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> ARM could be leapfrogged by RISC-V

For the low-end deeply embedded space, I could see RISC V becoming a significant player in the next 5 years. ARM is relatively expensive there (it's cheap compared to Intel for servers, but at the low end it's more the IBM of Microsoft of old), and there's less need for their ecosystem (most 3rd party software is open source). The Cortex M are less flexible then some competitors in their configuration, and designing good small CPU IP is doable at the low end. So all the small custom designers (Andes, BA semi, Cortus...) can rally around RISC V and have cheap and flexible design, with a good shared software ecosystem. Today it's still one or the other.

At the high-end it's very different. To be competitive one has to take advantage of the latest process nodes, and work well ahead of time with fabs and EDA vendors on the next node(s). This is highly labor intensive, and it takes deep pockets and a lot of resources. ARM is already there, and well entrenched. Getting enough money to replicate this on the RISC V side will take a loooooong while, if it ever happens. Unless a deep pocketed company decides to use RISC V and go their own way, but it seems very unlikely. Look at how even Qualcomm reduced its work on custom ARM cores for their high end, and now do tweaks on ARM designs.

But personally I'm fine with this. It's mostly at the low end / embedded that I feel there's a need for more competition.
AI could keep fighting, and replicating more weapons, long after humans are dead.
"It hasn't really mattered how well I could frame productivity or measurable improvements in my quality of life"

First, your quality of life isn't really a selling point from employers point of view. To raise your odds at negotiations you should focus solely on the employers problems. The same applies when selling something - you should not focus on the benefits that you as a seller get (like money), but on the problems that get solved from the employer.

Secondly, focusing on raw productivity on alone seems to be quite a common thing on these discussions. I think it is quite limited viewpoint, since a ton of other things matter as well in addition to productivity. Communication with others, spreading your knowledge, trust issues, where to focus, etc.
Let passionate people be passionate, but there is no reason to accept immature and toxic behavior. I won't answer the rest, because I believe your opinion is stupid :)
whaa whaa whaa. This is nothing more than a hype article because NY is butthurt that it lost Amazon. "Silicon Alley", that's a joke. Your going to compare a single street to an entire state sized area of the Bay? LOL. NY has tech jobs rooted in old fashioned ways of making money - nothing interesting and very little actual innovation. It's just basic automation of number crunching, primarily to keep up with the guy next door whom automated the number crunching. That's not innovation or inspiration.
NY is not a tech town.

Google is not tech, it’s advertising. Amazon is a mail-order company. Uber is a taxi company. Stop calling “tech” technology. The revenue generated by those companies is not the technology itself.

A semiconductor fab, a satellite construction facility, a defense contractor; those are “tech”.

/rant
ICBMs stand for InterContinental ballistic missile. Intercontinental being the key word. Last I checked both china and japan were on the same continent.
I know this is probably more specific to devs, but what if you could work on an open source issue, get paid for it, and that also counts as an application to that company?
My dream for how to make money with open source is to create some software that is useful to people and then have a subset of my users pay me to implement, modify or maintain it for their specific purposes (example: "My accounting department would like quick books integration I'll pay you to add it in"). Given that i'd be the creator I should be the worlds foremost expert on it by default. Maybe that's naive?
I've pretty much gotten remote from my last two jobs. I was a full time employee for at least one year before i negotiated remote. I worked my ass off for the first year and proved that i was a valuable employee, negotiating for remote was made easy by that. I just asked my manager both times during our one on one meeting. No company likes letting valuable employees go, if you can prove that you can be just as productive as a remote worker, maybe by having a "trial" period, then i think your manager will be ok with it.
he just said its not worth it and as a developer if i could chose that i develop on the platform that will run my code i will chose it even if its slightly more expensive. granted that on both i could be same level of productive.

we had those problems when developing in scripting language on windows a code that will run on linux because at some point we needed something that called native and would make us problems with different behavior. after some of that experience we tried to get everybody the same environment that is close to what will run in production.
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I'm the only remote engineer at my company, which has over 100 engineers. I'm also one of the more senior engineers. I told the company that I was moving closer to family (for medical reasons) and asked if I could continue working remotely. So far its been great. I've been more productive then ever. I did go back to individual contributor from team lead for a few months but now I'm back to leading a very small team.

So the steps for me were.
1) Establish myself as a valuable asset over several years at the company
2) Move closer to family and ask if I could work remotely
3) Work really hard to establish communication lines and insert myself into the same conversations that I would have been included in at the office.
"But where does Firefox get its money from? Google. Google gets its money from ads."

