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I was being satirical with my wording but the issue with Apple is different. Android is fragmented by design, there is Google, Samsung, Huawei, etc. companies which sell a lot of other things, so Android image may be less of an issue for them. Apple literally is iDevice, it's more than 2/3 of their revenue.

But indeed "reputation" is more about marketing and at the end of the day the only thing that matters is the margin they can extract from aftermarket sales. As the recent antitrust inquiry shows, we were short of having 40% fee on app store sales.

https://twitter.com/HouseJudiciary/status/128856728139671142...

I think 30% made sense back then when the platform was tiptoeing. Now it may look as an abuse of dominant position, the classical shareholders vs workers game. I wonder how the appstore operating costs and profit have evolved over time.
I 100% believe this, and it seems odd that anyone wouldn't suspect that by default, in the same way one should expect DARPA strings still attached to DARPA's Silicon Valley corporate-children.

I'd like to see some evidence before describing that as anything more than a gut suspicion, though, and definitely not "public knowledge". This type of Executive reaction reads more like a response to a targeted threat and not just the general background noise of "all your base are belong to China" like over the past few years.
But how much slower? At what cost?
Yes, but you can't branch on the result, because you don't know if the result is zero or not. So your program needs to have fixed control flow, i.e., you cannot implement arbitrary programs.
I found his bit about recruiter in-mails peculiar, but I suppose everyone's mileage may vary. I almost never respond to in-mails, but I have these last two weeks for some reason. I ask for more information before accepting a call, sometimes they oblige, sometimes not. I haven't received a response though to any polite inquires I've sent them.
That is because AMD split graphics vs. compute and you look at a non-compute card.
The Vega-based chips work quite well and the Radon VII is (or was, I'm afraid) an excellent value proposition.
I generated the cover letters using some Python. This gave me 60% success rate (got me an interview).
Instagram has 1B+ monthly active users (MAU) and TikTok has 800M MAU [0]. This year, TikTok has accumulated more downloads and user growth which makes it the fastest growing social network in the world. [1]

The actual competitive factor to this growth is TikTok / Douyin has access to the Chinese market and outside of China which is why it is considered as a serious competitor. Everyone else is banned.

[0] https://sproutsocial.com/insights/instagram-stats/

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/c6a8b9bc-dd6d-46a7-b008-825568982...
Routinely failing a simple tech screen is not a symptom of stretching. It’s a symptom of probably not being in a place to be blogging interview lessons for others. Totally credit to this dude for putting himself out there, but I think he’s radically miscalibrated to be doing so in a way where he’s had this experience and is off handing out advice. To extend a more accessible analogy, in universities, the people who pass the course the first time are picked as tutors. Not the people who re-took it seven times because it was a stretch for them.

> it might be because they're trying to do harder things

I literally work on one of the, if not the, top team for what I do in the entire industry.

I’ve failed plenty of times.

I’ve never failed a basic tech screen though...

They’re not supposed to be hard!
It is not clear to me, why they would care much about it. The selling point of Macs is to a large amount macOS. On the other side, at least for now, it is announced that Apple Silicon hardware only boots into signed operation systems, which currently is only macOS. I would assume, that means there is little chance to run Linux natively on Apple Silicon. On the other side, virtualisation technology is part of macOS, so there should be good support to run Linux inside a virtualized environment. They even showcased Linux during the keynote.
Wow you just made me realise that most of my jobs are the same, I've passed plenty of coding challenges with flying colours but almost always went for the jobs where we just chatted and got along immediately.
Sure but that's a very broad statement. HBO is a completely different thing to "people to people cellphone video sharing". I think we've opened Pandora's box here, this is just a mirror of society or humanity in general. It's not because of the devilish mechanisms those platforms put in place to get you hooked. Without active, rigorous content moderation this kind of videos is always what we end up with.

You might point at YouTube and how it's different here by boosting high quality content, but this is a) because they are running a lot of ads and are as such interested in curating content that advertisers would like their ads to run on and b) because they don't target the cellphone exclusively, so you can actually invest in a proper setup for your videos regarding camera, lighting, set, video editing.

