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The chapters on the USA in history books of 2030 are going to be so heavy to read:

<< Chocked by 9/11, they decided to implicitly discard the Habeas Corpus by installing the Patriot Act and officially autorize torture. A temporary measure that never got revoked.

Then, they went to war on the other side on the globe, spending a trillion of dollars, against the UN vote, lying about WMD.

Meanwhile, they setup mass surveillance of their own people, and ruthlessly attacked the ones speaking against it.

They elected Bush twice, and Trump, reinforcing every day anti-intellectualism, fear, agressivity and violence as part of the country culture. The medias, including news outlets and tv shows, followed since this is what brought the biggest audience.

Injustice rose. While the poor had a hard time even getting decent health treatment or diet and the black community compose most inmate population, milked by a privatized social system, the powerful are exonerated from accountability: rogue cops are not condamned, the Panama papers lead to nowhere, Esptein died in prison, brankrupt giants are bailed out with peoople's money and Trump was never impeached, staying the center of attention.

Finally, the covid-19 outbreak stuck the country in recession, rendering tens of millions of people incapable of producing revenue, tanking the oil price, and elevating social tensions. >>

Since the US peace keepers seems to have a licence to kill, this is not going to end well.

I'm glad I'm in Europe watching the show from afar. You have all my compassion.
I have firsthand experience with this, albeit not at Intel. Several known positive cases have appeared Samsung's fab in Austin. Samsung mandates they not return and quarantine at home.

Before any of that, I'd already decided back in early March—when it became clear that things were more serious than people had been taking everything—that I'd stick around until we either temporarily shut down or when the reported cases start getting too close for comfort.

A few weeks ago I sat down in the morning to find another company-wide email sent out at 9:00PM the night before (don't know why they hadn't also forwarded a copy of this one to my personal inbox that I could access from home, as with the ones before). In this case, symptoms were reported 4 days before, and now with confirmation having tested positive. This time it was on my floor, not far from where I sit in our open office. I sent an email that I was leaving and would not be returning for at least two weeks and pending further info about any spread. That was a Friday. I got fired over email (although not in those terms) at the end of the day the following Monday:

Although you did not resign failure to report to your scheduled shift(s) has been taken as a voluntary resignation. We have gone ahead and ended your assignment for you. Please do not report back to the SAS site as your assingment here is done.

This was all within the last two weeks. At the time, our group had been doing a piss poor job of observing both company and local rules about distancing. It had been less than a week since people around me had finally gotten moved to different workstations. It wasn't an availability problem, because (a) half the office was already a ghost town due to select folks ordered to work from home, and (b) the rest of the company had been been working spread out for something like a month already—but not our group.

At the beginning of April, we were supposed to get a scheduled payout for earned PTO, but we received an email that due to COVID they were actually going to delay the payout. I had to jump through a lot of hoops alternately taking on extra days that I wasn't ordinarily scheduled and taking off other days to burn the PTO to give the effect of getting the payout for the hours I'd accrued.
>In that topic, is Facebook still toxic to SWEs?

Better phrased would be is Facebook still toxic? If a company is toxic to one group, it is toxic for all even if they don't suffer directly, they are definitely enabling.
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Intel is literally on an older fabrication process right now, they’re on 10nm while AMD is on 7nm. They’re objectively behind.
Is developer pay in Cyprus and Malaysia really so great, or do a few digital nomads just have their lives really well optimized?
I've been wondering a lot about that as well. It seems to me it may be a combination of factors.

1) New York was the area hardest it, it got hit initially, it has incredibly high concentration of people, and since it got hit early we had the least amount of information about the virus. Because of the small geographic area, high population density, and quick spike of infections you get a subset of hospitals strained for resources in that area, but not the whole nation. Similar to pulling a hose and it gets caught on something which makes it harder to pull, it isn't there isn't enough slack in the hose, it is that there isn't enough slack in the hose at one spot.

2) There has been a heavy politicization of the whole 'Rona situation and so different factions are either trying to downplay it, or exacerbate it to try and score political points.

3) Fear gets more clicks than, sunny day stories.

4) Pushing an over the top message of worry may convince people to be more cautious who otherwise wouldn't be. Like if you want a 3% raise, you don't go in and ask your boss for a 3% raise, ask him for 5% or 7% that way he can negotiate you down to a 3% and still feel like he won, and kept you for less than you wanted and you still get what you wanted.

5)There is an alternative possiblity. There is a grand conspiracy by either, the deep state, the Illuminati, the elite, the superwealthy, secret neo-Nazis, the Communists, the bicoastal liberal elite, the CIA, to kill people by the millions using COVID-19 and it turns out the conspiracy is really bad at it.