That's so overly simplistic. Google tries to spy on everything you do. Mozilla limits their ad revenue to an activity where people are actually looking for something by giving info to a third-party, surveillance (err search) service. They also let you easily change it with a private one built in. They're also owned by a foundation aimed at doing good vs a publicly-traded company that seems to get more evil over time.

So, using and investing in Firefox exposes you to less risk, creates less evil in short/long term, and possibly does more social good. It's an objectively better choice for folks concerned about surveillance-based businesses.
Your ability to self-host is not affected at all. But self-hosting is getting more and more rare as few people have the resources (both financial and time-wise) to set up their own site and administrate it. Also, it is much more difficult to be discovered when not on a site with large user count. So the first szenario is absolutely possible.

The second szenario puts you at a huge risk. You would have to review every single submission to your site for copyrighted material. This means you can accept like 1 submission per day? And still you would have to make sure (and bear the whole financial risk if wrong), that the submission is completely legal.

This might work in a very few specific szenarios, but you could not run a site like a photography forum. If users have the ability to upload content, starting with their writing but even more so when uploading photographs. There is simply no way for the site administrator to find out whether the uploader holds the copyrights to the uploaded photograph. If the uploader does not, you are liable for the copyright violation.

In the end, even hacker news probably becomes unavailable in Europe. If a user would paste a newspaper article into a comment, hacker news could be sued for this copyright violation.
The backlash was mostly about the tax breaks and government subsidies that would have been given. The argument was that New York is New York and doesn’t need to bribe companies to put big offices here.
I don’t think they’ve ever had a policy about whether apps could / couldn’t re-create their own menus or windows.
There was a time after Mathematica too, and for most people it was very similar to the time before Mathematica.
> It is almost as if web development has forked into two paths, one path being div soup bloat and the other being increasingly more complex build tools to arrive at the logical arrival of css in js.

css in js will not save you from div bloat.

Div bloat exists because CSS+HTML are horrendously bad at actual layout. For any sufficiently complex component you'll have div soup, and newer CSS features reduce the bloat only ever so slightly.

> nobody is giving up on the hacks

New frameworks have very few if any hacks leftover from the browser wars. The framework discussed here uses flexbox almost exclusively. It doesn't mean you don't need dozens of other hacks to display anything more complex that text.

> once the good stuff has been discovered and the evergreen friendly stuff learned there is no going back to div soup and the working methods that go with it.

Yeah, no. Div soup is here to stay, because it's literally the only foundational layout element of HTML.
If reading to my children reduces aggregate demand for audiobooks, and therefore could impact interstate market prices, is reading to my children interstate commerce?
The dirty secret of boom cities is that they exist not based on what they make, but by fleecing rubes traveling there to make it rich.

Stay in your own hometown, and you find every market is already taken, and for you to pay your bills you have to take from someone whose established.

All this is a magnet to draw out people who could be dangerous. Those who made it faced much greater adversity than you can imagine. Those who police an increasingly apathetic and violent humanity deserve praise.

You have everything you need already to bring humanity forward. Use your mind and harness the highest standard of knowledge of those who came before. You owe it to them.
He's quoting The Office

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K-L9uhsBLM
Vpn + brave browser in tor tab should offer some relief. Facebook is an oppressor and silences speech they don't like. So mileage may very.
I'll try it! Thanks for the info.
I would agree that we didn't need to bend to their every whim. We could probably have given them no incentives or token incentives and still won the HQ2 deal. There was a time to do that -- when we were making the proposal, not after it was already agreed to by both sides.

But that isn't the my argument -- my argument is that the entire rhetoric is nonsensical. My shock is the dual narrative on "tech pays too much -- down with tech" "tech pays too little -- down with tech." This reeks of false excuses and clinging to some mythical perfect that doesn't exist and isn't driven by tech.

Inter-city import of workers is also non-sensical.

Finally, that the exit of 25,000 high paying jobs could be seen as some sort of victory is also alarming. NYC has really never recovered from the 2008 crash when ~500,000 well paying finance jobs were compressed/reduced/automated. NYC needs those jobs and the ecosystem they would create.

EDIT: In response to the citation request, i'll look for it. But rough numbers are: several broker dealers disappeared all together - Lehman, Bears, Merrill. UBS' building in Stamford is practically empty now. Legions of contractors, not on employee payroll but still working there, were also let go.

Their books of business were absorbed but the staff were mostly redundant. Secondly, 2008 was used (wisely) to compress unnecessary workers -- tons of stuff that used to be done by teams got automated by software.

As an example, i saw our own market data teams go from ~20 in 2006 --> 7 in 2010--> 2 in 2014 as more and more APIs and standardized software took over rote tasks like pulling market data, creating curves, etc. Other examples include Fax --> DTCC econfirm for operational work. Tear-ups for redundant contracts (e.g., TriOptima and other platforms.) Custom trade platforms per-firm cant compete in most cases to straight out of box Bloomberg POMS/AIM and again, technology made things more efficient.
You should first ask yourself if it's really true.

