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The point isn't that nobody will have reduced packaging, the point is some people have reduced packaging. I'm not saying it's not a way for Apple to get PR points + save some money (that's exactly what it is). Your argument would mean it's pointless to buy a BMW electric car because they sell other cars that aren't. At Apple's scale, the reduction in packaging for a large chunk of consumers might acctually do something for the environment (and Tim Cook's pockets).
Are you asserting performance benchmarks aren't gameable?
One-directional data transfer isn't really a problem: just have a wire that only sends data in one direction. If you want to be extra paranoid, make it an optical link. Or wireless transmit-only if that fits your application. Downside is you need more bandwidth since you can't have the receiver ask for a specific subset of data.

The trouble always starts when someone wants remote inputs for some reason. Then you really need to start to think about a) how to protect the gateway systems and b) how to make sure that even if the gateway is cracked the damage is limited.
I legitimately don't understand how Facebook has any grounds to C&D this application.

Its a Terms and Conditions violation. Ok, I get that. But, at what point did the developers of this application ever agree to any terms and conditions? Its not like its accessing data via the API, or requires some kind of privileged access levels.

Morals, ethics, security, whatever aside; I just don't understand the legal angle Facebook is using here.
That's a bit of a jump from no internal representation to no embodiment (whatever embodiment means in this context as that is pretty unclear to me)
Sure.

But it's not the optimal experience.
> If all HoTT does is give a theory that's mutually interpretable with ZFC, that's not interesting.

"If all python does is give a theory that's mutually interpretable with x86 assembly, that's not interesting."

The point is to have better language support for expressing the things you want to reason about. I don't find it so far-fetched to be interested in better ways of reasoning about equality of types (both as a programmer and as a mathematician).
Enough folks have replied that transactions are the way to go, but I just wanted to add that whatever interface tool you use for your database may have an option to force you to commit your transactions manually. For example PostgreSQL's default 'psql' shell has the "autocommit" option which, when disabled, requires you to manually 'commit;' before any changes take effect.
Exactly this.

From the article:

“Even if SRAM scaling kept up, the cost per transistor would still have remained flat from N7 to N5.”
Well, this sounds a bit typical JS dev talk. React isn't all that terrible, it's actually quite good and battle-proven. It has great libraries, many devs are familiar with it and if you know it well you can be pretty damn productive with it.

Not to say Svelte doesn't have great innovative features, but I myself don't still feel that tempted to jump into Svelte. What some of us don't like, is the infamous JS churn where libraries are changed every year because "this new one is better".
The Smithsonian has better reporting of this than the BBC, and is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24889016 .
Blueprints in Unreal Engine is a good example of no-code that works well.
One consequent advantage of cheap that you leave off:

Ubiquity.

I can't assume that every place, even in the most sophisticated cities in the US, will support NFC payments. Most don't, actually. So I still have to carry around a credit card and use it, with all the inconvenience and security issues associated with it.

Also, that cheapness allows for user experiences that are prohibitively expensive for NFC. E.g., paying at your table after eating.
Religion solved this in the same way the legend of Icarus solved the problem of human flight.
I think the fact that Google advertises the Chrome browser on all their major services plays a part in its adoption.

Funny enough, when I sometimes go to the google search page in Firefox, a pop up appears saying I should switch to Chrome because it saves battery life
If you're able to find a way to use peoples desire for playing to solve hard problems like curing cancer, you'll deserve a nobel prize.

You'd be turning work into fun, and that into solving hard human problems. If you get there, maybe you'll notice that curing cancer wouldn't help humanity in the long run, so you'd turn to the cause of that. Could end up in a vicious circle. But as long as it is fun, go for it.
> New developers aren't born in SV, they move there because that's where the jobs are. If they no longer need to move there for the good jobs, they won't.

This statement supports my point. A large proportion of devs currently live in a tech hub. They moved there because there was opportunity. Telling all the developers that the opportunity will come to them does not magically change the number of developers. So if demand for developers hasn't changed, and the supply hasn't changed, why would salaries change?

The only way the number of available devs changes is if some new untapped supply exists outside of the tech hubs. My argument is that it does not, the majority of devs that could already moved to a tech hub or figured something out.
That's because the whole point of github is not hosting, it's the collaboration. This is where centralization helps.
I'm still annoyed at the ruling against mp3.com. They created a hash of the physical CD-ROM, and if it matched one that was already in their cloud they wouldn't actually rip the contents for your own personal copy of the exact same bits. It was tantamount to ZFS deduplication being outlawed.

Reminds me of What color are your bits: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23.
How much slower would an FPGA (soft core) implementation of say an ARM core be compared to the hard core implementation ?
> That's obviously not a set of statistics that is possible to directly observe; such a conclusion is only possible through a model dependent on extrapolation which assumes that a relationship holds outside the observable range.

