skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The objective metrics are things like: transistors per square millimetre, power per billion transistors, frequency, SRAM bit-cell size, etc...

Marketing calls it "7nm+++super", engineers get graphs of power-vs-frequency.

E.g.: comparing transistor densities:

Intel 14nm 38 MTr/mm^2
TSMC 7nm 97 MTr/mm^2
Intel 10nm 100 MTr/mm^2
Samsung 5nm 127 MTr/mm^2
TSMC 5nm 173 MTr/mm^2
Intel 7nm "higher than TSMC 5nm" (planned for 2022)
TSMC 3nm 290 MTr/mm^2 (risk production in 2021)

This should make it pretty clear why Intel is going to struggle to be competitive: The majority of their products are stuck on 14nm, which has 22% of the transistor density of TSMC's bleeding edge product. They can't compete with the likes of AMD and Apple with such outdated tech.

It should also make it clear that Intel's 10nm node is basically the same as TSMC's 7nm.

However, from what I heard (I'm not an expert!), Intel's 10nm node is a "pain in the ass" to manufacture. The design phase is complex, the yields are low, etc...

For comparison, TSMC's 7nm is supposed to be a relatively "straightforward" process, and 5nm is actually an improvement in manufacturability. That is, it's easier to design and make a 5nm TSMC chip than a 7nm TSMC chip. That's actually a pretty big advantage, something Intel doesn't talk about much...
Sorry, I don’t understand the statement. Intersex people exist, however there can be interference soon after birth which pushes them into developing more like one sex over the other. Is this interference a biological process? I don’t know. Is this statement political? Probably... not. I don’t know.

I will wait for an trans/intersex person who is well versed in LGBTQ+ policy to answer.
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> cowokers

I know these are serious topics, but I hope we can all take a moment to have a laugh at this typo :).
A Fearful Asymmetry: Covid-19 and America’s Information Deficit with China
Until you have to go back to the office whenever that is... And say goodbye to all of your friends/family.
What about all the copyrighted books put up for free, unlimited downloads? For example [1].

[1]: https://archive.org/details/01TheLightningThief
It's less reliable than a guy running a website on a raspberry pi with a solar panel from harbor freight http://pi.qcontinuum.com/
Who the next enemy is predictably being determined by the ruling party and Wall Street, and there's nothing anybody can do about that now that it's gone too far. If you wish to compare history, it's close to Weimar Republic, the social unrest, threats of violence, propaganda lies, full-on corruption and domination at cost of human health and lives.

It's all sleight of hand, everybody gets fooled into a suckers rally that makes most current matters irrelevant. Ofc I hope I'm wrong, but just watch what they do.
which does probably not really relate to AI. all the chinese amazon-sellers do it as well.
No you won't. Because no one would want to work for you.
Transmission varies widely by individual. This preprint estimates that 10% of infected people cause 80% of infections. https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-67 There's also plenty of research showing that the "three C's" are major factors: closed spaces, crowded places, and close contact. In fact if we could just cut down on the superspreading events, that might be enough to knock the average reproduction rate below 1. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/just-10-20-of-covid-...
Also, Inconsolata 3.0 is also a variable font with a wide range, including widths from 0.5 to 2.0 of the standard width. I need to see about doing something similar to the Recursive mini-site where I show that off and explain how to get access to the capabilities, but have been busy with other stuff.
Presumably Apple began working on and set the ship date without any regard to this particular development.
You're both applying a wildly subjective label whose meaning nobody can agree on. I happen to think (as a relatively centrist American living on the West Coast) that those opinions are indeed "centrist". They might count as "very conservative" in the part of the country I live in, but in many other parts they would be distinctly "liberal" (another word whose meaning has been utterly scrambled).

