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Seems to me that the CHIPS act doesn't go far enough to build up domestic competition.

What would be the consequences if the government nationalised / heavily subsidised Intel ramp up domestic chip production? Or split Intel up to create new national champions?

This state intervention seem to be working out well for China in electric vehicles and solar. The US risks squandering its technological advantage by pursuing half way measures.
This might be close enough!

http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/
Go doesn't have enums.
I liked a russian hacker's story of building an IR camera by repurposing an old scanner: at one point he tries to source a detector from China but is unable to order it because of (he says) US export rules; then he remembers he's from a country that builds its own air-to-air missiles, and finds a Russian supplier who sends him the part...
The struct field tags thing (which are not comments) is at least something built into the language, that other code can access via reflection. Not being able to do this for this use-case, and having to rely on comments that are preprocessed by a code generator, is just a shame.
I don't agree, I think if you understand science in general then you realize at an early age e.g. 20 that social/behavioral science is at best a pseudoscience
"Stock buybacks are a form of stock manipulation" - not really, they're a means of returning money to the shareholders while bypassing taxes on dividends.

(Not an expert on the US tax system as I'm a Brit, but it seems that the tax treatment of dividends depends on how long the stock is held, and can be taxed at income tax rates, while stock buybacks result in inflating the stock value which is always CGT. Not sure what the tax treatment is for institutional investors?)

NB that "returning money to the shareholders" is ultimately what companies are for, and we should completely expect them to do this because without it investors wouldn't invest in the first place. It's infinite zero-dividend growth that's weird (Amazon).
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If that's your angle, then this 8 billion is a terrible distortion of the free market which should be focusing on stock buybacks.

There's no world where both the buybacks and the subsidy both make sense.
There's a couple of computerphile videos on this:

nerfs: https://youtu.be/wKsoGiENBHU
Gaussian platting: https://youtu.be/VkIJbpdTujE
Intel doesn't need 8 billion, Uncle Sam needs to onshore the manufacturing of a strategic resource before the Chinese unification war.

Doing it themselves would be silly when you can direct the market to do it for you.
> What if you publish multiple tools in a single package?

I question if one should ever do that... Packages are free... Just make one package per binary, and then a metapackage for those who want to install the whole suite.
It doesn't need it, it's simply in a position where it can get it. From their perspective it's free money.

It's the same situation with car manufacturers, they do this all the time. They get massive subsidies (usually in the form of permanent tax breaks) by pitting the governments of prospective factory sites against each other.

(It's actually a form of the prisoner's dillema: governments would benefit in the net if no-one offered these subisdies, but the prize for defecting is just too great so someone always does.)
It doesn't need it, it wants it in exchange for setting up fabrication capacity in the U.S, where it would otherwise be uneconomical to do so.
Between 1998 and 2018, Boeing spent more than $61.0 billion in stock buybacks. The budget for the development of the MAX was US$4 billion
https://archive.is/2024.03.27-135554/https://www.bloomberg.c...
Including leap seconds in unix time was a mistake - it should follow TAI instead of UTC and leave leap seconds entirely as a matter of the formatting/timezone code.
After reading the comments I understand this MUST mean people in Niger, Angola, etc. are more financially ready to have kids than people in Europe, Japan, USA, South Corea, etc.
Yeah, I had this problem with the world's only ultra-low-cost airline.

We were working on an analytics system and this sortof stuff was pervasive. The entire frontend basically didn't handle multiple tabs.

Mind you, this was in 2012, I assume they've fixed it by now.
In theory we should put all this money towards welcoming scientific study. In fact I’m sure chemical analysis would be far cheaper than lawyers. Does talc really cause cancer or not ? My understanding is that it is a bit like vermiculite insulation, which on its own it’s completely fine, but most vermiculite mines are naturally “contaminated” with asbestos.

Wouldn’t it be great if we knew what about talc caused cancer and we could make it safe and have use of it without fear? Probably 3% of the money spent on litigating all this could have gotten us good testing and an industrial process to produce clean talc.

Unfortunately, I think that, this isn’t that - J&J wants to obfuscate the science and get off the financial hook :(

And what the hell is the “revised standard” that j&j lawyers feel they can now meet? That sounds like the con of the century.
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>the increase in the number of people who is LGBTQ+ which again it's their choice

Choice?
Still good for proportionality. Would’ve been even cooler though with folders for EU, NATO, and other groups that I’m ignorant of. Spacesniffer-style.
Thanks for the sources. At first sight, I think there are many factors at play, and these sources are mistaking cause for effect. Most prosperous countries are large, but simply because a large state can raise much larger amounts of money, that if wisely used can be allocated to long term investments that improve prosperity. This does not mean that they are prosperous because they are efficient. My thesis is that they are prosperous despite being utterly wasteful.

