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Couldn't Intel and AMD implement a "Rosetta2" like strategy? That is, couldn't they ship CPUs that fundamentally are not decoding x86 ops, but some different ISA, and then layer a translation layer on top of it?

The Transmeta Crusoe used to do this, and I think the NVidia Denver cores did too?

I think fundamentally though this analysis highly depends on single-threaded performance being the bottleneck for most apps. A lot of sophisticated workloads are GPU or TPU driven, and so hand-waving away multi-thread performance, and treating single-thread performance as the end-all for client side performance I think is overemphasizing its importance.

Also, the "they don't control the stack" argument is wrong. Effectively, Intel/AMD + Microsoft acted as a duopoly, and if you toss in NVidia, the structure of DirectX and Windows is largely a cooperative effort between these OEMs. If Intel/AMD needed some fundamentally new support for some mechanism to boost Windows performance by 20-30%, Microsoft would work with them to ship it.
For zfs specific features, there are 'zfs' and 'zpool' commands (well, binaries, and the first parameter is a command). For btrfs, there is 'btrfs'.

So I guess that the GP considers /usr/sbin/{zfs,zpool} more intuitive than /usr/sbin/btrfs.
> That puts San Francisco on track to lose more than 700 people to drugs in 2020 — or nearly two every day. That’s a shocking rise from the 441 people who died of drug overdoses in 2019 and the 259 who died the year before that.

The article suggests the number was already growing at an alarming rate even before covid. While this is tragic, I'm not sure we can attribute these deaths solely to covid lockdowns.

It also behooves us to consider the practicality of public health measures. It's extremely easy for a californian mayor to tell people to stay home/wear masks and get a relatively high level of compliance. Getting people to stop using drugs is a much taller order.
> However, the same group of people who support net neutrality complain that data caps are also unfair.

I haven't noticed that - I have noticed opposition to other anti-consumer business practices, like inaccurately calling a plan "unlimited data", or pushing low-income people into capped data plans and charging excessive per-GB overage fees. I think a plan like you're suggesting is perfectly compatible with net neutrality goals - I just think there's not much of a market. But Google Fi is pretty close - as in not throttled and constant per-GB prices, and you can get extra sim cards for free for your other devices.

> Notice that "unlimited data" is once again, however inaccurate as it is, nearly the only way to buy wireless service in 2020.

Note that this is not the case in situations where bandwidth is actually scarce, such as satellite internet plans.

I think you're saying that these businesses have externalized the cost of bandwidth to consumers. I agree that ISPs charge a ridiculous amount, but are you sure this is actually the reason? I would have assumed it's more due to the lack of alternative providers that most in the US face.
i haven't played enough go at all, but is go blitz a thing? If so i might give it a go, but I just don't want to spend 45 mins per side per game
Understand and agree with what you're saying! "Easy weather" was one of the big wins in our decision making process to move here.

On the other hand, we're planning on the 70 year time horizon, which is basically reasonable MAX_AGE for our teenage son, so looking many decades back was appropriate for us as well.

Further, as more and more energy ends up captured in the atmosphere, we expect rare atmospheric events to become a lot less rare.

> it's fairly isolated from inclement weather phenomenon.

Indeed, we're loving it, especially given that we generally like cool, wet weather as a baseline.
Sure. They just developed a new chip, with a new 5nm process, at to drop all the devs off a cliff and hang them out to dry. That will sell units. If they don't work the issues out they'll have to partially shelve the design and go grovelling back to Intel for CPUs because things will continue not to work until it affects the profits. I would be incredibly surprised to see "near zero engagement" with major vendors on this, have (e.g. Adobe) devs written about big issues, or just FOSS wranglers who feel their Free project is undervalued?

I agree there's been a big shift in focus. I'm seriously unhappy about the Amazon/Google level of ad-down-throat-ramming I have to put up with on my Apple TV. But I don't think they're throwing the towel in on hardware and software innovation.
Even I would make a better FCC Chairman and I'm not the most savvy person.

