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But this isn't a discrete GPU for desktops... this announcement literally says it's for thin and light laptop applications.

The desktop application is going to be OEM only and there's no indication at this point that it'll even be used to power external monitors vs. just a GPU offload for AI/ML workloads.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16211/intels-dg1-gpu-coming-t...
It's the anticipation of more monetary action...the Fed Balance Sheet peaked in June but yes has been rising slowly lately.

Assets have been rallying across the board after Biden looked like he was going to win. The theory is that because it appears the Republicans will still hold on to the Senate, the government will effectively be gridlocked and the Fed will have no choice but to increase asset buying in absence of big fiscal stimulus.

You can see that in rates crashing Tuesday/Wednesday after rising in anticipation of a "Blue Wave" that never happened and risk assets increasing across the board.
> To date, the strongest magnetic fields produced in the laboratory have been in the kilotesla (kT) range.

These kT fields are probably made by the family of devices with what might be the coolest name I've ever heard: the explosively pumped flux compression generators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compre...

From the wiki:

> Output of 100 MJ at 256 MA have been produced by a generator a metre in diameter composed of three modules.
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Yes.

In my case the client lib works ok, but the server part is is not good (both ends nodejs/grpc/proto). I kept back the server part on older node version (13.3) to avoid issues.
Also I had issues with pm2 with the server part.
No matter the color of your hat, if you're a security researcher, you're likely already on a watch list. Having publicly attributed white hat activity is a good cover.
This should be somewhere on the front page.
> So we are looking at on order of magnitude more heat for the same electrical consumption 40% vs 400% efficiency. Instantaneous renewable energy prices are low, but rarely that low.

Wouldn't this imply that when heat is the goal we should always use these pumps? What is the limit of usefulness of these pumps? (eg, what if a whole city did it for all its heat needs?)
There is a cap. Also, you can't get reimbursed unless you're an actual lawyer - no pro-se.
Musk's mission to accelerate the adoption of sustainable transport seems to be working flawlessly.

I can't help to think that the existing manufacturers would not have had any incentive of offering electric trucks anytime soon, until Tesla announced their plans for the Tesla semi.

I am not in the transport business, but personally I am very happy to see electric trucks arrive in Europe. I live in a city and I can't stand the noise and stench of trucks with diesel engines. Not waking up from a noise of a diesel engine will seriously improve urban live.
Have there been enough cannonball runners to even make for a statistically significant sample?
The 3600 is an incredible chip that will be relevant for a long time. Buyer's remorse is real because of marketing. Do you really need that extra 20% performance?
I love it when non-lawyers misread legal documents.

The TOS says that Github will take down the offending content (or if, necessary, account), not the copyright owner's account. Most copyright owners do not have Github accounts. Github is not a thing people use outside of programming.

Their thermonuclear bomb was to take down other people's repos, ban accounts, and make random threats.

This is the proper response to the petulant behavior of techies flaunting the original takedown. The end result would simply have been the RIAA issuing more requests, possibly even formal requests, which Github would have led Github to doing the same thing it did proactively.

You know why did it? To protect people from the legal consequences of their stupidity. Lawsuits are expensive, especially when you're in the wrong and the other side has a very large legal budget.

They can be the good guy, and fight the RIAA. They can be a neutral party, and do their duty under DMCA. But fighting the RIAAs battles for then, and then making comments like Nat's? Sketchy and sleazy.

Being the good guy in this situation is not fighting the RIAA. It's doing what the law requires to prevent disruption of services to their other customers, most of whom aren't opening flaunting the law.

Outside of the tech world, to the extent that people care about this conflict, they're wondering why techies are so intent on bullying non-techies just trying to protect their work. Outside of tech, people are struggling and many are unemployed. This is a PR battle that tech is losing.
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>As a security researcher, I never circumvent or bypass password protected assets. These records were publically accessible and no hacking necessary to see 63.7 million records.

From the article.
When science, business, religion, and culture all row in the same direction progress is swift.

Look at somebody like Christopher Wren (1632-1723). He designed and built "the Monument to the Great Fire of London"(1677), a giant pillar. Hidden inside was a telescope, for carrying out scientific experiments. The astronomical work was used to enhance the the British navy, and navigation. Which was used by the new stock companies to build a large empire. He also designed churches.
The problem is, many of these people don’t believe they are sick. So if you wanted them to get treatment, it would have to be by force. At that point, what’s the difference between that and going to prison?

