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Yeah, this disclosure should really be at the top of the article. Until AMD puts out a new graphics card NVIDIA is still going to sell at monopoly prices. Prices have barely begun to approach msrp and that's 2 years after initial release of this series of cards. NVIDIA could just as easily delay release of their next gen cards until this inventory clears or AMD forces them to make a move. I wouldn't be too worried about their balance sheet right now.
This is an interesting problem. I believe that the migration of demand from sedans to mini-SUVs is largely the result of decades of marketing, which itself was an attempt to increase profit margins by creating a new class of vehicles (SUVs) to escape CAFE regulations. In the late 1990s (when the first SUVs hit the mainstream market), advertisements were screaming from every speaker about SUVs, and the market responded.

The Volvo V70 XC/XC70 is the Volvo V70 with a taller suspension to escape CAFE standards and increase profits. The only difference is height. The V70 had to be special ordered for the US market.

People also like to be able to see from a higher vantage point while driving, another advantage of a taller car. This problem has compounded itself; since more people buy SUVs, you need to be progressively taller to see around them.

When you look at an SUV, especially a mini-SUV like the Honda HRV or the Mazda Cx-5, realize what you're actually seeing is a modern station wagon that's been raised a couple inches. The modern consumer wants a wagon that's tall, because wagons are the ultimate in utility per dollar, and being tall is reassuring.

There are ways to deter such thinking. Imagine a tax on all non-commercial vehicles with hoods more than, say, 3.5' from the ground where they meet the windshield, or taller than 5.5' over the driver seat. If that tax were, say, 10-15% of the cost of the vehicle, the market would eventually adjust to wagons rather than tall wagons. The road would be safer due to better visibility for all, and the air would be cleaner due to better aerodynamics.

P.S. If you'd like an interesting exercise in the power of marketing, go to a dealer and look under the hood of a new full-sized truck. Note how much space there is between the top of the engine and the hood when it's closed. Then imagine the fuel economy gains if the hood was lower, and the visibility gains of both the driver and all the cars around the truck. The tall hood only exists to make the truck look more butch, and makes the truck worse in every way.
This is patently not true. :)

Everything is a spectrum, but there are also clear parts of the spectrum that contains death, and clear parts of the spectrum that are better than the others.

Works is not an acceptable standard. Imagine if we built bridges with the criteria that “well I crossed the river on it, so it works”. What tonnage can it support, how many years can it stay viable, does it fail gracefully if we drive something heavier than intended over it, what amount of wind can it take... none of those things are captured by “it works”.

Similarly for code. If your answer is “well something changed, so we need to refactor” or “well that wasn’t in the requirements so we can’t do that” then your solution didn’t work in the first place, because works implies scalability, extensibility, reliability etc.

Those are not style or opinion. Making anything “work” in the now is trivial. Building things that are not fragile to change and time is engineering.
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To an extent I think that these things are promoted because they’re a very effective way to mislead people.
I'm not entirely sure I understand the distinction. I think both are pretty bad (immoral, as you say), and certainly one is worse than the other ("if I didn't have a second mortgage, I would spare your life!").

But either way, these machines are being made and sold because the government demands it, and the workers provide it. Whether the workers are enthusiastic or not about doing it, well, they still show up to work, and the work still gets done.

If student loans, mortgages, health insurance, college tuition and so on weren't so expensive, then I think you'd have way less people queuing up to work for Raytheon.

PS: Go check out Raytheon's instagram. They seem to be prioritizing hiring kids straight out of college, who have an incentive to work for nearly any price. https://www.instagram.com/p/BiplewylpMp/?hl=en&taken-by=rayt...
Ask HN: Anyone else's radio/selection buttons disappear on Chrome (MacOS)?
I'm not sure when this started, a month at least, maybe 2-3, but a few Chrome versions ago, I noticed that selection and radio boxes simply stopped displaying on all website. I can still click where they are supposed to be and it activates them and lets me submit forms but it is really annoying. I google it every so often and all i find are results from years ago. Not sure where to ask or what to do. If it's a widespread issue then I will just wait for it to be fixed in a future version. If not I will re-install but am really trying to avoid re-doing all my settings...
A board doesn’t fire its CEO because they went on a few dates with someone a while back—even if that’s against company policy.

Getting the popcorn out to see how this unfolds...
It is precisely when you want to change everything that types are useful, because the compiler will helpfully point you to all cases that you forgot to change.
Tried uninstalling/disabling some extensions?
Thanks!

