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The way I see it:

Intel if you want awesome common man performance (IdleM@ster[1] and best single thread performance).

AMD if you want to rip all the threads (best multithread performance).

Apple M if you want to save power (goes without saying).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38829531
> if long-term commitment to running existing, and past, software matters to you the maybe select an OS that prioritizes that over one that very much does not.

I guess that's the downside of vertical integration where the OS is basically just a means to sell hardware.
Rejection sampling? /s
The latter is a legit question, for which the answer would be a variation of "it makes future development more difficult for the framework developers" and "please send a proposal for a stable API".
Read his comment again
looking forward to a world where everyone anywhere can make a decent living wage. The technology and productivity have improved so much but the wealth inequalities have only grown wider. If AGI arrives and we have abundance, lets hope that it is not only the few elites that control all of that wealth and power.
> Unskilled labor simply refers to jobs where any specialized skills required can be learned on the job in a short period of time, usually less than 30 days.

This is nearly all jobs.
I think there is an investment aspect to this. Without a certainty that demand will increase in a significant way the power grid wont see investment. By forcing EVs, power companies know that demand will go up in the future enabling easier investment decisions
This kind of demonstrates my point. Every single one of these headlines indicates the bad actor has been "charged" (with serious consequences in the case of Huawei).

Has Jia Tan been "charged" with anything?
That’s … not where I thought you were going. A ban will drive demand for ICE vehicles in the years before going into effect, even if it ultimately does not.
how does this help most americans who cant afford ev?

this is like "let them eat cake"
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Legally they almost always have to be registered in the state the driver resides. Only exception I can think of is a business registering the car.

But if you are only asking if it's possible, sure. Look at the phenomenon of 'snowbirds' registering Florida plates on cars mostly driven in the NYC metro. Used to be much cheaper insurance premiums a decade or two ago, now not so much. (Just to be clear, this is insurance fraud and highly discouraged)
We did fine for two years with 60 amp service and only 110 with two EVs. It helped that there were superchargers nearby.
US Cyber Safety Review Board faults Microsoft failure 'cascade' in Chinese hack
Since that depends on the burger flipper, I'd say yes. Gordon Ramsay would likely agree.
The X3D models are also ridiculously efficient desktop CPUs. Perfect for ITX builds.
BEVs are likely already cheaper to produce than ICE/PHEV and that trend is going to continue. In automotive there is a pretty long lag between what is happening in new product development/the supply chain and what is reflected in products and prices in the current market. As an automaker you have to skate to where the puck is going.

Particularly the Chinese have mastered the truly low cost BEV which is being copied all over the globe (yes with North American crash standards). So many interesting things are happening in China in the EV/battery space.

Road tripping an EV in America is actually not that bad in a lot of regions. With NACS rolling out everyone will have access to Superchargers. I’m in the Northeast and fast charging is very dense here.
> So why is it not applied everywhere?

RFID tags are expensive compared to printing barcodes. The volume of products moved in a grocery store is far larger than that of a clothing store like Uniqlo.
Does anyone know how to add motion blur to a game. I'm learning pygame. Say I'm making Mario in pygame, and when Mario jumps, I want him to look blurry. I mean I can take an average of 9 pixels, and create a blurry version of Mario. But is that how it's that usually done in other games. Since like a lot of games are supper sharp, with no motion blur. I'm wondering if its even done. It's kind of big deal in film, and the need to shoot at 25fps to achieve cinematic motion blur.
There's lots of games where even the single player campaign needs servers to use.
Flutter is a good option. A developer experience that is second to none (e.g., hot-reload, excellent developer tools, good editor/IDE integration and great documentation). What’s more, it really does make cross-platform a reality (MacOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android) from a single code base. Targeting the web is probably its weakest point. But, all in all, Flutter is a viable alternative.
In my regular smallish suburban city I have a sidewalk stamped from 1922. However, they just redid all the roads, sewer, and certain side walks (bad sections). They are now running municipal fiber tubes throughout the whole sprawling city. As far as I can tell the city is still operated as a self-financing entity and has been since the 1800’s. Is this a facade or just an anomaly?
how do ppl get to work now if they are still driving old cars because they cant afford a new car? in the cold? uphills?
This is not realistic for most startups. You’d spend all your time reviewing packages and no time building.
> What I personally don't understand is why Microsoft didn't use any of their programmers to write a patch and submit it

You have actually used a Microsoft product?

They probably couldn't figure out how to add dependencies to SharePoint and gave up.
Autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon
That's a cromulent method. It does involve buying single-task hardware, but it's tidy.

I'd expect that it would work the same for either resistive or inductive loads -- after all, AC current on a wire is AC current on a wire, however it came to be present.
The entire east coast of Taiwan is absolutely gorgeous, and Taipei - Yilan - Hualien isn't too long of a journey. If you can rent a motorbike and go further along the coast you will also enjoy a lot of nature right between mountains and the ocean.

