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> Ultimately, though, we all need the laptop makers to be better about configuring their machines. It’s unacceptable to charge $1,000 or more for a laptop with only 8GB of RAM now. The alternative is to stop soldering it to the motherboard so we can upgrade it ourselves, but that’s not going to happen, is it?

Machines should be upgradable/repairable, I think the right to repair also means that the end user should be able to decide how much memory a machine has (within bounds of course).

How will this work? I don't know. There are at least two instances where I didn't buy a new laptop because the memory system was either hobbled, topped out too soon or was not fully upgradable.

I think it is a larger driver of ewaste than people realize and it prevents older machines from being repurposed as easily.

Even with soldered ram, it isn't out of the question to get the machine sent off and have the memory upgraded, it just requires the right tooling.
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Interestingly, there is an embedded video in that article that explains the issue specific to the automotive shortage - it's because the automotive industry cancelled a lot of chip orders in anticipation of low vehicle demand and that caused chip makers to reduce their production for the kinds of chips that go into cars, and now it takes time to ramp back up:

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/03/02/how-the-global-compute...

It's at the 4m15s part of the video

I think a facepalm is in order.
Most of the chips in these shortages are being produced on either older process nodes, or on slightly specialized nodes. The typical micro that's been hit by this is using anywhere from a 28nm to 180nm node.

The trouble is, this is a temporary shortage, so it makes no sense to spend serious cash (you're talking hundreds of millions) to make a new fab when the demand won't be there in a year or two.
Yes! In this case the contagion is the alternate metastable state of the protein that is passed from one to the other on contact. After which, the previously healthy protein quits its job, leaves its family and starts hunting for fresh victims.
I think it's rather short-sighted to refer to one application of technology as useful and another as not needed. Is the computer controlling the engine to be more fuel-efficient needed? No. Is the car even needed? No. But we have found a use for that technology that improves our daily lives.

Perhaps for you a fridge with a screen is not useful; however for others it may be.
Assuming you're standing on the surface of the earth, that's wrong: You're being accelerated upwards, not downwards. Cf the introductory paragraph and "Physical principles" section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerometer
News is completely different from how it was a decade ago, and NYT has hired most of the best writers from every other company. They even have the Buzzfeed guy doing his strange media reporting beat where he reports on things inside the NYT as if he didn't work there.

It's really not worth ignoring them even if their politics reporting is still so terrible to the point they let Peter Baker work for them.
What we've learned here is you need to buy a new washing machine, or maybe before that, read carefully the manual of the one you have.

Thinking you can dry your clothes better than the people who engineered the entire machine and wrote its programs is honestly cracking me up. Do you think the vendors were like "you know what, we don't need this washing machine to dry well".

Even more, what kind of a marketing campaign would such a scriptable machine even have?

"Our washing machine dries really poorly, but we hope every stay at home mom can script it to dry better, so we included a web server and a REST API with it".

They'll go bankrupt, man.
Also InfluxDB used to support InfluxQL (SQL). And I believe its still partially supported in v2.
> why are there shortages for these basic chips? Can’t they be made anywhere, and more easily?

Not really. Semiconductor fabs are built around "tools" from manufacturers like AMAT and Nikon. Those tool vendors make most of their money from selling new tools for fancy new processes, not supporting 20-year-old stuff. Eventually stuff breaks, and fabs have to offline these older processes.

The way this works in the tech industry is that "chips" are actually software, so if your old manufacturer isn't keeping up you resynthesize your VHDL or Verilog for a new fab, rev your board design or whatever, and keep going.

But other industries aren't so agile. They have older designs without design teams to support them, or even chip designs that they retain only as masks and not HDL. Those parts don't port cleanly to newer high-volume logic.
So what happens when Moore's Other Law(tm), the one that says that the size/cost of the manufacturing facility doubles every few years, continues on?

The endgame is single sourcing from one giant company and place (or nearly so) that no one else can compete with but is inherently brittle.
You sincerely think that government can drive efficiency? Really? Don't you see that such regulations harm other players that might offer better thing in the market in the future?

This is lobby, and it's bad for economy and the environment.
I love clicking on the power poles and watching the interference for segments of the network.

It's awesome how quickly the noise emerges from the deterministic rules.
Thanks for the kind words :) Hope you train something amazing with the code
My washing machine doesn't automatically starting draining or drying after finishing, so I have to go up and down the stairs, and it has a mind of its own as to when it finishes.

An ESP-32 is about 2 quid last time I checked, I have many, and I would happily attach it to the machine if not for the fact that it doesn't belong to me.
thankfully apple solved that for us by switching to "macOS"
You quit? But what about all the glorious Fast Blade/Scent Sword megaduels with people hopping about the whole screen that went down in Bot Jail.

