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It's cheaper than designing, manufacturing, and stocking more chip models. It's also cheaper than designing and manufacturing 1 model and physically disabling the pieces after.

You could try to regulate that what is manufactured is not gimped on it's way to the consumer for ideological reasons but in the end you'd just end up paying more for a separate physical model because the profit margins on these advanced use cases are simply what drives GPU design.

As for the royalty licensing TSMC is ahead in abilities and has captured an enormous portion of the market but it's not so far ahead that it can eat however far into customer income streams as it wants. Other manufacturers still exist and get deals, Nvidia is using Samsung 8nm for the latest round of GPUs for example. If it continues to increase its lead then we may see that type of agreement grow though.
Your second sentence doesn't contradict the first sentence. Capitalism (or more precisely, IP law) can simultaneously drive innovation and hold back innovation. The more worthwhile question is whether capitalism drives more innovation overall, but that's hard to prove either way with snarky 1 liner.
I never said a Glock is militarization - I was directly refuting your assertion that (among other things) that officers’ uniforms and the guns they carry hadn’t changed in forty years.
If I were in a similar position, with people who depend on me making money, I would not quit until I had another job lined up even if I had a good emergency fund. I probably would have given different advice if we weren't in a global pandemic and Brexit looming, but with those things happening it's probably best to be conservative.
The protocols might had ns resolution, but that doesn't say anything about the accuracy of the time information in there. The PPS output of GPS receivers typically has a jitter of a few ns. And how well is the position of the antenna known?
Which ones? GDPR guarantees "right to data portability", not "right to an open API". I'm sure they could give you a CSV if you personally write to them and still be compliant.
The thinness makes it take a little less space if you lose the base and switch to an armature (which is generally nicer anyway).
> There is a significant difference between having a supported defined interface boundary

Which is literally the delineating mark between an API and and ABI.

A stable ABI means your binary interface will remain the same and your compiled drivers should work, despite any changes on the kernel level. A stable API means you'll probably have to recompile your drivers when the kernel changes, but that they'll require little (if any) modifications.
Chromium ships with Windows and is maintained by Microsoft. Use the OS crypto library.
Just because states trade with each other doesn't mean that they are one nation, nor want to be. Values and culture are an important part of any nation.

Just because the US wants cheap stuff and rare earth metals doesn't mean that we want to share the politics or cultural norms of China.
Ok, I’ll go for the bait. How does this help OP in his goal to learn how to build devices like this?
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Refer to my other response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24748970
Does Rust have first class support for fixed point number formats? If not, is there a proposal for that?
I don't think I have properly considered it. Maybe I've just had a bit of baby brain for the last year or so and I haven't completely kept up with things.

Are there any good resources that you can share for those remote positions?
Yes. Some fight on the honeymoon already.
It matters at least somewhat to 90% of the general public and is very important to almost 50%:

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/file...

So no, you're extremely wrong.
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Google is trying to find the saturation point where people start leaving...

My annoyance is that every second trip is... back home. So with their gigawatt AI, I suppose it could have learnt. So I guess it tries to do its best to avoid me going home: typing « Home » suggests « Home Depot? home improvement? Homie restaurant? Homicide drop point? » I’m joking with the last one but Google seems to be pushing too hard to make me discover new places.
> Nuclear costs are historical costs. We know what nuclear costs, because we've built it before. And we've built it at scale.

Do we really know the real costs? How many countries outside of Canada has designed and built reactor cores without a nuclear weapons programme? How do you untangle the huge amount of money poured into nuclear weapons programmes from nuclear energy? Do you account for education/training of nuclear engineers and scientists? I know what you'll say - that we must account for it with the alternatives too. But those educations are more general purpose, so it's not directly comparable. You don't need to educate lots of "wind power scientists" to continue to scale wind power, and their education wouldn't be wasted if it turned out that wind power reached a dead end.

The costs of future nuclear power is absolutely hypothetical costs. You simply can't just magically reproduce the exact same conditions as the mid/late 1900s. At the very least, I'm sure that most countries will demand reactors that are fundamentally more safe than the reactors built during the golden area of nuclear power. So the reactor technology will not be the same. You might call it irrational, and I'd be inclined to agree. Most reactors of that era was incredibly safe. But you can't wish away human irrationality. Maybe you can educate people, but not without massive resources poured into education and public relations. Add that to the indirect costs.

