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The comparison to movies seems apt. Games industry has the same problems that Early Hollywood had (high crash rate and a lot of employee anguish), and a lot of these stories match early days histories of Hollywood. The solution to that was strong unions. Film companies still have a high crash rate, though now it is much more intentionally controlled (Hollywood has organized development companies to very specifically be only for the scope of a single film project), and more importantly employee anguish from the intentional turnover is mitigated by strong union protections and safety nets.

The interesting part is that Hollywood is dealing with a cycle of this sort of suffering currently with Special Effects houses. The CG special effects companies are often contracted for only a single set piece at a time in a movie, as companies they currently last about at most 2 years and involvement in scenes in two and a half films, and there is a lot of employee anguish because a lot of the artists involved have generally not been allowed to unionize (or heavily discouraged from unionizing), especially in the smaller contractors. Most of the Oscars presented for Best Special Effects in the last few years have involved at least one firm that was dead by the time of the Oscars award. It's not making the news as much as game studio suffering, but it's a similar problem in that both industries feel that they can afford to burn through talent cheaper than it takes to protect it, as there are always excitable young kids happy to get their shot in Hollywood or Videogames.
This. How many times have you said casually "I'm going to kill ...?" Probably a lot, but now with Twitter it's a death threat. I post under real name to protect against that internet anonymity psychology.
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Just stellar. Wow. Whatever game comes out of this, I want to play it!
Bloomberg stands by Chinese chip story as Apple, Amazon ratchet up denials
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also a duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18144489
Frequently they'll take something that I like and add a couple of pumps of vanilla to it, then discontinue the original recipe.

There was a cold brew with sweet cream that they had last year which was a really good cold drink that wasn't overly sweet. So this year they replace it with a cold brew with vanilla sweet cream and now it has two pumps of vanilla syrup in it in addition to the sweetness of the sweet cream. So now it's disgustingly sweet and tastes cloyingly of vanilla.

I pretty much only get lattes and drip coffee there now.
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hasn't it been the case with NSA and carriers all along?

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/09/business/la-fi-court...

"Congress granted retroactive immunity to people or companies aiding U.S. intelligence agents."

In this case i'd not be surprised if Google/FB/AMZN/Apple/MS/Supermicro were even part of the CIA/NSA counter-sting - feeding of the false info back to Chinese intelligence through the detected 'mistery' chips.
Right, but while Samsung's hardware team is focused on designing silicon for low, mid, and high-end devices throughout the year, Apple is building one chipset for two or three high end models every year. Apple just shoves last years models further down the price spectrum rather than launching new low and mid range devices every year.

The tighter focus, combined with the fact that Apple rakes in more cash to spend on R&D, is why their engineering team is able to win out here.
This has been my experience as well. 20 years ago, you could go to Walmart and buy good quality brands at good prices. E.g. you buy a Dewalt drill, it is actually a high quality drill. What happened over time is that because of the extreme price pressure Walmart was putting on suppliers, they began to build special Walmart-only products. So, the Dewalt drill you buy has a great price but is also a piece of crap. I don't enjoy shopping at Walmart at all anymore, you are much better off to find a specially store. E.g. buy your drill the same place the professional carpenters shop.

Amazon has seen a similar decline. Years ago, if you saw a product on Amazon, you could be confident it was as it was labelled, you would get it in a reasonable time and the price was about as good as buying anywhere else. Amazon quality now is total garbage. The store is littered with counterfit goods. If the price looks good, that's probably because the quality is absolutely terrible. I don't enjoy shopping there at all anymore.
Apple have experience of that, and I mean a lot. The first C compiler I used was the cheap student version of Metrowerks that only compiled to 68K, I was on a PowerPC machine at the time. Mac OS X had a Mac OS classic compatibility mode until around the time the Intel processors replaced PowerPC ones, and early Intel machines could run apps compiled for PPC.
I don't think this is as much of a troglodyte statement as much as it is a lack of personal autonomy and freedom.

The user isn't against the horse-less carriage out of fear, he's against the horse-less carriage because the option to control the horse has also been removed.
Exactly this. Many of the foods we get outside of our cultural norms, just don't compare to the real thing - which in turn drives people to dislike the real deal.

