved to Dark incrementally?
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What you say seems plausible, but it's not clear to me if it's actually true or false. Heartbleed is a tough example, because it's already entirely open-source, so it's not really possible to imagine "how much media coverage would it have gotten if the security researchers themselves didn't publish a PoC". (I don't even recall if they ever did provide one.)

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure I've repeatedly seen patches on closed-source products (from Microsoft, Apple, etc.) make it to the broader news without a PoC, so to me it seems like it's really a function of how severe the vulnerability is (although every vulnerability becomes more severe when it comes with an exploit and an instruction manual).

There's an easy way to settle this with data though. Is there data to indicate fewer machines are actually hacked at the end of the day when a PoC is provided after a patch, compared to when it is not provided unless the vendor doesn't issue a patch? That's what ultimately matters at the end of the day, and I'd readily buy that, but I have yet to be made aware of any.
Congrats. They deserve it.

Even though my company focuses on front-end dev, we still use webflow for our marketing website because it's that easy.

They're by far the closest to achieving what Dreamweaver once set out to. Works best when used for marketing websites and when mixed with a basic respect for CSS.

(1) Idea > (2) Make page in something that feels like figma/sketch > (3) Publish ... is such a pleasant workflow.
Do you have years to go along with that? Might be fun to compare it to relative storage capacity :)
Part of the thing that's left mostly somewhat unsaid of the whole fictional arc of the Star Trek universe is that there was a full-exchange nuclear war, which led (IIRC - I am not a major trekkie, though I prefer it to Star Wars - each has its place, though) to the contact with the Vulcans.

Then again, I am not sure that if we actually went through a full scale nuclear exchange, that in the end if we would change socially. I have a feeling that rather than change for the better, humanity would change for the worse.

In that vision, "Mad Max" would be a utopia in comparison.
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I think his issue is that if they cannot deliver the systems that were paid for on time then it puts the Navy into a bind. The Navy stretched too far with the Ford carrier and issues between contractors lead to components not working well together. Yet this is just the latest is screw ups in the Navy.

The problem I have is this so called near balance that has be maintained in budgets between the services. The internal pissing match is what costs us so much as each tries to out do the other, mainly the Navy and Air Force cannot get along.

This day and age concentrating so much wealth in such a vulnerable area as surface ships should have given them pause but the Navy has been wedded to the CV for too long because they are BIG and visible. The Air Force's folly is being stuck on manned air craft to the point they practically buried attempts at unmanned combat roles. The Army? If not to staff the bases around the world is simply a large force with little real mission.

yet the end question is always the same, we know what US dominance in this area is like, the so called world policeman, is it worth the risk finding out what happens when someone else steps in if the US backs off? How would that look?
Please note that Linus wrote an operating system that in practice showed greater reliability than competing commercial microkernels. I do not believe that the principles that he came to believe in that process should be dismissed as straw man arguments.
And look at all the amazing billion dollar tech companies, open source projects, operating systems, programming languages & compilers that come from there compared to the US.

Ah yeah, I can see how much better the certification makes everything now. Thanks for that!
If you've ever put that kind of information anywhere on the internet using the same browser, it's best to assume they can connect you. From browser fingerprinting to IP logging to security exploits, they'll find a way. You can definitely make it more difficult for them but without going all the way to TOR or something like it, it's best not to assume you have any secrets.
We live is a world with a distorted notion of success. About 1/2 the people I know who take photography seriously use Canon cameras. I'm also a happy Canon customer. How is this a sinking ship?
I love asking this question! I almost always get “7” as an answer! Except one notable time: the interviewee said, at first, “seven”... then he stops, slowly makes eye-contact and says “no: 10.” Brilliant! Who does that!?

I’ve interviewed hundreds of candidates; HR has relayed to me that many candidates requested that HR tell me that they loved being interviewed by me, even though the interview was very, very hard; they say they were surprised to learn things, and also happy I was so interested in them as s person.

This always made me happy; I had to sacrifice a teaching career to program.
One can view it as "language" at multiple levels.

In a computer language, there is a lexical level, and then there is a slightly deeper syntax level. Beyond that, there are levels of language, too: JSON or XML documents can follow one schema or another, for example. This schema defines a language on top of the JSON or XML language. (And you can do the same thing with any other data structure.)

In math, the same sort of levels exist. At the most superficial level is the notation. At that level, I don't think mathematicians use formal language. They're free to invent a notation or even misuse a notation in a proof. There are no absolutely fixed rules, the complete set of rules does not have to communicated up front, and when push comes to shove, anything goes as long as it's clear to another mathematician.

But at a deeper level, they deal with formalisms and manipulate information in a formal way. If you want to call that information manipulation language, I think that's reasonable because it can be used (and agreed upon) in an exchange of ideas.

For example, do you want to say the Fibonacci sequence starts "0 1 1" or "1 1"? It's just a definition thing, but if you and I agree on one or the other and then start talking about the Nth element of "the Fibonacci sequence", we are communicating with each other in terms of that. (And it's formal because we are basing things on not deviating from that.)
Nonetheless, it seems the US Navy is still fighting the last war. Carriers are extremely vulnerable to missiles. I think fast missile boats and land based launchers probably make large warships obsolete. Tough to say for sure since that hasn't happened, but it seems likely to me.