I agree it shouldn’t be on someone’s permanent record, but it should still be punished. Maybe keep it as a misdemeanor?
It's interesting to see what HN said about things in the past. Here is a post from December 2018 during an extended bear market https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18640755
Bitcoin maximalists have been right about quite a bit the past few years...
It's been evident for some time that, in general, that there exists a great divide between people in urban and suburban areas and people in rural areas. The population of urban/suburban areas is far greater than the rural areas, however, their votes are worth less so it's more difficult for them to push their initiatives.
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Part of the controversy was the poster that was released for the marketing. People (I think rightfully) thought it was inappropriate. Personally, I thought it was problematic that this poster was not rejected by anyone at Netflix prior to release. The fact that Netflix backtracked on the poster seems to indicate that they realized the mistake they had made. Again, this mistake should never have happened in the first place.

Do we as a society want our children to think that it's ok for children to be sexualized like this? Yes, I know the argument is that the point of the movie is the opposite, but I'm not going to let my children watch it so that the 'learn' this message. The message should be self evident and not need a movie to make the point. Some may disagree but as a parent I feel very strongly about this.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53846419
Took me a little bit to understand that the diffs were at the top of the section, not at the bottom.
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You cannot seriously mention homosexuality between consenting adults and sexualization of children in the same sentence.

> because the French movie in question is fundamentally critical of the existing normalization of sexualization of children.

By engaging in it.. this isn't even a fig leaf, that's like posting insults and slurs to criticize insults and slurs, or saying "no offense, but $incredibly_offensive_thing". Even if that actually is the intention, that is irrelevant, the actions are what matters.

> A lot of fault must be put on Netflix for jacking up the controversy in their US marketing.

Nobody but the defenders of this even care about the marketing; it's about the content, about the minute long close up shots of children "grinding".

Regardless of the attempts to frame it that way, "thinking of the children" isn't just a monopoly of hypocritical, puritan "outrage", it's also what any healthy adult does by default. Even (non-predator) animals in some cases treat the young of other species that way.
This list misses the biggest problem of them all. The two party system with entrenched interests that just don't reflect the population.

In many other countries, parties are routinely bootstrapped from the ground up and the big dogs need to form alliances for majorities. This also has it's flaws but also solves many problems.

Imagine crooks from Republican led state governments gerrymandering North Carolina but ultimately losing majority vote to Outer banks party because the entrenched ruling party don't give fucks about the outer banks flooding due to climate change.
I think she edited the documentary poorly, also I don't think it's a very good documentary.

It did get everyone talking about the problems of media sexualizing(is that word?) kids.

So maybe it's a great documentary! Not sure.
One thing to keep in mind is that while commercial and consumer users of electricity generally require steady, high-quality, alternating current, electrolysis can be done with low-quality, intermittent direct current of the sort that can be generated with low-tech electrostatic generators.

A whole new parallel infrastructure of low-quality electricity generation could be built without too much effort for electrolysis of iron oxide, powered by low-grade heat and motion sources that currently can't be effectively utilized.
If you choose to miss out then watching other people having fun on snapchat is no problem. The anxiety and/or depression kicks in when you see your friends or social group having fun together without you when you never were invited in the first place.
Vintage is anything more than 20 y/o, so cassette tapes are vintage.

I wouldn’t really consider 32 bit vintage.
This whole thing reminds me python 2 vs python 3.

"IPv4 is great as it is, I don't want to change"
I'll definitely make that clearer in the futur.
Thank you for the comment ! =)
>But if you are trying to heat your house to a livable temperature while it’s -20 outside, your efficiency is terrible.

For air source, in the north (at least in canada) they use ground source ones put below the frost line. So the ambient temperature down there is >0C .
The reason we don't have massive inflation right now is because the velocity of money has crashed despite massive QE.

So the main type of inflation we're seeing right now is in financial assets, not everyday consumer goods.
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It's going to benefit lenders and bondholders that have seen an insane amount of churn in the market in the last 12-18 months.

I refinanced my own mortgage three times in the last year and a half. Three times! I started 2018 at 4.5% and now I'm at 3.0% (30Y Fixed). And I'd do it again if we got to 2.5%.

But that also means all those bonds that were expecting 30 years of 4.5, 4.0, and 3.5% interest are going to perform lower than promised because my interest money isn't going into those anymore. And we can't have that now, can we?
"there's no crime without, at a minimum, a witness/complainant,"

what?

If, for example, the police found the body of someone who'd been murdered. There would be an investigation. No witness or complainant needed.
totally agree about sbt being gratuitously complex.

i wonder if Java is judiciously choosing the non crazily digressive parts of Scala, as they both evolve.
Me personally?

I've changed the laws in two countries through my lobbying efforts, though saying which two countries (and which laws) would be too identifying given that this is my quasi-anonymous account.

