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Hey, at least they didn't call it Millennium Bridge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London#Reso...
What did I just read? An ex-Amazon employee 'lashing out' by saying that regulators should break up Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, then leave Amazon alone because they will probably 'do the right thing' by spinning-off AWS? That Big Tech shouldn't exist, however, Jeff Bezos is a rounding error? It really sounds like he got paid to write this.
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You should look at this from the point of view of a simple citizen.

The old government (king and families) capitulated and some fled. So the country was left on the mercy of the fascists. The people self-organized and self-liberated their country. Those who were the true leaders of this fight, got to lead the newly freed country in 1945. This is why people trusted all these leaders until they died. Tito was one of them but you have to have in mind it was a federation of several independent countries and each had their own local leadership, close to the people.

Unfortunately many of those who succeeded this initial leaders, and this occured during late 80ies and 90ies, in the end become too corrupt.

As for the socialism? All factories were owned by the people. All companies were owned by the people. Try to imagine that all workers in Google jointly owned Google and all major decisions (such as a new CEO, new politics, acquisitions etc) must be agreed upon by all workers (with a vote).

So, when someone preached that capitalism was better and more productive, he was essentially preaching to the workers that they should give away their own company to a single person that would benefit from their effort, or that their own company is stolen from them in the interest of a single person (or a handful of persons).

This system had many flaws and was not sufficently eficient to gain enough to support itself, but people were free. Had guaranteed jobs. Had guaranteed appartments when they formed their own families. Had guaranteed health care. Had guaranteed right of opinion (until they preached stealing other's property).
Very seldom is anything "always the case," and almost anything in the realm of drugs or similar interventions becomes bad if done in excess.
You had not talked to the locals, as they are in the concentration camps. You talked to those that the CCP transplanted there to slowly (meaning rapidly) dilute and replace the population with good comrades.
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maybe thats part of the problem, I recall a trend where employees bought out the company and ran it. Not sure what happened to it.
They have to carry lots of spare parts due to uniqueness of the plane. Replacement of tires is a routine job; much more cumbersome is her aircraft tow bar. It has to be unloaded from her prior to towing, but it can be unloaded only through the main cargo door. This is why Mriya may occupy the landing strip for half an hour before it can be towed. A major pain.
Was there a effort to make it cross platform, or just the tech that looked 386 only at the time like a MMU becoming more widespread (I remember a fail0verflow talk on ps4 linux a while back where they mentioned a MMU and clock as requirements to port Linux to an architecture)?
Top tier tech is competitive with finance in London (FB/goog/DM/palantir/apple) and probably less work than equivalent technical finance roles (Jane Street, 2sigma, GR etc). But things if you're in the top 20% of your cohort in finance the money gets sillier much faster as I understand it. Non-technical finance roles seem to pay barely minimum wage when you divide by the hours for the first few years.
As a customer I'm somewhat happy Intel finally pays for their anticompetitves practices (karma wise) but at the same time I'm worried about the US losing its advantage in chip manufacturing.

Do we know what really went wrong at Intel ? I know they made a big bet on a technology that didn't pay off. Is it that they just had no competition for years and became complacent ?

I also wonder how much TSMC will ask Intel to split the company to ensure that their process does not leak to the Intel side. There is probably lots of interesting details about what works you can obtain if you work closely with TSMC engineers.
"whether someone said something during their birth. Generally, people remember very little from their first years"

You're missing the context here. Babies don't understand speech, so it's not like words are going to matter.

And this has nothing to do with 'memories'.

Loud noises, unnatural humming sounds like vehicles, the constancy of it all - is highly unnatural.

The possibility that hormones can alter our development is implied in the article, it's not entirely unreasonable that other stressors can affect us as well.

We were 'designed' to come into a very quiet world (granted, it was a rugged place) but it was audibly very quiet.

Since all of us - adults, children, react in a variety of ways to sound (stressing, soothing etc.) I suggest that audio, in the very earliest phases of one's life can possibly be a stressor.
What you just read is an ex-Amazon employee who quite under protest over a principle and has since been hounded by reporters all trying to get him to say that Amazon or Jeff Bezos are the problem (and printing that even if he won't say it) when he actually believes that the entire system is the problem and that Amazon and Jeff Bezos are just symptoms. This essay was written in response to yet another reporter characterizing him as an "Amazon critic".
Apologies for misreading your comment, but you did describe a pizza cementing your view.

We all have cognitive biases, including the most intelligent, accomplished people anywhere.