In general I think there's a tendency for politically engaged people to put "views I disagree with" in the "other" bin, and everyone defines "extreme" and "center" to reflect their particular idea of what the sane, morally correct opinion is. There were plenty of people on the left who seemed to think Warren (for example) was a centrist neoliberal sellout.
There are kernels of a political opinion in that comment, but it mostly consists of ad hominems against Trump supporters. They have a "fundamental deficit of character", they can't be trusted to avoid "bigotry and discrimination", they should "carry that black mark with them for the rest of their professional lives". I don't consider aggressive personal attacks like this to be political opinions; they're on the same level as wordless screams, attempts to rile people up rather than engage in discourse.
Other than the data each service actually retains themselves (i.e. the Lambda service themselves store your Lambda Functions because they need to execute them) customer data is generally stored encrypted at rest with KMS keys belonging to the customer (or sometimes managed by the storage team). It wouldn't be possible to peer into unencrypted data without persuading the KMS API to authenticate your access to the key. Presumably this capability exists, because otherwise Amazon wouldn't be able to honor warrants for customer data, but the premise that KMS is handing out decryption tokens for customer data for the benefit of Amazon Retail's business analysts is pretty silly.

And of course, you're always vulnerable to someone with access to the physical host of an EC2 instance where your workload is running. Only GCP AFAIK offers an encrypted-in-processing compute service, and it's like a week old.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/int...
I understand you, and vehemently disagree.

There is a real and serious risk of having ALL published material eventually fall under "licensed use" instead of ownership.

We're rapidly tipping towards a society where you pay rent to license everything, and own nothing.

In the short term, I find this model abusive. In the long I think it guarantees we will have a competitive disadvantage against countries that don't enforce this style of licensing.
i am, uh, permitting myself a small smile for a stake in TSMC i picked up mid-WWDC.

It’s not even table stakes by real money standards but it’s still fine by me.
Sure but it is not just the $ sum but also $/h and $/sweat and tear. Having eg. parking lots even if you arrive at 10 aclock is also a big deal.
There was a sea change in views on welfare in the 80s-90s[1], culminating with the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. Between means-testing, spending caps and staffing cuts, virtually all welfare programs have been decimated over the last 25 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_programs_in_the_United_...
Office buildings are a $2,500,000,000,000 asset class in the USA alone.

Throw in retail and you're at >$5 trillion of value.

And the market is in total chaos due to COVID-19, fortunes are going to be made and lost on a ridiculous scale over the next decade as institutional investors reposition their trillions of dollars of equity in this market.

Institutional investors rely on commercial real estate as it's one of the only asset classes at SCALE that can:

(a) Generate cash flow

(b) Is asset backed

(c) Is highly leverageable w/relatively low default risk (debt)

As a result the world's largest institutional funds - pensions, sovereign wealth, insurance companies, etc typically invest a large allocation of their overall funds (10 - 25%) in the CRE class.

This lets them pay their current liabilities - teacher pensions, public services, insurance coupons, etc - with cash, while also generating longer term IRR returns on the appreciating assets to cover ever expanding liabilities.

For generations of institutional wealth managers retail and office space were the #2 and #3 largest overall allocations of their real estate portfolios (1)

Part of this is due to the scale in office / retail - those two product types represent ~$5 trillion in asset value and are only outstripped by multifamily ($2.9t) in scale. (2)

But as both office and retail have been slipping for the past decade institutional managers had slowly begun to reposition and reallocate to other sectors while keeping a toe in.

But as it's done elsewhere COVID-19's arrival has massively pulled trends in CRE forward by probably a decade with regard to the reallocation.

As a result what most CRE investment pros are expecting a significant increase in valuation multiples across alternative CRE asset classes including multifamily, self storage, industrial, etc.

What's terrifying about the idea of massive winners & losers in the space is the potential further erosion of returns on institutional investors, who are typically already well behind investment targets to maintain their expanding liabilities.

Great resource / primer here if you're interested - (1) https://www.leggmason.com/en-us/insights/investment-insights...

