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Apple has no incentive to build faster than ThreadRipper CPUs. That’s a tiny, tiny market.

It’s more likely they offer TR like performance at much lower watts, temperature and cost, like they’ve done to AMDa best mobile CPUs.
> It gives them the tools to implement complex designs with relative ease

The actual scenario is backend / js / "fullstack" devs can copy/paste from many available tailwind "blocks" such as a login screen and it "just works". They didn’t have to wrangle css imports, sass syntax, fugure out dependencies and such.

In that respect tailwind is awesome for majority of devs who work without designs and asked to implement gazillions of admins, dashboards, dialogs, etc.

I fully understand their position and the success of tailwind in that respect. Using eg. bootstrap is already several levels of complexity higher due to understanding where to put the css classes, why they break when you change the html structure, how to fix them, etc. Typical js devs can modify css but often they will do a hackjob, making the css worse. It’s as if they don’t have appreciation for how complex css is and that principles of software architecture CAN also apply incss such as low/high coupling. Much better if they have to "only" edit a template, better for everyone involved i. a team unles. they have a dedicated css expert.

On my last professional project I was able to use both Sass and tailwind.. but even to do that requires solid understanding of css selectors specificity, css best practices, because by default tailwind classes and custom css will compete.

So in my experience whether it’s tailwind or Sass code, non-css developers aren’t any better off when they are stuck with layout issues. They still assign the issue to the css guy ;)

PS : with all that said I am grateful to tailwind as well as bem and SuitCSS for making me appreciate more the needs of the other guys on my team. Writing css / tailwind that doesn’t break easily and is more maintainable that’s the art and what makes me still love the "front of the frontend". Learning to appreciate tailwind which I disliked at first made me, a css expert (and very proficient in js as well) a better overall developer.
Nvidia has always had great Linux drivers, the main problem with them being that they are dkim based so every now and then things get a bit screwey when upgrading your kernel. Thankfully this doesn't happen nearly as often as it used to.

While I can't speak first hand for AMD as I've not owned an AMD/ATI card in decades I do know that AMD and Valve have dedicated Linux driver deveopers directly contributing them to the kernel and have heard nothing but good things (taken with a grain of salt because fanboys will fanboy).
> no reason to expect it to turn back up necessarily.

Except that looking at the Fred graphs, now that the worst of Covid seems behind us, it's starting to.

Even if it doesn't go back to 2000 levels, it's certainly going to get to 2019 levels - meaning not just overvalued stocks but inflation too.

It's gonna hurt, but as it will also fix the student loan crisis, it could be overall a good thing!
In the US, many popular ingredients or basic food like canned tomatoes etc have lots of sugar added. Eliminate the additives and you'll quickly shed the excess weight. For example it's fairly hard in PL to find canned tomatoes with added sugar or passata. If one really needs to sweeten them, he can can add sugar by himself.
Maybe milligram?
The beta terminal cost is $500, and beta service is $100/month (at up to ~150 Mbps or so right now?). So the money would cover the terminal cost to those customers and then full freight 8 months of service at current pricing. Alternatively/in addition, and more similarly to traditional in-ground service, it may also simply help fun actual infrastructure in the form of more/faster deployment of ground stations and sats. SpaceX may also (and it seems likely) have more standard service tiers for full general release, so something at 25 Mbps for $25/month say, and then working their way up. If they use this money to cover the minimum tier and then let people choose to pay the difference for more if they desired, then that'd bump the coverage to close to 3 years.

For the level of service they're offering that seems pretty reasonable honestly, and a much more efficient use of dollars than typical efforts (though WISPs might do even better in certain areas, they have different trade offs). Since it appears how the companies make use of the money is fairly flexible SpaceX will probably deploy it towards a few different metrics. The $500 upfront capex is probably the biggest impediment for a lot of people so getting that down is important, but if internally they had any issues with getting their sat shells filled out that'd be a good upfront usage too.

This is also spread out over 10 years, so where the most bang for buck is delivered will probably vary over time, by 2025 let alone 2030 SpaceX's economics will certainly look quite different with Starship deployment and filled shells/done ground stations.
Moderators have emotions, and they will exercise power badly because of those emotions. I’ve seen nothing that shows HN moderators to be any different.
Anecdotal, but this mirrors my experience as well; without fail I lose weight on every trip. I’m not necessarily doing that much touristy stuff either but I walk significantly more than I do back home (I also work from home which probably doesn’t help). Part of it might be that I have more time as I’m in Japan for a holiday but I also find most of Japan more interesting to walk around and the cities are more densely packed with fewer stretches of empty land. I also don’t have a car which probably forces more walking but I often actively chose not to catch a train as well, even if it makes the trip a little longer.
But we can all build a better future together. :)
Sure, I'm certain it's hard to explain to other groups as well. "White and American" wasn't meant to be exhaustive.
Looking at all this drama, the AI researcher sounds toxic:

* Picked a public Twitter fight with Yang LeCun

* Her peers are so afraid of critiquing her paper, that they demand anonymity through HR

* Tells co-workers to stop working on documents

One of the things that has been emphasized in tech for the past several years is not to allow justifying retaining toxic people on account of their talent. In addition, your life experiences don’t justify being toxic. For example, even if a person’s Dad was an abusive alcoholic, that would not justify them being abusive to co-workers.
It becomes a lot easier as an office becomes remote-first, and adopts the changes necessary to make that work well. There's no longer that barrier between the in-person and remote teams.
This is really great, I’ve been using PerceptiLabs for a while now. Thank you for creating such a great tool
Nobody is obligated to provide an explanation of why a post might be deleted, either.

There is an ever-increasing sense of entitlement among HNers and internet communities in general. Posts like this reflect that attitude, and I think it's occasionally worth pushing back when people complain that they can't just post whatever they want -- particularly when it's critical of the people running the forum that's provided to them for free.
Did you post in Who’s Hiring? :)
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Microsoft has had a serious reputation for being a serious security risk for the 30 or so years I've been in IT. It's one of the oldest jokes in the industry. People and the world in general clearly do not work the way you apparently think they do.
It might also have to do with the fact that the author removed it from their own site and the link is now dead.
It also lets in the bugs and allergy triggers.

My head has generally been clearer since I moved into the city and kept the windows closed, compared to suburbs or city with open windows.
Raymarching (new technique to render realtime scenes)
I've spent probably a month total in DC, so I don't fully know its charms. And it's certainly a city that I get the appeal of, and I wouldn't be opposed to moving there if circumstances brought me there. But some thoughts:

Walkability: for pros, DC is flatter and cleaner. The Metro is cleaner and more reliable than Muni. For cons, the city itself is a bit more spread out, and its hinterlands (e.g. Tysons or Silver Spring), although accessible via public transit, are much less walkable than San Francisco's hinterlands (e.g. Berkeley or Palo Alto). But the biggest issue is that D.C. is just not really walkable in either the depths of winter or the heights of summer (although evenings can be pretty pleasant, and you can actually enjoy an evening out on a patio). Maybe I'm a wimp with low tolerances, but that's six months of the year gone right there.

Diversity: SF is around 1/3 foreign born, while DC is like 1/6 or 1/8. Almost half of SF speaks a language other than English at home, while DC is more like a quarter. DC is diverse, just not as diverse as SF.

I agree with the rest of what you said.
I'm not a fan of PG's latest musing either, but I thought the article was a little harsh. It looks like the author thought better of it to, after some reflection. He made some good points among the bad, so I hope he'll come out with a revision.
Hehe, that's hilarious.
I understand how controversial this may be of a proposal at first glance, but wasn't it be possible to recruit the terminally ill or the euthanasia requestors for the early trials and actually intentionally infect the ~~non-control group~~ both groups with a virus to speed up the process?

I, for one, can imagine that if I was ill but had a way to help the humanity before my inevitable departure, I'd be more than happy to do so, maybe even giving some purpose to all the suffering, after all.

From a moral perspective, I don't see this much of a different problem from the human organ transplantation – except the donation here is of an immune system itself. And while we're at it, wouldn't the organ donors be feasible candidates for such testing, too? I understand that the organ damage or removal could skew the results, but likely not by yielding a false-positive on the vaccine's efficacy?
This is a very charged subject, akin to a political discussion. I am not surprised if it gets more downvotes. That is why I made an anonymous account. Pick the "wrong" side and now all your opinions are suspect.
Given the content of his blog posts, tweets, and former posts on HN, the flags are generally very much deserved.

Note that the author was ultimately banned from HN for undeservedly calling someone a very derogatory and sexist name.
The government has been subsidizing rural ISPs for quite a while. This effort is much more reasonable than many similar efforts because unlike many of the people sucking up these subsidies, it actually reaches everyone. Most of the carriers who accepted subsidies to increase rural internet access just picked the low hanging fruit and often introduced new service in regions which were already covered by other services.

My old house was stuck on 10GB service for years while ISPs bumped up subsidized service to many closer in/ semi rural areas. I have good access now, but just a few years ago I'd have loved the option of getting SpaceX's service at full price.
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Ah, good point. I'd say the genre can gain traction, and our performances can also evolve as we figure this stuff out ourselves. But the bands that I play with don't tend to record.
Please consider more than just features when making this decision. Gitter has a very different user experience from Element at the moment.

Gitter's default layout is clean, information-dense and distraction-free. There is no "x has left/joined the room" spam, very little unnecessary whitespace, a bare minimum of icons (no "seen by", no miniature avatars in quotes and @callouts), and a more subdued color palette (emphasis is provided primarily by bold font rather than by different colors).