But on that note, businesses change laws through lobbying all the time. That is indeed one of the complaints about our current system of government: that it is too susceptible to lobbying.
Why does this comment have such a complaining vibe? It’s B’s money, B can hire whatever combination of A and C they want to get the work done.
This is not a confusion but a fundamental difference in viewpoint. Not everything can be, nor should it be, solved at compile time.

"anything solved in the type system drops off the list of what needs to be solved" AT A HUGE COST. Everything has a cost to it and even if you could hypothetically most solve things at compile time (you cannot), it might take a damn long time to compile it.
Yeah I mixed the names up and can't delete the original. This guy is correct.
2020 is really a (good!) turning point for electric vehicles
what a really great way to think about it...i've been doing the same and hadn't thought of it that way (for decades)
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Yeah I mean, if you want a web frontend you have to dirty your hands writing, yecch, JavaScript. Horror of horrors.
There are also credible reviewers noting that the film indulges many more minutes in the controversial imagery than is needed.
Ed used to rub me the wrong way. He comes across as this kind of stuck up rich asshole type, but after watching the CarTrek series, my opinion of him has increased. He's kind of funny in an awkward, dry kind of way.
YC doesn't intervene in your day to day operations. They are there to give any guidance if necessary - But they have no role in running your startup. That would be impossible and unnecessary.

YC is as good as what you can make out of it. It can be anything from average to great, depending on how much effort you put into learn from smart people.
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"Still, if you need some minimal resilience it's never enough to rely on a single hosting provider from a single jurisdiction."

Or don't use a "hosting provider" at all.

A full rack at he.net with 15a of power is USD $350/mo[1] - and that's probably not a super competitive rate. You can probably do better elsewhere.

Now you are the host. The notices go to you.

I don't know why we have this collective amnesia about what it takes to run a simple website.

[1] At their Fremont, CA HQ building.
Another important factor here is international currency exchange.

For a deeply simplified example: say you printed a bunch of money and handed it to Americans who wanted to buy electronics with the money. Factories in China would happily meet the extra demand for 80" TVs, and for their work they'd receive an influx of dollars, which they'd have to change into yuan to pay their workers and buy supplies.

Currency markets are subject to supply and demand of course, so this influx of people trying to exchange out dollars would make the dollar less valuable relative to the yuan. The devaluing of the dollar on international markets would make all imported goods more expensive, ergo inflation.
For one thing, heat pumps are more expensive than heaters. A heat pump is basically an AC unit that runs in reverse - way more expensive and complicated than a fire or a long thin wire.
I agree, I think that Tesla's biggest impact on the world has been the influence on car manufacturers, rather than the cars they have sold.
Yeah somehow I got the names mixed up and can't delete now.
For short-term storage at a nuclear plant, you could use molten salt thermal storage. In terms of a 'battery,' decomposing ammonia to H2+N2 is one way to directly convert heat to chemical stored energy: https://eeme.anu.edu.au/research/research-projects/ammonia-b...

There are other more complex processes like the sulfur-iodine cycle that was investigated for producing hydrogen from nuclear heat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur%E2%80%93iodine_cycle

As far as I can tell, these processes are probably less economical than generating electricity & then doing electrolysis.
The trucks will have a gross combination weight of up to 44 tonnes, and, depending on the battery configuration, the range could be up to 300 kilometers, Volvo said.

About 180 miles. Useful for some things I suppose.

Wonder what the cost will be for a battery that can haul a 44 tonne truck for 180 miles.

My point being: Its easy to announce that EV trucks are on the way next year, its much harder to make them economically feasible and manufacture them in large quantities.
Interesting, thanks for posting
And then they could call them kf, and release them last year!

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/190887/...
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It’s not exactly collaborative MuseScore, but I am working on a real-time p2p audio/midi streaming service that runs in the browser. For context, I started taking piano lessons online earlier this year, where we meet on zoom once a week and cover material together.

My idea is that I can use it with my teacher during our remote lessons to make our back and forth playing clearer (we both have digital keyboards with midi out). Sharing this over zoom without a good audio interface and microphone is difficult for people that aren’t tech savvy,
I’m aiming to bridge the gap somewhere at least for digital keyboard players/teachers, and then seeing if it works or not.

Midi data could be used to render inputs on the remote peer in the case where the user doesn’t have a good enough camera to capture many octaves, though I don’t think that’s necessary for a first release.

Anyway, development of a prototype is almost done and then I’ll be doing some internal testing with my teacher to see if it’s worth opening up to the world, let me know if something like this is interesting to you and I can follow up if/when I need more testing done!
> Is it because there is a limit N and all natural sentences ever are less than N words, and thus you also have a bound on the stack depth?

It's true that you can't really find an N such that a natural language sentence with stack depth N is OK, but a sentence with stack depth N+1 is ungrammatical. But in practice, the stack depth of real sentences is small [1], and sentences that require deep stacks quickly become impossible for humans to understand.

