skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a hardware engineer so I have to ask, how is using "shorter pipelines" supposed to be illegitimate? Just because Intel may do better at the workloads you have in mind, that doesn't mean that AMD's approach doesn't do better in other (legitimate) workloads.

Pentium 4 and Bulldozer both had (very) long pipelines and look how they turned out. Long pipelines certainly doesn't fundamentally equal better real-world performance, short pipelines != better benchmarks. It depends on the combination of architectural decisions considered together, right?

You're going to have to expand on this concept a bit to convince people that these design decisions are a deliberate attempt to cheat the benchmarks, throwing out lingo doesn't quite suffice.
Is there actually some way to win real money in this game? Seems like you can only win in-game stuff and cannot cash out?

Traditional gamblers seem easier to understand. All you need is some magical thinking about randomness or probability to convince yourself you'll come out ahead. It would appear to me the trick here is much more about getting people emotionally invested in the game first. I'm not sure how many people you could get addicted to a slot machine if the money wasn't real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giaBnzuiPF4
I've talked with someone about this recently and that was their take as well. That eventually, certain discoveries are inevitable. Because everything builds on everything else.

If it wasn't Newton/Leibniz, it would have been someone else. Galileo may have been the first/most prominent, but if it weren't him, it would have been someone else.
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Yes.

The correct figure of merit is transistor density MTr/mm² (millions of transistors per squared millimeter). In reality transistor count is not actually transistor count.

Transistor count/area = 0.6 × NAND2/area + 0.4×[Scan Flip Flops]/area
Google didn't introduce 2FA for no reason. While Google does lots of things for reasons I don't like, 2FA was most definitely introduced for valid reasons, which could easily result in a problem as bad (or worse) than the one the librarian is discussing.

The IRS recently had a problem with people using their online access tools to get other people's refund. Insufficient security on authentication can easily be as bad or worse than 2FA.
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Similarly as a kid, I was surprised to learn "One-hour Photo" was a brand and didn't necessarily mean your photos would be ready in one hour...
Turning auto off and making your own, deliberate, choices is indeed the way to build up some intuition on how to capture the same scene in different ways. Shooting digital is easier. But often reviewing what you shot is hard on tiny screens in full sunlight.

Depth of field is one of the more obvious things you control with the aperture. But another thing it impacts is sharpness. Depending on your lens, it likely is a little fuzzier wide open than it is stopped down a little. Basically, you are covering part of the lens and controlling the way it distorts the light a little. Wide open it diffuses the light a bit. And it will do so differently in different parts of the photo. Knowing how your lens performs under different conditions is something you need to explore through trial and error. Another thing it impacts is color and contract. Just how, depends on the lens. Some lenses have a clear optimum, others are better across a wider range of apertures. People spend a lot of money on glass to get these effects.

In the same way, the shutter speed is not just about controlling the amount of light it is also about motion and motion blur that can both mess up your photo or be something you use creatively. The best tip you can give a beginning photographer to not too slow. Your camera might be able to handle it and you might have steady hands. But stuff still moves in your scene and it will introduce blur.

Some types of photography you want to have fast shutter speeds to capture really crisp moving subjects (e.g. sports photography, moving kids). Even on a bright day you might want to shoot at higher ISOs just so you can shoot a little faster. A zoom lens stopped down focused on a fast moving subject will do a lot better if you can shoot at 1/2000s of a second rather than getting a blurry thing at 1/30th. But sometimes that kind of effect is what you want when shooting e.g. a static subject against a waterfall.

The ISO dial basically allows you to compensate for loss of light by pretty much multiplying the signal. This is something you can easily do in post as well if you are shooting raw. It just gives you more wiggle room with aperture and exposure. Of course the issue is that you end up boosting the noise along with that as well. More sensitive sensors can be pushed a little further for this. But mostly, lower is better in terms of noise. Basically, you pick the aperture and exposure that produce the effect you want and the iso control allows you to get away with it when that is pushing the limits a bit too far. With some cheaper cameras, you end up trading off noise against creative control. Easier to shoot at night with the lens wide open at a low shutter speed that still works hand held. But less chance of blurry photos if you shoot a bit faster at a higher iso.

Then there are different focal lengths that not only "zoom" in the subject but also change the perspective. Using a very wide or zoomed in perspective and compensating with your feet can produce very different photos even if your subject ends up being roughly the same in the picture.
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Hey,

No, we haven't looked into formal tools like that, good suggestion!
TBD on if these approaches bode well for real world robotics, (due to model complexity and model/real world fit problems) but at least there seems to be some applications to path planning and controls:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5509686

I'll pass it on to the controls team!
Every Tech book I've looked at in the past few month has reviews of people showing their counterfeit books they have received. I'm not sure why you are defending Amazon's practice of letting this go on.

