skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. TI is not a meritocracy. Pain came from the weakest region in the world. Without the SA slot, they wouldn't even be in TI.
This is on the same level (IMO) like when Site A pays SEO company to make SITE B appear as SPAM (usually by spamming SITE B's links on commenting systems with some vague texts).

Had read this on discussion forums a lot when "Scrapebox" and the likes were used (2010-12ish)
I've seen Dejan speak and I'd recommend following his work because he does very interesting black hat things like this in SEO. He has so many out of the box ideas like this which are brilliant.
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I remember when software developers enjoyed free markets to sell their products in.

First we’d spend hundreds of thousands of dollars printing manuals and boxes, and duplicating disks. If the release sold well, that would end up costing us less than $10 per unit. If it didn’t sell well, that cost would approach 100% of revenues.

Next, we would neec need to find a way to get our boxes of software into actual stores. The easiest way was to convince someone like Ingram MicroD to distribute our software. Once stocked with Ingram, any store could order our product! That doesn’t mean they did though.

So the next step is to convince stores to stock us. We could hire and send sales staff, or we could pay Ingram to advertise us prominently in their catalogs, or we could even pay big chains to stock us in prominent locations called “end caps”!

Now all we had to do was wait for the money to roll in! And wait was the key phrase, cause even though our contract said 30 day terms, Ingram days were kind of like their version of dog years, or better yet Elon schedules, where everything takes at least twice as long. After 45 days you’d call one Monday, and they’d say oh we don’t cut checks on mondays, only on Fridays. So you call on Friday to find they only cut checks in Wednesdays! Then the next time the darn CFO would be out of town, you can’t get checks signed without the CFO you know. But no worries, Ingram always paid, never in thirty days but usually within 6 months or so.

And they did all of that for “only” a 50% cut of our revenues!

Developers today don’t know how good they have it. For only 30% of revenues (and a $99 annual dev fee) Apple will give you as many marketing pages as you want in their store, will host your apps, and no matter how big they are or how often you update them, and irregardkess of how many download them, Apple pays for all storage and bandwidth costs.

And you not only have access to North American customers, but Apple has international stores localized in dozens of languages you get free access to at the click of a mouse. Do a Spanish version of your app and it’s in dozens of stores for Spanish speaking countries in hours.

And on top of that, Apple provides probably the best payment processing system known to man. It’s easy to sell for one time chatgesmp, subscriptions, by feature, etc. and customers are super comfortable with the App Store because it makes managing their subscriptions or canceling unwanted purchases is super easy.

And even better, Apple tightly vets every app and every update before releasing, which is a big reason why it’s the biggest selling App Store in the world. Customers feel safe downloading your apps from the Apple App Store, which helps sell more if them.

Apple paid developers over $20B the last year. There hasn’t been a software market this lucrative and this easy to get into in the history of the world.
The issue is that CryptoCompare maps "POLY" to PolyBit, and not to Polymath, which is the generally accepted mapping (there is no authority to officially define such mappings). So you were in fact looking at some ancient mostly dead project.

As for the $82k in volume, a large chunk of that is wash trading, which is rampant in crypto, and I wouldn't read much into it.
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It works for Oracle (it is famously illegal to publish benchmarks of DB2 vs other engines), I'm sure intel can make it work for them thanks to Oracle's court case(s).
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10430367
Until they start blocking URLs because of... well, they'll find a reason ;)
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You're ignoring that total compensation has continued to climb.

Those wage increases are going into healthcare, which has gone from 6% of GDP to 18% of GDP in terms of spending. That has consumed all wage growth for a generation. 12% of GDP is $2.4 trillion - year every. Or more reasonably, match it to a nice European nation's spending, around 11%. That 7% difference is $1.4 trillion.

If you want wages to climb again, you'll have to destroy the US healthcare system as it exists, and decimate the pay of millions of well paid nurses, doctors, scientists, sales reps, et al. You'll need to abolish several hundred thousand jobs in the insurance industry and find those people new careers. It's ultimately a wealth redistribution question, a certain block of millions of people have been enriched by the healthcare system plundering the economy, while many more have suffered because of it.
Yes. It (being called a resource) is common in Big companies where they literally see you as a "resource". This is worse when you are a 'resource' in a big service company.
I'm done with Intel
I thoroughly reject whatever it is you are suggesting. There is nothing immoral about wanting to enjoy a high standard of living.
What exactly did his it department do using wmi to query this Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_ProcessAddressSpace_Costly? I can't find this in the article
When did I say it was going to save the world? I’m suggesting it is an infinitely safer alternative than opioids and perhaps if it were legal then people vulnerable to opioid addiction would be taking something much safer and non-addictive.
Have timing attacks been done successfully in JS? I imagine it's much harder since you have much less low-level control and the engine might impose too much noise. However, wasm is a different story.
> For that matter, calling volunteer work "antiquated" is... A bit cynical, to say the least.