I tried this out, but it said "experimental" and didn't really work on the pixelbook. It only asked for microphone permission, not camera, and neither speakers nor microphone worked.
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The term you're looking for is Critical Thinking. There's a very good book about it from Oxford press[0]. My wife used it when going through her MSc at Oxford and I've read it a couple of times to understand exactly what you're asking.

[0]: Oxford Guide to Effective Argument and Critical Thinking https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199671729
The way the world works, it doesn't make sense that that alone is the reason. There has to be something more.
They had so many reasons to push him out. I feel like the board has been aware of the relationship for a while, but they got together one day to figure out which public reason to give for the ousting of Krzanich. And they chose this, which is probably the reason with the least negative impact on whatever is left of Krzanich' career. He may even get high-fives for it at his next gig.

At the end of the day, they had to get rid of him, not just for the insider trading, which is probably one of those "everyone does it" things in corporate America, but primarily because he seemed completely incapable of keeping Intel competitive against AMD's offensive over the next few years. Plus, under Krzanich's watch Intel lost its multi-year leadership in process technology.
Get a grip.

Taxes could be 0.1% and these people would still want to avoid paying it.
Almost any fairly common obsession has a related derogatory term in standard lexicon, i.e. "workaholic", "meathead"/"jock" etc.
Yeah I tried to argue over several edits that people seem less objective about their own pain or hunger but realised I backed myself into a corner :)
> I also knew a guy that tried to make pro baseball...his life was consumed into his late 20s or so. Didn't make it either. Did he need treatment?

> I knew a girl that had dreams of becoming an Olympic skater...her whole childhood and teenage years were utterly destroyed...and she failed. Was she sick? Did she need treatment?

> Throwing away 20 years of your life in hopes of becoming the next Derek Jeter is ok but playing some video games for a few months is a disease? Oh, that makes sense.

I really don't think you understand what the WHO is talking about. Here's their definition for gaming disorder, emphasis mine:

A pattern of gaming behavior (“digital-gaming” or “video-gaming”) characterized by impaired control over gaming, increasing priority given to gaming over other activities to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other interests and daily activities, and continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences.

Doing something with all of your free time, dedicating your life to it, that's not an addiction. It's an addiction when you can't stop even if you want to, even though it's causing negative consequences in your life.

Someone who games for eight hours a day but still has a fulfilling life outside of gaming and could stop if they wanted to has no problem. Someone who games for 18 hours a day, regularly misses work or skips classes to play games, and can't stop playing has a problem.

If you're interested in hearing more about this, there's a subreddit dedicated to people who believe they are addicted to gaming and want to stop. It's got some decent reads on it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/StopGaming/top/?sort=top&t=all
People are always complaining when HN surfaces an interesting article not dated in the last 5 days.

(by which I mean, the type of reading you talk about happens enough here that complaints about it happening are a thing)
Race is obviously a thing. You can look at somebody and usually have a pretty good idea of whether their ancestors are from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, Asia, etc. Heck, with some practice, you can often figure out which part of Europe, Africa, Asia, etc they are from (Koreans look different than Filipinos, Eastern Europeans look different than Scandinavians, etc). And such an identification will correspond to measurable genetic differences.

Of course, this is only a coarse grained thing and there are lots of cases where somebody’s ancestry is difficult to determine based on their outward appearance, especially in cases where someone has mixed ancestry. But what most people mean by race—that you can look at most people and make a decent guess about their ancestry—is a real thing which is born out by genetics.
How to Win Friends and Influence People should be required reading, and studied prior to graduating high school. I reread it once every year, and I still dig out gems that help in day to day life.
Why are you parsing strings anyway instead of using an efficient binary format with introspection, say, something as simple as Google Protobuf?

If the GC is the problem, you can pool the message instances.

About the only place where you parse strings is if you're dealing with human input or something almost unstructured like aforementioned CSV.
Something strange is happening in Intel land, Brian Krzanich recently sold off the majority of his Intel stock, only retaining the minimum number allowable:

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/04/technology/business/brian-kr...
I never connected my Switch to the network. Is there some functionality I'm missing?
How would we be worse off if these guys aren't paying their taxes in the first place?
Check out mypy. It works well.
For top tier video cards? yes.
He sounds like he's just regurgitating sound bites.
I don't think it has to be unethical, just against your principles.

Someone here was talking about working for banks or data analytics companies that work with law enforcement.

