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Physical simulation is unique due to latency requirements. The impossibility of using the data center is the common denominator in high performance programming.

In my field, Spark, functional programming for data parallelism, few if any problems of Moore's law ever truly eventuate.

"Compute bottlenecks" are so uncommon. Databricks has almost no lines of Scala written, SQL/Python are "fast enough." Commoditization, "good enough" libraries, packaged in SQL/Python for the lowest common denominator.

Carmack's genius of the inverse square misses the point.

Carmack's genius was the video game Quake itself.

The mathematical brilliance, the high performance programming, was genius applied to overcome a bottleneck.

(And what temporary genius. Contrast Carmack with Unity).

Originality, usefulness. Imagination meeting relevance, is the engine that powers software.
Isn't MV3 seemingly universally hated by extension developers? What good things does it bring for them?

Couldn't FF support MV2 and MV3 at the same time?
So does that mean no more Raspi, i.e. ARM CPU and 3rd party GPU on the same silicon?
The remix team own the name, and npm package distribution rights. The money is used to fund development. I think you've got some good points here around the weirdness that happens when someone builds a business around something that is fundamentally open. In theory, someone could hard fork remix, rename it and do their own thing.

The moat they've built is around the specific team working on remix, the remix community, the remix name, npm distribution rights etc.

The "return" for investors will probably come in the form of selling highly integrated services (like vercel). But right now it seems to be mostly about growing remix to a critical mass. As a user, I've really enjoyed building projects with remix and I think they've built a solid community.

Good article you might find interesting: https://robertcooper.me/post/reflecting-on-remix-open-source...
[Speculation] The issue is probably not the upkeep of the services, but rather the servicing of debt that they took on to get here.
Though the article mentions this:

"Patrick Wildt, an OpenBSD maintainer replied to one of my tweets and told me he had OpenBSD 7.2 up and running on his, so I thought I would at least try that out."

And on twitter he mentions it's unmodified OpenBSD..."@bluerise
told me OpenBSD would work just by flashing a USB pen drive. He was right..."

So it's likely possible with some experimentation.
Binary slices for each GPU generation. So that it becomes huge quite quickly, despite use of compression.
I thought that Simon Williston’s dog used Twitter usefully but on review it turns out, no Cleo uses 4square.

https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehous...
I'd cheekily argue.

The video game industry has downloaded more memory leaks personal machines than all the other domains of software combined. So many lines of terrible C++ have been written...

The importance of Moore's law falls flat in front of good old "bugger good code, Morrowind's rebooting the Xbox."
ARM vs Qualcomm – Fud Edition
Western being what exactly? Houses are rarely spacious in a lot of what qualifies as 'west'. You can't compare The Netherlands and Belgium with Germany, let alone the US.
That would be more attributed to the multiple day trash picking depending on which type, though right?

I mean Tuesday: burnable waste, wed cardboard, Thurs clothes and Fri other, will tend to have trash in the designated areas, on each of those days.

Edit:spelling
(Note:days and trash types differ a lot per area, but it's a good generalisation based off of my location).
I think it's because there were other alternatives that solved the same important problems, while being much simpler and less intrusive.
I don't understand this comment. ANNs are being used everywhere - image recognition, voice recognition, document classification... I can only see this use increasing for the foreseeable future.
Ex-Windows chief reminisces Windows 8, 10 years later
Ouch, that's a pretty horrific video. I don't know if that kind of thing goes down well in the "influencer" or the SV tech scenes, but outside those bubbles it's clearly going to come across as narcissistic, entitled, and lazy. Which is unfortunate because I'm sure she's a wonderful person and a hard and competent worker, but there's a serious lack of judgement making that public.