In fact, there are many small but rich countries that have very high quality of life, like Switzerland, Britain, Netherlands, Hong Kong to name a few.

It becomes like a U curve where you either are small, or have to grow very very large for waste not to impact prosperity too much.
Because without it they will build somewhere cheaper to operate and then U.S. doesn’t have a fab if/when China absorbs Taiwan.

It’s not that difficult of a concept. And no, like others will inevitably suggest you can’t just legislate a multinational company to build its facilities onshore because you need them to. If you need something from a company you make it worthwhile, which is what’s happening here.
The subsidy isn't economic stimulus it's done in the name of national defense. The chip shortage of a few years ago hampered production of many industries including military. The money is to accelerate domestic chip production because we actually just need the chips.
Sure, and some tools are better and worse than others. That's of course a subjective matter of opinion.

I personally like things with stronger type systems than golang (and C) has to offer. If I'm going to write a small util and don't care so much about types (or performance), I'll reach for python. If I do, I'll reach for rust. Golang just never seems like the right tool for any of my jobs.
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If you claim something is a "low quality article" you need to make more clear what you mean by "the author doesn’t even know what a stock buyback is" since the summary of the author on stock buy backs is quite clear and concise.
Nationalisation would be incredibly bipartisan unpopular in the US. Everybody seems to hate the idea of the Federal government running random businesses. It would probably also immediately implode from pay issues.

Subsidy is what's happening, but people have (correctly) noticed that since Intel is profitable this is really a giveaway to Intel shareholders.
I suspect this is aimed at faster speed than lora if they’re talking about directly connected to backhaul
My rule of thumb for political prediction in the States is: how far away is the jurisdiction from the largest city in its watershed?
Swift run on almost every linux desktop (Arch, Debian, Ubuntu etc. have even their own packages) I hate when people are writing false information with such a confidence.
I used common lisp in the past to interface with GTK via the cl-cffi-gtk library. Performance was good I think (I did not benchmark but the UI was responsive and did not consume much resources) and dev experience was great because of the REPL. But it did take quite a bit of suffering to get the resulting artifact working on Windows which was a definite requirement sadly. It can be done though.
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Heck, anything is worth it if VCs are subsidising it like it's 2019.
Just saw this story that the Australian government is to kick-start a billion dollar program to develop the solar panel supply chain here. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-28/anthony-albanese-anno...
This comment is an easy tell. It's so prevalent. Because no one looked at how Go works, what Go does and what its overhead is. Not even mentioning, rightfully pointed out, a complete joke of a type system that completely disregards any improvements made since 80s.
It runs just fine comment above is lying if you can run llvm/clang you can run Swift.
It only works because you happen to not be using a dns server that hides your ip & location from the destination (cloudflare usually).

It has nothing to do with desktop or mobile or chrome or firefox or ublock or dns over https etc.
>Not doing it is exactly why Reconstruction failed. The slavers lost the war, but won the peace, and their politics reasserted as soon as they were allowed to govern themselves.

Well there are more peaceful ways of achieving this: Look at post Nazi Germany and how they tried to eradicate even thinking about Nazism just to try and limit these thoughts from festering and growing.

In the US Reconstruction failed because of circumstance. Lincolns assassination led to what is considered the worst president in the US taking the reign. For goodness sake he was drunk out of his mind during his inaugural address! He systematically started to reverse the progress his predecessor made and gave cover to the losers to regroup and make gains again. We are still suffering to this day because of that one event.
Scientifically case against them didn't look that strong for me. If they were accused of causing lung cancer I could see that. You breathe in a littly bit when you apply talcum. Or some skin cancer or cancer local to the spot you apply the talcum.

But ovarian cancer specifically and only that? I'd believe it if they had evidence of presence of asbestos in those tumors or ovaries. But there was none.

I mean they still shouldn't have asbestos in talcum but proving they did damage with it is something else.
Interesting that this is achieved with only a 5% overbuild. The simulations I have seen to get to 100% for Europe and North America without long term storage have used a 200% (aka 3X) overbuild.

Probably partially due to Australia being a good place for sun and wind, and partially for targeting 99% rather than 100%.
Yep, maybe GDP is not a great measure if one country can produce a box of cookies for $1 while another $4. Turns out physical output is important (bushels of wheat, pounds of steel, # of cars, etc).
The old fashioned screwdriver has it right. Why fiddle with charging batteries, using a chuck and selecting direction when you can just pick up a ol’ screwdriver and get going!

