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I'm thinking of characters like Captain Jack Sparrow (partially inspired by Keith Richards) or Zuse from Tron: Legacy (partially inspired by David Bowie).

When it's less "inspired by" and more literally "0.5 David Bowie", I also imagine a lot of law firms writing letters.
The only thing that will change the status quo is government regulation straight up banning oil and gas products or making them niche and expensive.

For example the City of Vancouver the other night quietly banned using natural gas for heating and hot water in new developments under 3 stories. They'd already done so buildings taller than that.

This will lower GHG emissions from buildings by 86% by making them 'zero emission' and as well this sort of thing, if adopted widely, will lower demand and prices for natural gas.
How much is only the raw cost of the display (say 15"), and how much would it go down with scale? It doesn't look like you guys are skimping on the other parts of the device, which I think a mass-consumer device could (should) do.

Arguing the other way: I think the other problem is that such a device doesn't make more money. Amazon can sell echos at a loss because it knows it lifts its other revenue streams.
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Um, it could greatly depending on how Tesla is affected by this current lockdown and the recession afterwards. Close to half of Elon Musk's stock has been used in loans to finance his lifestyle of buying mansions, flying around in a private jet, and financing his other unprofitable companies.

If the price of Tesla stock ever goes down too far his whole empire risks crumpling.
The pattern matching algorithm was originally based on the algorithm described in `The implementation of Functional Programming Languages`, the 1987 edition (there are two versions, one is more basic).

Edit: this book is available for free here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-imp...
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To reinforce your point, Zoom is already heavily on both AWS and Azure, and I’m sure they’ve both seen massive increased spend from Zoom over the last couple months. But of course you don’t hear any of that from a PR standpoint because it’s really just business as usual as far as they are concerned.

The Oracle news is news because it’s a deviation from the business as usual, I suppose.
it’s another to allow the minority to constantly overrule the majority

That's the whole point of protecting the minority. Otherwise, if the majority always wins, and the minority has to be satisfied with the crumbs left by the majority, the minority has effectively zero power. It's like writing an API. You know you're doing it right, when things mostly work, but there's someone, somewhere sorely dissatisfied with not getting their way.

In the words of one fictional British gentleman, "You don't have it. I don't have it. That's detente, comrade!"
was just going to say—I'd read your book.
My only experience with COM (that I know of) was trying to do MS Office automation from C# >10 years ago.

I recall that it was very awkward, and somehow prone to memory leaks, and unclosed resources. To this day, I still don't really understand what COM is, or is supposed to be. But I still have a negative visceral reaction.
Do we have more sample photos to judge the quality?
> I think we're simply discussing the wrong thing. Instead of questioning whether college is important for X, Y, we should be discussing how we can make every single American go to college.

Or we could help most people learn valuable skills in their first 13 years of schooling, so the only people who need/want to go to college are those who will actually benefit.

I saw a submission in /newest last night about how one of the actual purposes of American K-12 education is 'childcare': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23027408

"Like pretty much every everything about schooling in the US ever, it assumes that what schools do – and all that schools do – is educate. [...] The fact of the matter is our primary school system is state-subsidized childcare for the vast majority of parents who cannot afford to raise their own children in our ghastly economy. That's been the case for the last 40-plus years. This isn't new, and if it's news to you, o reader, it's only because nobody much in the US has wanted to admit this evidence of the US economy being terrifyingly more broken than we Americans are prepared to confront."

While I appreciate that public schools are supposed to serve the interests of the public, the standard factory school model isn't doing anyone any favors.

The United States' College/University system is a much more valuable institution than the K-12 as commonly exists today.

The only reform really needed for K-12 is to transform it into an institution that exists to help children figure out what they're good at, and provide the resources to help them learn what they want to learn.
> In my view, attempts like this misunderstand much of the point of music. That is, to communicate aspects of human life that are deeply interwoven with facts and experiences outside of the music itself.

I actually think you've missed the point. These attempts do not aspire to communicate aspects of human life at all. They're simply scientific and engineering endeavors that seek to answer less profound questions like: "Can computers generate music?" (Yes) and "Can computers generate music that is enjoyable to listen to?" (Not yet)

To go one step further: There are glaring and obvious technical faults in many of the generated samples (this isn't a criticism, they're better than past work!). I suspect that if you are feeling unsettled by these songs it's because of those flaws and not because they are "semantically empty".
You must be rigorous about not posting your address anywhere. I get up to a 100-200 per day.
It is exceptionally unlikely that a game is both limited by memory bandwidth and not able to be parallelized further.