She is shown scheduling a 30 minute meeting which seems to be the only work done before getting ready for lunch. After lunch plays foosball and meditation and exploring. Now that might be entirely reasonable if she comes to work at 11am and leaves in the evening or clocks back on to do some work at night, or did a bunch of other work before lunch. And having a lot of meetings is what happens when you're a remote worker who comes into the office once a year. None of that comes across to in the video though so what it actually looks like is about 3 hours of meetings (which are mostly taking pictures of one another), and the rest of it lounging around eating and drinking and unwinding.
Preferably whatever web server you use will allow you to assign sections to multiple categories. I agree project based is usually the way to go though.
> because you're comparing all of New York State including housing in Buffalo etc with the 20 arrondissements of central Paris.

But isn't the entire Tokyo Metropolis under an hour by mass transit? That's a far cry from Buffalo. Like, Buffalo cannot commute to NYC by anything other than private aircraft.
Huh. TIL
This page is impossible to read on smartphone at least. There are kilometers of empty space between each line and blocks. And the font is huge. There is 20 lines of a few words each at most per page of scroll.

I have now pain in my finger scrolling so much to try to see what is the point. Also a lot of useless speech and I have not reached the point of why aria label is code smell before giving up...
> That's only in multiplayer games

Certainly not true, it's a game design issue that comes up all the time. Even in the context of casual solo play, players will generally be driven by the very human instincts of risk aversion, resource accumulation, and seeking efficiency. It takes good design to make this behaviour be in line with having fun.

If anything, it's multiplayer environments that are easier to steer towards that, and also allow room for just horsing around.
Battery storage seems to be working for Australia (https://www.energy-storage.news/australia-surpassed-1gwh-of-...).
> the amount of services I couldn't log into because I was avoiding connecting my regular number due to the high international rate

Receiving international SMS while roaming is typically[1] free - just make sure to turn off data roaming and avoid using that SIM to make phone calls.

1. It should in theory always be free on every carrier, but I wouldn’t put it past some MVNOs to charge for it.
The title should really be 'Qualcomm claims ARM to prohibit proximity of CPU w 3rd-party modules in one chip'.

As others have pointed out Arm disputes these claims.

As to the wider dispute Nuvia developed technology using Arm IP under one license and then Qualcomm want to sell that technology under a different - and presumably more favourable and lower cost - license.

The big risk for Arm was always that a big architecture licensee becomes dominant and damages sales of Arm's own cores. That would not only be bad for Arm but bad for customers who use Arm's cores. Whatever you think of the tactics I think this is what Arm is trying to stop Qualcomm doing here.
E.g. Amazon S3 and Backblaze B2 support this.

Re ransomware, how do you prevent it from deleting remote backups?

It can't, locks on objects cannot be removed in compliance mode. They can only expire.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/file_lock.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object...
As far as I understand, Arm ISA is a lot stricter, whereas RISC-V implementations can have more variations. So it's 'easier' to switch to a different implementation of Arm as you'll be more sure that the processor works the same way. At least, that's the idea.
I think generally people view timers as a net superior alternative to crons: they have better logic for the times, they support dependencies, they support randomized delays, etc. Why do you think they're a real mess?
While the background makes sense, I don't think the conclusion follows (that this isn't an antitrust issue in the slightest).

Frankly - many of those other firms are antitrust worries too; it's just that legal antitrust tools are quite weak and (IMHO) insufficient for ensuring competition, and other borderline monopolies likely have better lobbyists. And that might work against ARM here, because the very customers ARM will be squeezing here are those entities with potentially harmful amounts of market (and political) influence.

We'll see how this develops, but I wouldn't take it for granted that this is not antitrust worthy in the slightest. It probably won't get to that, but to entirely exclude the possibility...
If you replace "Buffalo" with "an hour out of NYC" his point still stands.
Sorry I should have specified, I was referring to Aussie homes(my home country) or US. My bad.

But even then I'd probably guess Japanese are smaller. I have not looked at the numbers and will go look now though, I should have before commenting.

Edit: you're right(as I had assumed being familiar), Netherlands average from a quick search is roughly on par.
> The fact you believe Putin's propaganda suggests you listen too much to Russian state media.

