skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The success of Intel very largely depended on one single thing: volume. By owning most of the PC market, Intel could spend a lot of money into R&D. Which affected both chip design resources as of course manufacturing. For many years, Intel used to have at least one step advantage in the manufacturing process, often more. This is how Intel basically killed all non x86 based processor designs. Most of which were considered technically better, but on inferior processes lost the competition with Intel (I am thinking about all the famous RISC-architectures).

AMD could leapfrog Intel from time to time with a really clever design, but struggled to keep up in manufacturing. This is where the Zen2 gets so dangerous to Intel, a very good design produced on the better manufacturing process. Where did that process come from?

That leads to the decisive point to where Intel is today: the emergence of the smartphone. The impact on Intel is twofold: first of all, the PC market is shrinking as the smartphones are the computing device many people use, PCs have lost their importance for many, even if people still have a PC, they don't get updated as often any more. And secondly: there is a new huge market for semiconductors.

Which Intel managed to not be a part of.

The volume of the mobile marked helped TSMC to get to the point, where their processes eclipsed Intel. This benefits all the competitors of Intel to compete not only on even ground, but on higher ground. Suddenly, non-x86 architectures, mainly ARM become economically feasible. When Apple designs the Apple Silicon, they can afford to throw enormeous R&D resources at any problem. Not only because Apple is a rich company, but also, because the spending is spread across over 200 million iPhones per year. Not counting iPads and soon Macs. This is, why I am so excited about Apple Silicon. For the first time since the passing of the classical high-performance RISC vendors, a non-x86 architecture enters the desktop market, this time backed by huge R&D spending and a superior process.

Is all lost for Intel? Certainly not, Intel still owns the largest part of the PC market. While the problems with their 10nm process were huge, they are not too far behind TSMC, as the 10nm Intel process isn't that much behind the TSMC 7nm as the numbers would suggest. But their moat consisting of volume and process lead has been breached, so success is no longer automatic and Intel needs to work hard going forward.
Arnold Spielberg, computing pioneer dead at 103
Logistic Regression in Python from Scratch
I read the full article and this doesn't seem to have any focus. It vaguely mentions some interesting tid bits but doesn't articulate on them or back them up properly.
Do you extend the nail file when using the pen to rest against your hand? I found that makes it much more comfortable (assuming you take it off the keychain too!).
I'd love to go to Antarctica.

However... skimming through some of those, they actually look like pretty typical "work on a team" positions (e.g. "...technical guidance and mentoring of Computer Technicians with focus on accurate completion of work orders and execution of standard operating procedures..."), not "this cupboard has spares, this cupboard has rations, see you in 6 months, good luck!".

Any hints for finding something that's closer to the second option?
Take a common idiom like

main(int argc, char **argv)

These all produce the same result

main(int argc, char* *argv)

main(int argc, char** argv)

main(int argc, char* argv[])
Yes, I strongly agree with this. Much programming is scripting and works wonderfully in context, but is unequal to scale change or considerations of security.

"Real" programming to me always meant well-informed choices, made consciously. Higher risk strategies in real programs are understood risks not missed bugs.
I vividly remember an elderly customer who had the wireless version positioned upside down and was totally confused by the cursor movement. He thought something was wrong with the computer and asked me for help. I 180ied the mouse and he was embarrassed as one can get. We parted silently and we never shared a word about this with anyone.
Good times!
Thanks for the references.

At some point between 2006 and 2015, he must have decided that Foucalt was accurate enough on the subject of exercising power in society, to quote him so unquestioningly in this article.

Unless, of course, there's a distinction between the subset of "power" that this article deals with, and those he previously criticised Foucalt on, that make all four passages congruent with each other.
People here seem to think “tech” means “JavaScript”.
Apple rolled this synergy thing so many times (ipod -> iphone, iphone -> air) I wonder if this started even before that.
The hunting stock (a more direct descendant of the cravat?) is said to have emergency uses (sling, tourniquet, etc.). That noted, I've practically used my belt numerous times, but never my neckwear.

Well, hardly ever. At "The Oasis" (an infamous fictional dive), men's gimme caps slowly slide backwards on their heads until everyone knows the evening has sufficiently advanced to sing songs. At black tie affairs the growing prevalence of rakishly worn unknotted bow ties provides exactly the same signal.

Bonus track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1OqqFecdj4

(can confirm: I've returned goats to the neighbours)
Firebird driver for Python release 0.7.0 provides support for Firebird 4
It might be better for Intel to split into two. One part focus on design and the other on pure-play manufacturing.

AMD and TSMC shown us that it work.
Sure its sloppy, but in my experience at least it's a very widespread and normal terminology.

