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Best case for them is TSMC continues to be heavily capacity constrained for the next few years, handicapping AMD's ability to pick up significant market share while Intel resolves their fab issues. Intel may also have to heavily lean into backporting new designs that have been sitting on the shelf waiting for new nodes. 14nm is finally moving past Skylake-based architectures with Rocket Lake, and there should be opportunities to backport 7nm designs to 10nm as well. Not ideal, but if they can remain roughly competitive with AMD and just out-ship them, that could get them through the next few years without losing much market share.

A US government injection of cash to Intel's fab business seems like it could get bipartisan support if Taiwan/China continue to lead the market, but Intel's problems don't appear to be be cashflow related.
I was thinking more along the lines of criminal laws, I should have been more specific in my word choice.
> I recommend browsing Quora. There are quite some people there who say they live in Hong Kong.

I live in Hong Kong–those people on Quora are wrong. Actually, I don't, but there's really no way to verify that; take online comments by people who supposedly live in a region with a grain of salt.
It "emulates" the hardware - e.g. you can inject shake / GPS / etc

This is the same as the Android x86 "emulator".
Maybe something about a previous life?
>hinges mainly on the assumption that "new government bureaucracy to manage the standard" is automatically a bad thing.

It might be. Do you see consumers clamoring outside the statehouse for more regulation? No? That is likely because they won't benefit from it.

I understand sometimes people do not know what is best for them, but I think the bar for telling people how to live their life should be higher. Every day I am impacted by pointless regulations that cost me money while enriching others.

A lot of the ills with the tech industry are related to centralization, not lack of regulation. That centralization is often driven by regulation that prevents centralization. That is exactly what this regulation would do.
On the Play Store there is a two hour window after purchasing apps where you can simply return to the store and refund your purchase yourself as the 'buy' button temporarily turns into a 'cancel purchase' button. This feels like the future to me, not some regressive scheme where refunds are discouraged and 'taxed'.
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Don't forget about the crown jewel of the Nintendo name collection, the "New" Nintendo 3DS / "New" Nintendo 3DS XL.

Which is a whole heck of a lot worse than the Wii U, in my opinion.
I started going to the Super Computer/HPC confs here in the USA over the last few years and it was shocking how few American companies are there with impressive hardware engineering. Maybe the Japanese/SKOrean/Taiwanese companies showing up are the Dell/IBMS of those countries and I'm just not familiar with the names but walking around the conference always gives me this feeling that the USA is lagging behind or sitting this one out. The majority of companies I see are the usual hardware conf goers; IBM/HP and then a bunch of Gov/NSA/DOD groups on the USA end with a few universities. On the AIPAC end tons of what I feel like are small hardware companies doing cool bleeding edge nvmeoF/arm/fpga stuff, TONS of universities with really cool looking projects, etc.
Thanks. I haven't thought of X.25 in 25 years.
It's extremely anti-soviet, almost propagandistically so. It wouldnt be out of place as a work made at the request of Voice of America, although the author is an Englishman.
https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...

> In the EU you have the right to return purchases made online or through other types of distance selling, such as by phone, mail order or from a door-to-door salesperson, within 14 days for a full refund. You can do so for any reason – even if you simply changed your mind.

There is a potential exemption for digital content "if you have already started downloading or streaming it and you agreed that you would lose your right of withdrawal by starting the performance," but Apple does not appear to have its customers agree to that.

Specifically called out in their UK conditions:

> Right of cancellation: If you choose to cancel your order, you may do so within 14 days of when you received your receipt, without giving any reason.

https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/uk/term...

Presumably in other European terms as well, I checked the UK because it's in English.
Honestly, I would be too scared to do this probably. But it made me curious and apparently wikipedia keeps a list of notable examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-experimentation_in_medici...
But the regulations you are looking for should be on the device manufactures not the app stores. Require Apple to allow other app stores to be installed that has the same level of access to the OS and APIs that their native app store has, as well as direct app downloads from the internet with the same level of access (maybe with some extra hoops for security controls).

That would solve the problem. Someone will spin up a better App store. Someone already has in fact. If you jailbreak your iPhone you get access to a second app store (https://cydia-app.com) which has apps that Apple won't put in their regular store.
Wow, this seems extreme... not in keeping with the First Sale Doctrine.

> At the end of June, North announced it was being acquired by Google, and would not release a planned second-generation device.
It also said it would "wind down" its first generation smart glasses, released last year.

> Customers found out that meant the smart glasses would be rendered "dumb" through a statement published on the company's website[1] and by email.

[1] https://support.bynorth.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045128691-W...
Despite having a family not much spare time, I also like the take-home approach.

But any time take-home tasks come up on HN, there are always people here complaining about it and even demanding to be paid for their time.