It sounds like you're airing a general grievance against sampling, but I'm sure that's not what you mean, so please elaborate?

> And it's also somewhat incoherent, as both corporate decision-makers and legislators are subsets of the public.

I don't see how that renders anything 'incoherent'. Are you interpreting "unanimous public support" to mean "literally every single citizen supports this policy, including corporate decision-makers and legislators"? Such pedantry aside, it's entirely possible for an overwhelming majority of the public to want a particular policy decision irrespective of whether "corporate decision-makers" or legislators find themselves in the majority or minority.

In whatever case, the statistic I'm thinking of is from former labor secretary Robert Reich's "Inequality for All" documentary. I don't care to skim it for exact phrasing or numbers. Similar information can be found here: https://represent.us/action/no-the-problem/.
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Kodak is a good example because it is a case of the innovator's dilemma [1], and I think that applies here too. They knew digital was the future, but growing existing markets was always more profitable and politically sustainable. To big auto, EV markets appear too small and not worth investing in compared to growing the ICE markets. Until they're not.

[1] https://innovationmanagement.se/2017/05/24/the-innovators-di...
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Sure but, despite the extra space around any individual transistor, you're still shoving 49% more transistors into the same overall amount of space. Then everything benefits and no one cares about the node name.
3 mistakes in... >2 years? I feel like it's really hard to tell if the problem is really the person at that point. Have you had others perform the same job for a similar duration to see if they avoid the same mistakes?
These things aren't _really_ two-dimensional. They're not really three-dimensional either, but they are objects built out of layers of two-dimensional things. When you measure number of transistors per unit area you will inevitably see something more dense than the "number of 5nm square in a millimeter of area".

It's the silicon equivalent of measuring one's BMI.
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So does the University of Cambridge, and that didn't prevent one of their researchers from scraping and selling user data to Cambridge Analytica.
For me it's an optimal experience: my device cost went down, I get to choose what I spend that money on (such as superior 3rd-party chargers with multiple ports), and I get the satisfaction of knowing that Apple didn't waste planetary resources making inflexible single-port chargers and $5 wired earbuds that I will never, ever use.

I do admit that it's not optimal for every single user, but I do think it's a net improvement for most users.
Another possibility is that someone's tenure committee is meeting soon. :-). I don't want to deride what looks like good primary research, but this release smells of ulterior motives. (˜˜NB: I happen to live in the same province as the sponsoring institution. We've a new government that has made significant cuts to postsecondary and medical funding, and have signalled a desire to do more. I get why they might need to do stuff like this.)
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There is no speed of computer which cannot be overwhelmed by badly written code.

I guess your point is that sloppy web developers / web companies make poorly performing code and shift the burden of handling it out to visitors’ machines, so those machines have to keep improving to not be left behind?

That might be true, but is pretty depressing.
This just displays the core incompetence in basics that many devs who are dependent on frameworks have.
A cycle or two ago I asked this same question. Some people seemed to think that such a number would be gamed, but if that's a valid barrier to entry then we will never accomplish anything again, really.

As long as the measure is in mm^2, not mm^3, I think (hope?) that would avoid any perverse incentives against breakthroughs that allow you to add more layers to a chip and still maintain yields.
What DAW are they using? I use my iPad as a remote for Presonus Studio One sometimes, but I couldn't consider using it as the recording system itself, since the AU and VST accessibility isn't there.

I would also use my iPad as a synthesiser (eg. Magellan) but then record the audio to a "real" computer, ie the Mac, via a recording interface.
Sounds like the argument here is "buy an iPad pro so frontend developers don't need to learn optimization"...?
I like this answer because it says it will require someone with specific knowledge and specific training doing a specific job anyway...

Also "anyway" a specification is always incomplete. It's part of the programmers' job to fill the gaps with something sensible, and when they have no idea what to do, to point out that some corner case was overlooked.

This is where programmers sometimes start to feel like Lieutenant Columbo: at first everyone is nice, but people become more and more irritated as the pesky cop asks more and more embarrassing questions.
Seems like literally just a trademark Apple had laying around. I also don't see how it's better or more convenient than just plugging in a cord. From what I understand it wastes a lot of electricity.
It doesn't have a bearing on which method is riskier, but it does have a bearing on the idea that everyone is going to be generating fake receipts on their phones.

And, yeah, most places do verify based on another phone.
Sure, but at that point they'd have to be breaking some kind of law to warrant one, wouldn't they?
So did we.

James Hansen testified to Congress and the IPCC was setup back in 1988.