;^)

This adult stuff sucks, someone send me back to being 10 and clueless so I can relive this again.
It can still end you up in jail once your regulating authorities catch up to the technology. It's a distributed ledger. This should translate to "queryable public datastore of your financial transactions" in your head.

Just look at how the U.S. IRS is starting to get a subpoena process off the ground with regards to identities of wallet holders from exchanges. Even though the glacier doesn't appear to move, I assure you, it most certainly does.

Never make the mistake of assuming just because something is new meaning it will always remain that way, and if your nation state is cracking down on political people non grata, they may have no compunction with figuring out who was behind those transactions with or without your help.

This is ironically why cash not in a bank vault is the king of anonymous, difficult to trace financial activity. No paper trail.

Note: Of course banks and regulators know that too, and capital markets will do anything to make sure the maximum number of people entrust their finances to an institution to a loanmaking institution. People don't realize that ease of transaction and traceability is in and of itself a populational control mechanism.
Lol, thanks for mentioning Ice Cream
The idea is that if you need it bad enough, you can find one at the higher price. If prices didn’t go up, you wouldn’t be able to find one at any price.

Some of the people who would want a chip at $x don’t want it at $x*2, and will just never buy one unless the price drops. If the price never drops because supply is never increased, then they will simply never purchase it.
> The presentation confirms that Mr. Jobs envisioned a simpler and more constrained iPhone experience than the one we actually have over a decade later.

Does it? Is it possible his presentation was tailored for an audience to sell them on a new product and not necessarily a brain dump of his deepest darkest secret hopes for technology?
I think that's exactly what some of the old fabs are doing.

When a new process node comes out not all fabs are immediately upgraded. Fabs with older tech simply start producing simpler chips while the new ones pump out cutting edge ones.
I'm a bit out of the loop. What is the cause of this? Since they are hitting multiple constraints at once I guess it's a demand spike?
That sounds really simplistic?

There are some problems for which banning isn't a solution, but there are some problems for which banning is actually a viable solution. Should we "learn" from the war on drugs and reverse the ban on CFCs? Should we avoid banning toxic substances from food?

You're gonna need a better argument than "activists who want to ban stuff should have learned from the war on drugs". You're gonna need to argue why banning cryptocurrencies is more like banning weed and not like banning CFCs.
> Changing the perception - not even the game itself! - has implications for how effectively people work together.

It also has other implications. If you change the perception of reality, while reality remains the same, you're creating a deception. Eventually people will see through the facade, and then you're worse off than before.
The problem with your idea is that you are competing against obsolete high-end fabs, which have already paid back all their capital costs long ago. In a normal market, it's pretty much impossible for you to match them in price if you still need to pay yours.

Still, GloFo basically made this their plan, when they pivoted from the very highest-end chipmaking into FD-SOI, which is less performant but cheaper to design for.
Nix Flakes are such an obviously good thing
Elon is great at setting ambitious goals and later changing them to be less ambitious.

He gets hype from initial goals, and rarely he’s being hold accountable for what’s actually delivered.

And quite a few products he delivered are really cool, not gonna deny it. But they are nowhere close to what they were hyped to be.
Many induction cookers run on single phase. Depends on how many people you intend to cook for, I would think.
I think you'll have a better luck on electronics engineering forums:

- https://www.electro-tech-online.com

- https://www.allaboutcircuits.com

- https://www.edaboard.com

And link up with people on Twitter who are into this:

- https://twitter.com/eevblog

- https://twitter.com/Chris_Gammell

- https://twitter.com/mikelectricstuf

- https://twitter.com/BenKrasnow
The first smart refrigerator came out in 2000. The first smart tv came out later in 2007-2008. I think smart appliances just aren’t as popular as their dumb appliance counterparts. But yeah, maybe someday they will be.
You misread. Your phone is accelerating upwards at 9.8m/s^2. That is also what it displays. If you have an accelerometer that displays a history (I recommend the app phyphox), you will also see that acceleration while your phone is falling.
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Rules like "At least one special character" are silly. But I like estimator (e.g. zxcvbn) based strength requirements. Plus checks against blacklist like hibp.
Guessing it's to do with stability. Good is stable so not as sexy as bitcoins given it could increase or decrease a lot more than gold would (chances of gold doubling in a year is slim, but bitcoins could double or half in a week... just depends on the markets...)
To me that just sounds like an indefinite microchip shortage.
Because tax havens really doesn't exist. What exists are tax hells! The fact that some countries have lower taxes means that society can produce more without having parasites in the state robbing everyone as easily!