I also hope to get there again someday, I haven't had my fill of pineapple cakes either.
I'm inclined to feel that it's an anti-citizen policy, intended to limit people's mobility, but taking off the tinfoil hat, my conclusion would be: it's wishful thinking policy; lawmakers are hoping that all the practical concerns (power grid limitations, impractical charge times, limited range, rare earth metal depletion, etc.) will be caught by technology.
Perhaps expected a very fast machine that might blast straight through the first few checks. Like how you needed two STOP statements in a Cray Fortran program in case it blew through the first one at 80MIPS.
you went only back 6 months and he was off by a few days was to conclude your own bias to begin with...
Also luck is probably a much larger factor than most people realize. It's not just bad luck leading to failure, but luck leading to customers/revenue.

As an example, if no one is competing with you, it doesn't matter too much how good you are.
Yeah already saw that.
What I found most disappointing was the response of customer support, which rather than trying to understand customers' problems and responding assiduously, flatly give out a non solution (use cards that work) and provide zero alternatives or an extension till they resolve this issue.
Retail employees do more than checkout. You’ll still need them to stock, do customer support, clean, and more.
> how does libxml2 know to decompress something?
>
> does it require you, as the caller, to explicitly tell it to?

In the entry point/function that we use, `xmlReadMemory` (https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libxml2/devhelp/libxml2...), it doesn't handle compressed XML at all.

But there are indeed others where it attempts to auto-detect compression, although as I understand it from the docs only ZLib compression is autodetected… though I suspect these may be out-of-date and it may autodetect any/all compiled -in compression algorithms.

Regardless, the fact that it links with liblzma is cause for concern, given the mechanism of operation of the liblzma/xz backdoor.
that's only a few elements away from a 'Serial Experiments: Lain' episode.
There is (surprisingly) no high level commentary on what this actually is, but people banging on about how nice it would be to have a high level cross platform GPU accelerated library.

...but this..?

> Graphics data and code can be developed together in the same environment, packaged together into a WebAssembly module called a renderlet, and rendered onto any canvas. With WebAssembly, we compile graphics code to portable bytecode that allows it to safely run on any processor and GPU

So what is a renderlet?

> The renderlet compiler is currently in closed preview - please contact us for more information.

Hm... what this seems to be is a C++ library that lets you take compiled WASM and run it to generate and render graphics.

Which, I think it is fair to say, it's surprising, because you can already render graphics using C++.

Only here, you can render graphics using an external WASM binary.

So, why?

Specifically, if you're already using C++:

1) Why use WASM?

2) Why use renderlet instead of webGPU, which is already a high level cross platform abstraction including shader definitions?

What is this even for?

> wander is designed to be a rendering engine for any high-performance application. It primarily is designed as the runtime to run renderlet bundles

...but, why would I use a renderlet, if I already need to be writing C++?

I. Get. It. A cross platform GPU accelerated rendering library you can use from any platform / browser / app would be great. ...but that is not what this is.

This is a C++ library runtime that you can use to run graphics in any circumstance where you you can currently use C++.

...but, in circumstances where I can use C++, I have many other options for rendering graphics.

Look at the workflow:

Rendering code -> Renderlet compiler -> renderlet binary
App -> load renderlet binary -> start renderlet runtime -> execute binary on runtime -> rendered

vs.

App -> rendering code (WebGPU) -> rendered

or, if you writing a new cross platform API over the top of webGPU

App -> Fancy api -> WebGPU -> rendered

I had a good read of the docs, but I honestly fail to see how this is more useful than just having a C++ library that renders graphics cross platform like SDL.

Shaders? Well, we also already have a good cross platform rendering library in webGPU; it already runs on desktop and browsers (maybe even some mobile devices); it already has a cross platform shader pipeline; it's already usable from C++.

I'm not going to deny the webGPU API is kind of frustrating to use, and the tooling for building WASM binaries is too, but... it does actually exist.

Is this like a 'alternative to webGPU' with a different API / easy mode tooling?

...or, have I missed it completely and there's something more to this?
Tax credits for EVs and the funding for charging in the IRA has been effective policy. The “bans” are just for show.
What does "absolute" performance mean in this context? All performance measurements are relative to the use cases the measurements were designed around. The iPhone's CPU would be awful in a gaming computer and the Ryzen would be a terrible CPU for a smart watch.

In common CPU benchmarks, the M3 gets blown out of the water by the 7950X3D, even in single core performance. Terrible CPU to have in a laptop, but in a workstation or desktop computer there's no competition which CPU to pick.
Charging speed is still increasing. Lucid Air peaks at 300kW, or 200mi in 12 minutes. The Hyundai Ioniq 6 is similar. But in China, there are 500kW EVs and chargers already being sold/installed. The Zeekr 001 does 300mi in 11 minutes. Here in the US, Gravity is installing 500kW chargers.