He accuses all of them of some sort of moral breach. But that's from his point of view. A lot of them may not see what they're doing as wrong. In that case, it's not a case of "having a price", it's just a job like any other to them.

Now. If he worked for them in spite of his clear objections, then he clearly has a price.
I never stopped using Firefox. I just started running Chrome in my left monitor for my G Suite services, and Firefox on my right for everything else.
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Well, there are standard theaters that have the blockbusters, and you are right that the chain really doesn't matter, but there are also art theaters that have the more intellectual films not shown in the big theaters. Those generally aren't owned by chains. Currently MoviePass works with both the chains and the indies in my area. Which is great for as long as it lasts.
Larry Ellison rolled out the red carpet for Mark Hurd after Hurd was found to have had multiple questionable relationships with "marketing interns" that he would fly all over the world.

So like, do corporations use "impropriety" as the public cover story for "actually he lost this company a lot of money but we don't want to spook the shareholders"??
Why is this even worth discussing?
Well, first of all, how do you know I posted it? What does it mean to post something? How does what I posted manifest itself in reality if you aren't there to interpret my post.

Those are the kind of questions you would ask to start pulling it all apart. Those questions would be absurd in a normal discussion but in philosophy, they are important questions because they help us unravel our assumptions about the reality we often take for granted.
Not sure if he just got fired for a relationship or if there's something more.

But your remark about the "moralising" of US companies has also been my experience. I worked in a Europe-based office for a US-owned multinational company. Alcohol was strictly forbidden. (Needless to say, the fridge was filled regardless and late Friday afternoon, people would have a beer and fraternize.)
I've witnessed the usual denial of people who act dishonestly because their income depends upon it but, following the death of both parents, the levels to which close relatives will stoop just gain quite unsubstantial amounts of money is the only thing that has truly shocked me.
> I stayed for the money and my loyalty to my team but I hated that place.

Both very common. I used to work at a place that was a real meat grinder. Leadership were ethical enough on big stuff, but didn't really care about their people too much so they worked us to the bone. The team constantly felt like we were in a war together and the only thing keeping us going was us watching each other's back. In reality, our "war" was building some nonsense web sites or whatever for clients that had little practical value. Sometimes you have to step back and say you don't want to be part of it anymore and no one else should feel pressured to stay either.
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I think the modern equivalent is the wikidive.

I too lament the lack of a huge library at home, but I'm not worried about other people losing this. The kind of people who consume nothing but funny cat videos aren't typically the kind of people who would stock their home with reference materials anyway, right?
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A relationship between a manager and someone they manage compromises the effectiveness of both the manager and the team. As CEO, he is everyone's boss, so having a consensual relationship with anyone involved in the organisation is a bad thing.

If she got promoted, would it be because of her work, or her relationship with the boss? If she didn't get promoted, would it be because of her attitude, or her relationship with the boss? If she had an argument with a colleague, was it because she was an entitled slut? If he cut the budget of the department she worked in, was it because he was going off her?

It's pernicious and there's nothing you can do about it except simply not sleep with the people you manage.

If a CEO of a blue-chip like Intel doesn't get this basic rule of management, what other basic mistakes is he going to make? Bring a gun into work? ;)
I worked aerospace internships throughout my undergrad, but when I got an offer from a petroleum company that paid 50% more than my aerospace offers, I took the job.
So obviously relationships are bad when there's a power dynamic, and between different management levels is a common subset of this.

However it feels like many people are spending more and more time at work, and it also seems cruel to say: "you cannot get to know anyone romantically during 50-75% of your waking day."
Firefox mobile has as extensions and ad blockers. That is all I needed to switch. Been using Firefox for years, rarely any problems I'm the days of babeljs and transpilers
Koko was a lie.

Start with wiki and read on.

This shit is well know, but it keeps getting repeated.

Humanity has yet found a way to self correct bullshit.
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> It is unclear whether the product might have a similar effect in people, and the scientists said their findings “cannot be extrapolated to humans”.

Cinnamon caused some kind of liver dysfunction (cancer, IIRC) in mice. I turns out that mice lacked a metabolic pathway for processing a byproduct of the breakdown of Cinnamon, a pathway that humans possess. Mouse models aren't perfect, so it's probably premature to use the value-laden word "worse" in relation to TiO2 in toothpaste.
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> I know it sounds punitive, but it’s really a question of fairness to every other employee working for that manager — nothing improper needs to be done by either party for it to negatively impact the other employees.

> It also discourages managers from taking their pick of young staff members, and discourages any lower-level staff who might try to sleep their way to the top.

