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Is it really due to the report? The slide seems to have started after the quarterly reports on October 24th. Now with the continuing slide, it seems news writers are trying to attribute a particular reason.

Here's the Q&A which happened during the call:

Joseph L. Moore - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC:

Great. Thank you. I was interested in your comments that the sequential growth in the Computing and Graphics business was driven primarily by graphics. How literally should we take that? And I guess, if graphics is up close to $150 million sequentially, is that business now on par with the CPU business? Can you just give us a general sense of the size of the two businesses there in that segment?

Dr. Lisa T. Su - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. :

Yeah. So overall, the growth in Computing and Graphics, when you look over the past few quarters has been very strong. And we've seen growth both on the Ryzen side, particularly in the desktop side of the business as well as on the graphics side. So in terms of size of the business, again, I think we stated in the prepared remarks that the GPU business had a record quarter for us and we're seeing very strong growth.

We're seeing strong growth as a result of the new product launches. So the Vega product actually did very well for us in the quarter as well as overall Polaris in both gaming and blockchain markets. But yes, we're pleased with the graphics performance. But I'll also say Ryzen did very well in the quarter. We look at the progress that we're making in the desktop channel when you look across retailers and e-tailers across the world. And in the Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 segment, we're seeing significant share gain in those parts of the business. So I think both parts of the Computing and Graphics business are doing well. And we continue to expect growth as we go forward.

Joseph L. Moore - Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC:

And is it possible to size the blockchain portion of that?

Dr. Lisa T. Su - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. :

I think the blockchain tends to be, again, it's hard to separate because it goes through some of the same channels as gaming does. I will say that blockchain sort of behaved as we expected in Q3. So we didn't see anything that we didn't expect. We did see some benefit of channel restocking. So if you look at our channel inventories today compared to July, we had healthier channel inventory levels. And we expect that consumer blockchain will level off a bit as we go into Q4. But there's also commercial blockchain component that we believe is interesting and likely to continue into the medium term. As we look into Q4, though, we also see growth from just the OEM side of the GPU business as we start ramping Vega into OEMs.

So the part in question is this:

> And we expect that consumer blockchain will level off a bit as we go into Q4.
For me ”marrying to an editor” is mostly about muscle memory. Onve you know all tje shortcuts, you are much more productive
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I like to identify fonts in a web browser, say the font used on a particular site. I use a chrome app called WhatFont (chrome is the browser i use most). It does the Job,..at least till next year when chrome apps will die.
So what you're saying is Google's free "pricing" is better?

In terms of paid usage, I believe AWS still has the better pricing and aggressively cuts prices for existing offerings.

I personally have seen S3 prices drop multiple times over the years I've used it.
Agree in principle. But the real culprit is not professor salaries (some are well paid, but those who are generally bring in much more in grant funding than they cost) or sports programs (most are self funding auxiliary operations, not part of the university budget per se).

The real culprit is administrative staff bloat, and facilities spending. University administrative org charts have exploded in the past few decades, and so has spending on lavish new dormitories, administrative and academic buildings, monuments, etc. While some of the buildings are funded at least in part by donations, the rest has all been fueled by the easy money of student loans, and the premium tuition paid by international students.
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I think the plan might be get your 'asters with thousands of dollars and 3 years experience in the field
This varies depending on the community you're a part of. I don't have any exposure to what Silicon Valley is currently like, so I can't speak to that. (other than to question how these people who are supposedly giving 110% have so much time to discuss politics...)

When I lived in Berkeley everyone felt very free to start a conversation about politics with any random person they happened to encounter. Nice people, but that can cause fatigue. My current Midwestern corporate work environment is basically the opposite of that: someone can talk about politics but if they're speaking in a group or to someone they're not very close to, they're going to get a funny look and they'll generally take the hint and drop it.

I don't know what our employee handbook says about all that but it's being handled at a different, social level. It's not perfect (my boss's boss occasionally makes bizarre political jokes which would cause a little trouble if they made people feel stepped on, instead of amused) but I suspect we should regard actual company policy as just a fallback for dealing with this sort of thing. Mostly, people just need to exercise some social discretion as part of the corporate culture.
> ... one of the key iPhone X features is a silly animated emoji face.

I think we should all take a step back and let that sink in a bit.
I don't disagree, but you asked me how the war got us out. That's how it did.
I really want support for multiple monitors!
I love both Ruby and Coffescript and I love magic.
When you've embraced pure happiness and productivity everything else is depressing.
What kind of revenue should you be earning from a popular app on Firebase to justify the cost of using Firebase (for an indie developer). It looks great, but I'm afraid I won't be able to afford it.

