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Memories have their specialized processes indeed, but there are other reasons to specialize.

New nodes are fine for logic, but it takes time for analog IPs to move to new nodes (and some may not). So what AMD did, using an advanced node for compute/logic and a less advanced one for I/Os should be typical. You can also see this in broadband cellular modems, where the baseband part is on an advanced node and the RF on an older one.

When you look at processes offering, you often have variants optimized either for peak performance (frequency) or maximum efficiency. The peak performance would be the natural choice for (big) CPUs, and an efficiency node better suited for a GPU or any massively parallel accelerator where efficiency is more relevant than peak frequency (on this, I think Intel planned to use TSMC for their HPC GPU, could be related: they can focus on high perf for their CPUs).
Does that mean all commissioned work (which is a ton of the work that hangs in museums) is not really art?
> The stereotype is to think of, say, a Yale Philosophy grad with an enormous amount of debt and a useless degree (NB: I don't think a Phil degree is useless).

I find it (morbidly) amusing that many people in STEM say "We need more people studying ethics", yet the people who actually did study and teach ethics are considered to have made a "poor choice" and deserve no sympathy from society.
>> Education should be subsidized anyway

Education is subsidized. The question is whether 17 years of subsidized education are going to get you significantly better results than 13 years of subsidized education, as in enough to justify the costs.
It is the usual Linux ARM trade off of ‘just works’ vs security (old vendor patched kernel vs mainline)
The EU is different than the US. The EU has country club culture of old families that stay off each other’s turf. That used to be the case in the US where airlines split routes, and the cable business is still a mess. Steve Jobs tried to pull that shit with programmer salaries. Frankly I have little issue with US monopolies as many you list only make a 10% margin. I’d rather pay T-Mobile $27 than the $30 I currently pay, but I am not all that upset about it. An Epipen is $600. That is due to the FDA only approving 1 device with $0.10 worth of epinephrine, when the EU has 6 choices all less than $100. Bad government policy can screw us. It would be really nice if the US government relaxed the regulations on a drug invented in 1910 combined with a spring.

I’m not disagreeing with you but I just feel like I am as likely to get screwed by regulatory capture as natural monopolies. Wild west entrepreneurial capitalism is a decent antidote to crony capitalism which thrives with regulation.

MBS, Putin, Biden, Trump, Xi all want power over industry, media, and education. I question how much I want a savior empowered by the law and a duty to save us from monopolies and tycoons. Elon Musk seems to be creating a monopoly on space access and he is high on the scale of douchbag, but he is unlikely to make my life worse. Even if he controls space.

From a monopolistic standpoint, you have to laugh at Zuck getting a Fuck from Chinese TicTok. It may not be good, but he isn’t cronies with Mr. Zhang.

It is also worth acknowledging that most of the audience here has benefited directly or indirectly from the obscene profit margins that the US tech scene has created. Complaining about monopolies is biting the hand that feeds. Ignore any negativity as the choir here gets the rich milk of profit margins which have historically only ever been created by monopolies.

What makes me laugh is that the US military and US fracking means we Americans get the good life and high programmer salaries because US tech is immune while Europeans hang their laundry outside.
Absolutely yes. It’s a shared cost just like road maintenance or sewer systems.
Unless node identity were stable, which doesn't match my mental model of "crypto," then flagging Node 0x42e7a28dd454 doesn't prevent the Node owner from just starting a new one. See also: reddit spam accounts

For something as dynamic as "fetch HTML into the index," that actually turns into a really hard problem to solve since there's for sure not one agreed upon "correct" answer, and even with "the html must differ only by ${foo}%" or whatever, the amount a malicious actor would need to alter HTML to achieve bad outcomes is actually comparatively small
Humans aren't more attracted to ethanol than other mammals which do not regularly consume fruit. Give a dog or a horse or a goat or a racoon some booze and it'll be back for more (don't actually do this).
The annual increase in renewable generation in China is now many times that of the annual increase in nuclear generation. Starting at 2010 leads to an underestimate of the renewables' current velocity advantage over nuclear there.
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Pacsafe. https://pacsafe.com/collections/urban

Absolutely love these bags; paired with MasterLock. Mostly for travel. My Venturesafe 15L is my default laptop bag that I will use day-to-day and bring with me if I am traveling with anything other than the Vibe 28L. And sometimes bring it then too.

