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Gone over sections 16..19 - Several questions are clearly nonsense, eg 17.11) "MISR the BIST out of Z!Xussia" or vague eg 16.4b) "Explain at least 2 different types of data Perl/Python can handle". Question 18.h) "33-Dimensional Maze Router" is more of a strange fever dream than an actual question

Section 17 is mostly testing for rote learning, I'm guessing these questions are taken from some university course?

My favourite quesiton is 18.a) "Verilog Syntax/compile errors" which asks you to spot all the mistakes (while ignoring behaviour) and hint at a fix -- but since you're allowed to ignore all behaviour a valid (and reasonable) fix is actually to delete it all.

Beyond these superficial issues I'm mostly interested because my company takes in a lot of EE graduates for beginner FPGA roles, and in our experience almost all undergraduate instructive material is 30 years out of date. Almost all graduates still seem to get taught that VLSI design is done by manually instantiating combinatorial gates and D type flip flops.

And in honesty, I think this document falls into the same trap, section 18 asks the learner to design a transparent latch as a single module. It's very rare to want put a transparent latch in an FPGA, and you'd never dedicate an entire entity to describing one. It also asks for an 8-to-1 mux, a 4 bit shift register, and a 16 bit shift register.

However I think question 18.f) "FSM – Verilog Design of a Crosswalk Controller" is actually a very good example of the right sort of question (for, say midrange/advanced beginner), which will focus the students' attention on "normal" RTL design. Specifically I like that is requires specific clock timings (assert X for 32 clock cycles, assert Y for 10 cycles), as I think off-by-one timing errors in FSMs are a very common problem for beginners.

A more difficult extension (perhaps a part of student's first introduction to concurrency in an FPGA) would be to design a crosswalk controller with slightly more complexity.. maybe multiple buttons or multiple junctions or whatever.
In a twist of irony, my 76 year old mother took in a immigrant who attended her church and was in a difficult situation. He'd come to the US on a lottery visa, was working and going to college while renting a room from her. After some years, it was time for his family to join him in the US. He flew to his home country of Cameroon to retrieve them, but the bribes he had to pay to get them out exceeded his cash on hand, and my mom needed to send him more money.

You can imagine the conversation at the bank as they repeatedly refused to entertain her explanation, let alone wire the money.
This won't fix the legacy devices that already exist, but I wonder if there should be some way for root certificates to sign a replacement of themselves. All other signatures would be treated as invalid after the expiration, but this special "this is my replacement" signature would allow non-updated clients to continue to work.
The goal is really just that: let's not grade at all, so everyone got the same score and that's the only way to be fair to _everyone_ due to the current practice is imperfect.

please tell me something that is perfect in the world, just one of it.

education equity(read: score equally) is popular from k-12 now onto college, seems nothing can stop that.

path to hell is paved with equity "good-will" thoughts.
Sounds similar to the consequences of reading Don Norman's «The Design of Everyday Things»...
Well, maybe. But if your net worth is < $2M and you want to build a portfolio of 20 or so startups and then let that play out for a decade until one or two have popped and the rest failed or languished, you are going to need steel balls.
The real question is where do they borrow the money from?

If lenders were doing their due diligence properly (as in: I'm going to lend you a 100 grand, but you had better explain what you're going to do with it and how I'm going to get it back plus some interests), then I see zero problem with people borrowing to buy risky assets such as crypto.

If lenders are to dumb or lazy to do their work, I see this as a win for the ecosystem when they get liquidate by a crypto crash: they'll probably be a little more careful next time they lend money or altogether go do something else.

In other words: the problem is not with borrowing to bet on crypto, but with the facts that it's all too easy for financial institutions to lend other (unsuspecting) people's money to huge credit risk borrowers (just like in 2008).
It was at my university unfortunately, but the content is likely covered by any course labeled as "programming language theory" or something similar.
> But the Xiaomi/MIUI Android sends over those screenshots back to the company is new information.

i looked in the paper but could not corroborate this
Only slightly. The majority of AAA games are released with major bugs now. I now wait at least a year before buying new games.
This is an element that's different from a typical store. In a typical store that has store branded items they will be on shelves side by side with the other brands of the same product.

What Amazon does is the equivalent of putting their products up front and the alternatives (even those that are better rated) in a back room.
Is tenure similar to the inability to fire arbitrary employees in parts of Europe?
People on HN really think bitcoin is a chain letter.

