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> const selectBy = (table, column, value) => db.query(`SELECT * FROM :table WHERE :column = :value`, {table, column, value})

> const selectOneBy = (table, column, value) => { const res = selectBy(table, column, value); return res && res.shift() }

Two or three lines gives you about 80% of the value in any ORM and avoids the -20% value found in the other 100k LOC.

> it's very difficult to identify which layout is most efficient

Don't worry. The compiler will figure it out. And this time the compiler will have AI™.

> the killer is that dead silicon tends to be a LOT of silicon for any given program

Part of the idea here is that the cost dynamic has changed. Silicon is cheap compared to power so even if you have lots of chips not being used at any given time as long as they can be fully powered off total system cost (capex+opex) is still better.

> why it would work this time

The difference is scale. If you are running millions of CPUs and adding 100k's per month then something like this could work, assuming the AI™ magic that figures out which new chips to build.

Intel is talking up their grandiose vision but practically this is the same as AMD's chiplets on active interposers (https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/design/am...).

The physical technology is real and probably coming soon but it will be limited to incremental improvements to the existing CPU/GPU compute architecture from increasing bandwidth and decreasing latency until the magic compilers arrive.

> There is very little traffic on sidewalks

lol. i guess the plebs who can't afford uber don't count as people. SF sidewalks have seem pretty packed to me whenever I am there.

It is also extremely expensive ($1.44/hr of audio) which really limits its potential. I looked at it for a project but it just didn't make sense.

> BlackRock is today the world's largest asset manager with $6.3 trillion in assets under management

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock

I think a lot of people would consider how BlackRock voted to be newsworthy and follow their lead based on their size and expertise.

Always be suspicious when politicians pass legislation that doesn't take effect until after they leave office.

Perhaps they should use this to rebuild the UI for Azure. It might be better.

The other absurdity is the nerve of these western "human rights" organizations to believe that they should dictate morality and law for the entire world.

China's censorship is no different than censorship of hate speech in the west. They have just as much right as us to decide what acceptable speech is for their country and they have just as much right as us to demand that businesses operating in their country follow the law.

This is a blog post based on a slide from the American Enterprise Institute with no supporting documentation - not exactly a highly credible source.

It was required to comply with US laws against exporting strong cryptography. In order to have a global standard the protocol had to be decoupled from the crypto implementation and clients had to be able to negotiate down to the (broken) crypto approved for export.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

> badmouth

a.k.a. truth

Linus has "badmouthed" Intel in much harsher and more explicit terms. Linux is just too big for them to get away with trying to smear and slander so they ignore him and move on.

> The old chip pulled 33% less than its rated TDP in the real world.

That sounds slightly made up. As you mention yourself chips pull vastly different amounts of power, and put off vastly different amounts of heat depending on workload.

> lol if you actually think TDP means anything anymore

Yes, it does not mean anything because Intel releases CPUs that exceed their ratings because they can't get their process right, which is my whole point.

They don't exist. Continuing to repeat reefer madness propaganda does not make it any more true.

Show one scientific study that shows any long term effect from a single dose of any of your listed substances and I will be happy to take your comment seriously.

It is for having a dominant market position in mobile phones (90% global market share) and abusing the market position in mobile phone operating systems to favor their other products.

Apple does not have a dominant market position and does not give away iOS for free.

Making Android free is an anti-competitive practice because it inhibits the formation of a competitive market for mobile phone operating systems. Because Google's practice of making Android free inhibits competition they are not allowed to exploit the lack of competition for profit.

The new chip has the exact same TDP rating as the old one. Unless Apple has made their thermal solution worse (highly unlikely) it is Intel that is fudging the TDP ratings.

> consists of reducing transistor size

It used to. The problem here is that they have not been able to ship next gen chips and so they started shipping a 6-core chip on the same process as the old 4-core, and that doesn't work so well.

I was thinking about getting an XPS 15 soon so this gives me pause.

> Dell charges just as much if not more than Apple

Not even close. XPS 15 with 6 core, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD is $1500. MBP is $2400 for the same specs.

What I really like on the XPS 15 is the 97 WHR battery. I haven't seen any other notebook with this capacity.

When your CEO goes full pizzagate it might be time to consider other options. Seriously.

The idea that ai will be a revolutionary leap is probably nonsense. What we have seen so far is slow incremental evolutionary development of the tech over decades. Everyone raising money is claiming that the quantum leap is just around the corner but there is very little evidence to support that.

What you actually see is that improvements in perceived machine intelligence show diminishing returns to increasing compute capacity which is a good sign that people are on the wrong track to achieve general ai and that future improvements in perceived intelligence will grow at a slower rate, not exponentially increase.

The myth of the link between rising wages and inflation is very common in the media, but there is hardly any connection in reality.

Wages will naturally adjust to the equilibrium supply and demand. If the needed increase in wages to increase production pushes prices up such that supply falls then production will be cut to adjust. That is what actual economic theory says.

