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Yes is there an optimistic take on this problem? Any indication that something like AWS EKS multi-cloud will sidestep it? Every time I read one of these announcements I just shudder to think about how the costs will scale.

Are most multi-cloud setups just very careful about intra-cloud data transfers?
It’s truly sad to see the amount of people smugly not covering their noses or wearing such a loose mask it’s obviously not doing anything, even here in the Bay Area. If we can’t learn to work together, we are doomed to repeat 2020 with the next pandemic.
I remember reading on her twitter around the Yann LeCun scandal time, she acknowledged her privilege while calling Yann on his. I didn't like how a man's output was seen as the result of privilege instead of hard work.
Would Nvidia's shortages also fall in this bucket?
What's the benefit of Thunderbolt displays? I think it's far more common to just do DisplayPort on USB-C alternate mode, or for slightly more specialized screens, the USB-C ones with power delivery. Thunderbolt screens are really unusual in my experience.

It's an understandable restriction if you already bought a Thunderbolt screen and need a new computer that's compatible with it, but requiring Thunderbolt case I might get a screen that needs it later is very far down my priority list of computer features.
Nice, thanks for linking the article!
Makes me wonder what our diets would look like if plastic was never invented.
Maybe in other places, but certainly not in 18th century Europe.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'm looking at those, but it looks like they have 8 gigs of soldered RAM. I'd like my next laptop to be a bit more futureproof than that, especially with all the electron apps popping everywhere. My current laptop is 7 years old with 8 gigs of RAM, and sometimes it has to swap and starts choking up, when I try to open too many things at once.
Maybe after summer 2021.
how can you say imaginary numbers have intrinsically little to do with the 2D plane? it is entirely possible and equally correct to define imaginary numbers geometrically. It is nice and convenient that this is equivalent to the algebraic definition.
A reddit commenter says «Yes, it is explicitly noted in the text and references "Arkady's famous ancestor" who helped pioneer blood transfusions.»

https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/c86j5x/is_ksrs_ark...

One of my favorite books, and others by KSR are some of my others!
When I read this I just think "how American", and I am sad but with a dark smile. It seems like as a nation we are a group of psychological outliers that are a bit messed up. It makes me think how much "DNA" is shared between behaviour like this and entrepreneurship/art/creation? Can America exist without this bullshit and still capture a significant part of our national ethos?
Have you considered an Asus Zephyrus G14? It comes with a Ryzen 9 4900HS and Linus (Tech Tips) seemed very impressed with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYqG31V4qtA
Which Ryzen model exactly? I have some comparison benchmarks in my meta benchmark.

Gaming: https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/benchmark/games/cpu/compare?ids%...

Applications: https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/benchmark/apps/cpu/compare?ids[]... (that's a rather small selection though)

The 5800X is clearly faster.

It's the straightforward comparison, 8 cores/16 threads for both. Surprisingly, the 5600X is still faster - at least in games.
I'm not convinced that it was because of poor timing, but just because of bad App environment. Look what's doing Huawei lately: kicked out of Google Services, it's a well established Phone maker, but it's losing quotas really fast, because their alternative OS (still a fork of Android) doesn't offer important applications to date (e.g. WhatsApp, Banking Apps, Payment Apps and so on), so I believe Microsoft was just crushed because developers weren't attracted by the platform a the buyers weren't interested.

The phones actually were pretty good. The Lumia 920 was really amazing.
Very quickly use the "stop loading" function/icon in your browser. NYT continues to allow this to work because reasons.
This is not necessarily true. Apple sells their non Intel macs with Thunderbolt and there are some ryzen motherboards with thunderbolt support [1]. That being said, Thunderbolt is a lot less common on AMD boards probably because it is a lot more expensive then it would be on an Intel board. And Laptops so far have always received the budget treatment for ryzen chips (want a better screen? intel only, etc).

So I think lack of thunderbolt comes down to manufacturers not wanting to pay as much for their AMD R&D and keep costs down with simple, budget motherboards.

Or, if you needed Thunderbolt 3, you could just wait until USB 4 is commonplace, which is basically Thunderbolt 3 + some more.

[1]: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X570%20Phantom%20Gaming-ITXTB3... (there are more, and even ATX boards, first one I could find).
Looks like a super common question - nasdaq has an article about it: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/indexes-or-indices-whats-the...
> at Google women are virtually unfireable, black women doubly so.

Huge, HUGE [citation needed].
The optimization proposed was not about packet prioritization but prioritizing assets to send.
> One theory I heard is Intel requires them to sell a certain number of their chips on premium machines if they want to stay on their nice partners list and get their chips at good prices so they just gimp the Ryzen ones to force your hand to buy Intel if you want no other compromises other than an outdated CPU.