And they shadow ban people who disagree.
I dunno, blitz.js is already pretty well baked and I find writing with it to be quite comfortable. I suppose it may not be getting a lot of traction in the greater Javascript world, it's hard to tell since maybe I am already in its bubble?
Either way, I really like it and have converted to it for all of my current projects.
Apple will dominate the market until the market itself becomes irrelevant. Good news for Apple is that in the next 5 years I don’t see something in the horizon to challenge the market of smartphones.
You want to know what's insane? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_usage_of_the_United_Sta....
Pretending that transparency always has only good effects is clearly nonsense; but I think that pretending that the lack of transparency ever has good effects is suspect at best.
JPMorgan CEO questions 21M BTC cap and Yahoo got it wrong; lets check the source
Lung sunburn! Pardon me while i go scream for a minnit on that thought. I'd rather smoke oak again.

Once unsquicked; it sounds like it might be a little better than ventilator damage and is a lot easier to control so that "burn" shouldn't actually happen.

To kick off the flamewar: is discussing any treatment but vaccines still == "spreading anti-vax misinformation"?
Theo de Raadt wanted to make security the number one priority and the NetBSD team did not. So Theo de Raadt forked NetBSD in order to create OpenBSD which would become security first. It was a political decision. My source on that is a NetBSD kernel dev.
there will be - but it will be in the form of a Chinese mandate to provide phones that do not use Western Operating systems or without western data privacy protections.

Ideas like what Canonical and Firefox tried to do were great, but didn't have enough in it for the powers that be to be successful.
There's plenty of competition - note that despite capturing 75% of profits, Apple accounted for only 13% of units shipped.
So < 50% wow.
I keep seeing this argument that companies are responsible for pollution. While yes it's true, why do you think those companies are polluting? It's not because they get up in the morning and say "better go pollute a bit more today!" They are creating products/services for people.

So if it bothers you that much then stop using those products/services. Not possible? Then vote to change laws. Not possible? Revolution

I get that putting the onus on consumers isn't going to fix the problem, but pointing to a factory that pollutes because you buy their products and want their product cheaply is equally inane
Imitating Deep Learning Dynamics via Stochastic Differential Equations
> So correlation implies causation?

Well, would you argue that people started mining bitcoins because energy became more expensive? The other direction looks more plausible, especially if you consider basic economic theory: as demand goes up, prices also go up.
Even if it was some more critical part it could just mean that it has a lifetime of 10 years instead of 15 or 20. Or just needs to be checked more often so adding a bit to the maintenance costs until it is replaced. Worst case is that it is some really important part that is not designed to be changed during the lifetime of the plane making fixing it really hard (or impossible)
I thought Facebook made some changes to prevent this after the last time someone demonstrated how easy it was... I guess those changes didn't work.

Makes sense considering how you can pretty much uniquely identify anyone with a zip code, gender and age.
Surely that only works if the leaker supplies exact text, and the leakee publishes exact text; if either step in the chain summarises, then subtle unique identifiers will be lost.
I think stories like this show up because there is a set of Amazon users that still want it to be a neutral marketplace where Amazon doesn't have a vested interest in one product selling over another. That hasn't been true for quite a while though.
This is an article asking for political flamewar.

What the guy specifically said has nothing to do with the political "equity" or "inequity". The points he raised are issues common in educational measurement to get more valid scores. It is pathetic that he tries to spread his voice by appealing to a political side.
Robot Dog Gets Outfitted with Sniper Rifle
That's not what a trademark is. It's not a right to censor competitive comparisons.
I don't think tenure is the main cause of this, but I don't believe that the university system is in very good shape. It appears quite broken (massively increased costs and decreasing evidence of efficacy).

About 40+ years ago it was unquestionable that going to a university was the right choice for the vast majority. Now, it is far from clear.
It's interesting that now that there are proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies the "cryptocurrencies are polluting the planet" is now becoming "Bitcoin is polluting the planet".

What I'm wondering is if Bitcoin itself could one day switch to proof-of-stake? Is this something the Bitcoin community may consider if proof-of-stakes turns out to work and be secure?

Is this something that is even remotely possible?
How so? The only thing that FIFA licensed is the words "FIFA", the logo, and the World Cup. All the other stuff (player likeness, etc) are separate licenses.

So if EA loses the licenses to say EPIC, then what? People really gonna play a FIFA game with players like "Kristiano Ronalda"?
Patches Are All You Need? – Annotated Paper Implementation
This works until you need to find another job.
And that would make me switch from Linux why exactly?

Don't get me wrong, I was a BSD user for many years (FreeBSD 3.5-5.0) but I don't think that's enough reason to switch.
Listen to me, consider this an "online review".

Just buy a Dell (for the money) or Thinkpad (for longevity) laptop. I haven't had a problem installing a Debian-derived distro on either brand since 2007 or so. Wifi, external monitors, printing, sleep, everything just works.

I have heard people have trouble with bluetooth and with fingerprint readers, but I don't use them so I cannot comment.
> We could hear the enemies sneaking up behind us.

