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The advantage of ASICs is that a design implemented in an ASIC is likely going to run faster than the same design implemented in an FPGA - usually significantly faster. FGPAs are flexible, but as such you trade performance for that flexibility.

Developing an ASIC design is very expensive. There's usually many thousands (sometimes hundreds of thousands) of dollars of NRE (Non-Recurring Engineering expenses). Whereas you could put your design into an FPGA for the cost of an FPGA board (typically a few hundred dollars to a few thousand - but you'll be able to use the same FPGA board for many different designs as the FPGA is reprogrammable) and the FPGA design software (which is often given away for free or deeply discounted by the FPGA vendors). So ASICs are for organizations with lots of money. FPGAs are accessible for hobbyists. FPGAs are also often used to test out a design that is eventually implemented in an ASIC.

The crypto folks have mostly moved to ASICs for the higher performance.
My repair experience in China was completely the opposite, and I think you made the first mistake: leaving the device with the shop for any length of time and out of your sight.

Some time ago, in Shenzhen, I saw a friend get his laptop component-level-troubleshooted and repaired while we waited and watched. It was a busy shop too, with multiple stalls and a lineup of others waiting for service.
This is misleading, it doesn't apply to games and it's only if you link your customer directly into the app store (not if they go to the store and search for your app or find it some other way).
A more modest, but no less idealistic, example is Arcosanti north of Phoenix. I visited it in the late '80s when it was just getting started. There was not a lot then, but at least work continues. Paolo Soleri's visions were much more ambitious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Soleri
ASIC are more expensive to make, more performant per watt, and (a lot) less programmable.
> Because you can buy the same exact item on Zalando and put it on fire if you want to

No you can't. Walmart often requires vendors to make a special Walmart-only version of their product. So there is nothing that's truly comparable.
The article tells you where the 30% came from. In the days of iTunes, a song was $0.99. Credit card transaction fees were around 2% + $0.25 per transaction.

The minimum price for an app was $0.99 as was the minimum in app purchase.

I am not saying it should scale as price scales to remain 30%.
So it looks like I was mistaken.
It will work on any Rabbit queue as long as you are not using the default exchange for the queue.
“Social sciences and other humanities” would add an additional problem because social sciences aren't humanities.
This particular feeling, of having a compulsion to share scary information without a strong knowledge base, and then retreating to this sort of position “I think it’s important to put all the information out there” is well described, specifically on this topic, by a recent post by Troy hunt.

https://www.troyhunt.com/lets-stop-the-5g-hysteria-understan...
As you're brainstorming, try to imagine what you would shout in a loud bar (remember those?) if someone asked you what your company did. It can be a helpful mental tool to strip things down to the essentials.

Two-sentence pitches are much harder than two-minute pitches.
We need to quickly get to the next generation chloride ion battery batteries! A whole lot more salt lying around than lithium.
That is normal for Texas - but most buildings have central air so it’s not so bad. In NYC I’m in a pre-war building that has no A/C or ducting so I have to put in window units which only have a 3-5 year lifespan and aren’t horribly efficient , I can’t put in ceiling fans because the ceiling can’t support the weight (no cross beam or something), I’m limited in A/C size by the wiring, and until last year I had the old Edison S-type fuses which tend to blow in warm weather so you had to keep a shoe box of them around just in case - last year the super put in a breaker panel and man it has been wonderful, I’ve yet to even have to reset one of them.
I'm not sure why that's relevant. Am I only not dying of thirst because I agreed to the terms offered by the local water company? I think it's not contradictory to believe two things simultaneously: that people should not be held to the terms of a contract they signed when they were dying of thirst, and that it's okay that I needed to agree to certain terms with the water company in order to have running water in my home.
> Some devs stay with the same company for 5 to 10 years.

Depending on how you play it, that doesn't have to be the worst thing in the world. The megacorps have an incredible diversity of roles you can try out.
That is quite fascinating including the fact that much of it seems to have been invented in the 1600s. Why didn't they teach me this stuff in school?

Does diagrammatic Linear Algebra show us that in fact Lambda Calculus and Linear Algebra are really very related?
I think you missed the /whole/ point of the comment.

You are starting from the premise that google care about australians. This is a demonstrably false assumption. They don't pay their tax. They would destroy australians in a heartbeat for more money. It's not opinion, they've shown that themseleves. That is just a sad fact.

Now re-read your comment and tell me if there is any good reason anyone should care about what google says when they claim to be on the side of "australians" when we know they are not. No framing, nor spin from the PR agency here changes that.

