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Competition drives prices down in a fair market, but the credit card business is an oligopoly - with huge regulatory and structural barriers to entry. That is, despite Visa and MasterCard’s enormous profits, there is little chance of new players entering the market and increasing competition.

Regulation is warranted in monopoly/oligopoly situations. Either by changing the rules to favour/promote increased competition, or, as the EU has done here, by capping the fees which they can charge.
Moore's law is still going strong. But when people talk about Moore's Law ending they normally mean a wider set of trends, specifically:

- Transistor count doubles every ~24 months (Moore's law) - still going strong

- Total power stays ~constant (Dennard Scaling) - no longer holds

- Total cost stays ~constant - don't know if there is a name for this, but it no longer holds either

The real magic was when you had all three trends working together, you would get more transistors for the same power and same total cost. As the last two trends have fallen off, the benefit of Moore's law by itself is reduced.

There is still some effect of the last two trends, power per transistor and cost per transistor are still dropping, just at a slower rate than density is increasing. So power budgets and costs continue to grow. Hence 450W GPUs and 400W CPUs.
> you'll need strict mode for type hints to be useful.

false.

Utterly false, I don't know where you came up with all of that nonsense. All type hints work as expected, just you can't typehint variables. Only parameters/class properties/return types.

And the `strict mode` is a failed experiment no longer recommended in new code (no side effects but no benefits either).
This is what MobX does and so does Vue and a few other frameworks like Solid or Qwik (though with a different rendering model) - hardly a novel idea.

Heck even in lisps there was reagent which was basically this and had atoms/signals :)
I joined a remote only company 5 months ago and saw people face to face for the first time earlier this week. It takes more conscious effort, sure. But that's also all. It will be a hard adjustment for companies whose staff is not used to remote work, but it's just a skill people will acquire.
> I'm also confused about "switch OLED". Is it just a nicer screen or more than that?

Upgraded screen, more battery and storage, and identical everything else.
Yes, it is getting ever more challenging for trying to understand US politics, particularly at the fringes.

Note that we have loonies too, sure, and what is interesting is that they pick their garbage mostly from US loonies, but this garbage does not fit well into the local settings, so that the result is often even crazier.
> Even as a relative expert, I never understood this until I saw a demo app (to prove the privacy issue) that looped through all your photos and displayed your geotagged locations.

Any link to this demo? Would love to use it as example
Yes but you didn't actually ask because you wanted to know if he read the article. You asked as a form of attack.
The programs don’t take money from the merchants - they raise their prices to cover the fees.

The reality is that they exist largely because the people earning the points aren’t paying the bills. Most CC Rewards programs target the professional class of travelers - people who travel for work where the employer pays the bill. It’s essentially taking from consulting companies’ clients to give to the employees.
Used it in every way I can think of. It doesn't work. Even when it works, it still requires each courier to interpret and follow instructions, when a simple map pin would get them there without delay...
I dunno about the ST but my Amiga 1200 very much has an FPU and and IP network. I would be very surprised if that wasn’t something that you could add to an ST as well.
They might be putting themselves in a similar position as Intel though (maybe worse since I don’t recall Intel ever being as greedy..) if their competitors eventually catch up.

Unlike in gaming in the data center initial cost + performance per watt are the only thing that really matter (besides software, Nvidia has a huge moat there..). And in relation to how much Nvidia is charging per GPU total power costs are close to zero.. So 4 ‘worse’ but much cheaper chips might be a better deal than buying an A/H100 etc.
interesting take

otoh it can be said that gpu's just look like they improved longer than cpu's because their workload is vastly more susceptible to parallelism.
https://dnotq.io/f18a/intro.html
Why can't they make the same thing but as a phone?

I'm desperate to have a cheap, open, frugal device that I can program easily that fit into my pocket.

I'm not willing to use Android studio just to make a simple app, or godot, or JavaScript or nodejs.

It's 2023 and Carmack is still right, there are way too many layers of crap, we just cannot use our phone like we want. It's awful.

It's such a paradox, smartphones are amazingly fast... But it's impossible to find something open and slow. Capitalism makes this impossible.
The article misses one of if not the main factor in Japan's rapid industrialization. Tokugawa Japan was a police state and over the centuries society had become extremely regimented. At the beginning of the Meiji era, Japan's social resources were already very organized and easily commanded.

I suspect he is also overstating the quality and spread of public education. Meiji Era literacy rates were much lower than people like to think.