You might mean memory latency bound from serial simulations that need to calculate one piece to move on to the next, like an emulator or scripting language.
Well, all I can say is that enthusiasts expend a lot of effort getting per-core performance as close to single-core as they can ;)

Pure single-core turbo is usually a bit higher than all-core turbo, but as a proxy it's surprisingly close. A 9400F (so, no hyperthreading, we are removing that variable) scores 2380 in CB R20 (AVX2 aware). As a 6C, that means its per-core performance is 397. Since single-core is 4.1 and all-core is 3.9, if we adjust the per-core by that amount, we come up with a per-core equivalent of 417. The actual single-core score is 430, so using single-core as a proxy introduces less than 3% expected error to true "per-core" performance. That is the impact of thermals, more cache available to that thread, etc - all of that adds up to less than 3% difference, in a full AVX2 heavy task.

AMD boost clocks are not as neatly defined as Intel but the 3500X has let's say 4.1 single-thread boost (the advertised single-thread boosts tend to be "ephemeral" at best under actual loads) and 3.9 all-core. It scores 2650 all-core, that's 441 per-core, adjusted for speed that's a per-core equivalent of 464. The actual single-core score is 467, so basically dead-nuts on.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-5-3500x-review-e...

AMD people just don't like "single-core" because it's not a metric they currently win in. In practice it correlates pretty damn closely to expected per-core performance, and that is a critical metric that has a world of performance impact on a variety of tasks (Amdahl's law says many real-world tasks are dominated by one bottlenecked thread, the faster you run that one single thread, the faster the whole thing runs).

Once we see AMD move into the open lead in various workloads (which is very possible with Zen3), overnight we're going to see a lot of people suddenly rediscover the merits of empirical testing under non-bottlenecked conditions. The arguments about "well you would need a RTX 3070 running at 1080p" are going to fade away, just like the whining about the irrelevance of "single-core".

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Generally speaking most home tasks are not memory-bandwidth bound. It depends, but generally they're not. As far as power/thermals, it depends on the board, if you're running a really crappy board with a weak VRM then all bets are off, but in practice it is not a problem with normal workloads. Gaming is not at all intense and can clock high even on some pretty mediocre boards if you've got some airflow. Something like video encoding (lots of AVX2) is the next step more intense, if you are going to sit there all day crushing video and you won't have airflow then yeah, you do need to buy at least something in the $170-200 tier.

Prime95 is not a realistic real world workload and will definitely overheat anything.
> It is what matters to web browsing performance.

Have a look at the web benchmarks though (starting at Mozilla Kraken 1.1):

https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2263?vs=2520
FWIW, I don't disagree. That is, however, the general impression. :)
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But the reason interest-bearing loans were considered immoral for so long, and the reason that nearly every other kind of loan can be discharged through bankruptcy, is that it is too dangerous to allow anyone to offer such a loan. There's nothing magical about student loans that somehow makes them safe, and no amount of training will change that.
Idiocracy.

(which my auto correct promptly changed to democracy... He he....)
Last I heard more people are dying from obesity than hunger.

Also there is the whole essential vs non-essential work debate.

Don't think it's such a black and white picture, there are many variables to consider, probably way too many for a human brain to comprehend.
"The deeper strategic consideration, I think, is Zoom’s concern with AWS and Azure accessing its telemetry. "

This is really messed up.

If there is a 'real risk' AWS is reading your data on S3 ... then how on earth does their business survive?

80% of businesses are dealing with sensitive data.
Said 150k a year for 40 years generates more in taxes than the up front cost of the education, so said investment makes sense in terms of the public good.

With loans, the govt both makes a return on the interest AND a lifetime increase in net tax revenues.

Value of a college education goes beyond salary, and ideally creates a better informed citizenry.
There is no success or failure in the first three weeks of a “startup.”
If I am understanding the premise:

In a scenario of 12 people video chatting around the world, I don't believe you could guarantee consistent high-speed connections between the involved parties.
This is largely where I'm at. I've never gotten paid to write C++, though I've written my share, and I went through Scala, Ruby, Kotlin, a little Elixir and a little Rust, and now almost exclusively TypeScript--and I just don't need what Golang wants to make me do to do a good job and to output high-quality code.
I agree, as a Tier-1 dev. I went to a Tier-1 university and wouldn’t discount universities in Tiers 1-2 for the research, lectures, and resources they provide, in addition to the serendipitous environment where you will bump into other top-talent people.

Below Tier 2 I would support online learning to an extent, but having regular lectures and group work is important to keep an 18 year old on track. Universities need to instead cut superfluous spending on sports programs, new buildings, and layers of administration.
I don't disagree that this article isn't news to anyone following Postgres and having used it. Yet I also have a conversation with someone about once a week that has no idea Postgres has any form of JSON support much less whats possible with it. There are a lot more beginners out there in the world and this type of content is useful to them.