I emphatically did not say that volunteer work is antiquated! I myself do plenty of it - but I also acknowledge that I’m privileged to be able to afford it. What is antiquated is the notion that only unpaid work is authentic open-source work. It’s important to realize that providing unpaid labor is a luxury. If you exclude or devalue paid work, you exclude and devalue the people who cannot afford to do open-source work for free. As it turnd out, that’s the majority of people.
"attention bandwidth" is a great term that really solidifies my fuzzy thoughts on how to characterize the bots, thank you!
Only fools would have ever bought into the Aramco IPO. The vast majority of IPOs are sucker bets for investors, companies selling high to take advantage of their likely peak value.

But in Aramcos case you’d have actual self dealing despots controlling your investment, and eventually they’d make clear how junior their junior partners really were.
1 Years years ago when I was learning web development I bought a TLD and just copy-pasted Amazon’s log in page to just check how it works. Amazon somehow found out about this and Google punished that TLD after that incident and it just couldn’t go up in rankings after that.

If I remember correctly they had even put that TLD on sites that report/list “phishing” sites so if you Googled about that TLD you would also get the “they are fraud” results.

2 I think that most pro users just New-Tab everything and go from there. Seems to me that going in n out search results all in one tab is kind of slow too.
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I was thinking about this in the past, but seeing the comments here, by DoreenMichele and jondubois, for example, both of whom seem to agree that being an open source author is not a wise life decision right now, only reinforces my hypothesis that maybe this OSS has a lot of marketing behind it. I don't mean a certain project, but the very idea of it. Because, in the end, it just means the people basically have a second job, only it pays nothing. It means extra work is being done, tools are being created and the people who know how to monetize it, do, while the poor souls how keep soldiering on with the 80+ hour work week get only the "fame".

So isn't it possible that powerful corporations pushed and continue to push this OSS ideal, the ideal that you do meaningful work, that you'll bask in glory at the end of it, that your name will be carried on by armies of software developers until the end of time? Isn't it possible for all of this, or at least partially, to be just marketing coming out from the hands of people who really know how to tickle our emotions?

How much would git or linux or emacs cost to develop? Instead, they are developed/maintained partly by armies of "passionate" developers who get zilch for they work. But they are used by money-loving corporations for free. Now isn't that convenient.
Have you seen https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/? Typing this on my own right now.
The article says "Many computer users" not "Many customers". Furthermore when the article mentions "customers" elsewhere we can probably assume it means "Intel customers" which is a much greater subset than the group you're talking about, and which would be probably less than 1% as numerous as the "Many computer users" that run javascript.

lol, javascript
Three scenarios:

1. The Intentionally Bad: A symptom of Ultra-capitalism, working towards short term financial gains to make the next quarter look good for shareholders.

2. The Situationally Bad: Employee salaries at current levels are unsustainable and there isn't the interest from locals to work for lower, more sustainable rates.

3. An Actual Skills Shortage: Can't find suitable people locally, gotta look at the international market.

Secondary Point, a gross paraphrasing:

First they came for manufacturing, and I didn't speak up because I was a software engineer. Then they came for the software engineers...
What kind of safe guards would prevent a third party from influencing our elections?
When I feel sad I step outside without dressing myself appropriately. After a short while cold becomes uncomfortable, then very unpleasant. I gain new appreciation for the "everpresent warmth that winnners surround themselves with" (that's from a book by Joan D. Vinge). I go back inside and feel less sad and making money seems less pointless.
In that position I would highlight the lack of tests as a problem. This can be done “nicely” if required. “I know there was probably time pressure but without tests only the super human awesome XYZ can safely make changes and littlenold me really needs some help & protection” or done in a not so nice way “well the first thing is to finish what’s there by surrounding with tests, I’m surprised there are zero allready, it’s kind of in professional”

Then concentrate on slowly but surely cover & refactor to support improvements

Much safer than a rewrite IMHO
You have 2 options.

1. You rewrite the code. You said you would hate that, so not an option
2. You develop on top
of the spaghetti code. You said you would hate that.

So, no matter how, you would hate working at this job.

That's why the only option left for you is really telling your boss how things are and that you can't see yourself working on this project.