I've studied Japanese history quite a bit and find the Meiji Era the most interesting part of it, mainly because of the intellectual ferment, but his view of social conditions is too rosy.
Even Kindergartners Should Be Allowed to Walk to School: Study
I think it's fair to point out that the buses with cargo space are mostly used for long distance routes. Local traffic buses used by most cities don't have dedicated space for luggage.
> If you have an HA requirement your infra spend has just doubled, and the ROI on your DR tends to nothing (unless you can do something clever with on demand DR)? You’re also replicating everything your write to DR (so network and storage there).

You're quite correct, but it's not such a simple trade-off.

1. What's a "disaster"? A) "Datacenter burns down" is very different to B) "Instance got overloaded with unexpected spike, need more capacity". For A), your distributed system will still have outages in a particular area, so you'll spin up new instances in the nearest live DC, at a time when everyone else is trying to do the same! And B) is not a disaster.

2. Disaster recovery is, by definition alone, an exceptional event. If you're reaching for DR protocols more than once a year, there's something seriously wrong. Being able to scale out means that you only need a few minutes before you're up to capacity, but shaving off (say) 30m in the event of a genuine black swan event depends on the exact business. I've seen Fintechs, FAANGs, Fortune 100 companies, banks, etc have hours of downtime with no apparent negative effects. It's a black swan event that's not an extinction level event, nor even close.

A bigger problem for the business is that if a black swan event that results in:

> Waiting 30 minutes for a machine to checksum 1TB of memory before loading the OS is painful in an outage scenario

turns into an ELE, then it's the business that has problems, not the systems. A business that is so fragile to downtime is not going to be in business much longer anyway.
I think this is true for a subset of software. Although I think a more general truth is that how you organize data pretty is what defines your software. It's the root of virtually all of your problems and successes in designing software.

It's also why it's so unfortunate data modelling is often ad-hoc by defaulting to some bucket-of-json model with no regard for the needs of the application.

I also think surprisingly often, given some ideal data modelling, it's both faster and easier to use synchronous processing because you no longer end up having data far away in weird formats.
I was just about to send this to the Cathode Ray Dude since he recently put out a video about these OEM Linux dual-boot systems. Then I realized this is his site...
would you say that article is fair to Elon?

does it present numerous sides and possibilities for why Elon does the things that the article is attacking him for?

Or does the article present a singular interpretation for Elon's behavior?
Real-time events indexing for any EVM chain by only an RPC url
You compare services to products here.
The market doesn't appreciate disruptive changes to services, hence all improvements done in services of both Apple and Google are iterative and subtle, additive not disruptive.

Such changes are usually also not newsworthy, unless one has to do leaps to catch up with a competitor (looking at you, Apple Maps)...

Google only has a few consumer products, but they made quite a few leaps in the past years for similar reasons (Pixel Phone has to catch up with Samsung, Pixel Watch has to catch up with Apple Watch), while Google/Nest Home is competing mainly with Amazon in an ecosystem war I'd say.

One could argue that the iPhone is not moving forward much in user-experience for a few years now, it's mainly iterating to achieve further cost-reduction/profit and enhance additional revenue streams of Apple.

- Apple Watch is mainly getting enhanced to create additional (healthcare/insurance/services) business for Apple.

- The iPad is under no stress to evolve other than cost-reduction in HW/SW development by harmonization with the iPhone, main strategy seems to be to push customers towards more expensive variants.

- The Macbook was indeed revolutionized, by applying the same supply-chain practice of the iPhone. Lots of leaps forward here in terms of tech, something only Apple could do. But Apple was also not leading this segment and is under strong competition, so they were forced to do something or dissolve into oblivion.

- The Desktop-Mac trajectory seems to be to become a MacBook without battery.

There's an easy explanation for that UX stagnation in iOS: iOS-products are actually not classical "products" anymore, but equipment for consuming services. The devices come bundled with a few free services from Apple and encouage you to consume other services from affiliates.
Apple's main incentive is then not to sell new hardware, but to rollout new enabler-HW for selling additional services.

And they are in an increasing struggle to keep consumers "entertained" to pay for new enabler-HW, so apart from keeping control over their supply-chain they now need to become more exclusive in HW-components to lock-out competitors. Of course that can all be beneficial to the consumer, but would Apple move forward if they weren't forced by their business model?
I believe that what is being missed in this thread is that, as it stands, user consent can be forged by prompt injection.
One thing that didn't suck that we threw away was 4:3 screens though.

And chunky plastic builds with easily user-replaceable parts.

And nice full 7 row keyboards that felt good to type on.

And rounded laptop edges so it doesn't kill your wrists.