Google "on the side of small players" is just vomit-making. They never have been anything other than brutal to small players in any action they have taken in business in any single way. Really. Google take everything they can, whenever they can, however they can. Ask small players who has had business squashed. Want to sell apps in the android store who have their REVENUE taxed by google while google don't pay their tax to the government. Then if you manage to make profit after paying a revenue tax to google you find you just did google's market research for them. That's one example, there are plenty.

Google are foul. This open letter foul. Even if you agree with any points the PR agency is useing to try and influence you it still foul.

The policy discussion about what constitutes good policy for Australia comes after we acknowledge how awful google are. And after we have agreed to place the intrerests of Google precisely last after every single Australian who pays their tax.

"NO representation without taxation!"
> I can't find where it says this in the document you linked. I can find pieces of it

What I have done is taken 52M 2(e) and replaced the reference within it to 2(a) with the actual text from 2(a) so that the whole context is clear. The elipses show where I inserted the cross reference. Absolutely nothing I cited was not in there and nothing was represented out of context, as best I could achieve.

I understand it's a bit confusing, but I felt it was less confusing than pasting 5 subsections all cross referencing each other.
I've described a lot of technology businesspeople. At least Jobs had vision.
It seems like Epic is engaged in some hypocrisy here. From what i can tell, if I want to generate content for Fortnite (skins, mods, etc) I can do so, but their terms are that I give it to them and they can turn around and commercialize it for their benefit. I do not see a way that I could monetize my creation. So in the platform that is Fortnite, they do not even allow me to make 70%, instead taking any contribution as their property without remuneration. I prefer Apple's model to this by far.
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Thanks, that's enlightening and also a perfect example of what's wrong with Amazon.

No average consumer is going to know any of this. It's all Amazon as far as most people are concerned; Amazon goes to great lengths to make you think it's all them - right up until you have an issue.
I also won't pretend I know anything here, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

From what I understand, FPGAs provide a software method of essentially reprogramming the actual behavior of the physical circuit to perform different tasks. This means FPGAs are (to some extent) general purpose, it's just they are programmed to provide only one purpose at a time (compared to traditional CPUs or GPUs for example).

ASICs on the other hand are circuits designed specifically for your application only, they cannot be reprogrammed and must be created specifically for your algorithm.
right? ok so they complain, apple proves they used 3rd party repair and... that's it?

i mean, we do that with literally everything else -- why is apple special?
Sorry, I mixed up spctl and csrutil. SIP state is stored in an NVRAM variable that is a bitfield of what is allowed. You can't change all bits with csrutil, and you can't set the variable from within macOS, both main and recovery. You have to bypass that mechanism by either patching the macOS kernel to allow setting whatever you want, or booting into an OS that doesn't perform these checks in the first place. And you need to set the bit for IIRC kernel debugging for it to honor the `amfi_get_out_of_my_way` argument.
When you accept Apple's developer agreement, you're agreeing to a contract. It absolutely isn't an "open market" for any definition of what that means. Apple has exclusive control of their IP and they are offering a way for you to license it on their terms.
> Of course search is really hard, but how is it possible that huge companies with nearly infinite money and talent (MS / Apple / Amazon) were never able to do it? MS actually tried; it's unclear if the others even gave it a thought.

What if selling phones and cloud compute is a superior business to search and they are smart to realize it? In reality both Apple and Amazon are bigger companies than Google, and Google is actually the one trying to chase selling phones and cloud compute?
I remember hearing about rolling blackouts in California as this mysterious problem that occurred after privatization, then after Enron broke, it was revealed that they'd been engineering blackouts in pump & dump schemes. Any chance there's a relationship between these blackouts and the older ones? Or are we sure this is some completely new phenomenon?
The number of post-hoc internal memos and studies clearly shows that there are many consequences that FB engineers did not anticipate (though FB is not unique in this regard; consider how YouTube's recommendation algorithm feeds misinformation & outrage).

The whole point of TFA is that pure intelligence (particularly "computational thinking" type of intelligence) is no substitute for the knowledge and methodology already explored by various humanities and social science fields.
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Would be amazing if you supported parquet :)
This obviously comes from a misunderstanding of economics. The price of a good is what people are willing to pay for it. Why are people willing to pay more for Nike’s than Converse? There are literally hundreds of Android phones, yet people are willing to pay more for iPhones.

People have been paying a premium for Apple’s goods for forty years. Instead of complaining about the evilness of Apple, maybe the problem is the incompetence of the rest of the market to make something compelling.
What are some examples of this?
> Inconvenient

Impossible. There's a difference.

There are no phones on the market where the web is a comparable platform to native mobile apps. There could be in a better world, but there aren't in this world. Talk to me in a couple of years when we have native storage ironed out and maybe that'll be different. Or talk to me in 5-10 years when Librem 5 has its issues worked out, and maybe things will be different then.

