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This is like, "Hell has frozen over" kind of news

Am I the only one who smell this as very "Apple" wanted?

I dont think AMD will be giving up any GFX secret, more likely this is AMD shipping Intel a Mobile Gfx Die to be integrated within the same CPU package.

But in any case, Why not just have Intel ship a Mobile CPU without iGPU and a Separate GPU.

And AMD, why now? When Zen is doing great, has great roadmap and potential, along with much better GFx then Intel. Why?

Edit: OK, I didn't read carefully, while this is WSJ, it is still a rumor, nothing has confirmed.... yet.

Edit2: It is confirmed now.

Edit3: Yes AMD will be shipping die to Intel, and it is EMIB at work.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3235934/components-processor...
where you been? web been broken for awhile now..it's all just duct tape and spit. We're also repeating the sins of the IE days all over again with chrome.. At this point i'm using alternative browsers and only fire up stuff like chrome if i have to
I see, thank you. I want this to be running off a removable drive (although, realistically, I'll probably just keep using Tor Browser as I don't really do anything much with it), so I'll either use Tails or see if Whonix can run off a USB disk, thank you.
Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in ever seen
Great idea.

Why stop there? I say let's make "if" conditions randomly work on false values 1/1000th of the time. That will teach them.
I don't get this. What's wrong with the back button plus visited link colors?

I feel like the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction and the number of open tabs makes things more confusing.
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I hadn't before, thanks for the tip! It's been a while since I played with this stuff, but I might have to get a copy and explore. I have heard of MetaSynth in audio circles. I'm not sure, but the images and videos on the ArtMatic site look (to me) very inspired and influenced by the work of Karl Sims, which is the main source of inspiration behind my project... http://www.karlsims.com/papers/siggraph91.html

You can find a bunch of his videos on YouTube too.

https://youtu.be/AgeuRukfZLE https://youtu.be/vIVjEkWTEXI https://youtu.be/SLAa-CnUEW4 https://youtu.be/JBgG_VSP7f8
I fear that what will happen is that the unemployed/underemployed masses will be manipulated into focusing their frustrations on culture wars, kinda like what is happening now and has happened in the past. 'Those people are taking your jobs!' 'Those people are amoral and lazy!' 'Those people are terrorists!' 'Those people are taking benefits that were meant for you!'

I mean we're at a point in history where there are many people who are voting for politicians who are brazenly seeking to destroy healthcare, give even bigger tax cuts to rich people, tear down regulatory agencies that protect people from pollution, fraud, and unsafe food. To some degree some people believe that 'regulation kills jobs' but I'm pretty sure most people want clean air, safe food, fair education policy, affordable healthcare, etc. But because of all of the political tribalism and the painting of the other side as outright villains, people are supporting politicians who are pushing policies that hurt them directly.

As long as there are convenient scapegoats and wedge issues that can be exploited it's going to be hard to turn public opinion towards reining in the oligarchy. Especially since the super rich have much more sophisticated tools for regulatory capture and manipulation of sentiment now.
Unfortunately, if I were to choose the train, it would be a 12-hour trip to Stuttgart, at the very minimum. By plane it's 1 hour 30 minutes (figure 2 hours 30 minutes including check-in and luggage).

I'm not really the type of person to enjoy that long of a train ride.
No, Google were concerned about your websites. Your mobile websites which are so heavily overloaded with JS that basic interactions like scrolling don’t work.

Complaining that Google “broke the web”, when mobile developers have been making it slowly unusable—and unused—for years is pretty hypocritical. All the feature detection and backwards compatible changes in the world won’t help developers when their entire userbase has fled to walled gardens like Facebook. But I guess some people will resent anything that forces them to accept short term pain, even if it’s essential to their long term survival.
At this point I almost think you could automate away my Primary care provider. All he does is take vitals, perform a cursory examination (may include a CBC, etc.) and then refer you to a specialist. I wonder why a nurse can't do the exam and plug all of my data into a system that spits out a diagnosis (You have strep throat - 98% confidence) and/or a referral to someone with some real expertise.
Can't they just add another argument for the options map without breaking backwards compatibility?

That's ugly as hell too, but in a way that preserves backwards compatibility.

My feeling is that so many compromises have been made to maintain compatibility in JS/DOM-land that it seems capricious to make this kind of decision now.
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I feel like this is a part of UK's ongoing effort to make ubiquitous surveillance a completely normal thing and have the citizens accept it as such. It's not creepy and disturbing, it's actually normal and should be celebrated!
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To be honest as a user, I'm glad they made this change, even though as a developer it might be a pain in the ass for a day or 2.