A deep dive of how GIN indexing works for JSON might be a useful nugget for those that want to dive really deep, but there is also a place for plenty of beginner content and things that may seem obvious to you.
Borg is more like Kubernetes than Condor. It's for managing multiple computing jobs across many machines, instead of managing one highly parallel job across many machines.
Even better would be true market rate pricing for majors.

Why are all majors 4 years? Why does a poetry major cost the same as an engineering major?

The universities say there's value in a liberal arts education beyond actual economic value? Fine, but someone is going to be subsidizing it somewhere - if the schools actually value it beyond the market rate and want to donate funds from more economically viable majors to it then fine, but it shouldn't be the students paying for the overpriced poetry degree.

If degree costs were reflective of their true economic value then there would be less risk. An economically useless degree would at least be cheap in cost (if not in time).

All majors being the same length and cost is a sign that something is broken.
iirc they went all in on the exchanges? problem is none of them were able to ride the crypto wave to an ipo
I believe Australia has a system along those lines, with forgiveness for people who work in the public service sector.
"Aeroplanes that still have fuel in the tank at the end of a journey overstocked, we should take-off with only the exact amount of fuel needed for a perfect journey!"

WCGW. /s
Housing also depreciates. It just so happens that for much of history, the lands that those houses are attached to have appreciated fast enough to counteract the loss.
This to me is a little like wondering why distributed consensus doesn't have a seat at the table in other venture funds; there's important work to be done in scaling databases, too! But venture funds fund businesses. If you come up with a business with social proof that there's a plausible (if remote) chance of 10xing based on an advance in cryptography, you'll stand a chance of getting it funded.

Just not by this fund, which has nothing to do with cryptography or, for that matter, virtually any normal business.
It says "free" twice, in colored CTA buttons, in the first ~150px or so.
Funny how you can also use that exact sentence to say business schools are bad at teaching.
Can we drop the whole "blockchain" shtick and just start calling this space "crypto"? Bitcoin combined a cryptographic protocol with an incentive structure to produce something incredible: digital cash that can be held and transacted without a central authority. The innovation was in the combination of protocol components, not the data structure that resulted ("the blockchain").

The problem that we're actually trying to solve with all of this is how to provide a root of trust. Blockchains are a way to do that, but I've yet to see a compelling use case beyond digital cash. Attempts to implement any transaction more complicated than cash settlement on a blockchain will inevitably run into the fundamental problem: transactions are contracts, and contracts will always require a legal framework and judicial system to mediate. You simply can't remove that requirement and all of the "inefficiency" that comes along with it.
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Your argument that this is the result of a unified media doesn't exactly work

Well, of course not. That's the classic trope of putting the predicate calculus version of "All" into another's mouth. However, depending on where you look, such an approach is quite predominant in the "mainstream." I don't have time to review all media myself, personally.
Googler here.

Borg @ Google predates Borg the backup utility by several years.
Actual boilermaker here.

Can confirm: earn more than my university educated age group; no education debt; have home and mortgage that I don’t struggle to pay; still have plenty of work during the down turn.

Have often thought about living on rice n lentils n going to university to get a degree, but this whole pandemic mess has made me realise: well and truly fuck that for a joke.
No, it’s still the backbone of their whole economy, which has been going through a major recession for years. There isn’t a meaningful number of renewable jobs to take its place, and won’t be anytime soon. That’s going to be the case in any country/region that has an economy built on energy.
Nah, no point in using RISC on the desktop as... amd and intel are already using RISC, just have built in x86 compatibility.
> I need an equivalent to Windows' Active Directory in Linux world that ideally can also federate with/masquerade as AD. Can Vault be such thing?

Vault is not such a thing.

AD is basically LDAP + Kerberos. Neither Vault nor Keycloak can fill that role. You would need Samba 4 setup as a domain controller [1] for that.

If you need AD but for Linux desktops you could take a look at FreeIPA [2].

If your feeling brave you can combine an LDAP server (like Wren:DS, 389 or OpenLDAP) with a Kerberos implementation like MIT Kerberos and create an AD like experience yourself. Though I would not recommend that.

[1] https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Acti...

[2] https://www.freeipa.org/
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> No amount of legal wrangling or tax-offsetting will defeat that. In fact, by increasing tax-offsets for public universities, the apparent price of the service supplied by public universities drops (relative to the market price), which is a signal to buyers that they should buy MORE of that service. This signal would naturally increase demand until the price of a public education on the market matches the price of the same education at private institutions.

This is an interesting claim, because tax-offsets of tuition have been going down over the last 30 years, not up. Look at the percentage of educational costs covered by state general funds in the late 60s compared to today. It's night and day different.