If anything, we need more tax havens.
Yeah, that is a really bad take. Remind me again why women drop out of engineering teams. To frame this triggering statement, imagine if he had somehow used breasts to make the same analogy. He’d be in a heap of trouble, prob LIFO’d out of his job
> Apple has had privacy and security as a core part of their marketing since forever. They also had a whole set of ads and comments in keynotes about how secure and privacy focused OSX was

I went back and skimmed through the past decade of Apple commercials, keynotes, and interviews by execs. After doing so I stand behind my point that privacy was not marketed the same pre 2017ish as it was after that. Yes, you’d see mentions here and they, but not until around 2017 did it become center stage and the apparent lens through how everything is viewed.

This is a very subjective thing though, so how about we disagree and commit?
That’s because you aren’t in free fall.
Well they decided not to have any modes that automatically dry after washing at all so I'm going with yes.

And thanks, I'll just spend this months rent on a new washing machine.
> not like Apple makes games use in-app purchases but exempts apps

Well, Amazon or Wechat for eg. There’s lots of exceptions carved out for various scenarios that benefit Apple.

Anyways, here’s a detailed explanation of the Roblox case, once again found via googling:

https://pausebutton.substack.com/p/why-is-roblox-allowed-on-...
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Maybe Factorio needs some random disasters like SimCity or RimWorld?
Maybe Jobs thought that developers would create applications that were useful and not primarily driven by advertising metrics and entertainment?
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> Now that loop can be seconds: if I pause typing, my IDE starts running my unit tests automatically. It seems to me that things like compilers and runtimes should by default keep everything hot, incrementally updating as fast as possible.

Is it only me that finds this incredibly distracting?

When I write code I pause often. It might be in the middle of a sentence, or a function definition, the most recent example I can think of is because I realised I needed another function, and this function's state is dependent on it, or I needed to look something up. Getting my mindstate trashed every time I pause because it's found a dozen irrelevant errors sounds horrifying.
Well no, not really.

Fuel (or really, oil) is a single commodity that everybody is after. If the price is low, and you're anticipating a shortage in the near future, you can buy now and sell later for a higher price. That's as simple as a market can get. buy low, sell high, whilst gambling on future price rises.

However, ICs are not a single commodity - you can't take whatever the foundry is putting out and slam it in place of whatever you actually needed. Each circuit is specific to its application. Sure, you could take a similar chip and rework your product to use the new chip instead of the old, but that isn't how a foundry works. They sell capacity.

Each company that wants their chips made will (or should) have done their forecasting for demand in the short-medium term. The problem is that those term limits have lapsed at a time when manufacturing is in a crunch. So now everybody needs new chips made, and nobody has the capacity to make them all.

Those that can rework their products to use similar chips that are already available should be doing so to maintain business. Those that can't do that, or are unwilling to do that, are paying through the nose to pay off other foundry customers to take their slots. meanwhile, there aren't enough chips to continue product manufacturing, so that's on hold until the new chips come out of the foundry and then everything can resume.

Prices will rise to cover the lull in production. And then businesses will see that people are willing to pay that amount, and so prices will not go back down.

If that isn't a more complicated financial market than oil, then I have no idea what is.
Who cares what he wanted?

Smartphones are a hit and took many people to the internet that wouldn't have used it before.

Every now and then I'm thinking how it could be integrated into our lifes even better.

Smartwatches didn't work too well and the technology for smart glasses isn't in the mass market yet.
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Didn’t feel like a complaint about cryptocurrency, but more of an update on empirical points. And agree, both tax havens and cryptocurrency seem important to consider.
Anyone who ever tried to fix a broken washing machine mechanical timer/programmer agrees with you. I did try and failed miserably, those things were a nightmare to fix and broke quite easily.
Yeah, though I would argue that smart kitchen appliances have a lot more going against them than smart tvs.

- Historically, the TV has been used for playing media transmitted on radio waves, so an internet connected TV isn't a big surprise.

- Television media formats seem to completely shift every decade or 2, so people are very used to buying something they'll throw away soon.

- People usually take their televisions around with them when they move houses, but not appliances. Transfering "smart" things between owners is generally a pain and a security hazard.
I'm not so sure it is that popular on HN. I don't remember seeing any articles all that often before recently with the outbreak in Canada. I'll see the topic pop up far more often on Reddit, but it's still fairly rare. I think people are interested because it is such a terrifying thing that we don't have any good solutions for. So it inspires discussions whenever somebody reminds everybody else "so, hey, this is still a thing" and it makes its rounds.
Proof of stake crypto doesn’t pay a dividend. Stock splits where you hold more shares but total number of shares double are effectively a null transaction. It’s only the underlying value that matters not the number of tokens.

All companies either die or eventually pay dividends in one form or another. So, just because Amazon or whatnot has yet to pay a dividend doesn’t mean it will never pay one. People judge the probability of future dividends not just the pattern of past dividends because companies can fail, but they can also grow. Handing back money in the growth phase is considered an inefficient use of funds.
I agree.

