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> And that isn't because of financials (i.e. going bust)?

Typically it is because of financials in my experience. Keep in mind we were all low level employees or just getting started during the 2008 recession. Most of my friends graduated college in the peak of the recession.

Basically it falls under 4 categories from my personal experiences:

- Downsizing due to decreased profits

- "Failing fast" with a product (its not working so it gets shut down and the team gets let go with it)

- Increase efficiency (job automation)

- Employers trying to do more with less. Lay off 15/20 people on a team and expecting the 5 left to do the same amount of work as the 20 did before the layoff.

I've seen it most often with big conglomerates where the management is detached from the workforce. I was at a large web company (won't say who but you'd know the name) where the corporate owners gave word to our office that they needed to save $5,000,000 a year. So they did it... by laying off 40 people and getting a smaller office.
"It is vital any such intelligence’s goals are aligned with humanity's goals."

This doesn't make much sense to me in that I don't think humanity as a whole has a consistent set of goals.

"We are not interested in research dealing with the dangers of existing machine learning systems commonly called AI that do not have smarter than human intelligence."

Already there is intense danger here and this is connected with systems that pursue Facebook and Google's goals (a subset of humanity) at an expense of the rest of humanity.
This is a tech-ignorant political blogger with a serious case of AI weenie-ism.
As I shrank the safari window on Mac on your site, there is a point when the font size jumps up to be huge, that seems like a bug.
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Find a low end, low resolution, Android tablet or phone that can be rooted. There are many under $50.
export GOPATH="~/go:~/foo"

GOPATH will use ~/go as default for go get and importing and fall back to any further folders specified.
This is blatant advertising for some phone insurance company
I have done the exact same thing with a Makefile :)

https://blog.martinlee.org/posts/how-its-made-pt2-or-hugo-in...
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From the article:

"Apple contends Qualcomm is unfairly charging too much and illegally taking advantage of its market position in chips. To heighten pressure on Qualcomm, Apple has stopped paying the licensing fees and is planning to design devices that exclude Qualcomm’s chips, a person familiar with the situation has said."
From https://www.juvmed.com/healthy-diet

Beans, lentils and chickpeas

Wholegrain and wholemeal, bran based cereal, oatmeal

Brown or wholegrain rice

Broccoli, artichoke, avocado, brussels sprouts

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Preventing obliteration in the ultra thin laptop segment.
I think one point that sometimes gets overlooked is that there are different types of presentations. For example, a set of slides that are designed to accompany lectures for a course on partial differential equations should be very different from a set of slides designed to pitch a business idea, especially if the lecture slides are intended to also serve as notes/textbook.
Key comment:

> "The trade-off for getting millions of dollars of engineering investment in the TypeScript project is that marketing gets to control version numbers to a certain extent.

> "It's not really an unalloyed good anyway. If we followed semver rules exactly, literally every single release would be a major version bump. Any time we produced the wrong type or emitted the wrong code or failed to issue a correct error, that's a breaking change, and we fix dozens of bugs like that in every release. The middle digit just isn't useful for TypeScript in a strict semver interpretation."
It's a great book, but in terms of the science, it's not new. Dragging mountains of ice from Saturn or something similar is a sci-fi cherry.
Yep. The original Bootstrap is a bug report against browsers - its defaults are what the browser should have been doing with unstyled pages all along.
LOL, so who wins the Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate?
Have a read though this timeline of Strikes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_strikes

History often gives good context for the future.

What really stands out to me is how often the government are willing to use military/police force to protect business, and how willing these services are to use violence against their own countrymen.

my optimist hopes the internet can foster intellect, fact sharing for what works best in societies and access for all to this discussion. The realist looks at it today seeing increased manipulation and tribalism... Time will tell!
This is basically every startup. Many of the quiet successes take decades.
> SquareTrade, a company that provides extended warranties for electronic devices, conducted several breakability tests on the iPhone X, and found that its glass back and lack of a home button make it "the most breakable iPhone ever."

Surprise! Insurance company..
Not sure how it "social" search works, but it gives me a bunch russian bots, when I search "ukraine"

https://www.qwant.com/?q=%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%B...
So because you have experience with Microsoft (a huge company with many products and projects) that means that anything that they do in open source is automatically BS?

I'm actually in close contact with the Microsoft product teams that I depend on, and while I wish they only listened to me, they don't...but it's not the end of the world and it doesn't color every perception I have of them.

Even when things are quite bad and they don't have an answer I want to hear...that doesn't mean that I can use that experience as the only criteria for all of my future interactions. What about the stuff that they get right? Does that have any value?