Oh please, where? Can't access it in the "freedom of speech" bastion that is Europe! Do you have some link?

I only get NATO propaganda, and tons of it, on every media. I have no intention of being dragged by propagandists like you into a old trite and pointless discussion.

Also, and it's clearly shows you're a propagandist (conscious of it or not), the discussion wasn't about who started the war, but about the efficiency of autocracies. Put any European country in the spot Russia's in, they would collapse in weeks.

But no, you had to hijack it and shift the topic on Ukraine. Enough of it, nobody really cares, same way as nobody cares about Yemen or Syria.

It's all a big circus and people like you willingly joined to take the part of the clowns.
Google spends a lot of money on ML. Are they idiots who throw away money?
> If you don't read the news, then you're at risk of lacking important contextual knowledge about society and social norms.

It’s been at least a decade since news has been a reflection of social norms (I’m in Canada). It feels more and more disconnected and like they’re either pushing agendas or simply filling airtime so they can serve the right amount of ads.
NASA predicts Starship orbital launch as soon as December
> You could just use a random character in your title

As a mild-OCD perfectionist I'm literally grinding my teeth imagining doing it this way. If there is a place for a title a post I write has to have a good title or no title at all.

> or even a whitespace to achieve the effect of a title-free place to post.

If title doesn't have to be unique this already seems as an acceptable compromise.

> Regarding the individual URL, if you don't want to click to copy it using the current flow, you could just CMD+Shift+C to copy the URL?

Nice point. Any chance I could copy a post URL or open it in a background page straight from the posts list? I scroll the feed, see some read/bookmark/share-worthy posts and I would normally middle click them to get them all opened in background tabs.
Yes. Clicks on the voting arrows go to the HN backend, which routes them to systemd-votecount, which then generates article rankings and publishes them over D-Bus, from which the backend picks them up and renders them as HTML.
How does HN have a dark theme? I suppose one's browser sends their light/dark preferences or websites send alternate stylesheets? How does one set it in Chrome? chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark didn't work for me.

What's Minimalist?

Whenever I saw anyone attempting to have everything dark, half the things looked awful, the dark theme was not even an afterthought...
Ask HN: How are you documenting the strategy of your startup?
What makes it like a government? You didn't offer any explanations except that they control speech, however they only control speech on their service and there are alternative services unlike the government
How about none?

Maybe we are seeing the beginning of society putting less value on anyone and everyone having a global public podium? If all social media public content reverts to streams of ads, influencers, marketers, politicians, misinformation campaigns and every nutjob on the planet providing their "expert" commentary, then why bother? I can't see the signal of people I want to follow anymore with all that noise and I'm sure others see the same thing.

Social media has regressed to being a tabloid paper that talks about UFO's, bigfoot and what celebrity is divorcing or whatever. Its complete nonsense and mostly fabricated. Any new platform setup with similar features is going to regress to the same.
In what way are they like small governments?
For naturally introverted people, acting more extroverted can backfire
Maybe the russians, burning that gas in the open instead of selling it to Europe, change the weather an so Europe does't need that gas.
ARM is likely well geared for managing and collecting royalties from chip vendors (hundreds?). It seems to me that setting up an organization to collect from actual device manufacturers (~10^6-10^7 or more?) is a completely different scalability scope and, therefore, a completely different business. Maybe this is rather a targeted game of chicken tailor made against a specific licensee?

Also, re RISC-V. I'm all for that. But an ISA does not make a chip. There is far more to what ARM offers than just its ISA: production-grade cores and surrounding blocks on bleeding edge nodes, etc. They could, theoretically, start selling a RISC-V fetch and decode unit (think of it as a Unix API on top of Windows) and still come out on top.
Tesla has been operating far longer than the vast majority of the 1898 others.