I get that it doesn't suit everyone, but nothing does. Coming up with an approach that works for the company and candidates is really hard - as evidenced by the many, many threads on this subject here on HN.

Perhaps the best compromise would perhaps be to permit the candidate to perform the task there and then or take it home, but this may require more of a commitment from the interviewer, if they then need to additionally devise tasks to be completed in a shorter time.
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

- Orson Welles, The Third Man, 1949

Ancient Greece was also exceptionally politically unstable and yet produced the foundations of Western civilization.
One of windows' competitors is free, theyll never have an os monopoly
Well I did say that 3M is likely to be an overestimation. How many do you believe are fake? Let's say 40% are fake. That puts the number of legit signatures at 1.6M: still in the same ballpark as the number of protesters, which shows that society is divided.

If you disagree with this analysis, I would love to hear why.
The same thing happens for me on my 2018 MBP, whether I turn on the discrete GPU or not.
Mastodon already exists; it's just unpopular outside of small circles. People have already spoken with their time that they prefer hosted, "easy" solutions regardless of the evil they perpetuate (even if this preference is coming from a place of ignorance). The biggest question now is how to popularise it.
Inb4 the press release says "Machine learning".

Honestly, do we really need to consider TikTok's rebuttals about them basically being spyware? Sure, they spy for the CCP, but Facebook spies for the highest bidder. Not sure what's worse at this point to be honest.

And I'm not leaving Facebook, Google, Instagram, or these other services out of this either. You can tout "AI" and "Machine Learning" all you want, "We want to give you the best content", etc., it's all BS. Stop it.

Unfortunately, they won't stop it, because most folks simply _do_ _not_ _care_ about TikTok being spyware, including _most_ if not _all_ the people that I know (and yes, including developers, scientists, semi-high-ranking government employees, etc.)
That is a totally non-helpful reply. A reply that actually gave some information would be more useful.
That's how I feel too although it's the hardest category for me to judge objectively
Coil is a Web monetization provider that streams micropayments to sites with a monetization HTML tag. For $5/month, I support the sites I actually spend time with and then don't feel bad about blocking ads.

https://coil.com/
https://webmonetization.org/
> You won’t be taken for those roles on Leetcode interview performance alone

You’d be surprised.
It sounds like you're on the right track. I think the important parts are:

1) It should be a live exercise (at least mostly live). I'm less interested in the end result than how someone got there, and most people chose to narrate their thought process as they work through the exercise.

2) The candidate should be able to work in their own environment. Online assessment tools can be different enough to introduce friction in a timed interview scenario. I'm interested in seeing how fluid a candidate is with the tools they'll use every day.

3) It should have the same expectations as your day-to-day work. Did the editor have a linter configured, and did they use it? Were tests written for the parts of the lab that introduced nontrivial logic? Is there a README? Is it all one git commit, or did they habitually make commits as they worked?

4) The design of the lab should have a decision point - I'm currently using a lab which could be implemented successfully with either a relational database or some kind of cache store. The strongest candidates recognize there are multiple paths and can justify why they chose the one they did.

This works best for reasonably experienced devs who can actually be expected to create something from scratch from a set of requirements on a short time frame. For more junior people, I'd typically give a version of this lab that I completed myself and introduced a couple of bugs into. The task is to fix the bugs.
Head of DevRel for QuestDB here drop me an email at davidgs(at)questdb(dot)io and I'll make sure you get invited.
The same blog has other benchmarks[1], one of which is SQLite[2].

[1] https://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html

[2] https://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-rides-sqlite-pa...
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Just speculating, but I think the idea that it is safer to have your groceries delivered (a necessity if you are not leaving property) rather than go to the grocery store yourself is just flat wrong. I know several (admittedly only three) people who have caught COVID but have not left their apartment and/or house since Jan.
How many do you believe are fake?
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Heh I'm currently working on a toy X.25 stack implementation as a side project
What do you believe they are wrong about?
Sucks for people who bought second-hand glasses
> in the year 2020, why are we expecting people to write compilable code on a whiteboard

I think this is the bad assumption that's causing your confusion. Maybe this happens, but I think it's very uncommon.

The point of using whiteboards is to focus more on algorithms, data structures, and problem solving, not just spitting out code. If you make the applicant write actual code it limits the scope of the questions that can be asked.

So, it's actually beneficial that whiteboards aren't good for writing compilable code, because that's not what you want the applicant to do.
You would have been in 'good company' as a 'refugee' there:
https://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-has-been-a-covid-refugee...

