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How to increase salaries? Hah, fundamentally change the supply and demand of labor. Not gonna get around that basic dynamic.

Too many unemployed / underemployed educated people willing to take the job for less. Too few companies generating enough profit and growth to employ such numbers of people at good salaries.

All you have to do is change even 1 of those 2 things, and get out of the curse of the middle aged advanced economy.
Indeed, a similar situation happened in the mid 2000's before Intel moved to the Core architecture. I wouldn't be surprised if something like this happened again.
Does AMD really dominate the gaming market? I was still under the impression that AMD is what you buy when you're on a budget and Intel is what you get if you care about gaming performance. I just did a quick search and it looks like most people are still saying single core performance is better on Intel chips?
Tom Stoppard and the Last Crusade
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You just admitted to purposely hijacking your employer's product development to harm them. You also admitted to acting in bad faith.

You probably just admitted to a crime. Certainly you've opened yourself up to a lawsuit to make the victims of the hack whole.

You're looking at some very serious legal trouble.
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I've been telling developers for years if you build your infrastructure on top of tons of 3rd party services like Google Cloud or AWS then you basically don't own it, and can be shut down any day, against your will.

Web companies should build on "Linux" only, as their base platform, so they own everything above that. I was a fan of Parler but building on AWS was a huge mistake, and they should have realized they were "owned" from day one.

And to any other CEO/CTO making the same mistake: "Beware, you do not have control over your company."
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That'll sort itself out pretty quickly. TSMC is flush with cash from the premium pricing they've been able to charge for their 5nm fabs. Every day TSMC doesn't have enough capacity is a day they funnel easy money straight to their competitors at Samsung and Intel.

Investing into increasing their fab capacity is the easiest business decision they'll ever make. And if they need finance they could get investors lining up around the block throwing money their way.
> They're already involved in legal cannabis industry in the USA anyway.

How so?
By "insurrection" you mean an actual deliberate years-long effort to replace everyone in positions of power with those loyal to you, repeatedly calling into doubt the outcome of a fair election, manipulating people into attacking your opposition, while preventing appropriate security measures then leaving them helpless for 4 hours when under assault.

Do you really need the quotes?
Well sure, you could do so much better with a small library like Vert.x (which I love). But getting an entire app framework with config/routing/db connectivity/etc is just so easy with Spring Boot. Plus, you get a vast ecosystem. Now the memory usage and compile times? Yeah, youmightnotneedspringsmemoryoverhead.
Are such investors allowed buying unregulated securities?
But how could they maintain an accurate count? Maybe they were just persisting the user-friendly format alongside the actual count...
Don't know if this an issue of good faith. Twitter has 5000 employees, Parler has maybe a few dozen.
I've been trying to avoid using that escape hatch since, presumably, the new settings will eventually be the only settings.

There's also a search in there which has proved helpful.
I agree with Epictetus purely because I can’t change what happened to me, but I can make decisions about how to respond to what happened.

I originally had a hard time with this idea because people have used this “your response is your responsibility” excuse when being unkind to me, but the thing is, this mode of thinking doesn’t mean no one can hurt you and no one should be accountable for being unkind. It just means at the end of the day, you won’t benefit from dwelling on it and practicing seeking solutions instead is purely beneficial.

Once I separated the idea from the strict context of responses to what people did to me but anything the world could throw at me, be it bad weather or getting a great sleep or being given a gift or tripping myself down stairs, I realized it’s quite easy to apply and think about. It made a lot more sense without the loaded emotional, interpersonal context overlaid.

I figured I’d externalize this in case it helps anyone else, not trying to over-explain simple concepts to people :)
No, it yields a Gini coefficient very close to zero.

The Gini coefficient is defined as 1/2 the mean absolute difference considering all pairs of households:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

A group of people where everyone has the same income as a Gini coefficient of exactly zero. Adding a single outlier will increase it a little. A group of 1001 with 1000 people earning $1 and one person earning $100 has a Gini coefficient of 0.09.
Tl;dr

> Culture is no longer made. It is simply curated from existing culture, refined, and regurgitated back at us. The algorithms cut off the possibility of new discovery.
The most important crux of the matter is that it can hide both a posteriori and a priori knowledge. An existing piece of information in the world can literally be rendered unavailable except to a select group of people.