I don't know if the infrastructure for home charging will be ready by 2035... but as charging times decrease, replacing gas stations with charging stations becomes more viable.
Because when you have your own copy of something nobody is keeping track of what the date and time is when you watch/listen to that media along with how often you do it or what parts you view/hear more often or pause at most often, or where you are and what other things you are doing when you saw/heard it etc. You can enjoy your media entirely offline which is something you'll really want if you find yourself without internet access for some reason. In addition, you don't have to worry about that content suddenly going away without notice, or it being censored or modified at some later date. You also get the ability to play that media in your software of choice and can even re-encode the media to play on other devices using other formats. You can make your own edits. You can share your collection with others without forcing them to create an account and hand money/data to a third party. You can include things in your own collection that those third party streaming services might not approve of.

When you give up on owning things you give up a lot more than just the item you would have had sitting on a shelf or the file that would have taken up space on your hard drive. There are lots of freedoms and opportunities you gain that wouldn't be possible otherwise.
The demand for cheap electric vehicles will exist. They will be worse, and have less features, poorer construction, etc. but that’s the nature of budget stuff. Not everybody needs 300 mile range. Most folks can get most of their trips done with just a couple dozen miles of range.

It sucks, but we don’t have a choice to not act against climate change. Some people are going to get fucked in some ways, but those same people will be fucked in different ways if we don’t do anything or move too slowly.
It appears that they’re using the PRs from the top5000 most popular PyPi packages for their bench: https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-bench/tree/main/swebenc...
Will they subsidize new batteries? This will just mandate that most cars will only be driven for 10 years or 100k miles. The failing batteries will cause more environmental damage than modern gas vehicles. Used gas and EVs will be priced above what the low-income can afford. The untended consequences will be enormous but in the end the facts won't matter since there will be backs to pat and endless passes given.
The general message reminds me of both

"95th percentile isn't that hard to reach" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22265197 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38560345)

and "How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38686997)
To be fair, you could stop calling them accidents. "Avoiding collisions" does sound like it will get you to 80% of being a good driver.

Like the author, I also play chess, and I could have written the same advice. Maybe the charitable take here is "Don't worry about long term plans so much, at least until you manage to stop making trivial mistakes, evaluated looking retro-actively at decisions you made."
I have vinyls
This partly explains how the Twitch and YouTube livestreamer market exists as an advancement over passive broadcast television: interactivity.

If you want to create an "Apple"-like lifestyle cultural brand heavy on goodwill, skew to either adopt a position of extreme minimalism and totalitarianism or radical crowdsourcing and customization. Waffling between them and corporate bullshit don't fly anymore in terms of cultural resonance.
There is a huge range of digital platforms for educational institutions. In this article we would like to share why you schools select this platform and how it compares against the competition in the form of Microsoft 365
Seems like an April 01 post, but that's not the date...?
3M is a company that does not deserve any praise. The handling of contaminated water supplies with PFAS has forever ruined many lives.
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It is very cool, but not new. zx does that too. And I did the same thing for MySQL years ago.
Reminding May Not Be Enough: Overcoming the Male Dominance of Generic Masculine
I've been doing similar things with Swift and Racket:

* https://defn.io/2023/03/19/racketfest-talk-2023/

* https://defn.io/2023/02/04/racket-foreign-callouts-to-swift/

I also started out using JSON to exchange data between the languages, but eventually wiring everything manually became an annoyance so I came up with a little Racket DSL[1] that automatically serializes and deserializes between the two languages (at runtime in Racket & using code generation in Swift). So far, I've built two apps with this approach, and I think it's great:

* https://github.com/Bogdanp/Franz (macOS, Windows, Linux)

* https://github.com/Bogdanp/remember (macOS, iOS)

[1]: https://github.com/bogdanp/noise
Chinese companies make cheap EVs, hopefully other countries can figure out how to make it happen.
>when I used to order bulk purchases of 5.25" floppies from a catalog

Imsai!
It depends. A lot of it is hard to parse out from company specific realities. These particular intermediates are only doing so much support as the product is selling a lot more than anticipated. We may be allocated support engineers to help out. So maybe support engineer becomes the new junior developer job as many of them are fairly technical but have no career track.

The current situation is definitely untenable, but it is not clear whether you need a full fledged developer do a lot of the work they are presently doing.

Keep in mind that this is a fairly large org of thousands, so smaller companies have different needs as full time support engineers may not be worth it. We already have some, they just are not allocated to this team.

As for your second question, one company phrased it something along the lines of "AI allows us to quickly do tasks for which we would otherwise need junior/certain classes of support team members." AI isn't just being used by developers, but all over the org. There is an AI steering group and everything.