People here go crazy about privacy and Intel's ME. They don't flip a crazy bit when Intel releases something open source or judge every product against their hatred of the management engine. Does Intel support every single project that they open source forever? How about IBM?
The real questions are:

1. Did the Kingdom receive the message that its "reign" is over and it would either have to be dragged into a modern post Wahhabi world or end in the stone ages and so it is abet reluctant decided to start marching into this direction?

2. Did the Kingdom decide that it was marching west-ward too much and put brakes on it.
And the stock goes wild in exactly 10m on market opening.
Better regarding what? Depends on what you want. AFAIK, Whonix is focused on anonymity by using Tor as an integral part of its architecture. TAILS has the same goal but is designed specifically to be run from removable media and to leave no trace on the host system after it's done, much like using a live CD. Qubes is focused on security through isolation by means of an hypervisor. Whonix can run upon Qubes, beside others of course.

EDIT: if you want as foolproof of anonymity as possible it seems that Whonix holds an edge over TAILS and both are better than Qubes. Because Whonix routes all network requests through a locked down gateway VM, there is less chance that any program or system component can escape the Tor "funnel" than in TAILS and particularly Qubes, which focuses on security primarily.
Agreed. That was my first thought also.
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There's another important aspect: No, You Can’t Manufacture That Like Apple Does https://blog.bolt.io/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple...
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Well, 'SquareTrade' is the only one naming it that way. And it's pretty normal since they are an electronic device insurance company, which is not very trustworthy.

Apart from that, there are some other tests showing the rear glass is almost impossible to break, something not happening with the back one.

Maybe the title is a little bit click bait.
Intel + AMD should get together in offering a CUDA alternative/compatibility for Deep (Reinforcement) Learning/AI where NVidia is experiencing exponential growth for the past few years and they are simply non-existing there full of half-baked efforts.
StudyDesign.io provides a single place where statistical calculations for the design of experiments, such as sample size calculations and subject randomization, can be performed.
I suppose I'll try to refrain from holding my phone over my head and dropping it. The breakability from 6ft is not terribly useful information for me.
Calling Avago "virtually unknown" might have been too dismissive from my part.

But lets consider 2013. Avago had a revenue of $2.5bn, respectable, but that's not much when compared with Qualcomm's $24.9bn, less than Broadcom's $8.3bn, NXP's $4.8bn, and Freescale's $4.1bn.

In fact it seems that at least when it came to revenues, Avago was the smallest company on that list.
Except that Firefox LTS and other minority browsers suffer. I already use a couple sites that disregard all old Firefox compatibilities and use JS that break things up
If you reserve (just book, no need to pay in advance) a popular class of vehicle in advance the pick-up location will often not have one available so you get a free upgrade to whichever superior class they do have ready. Also, look for 'off-airport' locations because these do not assess an airport surcharge fee. Off-airport locations are even less likely to have popular classes in stock. Doesn't matter if you just flew in, (remove your airline luggage tags, try not to be obvious) take a taxi to the location. It will frequently be cheaper this way. Off-airport locations are often near airports.

As an American living in Europe, I found that some US insurers will issue a 'driver only' policy that covers you while driving rentals in the USA on your European license. I'm paying $24/year for mine which has generous limits and is much cheaper than the coverage rental agencies offer.

Also slightly unrelated but don't dare call British Airways to enquire about changing your flight or you will not be able to check in online and you will get the worst seats when you show up for your flight. This is true even if you make no changes, your booking is put in to some kind of frozen state and the phone agents are unable to reverse this. You must visit the BA desk at an airport in person to have this corrected. Bizarre, but this was confirmed by multiple people at BA who I spoke to after having it happen to me.
Living there and watching TV instead of going out.
Best not to sneak an email collection scheme in on people even if it really is only for your newsletter.
Most people have more than enough spam in their inbox already, if someone wants to get updates it's very easy for them to just click a button that says "Click here to get updates".
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Sorry, I didn't intend on saying that it was based on broadcast. I should've been more precise in saying that it enables the flow of broadcast data (e.g., streaming from one source to many destinations) much, much better than point-to-point protocols like IP.
If I remember correctly, von Neumann was reviewing someone's dissertation (might have been Minsky's), and someone asked "Is this mathematics?", to which von Neumann replied "If it isn't now, it will be soon."

Doing the CS guys a kindness will probably pay the field back several times over. The latex-fussing and symbol collision in mathematics is not pretty.
I don't appreciate the degree to which this article conflates MINIX and IME.

>Google wants to remove MINIX from its internal servers

No, Google wants to remove IME from its internal servers. They don't care that it's MINIX.