Hope you get well soon!
A decade long development for a never before attempted interstellar cargo ship... I'm sure that "billions" is as precise as anyone can be about the cost right now.
You can't come up with plan like this and not come up with 'what's in it for them' in Russia or Eastern Europe. Not even now.
How a mouse connected to a PC before PCs had mouse ports
Gotcha - is this where Vine fell apart? By relying too heavily on follows?
Fusion and space colonization can get us to sustainably supporting trillions of human lives in the solar system alone. Fundamentally there is no living in balance with nature; the only barrier that can’t be overcome is the heat death of the universe, and there’s no living in balance with that, either.
That story map is beautiful!

I have a somewhat unrelated question. Do you ever see the world moving to rendering content completely on a WebGL canvas, for better control and with the ability to circumvent ad blockers?
IIRC the Android uses hardware-assisted virtualization through Intel HAXM. iOS simulator is run entirely in userspace in a seperate launchd context.

(Mostly referring to the actual processor/OS itself; buttons that "vibrate" the phone are not really technically interesting to me.)
Apple explicitly does not claim that exemption, the 14 day no-questions-asked refund period is called out in their terms and conditions.

> Right of cancellation: If you choose to cancel your order, you may do so within 14 days of when you received your receipt, without giving any reason
Mellow made its ‘smart’ sous vide machine dumb unless you pay a monthly fee
Platforms facilitate interactions between producers that create value which others consume. Thereby comparing revenue of a platform against a traditional business model doesn't make sense because the cost and profit drivers are inverted.
I would argue otherwise. The way I see it, technical debt is code that is more complicated than necessary for a feature. On the other hand, a good ORM makes your app code less complicated.

You only need to refactor to use raw SQL in the rare edge cases where you need more performance. At least working with RoR I find these cases extremely rare (less than 1% of the cases by my estimate).
Great answers, thank you very much!
Am I missing something? I get the impression something ran in-browser, and maybe site is in a low-functionality mode due to HN.

Or is this just a link to a paid app? Looks cool though. Art is worth paying for.
Bitcoin is not trying to solve that problem. The article is claiming that Bitcoin would have that problem, if it were to take over the world from fiat. My claim is that this is false, because there can be more than one cryptocurrency.
This is a continuation of a trend found throughout our purchasing life: exclusives are generally harmful to customers. This is specifically because an exclusive represents an artificial loss of choice.

They are, however, very lucrative to creators and the distributors, so I have high doubts that the concept of 'the exclusive' will ever go away.
You aren’t required to sell apps for Apple platforms. Has anyone even looked at what it takes to make and sell console games?

Do you know how much manufacturers earn on products sold in grocery stores? Far less than 50% of the retail price. When distributors are involved, it’s even less. The company that makes a bar of soap might get paid $1, the distributor gets $1 and the retailer sells it for $3 and has the right to return unsold product. And shipping costs aren’t included in these amounts. The manufacturer gets $1 but also has to pay shipping to the distributor.

People complaining about 30% have no idea how real world businesses operate. They are in some kind of fantasyland. Don’t forget, the App Store also handles your worldwide sales tax payments, fraud protection, chargebacks, hosting, distribution, your storefront, your payment processing and gives you worldwide availability for your app in the specific local currencies.

If those services aren’t of value to you, then don’t sell apps for iOS. Certainly Windows Phone has some users, or perhaps create your own device and ecosystem that offers terms you find more amenable. This is Hacker News, not crybaby news: you don’t like the status quo, then get some friends, start making a better system, raise some money, then compete. If you think 30% is predatory, then make a system that only charges $what_you_think_is_fair.

As far as Stripe, they take more than 3%. And for connect accounts, the percentage is closer to 3.5% not to mention you get charged $15 or $20 for a chargeback. What’s Apple charge developers for chargebacks? Zero. How often do developers have to challenge chargebacks with Apple? Zero. If you are selling using Stripe, it can become a significant expense, depending on your industry, especially gaming.

It’s my feeling that people complaining about 30% have no idea of the expense of “doing it themselves.”
I see another problem, and that is the one where they dump a model on the internet somewhere and whenever something goes wrong shrug their shoulders and say "well, that is what the model gave us…we don't know why; you can see for yourself how we didn't bias anything".
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It sounds like he doesn't take his vaccine very seriously:

>says Church, who says he has not stepped outside of his house in five months

Also not stepping outside of your house in 5 months is absurd, and borderline insane. As a respiratory disease I feel like he would have a better handle on its transmission, its from people and primarily close contact with the infected, the virus doesn't float in like a piece of pollen from miles away and infect you.
> pregnancy and delivery is quite a medical thing.

This was historically not the case. There is a movie "The Business of Being Born" which emphasizes midwives in childbirth. It's important to know about this idea before conceiving, because you cannot change your OB after a certain number of weeks, at which point you are on the hospitalization conveyor belt.