> why does Apple have to do anything about it for you?

It doesn't, not unless Apple enjoys the benefit of extensive government regulations that allow it to block and sue the competitors that do want to do something about it for me. Regulations like, for example, the DMCA.

Live by the government, die by the government. Companies don't get to pretend to be free-market Capitalists only when it's convenient for them.

> Everything you mentioned here is a product of federal legislature, yet you want to blame an economic player

No, I just want consistency. I want the government to get in the way or to get out of the way.

It is infeasible to get rid of antitrust unless we're also going to also get rid of the regulation and interference that keeps the market from working the way it was intended.

Getting rid of the regulations that protect us from the current smartphone duopoly while keeping the regulations that caused the smartphone duopoly isn't free market Capitalism, it's Feudalism. I don't have patience for an argument that it's a bridge too far for the government to stop Apple from exploiting developers/consumers, but perfectly fine for Apple to use the government to reinforce their market position.

I'm sympathetic to anti-regulation arguments and the people who make them, but I am not sympathetic to pro-monopoly arguments.
This. Some people seem to be on the "Apple deserves a cut of 30% because they run the app store and 30% is reasonable etc." but what if tomorrow Apple just said: "OK we've bumped up the 30% to 90%".

The exact same set of arguments would follow. The users already own the phones so for the "market to adjust" to such changes would take years.
> so will all in-app purchase.

Well, presumably only in-app purchases made with apples payment system.
Most news articles have said, and this one seems completely oblivious about, the upcoming Tesla "Battery Day" where. For example, Business Insider said "The automaker is set to reveal battery technology and cost-cutting advancements at its Battery Day event". Morgan Stanley upgraded Tesla because of the Battery Day, and that seems to have been the trigger for these gains.

Not sure where Tech Crunch is coming from, but it was all over my news feed this weekend.

It's funny that Tesla keeps getting compared to other automakers to prove a point about them being way overvalued. But Tesla isn't a car company, they are an energy company focusing on renewable energy. Don't believe me? Go back and ready Musk's 2006 "Secret Master Plan".

There are a lot of petrol companies at the top of the list of companies by market cap. Tesla is gunning for them. If you want to buy into the NEXT Exxon AND the next Toyota (both at the top of the list), then Tesla might be a good buy.

But what do I know, I'm just a dog.
Making everything hopelessly complicated isn't really great either. Should water rates and gas rates do the same? Tolls already do this. It's a growing cognitive burden.

I don't look forward to surge pricing for data usage. It feels inevitable.
The government is not some imaginary person in the sky: it is me and you. You can influence it - but you cannot influence Apple.

Of course, being involved in government / politic is hard and takes time. You cannot change things by posting on internet forums. I'm trying to be involved in politic on local, state and federal level. And here are some hints if you are in interested:

- Call a member of congress. Try to get someone on the phone, rather than leaving a voicemail (which, like an email, can be ignored). Ask to speak to the member of Congress.

- Find (or make) a group for key your issue

- Show up on town hall meetings (with your friends, group)

- Volunteer
Here is an example: https://youtu.be/o_wsSIuv_po?t=21

That looks to me like a descending melodic line (D -> Db) but the score has it as C#.

The workflow I have is something like this:

mp3 -> wav -> midi -> score.

And I'd like that score to come out as closely matched to what went in on the far side so that you don't end up totally confused if you ever do see the score as the composer wrote it up.

> If you are displaying a chord (or some other system of harmony; four staves of a string quartet or whatever), then you could make a reasonable guess based on the other concurrent pitches: if you have an A and an E, or an E and a G, then C# might make more sense than Db.

I think that is the beginnings of a workable system.

So, when ascending -> sharps, when descending -> flats.

For chords make rules based on the key they are played in and look ahead at least until you have all the notes in this chord so you can decide which one will fit better.

Hm, maybe there is some body of music scores that could be used to figure out preference of composers depending on key/chord?

That would be a pretty large lookup table but likely still doable or maybe as a database table with the pitch numbers in the chord as an index and the preferred spelling as the data for each entry.

So for off-line I have a good chance of getting it right and for 'live' your history could help to figure it out, especially because pieces tend to repeat certain patterns and chords (but that might lead to extra confusion if it turns out you got it wrong a previous time).
Probably things like YACC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacc
Exactly, not just the language all the tooling (jvm tools) and IDE are also top notch. Really waiting for the new compiler frontend, which brings huge improvements to compile time.

Where did you get that info about patter matching?. By the way, java is really catching up on that.

https://github.com/openjdk/amber-docs/tree/master/eg-drafts
unless you torture the definition of self-driving vehicle to mean limited driving capability on highly altered 'smart streets' or whatever, yes it's absolutely true.

