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from the article:

> but the short of it is that their unique system on wafer packaging and chip design choices potentially allow an order magnitude advantage over competing AI hardware in training of massive multi-trillion parameter networks.

I kind of wonder if Tesla is building the Juicero of self-driving. [0]

Beautifully designed. An absolute marvel of engineering. The result of brilliant people with tons of money using every ounce of their knowledge to create something wonderful.

Except... you could just squeeze the bag. You could just use LIDAR. You could just use your hands to squish the fruit and get something just as good. You could just (etc etc).

No doubt future Teslas will be supercomputers on wheels. But what if all those trillions of parameters spent trying to compose 3D worlds out of 2D images is pointless if you can just get a scanner that operates in 3D space to begin with??

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/01/juicero-s...
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Windows 10 isn't going away so they have no need to backtrack.

The purpose of Windows 11 is to sell new hardware. New releases of Windows always caused a jump in OEM hardware sales. When Microsoft went to the Windows 10 forever model, Microsoft and the OEMs lost this huge marketing opportunity.
I'm surprised it's not higher to be honest
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I'm a bit of noob in the matter but :

FTA: "Looking to the future, we anticipate a long-term trend towards a "hardware jungle" of parallel, heterogeneous, distributed and asynchronous computing systems which communicate in a peer-to-peer manner. "

Does the HN crowd think it's right ?
Helping to support people who have children is a pretty popular policy I think. People like public schools, right? Let's just do that, but more.

Punishing people for not having kids is obviously ridiculous.
> But to me the question this raises is - do you think anyone has done better, and if so who?.

Yes. Apple in the past, for one. When they included Hypercard free with every Macintosh and also began integrating Applescript into the core of their OS, they were taking steps in the right direction.

Also, as you mentioned, Smalltalk and similar systems also had a good trajectory in this regard.

The incentives and visions of computing have changed drastically since the 80s.
I think moving away from supporting really low end hardware is a reason as well. They're ditching 32-bit processors entirely, so no need for a separate Windows 32-bit anymore. Dropped support for less than 4GB of RAM (which Windows runs badly on). Dropped support for sub 720p displays, which most software won't work properly on anyway. Etc
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Joins based on relationships are supported.

And also this tutorial is helpful to get things started

https://www.zoho.com/catalyst/help/tutorials/alcity/introduc...
What are resource alerts? what problem does it solve?
> extreme ironing is "the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt."

This was some of the humor that I didn't know I needed today. Had me laughing out loud.
I have, for years now. Coming from a former all Windows (and a couple years on an MBP) user, it's perfectly fine. I have a dual boot, so whenever I need windows, I can use it, but it's becoming less and less frequent. Nowadays it's usually only for games.

Reading through this thread though, I'm baffled by some of these issues. I have been using the latest Ubuntu release for the past several years, on a variety of machines (T440s, 2 self-built desktops, a Lenovo Legion) and haven't experienced any problems to the degree others have mentioned. Out of the box support across Intel, AMD cpus, no graphics issues, nothing with scaling or extra monitors, never, on any machine. I did notice one problem when I updated to Ubuntu 20 about six months ago that my left Gsync monitor was acting weird, but I just disabled gsync and it runs perfectly fine. That's it in the past 5 years of using Linux as daily driver.

I work as a software engineer full time so maybe I just don't notice "issues"? As the old saying goes, it works fine on my machine(s).
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the vast majority of organisms are not as unary as human society has become. we are so tightly coupled, so well connected to each other, that a cancer in one place threatens the whole. Cancer is fine for an individual from the perspective of a large collection, but a cancer in an individual when one individual is all there is would be catastrophic. the analogy we continue to use for growth in "the economy" abstracts out this fact.
> Are there more comfortable shoes out there?

I went from Allbirds to Baabuk. Similar comfort (I can wear them sockless without chafing) but they seem to last twice as many miles before wearing out & they look a lot better IMO.
So it's engineering falsified scientific conclusions then. Still sounds familiar.
Any idea yet what happens to those of us upgrading from Win 10 Home with a local account? Is this signaled before we finish the upgrade process or do we just get locked out?
Intel's Lidar, face recognition, and tracking cameras will be discontinued
my next door neighbor was running a dual boot DOS and slackware 0.8 kernel in 1992. I still have an account on a machine descended from it.
> .. oven mitts .. that will reasonably catch fire, ..

Or make them from densely woven wool. The ignition temperature is higher than all of the common textiles and it does not melt.

See https://iwto.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IWTO_Wool-Fire.p...
But they are tightly related. Russia just issued a similar warning concerning iOS app distribution.
It doesn't. If you are familiar with Apple Secure Enclave/T2 and Google Secure Element, they are same thing. It just hold the encryption keys and validate them to the system. Bitlocker use TPM to validate the key before unlocking the volume or the entire disk to the system.