Caveat emptor, I am a man, and my wife preferred hospitalization, and if you have medical problems it makes sense to be in a hospital. But if you are healthy and young, you have options. Given the pandemic, it could possibly be safer, on balance, to deliver at home or in a non-hospital facility. A migration to this less expensive model would also save money for new families and beds for the critically ill, such as in this pandemic.

> Having lived in San Francisco for years with children, I would very much like to get a three bedroom two bathroom home, but the cheapest places that are reasonably safe are in the $1.3 million range and up.

I think a lot of people in the upper middle class that read Hacker News are focused on maintaining their status and driving education (and land value increases) from school districts. I myself have made this choice and live in a very high cost suburb with a great school district. But that does not mean these amenities are necessary to have more children. I grew up in a blue collar village and while I graduated college and have some post-graduate coursework, most of my skills have been self-taught. I have often found, albeit anecdotally, that children placed into these districts and affluent situations tend to be less self-reliant and creative than the intelligent peers I grew up with from similar backgrounds. A lot of the worry about educational outcomes is driven by values imparted by strong parenting - my parents did not have much when I was young, but they imparted work ethic and emphasized enrichment outside of the organized classroom. Sometimes I regret moving to my affluent neighborhood because my children will learn less resilience due to less adversity. But I am not moving, so I don't really regret it.

My point is that there can be successful Americans from all walks of life and all levels of income due to the meritocratic nature of our nation and strong values in the home and surrounding community. Needing an expensive location with great schools can be helpful but overall is unnecessary. I have friends in a smaller city, one a developer and one a teacher, who own a $190k 4BR house and have safety and good schools. Their child is smart because they spend time and impart values. It is different because tradeoffs are made in potential income and budget decisions. But it is not necessarily harder.
So substituting words like think and feel with “believe” makes it better?

Is it possible maybe you just don’t value feelings or thoughts of other people?
You are entering into a purchase agreement without the intention to actually purchase the item - that is most definitely fraud. It's like ordering a brand new car without the intention to actually ever pick it up, but instead to cost the dealer money. If you're acting maliciously that's definitely fraud.
I'm a little stuck on the terminology here.

Does "customer refunds your paid app" mean the customer requests and gets a (full) refund from Apple for a prior app purchase?

(I would say "returns" not "refunds" ... Apple is the one refunding, not the customer. The customer receives the refund. But I guess this is some kind of regional/informal usage I'm not familiar with.)

If so, that's BS. Apple could reasonably keep transaction costs of something like 5%, but the full 30 is crazy.
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> This is probably one of my favorite developments coming from the quarantine.

Maciej bought Delicious in 2017 and always planned to let people recover their bookmarks.
That was a lot of text to convey the point that Audible is doing to audiobooks what the Epic Games Store is doing to games: paying publishers extra (in this case, a better cut of the price) to release only on a single platform.
Lung biopsy is hardly routine (according to my definition of routine). You can collapse the lung, embolisms can occur, infections can be life-threatening, it's incredibly uncomfortable.
We wrap a lot of popular frameworks and have implementations of most SOTA models. By default we use a multilingual BERT model so it should work out of the box on different languages.
You can sideload on an iphone now without a developer account.
Also, the axes have opposite "good" directions, so the size of the triangle means nothing.
As far as I know, in EU, you have a right to return anything that you bought online, no questions asked.
Another major problem is OEMs and distributors that insist on locked boot loaders or other DRM baked into the firmware and OS. Such machines are never intended to run anything but approved software, which is always abandoned.

IMHO, any locked device sold that connects to the internet should be forced by law to unlock after 6 months of no updates.

I would love to see Verizon forced to do this. It would be glorious.
> alternative theories of gravity

To me it all just sounds like quantum vs continuous.

Like at our scales we normally see only the continuous averages and we'd expect that to be even more so at galactic scales. But what if at the fringes of a galaxy gravity is so 'small' that it's really the quantum that ends up determining the macro results?

Say some near object should experience 5 quadrillion plus 0.1 gravity from continuous equations, whatever quantum happens with the 0.1 doesn't affect the results and maybe we can't even measure it. But way out in deep space where it would be 5.1 gravity that 0.1 matters a lot, for instance if it's 'rounded up' in some way (maybe it represents a graviton being just close enough or whatever).

Obviously this is just nonsense spitballing, but I wonder what you guys think about the idea of galactic outcomes reflecting the quantum rather than the continuous.
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Mark did a benchmark of SQLite using its internal file format a few years ago (https://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-rides-sqlite-pa...), clocking the import at 5.5 hours. It looks like this was done though on a spinning disk, so given a proper SSD, and a newer version of SQLite, it might be much faster.