We don't have strong government countries in the west anymore, governments that can just push through huge multi-decade bets like that. And I don't see any chance of that changing. So the most likely path for a nuclear renaissance is through small modular reactors, since you might find applications with shorter return on investments, and then gradually scale it up. But that's a a fundamentally different model from the golden area of nuclear power, so historical lessons about costs do not apply.
Hmm, clever: back down by £500 on the sticker that has zero production cost.
I've had constant issues getting OSMand to navigate to addresses, even after checking that the address exists on OSM. If I search for a POI, it typically has no issue finding it and routing me there, but if I enter a street address, I get nothing. Enabling online search after failing to find an address once used to work perfectly (online search uses Nominatim instead of photon IIRC), but they seem to have removed online search entirely in the last update, so now I can only navigate by POI name or cross-street.

It might be better in other places, but it's a long way from replacing google maps for me.
Josh are you able to answer my top-level comment about fixed point numbers?
I love rust, but Python is still my goto for scripting, small tasks, calculations, etc. It's more convenient for nearly all tasks of that shape.

I remember telling my uni professor about that 15 years ago, but she swore by using C for that purpose. It's what you know I suppose, but if you know both languages, Python is much better suited to the task.
For me the difference was mindset, with "unserious" approach, I also expected less. Both in terms of effort and result. So suddenly "meh" improvisation (or whatever) is OK, because the goal was not good improvisation. It was too do pretty much anything and maybe learn little bit.

And that change of expectations made difference in long term - in two years span I improved much more on things I had low expectations at and kept fun and thus kept doing bit by bit.
This is not the case, wind is not enough, the production depends on the strength of the wind

"In particular the occurrences of wind blowing below à 8 m/s (4 Beaufort, blue line) are far from being negligible, and that winds of 7 Beaufort or over, which are necessary to get the full power of the above wind turbine, blows much less than 50% of the time."

https://jancovici.com/en/energy-transition/renewables/how-ma...
Oh, I was too ignorant to do the math myself, thanks & sorry ;)

It does seem that the comparison I made is apples & elephants, but I do think that the point still kinda stands. Unoptimized monstrosities like Slack waste a lot of electricity, decrease producitivity and make life miserable.
They may well be, provided one stays away from bad patterns such as humongous complex functions?
+1
And: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9M__yYbsZ4

And : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySqaLbYBB_c
Estonia looks bad, but taking into account that we only produce 0.5GWh (1100g per kwh) compared to Sweden's 15 (40g per kwh), we produce about the same amount of carbon. Kind of misleading in that sense.
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I'm surprised to have not seen a mention of the python library Dask in this thread. Whilst I agree that reading CSVs in Python could be a lot quicker, most people do tend to use third party libraries to do so. Dask is able to multi-core multi-thread almost all operations, including reading in a CSV. You can go from a Dask data frame to a pandas dataframe.
This mistakenly assumes that the Green New Deal is about averting climate change. It’s not: https://news.yahoo.com/aoc-chief-staff-admits-green-12440835...

> The interesting thing about the Green New Deal, is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” Chakrabarti said to Inslee’s climate director, Sam Ricketts, according to a Washington Post reporter who attended the meeting for a profile published Wednesday.

> “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing,” he added.
Do monkeys really produce an uniform distribution of keystrokes? Humans don't, and they're also primates.
> You're clearly talking out of ignorance based on your own interpretation of how policing is done

I am someone who knows someone who was convicted over purely circumstantial evidence, and I am only making the claim that we've built a system that leads to wrongful convictions in the face of incomplete evidence. The sibling comment gave 60 cases that would back this claim up, and you responded with "well that's just going to happen by law of large numbers." It's very easy to say it just happens when it hasn't happened to you.

Don't be an ass.
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Just to be clear, you’d be fine with a personally owned nuke if it didn’t have fallout?
The other time that you saw it was also probably me. It's from this talk, which is about how a large amount of generated protocol buffer code at Google led to a quadratic increase in compile times: https://youtu.be/rHIkrotSwcc?t=720.

TL;DW: The reasoning is because if you use a distributed build system, then your compile time is gated by the file with the longest compile time (tail latency). The more files you have, the greater chance that one of them takes a long time. When you generate source files, you tend to produce more files than if you didn't.

Most users don't use a distributed build system to compile the kernel, so on further thought, in that case compile times probably scale closer to linear with the number of translation units. But wasted cycles are still wasted cycles, and regardless of how exactly compile times scale, you should still consider the cost of longer compile times when you duplicate code.

With regards to link time optimization: sophisticated analyses take superlinear complexity: https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/22435/time-complexity....