Scrolling on the mobile web sucked for a long time. Yes, updating the default broke many things, but the scope of that breakage was fairly limited in the grand scheme of things (like the author said, sliders, maps, touch-and-draggable things like lists are the biggest impacted, stuff like "sticky headers" and other junk would be impacted, but not "broken beyond usage").

We've seen time and time again that simply giving a developer the ability to fix things doesn't help, and letting the mobile web suck for several years while a few percent of the web slowly learned how to fix this would end up impacting far more people than the "breakage" ever would.

It's not ideal, and I wish that google provided a very quick and easy way to "opt out" of the breakage (like some one-line "polyfill" that reverted the change that site owners could use as a stop-gap until they could properly update their apps to work correctly), but I see their point and as a user I agree with it, even though as a developer this is the kind of stuff that ruins your day.

I personally have not hit a single website that was impacted by this that I could notice myself. That's not to say that I haven't been impacted by the breakage, or used sites that had something break because of it (that I didn't notice). But even knowing that this change was made when it was made, I didn't see any sites that were "unusable" or "broken" because of it.
There's no such thing as a near miss in this outside of our own perception.

A loss with is a loss no matter how close that last jackpot symbol was.
Yeah, lived in a country through an embargo, several wars in the neighborhood, more horrible stuff than that in the economy too.

Bottom line: people are creative creatures. Either we have some rules we can all agree on and enforce them, or people will start inventing all sort of, erm, market optimizations techniques to survive and prosper.
Here's the Register write-up on this:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/29/intel_management_en...

On Monday, Positive Technologies researchers Dmitry Sklyarov, Mark Ermolov, and Maxim Goryachy said they had found a way to turn off the Intel ME by setting the undocumented HAP bit to 1 in a configuration file.

HAP stands for high assurance platform. It's an IT security framework developed by the US National Security Agency, an organization that might want a way to disable a feature on Intel chips that presents a security risk.

The Register asked Intel about this and received the same emailed statement that was provided to Positive Technologies.

"In response to requests from customers with specialized requirements we sometimes explore the modification or disabling of certain features," Intel's spokesperson said. "In this case, the modifications were made at the request of equipment manufacturers in support of their customer's evaluation of the US government's 'High Assurance Platform' program. These modifications underwent a limited validation cycle and are not an officially supported configuration."
They don't only sell one thing. They are the definition of a complex company and environment. Not everything they do is bad. Some things they do really well.

Seriously, you had a bad experience with one IBM product. Would that keep you from looking at other things they do? They do lots of amazing things and make some platforms that define the sector for solving certain kinds of problems.
Not a lawyer, but: in theory; yes. However, we don't really deal with anti-trust issues anymore as any reasonable fine is pocket-change for these companies. Not to mention that if there's a legitimate threat they just fund a startup and point to it as independent competition that will go bankrupt the second people stops talking about the anti-trust.
Now that surveillance is getting cleverer, the question is, how do we know if we’re being monitored? How can we tell which companies practice surveillance?
Every time anyone says Apple is going downhill, they have their best quarter ever.
Maybe they watch too many ;)
A passport that lets you visit the most countries != the most valuable citizenship. Might be wrong, but doubt many would pick a German citizenship over an American.
I don't think it's necessarily an issue that an electronic-device insurance company conducted the tests. They're going to want to know what the estimated risk of payouts will be and what to charge for premiums. It's not like they're owned by Google or Samsung, or have a known public bias against apple; they insure a lot of devices across the board.

What I think is rather moot is giving it the desgination as "most brakable iphone ever". If you're making a metric and ordering based on that metric, you're going to have one (or more equal) data point in the first position.

What would be nicer to know is, using these tests or a standard test-suite, how the iPhone X (and 8) compare to previous iPhones and phones by other manufacturers.
isn't this just because we're comparing n-dimensional objects by a 2-norm ? i.e. the dimension of the space grows but we're keeping the dimension of the norm fixed, but if we used the p-norm of the same dimension as the space, then maybe that would return intuitive results ?
> But in any case, Why not just have Intel ship a Mobile CPU without iGPU and a Separate GPU.

Power, manufacturing costs, integration and testing costs, design size...

> Am I the only one who smell this as very "Apple" wanted?

Why would Apple care about NVIDIA? They're already beating them in the kind of performance that matters on products Intel will be competing for.
The anecdote about the pink eraser isn't as impressive as the author makes out. A manual google search of 'why are erasers pink' returns the same article from Design*Sponge (that the author mentioned as the source for the response to his voice query) as the top Google result. So, the remarks about how the answer shows evidence of context awareness don't really ring true. The assistant is just passing his question into Google and reading back the response. The sum may be greater than the parts, but nothing revolutionary here.
Launch discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11861251
I don't get this feature detection problem. The browser identifies itself in the request. Why not serve the right version at the beginning?
That was one of several IBM products that I had a bad experience with. Lotus Notes too for example.
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I think the competition is on par with Apple, maybe it should be titled "Copying Apple is hard". Ultimately, have been a lot of innovation by the competition long before Apple did it, like QI charging, large screen, multiple usability improvements etc.
It's a chilling effect. Because you probably can't detect who's monitoring you, you must assume all companies do--potentially even the ones that say they don't.
> adding the possibility to turn it off should suffice.