The first book on that list has comments showing off the counterfeit book that the people have gotten!

Reviews on Clean code: This books is a fake. Don't buy it. Look at the images I posted.

Reviews On Mythical Man: ordered new book, got something that was used and marked up and Great book, terrible terrible print and binding quality (which I assume is just a counterfeit)

Reviews On Algorithms: Beware of counterfeits; do not buy from Amazon!

I'm not going through the entire list, but most of the tech books are all fakes.
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The only way to beat the speed of light
> First, my understanding is that Tesla has a night and day lead in battery sourcing.

They have a factory where Panasonic employees come in and make batteries for them (a little glib, but not that far off), but aside from that they really don't have some secret sauce that we know about. They are putting CATL batteries in their cars just like everyone else and they don't have any mining or refining operational unlike BYD. Their battery research and production is massively behind schedule and the future of the Model 3, Y, and Cybertruck all depend on volume 4680 production which is behind at Panasonic as well.

Ford has the supply for 400,000 EVs lined up between now and 2024 and Volkswagen has the supply to outproduce Tesla in 2024. BYD is already producing more PHEV/BEV than Tesla, and if there is a solid-state breakthrough it won't be happening at Tesla.
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You only hear about the successes and the near hits, you don't hear about the thwarted plots.

The Abe case is a wake up call to a lot of leaders and former leaders that all it takes is one lone wolf with a grudge and a 3d printer.
I'm doomed. Did not read more than the head line.
I use Debian stable for my workstation, but get everything I care about from somewhere else. Go, Node, Emacs, Postgres... all installed from some other package repo. (I actually like Homebrew a lot on Linux.)

So I might be two years out of date on ls, but it probably hasn't changed in the last 2 years anyway.
It's very hard to lose in the short term, year after year, and hope that a black swan event puts you back into a winning position.
Not true. I had a laptop starting at age 12 and unfettered 24/7 access, which I'd often use to play around with PHP and things until 3 AM :D

If I didn't have that formative experience of learning to time-manage and manage my own little technology addictions before going to college, college would have been really rough.

And this was very early 2000s like 2004
Spot on. Any large country that's NOT desperately building up fab facilities within the country right now is playing with fire. This stuff is the new oil. Insane how little of our modern life works without chips.
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> Base rate fallacy, extrapolated into infinity, sure.

You only need to extrapolate Tesla's existing revenue and growth out for five years to make them the biggest automaker in history, though.

Clearly, yes, it's going to stop somewhere. But a first principles argument like yours is running out of room. It made sense a few years back when they were still popular-but-tiny. At this point, the median expectation pretty much has to be that Tesla will be the dominant vehicle manufacturer globally for the next decade or three.
> So no one outside of apple is smart enough to get it working.

You have to have the capability and be given/assigned the time to do it properly.

Things that are genuinely a mess (e.g. bluetooth?) often only work smoothly when there was a mountain of effort put into it - that consumers can't see.
> About 15 minutes before the shimmering happens, I can already feel that something is off with my vision.

I've had only a couple of these in my life, both brought on by stress. For me they've both been preceded by about 15 minutes of a "feeling of impending doom" (which apparently is an actual medical symptom).
Totally agree. Taiwanese immigration should be made as easy as possible. Create special tax benefits for people with semiconductor experience to come over and help relaunch the industry in the US. Tax breaks, citizenship, family benefits should all be on the table. I really can't think of a downside.
also movies, shows and music is full of ads
“The original headline to this story mistakenly stated that it was the first time AMD had passed Intel in market cap. In fact, it happened before in Feb. 2022.”

So not really newsworthy?
Also, it’s a great place to do business, education is top notch, virtually no crime, very ethnically diverse, amazing food, and a few hours flight to anywhere from Bali to Bombay.
Most likely they'll just switch to picometers, then femtometers, etc, each one yielding 10 generations or so
The other automakers are not in the energy business like Tesla is.
I mean, here's a media style guide from 2003 citing the American Psychological Association to warn against the "problematic" use of "preference".
https://web.archive.org/web/20120813022744/http://www.colby....