In the book:

> As long as the Secret-Keeper refused to speak, You-Know-Who could search the village where Lily and James were staying for years and never find them, not even if he had his nose pressed against their sitting room window!

This raises a lot of uncomfortable metaphysical and epistemological questions. Is this a purely psychological effect? Or does this operate on the information itself? If it operates on information itself, how big can you scale the effect?

Ignoring magic, if such an effect truly exists, what are its implications for information theory? (Especially since the information is clearly not destroyed as the spell can be undone.) Information itself could become weaponized. Can a RAM bit flip be triggered though the application of such an effect? Or is this effect purely mental?

What about second and third order effects? Does the effect propagate? Assume a machine learning system with the following knowledge/word vectors: Food + Italy = Pasta. If Italy is placed under the fidelius, are the vectors and weights going to magically re-arrange themselves? How will people talk about the dish pasta?

Of all the spells in J.K. Rowling's world this is probably the most creative/disturbing. The whole gimmick with the seven horcruxes is merely distributed systems theory applied to a lich's phylactery, a concept that can be traced back millennia to various ancient civilizations. Splitting and and anchoring soul has nothing on arbitrarily erasing, manipulating, and restoring information itself on an infinitely large scale.
So because you were not compensated properly you decided to screw the users of your company who had nothing to do with you being compensated less. You act like you are some kind of martyr but you are the sole person responsible for the human rights violations of thousands and potentially millions of unsuspecting users who used that service. I hope you can sleep well tonight knowing how you deliberately violated privacy and rights of people unconnected with your compensation issue. If you were treated unfairly you should have resigned. Not fuck the company over.
Who else would Apple take feedback from during the betas? Who else would even notice that there was a hole in the firewalls except the firewall developers?
Western Europe is the worst place to be a software engineer. Your salaries will only be like 20% above average salary in the country. However, unlike other jobs, you spend tons of time to learn new technologies, visit a university and all that for absolutely nothing. Decline of Europe is inevitable.

In Germany, a tiler with almost no education will make more money than a software engineer.
> Hidden complexity you don't control is the most expensive kind I think.

That's called encapsulation. :)

Seriously, encapsulating complexity is the foundation of most programming paradigms.
> The President is perfectly capable of getting a message out without the use of twitter. There's even a room in his house specifically for giving press briefings. To pretend that this is "silencing" him is ridiculous.

Debating, especially on the internet, requires a little generosity when interpreting your opponent's words. Be liberal in what you accept and strict in what you emit. I know that the President wasn't literally silenced. Jeff Bezos didn't send goons to the whitehouse to gag and bag him.

We both know that firing off a tweet to millions instantly is a lot easier than calling a press conference.
I think it's the prevalence of venture capital that allows us firms to chase growth for a decade before turning a profit.
Of course HN in it’s infinite wisdom can’t get the causal connection between BTC rising and tether printing right.

Tether is being printed because btc is pumping. They have to print tether to maintain the peg at 1$. If the price keeps rising due to demand for tether they need to print and sell tether.

It does not matter if you can redeem your tethers for dollars because they buy tether when the price goes below 1$ to maintain the peg.
Only strife and pain.
That changed with Zen 3 CPUs that shipped out recently. Now AMD has better multicore and single-core performance.
Just like any other organized crime that can invest and launder money. Even better when it's forced to be a cash-only industry thanks to federal regulations.
Short answer, yes.

Long answer -- it's probably more complex than all that, but Tether has been a scam for a very long time.
Hey there surely is 24 billion USD sitting in an undisclosed bank in Bahamas or St Kitts and Nevis or Panama or somewhere
You have likely confessed to a crime. If not a crime, you have committed a serious
software-related ethical violation and should not work in software again.
Tether says it's backed but there's no proof of it. Infact, a few days back, they admitted in court that there currency is only 62% backed. That's why this court ruling is important.
It's overkill until it's not. We chose etcd initially but after a while we started wanted to ask questions about our data that weren't necessarily organised in the same way as the key/value hierarchy. That just moved all the processing to the client, and now I just wish we used a SQL database from the beginning.
Yeah, the super high ceo pay is for the super large companies. Pick a super large company in europe and you can find high ceo pay too. Shells and volkswagens ceos for example made 10 million each.
> Except that Apple did not take action.

Look, I don't mean to criticise. But how do you know that Apple didn't start working on a fix when they were told about it?

