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GPUs work great for accelerating many applications, and it's true that that reduces interest in FPGAs. For applications that map well to GPUs, you're absolutely correct that the higher clock speeds (and greater effective logic area) make GPUs superior as accelerators.

However, some applications do not map well to GPUs. Particularly those applications with a great deal of bit-level parallelism can achieve enormous speedups with bespoke hardware. For those applications where it doesn't make sense to tape out an ASIC, FPGAs are beautiful--even if they only operate at a few hundred MHz.

I think the "programming model" is actually the biggest barrier to wider adoption. Your comment is suffused with what I believe is the source of this disagreement: The idea that one programs an FPGA. One designs hardware that is implemented on an FPGA. The difference may sound pedantic, but it really is not. There is a massively huge difference between software programming and hardware design, and hardware design is downright unnatural for software developers. They are completely different skill sets.

On top of that add all the headaches that come with implementing a physical device with physical constraints (the article complains about P&R times but this is far from the only burden) and it becomes clear that FPGAs are quite frankly a massive pain in the ass compared to software running on CPUs or GPUs.
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A major (the major?) motivation behind Starlink is to try to earn SpaceX vast amounts of money that Musk can invest in settling Mars.

See, e.g., this link for comments by Musk: https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-internet-satellites-ma...
Randall Munroe did a whole book in this style: https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/

It's a lot of fun.
Post-pandemic rent control hurts renters
Maybe the focus on leetcode is not the best way to hire.

Every company wants to automate or streamline the hiring process to get warm bodies in chairs in front of computers.

What about culture and vision? What type of people do you really want working for you? A cog?
Yes, he should work harder -- he admits to working only one day a week, and then actively pretends (by "trickling out" work) that it took longer. Let's please not pretend that it's normal or OK to have 6-day weekends every single week.

He is being compensated (I infer) very well for a safe and comfortable job, except he doesn't like the tooling and he's realized that people trust him and he doesn't need to be honest to collect his paycheck.
Because it's substantially faster. Simulating a large CPU design in software is slow and it doesn't parallelise well, so your tests will take a lot longer (and these aren't fast even with FPGA acceleration: runtimes can be days or weeks if you're running a large fraction of the design for even a tiny amount of time in the simulation).
They assign to those factors whatever you can convince them of as an employee/contractor during your interview :)

In case you're fixing an existing problem, the cost of the problem is often roughly known (like in my example). Lost clients due to the specific bug, current clients threatening to leave, sunken/running R&D costs without a solution, missed sales/tenders where clients mentioned the bug as a reason, long term damage to the brand, etc. You might be able to roughly extrapolate that into the future.

In case you're working on a new product or general improvement it can be impossible to measure how much your contribution was worth.

Hence, employees/contractors are usually valued by the hour or by the amount of equity they own and not actually by their value to the company.

In some industries it is possible to be valued exactly by the value you saved. A common example that comes to mind: a lawyer who does pro bono work.

Another example in engineering: filing warranty claims for failing (very expensive) products. You could negotiate to get a percentage of every successful claim. I've heard of people making millions that way in aerospace. Apparently companies in aerospace for whatever reason often don't claim warranty when they're entitled too. Keep in mind that large companies in some industries really really don't care about a couple of deci-millions here and there because their turnover is in the billions and they have "better things to do" :D
In my experience menial jobs are not necessarily soul sucking. One of my jobs was literally 90 percent cutting open plastic bags and throwing their contents into a machine. Sure that is not nearly as rewarding as cleaning up some messy code or thinking up an elegant software architecture but it beats having to deal with an horrible third-party API day in and day out without any hope of fixing it. During a lot of menial work you can let your thoughts float around so I digested many an abstract idea which I had read about the day before while my body was engaged in an activity that only needed a fraction of my attention.
I keep seeing this excuse, "If you don't like CSS you must not understand the box model". The box model is easy to understand but it still doesn't make CSS good.
People have been saying this for years. 2017 was supposed to be the year that legacy automakers crushed Tesla to dust. Why should 2021 be different from 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020?

If you lurk on the Tesla-killer forums, most buyers are apparently people who either dislike Tesla or only buy European cars.

And the used-car market is telling, too: Used 2019 i-Paces and e-Trons with less than 1,000 miles on the odometer (basically a brand new car) are trading for about the same price as today's cheapest Model Y.

Even if you assume the owners originally negotiated a fantastic deal(and if you lurk on the forums for long, it's clear that most of these cars come with trunk money) and that the owners took the tax credits, they're still apparently willing to take a bath to get rid of the car. That should tell you something (i.e., there's something so bad about the ownership experience with these cars that owners can't wait to offload the misery onto someone else).