For example,

Stack depth 1: The rat ate the cheese.

Stack depth 2: The rat [that the cat chased] ate the cheese.

Stack depth 3: The rat [that the cat [that the teacher liked] chased] ate the cheese

Stack depth 4: The rat [that the cat [that the teacher [that the student hated] liked ] chased] ate the cheese.

English speakers usually can't handle depths 3 or higher.

This kind of phenomenon has caused a lot of controversy in linguistics. There does seem to be some sense in which the stack-depth-4 sentence is grammatical English, even though basically no one can understand it. But for the purposes of practical NLP systems, this phenomenon means that if you can model stack depth of, say, 10, then you'll be able to model almost all the naturally-occurring sentences.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/40057996
Some languages and frameworks have the right defaults for scale.

Rails has a lot of magic that gets you running fast but it doesn't even have a service layer - and instead promotes the abomination that is mixins (concerns), fat models, fat controllers - stuff that gets you running with minimal effort but then crying over the code duplication all over the place and lack of logical separation.

ASP.NET is more verbose out the gate but you're basically guided in to stuff like repository pattern, service layer with POCO models, thin controllers and IoC. Static typing gives you guarantees when reading the code (I've seen RoR concerns that relied on random fields being present in target class, but had conditional logic with implicit assumptions about which class it would be included in - it was a hell to reason about). It's verbose but consistent and built to scale - I'll take a dirty ASP.NET project over a dirty RoR project any day.
The 5600X is also as expensive as the 3700X is now. The 3600 is cheaper, a lot. It's still a good option and a good deal.
I wonder what kind of charging speed these will have. I'm guessing a refuse truck doesn't need to charge very fast as it sleeps in a depot, but a delivery truck might do a few shifts a day so that requires fast charging.
Could you be a bit more specific? That doesn't look like V cancels with anything.
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Will this make it into consumer hardware at least? Only a handful of our servers (AMD) have 4.0.
Hey man, you write good content but you’re very close to getting on the hn shitlist for spamming which would be a shame.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=If%20Sapiens%20were%20a%20blog...
^ your article was already well discussed a while ago and yet you repeatedly keep posting it
shrug

I bought a Ryzen 7 2700X a few months before the release of the Zen 2 / 3700X. And yeah, it's faster for nearly the same price (though due to timing I paid ~$230 so it's not insignificant when compared to the launch day pricing.)

There's "always" more, more, more performance for the dollar in tech, and there is no perfect price/performance product. The Ryzen 5 3600 was and still is a great price/performance product and that doesn't change because a more expensive, higher performing chip is released.

You can make decisions at a point in time, or if time is irrelevant, you can keep waiting for new milestones... and then make a decision in that point of time instead.

For me, I waited nearly 10 years to replace a 3+ Ghz quad-core CPU, so the 4+ Ghz octa-core was a nice upgrade (albeit still not earth shattering) and I am very glad to have it. I love the recent increase in performance growth over time, but it will likely be quite a few years before I upgrade my desktop again. Of course, I'm just one guy, and I'm glad many enthusiasts and computer-using professionals will benefit from all this advancement!
There has to be some punishment for this kind of DCMA abuse.
except the most important thing, how to scale bitcoin.
Your confession is evidence. You can absolutely be arrested and convicted based only on a confession.
Wow. Just... wow. I couldn't get past the third clip he shows in the review.
The total market cap of all crypto assets is less than the market cap of Tesla right now.

If they are remotely right that bitcoin is a liquid inflation protected asset then the demand for such an asset should increase in a world of more and more QE from central banks.
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Yeah - to be frank whenever I hear complexity cited I can't help but think the whole meme-thesis is really a proud and intellectually lazy freak out - the world is too complex for them to understand without effort so rather than try to improve their understanding insist that because they personally don't understand it that it has to be fundamentally bad or wrong in some way. That sort of anti-intellectualism can be seen in marketing quite a bit with "natural" products, "localism" as a fear of logistics. Not the sole factor of course but certainly plays a role (someone may just like freshness for instance).

Not to mention complexity is peripheral to stability even in something relatively simple compared to a nation like electrical grids. They both gain resilence from interconnection and be taken down by them in chain reactions and there is a difference in complexity from say adding in a distributed series for reserve power, redundant power lines and say playing Enron with their "death star" fraud. It is kind of a silly metric to try to play oracle with as a proxy.
The irony isn't lost in seeing a bunch of HN comments criticizing an article as condescending, only to come in and condescend the OP. We can do better on HN discourse.
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I think this is what Boston Metal is attempting:
https://www.bostonmetal.com/moe-technology/#moe-process