Perhaps it was the work of time travellers desperate to create the impression that Amy Coney Barrett is not a born again liberal, or perhaps, if the extent of your knowledge of the debate is restricted to gotcha videos involving Democrat politicians from the Washington Free Beacon, you're not particularly qualified to tell people with a personal stake in the debate that they actually invented all the longstanding objections to "preference" to criticise a foreign judge's comments they were barely even aware of, that they're the ones indulging in partisan gaslighting...
I don't get why the branches in which very few folks are likely to need camo (basically anyone other than the army, then, and some sub-divisions of other branches like the marine corp) don't go with old-school olive drab or navy or something. Those single-color uniforms with a slightly dressy cut looked damn slick. I'd think that'd be better for recruiting or improving morale or whatever than the camo uniforms (which, often as not, are the butts of jokes and not considered at all appealing)

Then again, maybe those old styles only looked good when they were made with nice materials, like wool and heavy waxed canvas, and would look bad with cheap modern synthetics.
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Charles Babbage clearly invented the CPU in 1837, under a different name, "The Analytical Engine"[1], he just didn't finish it. The technology of the time was barely up to the task of making a difference engine, but his failure to manage his relationship with his machinist, meant that it didn't happen. If he had a competent and aggressive project manager, it could have been done.

As for the simultaneous rise of agriculture everywhere, could it simply be that much of the productive farmland got flooded circa 12,000 BCE when the sea levels rose 100 feet? [2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise
If you are taking the model S and X sure. model 3 and Y, negative.
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You can squeeze to afford a 900 dollar phone. You can't squeeze someone from a 30,000 dollar car to a 90,000 dollar one, the math doesn't work.
Thank you so much, specifically I think I've had this on my Pravetz 8C (Apple ][/e clone) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI-7#KOI-7_N2
Rock climbers definitely check their phones, just fyi. Apparently the police check their phones in active shooter situations as well (see Uvalde shooting). If the crux of your argument is that because people check their phones while driving, it is equally or less stressful then walking, then it's not a convincing argument.
I'm a linux user for over 25 years. I want my development environment to match production and that almost never involves new software.
Do professionals benefit economically or quality-wise from the increased demand by would-be prosumers, similar to photography? Some industries rely on volume sales from lower priced and lower quality products, to justify the development of a few high-end halo products that sell in much lower volume. Apple phones (and Festool?) are relatively rare in offering relatively unsegmented products at high prices and profit margins, where most buyers have access to similar product features.
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> Those seem to be the people who push the car-less idea the most, because it meets their world view, but doesn't work once you step outside the downtown bubble.

I have a friend who lives in a small village of roughly 3k people. If you step out of her backyard, you step into a winefield. You have to close the windows when they're fertilizing the fields nextdoor with dung.

I can reach her in half an hour plus three minute walk with trains that go every 15 minutes (half-hourly after 8pm, hourly after midnight).

Somehow this is possible all over the world, except in the US where it just an inevitable impossibility, just the way things are. I dare say, the people who are actually in a bubble here are the North Americans who have never seen or lived in a city that is anything except a square mile of skyscrapers surrounded by an endless sea of car-dependent single family houses and desolate concrete parking lots.
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My impression from being in the industry far too long is that Bluetooth was one of a variety of what I think were being touted as personal area (wireless) networks once upon a time with Bluetooth seemingly being pushed for relatively simple use cases like keyboards. But none of those other protocols panned out so Bluetooth ended up being the general non-WiFi wireless standard for things that the original spec never contemplated. The standard has been updated over time of course but I imagine a lot of early-on decisions still have an impact on things.
Agreed. People just want their worldview spoon-fed to them. Once they realize that it's not healthy, it's too daunting to actually put in the effort needed to construct their own worldview and apply it to their life, thus the head-in-sand ignorance approach.

I'm surprised Aaron Swartz, of all people, had this view.
Did you do the re-mapping using webpack? I haven't heard of this approach before and it sounds really promising
We're not in a good place.
Wait, hold on. I somewhat recently discovered I can “see” pulse-width modulation on dimmable LEDs by moving my eyes quickly over the LED and then examining the trail of dashes left by the light.

How does this square with vision being “paused” during the movement?
To me, Blindsight is the gold standard for bleak scifi. It gives the same unsettled feeling one gets from watching, say, Alien for the first time.
You’re basically describing “muzzle brakes and flash suppressors, but with more components to refill/repair”

Separately, using the force of the round (either via a gas tube or via direct rearward motion) to propel the action of the firearm isn’t really an AK47 thing, it’s common to all semi automatic rifles and predates the AK47 by quite a while.
The Resurgence of Tesla Syndrome