The thing is that I can't see how TikTok can be profitable in the long run. Because of the low quality, low effort videos, it's much less attractive to advertisers, since the risk of ending up on controversial content is high. YouTube went through two or three iterations of this, each time refining their requirements for having a video eligible to have ads on it.
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Because on YouTube we pay for it with time and attention to ads. Most people on HN have much more money that time and attention to spend.
That was intended to support the second part of my comment (although I can definitely see how that wasn’t clear - sorry about that). A lot of Chinese companies have come out with new RISC-V designs and it’s clear they’re prioritizing making it a possible alternative platform in the case that Arm can no longer be used. The RISC-V foundation also decided to move from the US to Switzerland to avoid the exact sorts of restrictions that have been placed on Arm.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-semiconductors-...
I also designed my own 3D engine but after attacking the physics engine, I quickly (and, never regrettably!) switched to the open source Bullet engine instead after going through its code. I would never have the stamina to write that, and all that code and bunch of algos are really necessary for doing physics in "free world" games like mine.

Btw Bullet has continuous collision detection. It's not fundamentally magical - you extrude a hull of the shapes to do CCD on along their velocity tangents and collide the hulls instead of the shapes. This effectively solves the problem of bullets or other fast moving objects going through walls etc. (this is why the engine is called Bullet btw)

Actually the most difficult problem I had with the physics was the player physics, as its usually not handled by letting the player be a normal physics body (for gameplay reasons). The player shape can easily get caught up on infinitesimal seams between polygons and edges in the world around you. :)
This distinction of brands is notable, in my opinion, as it is largely specific to Chinese brands rather than Chinese products and even then there are exceptions such as Alibaba and Xiaomi.
what did you guys end up using?
This will never be something that can be "proven" and insisting on seeing proof is just a way to halt discussion of the entire topic.
> Airport Extreme was the last Router where I dont have to restart it every few months.

Give Ubiquiti a try. Mine has been running for several years and I’ve never had to restart it.
How should a deaf programmer conduct phone screens?
Go ahead. Try it out.

Use present tense in email.

Crisp as a haiku.
PyTorch supports ROCm quite well if you can follow three step build instructions instructions (https://lernapparat.de/pytorch-rocm/).
TVM.ai also supports ROCm well.
TF I didn't check.

FP32 performance for the VII is comparable to GTX20280Ti e.g. on Resnet training. Tensor Cores are cool, but 90% of people don't use FP16 that much.

I'm not sure that is the best reply that stackoverflow has ever seen.
unfortunately, now the most messaging apps (teams, slack, signal come to mind) pack their UI with electron
“One can only hope..”
You’re using your hope in the wrong place my friend
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This view is more akin to working class parents telling their children to become a builder because “people have always been building”.

You should not outsource your main product. And if your product is a chat application that is supposed to be fast and always on the background, then you’re outsourcing your main area of expertise.
No single platform shouldn’t dictate how an art form operates
happiness is a shallow goal, and you leave a lot on the table if you are unwilling to suffer

I don’t think these experiences are mutually exclusive. Look at the face of a marathon runner for those last few miles. Agony? Yes. Determination? Definitely. Unhappiness? I’m not so sure about that.

Plenty of runners will tell you they’re in their happy place when they’re out on the road, putting one foot in front of the other, for miles and miles and miles.

Similar things could be said about the people who love spicy food, I suppose.
There isn't branching in the traditional sense, but we can work around it. Instead of doing

result = if condition { a } else { b }

in circuit programming, we normally do

result = condition * a + (1 - condition) * b
That's my fear too.

People have such short memories, and media cycles are too quick. I'm the least fan of Trump, but this is truly one area that the US is taking a stronger stance on than even in my own home country (which I considered more moral, until now).
You think China is the only government that engages in state aid?

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-moderna...
I think the engine is open source; but the real appeal is using the real time collab online tool, which is proprietary and had the drawbacks you mention.
Modern software is doing orders of magnitude more than the software of the past. The feature set of a word processor in 1980 is a rounding error compared to the 2020 word processor’s print dialog.

The OP’s viewpoint is akin to claiming that aviation has not advanced beyond Kitty Hawk because modern aircraft are simply wasting fuel when they take to the skies. It doesn’t take into account the huge differences in the modern computing environment.

The computers of the recent past weren’t even powerful enough to encrypt a modern TLS session. Does that mean using all that power to encrypt the session today is “bloat”? Of course not. One person’s bloat is another person’s feature. Note that sometimes that feature is that the software can actually exist and be maintained on your preferred platform.

If you think about it, it would be an utterly bleak future if we were just running the exact same software stack on faster and faster hardware. That would represent stagnation, not progress.
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By "correctly" I mean "doing what is indented". I feel that the ultimate goal of the user of a blog is to read it. So by "correctly" I mean readable. This is how it looks on my phone with opera:

https://ibb.co/wgmNJxQ
https://ibb.co/BLqwBH1

That is the correct way to display it. In contrast to Chrome, that gives this complete nonsensical output:

https://ibb.co/sySqtgc

Do you have any use for this picture? Does this have any utility to you? Because for me it does not. For me this "unreadable mode" and I don't need such a mode. If it is useful for you: How do you use this? And why?
Did a few attempts using slang of European languages. Lacks words that are widely understood by the general population and have bad meanings.
It would be a legal request via Apple.