Maybe a better way to state it is that Tesla has been alive and independent longer than ~1895/1900 American car companies.
I feel conflicted, because the deep dive[0] into turbopack after all these misleading claims still has me excited for the future.
The suggestion that JS bundling is very similar to native linking[1] on a previous thread has convinced me that the incremental execution strategy turbopack has chosen is the way forward.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btqdaqEHw0A
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33334091
Not necessarily a problematic trend.

It takes thousands and thousands of engineers to produce a general purpose chip.

It takes... one smart lady to optimize a widely used library for FPGA acceleration.
> forced to make concessions to survive

I disagree

> Or, it could be argued that Firefox exists only to serve as an antitrust shield for Google.

That might well be why google funds them. I can’t say I mind, and it doesn’t make them more user-unfriendly.
>"CORDIC and closely related methods known as pseudo-multiplication and pseudo-division or factor combining are commonly used when no hardware multiplier [or floating point] is available (e.g. in simple microcontrollers and FPGAs), as the only operations it requires are additions, subtractions, bitshift and lookup tables.

>"CORDIC uses simple shift-add operations for several computing tasks such as the calculation of trigonometric, hyperbolic and logarithmic functions, real and complex multiplications, division, square-root calculation, solution of linear systems, eigenvalue estimation, singular value decomposition, QR factorization and many others."
> Spaces for idle chatter turns out to be a total waste of time. [...] There's really more we could be doing with our time

Really? Is this such a bad thing? Sometimes i just want to take a break from 110% productivity and have some idle, mindless chatter.

If I go to the pub and chat with friends I'm not wasting my time.
All other known solutions are worse.
That kinda makes my point stronger - I have only lived in those two cities I mentioned and yet I found their public transport perfectly sufficient for everyday use. Despite of that, my neighborhoods were always filled with parked cars.

I am using taxis at times, but rarely and I usually go out of my way to not use them at traffic hours, because then it's often much slower than going by train or tram (not even speaking about metro [Warsaw] or fast tram lines [Poznań], which are hard to beat even outside of traffic hours). Also, when I'm sitting in a public transport, I'm free to spend my time somewhat productively or even just relax by, say, playing a game on a console - while driving a car is tiring, stressful and you can't really do anything else at the same time, so it seems to me that it actually wastes much more time. And what you sometimes gain by traveling faster, you often lose searching for a parking spot anyway.
Now you do! I'm writing you right now from a Alpine Laptop.

> Without systemd, bootstrapping a complicated desktop environment would be a hot mess

startx on tty1, i3 being launched from xinitrc. Same procedure that i use on any other distro or BSD.
The arrogance of Lennart has something to do with it.
The way he tends to disregard real bugs as not a bug, since he and his production are perfect and always right.
Numerous cases of that.
Then the security aspect of a jack of all trades process running as one that controls every other process.
Reading logs after a panic and rebooting to check them is a pain in the ass without journald on the chrooting system, reading and parsing logs the same.

There are many reasons to not like systemd and the creator, who incidently after leaving the GNU/Linux is now working for the same company that sought to destroy it, Microsoft.

The above doesn't represent my personal opinion, it's a representation of what reasons people might have.
It does, it took me a minute to click on the "fqa" (o; but I absolutely love the design, humour and aesthetic. The web needs more of this oddballness. Dare I say, odd balloon-ness
Incidentally most of them _are_ focusable by the keyboard but just aren't tabbable.

I'm using a Chrome plugin Vimium - one of the shortcuts 'f' (documented as opening links) actually highlights all focusable elements. Using this feature shows most of the checkboxes are interactive.

Edit: I guess the reason for me pointing this out is hopefully there's an easy way to make these more accessible for keyboard users.
KDE Plasma 5.26 review – Pretty reasonable
The only thing this will result in is the speedup of the move over to RISC-V. Because of this spat I predict RISC-V will be dominant within a decade and large inroads in 5 years or less in the mobile and embedded space.

I even predict we'll see large numbers of vendors who'll make RISC-V server and desktop CPU's.
That's actually a nice way to look at it, and helped me see why and in what cases I dislike this phraseology - I couldn't really articulate this before. So I think my issue is presenting something in time-units per action and talking about an optimisation of it as multiples of actions per time-unit faster.