Colloquially, an expression is something on the right hand side of `=` or in parentheses, and that returns a value. Most importantly, "returns" implies that some kind of computation may go on, maybe with side effects. I'm aware that the C standard uses the terms differently, but there is usually a difference between the mental model and the C standard, or the parser.
Geometric Algebra for Python
MBAs are force multipliers but they can’t do anything without the underlying product being good.
This is 8th post from you about kwickBox I guess you dont need to introduce us anything
GPT3 x GAN – AI generated faces using GPT-3
"Even bought his domains with cash in the mail."

Where is source for that information. Mail can be traced easily I'm pretty sure.
I'll be more specific on the tools I want more depth on. Can you share good resources on browser profiling tools and memory management?(I'm not even sure I'm using the right terms).
The official history of the United Kingdom, according to the Home Office
The benefits are primarily from the better weight distribution and engine location in relation to the rear diff. The myth of fwd having superior driveability due to better traction is only real when comparing front engine to front engine, like a civic vs a mustang. With the weight in the rear, it’s the same thing in reverse. Oversteer is far more easy to correct but rwd is uncommon so the average joe may be unfamiliar.

WRT Porsche toning things down, a modern 911 turbo S is WAY faster than the Carrera GT was, and the GT3 / GT3-RS models are literally street legal road cars with minimal assists.
I also ordered one :) probably around 2003 - came with printed user guide
"Our former system administrator is extremely uncooperative and very confrontational" or "we need to decrypt valuable customer data that we can't afford to rebuild and this is driving us towards bankruptcy" are the kind of words that make most educated people very much unwilling to help, no matter how much money you promise them ;).

It's not a matter of principle, it's a matter of headaches. It's very unlikely that a customer like that would pay enough to make it worthwhile.
Furthermore it firmly places ourselves and our own experiences within the very same fabric of reality it's describing. This is a rather inevitable problem of a fundamental theory of reality, since we ourselves are part of it and our inner working (whatever that is) must be layered on top of that fundamental machinery.
Great. Can I has hw encoding/decoding on linux, please? I don't need another software, I need my laptop not to boil.
I'm also a firm believer that this is why.

A bigger question is why don't the MBAs understand this?

Tech people generally understand when something is far outside their skillset. Why can't the organization chart gymnasts do that?
Not to my knowledge. With IPv6 you know each other's public address, and can thus "hole punch" directly. The problem with NAT is you don't even know the IP address you're attempting to establish a connection to.
> Wealth creation isn't zero-sum, just because someone builds a business and creates wealth doesn't mean they're taking it from others.

It absolutely is zero sum - but not from the point of money, but from the point of view of another finite resource; human labour and talent.

The fact that someone has more wealth than someone else means that the market will value their time/spend more than someone who is poor.

Think about it this way, if you see money as a way for society to allocate resources - is the fact that you own more wealth than someone else mean that you can should be able to direct more of where the resource spend of human labour is?

How many talented engineers work at Rolls Royce to create £250,000 cars which would be better put to use elsewhere? How many software engineers work at startups funded as a moonshot for the wealth of the founders work on CRUD apps where they could be working on something like scientific or educational tech? How much chemical engineering talent do we sink into cosmetics?

Your cited examples prove the point above - the only reason why those examples exist is at the whim of those who have wealth. What about less savoury examples of the use of wealth such as Academi or Palantir?
Zero to One is making something people want. "1 to 100" is scaling.

They're saying MBA's get lost in the numbers and forget that the core of a business is to provide added value, which is a moving target in tech (with annual expectations in the case of silicon companies).
Can you give me some examples of how you use the gestures in MX Master? I have been using one for users but the novelty of the gesture button wore off in a week. I love the mouse though, and would give the gesture button another try if I can figure out use cases for it.
I love uniforms. If everyone has the same kind of clothing, it's easier to interact. People consciously look out for brands, specific clothing, and make up their mind on what the person is like before ever interacting with them. It signifies equality to me.

The minimalism of uniform makes it possible to notice the subtle differences. That's what a tie is for. It's to differentiate yourself but not too much.
10$ that good old windows had wrongly designed timers placed in its core that would prevent ns response time :)
Yep, same here. Especially when one takes a step back, loads a h323 softphone that, unlike browsers on linux, uses hw encode/decode, and suddenly my laptop doesn't want to fry itself.
"Investor value". It's a symptom of western economies, and the US in particular.

It's all about the share price and doing whatever you can to boost it, and then pay dividends (if the share price isn't doing well).

Companies are now seen as financial instruments. If you buy shares now is your first thought about the company, or about share price and how much money you can make? That's it really. MBAs know how to inflate share price and 'add value' in the modern world.

And when the CEO is no longer an engineer, he chases the money, because he's usually paid in shares and options.
That would mean cutting themselves out too. Arguably even Taiwan doesn't make the cut.
Team engineers new treatment for drug-resistant bacterial infections
I like the idea of going multi-core from the start. The Pi Zero W is massively under-powered when compared to its siblings, but IMHO suffers a lot more from being single-core than from any other constraint.