In addition, allowing these kinds of relationships also raises issues of sexual consent. Imagine this scenario:

CEO: Let's have sex tonight.

Employee: I'm not in the mood.

CEO: Looks like somebody's getting a bad performance review.

Employee: Fine then... let's get this over with.
People are incredibly fucking thin-skinned. A few choice cuss words can get across points than paragraphs of inoffensive wishy-washy bullshit will obfuscate. And righteous anger cuts to the heart of a problem like Alexander through the Gordian knot.

If you can't point at shit, and say that it is shit, and it needs to be done better, then I don't want to work with you, or depend on your outputs. I am glad that there is someone like Linus helming the ship; Jobs was not different in kind, nor Gates in his day. It's a shame that we don't have more strong, extremely competent stewards like him.
As strange as it may sound, I often write on HN (and other places) simply to practice writing. I've noticed that good writing often gets upvotes, while good ideas (at least in my opinion) are controversial. If people can follow your train of thought, there will be people who agree and will upvote you. If they can't, it doesn't matter how brilliant the idea, people will ignore it.

As for mimicking other writers, I would avoid that. You have a style, but you haven't discovered it yet. Just keep writing. Get feedback. Write some more. Over time, your style will come forward. Once you recognise it, it will be easier to refine it.
there should be a json standard with a header to describe the content.

also what was wrong with ini files?
It also deters blackmail from other parties, if the relationship is not public.
If unconstrained learning emits biased result it was given biased samples. That or the bias is in the dataset itself, which could still be fixed by removing and randomizing traits but at which point your alghorithm is learning a representation if reality which usefulness depend on the realm if application, say, great for university admittance and not so great for medical insurance purposes.
Relationships among employees are very hard to keep concealed -- especially so when you're in a very exposed position, as a CEO is. At some point, somebody is going to notice something.

If this is the case, then I'm pretty sure that this knowledge had reached the board long before. Rumors spread fast, after all.

That leaves me to wonder as to the timing of this action. Krzanich received a lot of flak over the past months... it's not entirely unthinkable that the board was sitting on this information and only now used it to get rid of Krzanich without making it look like it's one of the other major issues he could technically be blamed with.
First paragraph made me chuckle.
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> you cannot get to know anyone romantically during 50-75% of your waking day

Few companies have such strict relationship policies.
You can run Fortnite on a toaster though. The recommended specs are an Nvidia GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7870.
Because there are other reasons, and only an absolute fucking moron would think a few consensual dates were the only driver.

Congratulations on being a zero-intelligence, non-critical thinking idiot.
There's either a lot more to this particular story or the board wanted him gone for other reasons. cf. Mark Hurd. Anyone who believes the story as given should really think twice the next time someone offers to sell them a bridge. (I suppose ICOs are the appropriate item those days.)
>No one would take issue if he carried a gun at work

You really don't think so? I'm no CEO but I imagine carrying a gun around would at least warrant some public criticism, particularly for a tech CEO in the San Francisco Bay Area.
So my question is: Was the female employee also fired? If not, why not?
Sounds like a logical approach — no trail, no business. But I would imagine this is the system, the very people hiding behind these shells, are willing to hold in place and have the perfect power/influence/capital to keep it, which doesn't make it a priority.
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Is it really acceptable for a manger to have sexual relations with direct reports in other countries? That seems so 1950s Mad Men era from an American perspective
Corporations are not about trust - they are about risk.

Most simply the ability to pool and share risk among a group of people and in most cases limit the extent of of personal risk when undertaking some activity.
I imagine maintaining it is a big effort and keeping up an even bigger one. Sure they make billions, but still. What are they really getting out of this at this point.
Thanks. I don't see anything in there that says they're "retreating from free expression" as the title here claims. Instead, it actually says that they will still defend free speech for those they disagree with, including white supremacists, when the cases make sense.

In fact, the only thing I really see here is them saying that a lot of factors go into deciding which cases they can take, including the fact that they can't take all the cases they want to.

Without something more than this, I think the title is clickbait, if not outright wrong.
According to Statcouter, Edge 17 released 2 months ago is only used by 2/3 of Edge users, whereas it takes just couple weeks for a new Chrome to reach most of its users.

When I hear about a new feature in Chrome/Firefox, I know I can start incorporating it into my code targeting those browsers immediately because by the time the code goes in production in couple weeks most users will have already updated their browsers. With Edge, I just put such news into "let's come back to it in half a year" box.
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