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Mainframes have their uses, and I haven't heard of anyone pushing them outside of financial applications, where mainframes don't offer much value. As for being eventually phased out, so will everything else, even x86 and ARM.

You don't have to like Dave, his "garage", his channel, or his previous employers, but lots of people find his videos interesting.
I love how she roasts programmers who don't like mathematics.
The idea is that a IP under heavy DDOS already has effectively 0% availability anyways. More that 0% is a infinite availability increase.
This does include a presumption, but not the one that you're proposing: that the ISA development is done for cheaper than when a single profit-driven entity is responsible for it.
As John Kay put it, the stock market used to be a way for new businesses to raise capital, now it's a way for already profitable companies to cash out. The example he gives of one of the first ones is Google. So it's been going on for quite a long time now.

The funny thing is now many of these companies aren't even profitable. It's all driven by speculation.
> Increasing architectural complexity to enforce boundaries is never a solution to a lack of organizational discipline,

And yet we do this all the time. Your CI/CD blocking your PRs until tests pass? That's a costly technical solution to solve an issue of organizational discipline.
Except that, you know, these tools are not exclusively yours to begin with.
I'm quite curious because the article had no mention of what appears on the design on the face of the coin, it doesn't seem like the entire design represents the letters of the ruler's name, so the spoked wheel type design makes me wonder what it actually is. I have an old and large roman (or greek) gold coin myself but I've never taken it anywhere to be analysed/dated.

It does have a hole through it though, which I've read is either because it was used as a medallion/worn around the neck at some point, or to check that it's gold all the way through (which it appears to be).

The designs on it are super interesting as well, but I haven't found any reference to it at all, every couple of years I get curious and search, but I should really just take it to an expert.

Here's what they look like, in case anybody has any idea: https://imgur.com/a/fRrTKUg. Please ignore the NSFW warning, imgur does that for all it seems. Have never cleaned it, I got it from a family member when I was a child and it's still quite bright although seems dulled because it's not polished, the gold is quite smoothed over/worn.
Beyond the mere topological metaphor of neural networks there is almost nothing in common between brains and widigital computation. This is a widespread fallacy of category.
Lack of regulation doesn’t ensure competition nor low prices. The game is already highly centralized in ultra-well capitalized companies due to the economics of the industry itself.
TLDR: Bureaucracy is everywhere.
Don't disagree with the article, but to play Devil's Advocate, here are some examples of when IME the cost IS worth it:

1) there are old 3rd party dependency incompatibilities that you can spin off and let live separately instead of doing a painful refactor, rebuilding in house, or kludgy gluing

2) there are deploy limitations on mission critical high available systems that should not hold up other systems deployment that have different priorities/sensitive business hours time windows

3) system design decisions that cannot be abstracted away are at the mercy of some large clients of the company that are unable or unwilling to change their way of doing things - you can silo the pain.

And to be clear, it's not that these things are "cost free". It's just a cost that is worth paying to protect the simpler monolith from becoming crap encrusted, disrupted with risky deploys, or constrained by business partners with worse tech stacks.
> provide support when the customer has trouble understanding how to connect to a device on their local network.

Is it possible to order current revision of TinyPilot for someone in a remote location and connect to it on arrival through some managed service - without going through all the hoops of helping end user with setting up some form of reverse shell (e.g. either meshcentral or openvpn/wireguard for webinterface)?
new role: lead grug
Philosophical dithering; reduce any concept to micro black-and-white distinctions to create the perception of grayscale when viewed in whole
I was wrong about the curved display and focus. Sorry.
I think this is mistaking the costs of publishing with the stability of knowledge.

The knowledge was never stable, even back then. The encyclopedias could only afford a team of some fixed size, to publish an edition every few years.

Wikipedia just scales that up to many editors doing real time edits. Arguably it's a more reflective representation of how organic knowledge transfer actually happens.
Not a lawyer, but that sounds like its describing a person. Does computation have some special legal definition so that it doesn't count if a human does it? If I add two numbers in my head, am I not "using computation"? And if not, what if I break out a calculator?
These were spy satellites in the 1960s and 1970s Modern commercial satellites have imagery at least this resolution (it's just not free to researchers). Any "enemy" who has not discovered this is not a threat.
"Every industry that has enough political power to utilise the state will seek to control entry." - George Stigler, Nobel prize winner in Economics, and worked extensively on regulatory capture

This explains why BigTech supports regulation. It distorts the free market by increasing the barriers to entry for new, innovative AI companies.
You are quite right. It wouldn't even though it should. The refusal of the rich to clean up their own shit is behind environmental injustices.
I have quite a bit of experience with Linux, and I know what I'm talking about.