Being one of a company's only remote workers can be a terrible experience. What you gain in focus may easily be lost in terms of missed communications, being left out of spontaneous meetings, etc.

Also, depending on how far you live, missing out on company events. That can negatively impact your level of engagement with the company, which could also hurt your productivity.
> That's an entire enormous segment of the industry and it's nearly 100% (or entirely 100%?) literally develop-on-x86-deploy-on-ARM.

I'm not sure I agree with. My coding environment is on x86, and I build on x86, but my Run/Debug cycle is on ARM. No one is really encouraged to test on the simulator even though it's available, you are almost entirely asked to test on your actual arm device and run it and see the results of your work.

Linus is making the argument that people want their release builds to run in the same environment as their daily test builds, and I don't see smartphone development as an exception to that rule.
> Yet it seems only Heinz can sell ketchup

60% marketshare in the US rather strongly indicates other people can, in fact, sell ketchup.

> the question is why.

I suspect their continued dominance is a result of marketing plus the effect of expectations of consistency leveraging past dominance.
CA is the home of so many venture capitalists and hence Silicon Valley because non compete clauses are declared null and void in the State constitution.
"I'm thinking pay should be based on productivity and value to the company instead of value to me."

Value produced is the upper cap of the pay, the lower cap is dictated by how much competition there is on the market. The employer can look at it like buying any other kind of service. If you work remotely, you compete with all the freelancers/contractors around the world. If the company values local employees, and you can work locally at the office, there is much less competition for that kind of position.
There really are android phones running Intel atom CPUs. Can’t recall models off the top of my head but adding x86 support was a thing we had to do.
Not in my experience, so far.
> Wolfram thinks he's the smartest person on the planet when he's objectively not.

That was definitive. How is he objectively not? How are you defining the smartest person on the planet. By what criteria?
Well unless you plan to read their future marketing emails you've "screwed" them anyway, leaving the email or not.
The finance industry loves deep neural networks because it provides them a way to extract money from all of the naive tech engineers who took a deep learning class on Coursera and thought they could apply neural networks to trading. The general consensus is that deep learning for general trading purposes is complete bullshit because it unavoidably overfits.

There are some quality uses for NN, but price or volatility prediction is not one of them.
IMHO, I think the translation "life is suffering" is inaccurate enough to be particularly negative/nihilistic. Though, maybe "pain is an inescapable part of life" is too much the other way, not sure.

"Life is dukkha" seems to mean so much more than that. Especially as the Buddha expounds on multiple types of Dukkha, only one of which is suffering/pain. The other two, being impermanence and conditioned states.
Part of their rationale is explained in their FAQ: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq#why-http%3F-doesn't-http-...
My work laptop is a very fast upper end macbook and I can somewhat reliably run Firefox on that. My personal laptop is an older macbook pro retina model and whenever I use firefox on that it gets incredibly slow and from time to time the computer just freezes for 20-40 seconds. So, sadly, I can't use firefox on that.

At one point someone on HN posted a link to the bug report on mozilla's bug tracker about this issue with retina macbooks. Does anyone have that link? I can't find it.
Cost of living adjusted pay is a fact of life and you will struggle to find a firm that does not do it. GitLab the company has a cool salary calculator so you can at least see exactly how they do it. No one wants to be paid less for the same work, but if you take a small pay cut and are putting more money in the bank every month, is it a pay cut? :)
It would genius of Apple to simply own this phenomenon.

Want an iPod/iPhone like phenomenal opportunity?

Go all in on ARM chips and ship out MacBooks with next gen performance. Alongside, develop server grade ARM chips and make it easy for the army of devs weilding the shiny Macs to deploy straight to it.
Impress with performance - you get to take the cake and eat it too.

I doubt an operation guy like Tim Cook will understand such a strategy.
"ssh and develop there" is so painful. Linus' cross-development argument pretty much applies 1:1.
Just as a sidenote: In Computer Graphics (and according to Grassmann's law) colour is a three dimensional quantity.
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Your argument is that Silicon Valley is an economical place to do business relative to NYC and that New York, with its centuries long history of immigrants turning up with nothing and “making it,” don’t take risks? Tell me more. :-)
Are there new proteins this lets them make? How does this translate to rna? The cell’s messenger molecule.
Iron is the most abundant element on Earth. The likes of platinum or gold are significantly more expensive (and not just because of scarcity: they have useful electrical/thermal/mechanical properties).
Only 1 mention of pBase in this thread so far, I really liked this idea of having a database of people, I'm wondering if someone has solved this problem already?
Sometimes it just takes a long time for something to sink in. That doesn't mean one doesn't understand the concept, or accepts a statement as being true before that deeper understanding is found - as evidenced by your example.