But from a truly practical point of view, TikTok will just end up replaced by a homegrown version. The real question is, who's homegrown version will be the winner?

I believe FB and Snap are both privately working on a replacement. Not sure about others.
You are susceptible to bias at every stage. Maybe your application is filtered by a biased AI, maybe it’s a person, but you are giving more reasons to reject you before reaching the actual recruiters.

It’s far easier for a recruiter to discard a resume because of unconscious bias than the allow it to interfere at the interview level
It seems you possess knowledge regarding this process. Care to share some?
> but those and Tiktok pale in comparison to, say, HBO

And HBO pales in comparison to live theatre. But that's pretty irrelevant.
> [...] we gain almost nothing by having tiktok around.

We gain an outlet or creativity that's particularly fun for teens. You might as well say that we gain nothing by banning skateboards, video games, or rock music.

I would agree more with the ban of there was any evidence of nefarious data mining by TikTok. Outside of weird Internet rumors they only seem to collect basic user data and whatever you write in your profile.
There's a very credible source from 7 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

But "their" isn't Google or Facebook but the surveillance agencies that are directly plugged in. Much like of what TikTok is accused of doing.
It's so cool! I've been trying it for a few hours and it really work! Good job!
> the metal has to be smelted somewhere

Well, Mars. Obviously. /s
And HBO (which just repackages books into a format lazy people can digest and turn their brains off to) pales in comparison to the free MITx online video courses.

That's pseudo-intellectual arrogance.

Even some PhD laugh about stupid memes.

Also: facebook/insta/tw is mainly about re sharing, not producing.
I didn't know how to voice my feelings and thoughts on this, but your post sums it all up perfectly. Thank you.
This is crazy but we used to have this scheme where you actually just paid them for access to the recording. Weird, right?

Then we Spotifyd and that was the end of that and people got a new hobby coming up with justifications for why it's good that we replaced a revenue source for musicians with ... maybe giving them money? Or maybe having them run a T-shirt business?
but sometimes performance is dependent upon your framework, so before you start you will need to know your quantity structure
Why give China access to our domestic market when they refuse to give us access theirs? What do you propose then?
Great to hear! Now if only it was easier to be taken seriously when evangelizing a piece of software named "GIMP"...
Kids These Days just need to learn to pound the e-pavement, have a firm e-handshake, and really show that they are the best ${entity} for the job.
Just an observation on the authors names:

Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning

Bradley ... ... ... Manning

.. and the topic - victimhood culture.
> Probably minimum wage would have to be raised so that people would want to work as a maid or McDonald

The beauty of UBI is that government mandated minimum wage, with all its drawbacks, wouldn't be needed anymore. People would be able to refuse shitty job offers and not starve. Ultimately, employers would have to raise wages but not because of the law but because of workers' better negotiation position.
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That sounds a lot like talking around to me.
Can you say concretely, where you believe my fallacy is?
This is really interesting and cleared a lot of things up for me, thanks for that! I always thought that when people told me "Banks create money out of thin air in our monetary system" that would mean they get like $100 dollars from someone in a savings account, which then permits them to lend out a multiple of that, say $900, in "new money" to other people, as long as they can support the liquidity requirement of 10% in this example by having enough not-self-created cash for that at hand. I always wondered what would prevent people from taking those loans, sticking them into accounts at different banks, which then would be able to use that liquidity to again create a multiple of new money, effectively resulting in a system that constantly increases the total money supply. But then I took a look at what appears to be happening in recent history, found a constantly increasing money supply to actually exist in the real world and didn't wonder that much anymore, because of course that would happen in such a brain-dead let-banks-create-money-out-of-thin-air system, so I never happened to challenge my assumption as to how this money creation process actually works.

So the actual trick is not that banks lend out more money than they have previously gotten as deposits, but that the fraction they lend out is eventually stored at different banks, while the original deposits that allowed for these loans to be created still continue to exist at the first bank and thus the loans practically are a duplicate of these deposits, hence "money was created out of thin air". As long as the banks all manage to keep the fraction of reserves above the pre-set limit, this indeed guarantees a maximum total money supply not to be exceeded.
Softbank had a bad year and is in need of cash not to collapse.
> Quoting Linus Torvalds (2012) [0]:

Is this an Ad Hominem ? Linus does not mention there a single thing that they are actually doing wrong.