There's an enormous difference between the Turkish Delight sold in the grocery stores here, versus Haci Bekir. The same is true of the Arak I buy and the jahnoun. Lord what I wouldn't give for real jahnoun - the frozen stuff is such shite.
Supposedly. I am skeptical that Waymo will ever execute a major deal. It's a real shame, the tech is really good, but Waymo just isn't very good at business (this is true about Alphabet in general; beyond ads, and maybe cloud).
I'm thinking what sells will be different when most cars are self-driving. For one, most people probably won't own a car. The buyers will be companies like Waymo, Uber, and Lyft. That's a very different dynamic. Basically saying Honda doesn't want to sell a commodity with small margins.

If you're just hailing a ride, you care a lot less about the brand of car and it's amenities. You care more about the overall ride share service, price, etc. Very little of which Honda would have any effect on if they don't have some skin in the self-driving tech.
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Oh please... Kavanaugh is obviously on the conservative end of the spectrum, but to say he isn’t a respected judge is ridiculous. This is a guy who went to Yale law, clerked for a Supreme Court justice, was a partner at a top law firm and worked his way up to being a US circuit judge. In other words, prior to July, he had probably the most impressive resume you could possibly have for a Supreme Court nomination.
NetBurst was 4-wide with (IIRC) two of those ports double-pumped for certain operations, but limited to 4/cycle retire, I think.
I've done my last two builds primarily through Microcenter. Their prices are similar to or better than other places and both times I've gotten $50 off by buying the motherboard and processor through them.
Depends on the bakhlava. Pistachio, honey, those I find are done pretty well - but North Americans completely fail at dates...
I guess if someone that high up isn't safe then who is? And China is so big, how do we know this type of thing won't spread to more countries?

Literally makes me want to move to Mars as soon as possible.
I don't have a general solution but perhaps a few ideas:

One is to lower your threshold for what you count as being bragging — sometimes people are just sharing and they don't mean any harm. And sometimes they just really need validation. But then again, despite their benign intentions, hearing their status might sting, especially if things aren't going your way lately.

Another option is to poke fun at them, assuming you are on joking terms yadayada. E.g. I caught myself bragging about the achievements of my previous business partner at a party last weekend and the room was having none of it. As soon as I finished my sentence, they erupted into "woopdey doo" or (impersonating me) "I don't mean to brag or anything!!"

So there's that.
How does the USG indemnify these companies for the massive breach of trust if that's indeed the case? You can't pay for trust.
After looking at this closer, what they are comparing is single threaded performance of the Skylake Xeon 8176. At 28 cores and 56 threads, that watts per thread or core value starts to look somewhat comparable, given Apple's low core count (compared to that desktop CPU) and that they might not run the Vortex (2x) and Tempest (4x) cores at the same time(?).

So, I think it's both a matter of comparing Apples to Oranges (ugh, I would use a less confusing analogy if one came to mind) in that the types and usage and number of cores are different, and also just fairly impressive that they can get that much single threaded performance out of the chip.
Amazon Basic batteries are surprisingly good for their price.
Apple specifically states that they are not under any form of gag/confidentiality order/conditions:

> Finally, in response to questions we have received from other news organisations since Businessweek published its story, we are not under any kind of gag order or other confidentiality obligations.
It's easy to imagine one human killing another, happens all the time. That doesn't imply that any given person who stands accused of murder did it.
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He means NodeRed
Nice tool - what tech stack are you using?

I built this with Ruby on Rails and would love to see people using it for projects like what you've done:

https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder

If you are interested in adapting it for your use case let me know and I'll do my best to help.
The carriers never lied about it. They were provided immunity from criminal lawsuits, not civil lawsuits.
Definitely awesome, thanks for sharing.
I'm not going to rehash the numerous argument against GraphQL. My point is Plenty of people who have experience with REST, SOAP, various old school RPC protocols, and GraphQL (myself included) prefer REST.

The superiority of GraphQL is not as self-evident as you believe it is.
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Can someone outline some reasons for me why nobody has come up with an actual physical example of a compromised board? I'm not trying to make a point, I just want to get a more complete picture of the issue, and the biggest thing that stands out to me is the lack of physical evidence.
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The seller's commission is always negotiable, but 5-6% is customary.
Wu-tang.
I was under the impression that you could filter out their marketplace sellers and that they didn't commingle their own inventory with anyone else's. Is that not the case?