(the 15L holds a 13" Mac + remarable tablet + wires/dongle/power-converters bag + one light change of clothes + few other things like passport, small snacks, meds/advil, water bottle etc)

Earlier this year I stayed overnight (6 hours) landside in YYZ near the AC area with couches. They had heavy or bolted end tables next to the couch and it was the first time I really used the detachable & lockable strap feature to secure the bag from being swiped while I slept. Had the bags for years never had a need for it, but that just renewed my love for them.

The Metrosafe is one I am looking to get next, just haven't found my self needing a new one yet with the others.
Read Masters of Doom.

You're either interested enough [in studying those things] to start now or you're not. If you want to look back when you're eighty and take pride in achieving and enjoy that stuff for fifty or sixty of them, then start now and write off the last ten as finding yourself, which always has a cost and is incurred by everyone. I was always a voracious coder ten to fifteen hours most days of my life. Even then, it's not with gaming, reading, travel, and family/friend development in order to feed my relationships(because code can't share your happiness and doesn't take care of you when you're sick) and give me a little variety so as to be able to think through problems while away from the screen for a little bit.
If you go back far enough, any explanation is going to come down to ‘luck’ in the form of chance circumstances. However, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t still examine what form the ‘luck’ came in.
> Similarly, it’s entirely conceivable that we may find independent ways to test which of the proposed modifications of the evolution laws is correct, for instance by using data collected from binary mergers. Then, these modified laws would lead to a modified story of what happened near the Big Bang.

Sure, but you have to start from observations of the binary merger, not from what you'd like the Big Bang to be like, like most of these theories do. Starting from predictions about the origin of the universe is unlikely to produce good testable theories, since there is nothing to test there. You have to look at phenomena that are actually still happening in the universe to guide your research, and only then extrapolate.
I have immense empathy for those that work hard and have the fruits of that taken away, but there is a sickness in the US where all inevitable indirect motion caused by the simple reality of living in a zero-sum system (called civilization) is framed as something being "taken away", which implies much more injustice than the actual consequences in question. It's an adjacent mindset to the one that can not have a rational discussion about anything related to taxation because they think that the phrase "taxation is theft", aside from being true or not, is a perfectly complete opinion on all taxation-related topics. It's also adjacent to the mindset that obsesses over "personal responsibility", which is certainly a noble ideal, but from the mouths of these people is instead used as a rejection of reason and empathy. These hyper-reductions might have a seed of a legitimate idea in them, but they are ultimately destructive.
Just because a conflict/war hasn't been officially resolved or declared over by both sides doesn't mean the final outcome isn't clear.
This article makes it sound as if there's no large American Chestnuts, but that's not completely accurate. The largest trees in the US are a pair of trees in Thurston County, WA, that are 80-90' tall with ~10' circumferences: https://d3f9k0n15ckvhe.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/202...
Your bank app doesn't have shortcuts to pay fines and taxes?
LNT is a godsend for the nuclear industry.

The alternative is not "we don't know, so we'll assume the effect is zero"; it's "we don't know, so we'll assume the effect is the largest not ruled out by evidence." And that would make estimates of the effects of radiation in nuclear accidents far worse.
I quickly learned never to stay on the 38 as far as Shaftesbury Avenue...
I don't get your point. If we want to save lives, let's stop forcing people to buy drugs from black markets. Lives will be saved if people aren't forced to buy unknown drugs and essentially "guess" what the right dose might be. That's how most deaths from illegal drugs occur.