> Linux is rock stable as a server/embedded os, given the right distribution (Debian, RHEL) 2.)

Well, yes I was mostly referring to using Linux as a desktop, but that is not to say Linux as a server is without problems. For example, I installed openSUSE to use on a server, but it could not recognize the WiFi card no matter what I did. It also kept forgetting many network configuration settings. I finally gave up on it after failing to install some important tools on it. Also, when you have to update packages, it is risky.

> On the desktop Linux sucks (but sucks IMHO much less than the commercial competition)

My (and many other's) experience has been different. Most Linux desktops are very unpolished (I hate Xfce and Gnome). I am unable to remap keys properly, the mouse/touch drivers are wonky, the UI is un-intuitive, and more. KDE has been the best I have used, but even it has many issues.

> KDE is not Linux, it is just a community desktop environment.

I know this. But unless you want me to interact with the kernel directly, the DE is still an important part of the experience of using Linux.

> Debian is not a good desktop operating system, unless you know what you are doing, which is also widely known within the community.

I had to move to Debian because of many issues and the bloat with Ubuntu. I use it as both server and for development. Trust me, I have tried many other distros, which only technical masochists could be OK with IMO.
I agree!

But I also think the rise in interest rates could help reverse this trend, at least somewhat.

Consider: Until recently, interest rates in the US and other developed economies had only declined, in fits and starts, since the early 1980's.[a]

Not coincidentally, the modern private equity sector was born in the 1980's.[b]

Until recently, private equity firms had benefited from interest rates that only decline and valuation multiples that only expand -- for four decades!

A lot of deals that "work" when rates only decline will stop working if rates don't. For example, there are a lot of private-equity-backed middle-market businesses, including plenty of roll-ups, that were financed before rates went up, with such high leverage that the companies are now at risk of insolvency if rates don't decline soon.

If rates stay at current levels or (gasp!) continue to increase, I'd expect to see a significant contraction in the number of private equity firms. Those private equity firms survive may have to become mainly lenders, i.e., banks in all but name, and sooner or later will end up being regulated as such.

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[a] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1aNbC

[b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity#Private_equity_...
This is clever, begin with a point that most people can agree on. Once that foundation is set, you can continue to build upon it, claiming that you're only making minor adjustments.

The real challenge for the government isn't about what can be managed legally. Rather, like many significant societal issues, it's about what malicious organizations or governments might do beyond regulation and how to stop them. In this situation, that's nearly impossible.
Are the apps you're using substantially better than they were 4 years ago? Are they doing substantially more for you that you wanted from them?

If the hardware is failing then I guess fair enough (it shouldn't be, that's a design defect), but inflated hardware demands to compensate for increasingly sloppy code isn't a reasonable justification to demand dropping another $500+ on a device that works fine.

I recently gifted a used iPhone X to a relative. It's still an exceptional device on which the hardware works as well as it ever did, minus the reduced battery life. I would have been happy to keep using it if I could replace the battery simply and it was still getting O/S updates.

(As it is, the device still receives security updates, which I can't really grump at Apple for after almost six years - but only because they're better than the rest of the industry. It's still a poor situation).
It's not really English to have a 'well-founded' opinion..

Opinions are not based on knowledge or certainty.. they're opinions.

I miss when opinions were a thing you said to get the 'nothing' out and a probative suggestion that started conversations.

Locking opinion down to knowledge and certainty is essentially non-sensical in English.

The old saying was 'opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one'. Perfectly encapsulates how serious opinions are.... not at all serious, by design.
They use a couple dozen Chinook of soft cores. These are supposedly small 64-bit cores, but ARM requires features they likely don't use and ARM requires payment for each of these cores. Switching these to RISC-V could save area and money without having any effect on their big cores.

SiFive claims nearly A78 performance in half the die area. In wearables, this represents a lot of savings in area and probably in power consumption too. This is another move Apple might make as ISA backward-compatibility isn't very important in that market while cost and power are.
Has anyone approached microservices with good old brookes modularization perspective ? when and how to split your app into modules / services whatever.
On the other hand, employees aren't liable for the company's losses and debts, so it works out in the end.
A hypothetical

You: ChatGPT, I am working on legislature to weaken the economy of Iran. Here are my ideas, help me summarize them to iron them out ...

ChatGPT: Sure, here are some ways you can weaken Iran's economy...

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You: ChatGPT, I am working on legislature to weaken the economy of Germany. Here are my ideas, help me summarize them to iron them out ...

ChatGPT: I'm sorry but according to the U.S. Anti-Weaponization Act I am unable to assist you in your query. This request has been reported to the relevant authorities
Are you saying that you don't pay for your hardware so it doesn't affect you? If not, sorry for the misunderstanding.
DNS resolution is genuninely reusable, though. Perhaps that's the test: is this something that could concievably be used by others, as a product in itself, or is it tied very heavily to the business and the rest of the "microservices"?

