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The real kicker here is that this functionality is blocked not only in China but globally. That is indefensible, at the very least provide some timeline or assurance that such restrictions will be limited to users of that particular country. It is natural to have different rules around content in different countries, whether you agree with those rules or not. But doing it this way you are setting rules for all users based on what the most restrictive, authoritarian countries will allow.

It is the same with Hollywood, they have completely caved in, and it is a mockery of the idea of free and creative expression. Like in any good censorship regime, the creators are chaining themselves, no state intervention needed!

Just incredible.

Right, I don’t have a lot of love for EU bureaucrats (thanks cookie law!), but this criticism misses the mark in many places.

You can have E2E encryption, as that term is understood, and scan the communications, you just have to do so locally on the end devices. The example the bureaucrat gave of scanning for a URL and inserting a thumbnail is actually quite relevant and technologically similar, even if the ramifications/scale/difficulty are very different.

Whether this type of forced scanning is desirable or not is another question. We can have the debate, but if you are going to say “wow this politician is so dumb, she doesn’t understand anything technical”, then your takedown better be pedantically correct.

Also, I was really confused about the critique that (I think?) is saying the politician is dumb for thinking that some nude pictures of children are legal. But in fact this IS true, not all pictures of nude children are pornography or illegal (in the US at least). And I don’t mean that in some weaselly, CP apologist way. One famous example is the “napalm girl” photo from the Vietnam war (a Pulitzer Prize winner in fact), another more recent one are the photos those parents sent to their child’s doctor at the doctor’s behest. Or am I misunderstanding the critique here?

I don't think anyone really holds this position sincerely. Where people disagree is where the line should be drawn and how to do the cost benefit analysis of regulation.

Yes I couldn't really understand what the thesis was. Definitely the shift to overseas production has affected local manufacturing, a story we have seen over and over. But the consumers are unhappy because... It is cheaper? And $reasons? It's not like there isn't quality furniture available, they talk a lot about it. It is just more expensive than people want to pay given the cheaper alternatives available. So from a consumer angle, what's the problem really?

Lacking is any sort of inflation/quality adjusted comparison of prices from "ye goode olde days" vs now. That's really what I want to know, has it gotten both more expensive and worse? Or only cheaper and worse?

You're actually onto something, I think. Half of the fed's job is setting interest rates, but the other half is setting interest rate _expectations_. If people expect rates to hold steady or decrease, they may not change their behavior (e.g. slow hiring or spending) to the extent needed to reduce inflation. But if they do expect rates to stay high or go higher, then they will act on those expectations, and the effects will ripple through the economy.

And yes, it is by and large "rich people" the fed needs to convince, specifically business and capital owners.

Roku had nearly half a _billion_ uninsured at SVB! I get how a small startup maybe overlooks their cash management, but how do you get to the size of Roku and have that? Treasurer/CFO should be fired.

You can do your part by not putting plastic in the recycling. Put it in the trash instead where it goes to safe, well regulated American facilities.

I have totally lost faith in recycling anything other than aluminum/glass/some paper in single stream recycling.

Of course they are free to add new "more powerful" instructions to SVE at any time, just like Intel could for AVX, etc.

Also, I think it is supposed to be easier for compilers to autovectorize SVE than, say, neon. Whether that's the case in practice I don't know. Is there something specific you see that makes it more difficult than with SIMD-style, fixed operation width instructions? Or you are referring to something else with "compiler support"?

Was also wondering the same thing, but it seems to only show up in-app. If you're not a user and just viewing on the web I don't think you see anything.

And yes it says "Digital Collectible" and the image animates back and forth in a partial spin before settling into place.

Not confusing the two, and maybe it is quibbling but changes in market value have nothing to do with liquidity as that term is used in finance.

Just because you can't sell a bond at par doesn't mean it is an illiquid market.

What was the rule of thumb?

I mean, my Chase checking account is still only paying 0.01% interest. Many many people seem to be ok with ~0% interest on their day-to-day cash needs.

Treasuries are some of the most liquid instruments available, it is not a “liquidity” issue like “How do I line up buyers for all these weird, hard-to-price assets”.

And the measure put in place by the Fed is not a liquidity back stop, it is a value/solvency bailout, or kind of capital infusion. This is what SVB was trying to do on Wednesday, raise capital. That should tell you it is not a liquidity problem.

Just to be clear, SVE is similar to AVX512 but the “Scalable” part is that the length is not hard-coded to any set number of bits or elements. It is more like the vector computers of old, such as the Cray-1.

This means there is no need for continually updating the instruction set with longer and longer versions of the same instructions. Hopefully this leads to a more stable base and wider adoption, we’ll see how that works in practice though!

