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Ever since cererus-1 launched, I have been dreaming of Either Intel or AMD going full-on wafer scale research. All the individual university departments gonna love their own Million Doller personal super-computer. Even business who can't afford the super computers would want one if Wafer Scale makes it affordable.

I guess only inertia is stopping them from going full scale on wafer scale.
Hmm, while i definitely agree with 2., i'm not sure that i'd dismiss 1. so easily.

To me, that sounds a bit like saying: "Compressing backups? If you can't store them as they are, you don't have enough storage for what you're trying to do." With finite resources, regardless of whether it's storage, RAM or CPU cores, it makes sense to look for options to utilize them more efficiently.

Not everyone can acquire all of the RAM for the problems that they'd want to tackle and therefore solutions like this could provide tangible benefits with sometimes acceptable drawbacks (the mentioned CPU usage). Personally, i feel like having VPSes that'd offer me more memory would be a good thing, since most of the software that i use is mostly memory not CPU constrained, though i understand why opinions could differ.

As for memory leaks and rather liberal memory usage - i feel that it'll be inevitable for as long as the industry uses Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, Node and most other technologies with a high abstraction level (and VM runtimes, ofen coupled with GC). Yet not everyone is keen on writing their business apps in C++ or Rust.
Rent-seeking corporate vampires.

Make something so expensive or restricted that it compels people to pay much more for it "on-demand." My mom's modest new car came with adaptive cruise control that includes lane following, land changing, automatic speed matching (0 to 90 mph).. all included.

It's part of an after-sales monetization strategy like planned-obsolescence and planned-breakage by switching to cheaper, unrepairable materials like plastic and selling parts only as large, expensive assemblies.

One future extension of this is to load a car with so many features that the price then goes up far beyond what any mortal can afford, and then rent rides to replace individual vehicle ownership and taxis/Uber/ Lyft. In this event, such vehicles would be engineered for minimizing TCO for the corporation.
Yes.

The market prices of securities, and (critically) the returns on those securities, are now higher than the book value and returns of the cash invested in companies whose shares back those securities.
The closest language to APL/J/K is NumPy, the numerics library for Python. It was deliberately designed in the spirit of an APL, but without all the squiggly characters.
You're welcome! I found the conversation distinctly unrewarding at the time, so I'm glad someone found it useful.
Once you reach full employment interest rates will go up as the economy has to shed less productive jobs in favor of more productive jobs. This could lead to a housing crash precisely because wages are going up.
Arguably the engine SHOULD be the standard. The W3C and WHATWG have never been able to reliably document, much less enforce, standards. Add in ECMAScript variances and all the other newfangled web APIs and it's a losing proposition. The standards bodies never could keep up with the pace of innovation. Might as well let the code BE the standard.

That's already the way it works in the real world... the standards are irrelevant and ignored, only caniuse and browserslist actually matter. Like it or not, Blink is the new IE6, and its marketshare is only increasing.

Ideally it would be something not controlled by Google but by an independent third party (hand Blink over to Mozilla, deprecate Gecko?), but good luck with that.

Maybe this system wouldn't be as ideologically pure as building compatible renderers to a set standard, but it would result in far better developer and end-user experiences as the web quickly standardizes to a single renderer. The world simply does not need 10 different ways to display HTML with 90% compatibility.
ahem...Palo Verde Nuclear plant wishes to speak with you...

its only the largest nuclear plant in the country :-)
I would buy this in an instant once someone posts a review for a complete unit. This fixes the main problem I have with the RPi which is crappy storage support.
No need to use a .pac file for configuring site-based HTTP(S) proxy selection in modern browsers. I've just installed the FoxyProxy extension (works in Chrome and Firefox), and I was able to specify regexps for the URL, and select the HTTP(S) proxy based on which regexp matches.
I'm a local law enforcement officer in California who investigates these. I love working on these cases, but there are tons of issues that stop them from being prosecuted successfully other than laziness. Ask me anything.
It seems that the point of my comment failed to get across (I did try to make it more explicit initially, but the result sounded disparaging and I didn’t like it).

I get that the headline is constructed as and meant to be clickbait. But it somehow manages to fit that clickbait mold while being completely bland and boring. Something like “You won’t believe this weird thing neuroscientists can’t explain” (which wouldn’t have made it past the Atlantic editors, hopefully) at least makes an effort to convince you the article is interesting by outright telling you it is.
There are some things like urban planning (for walkability/bikes) that I think adds to the problem in the US but isn’t such a problem elsewhere. It’s by no means unique to the US but it’s one thing that adds to it.
The sum is a 2.7% increase and we are 5/12ths of the way through the year. The average monthly increase has been 0.54%.

