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>"In physics, a plasmon is a quantum of plasma oscillation.

Just as light (an optical oscillation) consists of photons, the plasma oscillation consists of plasmons."

PDS: Which means that an electron -- is a quantum of electron oscillation...

Which means that "oscillations" -- are the common denominator between electrons, photons, and plasmons (and probably any other thing in Physics with a "mon" -- after its name! <g>)

Well, that, and they're "quantum"...

Now, interestingly enough, when looking for the definition of "quantum", the first definition Google offers me is:

Quantum: "a discrete quantity of energy proportional in magnitude to the frequency of the radiation it represents." (Google Search, 7/9/2021)

Now, frequency is itself a proportion, a ratio, relative to TIME.

Also, both "oscillations" and "frequency" are general terms for vibrations, although the definition of "frequency" is something like "vibrations per unit time", so it includes unit time -- whereas "oscillation" generally speaking, does not...

Well, if all of these things mean the same thing in essence, then why can't we just "solve for X"?

In other words, what's the common denominator -- between all of these apparently different things?

Well, they're all just vibrations, at different rates of time, aren't they?

Maybe a future physics -- will see all particles, waves, and fields -- as just vibrations...

Vibrations inside of vibrations...

Vibrations inside of other vibrations inside of still other -- vibrations...

Slower vibrations (particles, when "looked at", when a measurement is taken in an instant of TIME) inside of faster vibrations, inside of still faster vibrations...

Fractal vibrations!

Perhaps the math of a future physics -- is fractal in nature...

Also, here's an interesting question...

If vibrations (in any system, at any scale) are related to the conservation of angular momentum -- then how would you conserve the energy of the entire universe -- if it contained infinite energy, infinite spin?

?

And a related question: How was the first spin in the Universe created -- if the Universe initially consisted of nothing? (Related question: Can spin ever be created/destroyed at the Plank scale or smaller? Why or why not?)

Also...

I'll bet that a future scientist will prove -- that conservation of angular momentum -- and the conservation of information (necessary to resolve "The Black Hole Information Paradox") -- are really in fact, the same thing!

For some background pages/videos on "The Black Hole Information Paradox":

Fabio Pacucci: "Hawking's Black Hole Paradox Explained"

https://www.ted.com/talks/fabio_pacucci_hawking_s_black_hole...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox

Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram (Great video, IMHO, worth re-watching many times over!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DIl3Hfh9tY
Your RAW/flat log files are also artificially manipulated too FYI and when you edit RAW, you just delay that artificial manipulation until you get to a computer.

Short of a 3CCD prism setup, most cameras use Bayer (or other) filters that capture a close but false image that then is reprocessed back to an approximation of the scene.

When people talk about smartphones having better processing, it just means on top of demosaicing, the software might be applying additional algorithms.

P.S. RED cameras don’t use 3CCD yet still cost $50k+ implying artificial manipulation is the way to go due to cost and physical limitations.
Exactly. When a ship or resource is destroyed in EVE it's gone, so losing a fight means losing the time you invested into that resource. That gives real significance to the grinding. That significance is destroyed when you can open a calculator and see that you're grinding for the equivalent of 72 cents an hour. Instead of playing the game to replace your losses you just start buying them back. It's like retail: the only people having fun with the economy are the ones with big spreadsheets and even bigger corporate industries.
Java's used in HFT, so that's enough
Docker is currently using qemu for x86-64 to arm translation so when I use it with an x86-64 container I only get 2-3 hours out of it, and the performance is atrocious bc of how slow qemu is. With arm64 containers I tend to get 5-8 hours even with cpu intensive tasks going most of the time.

I expect either qemu to get better or for apple to add some things to improve running x86-64 VMs. Rosetta 2's JIT portion (some of R2 is AOT) is worlds ahead of qemu's in terms of performance. So, the battery life and performance difference won't be forever.

Thankfully, building arm64 images for most containers I've used is pretty straightforward.
On the other hand, if employees are so uninterested in their collective success at the company they are employed at, hasn't the employer already failed?

I've had two really good employers in my life, and I would never even have had the idea of competing with that company because working there was great so why would I try to make it worse by competing? It was/is in my own interest to not compete.

If an employer feels the need to have that clause, they should fix the problem at the source: become a better employer so that the employees have no reason to compete.
Not working on my iPhone too. Not your end. Video is broken.
I think the main value of a tutor is having someone with a mental model of what you know and don't know. This has two important consequences. One: If you are missing a prerequisite piece of knowledge the tutor can easily notice that and fix it. If you were on your own it could be a long hunt for the missing piece. And if you misunderstood something, it can take even longer to fix as you don't know that you don't know. Two: The pace can be adjusted so that you practice until you get something, and no longer. Moving at a set pace is frustrating if the pace is too quick, and boring if it is too slow.
> Frankly, if machines can take away the mechanical bullshit part of a job and let us humans do the interesting, creative work, that works for me.