Why does my toothbrush have to connect to bluetooth?

Why does my refrigerator twitter?

Analytics etc; to get "relevant" ads. That's all this IoT and data syphoning etc is mostly about.

How often do you brush your teeth? What toothpaste do you use? Maybe your dentist needs to know that or, at least, someone from some (big) (tech) company doing data science about it for whatever reason (mostly to show you ads).

Knowledge is power.
>might offer

That "might" is doing a lot of work. We're stuck with many mediocre options in many markets because they're locally maximal outcomes but not maximal outcomes for society, which is exactly why we need a strong government.
FWIW, it took me about 10 years to understand this joke, as a non-native speaker who would read "dot" as "punto".

For a very long time I thought it was a play on "./" in the unix sense.
Quickly glancing at the list, it seems like it was emus and wombats. Highly illegal.
It’s a botanical berry but a culinary vegetable (as are the other fruit we eat from the Solanaceae)
The intruders, who are part of a cybercrime gang called DarkSide, took nearly 100 gigabytes of data out of the Alpharetta, Georgia-based company’s network in just two hours on Thursday, two people involved in Colonial’s investigation said.

The move was part of a double-extortion scheme that is one of the group’s hallmarks. Colonial was threatened that the stolen data would be leaked to the internet while the information that was encrypted by the hackers on computers inside the network would remain locked unless it paid a ransom, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public.
The sock metaphor is already stretched a little thin, and this problem doesn't happen with classical quantities/objects as far as we know.

Basically what is happening is in some ways similar to what gives quantum computing its extra power compared to classical computers: as far as we can tell, quantities at the microscopic level are in fact complex numbers, and so combine in ways that give different values from the real-valued quantities we are used to from the classical world.
Sorry, I interpreted the - sign in the opposite direction.

Either ways, the accelerometer is registering something. If gravity was purely a ‘pseudo force’ as GGP said, I should’ve expected a 0 reading.

Am I misunderstanding the point made about the accelerometer?
I couldn't reach the article from some error, I assumed from the title they were talking about IoT. I am surprised you mentioned it's about cryptocurrency. Yikes
I think HN is generally positive towards Monero.
Not require me to have to go up and down the stairs about 5-10 times to see how it's getting on, and then switch to dry, then check on its progress, etc.
Well if you want it to be scriptable, you might need to spend three month's rent on a new washing machine.

And yeah, uhmm... most washing machines can run drying after washing. You just took your specific model's issue, and decided to generalize it to "must be scriptable". Which is really a giant leap to make. To recap:

1. Your specific model can't dry after washing.

2. Your specific model can't be scripted either.

3. Other models can dry after washing.

4. Other models have no scripting.

Ergo whatever you do, you're buying a new washing machine. And your problem doesn't require scripting.
"...if you think that dying in your 60's is a long, well lived life."

All I said was that I don't expect to get very old with the high stress, sedentary job.
This article has it backwards. Elon doesn’t start a company and then promote it with a world-saving narrative. He is trying to figure out how to preserve our species, and fearlessly building companies that will do that. The narrative is a derivative of this.

If you want to look at how Elon is effective in promotion, look at his demos: a Tesla in space, a monkey playing mind pong. Those are works of art, advertising, and genius.

If you want the earned media that Elon gets, here is the secret:

* figure out how to save the species from first principles

* be a good enough engineer to hire other very good ones

* build what needs building over many years at the risk of bankrupting yourself.

* come up with cool, highly visual and dramatic demos
Shakespeare and Chaucer were not writing technical documentation.
Those self-landing Falcon rockets don't impress you? Those capabilities sounded like exaggerated concepts not too long ago. Tesla cars and solar -- truly helping humanity move from fossil fuels (truly like in reality, at large scale), and now StarLink... Yeah, I'd say his outcomes are pretty good.

Musk makes Jobs and Gates look like under-achievers.
Is there any kind of organization where we can donate old and unused cpus? I have at least half a dozen chips in a drawer sitting and collecting dust. Some are even a decade old but I'm sure they're more than OK to run a toaster or a washing machine.
This article is based on watching Task Manager which I can't imagine is an accurate picture of how much RAM you "need". There is no reason to care about your machine swapping sometimes as long as it's subjectively performing well.

> Laptop makers buying RAM in bulk will always get it at a lower price than you or I would by going to Amazon.

This is not true if you bump the RAM amount in every machine you sell and end up using the world's supply of cheap RAM up. Build to order doesn't have that risk since most people won't do it.
Beause you have only several types of fuel, but you have many thousands types of chips and electronic elements and market for each single element type is not that high. Plus if you store a chip too long, it's no longer useful for automated assembly.