Apple doesn't exactly say when they start working on a fix for something, or else we would have known earlier.
> In fact, Apple basically “improves” every new model by adding another camera to the back. Much like razor companies release a new razor by adding a new blade.

I'm not sure smartphones (or razors) need to be drastically redesigned every year.

However, internal upgrades matter: CPU, GPU, custom coprocessors, camera internals and processing, 5G, battery life, etc.. Ten years of incremental upgrades produces some impressive changes. Not to mention the software updates, new apps, and less obvious hardware improvements like better screens, waterproofing, lidar, etc..
>The fact that they're almost equivalent to those two at 5nm when Intel is at 14nm+++++++++

Only when it comes to single core. And even then Intel has to spend 2x silicon - Zen 3 CCD at 7nm with a die size of 80.7 mm² while Intel's 10th gen 8C die is 170mm2. Of course it isn't silicon itself which is costly, it is the processing of each wafer what is the cost here, and getting 2x less cores per wafer is bound to affect the margin/profit/etc.

And of course Intel has no chances of putting out 16C chip into normal desktop like AMD does with 3950x and 5950x (those chips successfully go into the territory of 2x Xeon workstations costing arm and leg)
As a thought experiment: consider that Trump's "lies" are "fictions", not unlike a preacher who "lies" about the existence of God--or at least is missing the "objective facts" to back it up.

When Trump says the "election was stolen" he is using language that implies quid-pro-quo fraud occurred. This is of course a lie; there was no such fraud. But did the pandemic cause confusion, rule changes, altered turnouts, etc.? You betcha. And did Big Tech, embarrassed by the 2016 result, take actions to ensure a different outcome this time around? It's not clear exactly because it's not public, but it appears likely. Does his base have a right to feel bitter--like a mark who lost their money at a casino--even if it was all "legal"? It's only human.
I don't know if this is still true, but I was grateful for inadvertently benefiting from Catholic Lent period in the US, because McD would have Filet-o-Fish for $1 on Fridays. Less unhealthy opportunity to indulge in what usually costs $4 (?).
They didn't ban the dictators and warlords who preach genocidal rhetoric every day. They didn't ban the constant death threats from teenagers against each other and random celebrities they felt like canceling that week. They didn't ban the people who coordinated to loot a drug store in my neighborhood even though I reported them. They didn't ban rioters in Chicago who live streamed torching businesses. They didn't ban people who were literally convicted of murder.

But they sure got together fast to put up billboards in destroyed neighborhoods bragging about how they helped elevate protests. And they sure were proud of coordinating against right wing wackos in DC.

TOS are never enforced consistently and GAFA is a neoliberal technocratic echo chamber that feigns social progressivism in order to coordinate anti-labor, anti-speech actions.
I did a small bit of research into this but it was pretty long ago so the details are a bit vague but if I remember correctly it was mainly due to 2 factors:

- Fungi often don't parasite humans as we are "to warm" (and many other reasons) but with increasing warmer weather fungi will likely adapt to it and in turn become humans become increasingly closer to be "an interesting habitat"

- Changes in weather changing how fungi grow and where they grow making it more likely for existing problematic fungi to come in contact with humans.

Take all of this with a grain of salt it was quite a while ago that I read about it and I mainly remembered the conclusion.

But there had been cases where due to (likely) climate change induced changes in weather fungi started infecting humans, it was either in the US or Australia. So sorry again not much useful information.

I guess it might have been better to not post this without trying to find the articles/dokus I had read/seen about it given that I don't remember to many details besides the conclusion I had.

(EDIT: Try searching "warmer weather fungi humans" at least on duckduckgo this yielded some articles about this which are not the sources I had read and I still have to read and evaluate them, but might find some useful information)
The Tether situation is even more suspect when you consider that Tether and Bitfinex are operated by the same group of people. The two companies have tried to publicly distance themselves from each other at times, but the Paradise Papers leak revealed that the two companies are, in fact, closely related ( https://news.bitcoin.com/paradise-papers-reveal-bitfinexs-de... )

Keep in mind that Bitfinex profits from trading activity. They benefit substantially from both increased prices and increased volume, both of which occur after each Tether-driven surge in Bitcoin. The concern is that the Bitfinex operators are using Tether as a convenient pump to drive the market into a frenzy, from which they profit greatly by skimming trading fees off of the top. If only a fraction of people ever try to withdraw Tether, it's entirely possible that they could cash out those few requests from trading profits, indirectly. If they can continue to pump the value of Bitcoin higher and higher, any potential fraud may never be exposed.
It says you _might_ not need it not that you will _never_ need it. I have used the page when I'm trying to do something and would need jquery for one small thing. I don't want to use a library for one thing so 10-15 lines of code instead of all of jquery is a good tradeoff in those cases.
Why, oh why does this device have to be connected tot he public internet? That should be a big red flag. and the answer should not be "because we can".
>Tether is backed.