I hate it a little less now :)
Facebook is a Bad Example on stability at scale..
Vercel give me nothing but very suspect vibes. I don’t know what it is exactly but reminds me a lot of the cryptocurrency crowd.
But it had a cute bird. And the fail whale.

It was approachable and silly. People didn’t take it seriously, but they weren’t intimidated by it.

Don’t underestimate the benefit of being underestimated.
I use an old EeePC901 with a broken screen with two 4TB USB drives plugged into it for my remote backups. Built-in UPS. Though I measured it last night and was slightly surprised to find it using 19W while idle.
Used to be always on Twitter, YouTube news channels, Reddit and various online publications. But over time, I've cut everything out except HN & The Economist. The Economist has a free-market bias but gives a decent round of up what's going on in the world.
TBH, now it will.
This is one of the papers cited: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Beyond-GDP%3A-Measurin...

The graphs are very interesting, especially the divergence of GDP from GPI in China. While the theory that GDP is a poor measure of delivering real improvement to human lives is believable, the numbers for China may also indicate they may have been cooking the GDP books since about the early 2000s.

Unfortunately there is a lot of anti-China disinfo going around. But untrustworthy data from China is a thing. I wonder if this research will reveal that not only has quality of life stagnated in China, but also the GDP numbers are not as good as has been claimed for over a decade, which affects assessments of sovereign and private debt, etc.
That is such a bullshit comment, entitled and ignorant, genZ type of stupid
In the last months I identified a pattern in my media consumption. When there is a huge new issue (Covid, War on Ukraine, Fukushima…) I turn on the news. And yes, various big international reputable sources (NY Times, Wash Post, BBC, Reuters, Spiegel, Süddeutsche) plus the independent journalists I found over the years to be reliable and professional, usually in podcast format. Then I dive into it and try to get as good as an understanding as I can. Until there is a saturation point where it doesn’t help my everyday routine anymore. The question that I try to answer during that period is: Should I somehow change my behavior?

With Covid, it was figuring out how to navigate social situations. What are useful measures, which ones are useless? With the Ukraine it was, is my family in immediate danger? Is there something I can do to help from where I am at?

When I found an answer to these questions, I adjust my behavior and I turn the news off and only tune in occasionally to follow along and check if those answers are still valid or did something fundamentally change.

I normally read one of the big news papers here in Germany, die Zeit, to keep an eye on local and country wide politics. Usually I scan the headlines and then read one or two articles a week.

In addition to that I follow several journalistic podcasts that provide more detailed information and context on ongoing topics. They are typically a once a week overview. From the show notes, I jump to one or two long form articles if I want to know more about a certain topic.

From where I am at, there is nothing I can do to shape the course of the world at large, but I also don’t want to lose contact. But yes, I prefer to get a detailed breakdown afterwards than a live ticker.

There is also the regional events and decisions in my neighborhood and kids school to keep up with, which is where I feel it is my citizen’s responsibility to stay informed and ideally participate in the decision making process.

I am also trying to block out tech news that are not immediately relevant to my current work as that also easily distracts me.

The senders are all turned up to eleven and is up to the receiver to filter out the noise.

The book that had the biggest influence on how I consume media was Neil Postman‘s Amusing ourselves to death.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034.Amusing_Ourselves_...
This is a really wholesome top comment for a Show HN :)
Productivity improvements in the economy are indeed deflationary. That's a general idea in economics.

https://cdn.mises.org/Less%20than%20Zero%20The%20Case%20for%... is an interesting book on the topic. (Ignore for a moment that it's hosted by mises.org..)

Some people think that deflation is bad for an economy. That's a bit confused.

What's bad for the economy is a fall in aggregate nominal spending. That one leads to recession and unemployment.

If prices fall, but total spending stays stable, that's fine.