Consumer audio is getting really good at spatial audio. Like, surprisingly good. I just got a sub-$500 television, and haven't hooked a soundbar up yet (just using TV audio). I was watching a movie with a scene in a cabin in the woods (not that one), and I was sitting by my window with my back to it. I started hearing birds chirping and wind blowing outside behind me, but when I looked out the window all was still. I realized it was the "outside the cabin" audio in that scene. My mind was absolutely blown.
> It terrible that this is increasing, but it would be interesting to understand if this is unique to Japan or not.

Unfortunately not. The suicide capital of the world (including teenagers) is currently South Korea:

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20190501000216

which has the highest suicide rate among countries with a population of more than 5mln:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/suicide-r...
Looks to me there’s plenty of competition. Apple just consistently wins. Consumers are willing to pay more per device and it flows through to profit. The others are competing on price and their margins reflect it.
Never gonna square that circle.
At least some of the proposals go directly against what you are saying.

For example, the author (interviewee) points out the practice of adding extra credit for conscientiousness, which makes it exactly that students are graded incorrectly compared to their actual knowledge on the subject.

In another example, he points out how students who start out doing poorly in a new class but by the end have improved and have absorbed the knowledge will nevertheless get a mediocre final grade because their final grade is an average.

In a third example, he points out how homework is often copied or done by others, and so again, grades for homework tend to misrepresent a student's actual knowledge in the class.
> It reminds me a bit of how in Elm you just suck it up and write the JSON en-/decoders by hand. Annoying at first, but then you get super obvious and maintainable code out of it, which is quite a joy.

The F# take on Elm coders (Thoth.Json) can use reflection to generate them automatically. This is really useful at the prototyping stage.
This is a conversation not a pissing context or a peer reviewed study. It's very hard to quantify one's experience. I was once active on both the UK and American sphere of twitter and I feel the American side of it is much worse. It's fine to not go further and just acknowledge different people have different experiences.
We don't have to go fetch studies that take ages to read fully and to critically examine just to justify every opinion we have, especially when there's probably just as many studies pointing to the opposite.
What's different is that Amazon is also an extremely dominant platform for other stores.

It'd be like if Walmart came to your small town and signed a deal with the local government that stores had to carry their brands in addition to their own or pay higher taxes.

The problem isn't the mere existence of store brands, but the use of anticompetitive practices to promote those brands.
What right does Williams Sonoma have to demand Google provide a web index for free?
Baloney. I don't think it's "black magic", but as a software engineer with some deep familiarity with my tool chain I'm not going to pretend that I could ever be as productive as some of these folks. It's like when I see another post about a Fabrice Bellard project, and I think "he gets done in a year what it would take me about a career".

I don't understand this fetishization of "everyone has nearly equal ability" in the face of tons of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
‘Hiding the Ball’: Hunter Biden Complicates White House Anti-Corruption Push
That's a fun way of putting it, thanks for your comment.
The Basics of Bitcoin
I think I remember how this story ends... it isn't well.
There was also, to be frank, incompetence. Mozilla is paying their director, what, $2.4 million just this year while their browser becomes more irrelevant each year in the usage metrics? And Canonical thought releasing generally-crappy hardware and refusing to support Wayland and requiring a centralized App Store of their own (later the Snap Store) was a winning strategy for getting Linux enthusiasts.
The 787 uses additively manufactured titanium parts. I think they are part of the bracket that holds the engine on the wing(?), Norsk describes them as "structural, load-bearing components". Could be those since that is where it would be most critical. Or not, this is just speculation.

https://www.norsktitanium.com/media/press/norsk-titanium-to-...
It's a good question without an obvious answer. Best reasons to think it might be.

1) It's not evenly distributed over 330M residents. It's concentrated in certain areas, and we don't have a single nationwide electricity market where supply and demand operate. So it is concentrated in places like Upstate New York and Texas. Spread over few people.

2) It's priced into a daily necessity for people. The poor are the ones with difficulty paying electricity bills, so while $5 or $20 or $50 on an energy bill may not sound like a lot to some people, it depends on your economic situation. So, it's regressive.

3) Crypto mining is a growth sector. The figure is $1B now. Crypto is still growing and we still haven't seen the full effect of bans in China, which are fairly new. True, US power infrastructure is growing... but so is uptake of electric vehicles. (Another keen interest of the professional class.)