How could Intel/AMD reasonably communicate this to customers and have it taken at face value?

"Here's a flag to disable this black box we ship in every CPU. The product design and source code are proprietary, so please take our word for it that this flag disables everything."

There was a blackhat talk on embedding malware in SMM and triggering it with a magic number written to a register to escalate the process privileges. [0] So there will always be suspicion of special triggers to re-enable the black box that you turned "off"

I think there is a very slim chance that Intel and AMD can regain credibility when it concerns the IME/PSP.

Especially after it emerged Intel created a special ME disabled mode intended for US agency customers. [1]

[0] https://youtu.be/lR0nh-TdpVg

[1] https://m.hardocp.com/news/2017/08/30/how_to_disable_intel_m...
@tapoueh what level is this targeted at? It looks like it starts from a relatively basic level and covers pg usage fairly broadly. Would you recommend it to advanced users, or does it not go too deep into advanced usage?
Apple is already making their own WiFi and Bluetooth Chip. And this will have happen whether these chips maker were consolidating or not. As a matter of fact, arguably it is because Apple making their own chips, the most luxurious piece of market is gone, and they will have to consolidate to survive.
Nobody knows. What is known is that every past tremendous increase in the working ability of mankind has not resulted in catastrophe despite people predicting that it would.
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AMD and Google IIRC are already working on a CUDA implementation for AMD GPUs.
There are a lot more processors in your computer. Every hard disk has a computer [0] and your power adapter might too [1]. Seriously, who knows how many general purpose chips are inside a computer these days?

[0] http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=3
[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/01/apples-lightning-d...
> but the algorithm itself I'm quite sure I discussed with Go AI scientists in 2005 who had them in all their bots, afaik

You did not because first, MCTS was only published by Coulom in 2006 (so they couldn't 'all' have been using it in 2005), and second because you are missing the crucial iteration between the heavy heuristic (NN) for playouts and the refined estimates from the playouts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15627834 Any MCTS in 2006 for Go would either be using random light playouts or simple unchanging hand-engineered heavy heuristics, hence, no possible recursive self-improvement in self-play.
> Monitoring is of course downwards and those making the decision do not get to be monitored in this intrusive fashion.

-Allegedly true story from the DDR (GDR to you anglophones): Once citizens could start asking to see what the former East German state had on them, Erich Mielke (Head of the Stasi/the GDR KGB equivalent) asked to see his file.

Presumably, he figured that someone, somewhere, watched the watchmen.
I wonder why he/she wants to leave?
that's a load of bollocks. if google wants a better web, he needs to work toward better standards. implementing a vendor specific api by fiat with broken detection is what fucked the web in the first place!

same with apple - "now we'll ignore user-scalable=no and screw every responsive webapp out there"

instead of user punishing badly behaved application, vendor are indiscriminately breaking well behaved apps whether they're doing the right thing or not (ie. apps that use em and thus respect user accessibility settings)

this leaves both developers AND users with a sub-par browser experience - like all canvas games out there now get zoomed on double taps, an animation which is often enough to stress the device gpu so much that the browser crashes.

I'm all for improving the web, but there are ways that work and there's this force feeding crap to developer without tough and foresight, and we as a community need to call what's good and what's crap for what it is.
First thoughts aside.

Why is the back of the iphone made of glass in the first place. At least before it was like a usb key... you know 50/50 chance of breaking. Now they're gone full lightning cable and made it a 100% chance that some glass would break.
I'd buy a subscription to such a site.

Over the last 1.5 decade I've been seriously on-line I developed this heuristic: quality of content is inversely proportional to advertising, and also inversely proportional to page bloat.
>> Any reasonable antitrust regulation should kill it

Yeah, do you know where we could get some of that?
I remember reading this when it came out, and it was fascinating, especially considering listening to modems to diagnose problems is how I made my bones in tech support back when CompuServe was still a thing.

I'm an old timer, and have even used a 300 baud modem with an acoustic coupler that the article referred to. I listened to the evolution of modem handshakes, and had no idea what parts meant what, but over the years I correlated different problems to different sounds, and through osmosis learned the various AT commands for different chip manufacturers (the main three I ran across were Hayes/Rockwell, USR, and Motorola) to lock them in certain modes - set the flow control mode (RTS/CTS or X-on/X-off), set the max and min baud rates, and set various error control algorithm modes.