There are only two companies today that sell EVs at MSRP and have good resale values: Tesla and Hyundai-Kia.
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Is every job like this? No. Are a TON of jobs like this? Absolutely.

I was in a job exactly like this last year, and I quit. I regret it. I miss the money and it was good for my resume.
> I enjoy doing what I do. I think it's possible to combine financial success with personal satisfaction.

That's supremely rare, mon ami. "Do what you love and you'll never work a day" doesn't apply to like 90% of the workforce. And even when you do cool stuff, there is often no shortage of BS to go with it.

You are very lucky to love your gig and be well compensated for it; most people are not well compensated and live lives full of endless drudgery.
Any parts made with chinesium?
It was that bad 2 years ago, in the AMS3 region. I don't know how it is these days, but I expect after 2 years it has matured at least a little bit. They also now include a CDN, which might improve things a bit if it reduces the load on the buckets behind it.

Honestly it soured my opinion on DO a bit. I'd previously had a droplet there for several years, which never seemed to experience any issues at all.
This is an education failure on the part of the purchasers. They should know what you can and cannot do with data. Think about the dataset you'd need to make the burglary prediction. Cops would have some priors about where/when it might happen, but is the data actually collected?

You'd need to know a lot of things about a large number of homes in order to see how the characteristics are distributed. Has the house been left empty for a while? Has someone posted about their holiday on FB? Is there something of value in the house? What security measures are there? Are known house-burglary gangs in action in the area?

Those are the kind of things you'd think cops might have priors on. I'm sure one can chime in on this. But they're also the kinds of things that you might have problems collecting data for. And even if you had it, your false positive rate needs to be pushed pretty low for it to be useful. Plus your false negative (place is burgled but system didn't say) needs to be really low, in a country where there isn't that much crime to begin with.

For the second system, as the article says, you can just say everyone is a risk. It's like saying everyone has Covid, you'll correctly find all the carriers. This is an obvious issue with ML systems that a purchaser needs to understand.

The last system, with the recidivism, is maybe the most concerning. It seems to suggest that people's paroles are decided based on this system? Then you'd better have good evidence that the system works, in the sensitivity/specificity sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity
Perhaps all this was a type of "burn it down", punk activism, and it will be released on twitter for public download. The BTC could have been their funding mechanism. Not for profit, but for the lolz in an election year?
Not a fan. Seems like an invasion of privacy for companies to put an always-on security camera in your home. Didn't Orwell call them Telescreens?
I agree with the sentiment that they only augment our capabilities, but then we end up with another problem, which is that the people who write the software are not fully aware of how it all works. Relevant to my argument is Jonathan Blow's `Preventing The collapse of Civilization` talk in which he discusses the disappearance of knowledge as generations pass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk&t=3407s
Once they check in, they will never leave. You want them to learn to be independent to sleep on their own in their own bed.
> Sidekick is a new hardware device […]

So your "new hardware device" is a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2019) with a stand, isn't it?

What's your motivation to offer hardware instead of selling the Android app separately as well, so customers could use it without the hassle of getting hardware shipped?
The U.S. has already tallied 145K deaths. It's not clear what % of the population has been infected but it's surely much less than 100%. So clearly 0.04% can't be the correct overall death rate.
There was no statistically significant difference between Swiss regions that did use the predictive software and those that didn't. All regions saw a broadly equivalent drop in crime.
> I am working a full 8 hours, only a few very small changes get done

General observation: the large the company, the slower it is to make changes because of a larger codebase, legacy concerns, more complex interactions with the rest of the system, handling scale, and more stakeholders.
I wonder your background.

Do you know how demoralizing it is to work in an organization where the people trying to lead have no power to effect change, and the leaders are incompetent and force bad decisions on a constant basis? Where there is no real vision for the company?

The OP is describing being trapped in a tar pit, and you're saying "run faster".
> You also don't have to succumb to the "starving Ethiopians" fallacy and take whatever crap job is given

Just opinion so feel free to downvote to oblivion.

It's hard for me personally to rationalize their position as a 'crap job' (as I have had really crappy jobs in my life - see US Army). Maybe op's take is a little brash, however, there's some perspective to be drawn from the comment. Agree with your sentiment though.. If you don't like it do something about it.
The purpose of a museum is to share knowledge, and selling objects into private collection is a direct violation of that mission. They might as well set the stuff on fire; the effect would be the same.