I'm currently researching open source solutions such as Parse.
Nor as private as you wish.
That report is so negatively biased it's suspicious. AMD finances were known to be dire for the last decade. They didn't established as just an intel competitor again, they won hard technical and market praises. The console and mining markets are not what to look at, what about the rest of the whole personal computer one ?
You are really asking to be bullshited (even if people had a good answer, they won't have an elevator pitch to tell you in an interview). Unless you are looking for people that can make an argument, you are selecting for the wrong trait.
I'm not sure. I heavily switch between VIM and VSCode. I sometimes dive back into Emacs. It really depends on what I'm doing. But I like the refreshing feeling of using a different editor.
> No, net exports add to GDP, its just that the value is negative.

huh?! That's the definition of subtraction - to add the negation of the value to subtract!
The academics are hardly fat cats. But they are operating in a parallel universe from the commercial world where there is far less money and it's all grant-determined. As others have pointed out, they don't even pay the PhD students directly at all - because they're students and are paying the university!

The UK government values neither research nor teaching very highly, and has additionally wrecked the economy of universities through Brexit.
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If you use QT and QML, you can write most (sometimes all) of your code in JavaScript.

Whether you consider JavaScript a sane language is up to you. :)
True, but if you have an MVP idea... best bet is just build it --even if it's not perfect/beautiful... just launch.. get some validation for the concept, maybe some early subscribers, and then hire an ui/designer to clean things up a bit.
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This would be a bit different. Itanium, Sparc, Crusoe, ARM... all these CPUs were offering is the promise of better performance in some aspect.

Nobody expects RISC-V to beat i7 or Ryzen in any benchmarks.

IMO its purpose is to be the in hardware what GNU/Linux was in software.

edit: GNU/Linux, not just Linux :)
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World War one and two were some of the only events ever in history the reduce wealth inequality, which otherwise has grown inexorably.

I gathered this from reading 'Capital in the 21st century' by Thomas Piketty
Sony brought 12 or so early Aibo prototypes to the Agent 97 conference. IIRC the device was developed at Sony's D21 laboratory (later the "digital creatures laboratory") and was called the Mutant, for "Musical Tangible Agent". You'd play notes from a little keyboard and it would respond. I was told they hadn't determined what kind of animal it should be yet, and were leaning towards monkey. They had some faux fur for it too. But it wagged its tail! So everyone at the conference told them it should clearly be a dog.

At the end of the conference all 12 of the prototypes had broken neck servos. Because so many people had patted them on the head.
Agreed. The US is in a tough spot, but the rest of the world is in an even tougher spot. Definitely with regards to geography, but also with regards to demography (the only continent where population is continuing to grow is Africa). Worth reading: "The Accidental Superpower", https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Superpower-Generation-Amer...
An application running inside a browser VM is anything but native, hence integrating it with the host OS turns it into an hybrid solution.

Using your example, C is native, Python is not.
It's definitely the opportunity cost, like twobyfour said.

What if you fail publicly?

Who cares. As long as you do not have a big ego, or talk more than you walk (I'm looking at you Theranos). Then nobody is going to judge you. It's 2017, apparently starting your own business and "pivoting" (ie failing) is what all the cool kids are doing.

If someone puts you down and blindly says that you are going to fail. Then stop talking to them, and get them out of your life. They are probably too small minded to have a legitimate conversation with anyways. (At least in my experience)

What if you go broke?

That's fine. How much money does it take for you to be truly happy, with no external influences? For me, I need a workshop, a laptop,the gym, the local library, and my significant other. I can theoretically sustain that lifestyle working a minimum wage job full time. Not being spartan, just minimally comfortable.

So if I go broke, I know I have the skills and work ethic to make at least what a full time min wage worker makes per month. So in my mind, money doesn't matter.

(This changes a lot if you have kids. On the flip side, if you go broke your kids will have such an enormous respect for money, that they will probably be financially responsible when they are adults. In a really twisted way,you might be doing your kids a favor by going broke.

Opportunity cost?

This is the real killer. Let's say your 25 years old. You start your company and put 5 years into it.

Now your 30. Your business isn't a unicorn, but you didn't explicitly fail. So lets say your making $150k profit a year (non-passive), working 40+/hrs a week. Plus the weight of the business on your shoulders. You look at your buddies working at Google/FB/MS/AMZ, they are pulling in $250k+, working less hours with less stress, and they spend more time with friends and family. Your other buddy wanted to bring you into his early stage business when you were 25, you declined and still struck it out on your own. Your buddy just made a 7+ figure exit.