> Prices drive expense-side efficiency. An operation (such as a University) will not be mechanically driven to keep costs significantly lower than income - most are non-profit. There is no reason to "increase margin". Most Universities are already teaching at capacity. Since the price is set by the market, there is no reason to keep prices significantly below the market rate. Instead, the costs associated with an education simply rise to meet whatever revenue can be generated from a fixed pool of buyers. These buyers have virtually no spending limit, since their purchasing is de facto underwritten by enormous Federal programs. The result year-over-year dramatic price increases.

This is a interesting point, but the data doesn't back it up. We have data from the Department of Education on expenditures by universities. It doesn't show dramatic expenditure increases. The prices went up because state legislatures cut higher ed funding, and universities had to raise tuition to balance the books. Here's that data:
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_334.10.a...

If you have data showing that universities are spending dramatically more in expenditures on a per-student constant-dollar basis, I'd love to see it.
2.5 Gbps will be an intermediary standard for consumer ethernet applications because existing CAT5(e) cabling can usually carry 2.5 Gbps (but not 5 Gbps or 10 Gbps).
Yes it is.

After the whole political disaster that was Longhorn, the Windows team decided to rebuilt Longhorn ideas, originally based on .NET, and redo them with COM.

So while many outside Windows have considered COM dead, actually since Vista all major Windows APIs have been provided as COM interfaces, the large majority of Win32 surface has been frozen since Windows XP.

With WinRT/UA/UAP/UWP they have gone back to the roots, while pursuing this idea one level up.

Basically they replaced COM type libraries with .NET Metadata, added support for generics, structured data types and implementation inheritance, bringing it to what .NET would have been like if they did not decided to copy Java.

So while the implementation of this reboot has been somewhat clusmy, COM is not going anywhere on Windows.

Also, this isn't a Windows only thing, Linux has gathered around DCOP, Android has AIDL, Fuchsia FIDL, macOS/iOS has XPC, then there is gRPC and plenty of other variants.
As a Philosophy major who has succeeded in tech, I think tech would be better off with more humanities people involved. Writing code isn't the hard part, when you are solving big problems.
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> Walmart doesn't host in AWS for exactly this reason.

This isn't strictly the case. They do push some of their data to other SaaS providers hosted on AWS.
The overall name of the project is Quantum but you have to dig in a bit to find out about the specific sub projects and how they work or plan to work.

Overview: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum

CSS: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en...

DOM: https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/mozillas-quan...

Rendering: https://www.masonchang.com/blog/2016/7/18/a-short-walkthroug...
That's a question about demand. My goal is to move all resource extraction and heavy industry off-Earth, and to open the space frontier to permanent and self-sufficient human settlements. For that many, many Starships will be required.

Note that the killer feature of Starship, IMHO, is in-space refueling. This isn't a Earth-based heavy-life vehicle... it's a re-configurable spaceship able to explore the entire solar system through fuel depot staging (with Starships themselves serving as both tankers and fuel stations).
The reason they aren't dischargeable is because what bank in their right mind would give a loan to an 18 year old with no collateral? They only guarantee they get that it will be paid back is the fact that it can't be discharged.

And yet somehow banks were happy to do so until 2005.

Student loans would dry up overnight if they could be discharged at bankruptcy.

That being said, I actually think that's a good thing, because it would force colleges to charge reasonable tuition rates and also offer scholarships if they want to get the best students.

Both of these statements I agree with. The larger the loan, the better the guarantee that banks want.

Every measure that we take to make it easier for students to pay tuition without imposing cost controls results in increases in tuition. The result is that tuition has been growing faster than inflation for many decades, and the trend is unsustainable.

But barring shifting to a European model of college funding, I don't see the US allowing dischargeable loans, nor do I think they should, because the reality of it is that colleges won't reduce their rates nor increase their scholarships, they would just be completely out of reach of poor and middle class students.

This I disagree with. Universities are businesses. The bulk of their customers are able to pay thanks to loan guarantees backed by special government rules. Take away those loan guarantees and the universities will have to figure out how to live without customers, or without charging so much.

That said, you can't get there without creating a crisis that forces universities to make hard choices that they have been avoiding for decades.
Well, depending on one's viewpoint and level of shortsightedness, there's always, "F- Your Free Speech!"
As a Dribbble user I am curious to see what this does to the quality of content on the site.
Even simpler: you can continue to have single-family homes that surround a common space like a yard or garden area would go a long way towards recreating a community.

Even something as simple as closing streets and rerouting traffic like Barcelona is doing[0] would be an excellent start with already existing infrastructure.

[0]https://www.vox.com/2016/8/4/12342806/barcelona-superblocks