Disclaimer: I work at Google.
NYT is a private organization, with reporters who have sources from many governments. Since it’s US-based, it has more sources in the US and covers more domestic stories, but I don’t think it’s accurate to say it’s a mouthpiece of the US government. NYT has a somewhat adversarial relationship with the government, and regularly publishes highly damaging stories the government would rather suppress.

There’s an important distinction between an independent media outlet with a US perspective, and US government propaganda. The former holds some principles that the nation will better prosper if corruption in the government is exposed. The latter just wants to increase the standing of the nation, and/or keep the present leaders in power.
I get this on Macbook Pros pretty often when connecting external displays. I think the nvidia drivers are universally bad.
It is funny, in those places I never got any harassment before. Car drivers never had a problem with me, It seems that I never disturbed the apparently so important car traffic, they just passed and went their way. So what exactly was the purpose of the bike lane? Clearly, to kick me and other cyclists out of the way because they didn't like us. That is just plain discrimination. And I am not saying that I don't facilitate passing when safe for me to do so. I think we cyclists have to do that. But the bike lane is just obnoxious.
Please stop using WebGL without a fallback... Plenty of devices don't support it or immediately crash...
second-hand information but apparently the reason they can't is that the driver contains code licensed from other companies and they can't open-source that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/j217oo/gamers_nex...

while obviously not an official source, that isn't particularly surprising either.

as an additional relatively-well-known-but-possibly-incorrect bit of internet lore, right now their Linux driver is basically a wrapper around their Windows driver, so that explanation makes a lot of sense. They would have to go through and disentangle what parts they own and what needs to be stripped out / replaced for the linux version at an absolute minimum.
Manufacturers won‘t produce more spare parts or bikes. They know it won‘t last long. A shortage of bikes was mainly for e-bikes this year.
Tail latency. See my other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24749000).
Yes. US construction in general takes longer and costs almost an order of magnitude more for large infrastructure. Why? Higher standards certainly. Higher pay too. But you can't tell me Russia is less corrupt with a straight face. So what accounts for the difference? I think it's disturbing that the US is forgetting how to make things in general.
I very much expect O(n) compilation of stuff like array declarations, enums, CPP macro definitions and so forth. What else would it be?
I've always been curious what the emoji blacklist is for comments, since a couple seem to get through whatever filter there is…
Sure you can do anything with the hardware which you actually ha e bought!

The problem is in the software (the driver) which you never can buy, only license under a long list of conditions which prohibit specific uses.

If e.g. Noveau could implement interfaces needed for CUDA, you could probably try to use a 3050 in a datacenter. I bet NVidia has provisions against this turn of events, too.
I do believe constant iteration is better, but Javascript has many problems at its very core, and many Node developers transitioning to Deno are going to create and write solutions that are more akin to their comfort in Node.

This will lend itself to reproducing similar issues as they currently have.

I am primarily a javascript developer, I've written both Node and Deno projects, but I don't see the issues being solved by just rewrapping the source output.
> Rust addresses this gap with the same “0b” prefix as found in some non-standard C compiler extensions.

In C++ that’s part of C++/14 standard, well-specified.

> we have u8, u16, u32, u64, etc

It’s indeed nice to have fundamental types like that, but <stdint.h> header is required by the standard since C99, in C++ since C++/11. It provides typedefs like uint32_t and the rest of them, thus the same UX.

> DWARF support

Yeah, but no PDB. Ship a Windows program written in Rust, and when it crashes or hangs on end-user’s PC you’re pretty much screwed. You need WinDBG to analyze these memory dumps written by the OS, and for that you need pdb symbols as opposed to dwarf.
> Yup, precisely. You've conveniently ignored successful projects elsewhere, like the Hanul nuclear power plant and the Taishan nuclear plant.

Hanul is in Korea. The nuclear "success" there turned out to be due to massive corruption and corner cutting.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/04/22/136020/how-greed...

Taishan in China. China is basically the single remaining bright spot in nuclear, anywhere in the world. But to treat it as such, you have to believe the financial information coming from a communist government. I am not as trusting as you are on that.

> Also, you're incorrect that Votgle is the only nuclear project in the US, Turkey Point is installing two more AP1000 reactors.

https://www.miamitodaynews.com/2018/03/13/economics-shelves-...

"Nuclear units Florida Power & Light was to build at Turkey Point have been delayed indefinitely as it’s too expensive to compete with natural gas, FPL says."

> You continue to miss the point. With renewables and storage, we're talking in terms of hypothetical costs.

Yes, all future costs are uncertain. So any plans involve risk, and all investments are gambles. The market has judged that the risk favors renewables and storage, not nuclear.