There is a separate issue of doctors over-prescribing dangerous drugs and people abusing those drugs. I think preventing those overdoses and deaths takes a totally different approach.
The reason I bought it up was to point out the assumption that programmers have ingrained in us, that production is trivial.

Setting up a production line is just as tricky as anything you've seen while debugging.

We programmers are incredibly privileged.
Why can’t it be both? Why can’t art that is fundamentally for yourself still be fundamentally social? The entirety of the concepts, techniques, themes, etc. in any art come from exterior influences; the complex web of humanity and our history. That is inherently social to me, even if the end result is never shared.
In the UK it's E
Depends on the field, Gödel's theorems make claims of impossibility.
what do you mean by "skew the results" ?
Elephants actually do eat a lot of fruit as well. But yeah it was definitely a playful hypothesis and not a serious proposal. I'm sure if I researched it for even 10 minutes I could find a lot of examples that disprove it
They seem to have a configuration option for it: https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it/blob/main/options.html#... but that file isn't present in the most recent tag, so it's possible it just needs a release or you'd need to build the extension from source
> Plenty of countries, especially in Asia, but also the UAE and possibly others, have successfully stopped nearly all drug use

What nonsense is this? Countries with capital punishment on drugs like thailand, Philippines and singapore (and before malaysia who cancelled the death penalty but are still strict) are rife with dope; you can buy it everywhere; I mean it is literally shoved in your face on every corner. Which countries are you talking about? I been to many, I only drink (by the way; a dangerous, addictive harddrug; people tend to forget alcohol as drug), but I got offered everywhere, all the time. And there are many native users, you can see them all over the place.

UAE I don't know; I would never go there.
Is there a concurrent Oberon variant, like Per Brinch Hanson's Joyce? http://brinch-hansen.net/papers/

Wouldn't it be nice to have a memory-, type- and concurrency safe systems language again (after Concurrent Pascal)
No one acquires apps based on line count.
This book is a very fun read and was awesome for understanding why some of the Unix stuff works the way it does
It's cute that you consider 13,000 LOC big.
on the other hand its 100% reliable and needs no fuel, does notndepend on drought, etc.
It sounds like you are saying that since the US system is not worse than Rwanda, it doesn’t need to change.
agree but be aware carroll swings way way way way to the other extreme especially about the pet theories he happens to like: multiverses ; the everett interpretation of qm ;boltzmann's brains and so on
Fantastic short story about the American Chestnut in the book Overstory by Richard Powers.
AMD fabs at TSMC (and GloFo for the I/O die before, but this has moved to TSMC too recently) and has been using chiplets. TSMC does have 2.5 and 3D packaging for this. But it's still up to the fabless client of TSMC to design the chip. In other words, TSMC provides the enabling tools, but it's up to their client to use them. For now it's for the big players.
Honestly I find “it’s unknowable” to be a pretty satisfactory answer. Mostly because to me it points at something that seems almost obvious the more I’ve thought about it. Even if it were possible to see past the “Big Bang”, what possible reason is there to think that would be the end of the rabbit hole? As mind bending as it is to think that the trail is infinite, it’s even more mind bending to imagine that it’s not.
Indeed, I shipped several desktop apps that were in the low millions SLOC. Looking at some recent private hobby apps, I've consistently approached 100k. The SLOC here is less important than the size of the target audience (and metrics like retention).
The idea is that they will be able to return it after going to college.
> if an artist is motivated by social factors to make art

Theres an entire subset of socializing/communal happenings as art called relational aesthetics tho
You know who became vegetarian because of his concern for animal suffering? Hitler. That's as relevant for dietary and ethics choices as your mention of Pinochet's brutality is for economic policies.
To add to your point, why should there be nothingness? Who is to say that 0 is before 1? There's 1/2 somewhere right? And 1/4 before that, etc.