What you are thinking of is the Windows Defender, it have the capabilities to prevent a thing like that.
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It's an hyperbole. Downsizing is allowed, but there's some heavy paperwork involved, you have to meet some guarantees, etc. The company can't do it at will. (Then again, I'm not a company owner, I don't know the details)
Check out Bitwig Studio: https://taoofmac.com/space/til/2021/08/24/1800

I got hold of an 8-track license giveaway and have been having quite some fun with it, as it feels like a better thought out Ableton (I’m a Logic guy, but appreciate trying out new things).
Electrical is like plugging in a network cable through the wall and up the ceiling, then down a really slim corridor to another wall, before finally placing the cord in the PC (all while trying to not pump another cord going the same route.) I worked beside a couple of electricians in my early 20s and it was fun but frustrating (like programming.)
You forgot the Hauwei Ascend 910. 4096 of them in a rack is an easy exaflop.
The other side of the coin is the app can’t refund from their side, nor stop your subscription or fire you as a client either. They need to wait for you to do it, which can brew complicated situations.
This was my experience too. It was like ice skating.
These children will carry the tax torch when you retire.
I almost used Coldfire last year for a life-critical application.
> while we are not proposing a DOM for the data at the moment, we expect to in the future.

On one hand this is exciting. On the other, I'm having trouble seeing practical applications. Can anyone point to some websites showing DOM use in existing media elements (e.g. SVG)?
That seems like a perfectly fine amount of context to quote to me. You could make cities as dense as you want and many people would explicitly choose to live in an area where they can have a private yard. There’s no strategy of densification that will preserve that for everyone.

You can make the inside of your box as amazing as you can imagine and some (not small) segment of people will opt to live where the sun can shine into their yard.
This feels like a huge problem. You hear about inverted population pyramids and what it costs to have a small young working population support the larger old population. But there's a big difference between 10 couples that had 1 kid each; and 5 couples that had 2 while 5 couples had 0. It dawns upon me that I don't know any elderly childless people.

The social cost of supporting someone who is completely alone vs. someone who has a kid they can depend on, even if only infrequently across large geographies, is probably a lot higher.
The Docker CLI can't do anything without the Docker daemon. Daemon (and containers) only runs on Linux. On Mac, it needs to run inside a Linux VM.

Before Docker Desktop, would need to create VM with Docker and connect to that. Docker Desktop makes that smooth and wraps in nice UI.
In America, politics is indeed a middle class-dominated area where people choose their product. When matters do come down to life and death, such as in wars, the two teams do not proceed materially differently. There is a reason we had 20 years of war in Afghanistan for example, and it ain’t because only one of the teams kept it going.

I agree on your point about people’s view of their own tolerance.
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> Apple is demonstrating a pretty bad case of "not invented here" syndrome.

I don't think that's the case here at all. Apple's proposal solves a completely different problem, which is to embed arbitrary model formats on the page. X3D is just one possible format and without something like Apple's proposal in combination, it could only be used inline, which may not always be preferred.
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People on this site like to mindlessly parrot the “we’ve become too partisan and divided these days” narrative, but what are they actually proposing?

Oh wait…

https://twitter.com/rottenindenmark/status/14326439023229255...
The politics of being aware of your surroundings, groundbreaking.
>> Snap Layouts, Snap Groups and Desktops provide an even more powerful way to multitask and optimize your screen real estate.

> So you've added some features to the way I drag windows about a screen?

Hey, if they added PowerToys' "Fancy Zones" built-in, that's already a good enough reason for a version bump to me...
As an app developer, I'm shocked that people just don't get it.

The 30% cut of in-app purchase that Apple/Google collected is NOT a payment processing fee and has largely nothing to do with payment services. It is primarily a way to ensure the app developers pay a fair amount of "use tax" on using and benefiting from the entire ecosystem, including but not limited to reaching billions of users, covering the cost of developing and maintaining the ecosystem, tools and cloud services, etc.

It is really no different from paying income taxes to the IRS for being a US resident and enjoying all the benefits of living in the US. Whether it is fair to collect 30% tax is debatable, but the idea is the same, collect a simple tax since it is extremely hard to quantify all the obvious and non-obvious benefits that are provided by the ecosystem.

Since Apple/Google is not the IRS, they can't audit all your app's income sources. If your app gives users a way to pay via 3rd party payment services, you can effectively evade that tax. And that is already happening with some apps TODAY, some of which actually very big (e.g. some Chinese broadcasting apps). Do you think this is fair to Apple/Google?