Edit to add: it's a myth that objects not currently on public display are "never seen by anyone." Some get seen by the public when used or loaned out for temporary, traveling, or themed exhibits. The rest are generally made available to researchers with interest in that field.
I prefer not to discuss compensation - so will answer this indirectly. Few SDE3s definitely make principal salaries, Principals make millions and so on. I remember there was an ex amazon guy putting up the top end numbers on twitter which seemed more along these lines. It sadly comes down to your managers and VP decisions.

FWIW it is kind of a future investment IMO. You come out with a ton of knowledge and contacts that your future jobs can definitely be highly rewardd if that's what you're going for. Some find joy in the company of like minded peers instead of chasing the gold, everyone unto their own!
Indeed, and there are also people actively investigating plant intelligence.

The question that arises though, when we find more and more examples of intelligent behavior across the tree of of life, is intelligence actually that useful of a concept?
Looking at the direction that application design is moving towards right now with centralisation of user information into data storage in the cloud, this will only get worse. Just needs a small exploitable vector exposed (whether human or machine) to result in another mass data leak.
I agree with you that business rules do not apply to museums.

I am not suggesting that a museum sell critical pieces of their collections to make a profit this quarter. I’m suggesting they sell or take out loans against the pieces of their collections that have never been on display and will likely never be put on display, so that they can continue to curate and display the pieces for the public to enjoy.

I’m suggesting that it’s hypocritical for a museum to claim that it exists in service to the public (as opposed to private collections), but to close its doors or gouge prices, as an alternative to selling or taking out loans on assets that have never been and never will be displayed to the public. From my perspective, a museum with closed doors and good storage is not a museum, it is a private collection with windows and a board of directors.

I realize this does not work for small museums. I specifically have the Metropolitan Museum of Art (and its cousin museums in other large American cities, which are run with similarly hyper-acquisitional).

It doesn’t make sense to me that these museums can continue to acquire art (a big expense), and lay people off. It’s putting art above people, which does not sound like a public institution to me, regardless of my beliefs about the commercialization of art.
If you drop a few you can have MAGA - Microsoft Amazon Google Apple :-)
Something like 20% of restaurants that were open in February are now permanently closed. It might be even a little more than that — I don’t have the data right in front of me. Extend that timeline to next fall, as in the article, and probably almost all the non-chain restaurants would be done for.

Edit: it’s worse than I thought. Data from Yelp suggest about half of restaurants may be permanently closed. I have no idea how that breaks down into national and regional chains vs independently owned restaurants, however.

See https://www.eater.com/2020/6/26/21304219/over-50-percent-of-...
SPICE (virt-viewer) performs well enough for my every day web browsing with VMs. The performance is annoying but adequate over wifi/WAN.
Important Aspects of Human Enhancement Ethics
I'm intrigued and surprised by this - it's one of the most frequently covered/remixed songs I know, has been a staple in DJ sets since it first became popular and most people I know in the UK would instantly recognise it.

Some covers:

Hackney Colliery Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKHtfjXrUzs

Aphrodite (drum 'n bass): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20SezMmyE6w

Chet Faker (downtempo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfFA8-RaHQ

Boeboe (trap): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qqw18evmVA
thanks for the questions. 1. DeleteMe's been focused on the biggest and most cumbersome to remove sites. We pride ourselves on doing a thorough job and we use real people to make sure searches are comprehensive and removals complete. we're careful about the quality as we add new data brokers. that said, we should - and are adding more and more. our experts also help with custom requests. what we call "repopulation of data" is also a systemic hard-to-control problem. this is why DeleteMe's a subscription service that keeps checking and removing for a single price all year.

2. best practices are things most HN concerned people are doing... pass manager, tracker blocker, not everything in a single cloud, vpn, etc. the most interesting thing our Blur product does is let you "compartmentalize" key credentials for each 3rd party you exchange data with. meaning: Blur gives you unique emails, phone, and credit cards as well as passwords, stores them locally, and has a proxy server to route between your private credentials, and the new ones you generate. you can use gmail as your "private mail"

lastly, i'd stress: these things help a bunch to make it harder to correlate your identity cross-domain. that said, anonymity is - and has long been - very difficult to attain and expensive to maintain. don't kid yourself on the difference :)
In california reopening moved our daily death rate from ~60ppl per day to ~90[1]

I hate to say it, but we all have to go sometime. Is smashing the economic means of the masses worth the lives of so few?

There are plenty of other economic vs. life preserving trade offs we make elsewhere, so clearly that's not a valid rebuttal.

