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You would first need an actual working RISC-V silicon that it would be worth porting to. Not the essentially demo chips with poor performance that are around now.

RISV-V is a lot of talk and hype but the actual silicon that you could buy and implement into a product is hard to come by. With the exception of a few small microcontroller efforts (GigaDevice, Sipeed).
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This article is rather premature. With the 2nd wave beginning to hit across the world, and some places where the first wave has not yet begun to crest, we can expect that the trends noted by this article are noise rather than signal.
That's nonsense: the trenches don't revolve around webshit and advertisers, but solving real problems of an average company, day to day problems.
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IANAA, but I have always wondered if dark matter / energy is an explanation for 2)
While I agree with this, I fear it requires legislative action. Third party doctrine effectively says you have no reasonable expectation of privacy (in the US) if data is transferred to a third party voluntarily.

That means most cloud or other "hosted" systems (which smart devices and phones have become near inexorably tied to, for the average user) offer users no expectation of privacy.

To regain this, you'd have to avoid backups to the cloud, or using any hosted service... Not easy for most users when it comes to email, or even storage. That seems to be the first logical step.

(And yes, I know end to end encryption can help, but usability is the issue for users here - end users aren't good at remembering long high entropy passphrases, or keeping bits of paper with recovery keys safe without being lost)
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This compain can be applied to paper too. PDF is not much more than precise document to be printed or exactly visually presented.
I agree things are presented in emotive ways, but I find most business decisions are made the same way.

I believe remote work is a temporary phase, with businesses going back to the "old normal" as soon as COVID no longer presents much of a threat.

My first reason for thinking this is I've found inertia is the most powerful force in the office environment. When given the option to adopt a different way of working, the aggregate whole will resist the attempt unless there is no alternative. This conservative nature is the reason why Agile fails to take hold, why compliance rituals will remain long after they're relevant and so on.

The second is extravert culture dominates the office. Most people are extraverted (about 60% IIRC), with even higher concentrations in general and C-level management. This can be observed in the performative nature of the hiring process, the belief in open plan offices, in companies thinking of meetings as productive rather than waste to be minimised and believing in things like brainstorming sessions leading to better results despite research indicating the opposite. An extraverted manager needs to interact with someone on a personal level because they need the stimulation and social contact, and because it's more efficient for them. An introvert has no such leanings.

Third, I believe we're in a leadership crisis, where companies believe "command and control" is more important than improving employee efficiency. In order to control, you need pants in seats. When adopting that stance, you're less likely to want to delegate in the true sense: offer employees autonomy over their tasks, trusting they'll get the job done. Working from home is counter to the control scheme.

As I see it, the voices arguing for a return to the office are the representatives of the conservative, extraverted, control-oriented voices in the business community.
> nVidia could cut them off from any new designs

Why would they do that anyway? The downsides are obvious (immediate loss of revenue), the risks are huge (antitrust litigation, big boost to RiscV or even Mips), the possible benefits are nebulous.

Those who are most obviously at risk are designers of mobile GPUs (Broadcom, PowerVR ...).
> On the contrary, it should be the driving force about making long-term decisions to benefit society.

No. Because people don't drive cross country everyday. Making an overall system vastly less efficient to optimize on specific metric that most people don't car about in a product is nonsense.

For grid storage density is also totally irrelevant.

What matters is price and scalability, not density.

> Elon made this electric car market happen by making it sexy (and selling only premium cars)

They are selling premium cars because that really whats economically feasible. As they go down the cost curve the cars will get cheaper.

> There is a ceiling for the battery and it's not as high as many think.

Even with current battery just going to silicon anodes/single crystal cathodes can and will double density.

Go look what is possible with Li-Sulfer batteries that are already being worked on to get to the next level.
> There are plenty of jobs out there, but a lot of competition. One place said they received over 1,000 applications for one role.

I don't get it. (Tech) companies out there are paying a lot of money to hire developers right now. How is this possible if they receive over 1,000 applications? If that were true they were paying peanuts because at least 1 in those 1,000 applicants will say 'Yes'.
Climate change is being driven by people extracting carbon from deep underground and releasing it into the atmosphere.

By that measure, burning biomass is CO2 neutral. The carbon released is not carbon which was extracted from the ground. It's carbon which was extracted from the air by plants.