… assembles an appartments worth of new Ikea furniture…

Oh!
Criticism and anti-criticism miss the point.

USG is worried about a monopoly chip provider becoming unavailable. So the solution is to find another monopoly chip provider?

USG should invest in a competitive semiconductor industry to break the monopolies.
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It's stock manipulation, we just chose not to see it as such. Just like alcohol is objectively a hard drug but we just chose not to categorize it as such.
I believe there will always be a need for learning the language of the people we regularly interact with. I can't imagine working daily with coworkers with whom I need to use an app to translate everything I say. It's not just the words, it's human interactions.

Now, most people never reach the point where they can actually have meaningful social interactions (other than exchanging a few words and a smile, which won't be replaced by AI). But there, I strongly believe that trying to learn the language is a worthwhile exercise. It's part of "learning how to learn".

As a comparison, calculators made it easy for people who don't really need to count regularly to just not care about improving that skill. But people who use numbers in their job tend to get good with numbers without relying on a calculator for the basic stuff.

AI will certainly help in those awkward situations where we can't communicate to the point where we just give up: there it will be worth launching the app and translating the text. Even though it has been possible for years and I haven't actually needed it more than a couple times.

Finally, learning a language is about learning a culture, too. Not everyone is interested in that, but I am confident it will always exist. And instead of teaching our kids that "they don't need to learn a language because AI", we should strive to teach them that they should learn a language, because interacting with someone from a different culture feels fucking amazing.
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I feel like it's one of those social constructs like the value of money, which is socially constructed, but which gets amplified by human instincts like greed. It would be great if we could shuck the counterproductive belief of money having value, but in practice, people are going to be led by instincts.
If you can get "free" money from the state why not?
The author seems unaware that 1990 was 34 years ago.

I'm not justifying or excusing Intel, and the subsidy is insane, but "Intel did things over the past 3 and a half decades" isn't a point.
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Tax just depends on how long it's held and if it is part of a major index. If you held long enough and it's part of a major index it is taxed the same as a stock buyback would (assuming you sold).

Otherwise it's taxed as income.
I believe back in the Java days, there are packages that are also doing something like this (comment preprocessor for generating code)

Those plugins would try to point out that the comments that they would preprocessed would look somewhat different from regular comment, e.g.

//this is a regular comment

//#while comments that start with '#' would be preprocessed.

It's still an issue that would shoot the foot of the next person who would maintain your code though.
I mean, you quite clearly can legislate that. Whether it's a good idea or nonis a separate question.
Given that most phones now spoof that MAC and rotate it this is basically just measuring footfall. Not ideal but also doesn’t seem overtly privacy harmful
It's easier to just turn NeRFs/splats into polygons for faster rendering.
Why is company X buying its own stock on the open market "manipulation" rather than any other purchaser?
I've been trying to convince my wife to have at least one child, but I'm afraid it's too late already. She's 43.

You've just made me think it would be a bad idea anyway at this point :(.

Oh well, at least I have many nieces.
Worth noting that most go codebases don't contain magic comments like this.

I've certainly never used them and agree they are horrible in every way.
That shows the dominance of the financial market and the economic power over the structures of society. We find completely normal hundreds of billions be redirected to the owners of the capital but we would find an anomaly to think of a technological project that could bring real progress and costed that much.
> The warning was quite broad, claiming that some group was planning some attack on some large gathering, including concerts, in Moscow, of which there are many. And it warned Americans to avoid large gatherings for the next 48 hours.

That was the public "travel advisory" by the US department of state. We don't know what the CIA told their Russian counterparts according to their "duty to warn".

Insightful thread: https://twitter.com/laurae_thomas/status/1773094283320668526
"Relatives Acting Like They’ll Be Assaulted By Deranged Clown The Instant They Set Foot In Gotham City"

https://www.theonion.com/relatives-acting-like-they-ll-be-as...

What I really like about YouTube is that for any given polity you can watch slick stuff on state channels and get the official line, and you can also watch "home videos" of normal people doing normal people stuff to get some idea of the day to day. The Texan making chili is just a few clicks away from the Caucasian making shashlik.
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I've seen quadruple parking in the Bronx, near some green areas. I think it was during a local soccer game.
Curious about CIA 's "Duty to Warn" protocols?
Excellent rec. It’s a great book.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07220-7
Or do a Norway and partially nationalise coal production for export while investing profits into renewable for domestic supply.
Therefore, if something is not currently a law, we should not ever try to make it a law! Georg Hegel was right: we have reached the absolute ideal free society. https://www.existentialcomics.com/comic/348
I'm not sure if her company is particularly generous, but my wife is getting 3 months at something like 80 or 90% pay, then 6 months stat pay, then 3 months nothing. Fortunately she still accrues annual leave during the year, which means we do have the option of covering the final month at full pay. We're going to try to tough it out and tack a month of leave on at the end instead.

