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>> I think having a penalty for buying and selling too often is a feature, not a bug : we want investors that think long term.

This already exists. It's the long-term capital gains tax reduction compared to short-term cap gains tax, and very high corporate taxes (relative to the rest of the world).
If I buy a house I can put any fridge in there. If I get an iPhone, I can only buy through the App Store.
what's the goal of that? Which person needing to configure nginx does not know how to edit text?
Mac is actually way better for cloud dev than Windows is, since it's all Unix (actual Unix, not just Unix-like). And let's be honest, you'll probably be using docker anyway.
So randomize the batch window length as well then, say 10-100ms.
> But honestly, humans don't learn languages by understand their grammars with the logic part of their brain.

As a native German speaker, I disagree. For me, the German grammar (in particular the declination system) is what I would consider the type system of the German language. So yes, I do think a lot about German sentences in terms of types/grammar that are/is involved.

EDIT: When I was a pupil at school, the only thing that I loved about the German classes (for native speakers) were the grammatical concepts. At that time, I really couldn't understand why these weren't taught in math classes ...
The idea is simple but makes a lot of difference.
So you raise a good point. I went looking for more facts about this.

As best as I can tell, current surveys for individual Dyson swarms rely on IRAS and as best as I can tell the range is about what you say.

So there are two points worth making here:

1. This is, as far as I can tell, pretty similar to the range SETI is looking at. The power required for signals beyond that range to be detectable by us starts to get to a significant portion of stellar output, at which point you either have to assume such a civilization is is capable of the kind of astro-engineering we could otherwise detect and why are they outputting something with that much power?

2. On the Kardashev scale, you have K1 civilizations who use the power output of an entire planet (10^16 Watts in the Carl Sagan scale), K2 is an entire star (10^26 Watts) and K3 is an entire galaxy (notionally, 10^36 Watts). A K3 civilization is envisioned as Dyson Swarms through an entire galaxy (although, "civilization" is a loose concept when there's light lag of 100,000 light years from one end to the other).

I found a link to a study of 100,000 of the nearest galaxies looking for that kind of IR signature on a galactic rather than solar level. No evidence has yet been found.

The gap between a K2 and.a K3 civilization is actually not that large.
You are wrong to focus on 300M. That's the cost of dealing with consequences of an attack, not the cost of measures that would have prevented it. So, you're right to say that attacking some businesses leads to >10 ROI for an attacker (actually much higher ROI are quite common although with lower thresholds), but that's only assuming that these businesses do not invest into proper protections ahead of the attack.

The whole point of InfoSec is to find the right balance of investment into preventive measures and incident response teams so that the cost/risk/reward ratios of an attack make it non viable for economically motivated attacker.
> So you should probably limit the amount of "good code" you read when you're learning something right?

Why? If you're learning a dance, you try to copy the teacher, not other students. You don't need to study the mistakes of others, you are sure to make plenty of your own.

> don't dive into the linux kernel if you're learning C, as you'll learn optimisation strategies that probably aren't useful in your context

Unless you're learning C for the purpose of kernel programming, sure. That's not really the same question.
MacOS does quite a bit of telemetry as well.
If the cloud is mostly UNIX-like and not actual UNIX, why would using “real UNIX” be better than using, well, what’s in the cloud?
You truly underestimate how many things still use raw assembly here and there. Intel provides a library called libhoudini for this very problem. also what would you have end users do ? Somehow recompile arcane sourceless binaries to ARM ?
>Imagine all the engineering being put into ads, tracking and hft instead of, I dont know, engine emission control or educational programs for kids.

Not everybody cares about those things, in fact I'd wager the majority of people I know in HFT would be bored to tears at the thought of working on emission control or children's education programs. What gives you the right to decide how other people should spend their time?
While Graviton is impressive and probably an indication of things to come, you can't outright use "Amazon rents them cheaper to me" as an indication of the price performance of the chips themselves.

Amazon is exactly the kind of company that would take 50% margin on their x86 servers and 0% margin on their Graviton servers in order to engineer a long term shift that's in their favor - the end of x86 server duopoly (or monopoly depending on how the wind is blowing).
I work with scientific data but have to say I have a very shallow math background and also forgotten most what I learnt at school/uni. However whenever I click open the source for scikit-learn / high level code published in papers I see SVD. A lot of the scenarios in biology have been abstracted to be matrix manipulation which is fascinating and I really need to learn.
Ok, now that gives a very different picture from what the original comment explained. Of course, protobuf to flatbuffer is slower than just protobuf...