I wouldn't put this past intel, but I doubt it's even necessary.

most people that buy laptops don't know that amd is currently beating intel on price/performance in the high-end parts. to most people that have even heard of amd, it's the "budget" cpu brand.

looking at typical home user desktop/laptop configurations, it's obvious that they aren't even trying to choose optimal sets of parts for the price with most of their skus. they just slap together whatever sounds good to the median consumer.
Most of that infrastructure is in the extraction and transport to the destination country. Once the oil is there, all you really need is a storage system, and a way for consumers to buy it.

There's no need to pump it around, at all. You can transport it by truck. Growing up, my family had a fuel oil heater. We'd have the tank filled periodically, and that was all there was. Likewise, gas pumps are just storage tanks hooked up to pumps. There's practically nothing to it; it's all basically 19th century technology that's easy to build, and doesn't require any sophisticated engineering.
No brainer considering to buy ETH on the stock market via grayscale you're paying a 104% premium. The demand (e.g. within registered & margin accounts) is there.

https://ycharts.com/companies/ETHE/discount_or_premium_to_na...

Aside:
Seems covid is accelerating understanding & adoption of crypto.

I remember when I couldn't perform a wire transfer for a full week back in March '20 - at one of the most reputable banks globally. I lost money due to this. Never again.
Is working at AWS hellish? Or once you get in it's just a normal job?

I get its heavily dependent on the team, just wondering from your perspective.
I’ve been watching some videos as of late on several disasters from radiation poisoning, to contamination from industrial waste and I can’t help but thinking just how much of mess some of this stuff is.
I've had good experience doing UX first when your team is writing the whole stack. It's much easier to establish the scope of a project when you map out the user's context first; the whole team then has a good idea of what needs to be accomplished. If it's done in isolation though, there in lies the path to madness =)
'indexes' has been a just-fine variant of the plural for a very long time -- actually it's the first one listed in Merriam-Webster, so probably the more common variant, though I haven't dug into other references. That said, you're correct that the more common or preferred variant will depend somewhat on the culture/community/industry. The house style guides in finance probably tend toward 'indexes' -- in part because an index is a branded product they produce, so consistency is important -- while software/tech companies (or at least people in them) may tend prefer 'indices'.
More likely that they realized their iPad chips were faster than their Intel notebooks, and really had no choice but to move to their own chips on the Mac.
This looks cool! We always struggle to find a simple editor for demo videos for our product. Will definitely try this out.
Why do they need a justification? English is under no obligation to imitate Latin plurals, and it adds no functional benefit.

Edit: interestingly, the title of the article uses the English, while the body uses the Latin (although in one case that’s because it’s from a name).

Edit2: Relatedly, I had a "shower thought" that even the most pedantic Latinophiles say "albums" instead of "alba". Although I also know a Latinophile who reluctantly used "alba" for a folder on his music app -- but that was only because "albums" was a reserved word.
If this article is to be believed, AMD is outselling Intel by five to one (84% of sales vs 16%). Somehow I think this would be bigger news than one person's post on Reddit (which is the "source" techradar cites as the basis for this entire article)
Amazon Kinesis is based on Apache Flink. One complaint might be the branding but keep in mind that the Apache Foundation has a strict policy of enforcing trademarks. The Apache Foundation itself doesn't choose winners and many equivalent projects live under the same umbrella, just like Flink and Kafka.

Performance is often transient and it isn't the only criteria used when choosing a vendor. Some enterprise customers prefer a single vendor, i.e., "one throat to choke". Others have very specific constraints: greenfield decision making is a luxury.

My impression is that Amazon responds to customer requests to solve specific problems and they make a decent effort to continuously improve the performance and other aspects of their services. At one point people said "no one gets fired for choosing IBM" and this switched to Microsoft and, rightly or wrongly, Amazon AWS now wears this crown.
> The chaos it would cause for US B2C businesses would be large.

Literally who cares? Let them deal with it. It doesn't matter how much money they lose. They should have considered the consequences of abusing people's trust and violating their privacy under questionable consent.

Corporations are vastly more powerful compared to individuals. Courts obviously need to favor the latter in the vast majority of cases. To do otherwise is injustice.
I found it incredibly dull and far from charismatic.
Hi Tara, this looks like it solves some of the limitations we've run into using Stripe Connect with ACH, which is very exciting! Will existing platforms using Stripe Connect eventually be able to add Stripe Treasury for existing users?
Heating and cooling, OK. Cars require batteries, and there's not enough lithium to support as many electric cars as there exist combustion engine cars now. A breaktrhough will be needed, either in battery tech or shared transportation (either public transport, car-sharing, or generalized telecommuting).
Coinbase used to have an Index Fund weighted by market cap.

Launced in 2018[0], it was shut down just a couple of months later[1].

From the articles at the time, it seems that the major reason for the shut down was that the market was going down, and all investors saw losses (because it was 2018 in crypto). Maybe they will resurrect this idea now that the market is going up.