Other employer hasn't said anything about it as AI implementation is less far along.
Article says 3M exited floppies because it was retail oriented very low margin business.

But how is Scotch Tape not that too?
We Can Beat Devin
Industry already now is heavily reliant on electricity. So not really a change there.

Preppers will just use their generators and PV system to charge their cars.
images don't load with JS disabled, but the text is clear and there's no annoying header to worry about.
Yes, grid capacity planning is a very active topic.

Many larger municipalities are incentivizing more solar installs with battery capacity. Having solar generation and battery storage distributed throughout the city will reduce the need to have the grid import all of the energy demand from far away sources.

Modern solar, battery, and charger combos can easily be configured to store energy produced by solar panels on the house and operate the charger in a way that primarily pulls from the solar generation and the house's battery capacity (by telling the battery to discharge while the car is charging, essentially).

Power companies are also moving heavily toward "virtual power plants", which would be a good search term if you want to learn more.
With the two examples you chose, I‘d say there is not much of a skill gap.

If you‘d have chosen a burger flipper and an aeronautical engineer or a surgeon, I‘d have agreed with you.
Full EU chat control proposal attack on digital privacy and encryption
Two very interesting parts (IMHO):

First, there is a US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), established 2022:

It's part of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which you may recognize, at the Department of Homeland Security. The board "serves a deliberative function to review and assess significant cyber incidents and make concrete recommendations that would drive improvements within the private and public sectors." Membership is government and private industry, including a Google VP, former Crowdstrike CTO, NSA leaders, etc.

https://www.cisa.gov/cyber-safety-review-board-csrb-members

Second, how much I am stuck with Microsoft's explanation. Did anyone know much of what is in the OP or in this summary:

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2024/04/02/cyber-safety-review-boar...
Hilux is still the main international line of Toyota pickups. The Tacoma is for the US market only (bigger footprint and bigger engine options).
Many EVs are already cheaper than many ICE cars. They will only get cheaper and ICE cars will be more expensive to produce in 3 years. No surprise since ICE cars are quite complex.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/evs-wi...
> Stange that they would lose ground in a new architecture.

Is it strange though? AMD needs to ensure backwards compatibility with x86 and AMD64 architectures, and can't simply tell it's customers to just run their old software on an emulator and hope it does not crash.

Apple can and does do just that, and as it controls all of its ecosystem then it can invest what it can to micro-optimize and fine-tune any layer of their tech stack to meet specific needs.
controlling speech will not make the world a better place
DMK moves Madras High Court questioning the design of third generation EVMs
Bun has -i/--install=fallback which I thought was pretty similar to Deno but I haven't used Deno much to compare. I was thinking about starting to write my scripts with `#!bun -i` but haven't fiddled with it much yet.
OK, I will admit the "unexpected item" nonsense has diminished... only to be replaced by the "calling for assistance" out of nowhere.
> We all know that fossil fuel powered vehicles aren't the future.

Are we sure of this? Are biofuels not an option here? If you lived in California, you'd know that our pathetic grid can barely handle the load now. When everyone plugs in their Tesla at 6pm it's going to be pandemonium. Of course, Gavin is happy handing the extra business to his buds at PG&E.
In this case it looks like they weren’t talking about what matters “in practice,” but whether the improvement would indicate that some aspect of the design must have improved to an implausible degree. So, which type of benchmark you think is best seems slightly tangential to the issue.
These are the worst quality-wise. Yes, you can write a review if something went really bad. But not having customers right there who can complain and might even get an extra or a replacement gives less incentive to keep quality up. "Specialising" in everything, pizza-burger-kebab-china, is also likely a warning sign.
I haven't been there, but I'm not sure how much of this you'd actually get from a PhD, and it doesn't give you an answer for what to do once you get the degree. It halfway sounds like you want to be a professor, but read some of the comments on other posts about what academia is like. It has all the politics of industry, but the lower stakes somehow make for more drama. If it's just the learning you enjoy, you can do that in your free time for free.

> I can build pretty much any application and scale it to millions of users

Can you build the cloud it runs on? Can you write a database? An OS? Design a motherboard? It's hard to run out of things to learn in this industry.
Most cpu manufacturers do this. Binning, changing product numbers or lines around, and marketing tactics.

@GamersNexus on YouTube occasionally does stories on this. Recently they had a good intel slide deck trying to disparage AMD and muddying the water on their own product lines.
Could you give me a description of said subsidies? It's just that the last time I saw a serious study measuring them, the study was pretty much a study on the ways to torture the semantics of the word subsidy.

Most countries in the world also implement significant excise taxes on petroleum fuels. The American one is about 5%, while in Europe they can go to 40% excluding VAT.