Thanks a lot for your time (and work!). FYI, i'm planning on using flatbuffer for communication between a mobile app native code and a cross-platform library, hoping to save on data decoding time. A bit similar to what Xi ide is doing. If you have any advice, you're welcome ! :D
Agreed, it’s my go-to when I need a simple recipe for a common meal
That's an interesting analogy, because I often find that the counterarguments sound a lot like techies arguing that encryption cannot have negative consequences.
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geekbench is a horrid benchmark.The amount of info on how they run the tests is extremely limited (mostly what lib they opted to use). The tests are very short, no power or thermally limited.
I'd try and link to their methodology[0]:

for instance:
Integer WorkloadsLZMA CompressionLZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm) is a lossless compression algorithm. The algorithm uses a dictionary compression scheme (the dictionary size is variable and can be as large as 4GB). LZMA features a high compression ratio (higher than bzip2).The LZMA workload compresses and decompresses a 450KB HTML ebook using the LZMA compression algorithm. The workload uses the LZMA SDK for the implementation of the core LZMA algorithm.

They compress just 450KB of text as a benchmark - even the dict size is greater then the input. If both fits the CPU caches - the results are supreme, if not - horrible compared to the former. Also it'd vastly depend how fast the CPU can switch to full turbo mode (for servers that doesn't matter at all)

[0]: https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench4-cpu-workloads.pdf
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The detectors still trying to find the distinctive scent. Which gets lost in all the fumes, dust, whatnot produced by humans...
You want to start at x20 at the lowest, Sandy Bridge generation.
Presumably you can set the file root to anything you want.

Maybe do script injection by doing some fancy file loading? Not sure how much nginx config language allows.
I sometimes cook things because they seem weird or make me curious. It is definitely an achievement. It doesn't mean they aren't stellar, workable recipes by any means: Historical recipes (or even old ones from 50-70 years ago) are often weird. And workable, though if they get old enough, you have to fill in some blanks since they assume the cook is experienced more than modern recipes do. And some of the things are absolutely stellar. If you don't want to go historical, go sideways to different cultures - especially fusion foods. Indian-spiced potatoes, bell peppers, and some cheese stuff into bread cinnamon-roll-style? Yes please.

Right now, AI recipes are just an oddity. Weird and barely workable at best, and that's OK. We'll get there.
This is a typical corporate type view of it. I.e that its least profitable so doesnt matter.

It misses, developers use Macs to build stuff => It's easy to make arm compatible applications => The server (most profitable) domino falls.

I can imagine moving straight to ARM processors if its easy enough to work on and AWS/Google has a deployment option.

The dominos can cascade really fast, particularly in where the new demand for chips comes in, vs the existing one that will just run as it is now.
Here's my (uninformed) guess about how this could go.

There's already have a fairly powerful ARM chip in all Apple computers - the T2 chip. Assuming it's a similar spec to the iPad Pro's A12 then Apple could start by moving the OS to the T2 chip, which should improve the battery life of all recent macs.

They'll come up with a fancy marketing term for apps that have been compiled for ARM and advertise them as having improved performance and battery life, thereby putting pressure on developers to update.
The X86's will initially be removed from all non-pro devices and replaced with more powerful ARM chips, and once there's enough momentum and support they'll also be removed from the pro devices in a year or two.
Only if you have zero discipline.
Single ants don't have any idea, but anthills as a system probably have some kind of a working model of human activity.

For example ants often feed off garbage cans so they know how the amount of garbage changes daily and weekly. I don't know how good ant systems are at generalizing and noticing patterns but if they are any good they probably know at least that about human civilization.

Do they "think" of humans as another kind of anthill - probably not. But they certainly notice and react to changes in environment caused by human activity.
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> look more towards Northern Ireland and assess its success (from a UK gov point of view)

They spent approximately 40 years failing to defeat the IRA while covering for various "loyalist" terror groups and murdering a band they were trying to frame, defense solicitors for those arrested, and several actual children?

> Though there were blips around miners and bits of the Labour Party, MI5 and Special Branch had such a tight hold of them post 1950

The democratically elected opposition did manage to take power on a couple of occasions, at which point the security services considered doing an Allende on Harold Wilson?