EDIT:

I also want to make clear I don't want to downplay the situation of various healthcare workers who have been heroically making sacrifice. I believe many of them are honestly expressing their opinion and are worried about PPE or other issues, and may have experienced it; however there are probably hundreds of thousands of people involved in the New York healthcare system, if only 1% of 100,000 people feel overwhelmed at some point and post a video, or send a tweet about it that is 1,000 stories, but may not represent a consensus view.
Take a long view.AMD and others suffered through the 45nm delays at TSMC and they benefit from the acceleration currently.

Intel is a very odd company, and for all that there are truly brilliant people there, it feels increadingly like IBM of 2003.
I wonder about other people in their households, who may be going outside more or even working.
Trump suggests all sorts of things, often directly contradictory, or contradicted shortly thereafter by his own experts. I'm not sure why you'd put any stock in those suggestions at this point.
Alice was about subject matter, not novelty. The Alice game was drafting/amending claims to look more like a machine. I talk about it more below in my response to your other comment.

Often that can be accomplished by including claim language that doesn't limit the novel aspects of the invention. In other words, prior art is not a really a consideration when getting over a 101 rejection.
The main reason might be because the current government is republican and this forum is mainly democrat but that is just a guess... The admins also manipulate posts, votes and front page visibility so it is hard to say for sure.
You know that is not an article but discussion about emails from emacs development list, right?
You probably can't subscribe to the average streamer with zero viewers: you need to an "affiliate" or "partner" with Twitch for that to be an option.
Totally agree. There is risk of death but also risk of failure(recession, medical issues, etc...) and the risk/reward analysis goes downhill fast as you age. I was on track for FIRE. Then the great recession happened and that became semi-on track. Then I got married to someone who wasn't FIREing and had a kid. Game over. I'm now too old(late 30s). The guaranteed hardships required to achieve FIRE are totally not worth it for the potential extra years of retirement. For a few decades of retirement as a recent grad, yea. For a few extra years of retirement as a married with kids, nope. I can't subject my kid to that, and the payoff is too little, too late, too uncertain. We're focusing on living our best life now, and if I manage to achieve some degree of FIRE by virtue of high salary and not being wastefull then yay, bonus. If not, oh well. The transition from FIRE lifestyle to living our best life now lifestyle has been fantastic, joyful, and totally life altering.
World history doesn't match your statement... The west rose on the backs of those two nations...both by direct and indirect resource, knowledge, and labor theft.
“ Bouncers are hard to configure. I felt that we needed an easier one in this world.” - initially i wanted to be a smartass and point out that a psyBNC can easily be installed and configured, only to realise the latest paybnc release appears to be as old as 2005! How time flies! Will give this project a go. Generally speaking I think IRC should be revived as an in-house chat solution for privacy aware teams, and the CTCP protocol extended to allow for web audio and video chat.
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The way some emulator use the gpu can be quite different from the way pc games use it.

You can look at this article:
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/
for an example how console graphics programming differ.

Middleware designed for games don't allow nearly enough flexibility to handle all the possible edge case that can arise. Console gpu (and graphics api) and computer gpu don't map one-to-one and they need all the feature and support from the underlying api that they can get for replicating the console way of doing things, supporting a new graphics backend is a lot of work for this reason.
middleware try to abstract common pattern and flows, but every console is quite unique (in some way) middleware are not build for that and often are (a form of) a lowest common denominator for graphics api. Which is fine... for games.

edit: some clarification
Science is rejected when it's not woke enough for the neo-Liberals
> Are there analogous feelings in other creative pursuits you practice?

Not exactly a “creative pursuit” but often with legal work it takes years for any sort of feedback on a document’s effectiveness. Sometimes you’re alerted to a potential issue and your first thought is “yikes, there’s no way I drafted for that”. Much like coding it’s always a good feeling when you go back and see that you had contemplated the weird scenario and drafted accordingly.

I’ll admit it feels a bit more “magical” when it happens in my code though. I think perhaps because the stakes are lower so I can appreciate the work instead of feeling like I’ve dodged a bullet.
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That quote is probably right out of a business school textbook.

Any Apple customer will tell you they "benefit" from spending all their computer and phone money with Apple. Apple trying to build a moat around their ecosystem doesn't preclude mutual benefit.
Note that this the the co founder of the CTO of the company that was acquired, not of the company that owned the copyright at the time. Edit: Or at least not the CTO of the company that owned the company... I'm not clear on what the subsidiary corporate structure here looks like.

I remain skeptical... but it's important to get the facts right.
Something like 80-90% of the deaths in some states are age 80+ and or at communal living situations. Is there a takeaway here, about more surgically precise lockdowns?