That's not to say that Element is bad, because it isn't. But for focused technical discussions, Gitter is much better in my opinion.

I've tried the "modern" compact and IRC layouts, but unfortunately they don't really solve these problems. Mostly they are the same amount of distraction packed into a more condensed form.
Hah, thanks :)
Do note, all the work maintaining this project in the last 10+ years is Lee Salzman, not me: http://sauerbraten.org/lee/
There's also developer education (see mongo db), support, tooling, ecosystems ...
Because the preferred deployment method of a lot of these cheats is via drivers so they look transparent to the game and are harder to detect from a userspace application.
Is there any reason to think it was flagged by moderators? It wasn't removed from the site prior to the author deleting it. It seems more likely it was flagged by users or just downvoted.

In which case what would you suggest, should the mods make special rules that boost content critical of HN, rather than just letting the user votes and flagging play out?
They would have to print something true first...
It might also serve as a proof of concept that makes it easier for larger countries to sign on.
Because my original point still stands?

In articles discussing Raja, Jim, Linus and their various moves. The first paragraph introduces into great detail about their impacts relating to their contributions to x86, GPUs or the kernel.

This individual's highlight appears to be her employment at Google. She is an AI ethics researcher? So what makes her important or an 'industry leader'?

Why should I care and why is Google's dirty laundry here in the open?
> What happens when Morgan Stanley buys up all the water futures in a region and sits on them long enough for prices to go up?

We start watering the crops with Gatorade.

In all seriousness, water consumption isn’t just drinking, its waste disposal, irrigation, industrial use, ect. The consequences will likely be very far reaching.
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Mannequin.js, a simple library of an articulated mannequin figure
> Not to mention that few places can match all the benefits of SV

The counterpoint would be how many billionaires, besides those in the tech industry, choose to put down roots in the Bay Area? Not many at all. (The only real exceptions I can think of are Napa/Sonoma/Marin, not SV/SF proper.) We're talking about a class of people who are truly unconstrained in terms of location, so that should be pretty indicative of where local amenities really shine.

And it's pretty clear that New York, SoCal, and Southern Florida are the truly attractive locales in America. Many people choose to pay Manhattan, Beverly Hills or Palm Beach prices without a compelling economic draw to those areas. Virtually nobody chooses to pay SF prices just for the lifestyle, amenities and culture.

Without the draw of tech employment and investment, there's no way SV/SF can maintain its current level of economic prosperity.
Hopefully it's a lesson for other companies to be very careful for hiring "woke" SJW's after seeing the chaos they're causing.
Sure, loss ratios are about 40-60% for many types of insurance.

But there's benefits from risk pooling. A small annual fee to not have to deal with most of the economic cost if my house burns down or if I get cancer is worth it in how it reduces volatility.

Once you have a high net worth, paying for small amounts of insurance becomes more questionable, because variability matters much less and because of the negative expected value of the transaction.

This model misses some of the corner cases. Title insurance and boiler insurance have loss ratios of almost nothing, for instance, but are extremely economically useful. (The real service they're providing is inspection and research to make sure that the risk is negligible before insuring the risk). Auto insurance has a negative EV, but when my carrier subrogated when someone rear-ended me it was useful and convenient. Insuring a package so that you don't need to investigate shipping calamities from your customers can be useful.
That too is a problem, but at least one that I can factor in.
Storage is getting cheaper but the growth curve doesn't have the right exponent because we don't have the battery science or the battery technology to meet grid scale energy needs.

You need energy storage at scale at night. The only solution at night after batteries (chemical, stored water, gravity, etc.) are quickly depleted is natural gas.

Modern nuclear reactor designs could easily fill the gap. Public sentiment and the risk of building in earthquake prone geography has prevented investment in nuclear.
Maybe people flagged it because of the ridiculously incendiary language? The subtitle is literally "And Y Combinator Should Die In A Taint Fire. Here's Why."
Paul Graham meets the definition of an intellectual.

He's not the greatest intellectual who ever lived, nor is he history's most lackluster thinker who still made it into the intellectual category.

To say he's not an intellectual is simply not factual; and non-factual cruft is fair game for deletion from Hackernews.

Furthermore, articles stating that someone is not an intellectual can be regarded as personal attacks; it's almost like saying someone is dumb.

Furthermore, HN cannot carry a story that references a dead link, for which there doesn't seem to be an archived copy anywhere. archive.org has a record of trying to access the article's URL on December 7th, which resulted in a 404.
SpaceX is also a defense contractor.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/10/05/nro-reveals-plans-for-...
If there is one thing you can put good money on it's the UNSECO population data. Specifically, the population growth estimates.