It is probably a very common phenomenon.

I have doubts with your neural net analogy. Probably it's running similarly the whole time, but occasionally finds a better/faster/more optimal way to process data. Your brain is probably working exactly as it should.

Don't be embarrassed, be happy you improved and look forward to the next improvement.

EDIT: forgot to answer the question; how to cope!
I use a simple rule of thumb; if one person makes a statement, I listen. If a second person makes the same statement, I think. If three or more people make the same statement, I accept it and trust understanding will follow. Unless, of course, the statements are verifiable false...
I can't tell if that's put up as parody or not.

Either way, whatever point is intended, it doesn't justify the video length.
Poland AND Italy who both have (being polite) "Populist" govts installed (undermining democracy in polands case), working to help youtube and facebook, which have been shown to be valuable tools of indoctrination and false information spreading for "populists"...

Who'd have thunk that!!
Outrage culture is out of control
Sketchup [0] has a free version for personal use

[0] https://www.sketchup.com/
That seems to be a very clear first amendment violation to me. Isn't the primary purpose of the first amendment to allow criticism of government?
Yeah but the difference is when you work remote, you can use that other 40% of your time to:

- run errands

- do the laundry

- hit the gym for a while

- cook a tasty lunch or even dinner for later.

Whereas in the office, you just use that time for chitchat, HN/reddit, wondering around etc.

And I'm not a reclusive jerk, I like my coworkers and I do enjoy it when we meet up in person, but I don't need to see them every day. We have a short voice call most days, and we catch up irl possibly 6-12 times a year which is already more than I see some of my friends who live further away.

Honestly there's just so much more time in the day for my personal hobbies and activities that I don't think I could ever go back to on site, or even full-time/more than 4 days/week for that matter.
Right. I have Firefox configured to delete all cookies when I close it. And it only accepts 3rd-party cookies from sites that I've already visited during a session.
There's a comparison between the two from the Matrix team's point of view in their FAQ: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq#what-is-the-difference-be...
Hey, another fan of your site. Thanks for simplicity of your site!
If your work defines who you are, then sure. I don't trade as a purpose for my life...I trade to make money, full stop.
Also I think it gos quite case by case. Some employees can be seen as more trustworthy than others, and with others remote work can work better than with others for other reasons.
I've been remote for 4 years and it all started at a company who didn't have a remote culture, but my boss wasn't too worried about me going remote.

I was on a software team for 2 months before finding out I needed to move. I told my boss I had to move in 4 months, but I really wanted to keep my position and wanted to switch to working remotely. More than half of the engineering team at the time was offshore; however, they were all in an office with close communication with the higher-ups there. My boss basically said to me that he'd been working with remote folks for his entire career and if the other engineers had no problem with it, he didn't see an issue either.

4 years later I'm still remote and I couldn't be happier. Not at that same company, but at a new remote position.

The offshore team, previous bias to remote employees, and potentially the need to keep me onboard to get shit done for cheap helped me here. There were other employees who inquired about going remote, but they were turned down - one even needed to move for their SO (same as my case), so they ended up leaving the company when they moved.

It's really hit or miss unless you find a remote position where the company expects you to be remote right off the bat or you just get lucky and your boss trusts you to switch. Just remember that trust goes both ways - if your company doesn't trust you, maybe don't trust that you'll retire there. Going remote is a great way to test both sides of trust.
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To my mind Phobos is the obvious starting point: all the advantages of an asteroid, but as close as Mars.
Given the withdrawal of Amazon, didn't that invalidate the argument?
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That doesn't necessarily mean they are willingly blocking linux, I've seen inconspicuous user agent strings triggering 502 errors before. It's just badly written code.
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For some context on "what Niko presented at the Conj",

https://2018.clojure-conj.org/nikolas-gobel/

which is a reactive Datalog implementation built over differential dataflow. The .. um reported anxiety that to add new queries requires a recompile loop, replaying all of history, etc, suggests maybe they aren't entirely on top of how the system works.

Edit: and again tomorrow at clojureD:

https://clojured.de/schedule/#nikolasGoebel
It's not ala-carte. You pay your subscription fee and get unlimited access to all features. If you start to use more resources than is reasonable, I'll shoot you an email and talk about it. It doesn't sound like you would, though.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy#Humans

Although I have my doubts that this is what the mystics you're referring to are talking about.
A Ted talk about what is wrong with Ted talks. Amazing.
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