Everyone has ignored these warnings. Now they want to point fingers to assuage their own guilt. Get real.
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The $238/chip figure probably isn't for the A14 specifically, considering that it's a chart from an unrelated report[1]

>The model is based on an imaginary 5nm chip the size of Nvidia's P100 GPU (610 mm2, 90.7 billion transistors at 148.2 MTr/mm2).

[1] https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/AI-Chips%E2%8...
I totally agree, and am trying to balance my desire to preserve my career and standard of living with what - logically - makes so much sense.

I previously worked for an all-remote team that, over time, shifted from mostly within the US to HQ'd within the US on paper, but with just a few employees left in the country. When I left to take a local job, the guy who replaced me in Latin America was every bit as talented an engineer and tech leader, but for less than a third of the cost to the company compared to what I was making in NYC.

I get the feeling a lot of people are looking at this as their first step towards more tech jobs in cheap parts of the US, but the reality will probably end up as more tech jobs offered to people from much cheaper parts of the developing world - also a great thing... but with potential impact to those of us in the country if wages move faster than COL does.

My justification for finding my walkable community in one of the only places it exists in the US was always high wages, but if that changes, there's little reason to not pursue parts of western europe with a much better social climate and lower wages - but also lower wages. Who knows what will happen post-pandemic though, and how much of this will stick outside of a few SV companies.
I'm not sure an analogy between maths or AlphaGo and board games is reasonable, at least for the kind of board games OP was, I think, considering. OP was mentioning "mental energy", meaning they were thinking about playing the game.

Chess, Go, etc. are constrained environments. Playing these games makes you better at them. Maybe you'll find a new opening, a new sequence, etc., but I don't think you'll ever be able to apply it to another field.

Implementing AlphaGo is no longer playing the game, it's analyzing a computer science problem and finding a solution. Number theory was still about understanding some objects that seemed natural and given, rather than arbitrary ones with artificial constraints, like these games are.
Why a carbon text, why UBI? Why do these same activists also campaign against nuclear power?
My 10yo daughter has been playing Roblox for a couple of years. I was really surprised about some of the worlds she plays. To progress through the stages, players have to solve a series of puzzles. These puzzles can be anything you can think of, and I know because she would often call me for help with them.

She hates school, and it's always a fight to get her to do homework, but she can sit for hours on these puzzle games and talk to people in different languages (basically), while typing like a demon.

She still hates school, but yesterday we got a report from the teacher saying she's excelling in tests. This wasn't the case a year ago.
Looks like we've hugged it to death.

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Show HN: Scripts to Make an actually Hypertext Annotated Fire Upon the Deep
I'm personally a huge fan of "A Fire Upon The Deep" and I got really stoked when I saw there was a version annotated by the author, and then really sad when I saw they were in an old RTF format, and I didn't really like the way I got them to render in modern applications.

So I made some super hacky scripts to convert the old RTF junk into a single, gigantic HTML file with the annotations in a side margin.

Posting that directly would probably run me afoul of some legal entity I don't feel like dealing with, but through the magic of someone else posting the archive to Archive.org and code being sharable, you too can create your own true hypertext version of "A Fire Upon The Deep"!
I guess, personally it just feels like there is an uptick in security "researchers" making mountains out of molehills, or more common mountains out of literally nothing, such as this "vulerability."

This is akin to saying fakeroot gives you root capabilities, or claiming to get root by doing "export PS1='# '"

I never said P0 is my threshold, I just used them as an example of good security researchers. I don't doubt there are plenty of randos doing good work. I'm just finding the signal to noise ratio is getting worse.
Anyone else read that as Nvim? [0]

For a minute there, I thought the Editor War had seriously escalated!

[0] https://neovim.io/
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I don't see a schedule, just a landing page for a conference taking place in three days. Could be fun to check out, but I'm a complete newbie. I have no idea (or apparently way of knowing) if there will be any sessions of interest to me.
Hi @okbel, nice work so far! This project could be huge, and hit the target that vue storefront/deity/others have not quite cracked yet.

I'm working on a node/typescript/graphql headless commerce framework (vendure.io) and I'd love to help on an integration if at all possible.

Pros of integrating with vendure: users can stand up a fully-functional local server in 1 npx command; no SaaS account needed; low friction for JS devs used to npm work flows & idioms.
It's not just remote monitoring. Protective relaying involves some disconnects sending signals to distant disconnects to tell them not to disconnect. The idea is that when you have a sudden overload like a line down, you want to trip the breaker closest to the trouble, and not others elsewhere upstream. Without this, small disruptions take out too much of the grid. See NYC blackout of 1965.[1]

This is why large transmission networks require some capability for fast transmission of data between circuit breakers. Not much data. But it's so much cheaper to send it over the Internet than to have separate microwave repeaters or separate cables or gear to send data over high-tension power lines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965
> You're not generally distributing, performing, &c. your state of mind.