I am so happy he will be gone.
I suspect M stands for Mac, but it's fair to note that the Mini (and iMac) were using mobile (laptop) hardware previously, so it's certainly plausible that M stands for mobile.
Plus the fact that they want us to let them hack our DNA.

It's a bit like giving them root to the OS of my being.
I read HN on my Kindle's browser fairly regularly. HN itself (and similar pages with a simple layout, such as i.reddit.com) works great. For the articles that are linked, it's a coin flip whether it works or the page has so much cruft that it crashes the browser.
dRAID looks really fascinating, but presentation is pretty abstract. Would it allow to add/remove drives from a pool, and allow ZFS to rebalance itself?

Would be great for home use, where I have a lot of drives that I collected over the years that are not the same size.

EDIT: The more I read into this, it still seems assume that all drives must be of the same size.
Yeah and I think it will be quite interesting to see in the years ahead how this kind of highly specialized approach to computing will stack up against the more generic wintel approach, and how customers will respond.

Customers may end up with having the choice between a very high performance system at competitive prices, vs an open architecture which has more flexibility in what you add, but which will ultimately cost more and have worse performance.

You can see this play out in different markets. Just look at Tesla e.g. They are taking the Apple approach to car making with full vertical integration. They are doing everything from making their own alloys to creating their own machine learning hardware.

I think we are at some kind of paradigm shift and the old guard has been caught off guard.
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> move to live oral exams. Written long-form essays.

Yes. The application of principles, concepts and information is not terribly difficult to test in either a timed or take home setting.
Is there a guide for this? Sounds interesting!
As someone who's generally been tech-aware for decades, this seems like a revolution. I've never seen reviews like this. I keep buying AAPL. I think they're going to eat Intel.
I suspect they never shipped the x86 version because it wasn't competitive. Nvidia's CPUs couldn't keep up with contemporary Arm Cortex parts (probably a good part of the reason they bought them), let alone Intel and AMD stuff.
Likely 21.04. I doubt they'll pull it into 20.10 or 20.04.
Was able to pull this off on 4chan, kinda: https://boards.4chan.org/b/thread/841284283
Good grief, give it up already.
So, you're saying there's a chance I could afford to move there one day? Sounds dope.
It is most interesting, especially with regards to other teams.

My mind is primarily focused on the practical viewpoint of a experienced Systems Operator/Admin rather then a Cryptologist.

Lets build our own, make it work and push it live and see what crumbles. I amware that TLS and the likes are all very specialist and to the level as you wouldn't give a Ferrari owner keys to a Jet Fighter. What did spark the flame for me is that be "Free and Opensource" until it comes to crypto which then becomes a touch area of "leave it for the experts" but with full reason makes sense in a way. Maybe because I know little on the matter, that is what makes a large problem.

Learn something new everyday. Thank you for your time on the matter.
What did he do that was bad? I've listened to a couple interviews with him and he seems like a smart guy. Not too aware of FCC actions over the last four years though.
One of my great-grandfather's stories was that soon after immigrating from Poland he and his father found work mining coal in Indian Country (soon to become Oklahoma). The family lived in a shack abutting the local tavern. Everybody (including at least 3 children) slept on the floor due to the frequent bullets coming from the tavern.
No, mRNA is not DNA.
Why in do google servers need to middleman every push notification on a phone? I mean, google play store phones home every 2 mins anyway, but that is extra creepy
End to end encryption is not beneficial to any big tech other than some marketing. Then why are they implementing it? Has anyone figured out any reason behind it?
These companies should actively be put out of business. College is garbage as it is. Now theyre actively suppressing people with lower incomes and lesser resources or abilities.
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Manpage/btrfs

>what does that mean?

Not functional but logical (for me)
You are right although in my mind it is frozen, and given Linux continues to move, I see WSL1 has almost deprecated.