All plant matter releases carbon dioxide as it breaks down anyway. Those trees which we burn as biomass weren't going to magically disappear - unless someone buried them they would eventually rot, releasing most of the carbon they extracted as they grew.
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There is also Solid from Tim Berners-Lee https://solidproject.org/
Forgive GP for not knowing which Bible to read and at whose altar to prostrate themselves. Like every religion Unix has its goyim and infidels that need to be flogged and flagellated so they can achieve proper enlightenment.
I got an Apple pencil now what?
In some sense it's also the correct solution to the problem. PDFs are programs that generate screen/print output. Trying to find the text in the program will always fail sometimes. The only general solution is to process the output directly.
> an extensible virtual machine

I've read similar ideas on Lisp. I don't put much stock in it in either context, but I think Lisp has a better claim to extensibility. All programming languages enable decomposition of a program. Functions/methods/macros/words don't really 'extend' a language.

You can't easily add garbage collection to Forth. You can't easily add static type-checking to Forth. Why call it 'extensible'? It's no more extensible than C.

It may be easier to hack on a Forth implementation than a C compiler, sure.
> your average Pole in the 20th century had to worry whether they can even speak their own language as under Prussian-Russian-Austrian occupation it wasn't allowed under harsh punishment, you could only learn Polish history and language in hiding

This is an incredible overexaggeration. Polish was the language spoken on an everyday basis by the vast majority of Poles during the 19th century. It was the language that would ordinarily be used in the marketplace or shop or when talking with one’s Roman Catholic priest and fellow parishioners. It was the language that laborers spoke to each other all day every day at work. Yes, Polish was not a prestige language; official usage and the intelligentsia functioned in Russian or German. And there was definitely heavy censorship of publications during the Tsarist era which required an underground Polish-language education system to teach Polish nationalist history and Polish as a literary language, but the masses weren’t banned from speaking their native tongue.
Even if it is true that "in the limit" increased foresight implies increased fitness, it doesn't necessarily follow that being with God-like foresight exist.

That said, IMO there's a lot of things that could confound the usefulness of increased foresight. After a certain point (which humanity has likely passed) foresight is not a particularly visible measure of fitness except in those rare extinction events that require significant cooperation to survive. I suppose that even given that foresight is the most valuable trait for long-term survival of a species, it's very rare that it is selected for beyond a certain point because the events that it allows a species to survive are too rare to be selected against.
It's a way to signal that you are rich to other people.
Silly question.. can't one just cut off/limit access to the "previous"? And then let it the time it needs to Delete?

I saw in the Reddit discussion that one can set up role/privileges (as expected), use the (new) user/role/group X for the move, and cut all others.

I understand that the original planning went bust 2h --> 48h, but that it buffled me was the "It sounds more like you had 2 hours for the delete part of the operation."
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> I really can’t think of any other software distribution channels for general purpose computing devices (including the open web) that have had a better security track record than the App Store

GNU/Linux packaging systems? F-Droid?
Stanislaw Lem wrote a book in 1951 with the idea that Venus had a full-on warmongering civilization in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronauts

(don't read the Plot on Wikipedia if you're planning to read the book)
No platform is perfectly secure and every single piece of software is potentially vulnerable to zero-day exploits. The important question, as the previous commenter said, is what is the security record of each platform? And iOS is miles ahead of everyone else:

Among smartphones, Android™ devices are the most commonly targeted by malware. In mobile networks, Android devices were responsible for 47.15% of the observed malware infections, Windows©/ PCs for 35.82%, IoT for 16.17% and iPhones© for less than 1%.

Source: Nokia's latest threat intelligence whitepaper (https://onestore.nokia.com/asset/205835)

Apple also has a much better track record when it comes to providing long term security updates for the devices it sells.
My mother is a kindergarten teacher and was "teaching remotely", which was pretty much setting up a shared google drive with parents, sharing with them weekly activities and then asking the parents to send pictures/videos of the kids performing the activities.

There is indeed a curriculum here. It's obviously pretty lightweight and not very strict, but kids are expected to know things like animal names/sounds, the ABC, have some musical/coordination skills...
No, the ideas are the same, but it follows another implementation concept.
So now we believe that lawyers and judges act in good faith even though we have seen statistically that for instance the “War on Drugs” is biased toward minorities by prosecutors (lawyers) and judges?

What next? We should also trust the police - video evidence to the contrary?
"I find it strange that people think this century is uniquely stressful."

Probably because people talk about it far more than they used to - which is a good thing. However, I also suspect social media also layers on a whole news ways for people to get stressed.
Germany replaced nuclear power with renewables. The more important question is why didn't they replace fossil fuels with renewables and the answer is complicated.
Especially when the Earth is getting effectively zero of the sun's energy now, and humanity is so incapable of harnessing even that minuscule amount, that killing off their entire planet is still a much talked about possibility.
The US threatened to impose tariffs on India for trying to do this. US is all free markets as long as they can win when they cannot they bully.
> I'm curious what this is based on. Last I checked, the li-ion batteries of today are basically the same from the ones we had 10-15 years ago. Sure, a little more silicon, a little less cobalt, but ultimately the same chemistry.