Plenty of research shows that the placebo effect is a very real phenomenon (even when we are told we're being given a placebo pill it can still help!)

I wasn't trying to change your mind on anything covid related; just about how we all let anecdotes convince us of pre-existing beliefs.

And even if you personally didn't need that lesson, I still think it needed to be explained for anyone reading your comments considering their implication that a one off pizza event was enough to impact your views (even if that's not how you intended the comment to mean).

Edit to add: of course, the mechanisms behind cognitive biases can be helpful! If a doctor says X will help and then X does help, it's good that our brains automatically process that as being more likely true than if it hadn't worked. But they can be unhelpful, too.
Landlords only respond to the market, they don't make the market. In fact, they actually provide a service by increase the housing supply when the demand is there (assuming that new construction is allowed).
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So if the rental market became smaller. How would that help anyone? Would the tenants all go out and buy houses?
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Which one requires more focus on the notation?

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square x = x * x
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We were renting a house, and the land lord was playing games with mortgage. We kept getting notifications, It was insanely stressful.

One day the sheriff and bank came to “evict us” they were shocked to find the house was being rented out. Since we had lease, they couldn’t evict us. But still.

We ended up moving out a couple weeks later anyway. Bank paid us a good amount to leave. We were happy to get away from it all.
Glassdoor gives the following salary numbers for Google:
London: £65000 (=$83.7k)
Mountain View (CA): $145000

Both seem a little low; I'd expect a mid-level in London to be >£75k (~$100k). Less sure on the US salary; maybe >$155k?
Neither include equity, but I imagine they scale pretty similarly.

So a London dev at Google is looking at a loss of $70k per year compared to their SV colleague.

London isn't cheap. It may not be NYC or Bay Area levels, but you can't really escape it by commuting in. You're going to be competing with everybody else trying to do that and knocking £5-6k off your post-tax income, so I don't think it really comes out as "cheaper" to try that. I was estimating needing ~£1000 per month as basic living costs (rent + public transport, but not food) in shared accommodation when I was looking to move there (in the end I didn't, but not because of anything I've said here).

Edit: Fix bad maths in comparison
Sorry, but that fake news. The news is for manipulation of Taiwan stock market. TSMC dominated the Taiex index.

We are having a fun day on PTT. A popular Taiwan BBS frequent by lot of real TSMC engineers.

One example, https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Stock/M.1595925811.A.03E.html, people are poking fun with how only naive people(韭菜）believe the 5nm, 3nm cpu news.
So was I incorrect in my statementt that a minority of Americans own a gun.

And yes it is irrelevant. I do not control, perhaps do not even know what a roommate owns and vice versa. And that only pushed the needle up a but, to still being in the minority. You mention minorities? Gun owners are a minority
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The shareholders need to be put in the dark otherwise the stock would drop since there is a explicit short term pump and dump scheme. Surely it has to be at executive and board level to maximize bonuses not in the interest of the stock holders.
>As a consumer the result will be the same.

I don't think this is correct, because TSMC isn't so vertically integrated. There is not a "TSMC CPU" or GPU per se, they're providing a service to other businesses, not in direct competition with every other design. That doesn't mean there couldn't potentially be adverse results, but if so they'll probably be different adverse results since TSMC is entering more into a "basic infrastructure" role vs B2C. Chip design matters a lot to ultimate performance/efficiency, and fabless has promoted rather then reduced competition there. Their customers also have very deep pockets themselves, and TSMC has a lot to gain from keeping demand high with improvements.

In fact a potentially more worrisome aspect then any immediate competition threat is the sheer reduction in redundancy of critical production (as we've seen with hard drives and NAND production for example). TSMC has four of their 300mm gigafabs in Taiwan and a 5th in construction, and another four 200mm fabs. They've got a single 300m in China, and that's it for that size. They've got a 200mm in China, one in the US, and one in Singapore. A lot of capacity is in one small island.

Taiwan is on the ocean around the ring of fire. I know TSMC has of course done major disaster prep, but it's not impossible for the world to throw curveballs. Taiwan has had earthquakes in the last 100-someodd years up to magnitude 8.3, but only 7s for the last 50+ (the biggest more recent one for them I think was 1999). Of course construction codes (and major manufacturers even more so) take earthquake resistance into account. But what if there was a 9er and a typhoon say?