To keep inflation to only 3% this year we would need to slow to 0.04% per month.

To keep inflation to only 4% this year we would need to slow to 0.18% per month.

Continuing at a 0.54% pace, we will hit 6.48% inflation for the year.

Additionally, deflation shouldn't terrify any central bank, because it's much simpler to remedy. Inflation is much harder to fix.
How exactly am I to acquire a USD in 1635, when it wasn't established until 1792?
I had a similar situation in fintech. We had 3 different release cycles and hosting farms for fast, medium and slow accepting customers. Fast went to the customers who didn't require approvals, and who were flex when it came to errors in the release. Then there was a medium channel where the other customers were fine as long as a couple of the major customers in that pack approved things. The slow channel basically was for customers who had large validation or training requirements associated with releases.
People of note have seriously spoken of "the neuron to detect X".
Just another story that essentially says everything would be great if only the developers ran everything. It's an over simplified view of how large organizations function.

It is also a story the pretty much every group in an organization tells themselves at some point: from HR's perspective things would be great if the company just let them if the company let them pursue their vision of proper talent acquisition. The sales team believes they're most important because without them there's no revenue and they understand customers the best because that's one if their closest contacts. And so on.

The truth is that no one group would accomplish much if they were the only ones in charge. In reality, there should be a seat at the table for all of the groups.

Absolutely developers should be in the mix for understanding customer needs and helping guide things appropriately. But developers are no more inherently capable of understanding those needs than anyone else, and in fact a non technical view is just as important when the target audience is not just technical folks.

An organization will fail when pretty much any one of its groups is sufficiently bad at their job, and will rarely succeed just because one group is good at theirs. But the "if only developers ran things" trope is old and worn and wrong.
I don’t think they’ll be stranded assets as a gas plant would be, as there’s no marginal cost for fuel. If the project doesn’t break even, debt will be shed, someone will take a haircut, and the solar asset will continue to produce. We’re only talking a handful of basis points here.
I forget what brand it is at the moment, but I bought security cameras to monitor all around my house, because someone had stolen my bicycle. They work very well and store data up to 30 days. Their mobile app is kinda glitchy, but it works well. Once I get home I can tell you the name.
> If I could ask Apple for one thing it would be to require approval of every push notification that an app developer wants to deliver.

Personally I would ask them to stop glad-handing with china and using their slave labour. But that is just me.
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I have something like PTSD from a similar situation.
There are extensive records[1] available, average wage in the 1700s was about $20/week, highest up to $250/week. That translates to a range of $1200 - $15000 / week in today’s dollars according to the value chart.

A pair of shoes would cost something like $1. A slave, $400.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89071501472&view=1...
Consider that those two statements may be about in the same wheelhouse, but "developers aren't needed" is way, way more rediculous than "managers aren't needed".
I'm patiently waiting for a game which lets you play in real-life environments. Like an FPS or racing or sim game that lets me play in my favorite cities, or better yet, my favorite towns.

Doesn't even have to be accurate, although it probably needs to look realistic. Like I really only need the aesthetics, not the specific placement / distance of buildings. As long as I get the "feel" of familiar cities / nature that would be awesome.

Geoguessr is already a popular game, and all you do is travel around a location and guess where it is.
Clicked through to https://exploringjs.com/deep-js/ch_type-coercion.html and I have to say that's already a bit questionable. The idea is there, but the writing around it is shaky (if you want to explain coercion, showing JS code without coercion without explaining that's what you're doing is not the best way to explain things to folks looking for answers).

Same for https://exploringjs.com/deep-js/ch_copying-objects-and-array..., the idea is there, but the text isn't great (is it only for objects and arrays? if I'm new to JS but someone taught me about Set and Map, can I assume those always deep copy?).

It's a great start, but it can definitely do with a few QA (rather than editorial) passes.
For that reason, my choice for a home NAS system board was a retired itx server board with a 20W Atom, 8 SATA ports, and ECC memory.

Comparable to RPi at compute power, but with vastly better I/O and, again, ECC RAM, because I don't want my data to have a chance to be silently corrupted.

I think there can be a niche for a system board like that, only open and based on ARM. IDK if any smaller ARM processors support ECC, though.
> - If selling to anyone outside EUFT, no VAT, but you may be liable to collect and pay VAT to the customer's country's tax authorities.

I thought selling to businesses outside EUFT was the same as selling to businesses inside the EUTF.
Are you sure this still applies in the case of purely digital sales like SaaS, and for businesses selling into an EU country but based outside rather than domestic businesses selling within their own country?
> Sounds to me like the customer is trying to solve a problem and is coming to you with their chosen solution. My suggestion: Find out what problem they are trying to solve, and address that.

This.