Where do you go for computer stuff that you can trust these days? Every box in all the Fry's stores around me all seem to have already been opened and returned twice by the time i see them.
Thanks for the feedback you gave me last time on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18107198
I incorporated it and released a new version.
Here's my blog post explaining what I changed: https://www.feram.io/blog/2018-10-05_how_i_screwed_up_launch...
Please take another look and let me know what you think!
Thanks!
Did you see the comment above that QSPI boots up as SPI and then switches over to QSPI?
It is possible that a self-driving car could still give you personal autonomy. Although you would lose direct mechanical control over the car, it is still technically possible to implement a self-driving car that always goes exactly where the occupant tells it to, without ever phoning home. Of course, none of the companies making self-driving cars actually want that, and most of the people buying them either don't care or don't realise, so it's probably not going to happen.
Ha, the same thing happens to me. No idea why they think I'm a student, like you I don't have an edu email address on my account.
Not marketing professional here, but I'm surprised at how almost all of the budget went to payroll related expenses. I would have imagined higher percentage spent on advertising spot, online and offline.
>Isn't this just an iteration on last year’s iPhone X?

In the way that every iPhone has been an iteration on previous models, but here we are. The main feature this year is photographic quality is difficult lighting conditions, particularly low light and with harsh backlighting. Some of the side by sides with pictures taken with last years model are pretty impressive.

In terms of hardware, it used to be that Android manufacturers could get a new component into a phone maybe 6 months before Apple, but nowadays Apple is developing custom hardware features Android manufacturers have now way to replicate. Things like in house developed health sensors, neural engine CPU co-processors for the image enhancements I mentioned above. The 3D face scanning tech in Face ID.

These aren’t things that can be knocked together in 6 months, it takes years, so we’ve gone from occasionally Apple missing a feature for 6 months and sometimes stealing a 6 months March, to its competitors now being several years behind, if they even have a path to effectively competing at all.

But as ever, it just depends what features matter to you and at what price point.
Have we forgotten the Linux Code of Conduct controversy? Contributors threatened to remove their code from the kernel. A CLA would completely prevent that.
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interesting. so hardware manufacturers like Samsung are actually paying Google to put Google Play Services and various Google apps onto their phones? how much do they pay (is that a known value)?
only in america, indeed! in many countries, he'd just die at home.
Fair enough, though according to camelcamelcamel the price of Phillips Hue has been lower at times on Amazon: https://camelcamelcamel.com/Philips-Hue-Ambiance-Equivalent-...

If their data is correct there were times when it was available for 10-20% off.

Having read more comments in this thread I'm starting to think that my experience has been different (for the better) because 80+% of the time I know what I'm looking for before I visit Amazon. I rely on Wirecutter and other websites for recommendations if I'm looking for something I know little about.

Another thing is that Amazon has almost everything. It's much simpler to buy a couple of books + nail clippers + socks (one of my recent purchases) from them than make separate orders elsewhere.

And unlike probably most of the posters here I'm from Europe and I haven't experience any unusual issues with shipping so maybe it's a real and more recent concern in the US.
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see what I call "deal bragging" (which is very common I believe and that particularly irks me).

Basically everyone (but me) manages to get things (or work done) for much less than their common market value is or however much less than what I can get it at.

Be it a car, a pair of trousers or a phone, or the renovation works of his/her bathroom, the "deal bragger" tells you that he/she found (through his/her network or friends, or internet, or whatever other means) a supplier that sold the item to him/her at an unrealistically discounted price or - say - a plumber that did the work for a fraction of what is normal for that kind of work.
As a vocal critic of the Linux Desktop, even I feel that soon Microsoft will have succeeded in making Windows so horrifically awful and user-hostile that the Linux Desktop will start to look good by comparison. I mean, if I'm going to put up with rapid update cycles that break things for no reason, decade old bugs going unfixed while features are added that no one asked for, inconsistent and redundant interfaces, developers who ignore user feedback and fetishize complexity, and fragile systems designed by Rube Goldberg, I may as well be using a Linux Desktop. About the only things holding me back any more are my unmitigated hatred for package managers as an application distribution model and crappy graphics drivers, otherwise Windows has achieved rough parity on bad system design.

For now, I'm staying sane on Win 10 by completely disabling all update functionality. I suspect that something will eventually make that untenable though. I've suspected for some time that it has been Microsoft's goal to kill off desktop computing, and they seem to be succeeding handily.
I use windows on many systems and have no such problems. What was introduced into the latest update is what is added into storage sense - if you enable storage sense integration into OneDrive then when you are low on disk space, documents are MOVED to one drive (offline). You DO have to opt into this.