[0]: https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-index-fund-is-open-for-in...
[1]: https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-confirms-shutdown-of-crypt...
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

"Something" and "It" here would be "full equality achieved".

(Not that I am expressing a view on whether "it" could be achieved, just a comment on human nature).
I'm not sure there's another company of Apple's size and influence which has consistently been so ready to dump legacy at least a beat before its customers were prepared for it. Headphone jack, 5 1/4" floppy, I'm sure a bunch of other things I'm forgetting.

"I'm going to dump Apple over this!"

"See ya. Don't let the door hit you on the way out!."
I look forward to the GitHub project that makes a one-click to deploy to Heroku your own "bank" using this. :)

I haven't dug into their terms, but is there any reason you couldn't create effectively a bank of one customer (or even just your family?) with this, backed by their larger institutions? Issue your own debit cards, the works?
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Wow - I wonder if this is how Bezos felt when he said (paraphrasing) he feared the internet was taking off without him?

Stripe Capital is their iPhone moment -- they've learned much from the software payments market, setting up an 'import Financial Foundation,' and now can use their novel data stream to effectively transform business cash flow financing.

Capital will be a a beautiful take on an old way of financing (factoring accounts receivable), at the scale of big tech, and in immediate payback terms -- since CC's settle comparatively (to 1-3 day ach) 'instantly' in the US.

This combined with the data on sales will allow them to pick better winners and allocate capital -- the impacts of this will be mind boggling. I wish I could buy stock.
I'm happy to discuss those 'why'. The cost of student loans or lack of social safety net hardly warrants higher salaries. This is probably more related to the availability of the specialists (immigration rules, the local supply of devs coming from universities,etc).Very few companies even in the US can pay 200-300K salaries to devs,most don't come anywhere near that.My main point is that European companies are less likely to reward employees,even though their contributions far exceed the costs. Similar trends are seen in other fields: recently, top tier law firms in London complained that the US companies with divisions in London can push graduate salaries to £100K. The same market,yet very different willingness to pay.
Thanks for pointing that out. Unfortunately, still no mention [in the post] of how Azure's Arc/Sentinel is different than what AWS has seemingly built here. And agreed, it's an interesting signal.
You must dislike taxes funding schools too. And taxes funding roads in states you'll never visit.
And if we (I'm also Dutch) can't change the regulation for some reason we simply drive a bit further and dump it in Eastern Germany (has happened for other types of soil pollution in the past, not PFAS). I find it shocking that these things can happen within the EU.
Where does Amazon document that 24 hour minimum? I've just encountered this problem but been unable to find anything on that. It makes the On Demand cloud concept completely useless.
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Wow... didn't connect the two! I remember the Yann LeCun controversy. Didn't dive into it. Now the same person has an issue with Jeff Dean?
The landing page doesn’t really explain what kinds of problems Treasury solves (may need some customer education since it’s so new)

IIUC this is useful for marketplaces like Lyft/Uber/Shopify to automatically provision bank accounts for drivers and have money deposited in there? The value add is faster payouts?

Can I use this as a replacement to plaid api? I.e open a bank account through stripe and use that as a way to do finance analytics? What are the banking fees?

Basically: which customer audience is this targeting ? and what headaches does it solve for that audience?
Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions
As I understand, she first sent out mass email to large group of employees that outright violated Google's policy. This act alone was sufficient for immediate termination. However, she then tried to bargain with her manager. Her manager basically let her know that bargaining was irrelevant and her action was serious enough that she is being terminated immediately. Then she comes back and tells the story with twist that Google ignored her bargaining and terminated her even while she initiated that bargaining. She goes on to reveal a lot of things except the content of her email or even hint of exactly what was so incriminating. Now she wants to keep lid closed in the name of future lawsuit all the while launching attacks on everyone. I feel whole thing is super muddy. If she is truly ethical, she needs to come out clean on exactly what happened or just stop attacking everyone and keep playing victim.
this probably doesn't include the turkey day push yet i'd assume...
Must be great to be a mouse with all these breakthroughs - live to a hundred, great eyesight, no cancer ..
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Nvidia used samsung. Rumor has it that their shortage is because they sold their cards directly to cryptominers.
That's a possibility. Another one would be more out of regulatory requirement within financial services. By default, most top tier banks would need multi-cloud to even begin thinking about a cloud journey so this offering just puts AWS in the right space with their competitors. It's possible that most of the operational workloads will run on AWS with other cloud vendors being in place as backup/secondary workloads. Might also be some good discounts given by AWS to secure the deal.
From what I've read in financial news, optimists place the vaccine rolling out in December, but more conservative guesses are towards Q1/Q2.