And ports, lots of ports.
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So just being someone that got tired of the commute and moved to a dense European city that's a 2000 years old, there are several assumptions you make I can't agree with.

1. I've absolutely been menaced on the road several times in the USA, you have to share the road with that 1 of 100 idiot too, (in a fast multiton hunk of metal). You've discounted this in your head but treat that same risk on a bus or whatever as impossible to cope with. I get it, everyone has their preference but you're not being equitable in the comparison.
2. Tiny dense European cities suck to drive and park in, but tend to be rather pleasurable on foot as all the services are accessible there, not wallkign through a giant parking lot
3. Driving a car is crazy dangerous by the numbers. Again everyone has their preference and your entitled to yours but again not actually an equitable comparison.
4. You seem to have a high minded view of driving I did not really encounter in 24 years of driving in US cities.

In the end, you're entitled to your preferences and I encourage you to continue driving but please be fair in your comparisons and leave the rest of us to ours.
Fuck me, but you lot are hard work.

Out.
It's true that Moore's original claim was about number of transistors and not about any actual metric of performance.

But "number of transistors" is like "number of lines of code": it's a cost, not a benefit, and if it feels otherwise it's only because that cost is the cost we have to pay for some benefit we care about.

And the claim that's increasingly commonly made these days isn't "transistor density has stopped improving" (though I think that's slowed down somewhat since Moore's time?) but more like "performance has stopped improving".

If we are putting more and more transistors on our chips (hence, larger die area, lower yields, more cost, more heat produced, more expensive cooling required) but not getting corresponding performance improvements in the tasks we actually value, then the thing everyone actually valued about Moore's law is dead, regardless of the status of the literal words of Moore's claim.
I am not confused at all. I can certainly just run MacOS and run everything else Android. BUT that takes away from one of the main value propositions of Apple ecosystem - integration. So to get the full benefit, I migrate my phone to iPhone and that is where it begins.

Also, don't call people liars without evidence. Read the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
you claim he's anti-ukraine yet he sent starlink to Ukraine.

Elon responds to all kinds of people right wing and left wing with one word messages on Twitter,he's not ideologically driven ...that's the definition of free speech.

you and many others like the author of this article seem to be leaving out facts in order to demonize Elon.

I find Elon is a very good canary in the coal mine for how susceptible someone is to media propaganda.
OP says the app was not monetized, so this rule seems to be irrelevant.
>>You asked as a form of attack.

Mate, you're turning this into a joke now. Get a grip.
I think it's worth mentioning, that "Moore's Law" is not actually a "law". It's just an observation of a historical trend.

Moore posited in 1965 that the the amount of transistor per chip will roughly double every year - something he himself called "a wild extrapolation" in a later interview.

Actual development speed proved slower than that, so in 1975 he revised his prediction to transistors doubling every two years - so, the original "Moore's Law" was already dead by then. The second revision of his prediction proved more long-lived, in part because manufacturers were actively planning their development and releases around fulfilling that expectation - making it sorta a self-fulfilling prophecy.

There was another slow down in 2010 though - with actual development falling behind "schedule" since then.

But neither the "doubling" - nor the "year" or "two years" were ever anywhere near precise to begin with, so the question "is it dead" depends highly on how much leeway you are willing to give.

If you demand strict doubling every year - that's been dead since before 1975.

If you demand roughly doubling every two years - that's probably mostly dead since 2010.

If you allow for basically exponential growth but with a tiny bit of slow down over time - then it's still alive and well.

There can be no precise answer to the question - since the whole prediction was so imprecise to begin with. I don't think there's any benefit to getting hung up on drawing a supposedly precise line in the sand...
True, very nice quote. Thanks a lot.
Weeks before the original iPad was released, the very same people were speculating a starting price of $1000, this site, amongst others, collectively lost their shit. Release price? $500.

I’m not saying that it will be the same this time, but equally won’t be making statements based on what at the moment is a guess, educated or not.
He has a long record of bad behavior. It's not a secret. Each video below includes a link to a google doc of sources (tweets, articles, whatever), but it's not terribly well organized.

I think you have to be completely ignorant of Musk's actions to think he's just the victim of a media conspiracy. Sure he's associated with massive, probably overall good projects, but that doesn't make his individual actions good, nor does the success of those projects stem directly from him.