How much "interesting, creative work" is there? Surely most of the work that most of us do, and that most of us are capable of and interested in, is not simultaneously interesting and creative.

I count myself as lucky and I have certainly had a more interesting working life than average but the proportion of that forty years of work that counted as both interesting and creative is probably, looking back on it, measured in single digit percentage points.

If a machine does all the easy stuff how would I ever get enough practice to stretch myself to the difficult creative parts?
One question that I always wonder when hot days strike:

Given that I only have one portable fan, what is the best setup at night if it is colder outside than inside:

1. Open the windows and put fan so that it blows air out of one window

2. Open the windows and have fan mix the air inside the room

3. Open the windows and put fan on balcony to blow air from outside in.
I also noticed the numerous typos in the contract; a couple within a single clause here:

> if its (sic) a PC game made available for sale, I will submit it for sate (sic) on the Amazon platform

I don't know if that's really evidence it's not a genuine Amazon contract, though. It could be that this was typed up based on a hard copy or something like that.
Do folks normally write code using the Greek alphabet? I totally understand reading/writing math papers in latex, or on paper using the traditional mathematical symbols, but does anyone really want to edit their Julia code in vim and type \scrA<tab> for a variable name? Seems extremely annoying and convoluted vs naming your variables alpha or sigma, etc.
yes, now with copilot we will be doing visual object oriented programming on our GUI only tablets, and typing code, laptops, and desktops will be a thing of the past - the singularity is in fact here!
Obviously, these code samples are meant only for aesthetic display, not for their pedagogical value. The criticisms being leveled by some here could be valid if their target had a different purpose. As it is, they miss the purpose and their mark.
Man. Talk about a pre-pandemic strategy!

"Viral marketing" has a whole different feeling now...
Middle Class Startup Incubator
Considering the state of Amazon's entire gaming division, this guy dodged a bullet. It would have been a terrible position even if this policy had not existed.
The TI-89 comes with a excellent symbolic solver that can do solve this or any calc problem and give the proper symbolic result. It can even do things like equation simplification and give the results in terms of the variables. Looks like this https://imgur.com/a/FmdCyYU
I have no clue how they're making money on these movies that are going straight to streaming platforms?

With a movie releasing in theatres there was a sense of urgency to see it on the big screen with big sound and big lights.

Being able to stream it whenever you want from home now means you never will.

Not sure if any platforms do it already but they should try to create a sense of scarcity by offering only a limited number of opening weekend tickets that you can reserve.
> Total forces involved 7,548 participants. Damages amounted to an approximate real-currency value of $300,000-330,000 USD.

About $45/player. Sounds pretty reasonable to have been in attendance.
Native advertising taken to the extreme.
I just went through making a deck for my startup and it's really hard to not want to say everything on your mind and why your startup is so great.

It is a constant process of tweaking copy, redoing graphics, trying to distill your idea into small bite-sized chunks.
My first internship was in an research organization mostly about nuclear energy. They were migrating everything they could to PostgreSQL after they received one of these insane invoices. I haven't seen the invoice myself and the organization is not the kind that publish about it on a blog though.
There should be some kind of "patent reset". Let's say next year, all patents granted until now are null and void, and new more stringent criteria are applied to new ones. I would be real curious to see the results of an experiment like this - which to be clear, will never happen.
The TCM channel does a good job of organizing films into categories. I've been watching their Film Noir picks every Saturday night. Lots of fun movies I never knew existed.
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Cute, but just a weak sort of ad hom deflection. But while you're down there go clean the toilets.
Would it be ok to work to develop a competing business and then quit to launch that business? That's unethical. There's an implied contract that when you work for someone you don't also work against them. In higher level jobs, the contract is written.

Because Amazon sells video game software, if you decide to work for them, you should not be in the business of making or selling video game software.

Your argument is a good one against letting companies like Amazon take over so many industries that they can shut everyone out!
The purpose of the downvote is for you to say what content wasted your time. Those who brought that content to you deserve to lose your attention so they do not waste your time in the future, do they not? That's why LinkLonk decreases your connection to those who upvoted it. It also displays a popup saying "You will see less content from N users and M feeds that upvoted this" to explain how the downvote button works.