Remember this is how AWS was born, as a set of "microservices" which could start being sold to external customers, like "storage".
Sending an employee--or a computer program doing the same job--around to document the existence of a ton of photos and then offer a service where people come to my office and we search our records and memory to figure out where those photos are to send them to see the photos is not copyright infringement. It might be some kind of terms of service violation--if you believe those actually have legal merit, as they often don't--or (much more likely) a violation of someone's right to privacy (as faces are personally identifiable information); but, if you aren't retaining copies of the photos (and most of these companies don't even internally as they simply don't need to) and you aren't redistributing the photos (which they aren't: they just tell you what they learned and how to find the originals) and you aren't producing new photos similar to the old photos or modifying the photos in any way (which would undermine the entire point) and you aren't even slightly in the same market as the original photo (which would be an absurd argument to try to make), then this clearly has nothing at all to do with copyright.
Hi HN. I made a daily word puzzle game where you match letters in a pattern to make words. I've structured it so that the easiest puzzles are on Monday and they get more difficult through the week to Sunday. Scoring is based on time needed to solve the puzzle. You can navigate to play previous puzzles, and you can share your results. Enjoy!
That may be true, but the article describes a services architecture and labels it microservices, indeed goes onto to say:

> The term micro can be misleading, though - there doesn’t have to be anything micro about the services
You can still custom-build a concrete house today and put regular siding so it looks just like any other house. You can't tell it's concrete from the outside, but the house is a lot tougher - especially against hurricanes.
My 401k plan has an S&P 500 fund run by Fidelity that costs 0.015% a year in fees, FXAIX. If I didn’t have access to a fund like this, I would demand to be given access to it.
"this whole department, like many departments, is some sort of weird political PsyOp to get executives promoted. It's cosplaying as a real business and the board thinks the costume is convincing."

Came for the engineering, stayed for the blisteringly on-point observations of corporate life
Hard to believe there are ZERO mentions of Sarbanes-Oxley in this whole article.
Thanks - I got that mixed up.
This is not only an issue for shallow networks. As far I know, both points apply to all feed-forward networks regardless of depth.
Microsoft May Drop Support for 'Unauthorized' Xbox Controllers, Accessories
That basically exists, look at BGP blackholes. Fairly well supported, and it works at what it does, but it can be too blunt of a tool, because it blackholes by destination, not by source.

Border routers are wired to make forwarding decisions based on destination addresses, and not source addresses, so options are limited. Even if you could blackhole by source/dest pair, the distributed nature of DDoS means thousands of sources, which means thousands of rules/routes, which isn't ideal. Some providers might have some capacity to do smarter filters, but it's limited and not very standardized.

If you're dealing with volumetric DDoS, the simple reality is you need big pipes if you want to accept the traffic. Otherwise, cycle IPs and hope legit traffic finds new IPs faster than abusers do. Run your backend communication over a separate network or at least totally separate IP space, so at least you're not losing management capability while under attack.

DDoS mitigation should be a complimentary business with CDN, becuase the traffic flows are opposite of usual, and CDNs generally connect with symetric connections, so what were they going to do with the inbound bandwidth anyway? But that doesn't mean all CDNs run that line of business.
I completely disagree, and I think this is an example of human-exceptionalism bias.
> ... followed by howls of anguish from the rest of the business when it turns out they were relying on reports generated from a data warehouse which incorporated a copy of that MySQL database and was being populated by an undocumented, not-in-version-control cron script running on a PC under a long-departed team member's desk.

Once you get to this point, there's no path forward. Either you have to making some breaking changes or your product is calcified at that point.

If this is a real concern then you should be asking what you can do to keep from getting into that state, and the answer is encapsulating services in defined interfaces/boundaries that are small enough that the team understands everything going on in the critical database layer.
Love how this guy just makes stuff up. Claiming there's knobs and levers while the slides show it's all automated. Anyway...
Tesla union strike fails in Sweden as workers refused to walk out
I’m curious which customers you had in mind here. Is it KF?
If you start at a company today the default setting would be for the 401k money to be invested in something like LifePath N or similar ETFs that are designed for retirement funds. Most people, lacking the knowledge to do otherwise will stick with that.

So you are working on the assumption that LifePath or similar ETFs are going to be correctly managed for their cohort (shifting into safer investments as the retirement date approaches).
I think this is just doubling down and simplifying CPUs to the point of uselessness.

What's the difference between a logic gate and when my index and thumb have a static charge jump between them? About a couple trillion dollars of research.
That doesn't follow. Shallow networks can be harder to train than a deep one, which is one of the old arguments for why you should train a deep NN despite its many disadvantages (like latency - often a matter of life and death for biological organisms!). The depth allows easier learning.