Problems they might be trying to solve:

* want to be able to jump on new features as soon as they are released, but need to plan with the eng team
* want to be "in the know" so not surprised by new features
* want to be able to give feedback and help direct the roadmap
* have been bitten by bugs in your software (or other vendors) and want burn in time, especially if you upgrade them without their choosing (as is typical in some SaaS models)

I'm sure there are others, but it's worth asking why they are requesting this if you haven't done so already.
is it possible to refill the aquifer using technology ? sea water desalination perhaps ?
One person at a time. By leading by example, without being judgemental.

Big changes in society never come at once. Womens right, black rights, gay rights. Progress is made bit by bit.

And even if things don't budge, and it stays with just me. All human endeavour is pointless in the end. Each of us has to define what is important to him or her.
Customers will pay more if they think they're getting more in return.

If they can increase the rental prices without extra features, then they can charge even more for extra features.

Ultimately it comes down to the business's own calculus of costs, prices, and demand.
I love renting BMWs. They feel like I'm just running along the road. I love that experience.

Then I bought a BeaterMW because I needed a car, didn't want a loan, and had access to garage space.

It was a wonderful and labor-intensive two years of driving pleasure followed by a lump of metal out front I still haven't gotten rid of.

It took a very particular set of requirements to make that a win.

I would never recommend a BMW to anybody.
Forgive me for an ignorant question, since I haven't studied economics: how are is the purchasing power calculated over time then?

Here's my naive/intuition based attempt to guess how it works: If it varies as a continuous function, and small increments are measurable/well-defined (i.e. stuff like TV's and iPhones don't get invented as point-like events enough to screw the continuity), one could think that treading back increment by increment and then taking a limit would yield a valid time series. Then, everything outside that time series would not be indicative of the purchasing power of dollar, but the price of that specific good or service.

Does my reasoning make sense?
- cryptic UI that only works on a laptop they provide

Is the UI open source, maybe it has an API?
This actually covers it very well: http://www-math.mit.edu/~djk/calculus_beginners/chapter00/se...
This page in the GitLab handbook explains our approach in great detail: https://about.gitlab.com/company/stewardship/

You may also want to check out this video of our founder/CEO Sid discussing commercial open source strategies: https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/commercial-open-sourc...
Democrats' draft antitrust bills could reshape Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook
I'm somewhat baffled by California not being a member.

California's threshold below which out of state remote sellers do not have to register, collect, report, or remit sales tax is $500 000/year of sales into California.

If I'm a remote seller using the free SST option to handle my taxes in the SST states, and am selling say $300 000/year in California, I will not be collecting any California tax.

If they joined SST, I would have to collect California tax even though I'm below the threshold because the deal to get free full service tax handling under SST is that I collect for all SST states.

I don't see any downside for California. At the stroke of a pen, they would suddenly be getting tax collected from a ton of remote sellers that fall below the $500 000/year threshold.

Same with Texas, which also has a $500 000/year threshold, or New York which is $500 000/year and 100 transactions, or Florida which is $100 000/year, or Illinois which is $100 000/year or 200 transactions.
'modular' doesn't necessarily mean 'small'.

Isn't Gates new plant all about creating standardized, modular, repeatable designs to lower costs ?
Not only no meeting minutes - start with a proper agenda...
I think a working analogy here would be that source code (dna) gets compiled (physics/chemistry) into an executable (living organism with even more dna) which gets executed by the os (phys/chem again) to produce changes on some data (organism interacts with the environment), and on and on..

The details are of course endless and they aren’t interchangeable between the two fields, but the analogy is still there..
APL is something that has been on my TODO list for a long time. To me it’s tantalizing to express a problem with pure symbols instead of a mix of it. While APL is cool I’ve always felt that coding languages are mostly wrong. Also natural languages also feels blocky, inefficient and sometimes alien.
That's also my impression as someone who used to write a lot of JS - everything is either a value, dict or array, and once you learn some guardrails on how you write JS code (in your words, 'explain how certain operations interact with those magic fields'), it becomes remarkably nice to use.
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Last used APL in 1981; We had keyboards specialized for the APL char set.

IMO Its pithy syntax was just not worth it, even back then, so haven't returned since and don't see any reason to break my 40 year hiatus.
> When converted to the value of one US dollar in 2020, goods and services that cost one dollar in 1700 would cost just over 63 dollars in 2020, this means that one dollar in 1700 was worth approximately 63 times more than it is today. This data can be used to calculate how much goods and services from the years shown would cost today, by multiplying the price from then by the number shown in the graph. For example, an item that cost 50 dollars in 1970 would theoretically cost 335.5 US dollars in 2020 (50 x 6.71 = 335.5), although it is important to remember that the prices of individual goods and services inflate at different rates than currency, therefore this graph must only be used as a guide.
Regular feature flag is just on and off. When you start getting into the advance you can change it for user groups, specific users, timable so it's only enabled for a timeframe, only on a specific env. The possibilities are endless.