And of course there is geopolitics too, China has made no secret of its desire to retake Taiwan but haven't been taking recent actions to make it attractive and peaceful. And of course the very presence of so much critical-to-US production there enhances the risk (hope?) that yes, the US will in fact honor its defense agreement and cause the whole thing to get very hot.

So not that other fabs wouldn't be good for competition reasons too, but redundancy may be valuable in and of itself. However, if so it's not something the market can likely provide, the market tends to optimize out that kind of redundancy since it is by definition not efficient. Fabs represent enormous capital expenditure with long lead times that requires extremely large scale to operate profitably, so governments would probably have to step up and flat out pay for redundant capacity. And arguably should, but even at the government level $10-20b isn't nothing.
Like how the Swiss are considered the most civilized people in Europe ... until they go driving in Germany or go partying in Mallorca/Prague.
I think the question of "how much can it reason" can be made more specific as "how far away can it reason from the learned examples".

Increases in reasoning power should allow for much smaller usable models.
The increase in college tuition has been driven by the colleges’ boards of directors, comprised of corporate leaders who forced a move away from faculty governance by installing corporate management in university administration. Which demands C-level salaries.

In addition, you’ll find many of the board members come from the local construction companies, who then win the contracts for demolishing and constructing new university buildings.

In principal, this is all driven by the competition for consumers, I mean students, who are hyper-focused on college ranking prestige in the name of future employment with, well...
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Cancer, for example, has many treatment options available. So does a heart attack.

Besides, emergency conditions (being transported to the hospital in dire condition in an ambulance) are not at all where the vast bulk of health care is.
>From what I've seen, the best understanding right now is that the process is the smallest defensible unit of isolation.

In what scenario would you be more comfortable running a potentially malicious process versus a potentially malicious WASM code behind a API sandbox where you control the exposed APIs. Sure there are process level sandboxes but that seems like a much larger bug surface area with expertise outside of the domain of people building the apps, compared to a WASM sandbox with a host app defined bridge API.
“Could” is a pretty important word here. This estimate is from a survey of how people feel about their ability to pay rent. It’s not an actual estimate of the number of distressed tenants or the number of landlords looking to evict.

I would imagine there is plenty of uncertainty at the moment due to Congress being completely dysfunctional. But let’s say they pass an unemployment extension and send out another round of stimulus checks. What’s the next survey going to look like?
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Ledger CLI is wonderful. I've been using it for over a year for budgeting (via envelope-style virtual accounts) and keeping track of my family expenses.

The biggest advantage is that it's just a plain text. I can read it, I can store it in git, I can backup it. If I make an error, it's easy to fix with text editor I'm familiar with. In the beginning I changed my accounts naming scheme several times and it was super quick and easy with simple sed. Previously I used GNU Cash, which is another double-entry accounting program, and doing any bulk edits was a serious pain.
Sure, but the essence of the discovery, which is in fact far from trivial, is that it was found possible to perform calculations by manipulating written symbols themselves (i.e words) rather than using pebbles or an abacus. (This is by the way how mathematical notation began - as the means of reasoning by performing formal manipulations with marks on paper.)
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It's not just that you're not arguing it isn't useful; as far as I can tell, neither of your comments contain an argument against ML at all. I have nothing to meaningfully argue against.

ML is undergoing a Cambrian explosion of use-cases (see my prior comment), almost all of this over an incredibly small time period, progress is accelerating, and many of these use-cases are incredibly high value. Scale is not proving a major stopper; Google's MoE experiments show that huge models are productizable, and small models work plenty fine too in restricted places, to the point where they're literally used to parse touch screen sense data in phones.

If you want to claim we're in for another AI winter, you need a vastly stronger argument than ‘something something hype cycle’.
What can we say about the legions of engineers and scientists that work for these companies?
"Radiokomputer" in Polish Radio 4 did this in 80s and early 90s.

First they would speak about the software (usually a game or utility tools), then they would emit the code.

There was no copyright till 1992 (and in practice till late 00s), so people just recorded that, copied, and then sold or exchanged on open-air markets.

BTW that's how CD Projekt (creators of Witcher and Cyberpunk games) started - 2 school friends selling pirated games - but they were a little older so they got their games by paper-mailing people in the west and not from radio :)

I remember in early 90s exchanging cassettes by mail was the way to go for C64 hobbyst in Poland. People advertised on teletext or in computer press and then sent each other several cassettes with software and empty cassettes to be returned with new stuff. Often they added their small demo program with personal stuff at the beginning of the cassette - it was some random sid music, bouncing balls and scrolling text with greetings and sometimes insults towards Atari hobbysts :)

Piracy was the rule for at least the next decade despite the law change. Nobody I knew at school had original software till 00s.
I've seen anti-illegal-immigration sentiment, absolutely. But what was said was "anti-immigration", which is not at all the same thing.