It's not obvious that there "should" be nothing, rather than perpetual something. It's not obvious we should work with integers and not the reals. Or the rationals. Or the rationals without zero, which cannot exist as a denominator (in the common definition of the rationals). It's not obvious that we've ever detected zero. And why a line? Why not a circle? And even if a line, couldn't it be the limit of a circle whose radius tends to infinity? Etc.
What a great username.
Didn’t seem to like loading itself :)
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In particular, supplying a 1 GW(e) burner reactor would require a U absorber field over 170 km^2 of continental shelf (in a strong current). This is roughly an order of magnitude lower average power/area than solar.
Only statistic which I could find on short notice (literally first google result ...) but considering it's federal, I trust a small sample size more than random numbers from someone on the internet without quotation, especially if they are off by an order of magnitude from other countries.

The clue is: It looks like the numbers are reversed which would make a lot more sense.
Why would a college graduate have no job prospects? I think you'll find people coming from marginalized backgrounds are much more likely to enter a field of study with plentiful job prospects.
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That reminds me of her article, very narrow. She seems to imply scientists, or at least scientific theories, implicate certain universal origins when really they're implying "to the best of our current knowledge". I think most everyone that's scientifically literate, and you'd think it'd be common knowledge among most of HN crowd, knows that scientific theories of universal origins aren't certain but here we have a whole article of the 'well awkshually' party-pooping you're talking about. She does seem pretty certain about uncertainty though which tells the tale that she's not beyond the paradox either.
Fascinating, thanks!

I remember seeing a lecture by an anthropologist who showed a graph that mapped the size of different primates vs what percent of their day they spend just chewing food. Chimps spend about 60% of their days just chewing for example. The trendline was a surprisingly effective predictor for other primates. Except for humans. Based on our mass we would expect humans to spend around 70% of our day just chewing. Instead it's less than 10%

Another point of evidence that supports the hypothesis put forth in the OP
Probably UPT[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Personal_Telecommuni...
Father first, hobbies second, etc.
Even for nuclear power plants built 40 years ago and already fully paid for/amortized?
The recent Stewart Brand documentary goes into American Chestnuts quite a bit.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11741708/
War is terrible, i agree, we seen it when the US killed and raped civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq

But you only describe the effect of war, not the cause of that particular event

Let me educate you a little bit, the US lied to the world, they promised they'd never expend NATO in Europe, they want Ukraine to join NATO and become the N'th american military base, Russia went ahead and made sure it wouldn't happen since Ukraine, the most corrupt country in Europe [1], went silence radio

Should i remind you who is Zelenskyy, or you already know?

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-...
AFAICT nobody is talking about "how many" except for you. My argument was percentage based and for that the total population is irrelevant.
When you use the app, not the blog, there are audios with the pronunciation, instead of these approximations. Wanikani is the app I refer to as useful, not Tofugu’s blog.
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If the 4 bytes are reserved by the C compiler then there isn’t much to do (unless there is a flag to control bytes for strings length).

One byte is the actual overhead for strings.
Yes but they should have a different IP to the one that is forwarded to because shared devices will have differing MAC addresses and default setup.

For example a lower end Dell without a separate iDRAC port will share with the first NIC with a IP that is either DHCP assigned or a built in default - both of which are unlikely to be forwarded by accident.

Older Dells had a standard root password of "calvin" which was an appalling idea. Newer ones do as HPE and have a default autogenerated monstrosity printed on a pull out slide. Also you can set jumpers on the mainboard to reset it. Look at the manual or the inside of the cover.
And for those other systems, iF they embed arithmetic, we can effectively produce a statement that is visibly true and which that other system cannot prove.
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Hello HN !

I'm the founder of https://symfoz.com which is basically a RSS aggregator that allows people to partition the content they want to see in dedicated spaces called "Playlists", thus reducing the time needed to find the information they need.

Why Symfoz instead of other RSS aggregators ?