Also, many projections appear to predict spread uniformly. Should spread be modeled more by frequency of travel and interaction, moreso assuming that people with frequent interactions are likely to be infected first?

There has to be a way to model, predict, and account for the ebb and flow of which demographics are getting hit, and how to shape the spread with regard to capacity and risk. Hospitals are empty, open the gates a bit. Opening up restrictions on the lowest risk populations first, and tightening them back up as cases rise too fast. This would likely be predicated on a stronger welfare state, more equipped to serve people they are asking to stay locked down. "Stay inside, but we got your back" coupled with "your risk is low, go build herd immunity, stay away from the vulnerable."

Maybe something like a pollen or wildfire indicator, or defcon, county by county. "Free to do anything. Slightly elevated risk. High risk quarantine. Quarantine for all" with week by week or day by day updates. I understand that such a volatile type of lockdown would be hard for businesses to adapt to.
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Worth checking out if only for the Zoom video background
I liked Fabien's old site. With the images that faded in when you moused over them, to give you some idea of what a given article was about before you clicked on it. I don't remember it as being particularly slow to load, though I wasn't timing it or anything.
Not a big deal, I doubt I'm conscious of the design of a blog for more than a second or two after I load it, but not sure the change is an unalloyed good.
An example of bias sampling? Better to stratify geographical regions.
I can speak only about our smallish datacenter (1TB Core Bandwidth concurrent) and we definitely have been moving towards more AMD in the past year or two. Currently we have roughly a 60/40 AMD/Intel split on new machines.
Someone in the PR department and part of the response team just smiled in appreciation of your comment. "Job well done" they think to themselves.
Assume positive intent is one of the most important ideas for teams. Especially right now when we are never in the same room and many of the non-verbal communication clues are gone. I also like heroic courage - never thought of it in a developer context but it totally makes sense. Cool article.
This topic is quite upsetting. I wonder if there is a technological solution. Perhaps some sort of volunteer-run citizens surveillance network that uses sensor fusion to collect and monitor police actions leading up to and during confrontation in detail. Could that help make stronger cases against brutality?
My sister is a DA so I hear the other side of this. Police are people and they can get scared, angry, and make mistakes.

Deaths at the hands of police are always horrible but an important message that is not broadcast clearly enough in every community is... NEVER RESIST ARREST!

Never! When a police officer instructs you to do something just do it. If you disagree with the order there is a mechanism to voice that disagreement called the court.

If you defy a police directive they will use rapidly escalating force to make you comply that can endanger your life.

This used to be pretty well understood and I think we need better public communication about this. We also need to make sure the courts are more accomodating to underprivileged communities because if people don't believe the courts are fair then disputes are going to get settled in the street with violence.

EDIT: On the other side I believe if a police officer contributes to the death of someone in the line of duty they need to surrender their badge, even if they played by the rules. If the other person loses their life you should at least lose your job. That kind of incentive might discourage some of the cowboy culture on their side that's not helping here.
You're giving Intel a little too much credit. They're only "on 10nm" for tiny, low-power laptop chips. The yields are reportedly still too low to use it for desktop or server CPUs.

Meanwhile in a couple of months AMD will be on 7nm+

(However, it should be said that Intel 10nm is roughly equivalent to TSMC 7nm in terms of density. AMD is still ahead but not by as much as the numbers would imply).
Screw it I'll give this a try! Streaming right now :) https://www.twitch.tv/redskyforgeradio
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I worked at Intel in a fab for 2 years. The culture is extremely safety conscious, if not safety obsessed. The moto is Safety, Quality, Output, in that order. In my experience, Intel strives to create an environment in which workers are safer at work than at home.
some numbers are really off Ukraine is over 100k
Hasn't it already been pretty V-shaped? Sure some sectors are going to get hit harder than others but markets are already back to levels from a year ago
There is only a single chart for Walmart. All other platforms are discussed with no numbers and no sources beyond "our ecommerce analysis platform" and the vague description of analyzing "millions of data points".

Not having heard of this company, I can only take their analysis with the same grain of salt that I would with other 'market research' firms that don't have access to actual transaction data or don't conduct surveys with representative samples of sellers.
If I smiled every time you mentioned you have a terminal illness that I have a cure for and stand to financially benefit from, Yes, you should be suspicious about what I'm up to.
The Future of Business in the Post-Covid-19 World
>OR they decided not to apply (due to receiving stimulus / severance).

Does receiving either prevent you from getting unemployment? If not, why would you turn down free money?
May I kindly ask, why do you feel the need to jump out and defend the human species as also being good in the face of what is described in the article?