Note that in the US and most countries, it'll be folks working in hospitals and other healthcare settings that get it first, then likely high risk elderly (nursing home patients, etc). The UK has a very extensive set of guidelines on who gets it, the US does not yet but those policies will happen at the state level.
That's an understandable complaint but I believe that using a built-in GPU means it can't use ECC memory.
Plus the purpose of a house generally does not change much. If you buy one, you're not going to turn it into a bar one year, then turn it into a candle shop the next. The requirements usually stay the same.

Some business apps do need to change every year. There's not any common sense for this situation (like house building) because you'd need to predict the future.

>UX first can work if it's iterated in small cycles continuously

Absolutely agreed, what I've generally seen is that the first iterations are there to get the UX grammar down with non-technical users. Then they can see what they like and don't like and their requirements become more coherent.
But the effect is same. At the end of the day citizens survive on state welfare. Nobody said UBI is contingent on a corruption-free, western democracy.
>Wait for an 8-core (or the rumored 12 core) variants. Those will embarrass your threadripper.

It will not, my TR has 64 cores 128 Thread and you know whats the best thing? 128GB Ram...and imagine that..they aren't even soldered...and i even can exchange my GPU..or slap in 2 others.

And if apple ever brings out a M1 Workstation, i can probably buy 3 other Server/Workstations with that money.
So I saw the title and thought of something else. You see I own this book. It is from 1911. As a child in the 80s I read what was the third updated Tom Swift books. That lead me to the 1960s set and then to the original set from the 1910s. I have all of the 80s and 60s set and I own 9 of the ones from the 1910s and I am looking for the rest.
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Ask HN: Which upcoming IPO are you looking forward to?Why?
It is indeed hard to have an all-encompassing comparison that will take everything into account. Unfortunately, to have precise answers in feasible time you have to narrow the scope. Here we looked at one parameter of a complex equation.
If you don't need much GPU power then having a GPU on your CPU has some benefits:

- No need for a separate component, no hassle finding a "proper" card and buying it (I.e. you only need basically a integrated GPU as a PCI card, but good look getting one, you always can get older "cheap" GPUs but then there is always the chance that because them being older the driver support started to rot.)

- Integrated GPUs tend to have reasonable good Linux driver support, at least for newish CPUs for a view years.

- No extra fan or other components which can make unwanted noise.

- One less component makes trouble shooting easier.

Tbh. if AMD would ship something like a large package (not on-die, but chiplets or otherwise packed) combining a 16+ core cpu (+hyperthreading) with a reasonable integrate GPU and ~2GB low latency RAM pro core + 3year waranty I would be quite interested in that. Some companies I worked with before would like that too as far as I can tell.
She's a PhD researcher, not some kind of equality police, so presumably if the world suddenly became perfectly just overnight, she'd continue doing research but in a different area. I imagine all the AI biases that she is known for would still exist in this perfect world, the impacts would just be less disparate.

But this seems sort of like overengineering? I'm not sure we're at any substantial risk of the world suddenly becoming fair, so it seems odd to spend time worrying about what might happen if we run out problems to solve.
Thank you! Indeed, product demos are very well suited for text-based editing. I look forward to your feedback when you have edited some of your videos.
Everything is a partisan issue now, even something like a virus that has killed more than 250,000 people in the US, and at it's current pace will blow past 300K before the end of the year. How do you convince people that live in an alternate reality that this thing is real?
> What happens to these people when full equality is achieved?

Thank you, I needed a laugh this morning. Humans are going to be humans, and will always find ways to treat each other in inventively bad ways.

If you are trying to say that these positions should not exist... I disagree. The study of ethics and the profession is not a new thing or a "cottage industry".

Of course people in these positions are sometimes going to attract outrage and cause conflict - if they didn't, I'd suspect they were just there to "rubber stamp" whatever the companies were doing - yep, all good here, sure, we're doing x, y and z thing that people criticize us for, but our ethics committee says we're all good, so you can all put down your pitchforks and go home now.

It's their job to be a thorn in the side of authority. Sometimes it's justified, sometimes not, there's always room for interpretation and disagreement, some of these people are good at their jobs and some are not - but dismissing the entire thing as "fake outrage to promote their jobs" doesn't seem right.
Can stripe 1st work on reducing their fees?

They're just like the incumbents. Only surrounded by more silicon valley sycophants.

Taking 2.6%+ of every merchant transaction is nuts.
I would imagine because they knew this was coming.
> location logging continues to work with the phone off

I’m very skeptical about this. I’d be interested to know how a phone could track location info while powered off.
I tweeted my entire publish-day process,[0] which included re-reading my post, sending an email to my newsletter subscribers, and posting to social media, including HN. I never linked to HN or even suggested that anyone find my post here.

Even if I was subtly vote brigading, ordering me to tweet based on your preferences is not the proper way to handle the situation:

>Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

[0] https://twitter.com/deliberatecoder/status/13341560121321185...