> Nuclear costs are historical costs. We know what nuclear costs, because we've built it before. And we've built it at scale.

They are costs from another time. Unless you have a time machine, those costs are just of historical interest. What matters today is what it costs to build today. And even back then, the costs became unacceptable. There's a reason the first nuclear expansion stopped, and it's not regulation.

> You seem to be particularly determined to avoid the one solution that is actually proven to work.

You have linked to a solar + storage + transmission solution, not needing any nuclear. Are you sure that's what you were wanting to link to? I'm fine with that solution. Note that the "three weeks of storage" there would be better done with hydrogen than with batteries.
I was once banned from using recursion due to the complexity it added to the code. I understand the reasoning but since moving on from that position I've found the opposite to be true. There is a class of problem the benefits hugely from recursion. Not because it adds complexity but because it nicely represents the complexity that already exists in the problem.
Bad actors abuse the government and even the legal system every day. We should probably get rid of those as well.
IDK it seems pretty common in the embedded world to add support for a new piece of hardware by copying the entire driver and then changing the parts that the new hardware supports instead of trying to come up with a driver that supports all generations of the hardware. Pretty sad if you ask me and very unmaintainable, but, at least if you ask the companies, people should just buy newer generations of their hardware if they want those bugfixes :).
What are you talking about? Wayland is supported on DEs that wanted to support nVidia chips.

Meanwhile projects like Sway have a direct "Go to hell if you use nVidia, we won't let you run this code." It's bizarre that you blame nVidia for this.
I don’t understand your comment because bike commuting advocates advocate for biking by demanding implementation of solutions to the precise problems you’re talking about.

1) If you have a reasonable bike lane network, you can reach significant distances while biking at a comfortable pace at which point you won’t really have any visible sweat. It actually requires effort to run up a visible sweat while biking (other than where you’re seated).

2) If you have a reasonable bike network, everywhere in a city should be easily accessible via bike no matter where you need to go. It’s far easier and cheaper to build new bike access than new car access. And converting a lane is a matter of signs and a few cones.

3) If a place has a reasonable bike network you can actually use the several hundred dollars a month on gas and car insurance and the depreciated value of your car to probably move in closer to where you work.

4) An average biking speed for a fairly average beginner is something like 13-14 mph. That’s about 20kmh. So your 10km distance is about 30 mins. And you’re military. It’s likely you could go 50-75% faster without breaking a sweat.

5) The discrepancy between men and women (and likely ethnic minorities) is entirely due to a lack of infrastructure. Everywhere there is good bike commuting infrastructure the disparity diminishes. Making biking safe eliminates gender disparities at least.

There are many countries that are doing this successfully. It’s not a unique or novel concept. There may be American cities that are so sprawled out that it doesn’t make sense, but even there there’s value within city downtowns.

And all of the above is for regular normal bicycles. Add ebike and pedal assist to the mix and the argument becomes way stronger.
Ferdi is a hard fork of Franz adding features and removing some unwanted features like the paywall

https://getferdi.com/
This was not always the case! The UK had excellent bike lanes in the 1930's. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/may/0...
> And by going that route you make sure that all pieces of your website have the same availability guarantees, the same performance profile, and the same security guarantees that the content was not manipulated by a 3rd party.

You can already guarantee the security of the file by using the integrity attribute on the <script> tag. And the performance of your CDN is probably worse than the Google CDN (not to mention that you lose out on the shared cache).
The hash trick should work for a video of your act too; you can post a tweet with a hash as soon as you finish recording and are able to compute it.
The EULA / driver license may prevent you from reverse engineering the driver to enable these features, but that is only legal protection. nVidia sells these cards saying they don't provide feature X; nVidia also sells some cards, which do provide feature X (at a different price point). There is imho nothing per se wrong with this practice. The silicon being the same in both products is an implementation detail.
They should just start web-scraping then.

Have the user open the playlist and copy & paste, or use an extension, user script or bookmarklet, to extract the information.

And of course post a warning against maintaining your playlist in Spotify, prominently recommending competing services instead.

Is there something that will let me convert a Spotify playlist into a list of e.g. YouTube videos without having a Spotify account?
The GND is a quick read (or even a quicker skim). People should just read it [1, 2].

I support GND and it's surprising how the news outlets let this narrative grow. GND is a social justice document more than a Renewable Future. I hope others take the brief time to read it.

[1] - Reader read: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/08/heres-the-full-text-of-...

[2] - Official document, pdf: https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.go...
Finally, if all else fails, clamp a microphone to your head