LinkLonk also increases your "downvote connection" to other who downvoted that item as you are suggesting. A "downvote connection" is how much weight the other person's downvote has for you. That is, it captures how good their past downvotes were for you and how much their future can be trusted. So there are two kinds of connections:

- Upvote connection - gives others ability to promote/curate good content for you.

- Downvote connection - how much others can bury/moderate bad content.

And as you are also suggesting, the connection is decreased over time without similar ratings. Each time someone you are connected to upvotes something your connection to them becomes slightly weaker. So if you ignore content from a user/RSS feed then it will have lower ranking for you over time. So in practice the downvote button should not be used much at all.
> coders write (and publish) comments.

And writers in law write commentaries, some of them having great authority.
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It's super confusing. There are several ways to get it. I think it's free if you run stuff in the Oracle Cloud. And the pricing on Oracle Cloud is actually quite good.

But the price list is here, it seems:

https://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/price-lists/java...

So price can vary between $25/processor/month and $12.50/month with further discounts available if you negotiate, probably. But ... this has to be rounded up to whatever the physical processor has, then multiplied by some "core factor" which can actually reduce the number of cores you need to buy from the physical number. Which can be found here:

https://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core...

For Intel and AMD chips, the factor is 0.5 - so the actual prices are just half of those numbers!

The rules about virtualization are kinda weird especially because Oracle Cloud presumably is virtualized itself. Presumably it's because if your jobs can "flex" at will then it becomes impossible to say how many cores you're actually using. Like, what do you do, integrate the area under the curve of second-by-second CPU usage or something? That would be very complicated. If they say, OK, your workload can use up to 100 cores then you pay for 100 cores, it's very simple. All you have to agree on with them is how many cores the maximum amount is. I can't imagine it would matter if the physical underlying hardware changes as long as the workload can only run on one machine at once. Otherwise it'd be impossible to run any Oracle product in any cloud at all, but people do it!
Patents also preserve knowledge in publicly accessible and well documented form.
Without patents the only option to recoup investment in R&D would be to make innovations a trade secrets. This will lead to frequent reinvention of the wheel and lost knowledge.

The system is broken, but abolishing it is even worse
We have literally millennia of evidence that merchants are not to be trusted. “Both sides lie” covers a massive power imbalance as well as just ignoring history.
Pharmaceutical patents, operatively, are really more about latter stage of drug development (human trials, regulatory approval, etc.) than they are about invention and discovery. A limited monopoly (or alternatives, such as bounties) make sense here, but we could drop the patent designation altogether. In fact, working through a patent frame can get in the way. Drugs that aren't patentable fall outside the framework and therefore have no funding mechanism for these later frameworks. Start the clock at approval. Drop the limitations. Prior art

Business models, software & obvious/trivial inventions were never supposed to be patentable, and technically aren't. The fact that they often are in practice is an argument for reform. One-click remains the perfect example, as it falls into all three categories.

Also, look at the state of the patent "industry." Patent trolls. Admit-nothing mutual licensing agreements. Patent arsenals held for defense. The Apple-Samsung war, with no result or benefit to either.
What you say may be true in general. But we're specifically discussing being able to hire someone to take over a code base in a language, and no, the dominant languages do not have the same problem. You can find C# programmers under any rock. F# programmers? Not so much.
I wouldn't call this censorship. There is likely a paragraph right above "To develop or release a Personal Game..." that carefully defines it - but it wouldn't really add anything to the article to include that when it can be summarised as covering the output of an "indie game developer". Contract terms like that are often defined then given Initial Capitals.

We should assume good faith on the part of James Liu and Robert Adams unless you have evidence to the contrary.

To your point about carrot and stick - yes, the carrot here is likely excellent financial compensation for doing the main job, and the experience on the resume, same as all your colleagues. Amazon aren't going to pay you extra because your hobbies are impacted by their policy - at junior to mid levels it's take it or leave it.
I’d go ahead and marry the girl. I really didn’t need to find myself.
I dont think the author knows Intel or the Industry much. It is like reading a Financial analyst on Intel and Engineering.

>Moreover, later this year, TSMC will commence production of intel’s Core i3 processors, inside advanced laptops, at 5nm.[12]

I will believe it when I see it. Right now it is just rumours. It would make more sense if it was i5 or i7. But why would you want expensive 5nm on your low end Core i3 product? The product line is not under threat from AMD's 5nm APU either ( those comes later in the 5nm cycle )

>At some point, Intel could even find itself trailing SMIC, especially if China responds to U.S. trade restrictions by developing a semiconductor equipment supply chain that is not dependent on U.S. vendors.

Seriously? SMIC?

>Yet even if Intel should achieve 7nm on a significant scale in 2021, it will fall further behind TSMC and SEC as this decade unfolds.

