The_Colonel

It's total births, not birth rate. 125 years ago, the population was smaller, but the birth rate higher.

You're missing the point - your claim of "hypothesis has to be testable otherwise can be dismissed" is itself philosophical (philosophy of science). You're claiming that your claim can be dismissed.

I think Intel is a different kind of acquisition for Broadcom than VMWare.

VMWare had/has a strong moat which can be exploited by jacking up prices. Intel doesn't have that.

Stories like this hit me harder after having children, too.

But they also provoke thankfulness for all I have. For a little while after I read such tragic stories, I try to enjoy the everyday life a bit more, enjoy the presence of the loved ones.

Memento mori.

That reminds me the story of Mozart's parents. Their first 3 children died less than 1 year old. I can't imagine the despair. Out of 7 children, only 2 survived infancy.

Or like MicroSoft - Microcomputer Software.

It's generic only if the context isn't implied. In e.g. NBA, NHL etc. "national" means "American".

A lot of it is simply AMD getting on newer TSMC nodes. Most of the Apple's efficiency head start is better process (they got exclusive access to 5nm at first).

Measuring your blood pressure is an example of proactive screening.

I assume we will start screening for things like cancer when the test will be as simple / cheap as measuring your blood pressure.

> enabling consumers to run big-LLM inference locally

A non-technical reason is that the market of people wanting to run their personal LLMs at home is very small.

> I for one don't like it when people online, with every statement, signal their personal ethics. It gets to be very tiresome and degrades my HN experience.

Ironically, buying a Tesla is nowadays a very visible political statement.

I think that even (most) conservatives don't want their car to be a political statement.

I would not be surprised at all if they broke up within a couple of months.

China ATM seems to be a smaller threat to Europe than US.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some level of EU-China rapprochement as a result.

I guess this is a point where terminology matters. If you work with SQL database in an OOP language, you pretty much always do some object-relational mapping, no matter if you have a big framework or just raw SQL connection.

But this is not what people usually call as ORMs. All the "bad kind of ORM" (JPA impls, Entity Framework, SQLAlchemy, Doctrine, Active Record...) have some concept of an entity session which is tracking the entities being processed. To me, this is a central feature of an ORM, one of its major benefits. It is, incidentally, also serving as a transaction-scoped cache.

I won't of course dispute that you can have caching on other levels as well (which may perform differently, for different use cases).