The batteries chemistry has not improved that much but the density still improved. We were in a period where cost and manufacturing improved far faster then chemistry. But thanks to the investment in batteries there are improvements to the chemistry coming down the pipe.

Tesla is gone have DBE technology that should improve density by 10-20% at least. Full silicon anodes are being commercialized right now. Single Cristal Cathodes are gone come pretty soon. Thicker anodes are being increasingly worked on.

I think we are going to continue to go down the cost curve, both because of engineering and chemical improvements.

> The biggest change for fuel cells is that they're moving from science project to mass production. T

Where is that happening exactly? In all the fuel cell cars Toyota isn't selling very well?
If nothing stops you from requesting blur for any location, you might as well blur random houses in your neighborhood or whole city, just to make your own blurred house less noteworthy.
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In Lithuania we have secure(?) SIM cards that can be used instead of app for such purposes, the app being SmartID.

Although I wonder whether secure SIMs work with dumbphones, have not researched how it actually works (probably a type of SMS?).

Upon request, you have to provide sPIN1 to initiate an action and sPIN2 to finish it (login to bank, approve a transfer).
Libreoffice can export hybrid PDFs containing the whole libreoffice document inside the PDF.
I absolutely hate those, but the HTML spec does require the alt attribute which is actually used in practice quite commonly.
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With a headline like that no wonder it got so many upvotes. I much prefer this one.
The Von Neumann extractor is interesting.

> Von Neumann’s originally proposes the following technique for getting an unbiased result from a biased coin :

> > If independence of successive tosses is assumed, we can reconstruct a 50-50 chance out of even a badly biased coin by tossing twice. If we get heads-heads or tails-tails, we reject the tosses and try again. If we get heads-tails (or tails-heads), we accept the result as heads (or tails).
No, it's a benefit of the fact that side-loading (the most common malware attack vector on Android devices) is not possible on iOS.
Non-english Windows has magic names for program, downloads, documents etc folders.

I see alot of apps using hardcoded paths since they create a "downloads" folder and save stuff to it.

Alot of bugs are exposed in a non US-eng install.
Once again, there is some actual, irrefutably good, news greeted by cynicism.

This is, after all, the goal we're trying to achieve - reduction in CO2 emissions - isn't it?. It's good news that at least one advanced economy has done this.

Can we just take a moment to celebrate some good news, please, folks?
A good reason to blur your property is to protect yourself from lazy public officers.

I've read stories about tax officers copying pictures of countryside location where some kind of spot had emerged, and use then to claim that a house without permit was built and advance IRS-like requests for taxation under the threats of legal action. No actual in person visit to the location was done, of course.
With 1% desktop market, there are more juicy targets to exploit.
Isn't the solution to render a PDF one wants to extract text from, with a high dpi, and then OCR the result?
They should learn to prevent the sale, period. Promises to retain some jobs (for ever? What happens if profits decline? What happens if the core tech is sold and ARM becomes a shell? Do the rules still apply?) address a tiny fraction of the problems presented by the sale of one of our core national tech companies.
people talk about their present day more than the past at every point in the past. It's a human condition to think that right now is the most important time ever. Take every point in history and at that point the people would think that the point they are living in is the most important time.

History gives perspective.
When someone talks about stress it's normally because they are overloaded. At that point they cant cope. This overload leads to various medium and longer term mental health issues.

So practically, when we talk about stress we are normally talking about our inability to cope with inputs and the expectations of output! :-)

Source: Am someone with ADHD that sees a Psychologist :-)
I hate it too. At work we have a solution that use PDF text extraction software and the result is sometimes not great. This in turn breaks the feature I’m owning, making it hard to work reliably. Of course users aren’t aware of that, so I’m the one taking the blame :/
The point was that they don't want to keep dumb rich kids out. The parents are an important money source and you don't want to upset the ruling elite by withholding from them the prestige they are used to.
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Why? That was the end of the Empire and when Britain shifted course.
Read all the comments here about people struggling with PDF. All the energy and code wasted! I have watched this madness for my entire career.

PDF is being used wrongly. For information exchange, data should be AUTHORED in a parseable format with a schema.

Then PDF should be generated from this as a target format.