(2) https://www.reit.com/data-research/research/nareit-research/...
I heard something like this and sent them an email but got an automated response to make a ticket somewhere which was frustrating after spending time writing an email. Kind of figured they didn't want feedback since they seem really busy right now. Figured I'd just leave them alone it's just 200$ anyway and I may be able to use it headless some day.
Not necessarily? Starlink represents an order of magnitude improvement in both launch and hardware costs. And that’s with Falcon 9. Starship represents another order of magnitude improvement (or better, over time...).
most of the shirts I see on Amazon actually don't have a model (or are rendered already)
I always see people saying that we need a platform to have debates. How Twitter and YouTube comments are a cesspool.
Anyone who’s willing to join this kind of platform aren’t really the people who need help having constructive debates.

Humans like debating(arguing) think it’s part of our nature, I’m not sure a platform can solve this problem. It seems like these problems originate at the gathering information stage and our prejudices impact how we interpret the data, so no matter how much data you show someone they will interpret it based on their current belief system.

Everything has to be binary, it’s either X or Y. See it commonly in topics like ‘what’s the best application architecture’, as soon as someone says “it depends” you see people rolling their eyes, I think we’re lazy and don’t want to do the necessary research and just want the answers straight away, once we get an answer we’re happy with it and see no need to update our knowledge, that would require us to rethink our beliefs. It’s probably that way for a reason, imagine you had to research again all the beliefs that you consider true, it would take a lot of energy.

Even for myself I try to be as open minded as possible, we all have prejudices built into us, they keep us alive, I’m not sure how I can actually change them, I see someone who my brain perceives as being dodgy and I change my behaviour instantly, I react in a way that’s socially acceptable to the context, it’s really uncomfortable to fight these urges.

I think news media has caused a lot of the prejudices I have, we assume that some news outlet is honest and is only reporting facts, we just assume everything they say is a fact. If I see someone from Afghanistan my brain is telling me act cautiously around them. I’ve never been to Afghanistan, I don’t know anyone from there yet my brain is sending me signals to be cautious around this person, logically it makes no sense. Probably the years of watching the news when the Afghanistan war was going on has imprinted these beliefs within me.

They say travel broadens the mind, think it’s probably the most effective way to get people to change their beliefs. You see first hand that maybe you have inconstancies between your beliefs and reality.

Wish these guys all the best but I don’t think people will charge the beliefs through online debate, I hope I’m proved wrong though . Could be cool to keep track on the website so people could acknowledge that they have changed their position on a topic, the data would be interesting.
I don't think you'd find very many people willing to agree those positions are centrist.

They are. You seem to be in a bubble where the range of acceptable opinion goes from Stalin on the far left to Hillary Clinton on the far right.
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It's the result of some image processing. For example, there are like a hundred segments in the photo, but if you look carefully, they are quite aligned in ~27 almost parallel lines (probably the 27 satellites in different frames?)and a strange almost parallel segment (probably another unrelated satellite?).
A single socket AMD threadripper 3995WX (the "ECC" version just released) is likely going to destroy a dual socket Xeon 8275+ (the ones used for the Amazon C5 metal instance) in most benchmarks like the 3990X did, while running at roughly the same power and a fraction of the price. Once AMD convinces cloud providers that its ECC works just as well as Intel's, there's really nothing holding AMD back from taking a huge chunk of the server market.
All those industries thought they could rely on their consumers, en masse, valuing the human factor over price and convenience. In the same way, Vogue may disappear as a print publication and with it the newsagents, printing presses, distribution networks... But readers consuming digital Vogue on a tablet still demand striking, original content, and the people who create that content will continue to value the human factors I have outlined above.
I have a really dim recollection of an IBM WebExplorer variant that had limited support of DSSSL but it may have been tied to the work we were doing with HyTime. None of the interesting WebExplorer variants ever saw the light of day in public and it was killed fairly quickly by neglect.
I just hope someone is building a Gundam.
There is a scandal around the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14. AMD version of it has sealed vents with plastic covers.