Other people who have this problem with missing docs apparently have done registry hacks and sub mounted volumes to fake onedrive access to USB devices or to move things around in ways that were never supported - OneDrive has always attempted to block/disable such hacks but people are creative... i have 0 sympathies for those users - but again - their docs are probably still on the umounted volume they could re-mount (assign a drive letter) or they're fully migrated to OneDrive.
America wasn't like this 20 years ago. Politics has always been bad, and there's times it's been even worse, but that doesn't mean it's not trending downward right now.
>It's the difference between a handful of dudes in a speedboat with some explosives and an aircraft carrier.

That’s uh... one helluva metaphor you got there.
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That is still free software and open source.
When good interfaces go crufty (2002)
The story claims that the Apple worked with the FBI to investigate the issue, and Apple is saying no such cooperation ever happened. There really is no way to square these two sides; somebody is either wrong or lying.
I would love to meet you and introduce you to any manager I have in the future (because I"m sure Jira will be reintroduced in my professional career). What were you using Jira for? Are you an engineer committing code daily? What style do your projects usually follow (waterfall, agile, etc)? What source control tracking do you use with Jira? Were you doing burndown charts?
Very good point. I know two were abused as children. Two others were raised in the church, so were taking ayahuasca from birth.
Why the down-votes ?

I kindly meant that it's good to have a somewhat specialized site towards intellectual curiosity.

It takes more time to visually filter submissions if they are interspersed with world news in general.
> some people going far beyond just in match flaming to harassing with death and rape threats in direct messages long after the match is over.

It sounds like your company needs to fire these toxic individuals ASAP before the company gets taken to the cleaners in a lawsuit for allowing this to go on.
To my understanding, the legislation requires informed consent not mere assent.

So this would be like, what, pretending you’re a fan to get an autograph and then revealing that the celebrity has just signed away all their rights? And then asserting that that’s legally binding?
Elementary is good in terms of looks on the face, but starts to break down as soon as you dig deeper. Inconsistent updates and strange issues requiring manual intervention via the terminal are still there.
Now you have a second device to buy, secure and support, and it can't do everything that an ILOM can (most importantly, remote power management). Having had security updates for KVMs, I'm also not sure your assumption that it's safer is true in any meaningful sense.

Management engine vulnerabilities have gotten a lot of hype over the last year or two but most of it has been marketing for security companies rather than a serious risk (e.g. what percentage of bugs required local network access, which should not be easy to get on your management VLAN). During a similar period, we've also had Spectre/Meltdown and the usual slew of software vulnerabilities so I have trouble with the conclusion that the answer is to stop using a useful tool rather than continuing the industry-wide effort to improve the level of security competency among development teams.
Can you short "Bellingcat," their editors and investigators...I'm willing to bet that Putin Inc is not thrilled about them.
Not sure if this is something you've tried or not. But Doing a fuzzy match on the text string might be a way to go. If there is more than 90% match on last 10 messages you can block the message that is being tried to be sent. You might need to think though other criteria to make sure you don't block legitimate texts being sent.
I always find myself unable to delete any file on my computer, no matter I never needed it for years, nor I won't need it again in the forseeable future. New features like this one from Microsoft can definitely help.
But they have the problem of getting solutions adapted to Waymo's strategy. They'll likely push for safety tests and requirements that they can pass; others will have to adapt to that.
No more Chinese phones for me either way. It's enough that Google knows everything about me, PLA doesn't have to.
Hoax articles get published in social sciences journals
I can see how the compiler and stdlib (aren't things like memcpy implemented in hand-tuned assembly?) could be highly relevant, though.
You may find me in one, at some point in the far future, but I won't buy one. If they're really that good I'll use a service to have one come pick me up to take me places. But I've not heard much about self-driving cars performing well in all types of conditions to think that this will be safe enough (or at least reliable enough) any time soon.
Sure. Since we're being armchair psychologists, let's also discuss your sense of humor.
I've tried running Grim Dawn and Rise of Nations after every steam update (I opted into Steam Play's proton beta and get reasonably frequent steam client updates now) and no luck so far.

I've migrated my daily driver to linux, a large amount of gaming to linux and/or consoles, and am down to a handful of games that only run on Windows. If that gap closes then I can get by with Windows in VMs only.