How old is/are your kid/s now if you don't mind me asking? And did you have another one after the terrible sleeper? I only ask because we're now in that phase of trying to decide whether having another one is what we want.
I see it a lot: there is a type of developer who loves brevity in writing of the code. It is critical to them. They believe that productivity is hurt with more verbose code. They optimize for writing.

Depending on the project, maybe that is ok. I work on projects with multiple teams and zounds of developers. In this sphere, productivity is NOT increased with these kinds of things as they save moments during writing but cost more during onboarding and reading. The more you have to keep in your head to make the code make sense, the harder it is for new team members to spin up.

Productivity in the kinds of orgs I work in is improved when individuals can look at a small section of code and understand it directly. If you are going up call chains to understand things, you are costing productivity. When you have to slow down and mentally parse something, you are costing productivity.

I would take a hand written and hand maintained version of what this utility has as output over the utility every single time.
Why would the coal industry vote for that?
I frequently tell people that Go is my least favorite language for reasons like this and the response is often some form of the no true Scotsman fallacy.
If they don’t get free money they won’t build US fabs because it doesn’t make economic sense. It’s pretty simple really. If you want them in the US you need to pay them the difference of what it would cost them to build elsewhere.
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> Because no one looked at how Go works, what Go does and what its overhead is.

I develop using Go, thanks.

> Not even mentioning, rightfully pointed out, a complete joke of a type system that completely disregards any improvements made since 80s.

One of the designers of Go is Rob Pike, who's worked on C, UNIX and Plan 9. I think the language embodies the core principles put out by these "things" pretty well.

If we're talking about "development time overhead" of Go, initial momentum building is a bit slow, but after it starts rolling it's deviously fast. If we're talking about "runtime overhead", I can say it's "fast enough" for what it's designed for. If we're talking about "storage overhead", you can always dynamically link it.
Examples of apparent self-awareness. With the cases I've seen so far the simplest explanation is that it used a phrase from an internet discussion and it's near impossible to prove otherwise.

I do believe artificial self-awareness is possible but I doubt we're at that point already. And until it reaches a certain level it will remain indistinguishable from patterns in training data.
Over 10 years later, I can say that the original BeagleBone was far more reliable than the original Raspberry Pi. The Texa Instruments specifications & documents for the processor were far better as well. I've had several Raspberry Pis just randomly die, but every one of the Beagle Bones are still going. I've heard similar feedback from people with IOT startups. RPis work great until some just randomly die.

Today I find the quality of the Raspberry Pi is dramatically improved, the tooling to help a beginner get started is amazing, and of course there's just simply a much larger user base that have likely resolved the problems you'll encounter.

However the real magic of a Beagle bone is listed in this features:
Arm Cortex-R5 subsystem for low-latency I/O and control

There are many use cases such as robotics, where there is a need real time control and Beagle bones have this capability built in, whereas with Raspberry Pi you'll see people connecting an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi together to meet this requirement. Its kludgy, burns tons of time, and it also adds up cost wise.

In any case if you're just starting out, and you ever get interested in these things, know that you'll likely end up with many of them over the years. RPi is great for beginners, but if I was deploying something into the field as an IOT startup etc, I still prefer a Beagle.

My 2c
The gap I still have in my understanding:

One hypothesis is that there is no spooky action. One particle was 'always' going to resolve one way, likewise with the other. Like inspecting 'heads' on one side of a coin 'forces' 'tails' onto the other side.

I accept that this coin-hypothesis has been disproved by people who actually know what they're talking about.

But to me, this implies that you should build your spooky FTL message by transmitting "Measured" rather than heads/tails:

Have an array of 8 particles at both locations. They represent measured/unmeasured rather than heads/tails. You got yourself a one-way single-use FTL byte.

For this to not work (which I'm sure it doesn't) you'd need to be unable to distinguish between a measured/unmeasured particle. To me this is equivalent of being unable to prove that there is anything spooky going on.

So how can you have it both ways? How can you theoretically know that something was sent when measurement itself would destroy any evidence of something being sent?
As fossil fuels decline in importance, they will have less money to bribe politicians with, and the renewables will have more.
Imagine being the guy wanting to make it harder for insurance companies to do business after watching what is happening in places where it’s hard for insurance companies to do business right here in the US.
Oh those people disagree with themselves very often, that's how you can recognize them
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