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1187443-asus-caught-bei...
I worked at a job I loved pre-Covid - great coworkers, freedom to tinker, a large amount of autonomy, admin access to our AWS account so I didn’t have to worry about the infrastructure gatekeepers (I was hired as the de facto “cloud architect”), etc.

But, I couldn’t stand the loud open office. One of the reasons I changed jobs was because there was talk about us coming back into the office by the end of June.

My job (for a FAANG) now was always designed to be fully remote and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve job hopped for the last decade, but there isn’t a dollar amount that would make me go back into the office.
The place is chosen not only for the cost. Some people like to live near the park, or downtown, because theaters museums movies bars dancehalls are all there.
>> The company uses generative adversarial networks (GANs), which is a type of machine learning, a subset of A.I.

"Subfield" is more correct but it's interesting that a model (and that's not a language model) gets the relation between neural nets, machine learning and AI right, when the majority of the so-called tech press gets it consistenty wrong, e.g. using AI to refer to deep learning in a kind of reverse-synecdoche.
Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to pandemic lockdown
We take our Model 3 Long Range on 14 hour road trips a few times per year to visit family. You can expect to spend roughly 30 minutes charging for every 3 hours of driving. The Autopilot is amazing on the freeway. Really love the car wouldn’t want to go back to long trips in our old car that was a nightmare by comparison.
A single comment from a throwaway account with no evidence but confirms my personal bias that Amazon is evil? I'm fully bought in before I catch myself.

The economic and reputation cost Amazon would take in ever accessing customer data to come up with some competing B-list product (say ElasticSearch as a managed service) is astronomical compared to potential profits. One thing I know about that company... they care about optimizing profit and are long term focused.

Please provide evidence for your extraordinary claim.
It seems like "faster vans" and "more effective nagging people to immediately return books they have already finished" would also weaken copyright under that line of argument; both allow you to loan the same copy to more people in sequence.
You're welcome. For reference, the noise and travel issues you mention have solutions in mech world, wireless boards exist, althought I don't have any myself so I can't say much on them.
Yeah I am not sure where I was going with that. I think I’ve read too much “the universe is conscious” woo.
Do you have kids? Are they still able to attend daycare, if age appropriate?

If they would be at school, will they be attending in the fall remotely, or in person? Or still to be determined?

Do you have a yard? How much open space do you have at home? Do you have an office space, or do you have to setup and tear down everyday?

Living with anyone, or alone?

Mine is still able to attend daycare, but I have a number of coworkers who don't have child care so they're figuring it out.

We have a front and back yard, 'own' the house and so can plant/remodel.

There's three of us and so far because of the above we haven't killed each other.

My SO manages developers and says some are burnt out. They may not have had physical contact with anyone in months, may have two people to a one bedroom apartment, have had to try to do virtual learning with their children.
I have a hard time relating to your comment.

Why do you need a couple more bedrooms?

Can split a bedroom as an office with the other person in your house.

If you have kids you can pair them up in the same bedroom with bunk beds.

You could spend the money on a Murphy bed that folds up and turns into a desk.

I have co-workers who even work from their dining room table for the time being.

Moving is always an option every excuse you have just follow up with, "and...?".
I have basically stopped eating lunch.

I'm not saying that's a good thing (it really isn't, and my QoL improved when I forced myself to take a lunch break every day), but it does change how much time my butt is in the seat between 9 and 5.

What I am definitely missing out on is small talk with coworkers. Small talk builds rapport. Rapport de-escalates engineering disputes. I expect a year from now we'll all be complaining about how nasty everybody is when everybody is working remotely.
Yeah, so it basically exists to bring FB and Google to more people on the planet easier. We're selling out our skies to the ad industry. For free! What a great idea.

Textbook example for tragedy of the commons. Luckily we didn't do the same with earthly resources like water, air, wild animals, ... oh wait
I love working from home but I’m about 30-45 minutes out of central London and friends and family often ask me why I don’t want to go into an office in town for the buzz, it must be difficult working at home with a baby running round, etc.