I make the distinction so people don't just think they can put a single if statement in and be able to handle this sort of scenario.
Does dengue have reservoirs that are not human?
Thanks very useful !
> Just another story that essentially says everything would be great if only the developers ran everything. It's an over simplified view of how large organizations function.

Just another manager who wears their ego on their sleeves.

A lot of developers handle EVERYTHING (including politics) in modern companies except promotions and performance reviews. There is no real need for a manager if devs are doing everything.
Changing a number is not the same as changing code.

I haven't really kept up with V3 but earlier versions had no tokens or governance and were very successful. They're at least an existence proof that defi protocols can be completely autonomous.
Yes, but sometimes the low interest rate financing is in lieu of rebates or discounts. You have to run the numbers both ways. Sometimes it is cheaper to pay the higher interest rate, and take the discounts and rebates.

Before going to the dealer, I recommend check with your local credit unions, and getting approved for a loan. They usually have pretty low rates. If the dealer can beat that rate, go with the dealers financing, otherwise use your credit union financing.
The thing is, these are now more of a hipster lifestyle accessory. There's nothing pragmatically useful about typewriters.

The same could be said about smartphones. One person's pragmatism is another's lifestyle.

a more civilized era (even though it's ridiculous to say that about the 60's)

I think the 1960's were far more civilized than today. I won't have to walk far to find a dozen similar opinions.

The earlier IBM Selectrics

I have a fondness for the Selectrics. That's what I learned on. I've tried using my wife's typewriter, and it's really not for me. IBM really built a Cadillac with those.

These things suck for writing.

Like most things in life, only if you suck at it. My wife types letters all the time, to friends in the U.S. and half a dozen countries. There are hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people in the world* who use typewriters every day. Just because they don't exist in your bubble doesn't mean they don't exist.

* The stamps on the letters she gets back are a point of delight for me.
Of course it can. The people maintaining the network can decide it's not profitable to do so and the value could drop to near worthless.
I had no idea this was a thing! You should submit it to HN as its own item.
That’s also on top of Stripe Checkout (0.5%) and on top of Stripe Radar (0.5%). Stripe cuts about 5% of every SaaS in the end. That’s a lot of money.
I agree in spirit but would revise: it's a security threat and against some company policies to explicitly share passwords in the clear. The ideal is to add your password to a corporate password vault, some of which can then authenticate for coworkers without them knowing explicitly what it is.
If they didn't anticipate inflation correctly, their profits on past loans that are still active will be lower.
Another Northvolt employee here. Besides relocation, we think about allowing remote from European time zones for software development roles.
It was a joke bud
XFS also does checksums, but only for metadata.
So when DNA gets pushed through a ribosome and the base pairs are used as instructions to build proteins that is not computation? Sounds turingmachine (or at least, machinelike) to me
Hey there, I believe validating VAT numbers is outside of the Stripe tax pricing and part of the Customer Tax IDs API, without any extra charge. Maybe someone from Stripe can confirm?

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/customer/tax-ids

And yes, if you sell only to B2B Europe and everyone inputs their VAT number you're fine (because you actually don't have to charge VAT, it's a reverse charge). Stripe tax do know this nowadays.

But that's actually not so common, people signing up for products usually have no idea what the VAT number of their company is. But they are capable of getting a credit card and giving you a business address.

In this case, you have to compute VAT rates based on the country of the customer.

(This is not an accounting advice, just personal experience!)
It's called platooning I think. Mercedes have done a lot of work on it for long distance trucking.
This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

The transcription is really good. Can you share more how you did it? Does it use a third party?

A few thoughts:

1. add timestamps -- preferably clickable ones. this would be really helpful for me as a content creator to add my own timestamps to the description. also useful to viewers

2. man, I say "uh" and "um" a lot. Can those be removed?

3. it breaks it up into "paragraphs", but in a weird way. also, not much punctuation.

4. there's a proper noun in there, "Okta", that is rendered as "octa" -- any way to tell it that this sound is spelled this way? I'd love this for my Android speech-to-text, too

5. when watching the video on your site, have the video stay put as you scroll the text. that way, you can watch it and read the text at the same time
The tipping point is the 2% for currency conversion, but keep in mind that this is happening either way on Paddle as well, just not going to Paddle. Paddle takes 5%, then the entity that converts from USD to your currency (Payoneer / wire transfer bank) takes the 2% or more. Stripe calls it out clearly and gives you your money in your own currency.