So the issue here is not just about choices. If the government allows 3rd-party payment services to be used by the apps, they should at the same time provide a feasible solution to audit the app income and negotiate a fair amount of use tax to pay the ecosystem.
Is that unusual?
We're still decades from a potential global agricultural collapse caused by climate change, there's plenty of time to study effects of GMO crops on environment and human health.
What did you pay for it?

I don’t see any prices on their website…
The Q&A section on their compiler and software that the author links to is very interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0z4FweCy4M&t=8047s

It sounds like they're going to have write a ton of custom software in order to use this hardware at scale. And, based on the team being speechless when asked a follow up question, it doesn't sound like they know (yet) how they're going to solve this.

Nvidia gets a lot of credit for their hardware advances, but what really what their chips work so well for deep learning was the huge software stack they created around CUDA.

Underestimating the software investment required has plagued a lot of AI chip startups. It doesn't sound like Tesla is immune to this.
It's unfortunate for North Americans who want to work elsewhere too. A globalized workforce is good for peace, prosperity, and human rights.

Another comment pointed out that shared time zone "remote working mercilessly exposes some of the flaws in the organization." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28369657)

I'll add that global/fully async remote work is even more merciless, especially on Agile figuring-it-out-as-we-go-along orgs. Communication has to be written and clear enough to avoid back-and-forth, changes are possible on the order of a day, not an hour so planning ahead and evaluating critical paths is more important, and everyone has to be able to pick up and put down work that's become blocked by someone on the other side of the planet. It's a tall order, but I'd like to think that the benefits are worth it for both individual and company.
I wonder how much Docker is paying Synk.io for 200/mo Local vulnerability scans with Snyk?
FWIW, we've divested/spun off the "consultancy" part. And not every part of IBM is bad, there are a ton of great developers and teams that work here, no condolences needed. I quite enjoy doing what I do here. Lots of innovation in multiple areas, but I guess if you have to drink the startup koolaid prevalent here on HN, be my guest.
One of the motivation behind NIMBY is to maintain high property values and most of all keep out multi family housing in order to price out the lower classes. This results in huge differences in k-12 educational quality and thus opportunity, due to school zoning.
MS also said that unsupported PCs won’t be entitled to receive Windows Updates, including security updates.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/28/22646035/microsoft-window...
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Part of the safety story for compliance with standards like ISO 61508 and ISO 26262 is that you can demonstrate your toolchain had been validated and verified against something. In the case of C or C++, that usually means (among other things) demonstrating compliance with an accepted published standard like ISO 8859 or ISO 14882, and that is usually done through extensive testing with one or more audited and widely-acknowledged conformance test suites.

In the case of Rust, that would be "the standard is what the compiler does, so the compiler is by definition 100% conformant." Trivially true, but it will be a challenge to convince your auditors that that is a reasonable safety story. Liability is high when lives are at stake. This stuff is taken very seriously.
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Let's say I care about people more than politics. And let's say it plays out this way in my thinking: I'm pro-life, because I see a fetus as a person, or at least a person-in-the-making. And I'm pro-law-enforcement, because I see crime hurting people. And I'm pro-welfare and pro-raising-minimum-wage, because I see poverty hurting people. And I'm anti-death-penalty, because I see that as killing a person. And I'm anti-gun-rights, because I see guns killing people. (Note well: Not all of these are my positions, so let's skip debates about the specifics.)

In the great Red-vs-Blue battle, I'm on the sidelines, because I'm on Team People, not Team Red or Team Blue. Both sides have positions that I agree with, and both have positions that I disagree with. I can't be fully on either team, because neither is fully on my team.

But I'll get involved on individual issues. I'm not "undecided" on individual issues.

Why is that a problem? (I mean, I see that it's a problem for someone who's wholly sold out to Team Red or Team Blue, but why should the rest of us care?)
The VTA control building/center was badly damaged in the shooting that caused the outage you're talking about. Surely a fully automated light rail line would require everything in said building to likely be running at full capacity to work.

Also, it was a result of a mass shooting. Have some tact.
Just because Google pushes their pet format doesn't mean the industry needs to be their lapdogs.
Relatively close to Woodland park, for an example. It's not as bad there but it's still basically taken over, with e.g. sporting events canceled due to safety concerns. I just don't want to wait until it spreads.
It is more dangerous for women to be homeless. This is why most homeless women make a lot of efforts to not appear as such, which might distort our conception of who are homeless.
I suspect the OP may be more interested in nationwide, convenient, affordable, automated passenger rail.

Which in the US is possibly (?) several orders of magnitude more in terms of capital investment compared to both electrifying the entire ICE fleet and automating it.
Humans have a tendency to post rationalize their choices. Once you’re stuck with the consequences of your actions you justify it in a way that’s psychologically acceptable to you.
>>We need to flip the approval process on its head -- from "safe until proven otherwise" to "unsafe until (independently) proven safe".