Doing tech support for a couple years in the 90s, the biggest problem I saw (beyond the fact that average users were pretty unsophisticated back then), was the quality of telephone lines in certain areas of the country. If you live in the sticks, you're screwed and lucky to achieve 9600 baud with any consistency. If you live in larger cities with crumbling infrastructure, you're likely to have some "signal bleed" (not sure what to call it) where other conversations are faintly audible on your lines. In both of these cases, the negotiation sequence would restart several times, sometimes getting lucky and connecting, but more often failing until we found the right AT commands to lock a lower baud rate and force error correction - MNP? I think that was the magic bullet in most cases.

In the end, the phone infrastructure improved greatly just about everywhere, but by then it didn't matter as much, as people started moving to cable modems, typically plugged directly into a desktop computer, running Win 95 and getting hijacked by 0 day exploits to build the first botnets. Good times.

Anyway, I'm glad to see this article has held up over time and people still find it interesting.
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Yeah, I'm confused that this is the top comment; it's factually incorrect. NASNet is an example of a result of AutoML. To quote the Google blogpost on NASNet:

>In Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition, we apply AutoML to the ImageNet image classification and COCO object detection dataset... AutoML was able to find the best layers that work well on CIFAR-10 but work well on ImageNet classification and COCO object detection. These two layers are combined to form a novel architecture, which we called “NASNet”.

[https://research.googleblog.com/2017/11/automl-for-large-sca..., November 2017]

In contrast AutoML is, as the nytimes article describes, "a machine-learning algorithm that learns to build other machine-learning algorithms". More specifically, from the Google blogpost about AutoML:

>In our approach (which we call "AutoML"), a controller neural net can propose a “child” model architecture, which can then be trained and evaluated for quality on a particular task...Eventually the controller learns to assign high probability to areas of architecture space that achieve better accuracy on a held-out validation dataset, and low probability to areas of architecture space that score poorly.

[https://research.googleblog.com/2017/05/using-machine-learni..., May 2017]

Quoc, Barret, and others have been working on ANN-architecture-design systems for a while now (see: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01578), and AutoML specifically was done before announcing NASNet. Saying that NASNet is "the actual research behind AutoML" is drawing the causal arrow backwards.
They can afford to do this due to their market share.

This is precisely why I refuse to use Chrome.

I use Firefox and would do so even if it were an inferior browser, plus at this point in time and for my usage patterns Firefox really is superior.
I think the point of it was that they made every event listener passive by default, rather than making it an option.
No what’s creepy is that we’ve got enough surveillance from social media and CCTV, now it’s in our workplace too. That’s most of our day. Sheesh, these people need to get a life

Edit: typo
I think avoiding the accidental destruction of everything we value by an unaligned AI is a goal of humanity.
That's what firewalls are for.
If it was me, I would call and get straight on to their finance / billing team. Just chase it until they realise that paying is the easier option. Not in an angry way, more just stay on the phone until it's sorted, 'let's wrap this up today' kind of attitude.

It's too easy to ignore your e-mails and then there is such friction with replying after they have ignored you several times and think they are getting away with it.

Being based in the UK, I will follow up on your behalf if you want. I like getting this kind of thing sorted.
Even better would be to offer two classes of products: one with an IME-like controller and one without. They could push the non-IME one to consumers and the IME one to server/enterprise customers.

Just turning it off is hardly a guarantee that it'll stay off forever. Remove the entire component physically and I'll know it'll never be running in the background.
Is it worth my time to study algorithms if I could instead put that time towards learning ML techniques?
that change in particular broke most of two factor authenticated bank pages X:
I didn't see any reference to PL/pgSQL in the table of contents. Does your book go into common strategies with stored procedures (e.g. When to LOOP to build a temp table vs. using table joins)?
This is what the mgmt of Twitter/Youtube/FB/Uber etc are internally crying about helplessly. This "we'll figure it out as we go along" mentality, is deeply rooted in leadership culture at the moment whether its politics, wall street, silicon valley etc.

It did some useful things, but it needs to evolve.
Is it strange that Broadcom cut a deal to move HQ back the US at the same time it's buying a US-based company that would give it a near monopoly in the industry?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/92617682311707443...
Turning it off/on would have to be a jumper setting on the mainboard. BIOS won't do any good, as this is more a "software" setting. However, a jumper might have the same effect...
Unless you want become a decent designer, don’t even try to make it ‘look good’ because you don’t really know what good design is or entails (and I don’t mean that condescendingly). Bad design is worse than no design.

Instead, just make it as simple as possible. Pick 3 colors, and assign them a function (background, text, and highlight). Pick 1 font. Don’t add shadows or flair of any kind. Align things so that it makes sense the order of operations, A goes to B goes to C, and so on. That will get you most of the way there.