You'll probably receive an offer with a 50% salary increase, so
you can take that, but you should have a new job lined up already at another companyy.
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Success, in this context, means having solved some problem for a meaningful length of time.
> It'd be nice if there was an actual global version of the American Global Entry/Nexus/Sentri system

You know when invented, that was the purpose of a passport!

Of course, it today's world you have to now pay extra for what used to be include.
you would have to demonstrate that the config from user1 is identical to the configuration of user2, wich mean you would have to split the patch up to the microde update.
>Another issue is whether the customer should install the fix at all

Microsoft will surely decide for me on my Windows 10 gaming PC. Better save my work (which I sometimes do even on a gaming machine) frequently lest the masters deem it fit to restart while I'm away having lunch if they decide I can live with the performance hit.
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If there is no tests to back you up, that's where I'd start.

I work in a similar company in the past, and having tests / a build server is step 1 to empower other to refactor more. The lack of tests is usually what brings people to paralysis / creep / huge tech debt ime.

And don't forget that beautiful code is not actually necessary for business. What is needed is delivering value to your users in a consistent manner. Well structured code will be needed if the project is here to last in the long run, but it is not always the case.

As far as I can read, you're doing great. Keep it going and other are likely to look up on you in the future, and you'll grow a lot.
In southern Germany along Lake Constance I once drove through a series of towns on a main road. Each of them had a camera enforced 30 km/h (about 19 mph) speed limit. On a billboard it was explained this was because of traffic noise.

I was surprised when I spotted the first camouflage colored camera and stood on the brakes. Luckily I didn't get a letter.

None of the towns had a sign indicating the end of the low speed regime. In a biergarten I asked someone when the low speed usually ends and he told me that at the end of the town there's a sign on which the town's name is striked through. This is also the end of the low speed regime! Then I continued and I arrived at a larger town. There I seem to have missed the end of the low speed area because people started to overtake me.

I thought it's their own fault because it's the people in these towns who have asked for the low speed on their roads.
Start with writing Unit tests for basic functionality.

Do not do the cardinal sin of writing unit test for every goddamn function in the codebase like a rookie.

Start fixing code, one by one only if it can be tested by Unit tests.

Remember you need to first learn the code base and context because harping "complete mess". Maybe they did not have time, maybe timelines were more imp. That is what industry is about especially when you do not have enough Engineers. Plus this new wave of PMs who want features at any cost, doesn't make things any easy.

Good luck
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I've wondered about that. Could index funds be good in most times, but create the mother of all crashes?

I haven't really read any good analysis on how the rise in index funds could affect the next crash. Does anyone know of any? (They may not have any negative effect)
> Also, many of these engineers skill level is an insult to the engineering industry

This feels like a 'race to the bottom' strategy that will work against the company in the long term.
what exactly is the slashdot trick?
You could say a lot of the same things about SharePoint. (I was never a fan, personally.) This seems like the natural progression of any CMS that tries to be infinitely extensible and flexible. It becomes very difficult to evolve or simplify your product without breaking its add-on ecosystem and your most entrenched customers.
Pretty simple to find out by logging the referring site that is requesting assets from your server. I used to do this all the time about a decade ago when it was common practice to steal entire site designs.

My favourite moment was when we changed a picture that someone was hot linking to as part of their own website and they emailed us with a rant saying "how dare you change the image"
How many mandatory binding arbitration clauses and/or class action waivers have Intel hidden in their license agreements over the years? If they did it right, they never have to worry about a class action lawsuit (and the horrible press that comes with it) anytime soon.

Which, of course, makes the kind of systematic deception Intel is trying to pull off here much easier. It's a feature!
Your “median earner with a spouse and 2 kids” is quite different from the median household. The (gross) income in a median household is $59k.
Sounds like you support a pervasive use of patents!
I’m working with WordPress since 2005 both as a theme designer and plugin developer. The experience is the same today as it was at the beginning.

And that experience is famously broken. Code mess, theme mess, customisation mess, etc.

If WordPress powers one third of the internet, and, Automattic is such a success story how they couldn’t create a framework in which designing and developing can give you a little satisfaction?

Many times I left WordPress for others like Ruby on Rails, Yii, static site generators, Contentful, etc. but I’m always returning to it. My clients need it. They think it is a standard in CMS and the hosting is stable and affordable.

But non-businesses, individuals are abandoning it. The promise is huge: pay a few dollars for hosting, get a pre-installed WordPress, choose a theme from that 5,000 free themes and you are done.

The reality is that WordPress theming is broken. None of those 5,000 free themes can satisfy a single need in 100% percent. People realise they need an expert to customize and make it work, and from that moment their project either is migrated somewhere else or just bitterly abandoned.