I don't think I agree. My employer values my contribution in some part as an oracle. People at work ask me questions and I answer them. Those answers come from the sum of my experiences (a biochemical 'model'). Other people more directly conduct public performances of their talent.

If nothing else this will likely blur the lines on what's considered original work.
I don't agree. Dropbox syncs files across all of my devices, but I can also get files out using a web interface and mobile device apps (which, coincidently, is why I don't use syncthing). Regardless of the name, I think on demand access would be complementary to it's primary purpose (syncing), and serving up the content over http would be trivial (as well as over bittorrent/webtorrent, considering existing library support [1] [2]). At it's core, syncthing is an object distribution orchestration system, therefore other transports besides native syncing should always be considered (imho).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23818659 (HN: Libtorrent adds support for the WebTorrent protocol)

[2] https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html (WebSeed - HTTP/FTP Seeding (GetRight style))
What's the point of this comment? It's useful to some people therefore people study it. Why assume it needs to be useful to all mathematicians?

It is useful for my own work, and thus I study it, why isn't this as simple as that?
This is just the mistakes made in the SAN/Storage part of his responsibilities. As we used to say in World of Warcraft, "Can't heal stupid."
I am an expert, which is why I am even more amazed about the crazy speed at which Blender improves and how they managed not to fall into the pits so many Open Source projects regularly walk into with open eyes.
Chess as a purely mental challenge is not that interesting to me, and playing against a computer is not something I like at all.
But playing against a human opponent is one of the few games that interest me. I like that it is so old and has so long traditions, that means something in addition. So my conclusion is, it is as much a social activity as a mental one.
Where is that force coming from though?
Nice re-writing of history. Microsoft anti-trust was post Reagan. AT7T now is about 34% market share. The rest is between Verizon, Sprint etc. Not the same as what Bell had.
I worked at Ali and have seen 马云 speak in person. I get that it seems a bit weird because he's _not_ technical, nor particularly enlightened in any area, but the success of the company is in part due to his excellence as a manager. It's part of the reason Ali wasn't, until very recently, in gaming because he wanted to focus the company and to abide by a certain set of principles.

To your second point: doing business in China is partially owed to the niche that the government carves for you. Look at the debacle of Ofo vs Mobike. You need to grow at all costs until you can overtake competition then you're protected.
I don't want to fuss with a feature filled game engine. Does anyone have any suggestions of a code-based game engine that waaaay simplifies and restricts you in some way?

I really want to make a game based on strict limitations but to write it in code and not some graphical editor.

I'm two hours in witu phaserjs and I've just done boilerplate with cameras and scenes. It looks great but it's overkill for me.

Edit: thank you all. So many great leads here.
I found this to be a pretty confusing article. I get that they are analyzing the new node, which is great, but the editorializing seems a bit premature to me.

I also don't think the author understood the TMSC presentation. TMSC clearly said that is used a "model" of a typical SOC of 60% logic, 30% SRAM, and 10% analog. Then they said that for each category of thing, you could expect 1.8x, 1.35x, and 1.2x of shrink. If you do the math, that means an overall shrink for a 'typical' SOC that conforms to their model would be 1.57x (approximately).

That Apple achieved 1.49x would suggest they got 95% of the process shrink effectiveness.

Then there is the cost per die and thus cost per transistor discussion. It is important to remember that this is likely the most expensive these wafers will ever be. The reasoning for that statement is that during a process node life-cycle the cost per wafer is set initially to capture "early movers" (who value density over cost). Much like any product where competition will emerge "later" there is a window early on to recapture value which can pay back your R&D and capital equipment investments. As a result the vendor sets the price as high as possible to make that repayment happen as quickly as possible. Once paid back, the price provides profit as long as it can be supported in the presence of other competitors (in this case, I would guess that role is played by Samsung). The GSA uses to publish price surveys of wafers on various nodes over time but they don't seem to do that any more. Anyway, so the cost per transistor will go down from this point but how much depends on how much margin is in the current wafer price.

So I agree that the cost per transistor is not going down as quickly as it has in the past, and its possible that this node may not get to be as low as the previous node. I'm curious how it compares when you look at 7nm introduction price per transistor vs todays price per transistor. And if you get the same ramp with the 5nm node what that would mean.
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Prototypo font editor app source code actually hosted on GitHub.[0]

[0] https://github.com/byte-foundry/prototypo
The funny thing is is this isn't really Apple's achievement. It's TSMC's achievement. It's also Intel's failure in that they failed to get a similar process working on schedule.
People are forgetting that you usually have to return your accessories (charger brick and cable) when you trade-in an old iPhone. So it's not like people have that many chargers laying around.