> Drew DeVault, on Nvidia support in Sway [2]:

Nvidia has added wayland support to both KDE and GNOME. Drew just does not want to support the nvidia-wy in wl-roots, which is a super super niche WM toolkit whose "major" user is sway, another super super niche WM.

Drew is angry for two reasons. First, sway users complain to them that sway does not work with nvidia hardware, which as a user of a WM is a rightful thing to complain about. Second, Drew does not want to support the nvidia-way, and it is angry and nvidia because they do not support the way that wl-roots has chosen.

It is 100% ok for Drew to say that they don't want to maintain 2 code-paths, and wl-roots and sway do not support nvidia. It is also 100% ok for nvidia to consider wl-roots to niche to be worth the effort.

What's IMO not ok is for Drew to feel entitled about getting nvidia to support wl-roots. Nvidia does not owe wl-roots anything.

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IMO when it comes to drivers and open-source, a lot of the anger and conflict seems to steem from a sentiment of entitlement.

I read online comments _every day_ of people that have bought some hardware that's advertised as "does not support Linux" (or Macos, or whatever) being angry at the hardware manufacturer (why doesn't your hardware support the platform that says it does not support? I'm entitled to support!!!), the dozens of volunteers that reverse engineer and develop open source drivers for free (why doesn't the open source driver that you develop in your free time work correctly? I'm entitled to you working for free for me so that I can watch netflix!), etc. etc. etc.

The truth of the matter is, that for people using nvidia hardware on linux for Machine Learning, CAD, rendering, visualization, games, etc. their hardware works just fine if you use the only driver that they support on the platforms they say they support.

The only complaints I hear is people buying nvidia to do something that they know is not supported and then lashing out at everybody else due to entitlement.
Directly booting into Linux sounds unlikely by what Federighi said. MacOS would be around as a hypervisor at least, but he claimed that this technology is efficient enough, that it doesn't make a practical difference.

I am doing my day-to-day work with Linux in a VMware VM on my MB Pro and couldn't be happier. When running fullscreen, I don't notice any difference to having a "native" Linux install, plus I am getting all the benefits of being able to suspend my VM, having several VMs and of course, switching to the macOS desktop is just a two finger swipe on my mouse. This really has become my favorite compute setup.

The big benefit of using VMware for this is, that the necessary "drivers" are open source and have been part of the Linux kernel for quite some time. So you don't need to install custom drivers in your VM any more. Expecially with very new Linux kernels this means, you don't have to wait for the VM provider to supply new drivers. Which is the one thing I didn't like about Parallels, it rarely supports the latest Linux kernels.
> we gain almost nothing by having tiktok around. We lose nothing by banning it

That's bold.
There used to be a principle of freedom that allowed things not explicitly banned, and banning things would require a good reason.

Is this kind of capriciousness the new normal now?
> just like Amazon had to sell off data centers to operate them in the EU

You're saying amazon don't own their EU data centers? That's surprising to me. Got a source for that?
You’ve been here for ten years?
Yes, I thought the article (which I only skimmed) was talking about framing devices. That's what "the story is told in past tense" means to me. I guess I don't really pay attention to tense, because I just opened a Clarke on my bedside table, and the verbs are past tense. Thanks for the correction.
> The facts: we gain almost nothing by having tiktok around. We lose nothing by banning it, and gain a little bit of buffer against possible threats like election meddling, data mining for nefarious purposes and other things. Completely leaving politics aside, I basically support this.

What about if all non-US countries start reasoning like you and ban Youtube, Facebook, ...?
Surely the effort you put into 60 technical interviews are great. But instead, you should focus to 10 companies you would like to join, it may turn out better as you could focus your energy and thinking for cover letter and preparation.
Perhaps, yet: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/what-these-grammy...
Not according to my experience. I auto generated cover letters using some Python and this gave me 60% success rate. No one reads the cover letters.
I double-tap on the text to zoom to it, which is what Opera does, or use reader mode to get an even better view of it.
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I'm not sure this is the right take, as I don't believe it's a matter of choosing to optimize for SSD vs. HDD's. Disks got faster, so the bar for baseline acceptable performance got higher.
What if it's a big hoax and I'm only protecting myself from corporate surveillance and not state surveillance too??
Sure, that was already mentioned on another comment, but that's not enough for proper branching. You also need while loops. See also comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24018284.
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