Totally agree in principle.

There is one fly in the ointment - it is impossible to prove a negative, such as "X does not exist" or "there is no possible harm from this to any person ever" (water would not meet that standard).

So, this needs to be implemented in such a way as to not completely halt progress.

Should be straightforward to require testing to reasonable standards levels of biological harm to humans and ecology, persistence/degradability, etc. the levels need to be set by NEITHER the industry NOR the perfectionist eco-activists. Finding such a panel will be tricky.
Question to HN: is there somewhere a dictionary explaining and relating terms, in applicable way, that everyone uses without ever explaining them, such as "priors", "posteriors", "marginals", "belief", "marginal distribution", etc.
When did you do that? In last twenty years France has become one of the fattest countries in Europe. I was there in 2008 and 2019. Huge difference.

The upper middle class in USA is fatter than it used to be. Very few people actually lean as opposed to having much less fat. The class disparity is real but not the only explanation.
Modernity, although it would have also shaped your personality.

Nevertheless, in the time and place I live, I doubt that my male ancestors would have done any better in my place. Narcissism and self-centeredness are so normalized that the kind of man I am doesn't really belong. I think there are many men and women like I am who simply aren't attracted to the opposite sex in the form that they tend to take in modern civilization. I was just recently talking to a female relative of mine who has a similar perspective.

People are also less visually attractive in general. I've been at the beach a few times recently, crowded ones, and I noticed that there were virtually no attractive, beautiful, or sexy people like I remember. My standards are not extraordinarily high, btw. Over half of people were overweight or obese and the minority that were even close to being in shape weren't wearing anything particularly flattering. By the way, this is in California, not the middle of nowhere. I've met foreigners who believe that Los Angeles is full of hot people, and that was somewhat true at one point. Now, I'm not so sure.

Believe me, I appreciate body diversity, but everyone being fat and slovenly (i.e. unhealthy) isn't diversity or a positive thing.

Anyway, I think that people are just less attracted to each other in general. They've either abused their bodies to the point where they look a decade or more older than they should or they just dress like slobs. Or they dress in ways that signal that they aren't interested in any sort of serious relationship.

There's also just the general perception of globalized craziness. On top of not being appealed by emotionally immature partners (with no useful skills), why would I want to bring a child into a world where their way of life is going to radically shift several times in their lifetime? Why would I want anyone to live under technological tyranny? Or the consequences of humans abusing the environment?

People point to the "mouse utopia" experiment, but I don't think it's that. Technological inertia is what is bringing us to this point. Besides a little bit of HN and the occasional episode of 80's TV, I've pretty much disconnected from it all, and more people I know are disengaging. It's both a good sign and a bad one. If people are disengaging, that doesn't really mean that society itself is correcting itself. We're wincing at the wall we are about to crash through.
I don't find it particularly important, but that's also a difference with incognito
it can, just not all in the same process

PAE works surprisingly well
The Juicero comparison doesn't hold up. LIDAR is 10x more expensive than RGB, but neither reach lvl5 at the moment.
I'm glad multiple companies try multiple paths, it's the best way to avoid a research dead-end.
I am compelled to write all the list of things why it will not work :) unfortunately I don't have that much time in my life. Don't take it as putting you down, I would love to see such thing working and live in real world, so look at it as problems that would need to be solved while aiming for grand solution.

First, there are wrong incentives at play, good guys currently don't need that as they mostly are employed and look for jobs passively. Good guys don't care about certificates and you want to certify good guys so your certificates mean something and can build trust. Weak guys will be spending money to cheat their way around just to get passing grade, which will cost money to prevent.

Then you have hiring managers that will not use this exam as good enough just to hire a person unless there is big company that would do the same. So you have chicken and egg problem, because no one will trust your certification and to get the trust someone would have to use it.

My idea is that you cannot effectively hire at scale. I could hand pick maybe 5 devs/year for my company, getting to real numbers in my small company I can see that we can hire maybe 2 developers per year. When We hire someone it worked for me with simple questions and attitude check. I don't see a way to hire 100 good developers in 1 year, that is not possible. Maybe at a scale you can hire 10-20 good developers a year but you have to have 3-5 people involved full time - and ideally those 3-5 people should be nice and technical - where in the end you don't want to use them only for hiring because those are probably your best developers with soft skills.

For that competency matrix - that is something you can do when you have developers inside of the company and you can observe them for at least 6 months. Good luck getting that in practical testing setup for 2 or less hours. I also find those kind of matrices terrible and not useful for evaluating people or projects. I work on a project where we were not fitting in anything of what was in the matrix .. yet we were delivering good quality for business all the time, while teams that were stuck on their "competency matrix" trying to improve meaningless points ended up disbanded and not working anymore in the organization.