Did you make you make the right choice 5 years ago? This hypothetical question is what keeps me up at night.

Here's what scares the hell out of me. Once you lose time, you will NEVER get it back. You are that much closer to being dead.

How do I deal with it? Ask yourself this question. Am I happy(but stressed) right now?
If you say yes, then nothing else matters.

When I was working for the Fortune 500's, I would look out the window and wish I was working on my own project with my own terms. That's what I'm doing now.
After starting my business,I never for a second, wished I was working for a Fortune 500. I only wanted the Fortune 500 paycheck, not the daily work/routine/office politics.

Perspective is an incredibility underrated way to manage stress.
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"Neocons" were the foreign-policy hawks of the 2000s. These guys largely call themselves the "alt-right".

They're basically as bad as you've heard, but hiding it sometimes.

Even I find this particular turn against SpaceX somewhat weird. My internal model of the alt-right has largely been that they have one wing who are basically Nazi fanfiction, another who idolize the "throne and altar conservatism" of pre-Revolutionary France, and another who think they should build Warhammer 40K's Imperium of Man as a real-life society (they're very pop-culture influenced). Turning against a private space company seems to indicate that some factions (Nazis plus... someone else?) are throwing the "far-right futurism" faction overboard.

(Again, these guys are really weird, but hey, it's all there on their blogs.)

My big question is: where's Peter Thiel in all this? Just last year, he was the one trying to assure everyone that, oh don't worry, this was all about tearing down overbearing regulations and political correctness in favor of unbound innovation, that the Right weren't anti-science religious people anymore, etc. Turning against SpaceX isn't just throwing a faction of bloggers overboard, it's thrown Thiel overboard, and he was a major billionaire backer for all of this.
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Depends on how much value you place on the trademark. We already split the miners once.
> Every tank, missile, bullet, could be used to improve a consumer’s life instead

but just because no war happesn doesn't mean that the consumer's life gets improved. THe bullet money would've been spent elsewhere similarly to a war, to benefit the few rich.
His point is that innovation is both something that we all want, yet something that is often inadvertently stifled by regulators or competitors. Perhaps the energy innovation that would benefit society most is not pursued because it's too lucrative to pursue solar (the government's "winner"). Perhaps there are streaming video/music innovations we will never see because there is so much red tape put up by Disney, etc.
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Housing and transportation are both localized issues that are almost entirely concentrated in urban areas. They are problems, but are only indirectly related to wealth inequality anyway. Bigger problems are NIMBYs, excessive regulations protecting skylines / ocean views, etc. Transportation sucks for the wealthy, too.

It is not the case that we have a growing epidemic of people without housing or food as a result of income inequality.

We do have a growing number of people unable to find housing they can afford in the place they want to live, but that's not the same thing.
Ask HN: How much of a pay cut is typical when going to a startup?
Is there a general guideline for how much of a salary "discount" one should expect per unit of equity, or is it more subjective than this?
I'm assuming you don't have mouths to feed or a wife with average female "requirements"?
Someone sounds pretty entitled. You know how burdensome it'd be to verify that your repos were fully yours and how much energy an employer would have to exert to make sure everything was connected/architected well vs using a template I'd be already familiar with / created, that could be slightly altered to avoid it circulating the internet.

2 hours is not unreasonable for a take home project with the entire internet at your disposal. People need to be motivated to join the company they're applying to! (Anything more is definitely unfair for the candidate and doesn't scale well when reviewing code)

This notion that 2 hours is a lot of time, well plenty of engineers would rather have that than waste a few months memorizing algorithms they'll rarely use. It's pretty common for algorithm tests to be an hour long anyway.

So many software engineers have it backwards. Companies don't work for you, you're not even in the door yet. Unless you're a vp or principal engineer with a stellar bg, your tasks are replicable and most employers aren't going to be drooling over to get you on board as entitled / piss-poor attitude is going to cause more friction than it's worth.
Trump reactions to ISIL and far-right attacks compared
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The whole article in a single sentence:
"However volatile they may be, the reason why gold and bitcoin are perceived as stores of value is simple: their money supply doesn’t grow quickly and, in the case of bitcoin not at all, some day."