(Which is why I use the 3A+ for most of my stuff, really. Four cores and full-size HDMI and USB are very useful indeed.)
There was a post by an economist that low rates is a tool in the hand of politicians and once the get a taste of it, they never let it go.
At least I see this happening in India. Central bank is influenced by govts to keep rates low.

Don't know well about how US Feds and govt are incentivised
I am sorry I don't but the fab industry with its billion-dollar machines that pops out chips at a marginal cost of a dollar a piece should be a textbook example of a natural monopoly.
>Globally deimmunized lysostaphin evades human immune surveillance and enables highly efficacious repeat dosing

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabb9011
Capitalism’s version of North Korea
Nah, jokes asides, tech nowadays means electronics and above, boeing would be labelled engineering.
Oops my bad.. Sorry about the repetitive introduction. Its just a version update post
China is doing pretty good with their 100 year vision and 5 year plan cycle.

(This year marks the end of their current 5 year plan.)

Of course, China is the largest corporation on Earth. Some perhaps some smaller version of that is more ideal for smaller corporations.
Possibly. Email in my profile.
>The AI will figure out what the reader wants, and give it to her/him as intensely as possible.

Absolutely this. But the final form of this requires some input from the reader – front camera access and retina scanning presumably. It may evolve, without proper curtailing, (unidentifiable ads aside) to be a pretty powerful tool of motivation / pacification / manipulation.

>Eventually the content produced for particular readers will only be roughly literate, let alone clever or stylish.

Don't know about this, I have slightly more faith in people's ability of appreciation. Though I could be embarrassingly wrong.

I feel (a little hyperbolic allowances, if you will) it's in the books for an Infinite Jest type of entertainment to arise, be it in kindle or netflix form. That is, a piece of entertainment so excruciatingly entertaining, that people will literally and completely drop whatever it is they were doing before (or, you know, just miss a week of work for the sake of the most intimate and powerful writing they've ever experienced) and bask in the glories of their own personal god revealing truths of the universe to them.
What's sad about it? Steve isn't here anymore, and it slowly gives opportunity for a new Apple to emerge.
Although, if you are writing a book to teach programming, you can't suddenly drop stuff like "evaluating expressions" on readers either. It might be meaningless to them.

For example. If they come from a 'toy' programming background where they just call functions that return values, set variables, jump to labels, and do some math... Even if they're experts at that task, the words "evaluating expressions" might likely have no meaning to them at all. You'll have to explain first with concepts they already understand.

In this case, it seems the writer might've come from such a background. (And assumed his contemporaries were in a similar mindset.) :)
> there is no substitute for the multi-touch gestures and insanely fast scrolling you can do on this mouse

Oh there so is!

Used Magic Mouse for several years then switched to Logitech MX Master 3 because of bluetooth unreliability on the new mac mini and OH GOD WHY DIDN'T I DO THIS YEARS AGO. It's so much better ergonomically it's ridiculous. Like, are designers at Apple barred from using any third party mice? Do they not realise just how much their design sucks and how much better the alternatives are?

I used to think gestures were neat but you know what works better? BUTTONS! It's so much faster and more reliable to go back and forth in documents and web pages using buttons. The right mouse button is there, physically, unmistakably, never accidentally "pressed" when I had the negligence to touch the surface slightly to the right of its imaginary centerline. Nothing is scrolled if I move my finger a tiny bit during a simple click. The battery lasts MONTHS and gets charged in well under an hour. And yes you can use it while it is charging. Scrolling is fine now, smooth and with proper inertia but you have to install their app for it to work properly. The only case where it kind of breaks a little is on some web pages that hijack scroll with javascript and do weird thing with it designed specifically for Apple's mice.
Apparantly we are in for another major escalation of the chip wars:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-smic-exclusive/...

Exclusive: Trump administration weighs blacklisting China's chipmaker SMIC
Boeing is an aerospace engineering company, not a IT or biotech company
American computer security specialists did. He was getting interviewed by US TV stations so he had some reputation in the security industry.

And btw who heard of Jeff Bezos before Amazon? Nobody.

You can not judge somebody just by looking at their past. People change and evolve.
(Not the OP, but this question does resonate...)

It's a good set of questions to keep in mind, but I'm not sure it always leads to a feasible course of action.

What I like is working independently on a gnarly problem for some extended period of time. That explicitly includes spending the odd day "spinning my wheels" without being immediately being pushed to ask others for help -- because bumping my head against stuff while working alone is the way I like to learn stuff.