Depending on TSMC's 3nm density ( which is no longer on GAAFET ) , and Intel 7nm ( Which I have no idea if they have changed or used other iteration ), the original estimate / projection suggest both node are similar in density. ( Dont ask about the "nm" naming thing we should all know this by now )

>The Asian companies have governance structures that vaccinate them from an economic virus known as “maximizing shareholder value” (MSV).

That is the same as current Apple as well. But MSV or Stock buyback aren't the main reason for Intel's failure. It was Vision and Management. ( And ex-Chairman Andy Bryant )

> with the sudden appointment of Gelsinger as CEO this past winter, Intel sent out a weak signal that it recognizes that it has the disease.

Well yes that is why Pat is trying to fix it. If you think Pat is going to continue the same scale of buy back and financial engineering, then seriously, you dont know Pat, Andy Grove, or Intel in the 80s and 90s. If there is only one person who knows the meaning of only paranoid survives, it might very well be Pat Gelsinger.

Intel's refusal to admit its 10nm problem, its capacity planning that hurt its 14nm product line, failure to communicate this with its Custom Foundry partners, still not delivered its GPU, McAfee, 5G.. I could go on and on. Intel's downfall started when they kicked out Pat Gelsinger in 2009. Paul Otellini - MBA, - Brian Krzanich - MBA. Funny enough it was Bob Swan, another MBA from outside Intel who really knew the problem Intel was facing. But he didn't have the technical know-how to make a major change in company direction.

Sorry if this is long, as I have been banging on about every single point above ( many on HN ) for more than a decade.
There's nothing insane about the blackbird land yacht, except that so many people seem to think it's insane.
Since the faster release cycle that came with Java 9, you really should not architecture anything running on the JVM if you cannot swap the distribution easily. Even if you're on an LTS version from a good vendor (like RHEL), non-trivial patches get backported and can sometimes introduce weird performance regressions.
Yes; Google's IARC Official Policy has a section on guidance for gaming personal projects, which boils down to "don't spam us about low-tech games, but high-tech stuff is very much on the plate". According to rumors, historically it was also used to curb on googlers working on private android games when android was young.
I like the idea but part of me thinks that would just benefit the companies doing well and hurt companies not doing well, potentially affecting competition.
are they trying 30h/week then? This would be nonsensical if they aren't.
Well, that’s because Kotlin is very trivially close to java, it’s almost just syntactic sugar over it. A language with very different semantics like clojure will of course not fit in as well.
I think you can call it whatever you want :) as long as clients are happy & you make money.

Maybe what needs considering whether your target audience uses this name for what they are looking for or not.

Your site is really awesome. I am doing something similar too.
It's remarkable to see a statement so thoroughly footnoted with links to supporting documents.

Oddly, the one link I can't find is the order itself. This is a statement, rather than the actual order. I can't find it on the White House site or the Federal Register.
Well, jahabrewer is saying Amazon's lawyers seem almost evil enough to take kids from parents, while hartator is expressing possible interest in offering a child to Amazon. I'm thinking hartator's kid is going to grow up someday soon and find his parent's posts on HN. When said child finds this post, it will be an interesting day... ;-)
I've seen the same school-type dynamic play out in companies amongst people getting paid the sort of numbers that make folks on HN say "most people don't get that, not everybody works at a FAANG."

We (as a species, really) are bad at interviewing lots of people that we don't already know well - just like we're bad at testing academically, surprise! - and we're also bad at coaching/firing/managing them.
The funny part about this is that it's an "improvement" over the old policy from ~pre-2017 (IIRC):

- No working on personal games whatsoever. Full Stop.

There's been plenty of complaining about the policy internally. The timing of this is interesting though, it always seemed like the big issue was that Bezos had a personal stick in his ass about this stuff. People are wondering if Jassy will change things up.
Especially those components which are likely to wear out and need replacing long before the lifetime of the rest of the product is up.
Consensus building is a real thing that happens every day all the time. Most of us here who self-identify as "engineers" or "hackers" don't truly understand this - when we code, we rarely build actions by proxy, there are usually very explicit instructions being written and therefore we bias ourselves to assuming the rest of the world also works in an explicit, up-front way.

This "startup" had a shady business model and sounds fishy as hell, but sadly every day some group, person, or org is trying to consensus-build us to thinking and feeling in a certain way.
I have to believe that there's been research on this in the economics literature...right?? Like, maybe research on "patent trolls" specifically hasn't been studied (or perhaps it has), but there has to be research on the economic impacts of patents, and the dynamics both within and between countries. I'd be astonished if economists haven't looked at this.