As the article points out, ML is fundamentally way too brittle to deal with the long tail of issues that humans solve through common sense reasoning.

We're like two or three paradigm shifts in AI away from having anything that solves open ended, problems in uncontrolled environments without glitching out like a Roomba.
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> Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we'll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.

EDIT: don't forget to always hover over the image. Half of XKCD's fun comes from those tidbits.
> If he were a politician or a celebrity HN would want to see him hanged with the rest of the degenerate elites.

you may be surprised at some of the names here:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/French_petition_against_age_of_c...
A feature flag. You're describing feature flags.
Well the classic example was openssl, although that has thankfully been improved substantially ever since Heartbleed.
I wonder what the most critical (and smallest, least maintained) npm package in the world is?
http://left-pad.io/
Going from a three to four ton unit was a mistake. One that's easy to make because it's counter-intuitive. And because bigger units are more expensive there's a sales incentive to sell bigger units too. To be effective at cooling people an air conditioner needs to remove latent heat in the form of water vapor. Lowering the air temperature isn't enough.

Oversized units short-cycle, lowering the air temperature significantly faster than they remove latent heat by condensing water vapor. The controlling thermostat turns the unit off quickly because the big unit quickly reduces the air temperature. The latent heat in the water vapor remains in the air. People still feel hot.

Basically, a residential air conditioner should be running most of the time if it's properly sized. Oversized units will come on, run for a few minutes, shut down for a few minutes, run for a few minutes, etc.

Double pane windows and blown insulation will magnify the effect because the air conditioner will reduce the air temperature more quickly and efficiently and leave more latent heat in the air.

Note that latent heat in the air from water vapor increases with temperature. That's why we talk in terms of relative humidity. So oversizing is less of an issue for heating season and double pane windows and extra insulation help.
Which headphones did you go with?
Absolutely! I only meant to encourage them / focus on the silver lining. It's true that there are some wonderful megacorps to work for.
If you don't mind, it would be helpful to the discussion if you can explain why/what justification was given in each case.
curl ? :)
interesting, havent heard of it but i'm asking for something a bit lighter weight... this bitnami thing looks kind of intense...

conceptually, close but more for self-serve of development vms. bitnami looks like it does a lot more?
Bold of you to assume it's npm that's being spoken of :D
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To answer your first question - yes, ASICs (application specific integrated circuits) are generally hardwired - once the hardware is burned into the silicon, it can't be changed. On the other hand, FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) are, as the name suggests, reprogrammable. In order to allow this (in a useful way) FPGAs are built of a large variety of logic gates which can be connected together by the programmer to, essentially, simulate a pure hardware circuit.

The tradeoff is that ASICs are (almost always) much faster at performing their specific task than an FPGA could be - I'm not sure of all the reasons, but you could imagine that there are many, many optimizations that you can do when designing pure hardware that don't transfer over to software-defined-hardware, because you have the FPGA intermediary there
The timezone database.

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libinput

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Then why did you buy that phone knowing you had dozens of other alternatives?
Very much so. Thanks.
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And when the Nebraskan sells the project to a scammer, we’re all in trouble.
Well said. Yes of course those rules aren't set in stone but the idea is remove as much risk as possible, as cheaply as possible.
For me, 80F is well beyond "sweating even without doing anything", even if wearing nothing (which is, thankfully in this work-from-home era, easier than ever.)
> On a device I own, there should be no parties that are trusted more than myself. It's ridiculous I even have to write this.

This is only true if you contain at least the minimum amount of knowledge to built said device yourself. If you cannot design the type of CPU required, you must trust the vendor. If you cannot design the RAM, you must trust the vendor. If you cannot design the motherboard, you must trust the vendor.

You must also have the ability to supervise every step of construction. If you don't have that ability, then your knowledge is worthless.

You can only be the most trusted party in your system if you can be personally 100% certain nothing was inserted into the system without your knowledge. This is not restricted to the software, which theoretically you could inspect the source code to.

Maybe there SHOULD be systems where you are the most trusted party, but realistically, there are almost none. You have to trust the engineer who designed the road, the worker who delivered the package, the maker of the chips that go on the board, the company who makes the air filter in your home HVAC, etc.

Society is built on trust.
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Selling virtual items is not especially common due to the exposure it creates to fraud and abuse. Fortnite doesn't allow selling or trading - games that do like Team Fortress 2 and Counter-strike Go are home to lots of scammers who try to trick teens and other uninformed players into giving away their valuable loot :(

Who are you going to buy from without giving Epic a cut? They're the only ones offering Fortnite items.
Not the most recent article (2016), so things might have changed since then: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3144546/time-is-running-ou...
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/i9u6u3/d_g...