I am genuinely interested in understanding what motivates this reaction.
Meanwhile AMD & TSMC are talking about 5nm for their Zen 4 architecture.
I didn't say flatly that it can't happen. I said it can't happen at any appreciable distance. Obviously, if someone sneezes in your mouth your going to get sick.
A curve was trending exponential, and flattened with lockdown. What's the alternate scenario for what caused the curve to flatten?
I think there was/is near-infinite money available for Covid-related projects, and spending was more limited by identifying them or bureaucracy or political will. I don't think we would have taken the $660mm and spent in on PPE without this hospital construction; instead, our national debt would just be that much lower.
Any site that tracks the "score" of your contributions and then makes your "score" visible on most pages is going to be about winnings whether that's the stated goal or not. That is a textbook way to gamify things.

Obviously this applies more to comments than to submissions but the comments are a large part of the user experience here so whether HN is "based on this premise of winning" boils down to a question of the importance of the comment section.
Totally not a molecular biologist, virologist, etc.

Influenza is smaller about 13K nucleotides vs 30K for corona, it mutates about 4 times faster. It can maintain its larger genome basically because it has better tech. (It seems to better integrate with what it can find in host cells.)

"We demonstrate here, at the molecular level, that CoVs have indeed acquired an enzyme able to enhance the overall fidelity, and that this event might have directly promoted the jump in size of CoV genomes"

"Well before the discovery of nsp14-ExoN in the large Nidovirales genomes (22), this observation led to Drake’s visionary proposition that “RNA viruses would have to acquire several host genes and adapt them to RNA substrates to achieve a major reduction in spontaneous mutation rate. The result would be a substantial increase in genome size” "

https://www.pnas.org/content/115/2/E162

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/GenomesGroup.cgi?taxid=...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/1798174254

"Specifically, SARS-CoV-2 seems to have a mutation rate of less than 25 mutations per year, whereas the seasonal flu has a mutation rate of almost 50 mutations per year."

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-mutation-rate.html
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>One key thing to note: Ubuntu isn’t seeing a 599 percent increase in additional users. That jump represents its increase in overall operating system market share from month to month. But it’s still an astonishing number

So... a whole bunch of servers using Ubuntu got fired up?
What's awful are those bad days when it's actually hours and hours of feeling like an idiot, draining you away, and then when you figure it out you still feel like an idiot because first off it was so simple and second of all solving something in minutes is not going to wash away hours of feeling like an idiot.

Luckily as I have gotten older I have gotten fewer and fewer of those days.
Truly disabled, or in the Software Controlled state?
or .. the numbers were wrong and we never needed half these facilities, or to bring the world economy to a grinding halt. Our European counterparts are probably fine, but low-income Americans have lost a lot.. more than we can repay.
Managing Humans by rands https://managinghumans.com/

There is not a better book on managing software engineers than this imo.
Authoritarianism is a specific thing. It doesn't mean just "very controlling", but to have a single centralized center of government that can abridge political freedoms. As an example, an early post-Roman Brittanic king would have been classed Authoritarian because they are a centralized point of control with no senate or alderman structure.

Yes there was a small period in the 19th century where we had kings who had market economies but they typically had senates which contained most of the power and were generally just figureheads.

A corporation can't keep you from voting. It doesn't prevent you from donating money to your favorite political candidate, or telling your neighbors about it.

On the other hand as an example of authoritarianism, Xi Jinping has literally removed the ability for Chinese people to select someone else as their leader. Even their ability to elect non-CCP parties depends on his approval.

Socialism depends on cohesion. You can't have 40% of the country riot because you won't be able to maintain services, whereas capitalist economies tend to survive such upsets quite well. You don't usually see mass political actions shut towns down in the US. That's part of why authoriarianism is attractive to socialist countries because it's one way of maintaining cohesion. Unfortuntely, it works because you remove the rights of people.
Theres many ways to do that without unlimited downside. Buy long dated puts. If you really think the DOW will hit 7000, then buy gold because everything will crumble. What bad news do you expect to cause the market to decrease by 70%? States are opening up with success and even South Dakota who did absolutely nothing seems to be doing pretty well
Experiments in online teaching with TeXmacs (drawings)
That's what they said about of all the elements of the currently deployed tower of mitigations. It's better to replace unsafe codecs with sound implementations, we've known how to do that for a long time after all.
>> New York state is far larger than the city.

I used to live in new england. No part of NY is further than a few hours drive from any other part of the state, especially during lockdown traffic. The Stony Brook facility was on Long Island, only a 60-mile drive from downtown NYC. An ambulance/bus in a hurry could easily make the drive in under an hour.