There is a solution: xml, xsl-fo.
> how much of that is survivorship bias?

No idea; it's only anecdotal obviously. But not unheard of; it used to be quite normal in Germany to have small (1-2 person) GMBH's to get rather large contracts for big corps and if you have a 'real company' suddenly no-one expects you to rock up monday morning at 9. In the Netherlands it still works well, as it does in Portugal and Spain; other markets I do not know.

> how many clients did you get in Austria

1 around 17 years ago. But, at least from friends and limited experience, so excuse my personal ignorance, I understand that Austrian business is not very different from eastern germany business and I have (also had) quite a lot of clients there. I have more in the western part, but the eastern part is different in etiquette and I had the same, I guess conservative' feel 17 years ago with the Austrian company (trying to find what they are/were called).
While I agree that iPhones are more secure, one should also take into account that they represent around 20% of deployed phone devices across the world.
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I’m confused about one thing, would the (potential) organisms be floating/growing/dying entirely in the habitable region of the atmosphere or would it be rising from below?
Your argument is: using a university’s reputation to lend credibility to abject bullshit written by career GOP political operatives in return for large donations from billionaires is okay, because grad students at universities often publish piles of methodologically unsound studies in their hurry to get their credentials and get out the door, especially in fields like evolutionary psychology, marketing, management, and criminology.

Seems like a complete non sequitur to me. We were talking about poorly researched and argued advocacy/opinion, not nominally peer-reviewed scholarly papers.

Your link specifically points out that political activism is not directly related to the problems of studies that won’t replicate: “Limited Political Hackery: Some of the most highly publicized social science controversies of the last decade happened at the intersection between political activism and low scientific standards: the implicit association test, stereotype threat, racial resentment, etc. I thought these were representative of a wider phenomenon, but in reality they are exceptions. The vast majority of work is done in good faith.”

But I won’t disagree that there are many problems with academic publishing and the for-profit journal industry; the publish-or-perish career system; the exploitation of grad students, postdocs, and untenured teachers; people throughout academia using statistical tools who lack basic training/competence in data analysis and statistical inference; etc.
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> and decided to pursue a partnership with Oracle in hopes of avoiding a U.S. ban while appeasing the Chinese government

This makes more sense if you replace "Oracle" with "company run by a Trump ally". I'd argue this makes Trump's "hard on China" start to look pretty fishy, but I suspect anyone who cares made up their mind about who to vote for a long time ago.
Rich getting mega-rich, and poor remain in poverty.
If that is an allegation, then I am a conspiracy freak (I am not).

When we speak about USA and you bring Brazil in the discussion (whataboutism), you lower the bar. My "ideal" societies (progress, freedom, respect, and other such 'metrics') do NOT include Brazil, China, Iran, Russia, North Korea, Turkey. Brazil has selected as a ruler a former army general* who enjoys militarisation and is a fan of a dictatorship. I think the discussion ends here. Brazil may be doing 100 other things "good", but "showed that in 2010, about 6 percent of the Brazilian population lived in favelas and other slums" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favela). 6%? Seriously?

I (-apologies for the bias-) prefer to hold in highest standards the EU, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and a very few more. Although imperfect, still far better standard of Living than other countries/regiions.

That said, my ideal society is a Star Trek (TNG) one, where everyone contributes how they can, in a balance matter, everyone has free healthcare, everyone has a food replicator and never goes hungry.

*to avoid any misunderstanding, I am a honorable discharged army officer (of my country - NATO member), and I respect the Military-ies and what Military represents (protect the integrity of the land/sea/air)(and do NOT interfere in politics)

Edit: Brazil is a corrupt nation. Perhaps if the haves start caring for the have-nots, and the poverty/inequality is reduced, education is improved, then in 10-20-30 years Brazil will be VERY different to what it is now. These things take time. Moving to a good direction won't take you there tomorrow.
Is PDF not supposed to improve on paper...? I'm rather surprised at the revelation that PDF is not accessible.
This reads like a PR piece with some weird metrics: "AirBnB spending" and "based on a panel of spending data including more than 65,000 Airbnb transactions". What is that? The Y-axis is an index, not a metric with units. And why compare to one hotel chain? The linked analysis is not better, although it compares to 3 hotel chains. I am not sure that AirBnB's main competition is business hotels like Merriot, Hilton and Intercontinental, though.

Just tell us the revenues. Are they up or down? Bookings?
Linux as a consumer-level operating system has basically zero market share, nothing about it will be widespread. If you add in consumer devices with a Linux kernel (i.e. Android devices) then yes, it has had widespread malware problems.