When will we decide that the emotional response to Covid is not a rational one?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/
Awesome! I'd love to hear how it turns out.
> the US hasn’t moved towards metrification.

I couldn't care less about which system is used, i just want there to be only one. I'm not a fan of owning two sets of tools, and I'm not a fan of working on a car and coming across something I need my second tool set for because people can't figure out what system to use.
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I could see the e-Golf being a good second car for a couple, and then use the longer range car for longer weekend trips, but as an only car, no. That range is just too limiting, and if I owned a car I would be driving around on an average of at least one drive per month that the e-Golf wouldn't be capable of doing without a recharge but that the Model 3 can. We're talking vacations, going hiking, visiting family who live several states away, etc. I definitely would not remotely consider, as an only car, having one so limiting that I'd be renting another car every month for longer trips. That just doesn't make sense.
its a disaster in the making. it absolutely needs to be stopped
I can see factors that effect company to potentially be taxation compliance and employee regulatory compliance to be a big factor if the move was to a different state/jurisdiction. A very quick example is that some states require that accrued time off is an earned benefit and must be paid out when it expires or you quit. Other states do not. There's many such compliance issues to worry about with an employee.

Additionally, moving also usually accompanies lifestyle changes as well. Is the timezones the same as other, will collaboration be the same as it was before? If travel is required will they still have the same access to do so? Will internet access be the same or stable as before?

There are many factors, perhaps the only change is the physical location and everything else is equal but it's almost needs to be determined on a case by case basis.
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No, 85% of Sweden's population lives on 1.5% of the land area.
You are mistaking what is insured here. Deposits are insured, the banks themselves are not.

Here's the list of banks that have failed in the US and for which their deposits entered receivership managed by the FDIC; looks like a handful every year: https://www.fdic.gov/Bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
presumably these other things that would cause repeated false positives would be identified over time and could be ruled out with other tests - ie you either have cancer or a serious iron deficiency, let's check if you have an iron deficiency.
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Sometimes you need to be slightly offended or put off in order to change your own stubborn mindset. I see both sides in this exchange. OP has a choice they can make. They can continue to coast or strive to do better. There isn't necessarily a wrong choice here, but I do believe their long-term future outcomes will be strongly affected by the choice they make.
What's with this moralizing? If you can get away with working only one day a week, there's nothing wrong with doing exactly that. Is this like some Protestant work ethic thing?
> Notably, Apple still has not released an Apple silicon chip that can do virtualization

Even if Apple's ARM chips are not classically virtualizable (and I don't know whether that is the case), that was indeed the case for the x86 (pre VT-x) when two fairly straightforward solutions were applied: binary translation of non-virtualizable instructions (VMware approach) and paravirtualization (Xen approach.) This sparked the x86 virtualization revolution even before hardware support was available from intel and AMD.

Other approaches that could potentially work on a "non-virtualizable" ARM CPU include user-mode Linux, emulation, microkernels (similar to paravirtualization - recall Xnu contains mach and presumably still has the ability to outsource system calls and paging) and containers.
I did not suggest killing the golden goose, I suggested selling the golden eggs, so that you can afford produce to continue keeping that goose alive and serviceable to the public.
As referenced in sibling comment, I took 121 a bit earlier than that, with Prof. Lewis. Of course he taught from his "Turing's Face" textbook, which is widely touted as accessible to students with high school math. By the time I took 121 I had quite a bit more math than that so I can't recall whether that is true. I agree with your "tedious and fiddly" assessment, but I don't see any way around it. CS is a tedious and fiddly subject anyway, but the fiddly tedium in this case is related to foundational truths about computation rather than trivial details of particular algorithms (...or, at less ambitious schools, APIs). Frankly, I hope it's never the case that a student could graduate Harvard with a degree in CS (or applied math) without mastering the material that Prof. Lewis taught in CS-121.
try the garmin swim 2. I gave one to a coworker to try and he was really frustrated that he couldn't break it. it just kept on going, counting his strokes and all. He tried several different wearables (cheap to expensive) and he said, nothing could come close to the swim 2
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> the current cdc best estimate of ifr 0.65%

Do you have a CDC page giving that number please?
If we’re hypothetically considering what they could do if they weren’t one of the most regulated industries, they have exponentially better options for limiting their risk than requesting DNA.
That's interesting I didn't even think about that, then I'm not sure why it doesn't work. One case I still remember was where Actix (web framework) had docs pointing to severely older versions of the software, while the readme pointed to another, and none of them matched up quite right at the time... It was just not useful. If the examples work but you don't know where to go from there what can you even do at that point...