For a few years it may continue to be useful, however soon enough you won't be able to run a modern distro on WSL1. At this point it would actually be defacto deprecated.

Thus probably nobody, neither MS nor 3rd parties, will base a medium/long term plan on WSL1 now. It's already legacy tech; still maintained for essential things (security, etc.), but already legacy.
Is this stigma due to the tenet of "extreme independence and freedom" from the West?

In most Asian countries, taking care of your parents is a filial obligation/responsibility deeply engrained in culture: an expectation for being a good child.

It is starting to change now due to Western influence and affluence though...but it is still traditionally the norm to take care of your parents.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4389642/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6403016/
Many orgs would be concerned about Discord’s data mining of all chats, though.
The rate of rent increase in San Francisco was higher before the tech boom than after.
Everyone predicting a mass-remote trend is kidding themselves. Don’t underestimate how fast human minds will forget about this pandemic in a time span of less than 5 years.

Covid will end and the majority of employers will want you back in the office at least some or most of the time.

The only reason employers are okay with full remote right now is because of legal liability.

Sure, there are full remote culture employers but they are in the minority.

If bandwidth was the only issue then you’d have seen Silicon Valley spread to smaller/cheaper American cities a long time ago. In reality the network effects of industry hubs are significant and they exist throughout the world.

Saying that Silicon Valley tech is gonna pack their bags and dip out of town is kind of like saying the Ohio State Agricultural Science program is going to move its campus to New York City to attract more students.
And if they had done nothing would it be any different?
A lot of people are asking why Intel or AMD haven't produced a CPU like this, but that's not so interesting to ask because maybe that's something to do with the x86 ISA.

What about Qualcomm, ARM, and Samsung though? What's their excuse?
> Additional commentary in Science: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/game-has-changed-ai-...

And in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4

And about dozen news organizations listed in "CASP14 in news" column in the conference homepage: https://predictioncenter.org/casp14/
The entertainment industry is notorious for not paying 'The Artist' their due. And in many cases, they can get away with owning the artist because the artists are typically approached when they are very young and have not developed acumen for business. In many cases, artists even hired business managers to look out for them, and those persons simply took another share and ensured that The Artist had plenty of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll so they'd feel they were being successful while everyone else made the money.

The primary lever, as I understand it, is that the production company, whether it be movies, music or comedy would tally up all the expenses related to the production and then require that those expenses be paid back, with profit, before The Artist got more than enough to live on. Then, they'd inflate the expenses in any number of creative ways so that in most cases, their accountants could show that the production was a net loss, even when box office and record sales were excellent.

It's a highly exploitative 'monster' and Chapelle is not the only one taking them on. Kanye West has also gotten to work on the record industry [0].

I wonder if sports has a similar problem. Young, talented persons enabling huge industries... it seems that it's ripe for exploitation as well.

[0] https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/kanye-west-univers...
Ah yes. Did you use Ghidra, IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, Hopper Disassembler, Radare2/Cutter, or something else? How many bytes did you have to modify?

Put it on your resume.
The line has been drawn, historically, at somewhere between a "normal" flu and the Spanish Flu of 1918. And that matters, because it sets the default on what people are inclined to accept.
Reminds me of The Octopus episode of the Swindled podcast. I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually came out that pesticides/herbicides/etc are the cause.
> Take home tests were definitely a thing before covid.

Yes, and they work pretty well for some subjects. But not for others.

> ... that is super suspicious.

But suspicion is not enough to take disciplinary measures.

In many cases, there really is no solution that is privacy-preserving, anti-cheating, covid-safe and affordable.
So I am not one of those that screamed about the 16GB limit which was a huge number of comments here on HN. That being said I do know people in the creative industry that have Mac Pros with 1.5TB of RAM and use all of it and hit swap. For a higher end Pro laptop I would be happy at the 32GB range. However in something like an 8K display (which will be coming!) iMac I would like to see 128GB which will not fit on chip. They are going to have to go to a 2 level memory design at some point.
>And how does that work? For example, the last 24hr bitcoin is up like 10%.. Let's call 5% below the current price the 24hr average.. are you suggesting that the exchange rate is 1% above the 24avg, or 4% below the current price, meaning the seller is eating 4% of the current price? That certainly does not make any sense.