>But MINIX has total and complete access to the entirety of your computer. All of it.

You mean IME.

MINIX is really cool operating system, even if it's being used for evil. But other operating systems are used for evil, too. MINIX has nothing to do with the fact that Intel put it on their secondary processors and ran a bunch of nasty services on it.
Tron or the ETron variant are in far more machines than Linux or Minix. Think about all of the washing / drying machines or refrigerators since vaguely the 80s. Many of them run a Tron variant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project
I'm not super familiar with the law in this area, but doesn't AMD+Intel teaming up get into antitrust territory? The x86 architecture still basically has a monopoly on the desktop, laptop, and server space. Could someone a bit more familiar in this area elaborate?
If you go to McDonalds and someone serves you a turd instead of a burger three times in a row, do you go back again?

If IBM or Intel served me a turd, I wouldn't go back again. In fact IBM served me a helping of WebSphere once and I didn't go back.
This reminds me of Porsche vs. Volkswagen
IPMI works great on the server, not so well for managing desktops. Perhaps it should have been extended to support desktops, but I'm not surprised that Intel chose to push vPro instead.
I disagree that car design is a stable field. Tesla is selling a radically different car design. All car designers have to face the dawn of self-driving cars.

In every field the total knowledge set is always increasing, which is both empowering, because we stand on the shoulders of giants, and diminishing, because there is less low-hanging fruit. There is always more low-hanging fruit though, the trick is to see it hanging there. ML is a wonderful opportunity because the magical api’s can do far more than they’re currently used for.
This is is automated, real time, omnipresent surveillance of everyone.

It's worse than a panopticon as in a panopticon prison you have one person surveilling 1000 for example but only able to watch one at a time. The idea is the prisoners never know who is being watched so in theory they all behave thinking they are all being watched. But math kinda destroys that theory as they each have at least a 1000:1 chance of being watched so the odds are in the prisoner's favor.
I have the opposite issue. In Safari iOS the right margin is consuming 1/4 of my screen, causing the text to shift to a narrow column.
Even at $105B this would be a bad deal for Qualcomm and its shareholders. Long term Qualcomm will be worth probably double that offer in the next 20-25 years if current trends continue. Cashing out now would be very a short sighted move for shareholders
Very intersting glimpse into our past and DTMF.
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Maybe, but the really heinous decision is digitally altering how websites get delivered to the user to make your own product look better. Even if the newer listener form had been around for several years, it would be unacceptable to essentially try to decree a new design pattern by taking websites hostage for browser performance reasons.

Consider that, to the user, these are all seen as website problems. Breaking Javascript with consensus is great - breaking designs without blame is a slap in the face to web developers.
How does this affect Firefox LTS? It doesn’t.
> IMO we should be breaking JavaScript more often, especially in the name of performance, to make people use less JS and simpler JS on their websites.

Though not by pushing it down people's throats in a backwards-incompatible way.
One would have thought that November is not cherry-picking season. Apparently not.

"Almost overnight, the quality of [Google's] translations skyrocketed." In certain languages, and still dependent on the human brain to reparse the not-quite-gibberish into something that makes sense.

"Driverless cars soon" - and flying ones, too, "in production in a few years" for a century now.

"the progress of the past couple of decades has been stunning. After many years of nothing much happening [in AI]" - is that lack of research, or just that alt-facts make for a nicer story?

"However, if you keep up the doubling for a while, [therefore strong AI], [Moore's not dead, proof by handwaving, technoesoteric New Age babble]". From this point on, the story dissolves into "let us assume the Moon is made of cheese. Why didn't anyone start mining it yet?!?"
CNET tested the phone too.

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-iphone-x-drop-test/

My X arrives this week. What’s a good case? Have a Spigen on my 7, and it survived several drops.
"Ground up" might be the wrong term here. I don't have right words either, but I feel GP is talking about that level between full knowledge and the "I have no idea what I am doing" level of downloading models from Kaggle, stuffing them into TensorFlow and calling yourself a "Deep Learning expert".

Even though I lack the name for that level, here's how I would describe in qualitative terms some of its attributes:

- Knowing the basic lay of the land all the way down. That is, at least knowing most of the black boxes and what they do, even if you don't exactly know how they do it.

- Being able to solve your own problems, instead of running around like a headless chicken every time you hit a speed bump in your work.

- Being able to reason from that first-ish principles. You're able to sketch solutions within the scope of the extended domain, and as you begin implementing it and need to understand various blackboxes in more depth, the basic shape of your solution isn't usually invalidated by gained knowledge.
Remember those hackers from science fiction movies who can control everything everywhere with Internet access?
WHY the F*CK is a web server on Ring -3 there?
Don't they watch movies at Intel?
> they made all top-level event listeners passive by default. They call it “an intervention”.