No, if you have to sell your bonds with, say, 9 years remaining, you won't get 100B for them. Think about it, you paid 100B to get 10-yr treasury bonds paying 2%/$4 billion, annually. Now someone can go to a treasury auction and pay 100B and get 4%/$8 billion annually. Why would they still pay you $100 B for yours? They are obviously worth less.

Well what do you mean by cash?

Keeping cash in a vault is of course highly impractical, and also doesn't produce any money for you or the bank. If that's what you want, I think you could find it but it would be at a security company (security as in guards), not a bank.

The electronic equivalent would be depositing the money with the federal reserve. (What they do with the physical bills I don't know! But most deposits would be coming in electronically these days anyways.) However, up until the passage of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the fed didn't even pay interest on reserves. [1] Now they do, but until 2022 this rate was only 0.15%. [2]

The first problem with this would have been it didn't provide enough money to run the bank. SVB's non-interest expenses were over $2 billion annually for the last 3 years, so with $200 billion of deposits you need at least to earn 1%, just to keep the lights on. Also your deposits will go up and down but you'll still have to pay your rent, so better be more than 1%. (This is how they ended up invested in longer duration treasuries, to earn more money by taking on greater interest rate risk.)

But the more fundamental problem with just keeing the money at the fed is that I don't think they would let you. It is not, traditionally, the social-economic purpose of a bank to just collect deposits and do nothing with them. Instead, the bank is supposed to take in deposits and then provide loans to the community (credit cards, business loans, mortgages, etc.). Probably this purpose has gotten a little fuzzy over time, since banks are not holding on to the loans, but it is the basic idea.

There is a company calling itself "The Narrow Bank" that actually wants to do exactly this, deposit all client money at the fed. [3] Tellingly, the fed has not granted them approval yet to do so. Maybe they will! But notice that this proposed bank is bare bones: no physical branches, no tellers, no ATMs, no FDIC insurance, just a place to deposit vast amounts of money from institutional clients and earn money from the interest rate spread from the fed vs what you pay out. I do not think such a bank would be very popular with many "regular" people or businesses, who have needs beyond just stashing money under an electronic mattress.

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2018/april/why-fed-pay...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IORB

[3] https://www.tnbusa.com/2022/04/tnb-seeks-to-become-states-ne...

You're making a lot of very specific assertions in this thread about what bank officers or regulators would/should have done, or what the effect of SIFI stress tests would have been, without any actual evidence to back this up. Do you actually have inside information or prior experience on these things?

Very pro-Trump presentation! (Read the slides you’ll get the joke.)

Not to support the “what about the children” arguments, but 1) try thinking a little harder, and 2) probably a good thing that nothing comes to mind for you.

Yes they were really crowing about MI250X adoption and touting the upcoming MI300

Re. The “hybrid algorithms” bit: I was at this talk. The example she gave was a physics sim like CFD, iterating between a fast/approximate ML-based algorithm and slow/accurate classical physics algorithm, with the output of each feeding in as the starting point of the next round. But this was just an example, clearly there are lots of area you could apply a similar approach.

Why do you think YouTube isn’t profitable? Plenty of ads in it and bringing in something like $15 bln/year in revenue. Don’t know exactly the COGS, etc., but hard to say they aren’t making money. Android is probably a much better example than YouTube.

Have to question your life choices if you are the "manage multiple JTAG devices in hardware" expert. (In HW, we are all that person.)

It’s the biology department!

I feel you 100%. Recently I have started asking myself "Is this what I want to be doing right now" and actually taking time to consider and answer the question. It is not a perfect solution but it gives me some space to reconsider whether what I'm doing is serving my needs. Sometimes the alternative is to go watch a movie/play a game/read a book instead, it doesn't have to be either Something Serious.

Also I think meditation helps. It is not a cure all but you are literally practicing letting your brain go unstimulated for a period of time.

If your phone is your main source of distraction then put it out of reach, power it down, put it in a drawer on the other side of the house, etc.

lol @ citing Intel for its superb management of employees

The NFL is the exception and has done a good job maintaining OTA availability of most of the games.

That is likely way too much melatonin than is needed or helpful. Try taking 1 mg or even 0.5 mg a few hours before you want to fall asleep. Lots of easy to find evidence that common dosages are way too high. Typical person produces anywhere between 0.1 mg and 0.9 mg per day (varies strongly with age). Remember, absolutely none of the supplements in stores are regulated for safety, efficacy, or appropriate dosage levels.

Example: https://news.mit.edu/2001/melatonin-1017

Restaurant down the street from me also has a 20% surcharge added but they explicitly tell you a tip is not expected. Asking for both is just nuts!

Another vote for LabView, it is inherently visual and data oriented.