That was based on how I remembered some merchants handled conversion a few years ago. I just did a test with coingate and the spread between their rate and the market rate is under 0.05% (yes that's a fraction of a percent, not 5%).

>I agree the seller can't really get scammed, but the buyer has --zero-- recourse

I don't disagree that credit card protections are good for the consumer. The problem is that there's no opt out (eg. horror stories about people's paypal accounts being frozen because of a surge in donations), and you're forced to use the bank (or credit card company) as the escrow.
is it worth 10K (model 3 owner and very curious)
FreeNAS 12 (now named TrueNAS) is already using OpenZFS 2.0, or very nearly.
I think I am missing the overall context. What is the question? Does someone have the full video?

Here is my attempt: They both agree there should be more computers in the classroom, and that they should not be used for aiding rote memorization. But Papert paints a less expensive picture than Shaw does. Furthermore, there is something about how deliberate the curriculum should be, and Papert sees a benefit to a more organic (so to speak) pedagogical experience.
Proxmox uses their own kernels, so they build the zfs modules as well. They are bundled in the pve-kernel package.
Sweet. Looking forward to that "team" launch. There's a lag in this space so you have a chance for a great shot. Good luck.
Rather!
Tesla has the same thing going, moreso than I ever remember for Apple even when Jobs was alive.
> There don't appear to be great statistics on bicycle deaths per mile and by cause but what I found is in line with my contention. "Cyclists are either 3.4x or 11.5x as likely to die as motorists, per passenger mile." And that's only fatalities, not injuries.

That's in the US, notorious for bicycling infrastructure that varies between not-great and abysmal.

If you compare cycling fatalities per mile in Denmark or Norway with MV fatalities per mile in the US, things are approximately a wash.
Good to hear, gn
this! i have always thought so too. especially since quality of life has risen so much since..population has doubled globally in my lifetime and i have seen the world change...internet, smart phones, eradication or reduction of poverty, disease, illnesses, better health, more equality, all things hedonistic. the world is a better place. much much better place. i am grateful for every single day and i hope it becomes better.

the previous generation did so much with so little. with current attitudes, i dont know how life would become better in the next hundred years. is the defeatism due to not ever having to 'truly' struggle? if people had given up after ww2(or after any of the world's catastrophes), where would we be now?
On further thought, I do have to actually give them credit for VS-Code, despite the fact that they hobble the OSS version.
Probably 21.04. 22.04 if you want an LTS release.
The day that Linux has Adobe like quality software, I will make the switch.
Most instructions map 1:1. x86 instructions can encode memory operands potentially doubling the practical width but a) not all CPUs can decode them at full width and b) in practice compilers generate mem+ops instructions only for a (not insignificant ) minority of instructions.

So the apple to apple (pun intended) practical width difference is closer than it appear, still not as wide.

X86 machines usually target 5-6 wide rename, so that would become a bottleneck (not all instructions require rename of course). I expect that M1 has an 8-wide rename.

Edit: another limitation is that most x86 decoders can only decode 16 bytes at a time and many instructions can be very long, further limiting actual decode throughput.