This is my very problem with Chrome/Chromium right now. The Chrome team does assumption on how things "should" be (in a highly subjective way) and breaks the web.

Another example: they decided to ignore the value of `autocomplete` attributes on `<form>` tags [1], because:

> The tricky part here is that somewhere along the journey of the web autocomplete=off become a default for many form fields, without any real thought being given as to whether or not that was good for users. This doesn't mean there aren't very valid cases where you don't want the browser autofilling data (e.g. on CRM systems), but by and large, we see those as the minority cases. And as a result, we started ignoring autocomplete=off for Chrome Autofill data.

Problem: Chrome now auto-fills wrong parts of forms with username/passwords and this breaks forms that get unexpected data when submitted. And now, they opened an issue on their tracker [2] to track "Valid use cases for autocomplete=off".

This is insane to think that the developer is wrong to use some attributes values, and to assume how a page should behave, ignoring devs intentions and Web standards.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=468153...

[2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=587466
But after laughing I'm crying.

Because what will happend is that the robot won't deal with it. Their creators will simply assume the use case is only 1% of their input and will just lock it out. We will live in a more and more standardized and inflexible society.

It's happening already.

This week, I had to bring a car for a second checkup and I was late to my appointment. The gal told me I had to reschedule because the computer didn't allow to be late at a second checkup: the date between the first and the second was fixed.

Because I'm a computer scientist, I knew what to do: let's "forget" about the whole thing and create a new "first checkup" for which I could come without a schedule. I told her and she though it was a great idea and we worked around the system. Luckily they didn't have a check for that and she was able to do my checkup.

So when the robot will take your job, they will just ignore a whole lot of cases and make everyone not fitting the exact size of the box living in hell.
The US has a vast inbound labor shortage problem. AI + robotics are not going to solve that problem over the next 20 years.

US population growth has continued to erode toward barely expanding, and that's with immigration included. That decline is going to get worse by the decade, while simultaneously boomers continue to plunge out of the labor force over the next decade.

The US economy added between $4.5 and $5 trillion to its GDP in the last decade (an economy the size of Japan). That's while only adding ~23 million people. It's going to become increasingly difficult to replicate that growth without dramatic productivity gains. AI and robotics, automation broadly, are likely the only means to accomplish that.

Simply put, we're going to need dramatic productivity gains just to repeat the growth from the past ten years, and that growth wasn't spectacular. Want routine 3% to 4% GDP growth against sub 1% population growth? Better bring on the automation, and as much of it as possible.
> Turned out, Google wasn’t concerned about your websites at all. It was more concerned about its own product performance, Google Chrome Mobile.

As a web developer, I see this attitude a lot and it annoys me immensely. Another way of phrasing it: Google is putting users first, ahead of developers. This is as it should be. "your" website exists to serve users, if you're doing a bad job at it then maybe it's an opportunity for self reflection.

Janky scrolling behaviour on mobile has been a problem for a long time. Apple also implemented non-standard behaviour for years to avoid it. You should almost never be listening to scroll events in a non-passive way. The vast majority of times scroll listening is used, a passive listener is the correct implementation and just wasn't available when the code was written.

This is proven by the article itself: the change was made in February of this year. Do you remember the internet breaking that day, and all of us rushing to update our event listeners? No, me neither. Did Chrome really break when the web when absolutely nothing broke?
except now I encounter broken sites all the time because Chrome is not my preferred browser. I think google is in the wrong and doing everyone a disservice. This is a step backwards.
Hey guys, I hacked that thing up ^

A few words of background - I was always sort of frustrated how unbelievably dull the usual programming challenges are. I mean all those nearly pure CS-y things that make you invert binary trees and stuff.

They don't really translate well to what the real world offers, and having solved quite a few over the years, I've always been left with the thought of "what the hell did I actually learn?".

The answer was, usually, not much. It's all theoretical skills that fade away if not re-enforced, and that's what I found HARD, because at the end of the day, it all seemed like folly, especially compared to what I had to handle at work.

I had a few ideas, so I put it all together and released a set of 5 challenges. Take a peek inside.

I've always had this general idea of building a truly ambitious-but-also-down-to-earth community, so I hope to push it that way over time.

But like the sorry excuse of a landing page says, this is step zero - you have to start somewhere.

Would love some feedback!
If an employer feels the need to do this, it's a major red flag that there are serious issues in their culture and management. Monitoring your employees will just make things worse.
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