Ergo, bitcoin is like gold. Hence, should be valued as gold.
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I can't tell from the page if the client can be run without using any nonfree software. Does anyone know? The Android application unfortunately requires nonfree components.
Stripping Berkshire Hathawsy turned out great for the economy. The textile mills were closed, and turned into cheap office space that helped drive the Boston tech boom. The remaining cash flow saved from been diverted onto that gaping wound of a business and remained jg assets were invested in far better businesses.

Ever business doesn’t deserve investment, some require liquidation. The world needs Carl Icahns too, people who identify when it’s better to end the business and dismember it rather than keep burning money in it.

Someone shut down buggy whip factories so they could make car parts. Their investors and employees should have been grateful.
> Are there really places in the world where total strangers strike up conversations and form friendships with people on the street, on the bus, etc?

Israel, 100%. If you're new in the country, you'll end up getting a lot of random people that you literally meet on the street or in public transportation, helping you with a lot of stuff in your life.
It may now support working on devices without Play Services, but being the same apk, Google's libraries are still inside the app. This way it's not entirely free and doesn't fit F-Droid's inclusion policy. (https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Inclusion_Policy/)
So? Try getting any raw data and/or code from academics.

In my experience, often all you ever get are the papers.

Now the tables are flipped and academics are the ones not getting access.

A culture of real open access would be nice.
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They absolutely will, but I don't see signs of that happening.
I'd be interested. But your email isn't in your profile. Can you add it, or post it here?
I'm gonna gamble and guess none
I felt the same as you, but lately I've felt an attraction to perl6. Which version did you choose to use?
Of course I'm not shocked that Ars picked it up. Their journalistic quality has majorly slipped over the last few years.

AMD is punching way above their weight class lately. It's causing competitors (or really competitor since Intel is their main one) to have to scramble to counter them.
What causes an imbalance of interest between non-technical and technical person?
I'm developing this web application on django. Im pretty swamped in backend and I'm looking for a front end dev and marketing person.
During the process, I noticed people who are non-technical are way more interested in the app than those who are technical. In fact, I haven't found any technical person interested.

Is it because it's not technically "cool" enough? I understand a technical person may get sourced by all sorts of non-technical person, but the imbalance is just so striking to me. What would cause this imbalance of interest? I feel like there's a discontinuation somewhere.
Only if you turn Volatility into a meaningless phrase. The euro may as well be flat from conception vs. Bitcoin which has been around for a long time and still ridiculously volatile.

IMO, most fan-fiction is worse than the original, the best fan-fiction is often better.
Good job gnif!

I'll admit my thoughts from reading just the headline were that a hacker spent 10 years working on trying to fix the same bug over and over again.
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The mobile app has literally just been launched.
Lazarus: http://www.lazarus-ide.org/
It does multiplatform the right way, that is, compiling natively for every architecture instead of creating slugginess and bloat by forcing software to run interpreted or under VMs. Here are some projects using it.
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Lazarus
Also, both the IDE and generated software can run on different architectures, including ARM based boards such as the Raspberry PI and similar ones. I played with it also on Orange and Nano PIs with just one gig RAM: definitely not fast but useable; it should scream on the Odroid C2 or faster boards. My only wish is having something similar for Nim.
To me this sounds like a misallocation of resources between private and public sectors of AI research. Most companies - outside MSR and DeepMind - largely fund applied AI research, usually towards better classifiers for vision tasks, better predictive regression for recommenders, self-driving cars, etc. Most universities keep academics on for basic research: things machines can't do yet that people can.

The latter obviously leads to the former, but actually receives a great deal less funding. The former, after all, gets the deep pockets of multi-billion-dollar companies, while the latter relies on various national science agencies.
Definitely in Southern Europe. I met some of my best friends in random encounters.
I've worked on over 40 Rails web-apps in the last 10 years and what I see it lots of apps built by juniors who didn't even bother to read the most basic conventions of the frameworks which result in bizarre behaviour.

At least in Rails if you have to refactor you know what it should be refactored to.

Frameworks based in other langs have no concrete conventions and this willfully frees developers to write bizarre over engineer web-apps.
That seems like a low count of channels, videos, and hours, does that include the content existing channels were paid to create? e.g.: the divisive messaging on Black Lives Matter, where the Internet Research Agency was found to have paid existing content creators to post messages for or against the organization.
Check out the Ionide plugin for Fsharp on VSCode, it's really good and improves at a breakneck pace.
Then shouldn't every deflationary alt-coin also be valued like gold? You can see where this is going...
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Apple did until last year though.
There is also nheko (https://github.com/mujx/nheko), but it's not particularly mature and also has no Olm/E2EE support (https://github.com/mujx/nheko/issues/13)