On the converse the expectation is that most hot code will skip decode completely and is fed from the uop cache. This also saves power.
I do enjoy playing devil's advocate, but it helps to remember that some people are simply devils. In Ajit's case, wasn't he getting money in exchange for favors? Even if not, he may as well have been. He came pretty close to removing net neutrality.
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> Austin TX and surrounding communities are seeing huge growth with, anecdotally, a disproportionate number of Californians

Most of Texas has been dealing with CA transplants since last housing crisis, or before, so 12+ years now. Austin area in particular is where the liberals usually land. And they tend to be very liberal even by traditional Austin standards and especially by Texas standards in general. Some of the recent things in Austin, particularly around tolerance of homeless, are not popular with Texans. We are generous people but not to the level of letting homeless sleep in our suburban yards. We're told we're not compassionate. But we feel these people are mostly, homeless by choice. If you take the time to watch them, it's a lifestyle for a high percentage and yes there are some who did not chose it due to drugs, PTSD, etc, and we'd support getting those people help, housing, food, etc. But not putting up tents and port-a-potties for them at the underpass. [1]

I just came back from Austin. I haven't lived there since 2007/8. Homeless there has always been a problem. As it is in almost any liberal US city. The last few years, it's gotten so much worse and letting it bleed into the suburbs makes no sense IMO. The local leaders are enabling thus inviting more homeless, etc. as happens in almost any liberal US city.

[1] As an example of something no Texan understands. My aunt told me, a lady on her Nextdoor ostracized the neighborhood for giving the homeless things they didn't need. Like food when they had food. Or food they did not like. So, she met with and created an Amazon Wish List for each person living under/near a nearby bridge freeway intersection. When my aunt clicked on it out of curiosity, it was mostly gift cards, phone minutes, electronics, etc. In my mind, things that are easily converted to cash.
There are plenty of weirdos shaping American culture living in San Francisco today, just better monetized.
As per the article, the flu vaccine looked at didn’t provide sterilizing immunity, but did significantly lower viral titre in the lungs.

So I guess the question is - even if not sterilizing immunity, would these vaccines significantly reduce (but not eliminate) transmission?
> It may just be the fact that it is on a cutting edge 5nm process with a SoC design.

Yup. It's fast because it's got short distances to memory and everything else. Shorten the wire to memory cells and not only can you make signaling faster and run the memory at faster clock speed but you can do it with less accessory hardware for signal conditioning and error correction, which saves complexity and power. Using shorter paths to memory also lets you use lower voltages, which means less waste heat and less need to spend effort on cooling and overall power savings for the chip.

Shortening the wire also lowers latency between all the various on board devices, so communicating everywhere is faster.

There's a reason that manufacturers used to be able to "speed" up a chip by just doing a die shrink - photographically reducing chip masks to make them smaller, which also made them faster with relatively small amounts of work.

As the late Adm. Grace Hopper put it, there are ever so many picoseconds between the two ends of a wire.
What do we know about the memory model? I see refs to not copying memory which suggests there isn’t even any L1 cache on die. Is this true? Anybody got a detailed arch diagram of the M1’s memory hierarchy?
If it were unstable during the 4 billion year history of life it could wipe life out and we wouldn't be here to observe it. But it depends on the magnitude of "unstable".
Yes, that is a completely different thing. "This is not available to you." comes up in place of the content in the Twitter UI.
Good thing about Bitcoin is that it might push for next gen computers (quantum computers etc.) to break it.

Bitcoin will switch to a quantum resistant encryption algorithm long before that becomes a threat.
By far the biggest time saver is to use a language with a strict static type system (ideally Kotlin for JVM, F# for .NET, TypeScript for Node, etc.)

Practice TDD, even on small projects, and write unit tests as you go

Learn how to use an IDE-integrated debugger properly

Avoid magic at all costs (the reflection-based DI in .NET is a particularly egregious example of this -- it is literally undebuggable)
It’s all there.

https://thecovidcomplex.com/states
I don't speak French at all yet, but looking at this keyboard, I like most all the design choices over the standard QWERTY keyboard and especially over the old AZERTY French keyboard. For English use it is quite nice except I do like the ' and " keys close to the center, and as a general rule I think switching the 6 bracket keys ()[]{} over two keys to the right would be nicer for programming use to avoid needing to over-extend the pointer-finger (Put ù and Ù on the 5 key anyways, to match with the other accented vowels). I really like the extra basic maths keys as well, since too often there is no LaTeX or Markdown widget in websites.