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Looks like we both misread it. "By "major cities" we mean any of the top 10 most populous cities in the United States of America." Phoenix is in that list.

My reading of the terms of the bet is major cities, which means more than one city with a population in excess of 250K. In my reading just Phoenix and Tucson would be sufficient.

I see. It's also an ISO standard too, which means it won't happen for sure before 2030... :) https://www.sae.org/standards/content/j3016_202104

Is there an agreed upon definition of level 5? I mean what's "everywhere" and "all conditions". I can't drive everywhere and in all conditions for some definitions of everywhere an…

To be commercially available for passenger use in major cities at level 5, regulators have to also agree it's level 5. It's not just a technical problem.

> with significantly higher code density. This is not correct and is a known weakness of RISC-V at the moment. The ARM toolchains are really good and have decades of improvements i…

For those who don't get the Judith Miller reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destr... "In the buildup to the 2003 war, the New York Times published a…

Shockingly this is not strictly the case anymore and it's become less true everyday. https://info.efabless.com/press-release-efabless-launches-ch...

The code may have been written in C but many drivers are distributed in binary only form with headers. Unfortunately the binaries are often ARM only.

I think to really have the conversation we would have to define the terms. Much of the original CAD tooling was open source because it was written at Universities. Things like: is …

That's part of the reason ARM will be very hard to displace. Just like there is a ton of x86 code out there in the server world that's not going anywhere. There is a ton of ARM cod…

This is because the underlying CAD tooling has gotten much smarter and easier to use. It's not because of anything RISCV did in particular. This toolchain enables going from knowin…

Nothing in life is ever simple... > With ARM, You have to pay ARM for ISA license This is only true for some definitions of ARM. See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambe…

They do. Google “VLSI interview prep”

I was thinking the same thing. It’s not like I’m being asked to direct troops or something. Instead of watching/reading news for hours. Take 30 min to donate some money and email y…

Apostol Calculus Vol 1 The introduction gives a history lesson, a great description of the method of exhaustion with descriptive drawings, and some very straightforward proofs on f…

And if you’re in the top, say 1/3, of engineers you’ll make a good living. If you’re in the top 1% of say, chess players, you probably won’t even get tournament invites.

It’s not in the linked article but there’s significant more information from the source: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-walk-throug...

If i==j==k then they’re not disjoint.

It's also my favorite background noise while working. The only problem is I keep getting distracted as I see new things. It's funny how much more character development shows had ba…

Actually, I think this is a decent thought experiment. IMHO it would depend a lot of what is included and not included and what definition of profitability we used. For example, if…

> If the speculative estimates that went into Caplan's spreadsheets were essentially made up When Caplan released the spreadsheet and asked people to "check his math" I am pretty s…

>> And don't forget that allied troops in Europe were rebelling (even turning their arms against their officers) at the prospect of being shipped to the pacific theatre. > I've nev…

Maybe they weren't going to help invade mainland Japan straight away but there were still plenty of Japanese troops in China that needed to be dealt with. https://en.wikipedia.org/…