The late great Hans Rosling of TED Talk fame had (has?) a fantastic website with a pretty good interface into such data: https://www.gapminder.org/

The key takeaway for me is that by 2099 Africa is going to get ~3B more people and India ~1B more. And they mostly going to be 'middle class' income earners (not poor anymore). Their consumer preferences are being made as we speak (Coke v Pepsi, Chevy v Ford, etc).

The Indian Ocean is going to be as big a trade hub as the Atlantic was and the Pacific is today. The time is ripe to invest in eastern Africa.
One of the games I run the infrastructure from had an issue with Proton. It caused issues with the multiplayer parts of the game.

We were forced to disable support for Proton a few months ago. We posted a bug in the Proton GitHub repo and got a great response from the Devs. The issue was resolved in the very next patch and we were able to enable Proton support again.

Other than that issue our players very rarely come to us with Proton specific issues.
Do you not care about Google censoring and firing one of the people who are supposed to keep it ethical?
A process that can not survive a single programmer having a bad day is not a high reliability process. That problem is trivially easy to "solve" in any number of ways.

1. You can have multiple people whose job is to fully understand that code and review it.

2. You can have independent 3rd party reviewers whose job is fully understand the code and review it.

3. You can have adversarial reviewers from your competitors review the code with veto power over your code if they discover and can prove there is a defect.

4. You can have a requirements doc that traces to the code and a corresponding test to exercise that property.

5. You can verify that everybody understands the source by reading the compiled output to verify that it correctly traces to the expected source constructs.

6. You can have multiple people develop independent systems with the same functionality to run in parallel to crosscheck results with each other.

7. You can have those systems developed in isolation from each other so that they share no code or ideas giving even greater independence.

8. You can run these systems on the same and different hardware in parallel to provide even more independence and crosschecking.

Every single one of these raises the bar from a single programmer having a bad day to requiring multiple people independently failing on the same code which is multiplicatively less likely. Every single one of these is something that is actually done for high criticality avionics software. Any "high-reliability" process that seriously considers a single programmer having a bad day as a material unsolved risk is made by complete amateurs. This does not mean high criticality avionics software is perfect, it just means that the concerns are more about actually hard problems such as how to prevent errors where a dozen brilliant programmers cross-checking each other will be unable to prevent the problem without the process.

To put the difference in reliability between these systems into perspective, a "high-reliability" commercial system like AWS only promises 99.99% uptime in their standard SLA. In contrast, the 737 MAX, which most people consider an absolute deathtrap and evidence of the terrible quality of avionics code, had one failure per ~200,000 flights or 99.999% per-flight reliability (10x the reliability if we compare number-of-flights to seconds-of-uptime). If we were to consider all high-criticality avionics software, avionics software has not been implicated in any crash for the last 10 years except for the 737-MAX, so at ~10,000,000 flights per year for a total of ~100,000,000 that means avionics software has 99.999998% per-flight reliability or 5,000x the reliability if we compare number-of-flights to seconds-of-uptime.
And why shouldn't she, given all the internet is lapping it up?
When people get old their mobility/independence/memory diminishes. To combat that they try to maintain a routine, a steady state. They fear change. Dynamic young people become scary unpredictable things. The answer is to exercise control in those areas over which you exercise effective control: finance and property. The natural extension of this control during life is to maintain control after one's death. That's what wills are all about.

Imagination also suffers with age. Old people that enjoy their later years want their kids to enjoy the same life... literally. So they leave the house to the daughter so that she can drop into her parents life. The parents cannot imagine that their daughter has her own perspective. They cannot imagine that the only reason the daughter even lives in town is to help take care of her wealthy parents, that the day after the funeral she will be on a plane to california.
It does seem wise, except I believe that ISPs have already received large subsidies in the past and then never completed their end of the bargain. Without consequence, of course. I hope none of those companies received any more subsidy.
As far as I know, the value produced by programmers per unit of time is extremely difficult if not impossible to measure. You could argue that a programmer in 2020 is not 10 times faster at writing 1990 style gui software, and maybe you are right.

However, if you would try to write a modern web application like Basecamp only with methods and technologies from 1990, this is not going to work out at all. There would be no web frameworks, no web server, no browser, no Ruby, no Java, no stackoverflow, no Google, no automated testing, no git, no stripe, no script, no css - no anything.

You would probably give up and go for something like a client-server application with Delphi and Oracle.
And you'd probably work with a waterfall development style, create tons of features that nobody wants, and then ship the whole thing as a bunch of floppy disks.
Who would pay for something like that? Even if you sold it at 1/10th of what people pay for Basecamp or Jira, no one would want it. It would be trash. There have simply been fundamental improvements in the capabilities of software, and in our abilities and methods of writing such software, so that it is not even possible to compare them, and yes, I would say this is at least an order of magnitude of improvement.