In the real world their is a lot of lag, so some market participants will be increasing wages and producing too much, and then they lose money, and have to overcut on the other side, but in a massive diverse economy this random noise balances out.

The market will never over price labor, therefore inflation cannot come from increasing wages.

Inflation comes from printing money (or creating it digitally since we don't actually print any more). When the inflation from printing money results in rising wages, then that is a sign to the bankers that they should cut back so that they can keep the poor in line, and keep them from paying off their loans so that they can't get out of debt.

Real world economics.

I think it is misguided to think that the web is "broken."

I am sure there are more people online doing more interesting things and producing more interesting content now then back in 1996.

It is just that now the internet is used by billions of people the signal to noise ratio is much lower.

Back when the internet was a few million people globally it was a very select group. That same group of people using the internet for cool interesting stuff has grown dramatically but it is still probably only a few million people globally. The difference is that now there are a couple billion other people using the internet.

There is nothing wrong with billions of people using the internet for things that interest them (mostly drama, porn, pyramid scams, and cat videos, apparently). It doesnt detract from my ability to grok some avant garde research paper that I would otherwise never have access to, run programs that do research that pulls on terabytes of data published in public databases around the world, have access to virtually every film and television show from anywhere in the world, any newspaper, etc, and collaborate with other weird people all over the world who are doing this stuff.

It is too bad that Google stop actually being a search engine and became an ad trap, but that just means going back to how you found stuff before Google: on chat (IRC then, but lots of places now) and in forums.

On the plus side google translate has transformed access to content. Back in pre-2000 the internet was basically English only. there is now so much more diversity, and google translate makes it possible to access content from a far larger group of people than what was possible in the good ol days.

The other big problem with this story is that they are looking at the retail price in the store and comparing it to a retail price that doesn't include the food distribution system.

Farmers get a ridiculously small percentage of the retail price on food. The price per pound in a store is usually comparable (same order of magnitude) to the wholesale price per ton.

The production cost for this tech is probably at least 10X traditional farming. It makes no sense because we have too much food. The biggest nutritional problem in society is obesity and we burn 1/3 of our corn crop on ethanol and feed a good part of the rest (and soy) to cattle and pigs because there is nothing else to do with it.

I am giving an analogy. Street car on digital track is the first part of it. The remote control aspects are there as well. It is not "direct" remote control. It is like a drone. You give a direction and the onboard computers execute on it. Direct remote control is not possible because of latency. But it also seems that the commercial launches of these vehicles might be dependent on 5G networks being available (lower latency, better reliability) in which case the remote control capabilities will be greatly enhanced before launch.

This is right on. Waymo is not an autonomous car in the way people typically imagine them. More like a remote control street car on a digital track.

All sorts of cloud hosting things would benefit from this. The ability to swap in and out very fast allows you to run more containers or vms on the same machine in cases where only a percentage of those instances are utilized at any given time but even if one is swapped out it must be able to swap in and respond with reasonable latency.

Any kind of "serverless" hosting or any architecture where you have a container per user would benefit from this kind of development.

I think this is correct.

With 24X NVMe servers now common and cheap (AMD EPYC) you can get 96GB/s (theoretical max, and real is not far off) onto NVMe which is same order of magnitude as memory bandwidth.

When PCI-e 4 comes out next year the bandwidth will double and SSD manufacturers will have no problem doubling the performance of NVMe devices once the interface supports it so at that point the bandwidth on NVMe will surpass RAM.

The major caveat is that sequential read/write is much faster than random (this can be offset to a certain extent if you can queue up many random requests at the same time but each random request has a very high latency) so I would expect that switching from 4K to 2MB pages would have significant advantages on the storage side beyond efficiencies gained in the kernel.

They do actually have a student subscription, which is a $100 per year. I bought it for a couple years. Well worth it, but since I don't invest in stocks the $1000 per year not really worth it just to satiate my curiosity.

For investors $1000/year is a bargain.

If it was FUD Tesla would have denied it.

Tesla responded with spin and a refusal to deny which is confirmation in the minds of anyone who is used to dealing with corporate PR.

> So, they not only have no evidence Elon Musk is involved in this, but have no evidence that proper testing has been skipped on cars

"Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears to have asked engineers at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, to remove a standard brake test ... according to internal documents seen by Business Insider."

"The test was apparently shut down before 3 a.m. on June 26, according to a person familiar with the matter."

They have a source who provided documentary evidence.

"In a statement, a Tesla representative, Dave Arnold, told Business Insider that every car goes through 'rigorous quality checks,' including brake tests."

Tesla did not deny the story, which pretty much confirms it.

yeah, when he crashes and burns it will burn 100 billion dollars and the credibility of the whole tech industry (like Theranos but 100X).

There will be a nuclear winter in tech investment after that which sets back legitimate companies with real innovation by years with lasting damage to the global economy.

Same story as Uber and why people "hated" on them before the adults cleaned things up (as best as possible).

These con artists are shitting in the water for everyone else which has direct financial impact. Not hate, just money.