Never mind "defund the police", we need (and of course are never going to get) prosecution of the security services for their partisan political interference and domestic crimes. Even the "soldier F" stuff rumbles on.
That's not how neural networks er work. This one is trained to predict the next character in a sequence. It's trained on raw, unstructured text, not high-level concepts like "chemical composition" or "actions that generate chemicals" etc. Its inputs are character sequences and its outputs are character sequences. There is no way to "provide context to the database" (there is no database, just character sequences) or anything like that. If any relations like that are useful to its task of predicting the next character then your best hope is that it will somehow magickally learn them from its input text. Otherwise, the knowlede of how cooking works will simply not be encoded in its trained model.
I don't hate email per se but these days receiving an email usually means someone wants something from you (money, paperwork, or even just a reply) and that's stress inducing. You see your email notifications and sigh 'okay, now who wants what from me again?'
Yes, that's the only explanation that makes sense, but still, that surprised me a lot to know MS Office relies that much on assembly that recompiling to a different target arch isn't an option.
There are efforts to provide faster compilation times:
- https://github.com/evanw/esbuild - awesome, I use it for most of my ts projects
- https://swc-project.github.io/ - also awesome, but has some bugs
I have only used KiCad and I actually don't see the similarity.

In KiCad you start by designing a circuit schematic first. In Factorio you start building whatever you want.
You have potentially have to create your own custom parts including their physical footprint based on existing chips. In Factorio every part is already included in the "part library".

The PCB design phase automatically connects parts with traces correctly. The human designer is just responsible for the layout. In Factorio you keep the design in your head and place each conveyor tile one by one.

PCBs usually have multiple layers and it's common to have dedicated VCC and GND planes just for power transmission. Although the electric grid in Factorio is technically a separate layer, you have to extend the grid by placing transmission lines.

I will accept that the idea of non overlapping traces/conveyor belts is similar but overall the workflow just isn't the same. To be fair I haven't actually done anything beyond following a bunch of tutorials on making PCBs. I have yet to send a design to a manufacturer. It's possible that Eagle and Altium are significantly different to KiCad but I personally stick with opensource tools and even if they may have significantly worse UX I actually love the extra challenge. Just shows that other than paying bills to stay alive nothing on this planet should prevent you from learning electronic design, mechanical design and software development on your own.
If you make a decision to join in the (say) the 5th ms of the batch auction and you have a latency of 1ms, you are still no worse off if you decide to wait 4ms before joining the batch.
The Geekbench results are questionable because they do things like give significant weight to SHA2 hashing, which is hardware-accelerated on the iPad Pro but not the older Intel processors in current Macbooks:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3006268/tested-why-the-ipad-...
When you put it that way, that validates that there is a literal shortage of counter arguments such that people can even enter the market and extract attention.
The more I see headlines like The Suspect was known to the Secret Services", and, "The Suspect was on the Authorities' radar and deemed of no interest", the more I believe our spies are dumber than they'd admit. Either that or they, and the Government have a different agenda.
This is a sort of determinism built in to capitalist morality: If money can be extracted from something, then it is always good and just to do so. Natural, in fact.

(And to be extremely clear, I would say the same thing about pushing ads: just stop doing it. Walk away.)
Why? From a government agency perspective, you don't have to predict who will win, you just throw money at all of them.
I find it odd that you don't put any contact info in your profile, then. It's totally free advertising.
That's one use-case where they absolutely shine, in my experience.
Interesting but one bit i disagree with:

> I've always skewed away from visual programming and dialogue engines. While they are great for beginners, getting real work done is problematic.

Having visual tools is certainly not just for beginners, i guarantee you that most AAA and many AA and even smaller projects use dedicated visual tools for things like dialogue. As an example see Obsidian's conversation editor described here [0] that they have used for several of their projects. For other examples see the dialog editor used in Witcher 2 (REDkit) or the editors used in Bethesda's games (the engine might be a bit clunky at times but the tools are largely visual, outside of quest-specific scripting of course). Witcher 2's tools also include visual quest and FSM ("steering") editors. These are all tools that are used to do real work.

Personally i have worked professionally in game tools for many years and visual tools are always an improvement over something basic. It is usually programmers that seem to want to ignore them, but i'm 100% sure that is because they can do most of the stuff with pure text (though rarely at the same speed as a good visual tool would allow, even if they think otherwise - note that i'm not talking about scripting here, this is often better done via a scripting langauge) and they do not like working with GUIs and such (i am one of the apparently rare programmers who likes working with GUIs) so they come up with excuses why their way is better.

Many things in games, including conversations (and perhaps high level quest flow, depending on the game), are better done with visual tools than text - especially if these tasks are to be done by non-programmers.

[0] https://jesawyer.tumblr.com/post/175082312536/im-curious-as-...
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There's also a really good Darknet Diaries podcast episode on NotPetya: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/54/

It's a brilliant podcast - there's some very interesting stories and interviews, my favourite recent one being The Courthouse: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/59/
Even the focus on on radio is potentially misguided. Perhaps there are alien species who's home planet is under some heavy fog so they have evolved to see the reflection of radio waves, to then go bouncing high power radio signals around could potentially blind themselves so they have evolved some other means of distant communications.