- Create playlists of content, avoid mixing too many feeds in the same place. You know where everything is.
- Follow people or playlists, people can create some playlists with AWESOME content, you may benefit from it.
- We handle classic RSS feeds, but also Youtube channels, Twitter feeds, Spotify Podcasts, sub-reddits.
- An easy UI interface (This is still WIP, UI is very hard haha)
- Promote retention of information by allowing people to take notes (not highlighting but really take notes), instead of just consuming content and forget it. You'll be able to find your notes easily.

A bit more about the project (you can skip this!), this is a side project that I've been working on for almost a year.
I'm a back-end developer and the stack runs in Python. If you'd like more details, please feel free to ask, I'll be glad to answer !

Thanks for taking the time to read this, feel free to give any feedback, I would be really grateful :) !
Wow that was a close call, happy to see that got resolved and very scary that it almost wasn't picked up.
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Hossenfelder is a polarizing figure. “Lost In Math” was a thought-provoking book in the tradition of the other string iconoclasts (Smolin, Woit, Rovelli, roughly “the Perimeter crowd”). “Three Roads to Quantum Gravity” was the last general audience book that Smolin did before he’d fucking had it and did “The Trouble with Physics”. Woit went straight for the jugular with “Not Even Wrong”.

These people have (for better or worse) burnt the ships with the people of their generation who write grants and sit on tenure committees.

Hossenfelder’s pivot to “wildly over-credentialed pop-sci YouTuber” is interesting. My gut flinch reaction is like, “you’re better than this”, but… I have not walked a mile in her shoes, and if this is an end-run around a corrupt job market for particle/high-energy people who won’t won’t get on board with The Landscape? Maybe more power to her.

I give that context so that people will know (my opinion on) the backstory for why she’s in an adversarial relationship with The Academy.

The “will never know” phrasing might be unfortunate. But the epistemological principle goes back to Hawking at least: “asking what happened before the Big Bang or where it came from is like asking what is north of the North Pole”.

It’s a fun thing to theorize about, but the Big Bang is almost definitionally “the bound on observable causality”. It’s not a statement about what we won’t ever know, it’s a statement about what’s knowable.
I'm confused about the race conditions mentioned.

Can't you just copy a byte to a buffer checking for null, counting down the length.

At the assembly level you have to copy a byte at a time anyway.

I don't see why you'd want to check the entire length of the input string for strlcpy either. It seems less than optimal.

I'm guessing the people involved know more than me. So...?
> Who then is supposed to pay for a criminal’s stay in prison? Law-abiding tax-payers?

Absolutely yes.

If society is improved by the removal of these individuals from free association therein, and the decision is made to do so, then society should be responsible for the costs necessary to make it happen.

Cost of enforcement should be a limiting factor on the expansion of laws. If nothing else, it is a proxy for the number of people criminalized, which is a measure of social acceptability (and/or lack of negative impact) of the behaviour itself.
The Seek app by iNaturalist is one possible way for armchair conservationists to catalog the trees on their property.
I don't think is that easy as doing it in the game city skylines :)
Friendly relations with Iran, lol.
A country completely destroyed by US with their regime change and replaced with autocratic mullahs that are far far worse for humanity, intelligence or any civilization.

Russia or Russians don't want to destroy the west unlike Iran mullahs or Saudi royals
Seems pretty recent, judging from the "If you want to marry cool PM" tagline at the top. (Though I thought ms Marin is married already?)

Heard a bit of a "Newspodd" on Radio Vega, where someone claimed the most common reaction abroad to the recent storm-in-a-teacup news brouhaha was "Are you just jealous because she's hot and cool?"
>and you're using your phone as a flashlight

And they've probably been using it as a GPS all day which can come pretty close to draining the battery all by itself.

Modern smartphones are pretty wonderful but it's easy to put all your eggs in that one basket and have no realistic fallback.
So it’s an alternative to sitemaps, documents that can list incrementally all the web pages of a website with their last modification date-time, but with a push model instead of a pull model?

https://www.sitemaps.org/
It certainly seems so, based on jcifs: https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server/blob/master/sourc...