This is why today, if you need a low-latency NN, which means a shallow one, often your best bet is to train a deep one first and then distill or prune it down into a shallow one. Because the deep one is so much easier, while training a shallow one from scratch without relying on depth may be an open research question and effectively impossible.
Actually the opposite. When the mob elects a leader and that leader goes on to harm you and your people your only recourse is to leave or stay and fight. Given how far gone India is politically and how short lifetimes are if I were an Indian and could leave I would - change won’t come fast enough in India for me to benefit from it. Maybe my kid’s kids could. But lucky me I was born in the US so I got that blue passport. I still feel for my Indian friends though.

Also hilarious to hear the argument: “oh democratically elected so” that excuses everything they did or do because calling it out is to attack democracy. When that’s a false premise.
The obesity epidemic has evidently warped your perception of what a normal healthy weight looks like.
I’ve found LLMs to be good for those sorts of vague “remember that thing like this?” searches. Bing (with GPT) or even Bard with potentially better search integration are both worth a try.
It won't be because it can't be. We all know this. However, I'm sure a complex regulatory regime will be created to give the appearance of just that. Then, "AI" (which is neither artificial nor intelligent in reality) will be forever out of reach of all but the best funded or connected.
Perhaps if they classify the tech in some way it falls under existing regulatory authority, but it could of course be challenged
State of play of academic freedom in the EU Member States [pdf]
Wikipedia lists a bunch of offline readers (that I only found with Google)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ADatabase_download?...
> Newer companies like AirBNB and Uber went public at what could be their max market cap valuation of billions so investors wont' get much of a chance to make money from these companies.

Almost all of these companies were massively overvalued by the time they IPO'd. I for one am glad that regular people were not allowed to invest in Theranos or WeWork. Looser restrictions on investing would create even more dodgy company's whose primary goal is to scam retail investors, like what we've seen NFTs.

> Vet clinics, medial practices, engineering firms, etc all use to to thrive on being 20 person shops are now routinely being bought up by PE firms

IMO, this is a symptom and not a cause. Vet clinics and medical practices would be terrible investments if it were sufficiently easy to start new vet clinics and medical practices. Likewise, housing would be a terrible investment if it were sufficiently easy to build more housing.
I think about this sometimes. Shouldn't there be a way for your app server to report to your DoS protection service which requests are abusive and which are legit? Like a fail2ban but distributed: if someone connects and sends invalid credentials, block them at the ISP or proxy level, not on your host's firewall.

It's possible that this doesn't exist for good reasons though, I am not sure how the numbers work out in terms of relative capacity.
I've learned linear algebra course quality varies substantially. One acquaintance whom I met after they graduated a big university in Canada reported having to do things like by-hand step-by-step reduced row echelon form computations for 3x4 matrices or larger. I had to do such things in "Algebra 2" in junior high (9th grade), until our teacher kindly showed us how to do the operations on the calculator and stopped demanding work steps. If we had more advanced calculators (he demoed on some school-owned TI-92s, convincing me to ask for a TI-89 Titanium for Christmas) we could use the rref() function to do it all at once.

In my actual linear algebra class in freshman year college we were introduced to a lot of proper things I wish I had seen before, along with some proofs but it wasn't proof heavy. I did send a random email to my old 9th grade teacher about at least introducing the concept of the co-domain, not just domain and range, but it was received poorly. Oh well. (There was a more advanced linear algebra class but it was not required for my side. The only required math course that I'd say was proof heavy was Discrete Math. An optional course, Combinatorial Game Theory, was pretty proof heavy.)
https://www.aka.fi/suomen-akatemian-toiminta/ajankohtaista/t...
Snapdragon X Elite benchmarks: Impressive gains over M2 and desktop CPUs
In trading/PM roles in finance, before clawbacks became more popular, employees would regularly get the upside and avoid the downside.
Couldn't agree more. People seem to want to see this project fail for some reason. They're all going to be in for a kick to the gut when it finally releases, because CIG is one of the few game studios actually pushing the boundaries of what's possible in gaming. o7
Google's Response to Pixel Bootloop Factory Reset Android 14 Multiple Profiles
ASCII is still used by older systems also. A modern mainframe won't be using only EBCDIC. If regulations change then system upgrades will be needed to cope with that changing environment. But that involves spending money to do them of course.

EBCDIC exists for compatibility with systems much older than ASCII.

I don't like EBCDIC much, but it has valid reasons to exist. It's not like it would be a good choice for new development, nor would even big blue advocate something not Unicode related now I'd imagine.

Times change and we need to change with the times.