I honestly wouldn’t give up working from home for triple my salary. The flexibility to come and go as I please, not losing time to a commute, watching the kid grow up. All priceless to me.

However, I have enough bedrooms to use one as an office, a garden I can work in during summer. I can understand if I had to work at the kitchen table with the family making noise around me I would be yearning to go in to the office.
Just checked out https://autogradr.com/. When I clicked on Signup, it went to https://autogradr.app/signup. Is there a reason it's not in autogradr.com since you control the domain?

Also, it asked for my role with two choices "Instructor" or "Student". I'm paralysed, now because I could be an instructor for some, and a student for others. How will this dictate the future experience? Will I be able to switch roles? Will features of the one be unavailable for the other?
Four years in the AI space is like two lifetimes.
Often, people don't say the absolute truth in a work environment. There's a lot of incentive to talk up their lack of time, their crazy workload and their challenges.

Just consider: Everyone gets to hang out in their pajamas and roll out of bed 5 minutes before the workday starts. They have been given easier control over their diet. With a newly flexible schedule, they also gain several hours a day that would have gone to commuting or office chit-chat. That time can be used for exercise and chores. Breaks (and naps!) can be integrated throughout the workday to reduce stress.

My sympathy goes out to anyone taking care of kids, but for everyone else, this represents a huge opportunity. I don't expect everyone to be able to adapt, but most people are smart and flexible and will be doing great, even if they talk up the struggle during small talk. I talk up that struggle, and my life is not perfect, but honestly, this is amazing and I never, ever want to go back to the office.
> If TinyPilot can support multiple KVM-over-IP connections, it would be a perfect fit for me.

RPis only have 1 OTG port, though. A device that could get it to handle more machines with that single port would functionally be a KVM-switch. I don't think there's a way around that, at least not one that'd be cheaper or more practical.
Anyone else experienced this kind of frustration with SF bureaucracy recently?
Sorry for not fact checking I just repeated what someone said to me recently as I was debating this choice.
> London is notorious for low SWEng salaries

I was actually going to challenge this before I did a bit of research and discovered you're right - the average wage for a software engineer is £47,500 (https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-it-salary). That's ugly.

I'm from Liverpool originally (live abroad now) and I have friends in Manchester earning £50-60k... in the North of England. That's a big wage in that area.
In the 1980s or so, when they first appeared (I'm old). They were free for quite a while.

Folks figured that it was like your local heroin dealer: first one's free.

We knew that it would just be a matter of time before ATM fees started showing up.

At first, they weren't bad, but now, it can cost you five bucks to pull out a sawbuck.
So for a little anecdata:

My company maintains offices in NYC and Boston (among others). We chose not to renew our Boston lease and are in the middle of breaking our NYC lease. We do still intend to maintain physical offices, but they will be much smaller and used mainly for meetings. Once its safe, employees will likely only be going in 2-3 times a week if they are near an office. I doubt there will be assigned desks in our new offices.
"It’s now free to sell on Google"

https://blog.google/products/shopping/its-now-free-to-sell-o...
Everyone’s political signaling detector had its sensitivity cranked up.
I pay $2150 a month for a 5 bedroom 3100 square foot 4 year old house in the burbs of a major metropolitan area and work for $BigTech remotely. I wouldn’t trade the arbitrage opportunity for anything.
Some of the history is surprisingly recent too, still in living memory. My mum has a newspaper front page clipping of her friend being led away in handcuffs for the heinous crime of wearing a bikini. I think Grandma was the first generation of women that was allowed to swim at all and at least in some places they had gender segregated times. To add insult to that on the way back from the weekly beach trip Grandad liked to stop at the pub for a couple, women and children weren't allowed so they had to sit in the car.

Through the 20th century the beach has been a close parallel (usually lagging) of gender equality.
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