I wonder how many of that ‘30% of total websites are powered by WordPress’ is an abandoned site?

TLDR: WordPress lost it’s individual user base; still good for small businesses who can afford customization; awful as experience for designers and developers;

WordPress is not at crossroads but in chaos. Gutenberg, the only big change since it’s inception is not well received by designers and developers. If they flock they’ll take away with them the small businesses.
If the original developer is still around, have some informal chat here and there on why the worst part are the way they are.

Frame it correctly: "I don't understand why these classes share this data or code, do you remember why?" is miles better than "Explain me this mess please it's making me crazy"

If the original dev is still around focus on the task that come from business so he's free to focus on fixing the structure, he is, after all, the local expert on it.

In general a rewrite is not something you'd do without having a clear understanding of the requirements. What you can do instead if you don't have the dev support is to fix thing as you go, removing cross dependencies and encapsulating behaviors. You don't have to fix code only to hide the ugliness behind a clear structure and as small as possible interfaces, order will eventually emerge.
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Well these are “cultural” leaders so they are going to be in pop culture and similar professions. The Ben Carsons and Lonnie Johnsons and Robert Smiths aren’t cultural leaders.
I don't understand this field but wouldn't creating a reference model be an ethical and cultural nightmare? I would assume that researchers will be forced to make a very diluted version of this reference model which cannot be tied to any race, which at the end of the day may not be much useful.
It's been so long since there were prolific black hats, that you seem to have confused the definition of black hat and white hat with "offensive security" and "defensive security" ;)

Everyone working in offensive security is still a white hat. That's a legitimate profession. Black hats hack things without permission. That used to be big at Defcon, but I don't think it was ever really a Black Hat thing.
To be fair, that's a little like saying Deep Blue had an advantage because it could try out thousands of possible plays simultaneously. That's true, but what makes humans good at Chess for example is that we have a really good "intuition" at which moves are good, and therefore we can prune non-promising branches in the decision tree better.

Similarly here, the AI can definitely do a lot more things at once, but each individual thing they do isn't very smart. For example, they waste money on useless wards or waste time sitting in front of Roshan. We can of course keep pushing the goal post, but I think if the AI can win with the given constraints, it's still a huge accomplishment.

Even more importantly though, it would be interesting to see if the AI is able to come up with new strategies and techniques that weren't known before.
This was also a thing in Michigan, at least in the precinct where I lived. It seemed to work well.
Interesting article! Gutenberg itself is also on a different road than before as you can't run it self hosted. To use it on a self hosted blog you would need to install jetpack and use WordPress.com as the main UI, which isn't self hosted. His point regarding commercial plugins are also to the point. There are great plugins out there, but setting up a site with these can easily cost over $1000 in yearly subscription fees and the free versions are often too basic or require tweaking to add required features. Still think WordPress make sense for organizations that can easily pay for premium plugins and support, or hackers that know how to code and find the great free plugins.
The First Amemdment itself doesn't directly apply to Intel, but there are a lot of relevant legal protections pertaining to the general idea of protecting the press. In particular, this seems to be fundamentally a copyright license that's at issue. News reporting, scholarship and research are all explicitly listed as purposes that can qualify as fair use. Using copyrighted material to research and report on the nature of defective goods being sold to the public strikes me as pretty likely to be ruled as fair use, especially when using the copyrighted microcode in a manner contrary to Intel's license is necessary to properly fact-check a news story about their processor flaws.
Online media often relies on hardware directly from the manufacture when they get to test it before official release.

Nothing stops Intel from not sending them anything anymore, and then they have to buy it from the stores like everybody else.
This seems like it would be a big deal considering this whole thing is related to servers and I have to imagine some server operators are running Debian? Maybe at the bare metal level their all running RHEL, which I presume doesn't care about the license restrictions.
Really, all we have to do is stop killing them. Much of New England, now heavily forested, was cleared by early farmers.
I have worked with multiple American senior engineers who are not as technically proficient and productive as junior foreign labor. What you are saying is anecdotal.

This is true for your second point, specifically pointing out that asians hire other asians. This is true for white Americans as well. So, how is that any different?
I understand your point, but I won't take market pay for being the first employee. If I wanted market pay, I will go with a well-established company.

I am assuming that you won't sell goods and services you produce at cost price. If that is case, you'd have worked as an employee of that buyer. Similarly, if I don't get a share of the value I produce, I won't join any startup as a early employee.
> Well the license specifically says you will not permit a third party to either.

That might as well read as "you can't provide cloud computing" since you can't know what someone is going to execute on their server before they execute it!
I'm pretty sure DB2 is an IBM thing.