Various "Some More News" videos. Humor, vulgar speech, talking about Musk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Zoy-it4cY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlL4xvn6xWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Y7U4LOTYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9MO18F5Wi8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pNL7MlUpmI
It runs Android out of the box, which is based on Linux.
I thought it was implied on the second page, which talks about interference with NGSO FSS satellites (I believe starlink) and other GSO (which says directtv is like dish)
I feel like reactive programming is approaching ripeness for a mainstream programming language or cross-stack paradigm within the next few years. React, Svelte, Redux etc in the frontend world has certainly paved the way on the mainstream side, albeit in a simplified environment (singlethreaded, does not cross the network boundary and can simply share memory cheaply). I wonder if a refined version of this with will prevail, or something else like Rx? What are the primitive operations in such a model? Streams, futures, “watch” APIs?
This workflow engine of yours seems to expect a very predictable and linear sequence of actions. What happens if the user clicks "log out" after user.tutorial();

It's basically making an already easy case easier.
> Only if your dependency management is bad.

Please give an example of good dependency management in any language. It seems to be one of these subjects draining constant displeasure.

I'm not advocating against third party libraries, I just think a reasonably rich standard library sets a good foundation for them.
> You have repeatedly failed to explain what a smart contract is going to be doing that is providing any value in any of those situations

Completely agreed, I have not done that. As I’ve mentioned repeatedly, I just want you to pick one of the six use cases so I can answer your questions.

I’m going to respectfully end this conversation as I’ve tried to engage you in good faith and you’re not going to tell me what you want or simply don’t understand what I am asking.
That's probably not the card fees, but the currency exchange.
Most people have a 40 hour/week contract and it would be a shame to spend that in solitary confinement.

You can go to the office, play ping-pong, rant about your boss, flirt with coworkers and then "go home" and socialize some more (if you want that.) It's not either-or.

I've found that if you spend all time together at home, at the end of the day, you have nothing to talk about with whomever you happen to live with.
> The M1 chip can't run most software w/o virtualizing x86. I can't run about 90% of my work apps on it.

Unless your work apps are Docker, Docker, and more Docker, this is almost certainly false. Even then, it’s just slow, not broken.

> There are many ARM CPUs out there, Apple made another one with some minor tweaks.

If 2x single threaded performance is “minor tweaks”, sure.

> For work, I get an 8-core xeon laptop w/ 128GB of ECC RAM, that runs cool, quiet, and just as fast as Apple.

FWIW I’ve typically found that my personal computer generally beats my work machines specced similarly to this.
I believe they're being phased out everywhere now but historically debit cards were something like Maestro, "Visa Electron", EC Card, Girocard, etc. Maybe the GP is still somewhere where those are still in use. I believe Germany is one of the big laggards in this space.
It's not, though. The plaintiff in this case is a (living) woman who took the original photo.
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Many cities offer car sharing for the cases you should need a car or transporter. It's likely more expensive than lending one from a sibling though ;-)
I mean, a swastika and SS tattoo seems enough?
So speech gets converted to text, then, but how does that text get turned into usable metadata that follows adtech-specific protocols?
Subway/metro/HSR > light rail > car > bus
We're a fair few years on, but I changed to a very large bank before emigrating. Nowadays a second account with Wise or similar would probably suffice for occasional use.

I should have moved my UK phone number to a pre-pay plan on a premium network (O2, Vodafone etc), I left it on a budget one which cancelled it with very little notice.
Great, now drop the keyboard and it will be much more portable.

Unfortunately you'd need a compact input device with good haptic feedback. Obviously it has a keyboard [1], but when the screen fits so nicely over it dropping the screen doesn't seem like such a huge bonus.

As it stands I'd probably prefer a screen for the 2% of my computing time where I actually want my world to be "public".

Still, very cool to see things moving this way!

[1]: Physical buttons are a million times better than a touch screen because you don't have to look at them to know what you are doing.
> the most sold game of all time is

Now what's the most distributed game? I'm pretty sure Microsoft Solitaire was on more machines than Minecraft. ;)
This incentivizes a mailing address that's more than 30 miles away from any office.
My day is similar to the poster you’re replying to. It’s easy to make up the time in the evenings if you’re already set up for working from home. Also some employers who have embraced remote working have also learned that results matter more than time served, and no longer care where you are or what you’re doing as long as you’re achieving what you need to.
1 proven purposes is to scam people
The 4090 sold strong at first, but the rest of Nvidia’s 40-series offerings haven’t sold nearly as well. It’s still not clear if their attempt to reset expectations toward higher prices will work out in the long term, but in the short term it’s been a bit of a failure.
This is a bank to bank fee. The merchant's bank will charge the merchant a higher fee than this. The banks take no risk here because normally they any fraud get's paid by the merchant through charge back. The only risk is that the merchant goes away completely, but banks have to deal with that possibility all the time.
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