This way of working seems to be under fairly vigorous attack in favour of "everything needs a team", and I'm not quite sure how to work around that. Just pointing out that I'm getting things done does not seem to be sufficient.
I think Apple is more aware than Intel on their own status. They have more cash than the rest, I believe half their behavior is understanding that their field has been milked and their trying to keep it going the longest they can while thinking about alternative venues. I agree that half their behavior is lack of good sense (me too products, lesser build quality..)
S/MIME is broken and impossible to fix since https://efail.de/
How are you coming to the conclusion it would be excellent?
> It stands out that a worldwide event like coved won't alter the trajectory as far as I an see, on these trends. If i missed something long lasting on the natural reproductive rates of these economies id love to know.

And that's a good thing, right?
It's that way because in C "declaration follows usage".

In the above, you're declaring the types of * a and * b to be char, making a and b pointers to char.

(EDIT: how do you escape * properly inline with other text?)
How to Read Faster
If you define "OO" to mean "has any form of ad hoc polymorphism" then I agree that Haskell is an OO language. On the other hand, I suspect most of the profession would assume that the polymorphism requirements in the definition of OO extend only so far as what Java, C++ and Python provide, that is, subclass-based polymorphism implemented using a vtable reference per object (or equivalent). The Haskell community certainly does not consider type classes to be a feature that provides "OO".

When I enter these debates I assume we're talking about OO in the de facto sense described above. Under that nomenclature I agree that ad hoc polymorphism is a useful language feature but believe that the OO implementation of it is bad.
I think a common trigger may play a role, e.g. evocative weather/smells, a related news event, similar life changes. The key is a subtle trigger, so you don't consciously register the connection.
Compare the "arming formula" of a Homeric ἀριστεία.

I understand donning hockey pants helps wheel snipes.
There are only four countries with wealth taxes. That is not “common in a Europe”.

> Net wealth taxes are far less widespread than they used to be in the OECD but there has recently been a renewed interest in wealth taxation. While 12 countries had net wealth taxes in 1990, there were only four OECD countries that still levied recurrent taxes on individuals’ net wealth in 2017. Decisions to repeal net wealth taxes have often been justified by efficiency and administrative concerns and by the observation that net wealth taxes have frequently failed to meet their redistributive goals. The revenues collected from net wealth taxes have also, with a few exceptions, been very low.

http://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/role-and-design-of-net-we...
The Gates foundation has a interest in keeping estimates of the population down low.

It's important to help promote global community now, today when it matters.

And given how rich countries progress, extrapolation to poor countries make sense.

But it's not how it will go down, look at attempts 80 year ago what they thought 2020 would be

Not a great example, but it's well under -

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/pdf_studies/study033.pdf

There are massive changes coming, and they won't be in the negative direction.

Longevity will mean increased fertility.

UBI means things other than money will matter, like it or not when jobs start decreasing.
Pretty sure there's a lot of electronics going into planes these days.
Yes. All report to me.

Rapid context switching is taxing and something I try to avoid. Some folks are better at switching than others and I guess I am one of those people. I do try to separate contexts by day or portion of day. I also have many years of experience with all this, so decision-making carries a low cognitive load for most problems.
Having worked there a long time ago, I hadn't quite put the pieces together until recently.

My university background actually straddles engineering and management, but I ended up working on the business side of the firm. While I was there I kinda thought it was amazing how much of the business was powerpoint slides about market positioning, rather than making stuff, which seemed like a fixed roadmap provided from above. I was an intern, so I kinda figured it was just a thing about a firm of that scale, and besides I had friends in more technical roles so someone was doing the chip-making. Remarkably some are still with the firm.

Anyway the thing that tied up the ends for me has been some recent work. I'm helping a friend at a B2B startup in the financial space, ostensibly in a technical capacity. A huge amount of the work is everything other than coding. Colleagues were brought in with sales/marketing experience, and it's been made clear how these sales work: there's an awful lot of box-checking. You need docs about everything imaginable to even have a chance to sell to some of these firms. GDPR, ISO standards, and so on.

And it turns out there's a disconnect between how things work technically and how they work on paper. When did you last do a GDPR training session? Where is the updated registry with the serial numbers of every device in your firm? It goes on an on with things that work on paper but in practice probably have a bit of an implementation gap. The ones I mentioned are mostly just time consuming, but give it enough complexity and you have documents that say we'll be ready with the next feature in 3 months, but techies that say that's not what they meant.

Guess what, there's always business people involved, and they know that they don't know how code works, but they can read docs. It's important to cater to them. And who does that better than MBAs? And once you make the sale, who gets credit?

So you have a two tribes issue eventually, when the firm is so big that there are business people who don't talk to the tech people and vice versa. In a small firm the interface people are people like me who can do both and have very few steps to anyone else. In a large firm, there are entire halls full of people who think the other side is doing X when they're actually doing Y. You have Chinese whispers at the interface, because in a large firm the tech+biz people are too far away from the tech end to understand what the techies want to offer and what they think is a stretch.