That's just one failure scenario, if you took a Wifi signal and could somehow transport it back in time 100 years and blast it out at 1000 times the normal energy how long would it take past us to notice?
That sounds very interesting, could you elaborate or provide some links? Aren't there successful 'alternative' school programs?
This is a strange argument. You are arguing that HFT has a big effect on society (ie. the rest of us), but at the same time you are saying that society should not have a say in how or indeed if HFT is conducted?
DMTF DASH does look to be remote out of band management of AMD computers but I cannot find a connection to the PSP itself. I suspect it may run on the PSP but nothing I have seen so far has shown that the PSP is externally accessible or implements DMTF DASH functionality.
Apple is no stranger to aggressive pricing when it suits them.
I see no reason why compilation should be slower on ARM. Compilation typically doesn't use any Intel specific instructions (intrinsics). As long as the toolchain is recompiled for ARM (which it will be, Apple makes clang) it should be very comparable. If anything, it will be faster on ARM because the ARM chips will have more cores, and compilation is very parallelizable for larger projects.
Using ARM processors combined with their own custom silicon will give Apple the potential to add features that can't readily be replicated by Intel-based laptops (as we already see in the phone market).

Does the same logic then hold in the datacentre? With the ability to add their own IP mean that AWS, Google etc can start to add new features (e.g. specialised accelerators) that would not be possible with Intel CPUs?
Because we're an evolved society and nobody is going to be pulling their kids from school to have them work in dirty factories all day? And it's illegal?

Kids helping out at the family business, the pet shelter, the retirement home, at summer camp, this is all within reason. I don't even think we need 'rules', just the notion that it's possibly a good thing to do. Parents can decide as they do for literally everything else.

I should add - aside from 'work' - just 'doing a project' that involves a tiny bit of planning and preparation, seeing it through to completion, with all the little challenges - this is dramatically useful.

Starting at the age of 8, it would be good if kids took 2hrs a day to work on something more 'long term' where they need to learn, plan, build, accomplish, witness the fruits of their labour.

And lastly - the 'harvest'. Kids in most of North America used to take a little bit of time off of school in Autumn to go back to the farm for harvest. I honestly think this is where we should get our surplus labour from. 1/2 days in the field picking berries or whatever for a week or so, it's perfect for kids, maybe basic things for 10-year-olds, but absolutely teenagers can do almost anything including running machinery.
I develop on Mac, but not mainly for other Macs (or iOS devices), but instead my code is mostly platform-agnostic. Macs also seem to be quite popular in the web-frontend-dev crowd. The Mac just happens to be (or at least used to be) a hassle-free UNIX-oid with a nice UI. That quality is quickly deteriorating though, so I don't know if my next machine will actually be a Mac.
> Complete silence apparently bothers some people

I think this is related to the point the author makes: You need to find connection with yourself.

I think that being in the silence, alone is where that connection is being made. And some people are so not used to it, that this scares them. I cannot otherwise explain people's desire to be constantly surrounded by some noise, be it TV, radio, music in their headphones, whatever. How about just sitting ten minutes in silence? Or even better, half an hour in the nature, without boomboxes and headphones?

My other idea, which I cannot prove, that the state of the mental health in US is correlated to the point above. When introverts are looked upon as some sick weirdos, when there is a culture of constant superficial socializing, when deep discussions are replaced by knee-jerk reactions, profile picture frames, and putting on labels on things, and when you are still affraid to know yourself—surely this should come out sideways somehow. I single out US because I know no other country with so much push for the extrovert behaviour.

I've spend a lot of time being alone while growing up and in my university days.
It came at a cost, and I wish I had socialized a bit more back then, but overall I consider it to be enormous net positive thing.
I think governance in general is a hard problem, and private or public ownership is not what is going to make or brake it.

The aboriginal sites being exploited in coal mining comes to mind.
Yeah, but economies of scale couldn't apply as much, increasing unit prices.
Here is an air quality presentation by none other than Hey spokesman DHH:

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People who go to Rome and visit the Colosseum will recognize that having slaves fighting each other to death is Bad. Killing people for amusement is Bad. Bad People do that.

Destroying the Colosseum today in 2020 in order to demonstrate against bad people would still remove the Colosseum as an historical memory of the roman empire, even if the roman empire had Bad People.
It could be due to the fact that the Surface devices and the Office are developed by two different divisions in Microsoft. The group developing Office may not have a huge incentive to create ARM version just because another division decides to go with ARM processor on a new device.

Also think about anti-trust! If Microsoft could develop ARM version of Office in secrecy for the Surface launch, it would not give sufficient possibilities for Office competitors to do the same.