So we have a question of whether supply can keep up with demand, with the solvency of working class families hanging in the balance while that supply/demand problem works itself out. Maybe it'll be fine. Or maybe crypto warms the planet and hurts poor people in service of a neat intellectual toy and speculative asset for the Silicon Valley / Wall Street set.
This is exactly why the Elixir Phoenix team switched from Webpack to esbuild as the new default. They were spending more time responding to Webpack issues than Phoenix issues and it was an endless time sink.
It's their platform. Apple pre-installs its own apps. Every convenience and grocery store does the same thing with their store-brand products.
I admit I didn't read the entire conversation so I can't give an absolute opinion on it, but the following passage stuck out to me:

The problem with that, is that for the student who does well from the very beginning and gets A's on everything, their performance is fine, their average is an A, but for the student who struggles at the beginning and gets very low grades, D's and C's and even F's as they are in the process of learning, and even on early quizzes when they demonstrate mastery on the test and let's say they get an A on the test, because they have those earlier grades that ostensibly were for assignments and assessments that were on the path to learning, that they were supposed to learn from, and that they weren't even supposed to have learned everything yet, when we include those early scores, it pulls down the final grades, so it actually misrepresents the level of mastery that a student has ultimately demonstrated.

I tend to be skeptical of the term "equity" since I strongly disagree with a lot of the thinking that goes along with it, but I can empathize with the above statement. Anyone who works with data knows that using an average can product highly misleading numbers, so he's correct on that point. But also the idea that a student is supposed to be learning and improving, and that expecting A's across the board defeats that purpose, seems totally reasonable.
Long-term, Bitcoin is reducing everyone’s electric bill by smoothing out the bathtub curve and making it economical to overprovision energy sources.

Bitcoin mining can easily turn on and off as the price of energy fluctuates, so all of a sudden we have the ability to use energy sources like solar which need to be overprovisioned to ensure that e.g. bad weather doesn’t reduce grid capacity too much. Bitcoin mining just turns off if it’s cloudy.

We also all of a sudden have the ability to economically use energy sources which can’t be spun up and down rapidly, like geothermal. You just leave the turbines running all the time and if you have a surplus you fire up the Bitcoin miners.
In Their Own Words Elon Musk PBS
Borland C++ frameworks used the same coding conventions as Turbo Pascal/Delphi.

They still use them.
Why didn’t you post this reply one comment up?
Stop reading books and start making stuff
Why not just use WeWork or similar? They often have drinks and an espresso bar (no food usually though) but the massive benefit is the dependability of things needed for work, such as a strong wifi connection, desk space, ergonomic chairs etc.

IMO anti cafés seem to be the worst of both worlds, not necessarily dependable enough to work in while also seeming to be more expensive to work in compared to a regular café where you'd just get a drink or two for several hours.
More importantly, in this political environment, people are voting against candidates, not for them.

Any view of Republican voters as a personality cult misses that conservatives have spent decades in hold-your-nose-and-vote mode.
Wasn’t it more than 100% a couple of years ago?
The FIFA license doesn't cover the the teams and/or player names. It only covers the words FIFA, the logo, an the "World Cup". The player names and likeness is covered by a separate license.
Now doctors are bracing for potential ‘twindemic’ of flu and Covid-19 spikes
It's coherent with the other ZFS implementations in Linux and Solaris.
A lot of this seems over-the-top, like the criticism of DoctoLib. Attacking that will just mean the alternative is calling the doctors' reception manually and hoping to get through, and then giving up all medical confidentiality to the receptionist instead...

It seems like a lot of "privacy concerns" just end up being Luddite rubbish. The expansion of CCTV is a great thing for society for example, as anyone who's been the victim of burglary or mugging will tell you (I assume the well-off authors of these awards live in pseudo-gated communities where this isn't a concern).

It's also telling that two of the items are direct consequences of the lockdowns. Hopefully people will begin to see them for what they are.
Borland C++ OWL and Turbo Vision. :)
Grammatical gender in Latin, European languages and beyond
Please, let's keep it on a factual level. I really wish that you'll never have to live in an actual authoritarian regime...
> really isn't a password in the traditional sense.

Can it be sniffed out with XSS? Can it be sniffed out over the wire on the university Mitm'd network? Can it be stored on the server in plain text?

The user experience might have changed, but many of the security aspects have not.
John Gabriel's Greater Internet F*&kwad Theory explains it succinctly (language warning): https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/325/699/4fc...
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Norway’s Disturbing Demon Wall
But is that cause/effect?

Counter-argument: the system has worked _in spite of_ the tenure system that hinders accountability.
Borland's C++ frameworks use the same convention, to this day.
Apparently it's around 56% renewables-generated electricity.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2021/07/06/bi...
We have been there for some time [1] [2] [3].

It works against a major investment brokerage's voice authorization system, who declined to disable the system when a proof of concept was demonstrated.

[1] https://www.descript.com/lyrebird

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14182262

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15185089
How are remote updates in Ubuntu configured by text file under systemd?