Even if you think US border policy should be less strict/militarized, that isn't relevant to this discussion, as the number of undocumented migrants working in state-of-the-art chip design is approximately zero, and that's not because of their legal status, it is because skilled labor (which is obviously what is required for chip design/fab) is very capable of getting a visa to live in the US under the current (and previous) administrations.

In fact, the current administration has said repeatedly and explicitly that they do not want to curb legal immigration, only undocumented/illegal migration.
That isn't the only such phrase in it.

As a general rule, people use such phrases to cover for a weak, poorly argued case. It's a tell.

It's like what a lawyer told me once:

1. If the law is on your side, argue the law.

2. If justice is on your side, argue for justice.

3. If neither the law nor justice is on your side, call the other party names.

Yet I did read the whole article, and found it weak and poorly argued. His specific point about vomit was also weak and poorly argued, as I pointed out.

A word to the wise - if you want thoughtful people to read an article, don't use such phrases. I'm hardly the only person to point this out.
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No need for the American exceptionalism here.
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Either they're desperate or they're immoral.

If you're not poor, then it's immoral to work in such company.

If I had to choose between working for a monopolistic corporation or a mafia, I think I'd rather join the mafia because I can't stand hypocrisy. At least they're honest about what they're going to do to you if you don't pay them the protection money and they're not pretending to be the good guys. A mafia has a clear, well defined moral code with clear boundaries which limit the harm they do; also unlike corporate entities, the members of mafias take risks upon themselves.
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I don't know if a web-based OS will have any relevant impact on the linux ecosystem but it's kind of interesting.
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We used it for a b2b backend system with a lot of configurable knobs that change data entry drastically.

It meant that we had almost no possibility in caching anything so we saw a good fit in Graphql. Especially when 3th parties need an API you can easily give them the Graphql and they can query what they need.

We used it in a rails app with a react frontend. Depending on the requirements, GraphQL can bring more problems to the table than solutions
I'm not 'falling' for anything.

I'm aware of how my data is being used by Facebook, and am generally unconcerned by it, as are most people.

Conversely, it would seem you're falling for the completely false claim made in the NY Times that somehow, placing ads on FB is somehow tantamount to 'buying customer data'. The article is making a bizarrely stupid claim.

"I am shocked that anyone continues to believe this claim. Each time you click on a Facebook ad, Facebook sells data on you to that advertiser. This is such a basic property of online targeted advertising that it would be impossible to avoid, even if Facebook somehow wanted to."

It's basically lying to suggest that someone placing ads on a network is remotely similar to, for example, Facebook literally selling user data directly to advertisers or anyone else.

You, I, everyone, we see the ads on Facebook, the means by which those ads are purchased is available for anyone to see and it's really not that big a deal. It's mostly demographics, location, and some degree of interest that usually isn't correct in the first place.

"A private foreign company isn't more powerful than the EU"

The EU and FB are bound by law, and it seems clear the EU is breaking it by making broad search and seizure during some kind of investigative discovery, and the EU courts will have to rule on it.
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also, can you really stop working in your 50s when the health problems come and you realize you now need your employer for the health insurance?
Cops aren't gonna spend the manpower evicting people unless the chief makes it a priority. The chief won't do that unless the politicians tell him to and the union gives a nod. The politicians won't do that if it's political suicide.

Remember when Baltimore PD went on strike and they basically just solved murders, kept tabs on drug trafficking and sat in their cruisers running their side businesses? That's the natural state of policing.

They don't care about a bar that always has brawls. They don't care about someone riding an ATV on the street. They don't care about some teenagers lighting a cardboard box full of feces on fire on the mayor's doorstep. They don't even care about writing tickets to generate revenue. They don't care about evicting people. But they care about keeping their jobs so if the chief says to care about those things they'll care.

Keeping that in mind, any communities that get "destroyed" are doing it at their own hand because the political to make those evictions happen needs to be so much greater than the will to make them not happen (landlords are less numerous than renters but more moneyed and politically active, it's hard to call) that there's enough impetus to still get it done at scale after being laundered through the politicians (who would rather not piss off the renters if they don't have to) and police management (who would rather not kill morale by sending their employees to do the politician's dirty work), losing momentum in both cases.
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