Is it backed by dollars?
IMHO, ORMs are a wrong abstraction. Full-fledged objects are a wrong abstraction of the data in more cases than not.

The right tool is a wrapper / DSL over SQL, which allows to interact with the database in a predictable and efficient way, while not writing placeholder-ridden SQL by hand. Composable, typesafe, readable.

ORMs do fine in small applications without performance requirements. The further you go from that, the less adequate an ORM becomes, and the more you have to sidestep and even fight it, in my experience.
An M1 equipped Mac Mini with 16 GB of ram and some more storage is still more than £1000. The M1 has to get a lot cheaper to be anything more than a warning shot for Intel.

What it should definitely be, however, is a death-sentence for x86. I bet Intel are proud of it, but ultimately they must be at least somewhat jealous of those who don't have to use it.
I average about 8 years in my jobs. I think I'd find it much more boring to be constantly looking for a new role. Job hunting is the worst.
most countries can't do basic Keynesian economics
It is increasingly, vanishingly hard to not use the big three cloud services. Mainly because any platform or tool you might use is _also_ hosted on these clouds.
Pat went to my high school and computer science program. It’s in a small rural, Pennsylvania farming town - pop 2000. Somehow we got an amazing math teacher turned CompSci and he turned out world class students - we always ranked high enough each year to compete internationally in ACSL.

A few years back when the teacher retired, we all gathered together to thank him, including Pat! World-class guy, and makes us proud! So great to share a story with students, who come from nothing, how you can leave our hometown and eventually be the CEO of Intel.

Wishing Pat the best of luck in his new role!
Yes... kind of. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601, there is a "basic format" without separators and an "extended format" that includes them for readability. However, a T is still required to separate the date and time in the most recent version of the standard.
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If/when that happens a major casualty will be all the people yield farming stablecoins on DeFi platforms like Curve and Compound.

Right now staking dollar stablecoins looks like a pretty risk free way to make 5-10% per annum on your USD positions. The way you do that is by providing liquidity for trading back and forth between USDT/USDC/DAI and other stablecoins. If USDT ever breaks a buck, then there will be a run on the pools and all your USDC/DAI will suddenly convert to now worthless USDT.
> Tether is being printed

Tether doesn't claim to "print" anything. Supposedly, Tether is 1:1 backed by actual dollars being paid in to the Tether corporation.

If Tether corporation is "printing" Tethers without having received corresponding deposits, that's the fraud.
No, I just don't want to feel like crap after I eat.
>Fringe Groups

That implies that what is left on Twitter is the norm, but I have a hard time believing that anything on twitter is normal.
Please don't use allcaps for emphasis on HN - it's basically yelling and the site guidelines ask you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You can put *asterisks* around text and it will get italicized. And (this just in!) it's much easier to get literal asterisks now: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Also, please don't post supercilious dismissals of the community. It's tedious and dyspeptic. If you're commenting here, you're as much "HN" as anyone else is. If you know more than other users, that's wonderful—please share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
> They never dropped XMPP from Talk, they just never implemented it in Hangouts.

ISTR that they did back off of XMPP support in Google Talk to some extent a bit before that last move. Something about not allowing incoming connection requests from non-Google accounts by default IIRC.
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according to parler they did what you suggest
Why do you think such regulations would apply to such institutions or apply in a way they cannot legally circumvent? These regulations were made for a reason and it is not to limit investment to those sanctioned by the federal government.
European economy is on strong decline and no new competitive companies are founded. Compare that to US where new large companies are created all the time. All top-5 companies in US were founded in the last 40 years.
> or do we all just like watching things get pumped forever?

The real problem is that so many people are invested in Bitcoin that they're not just watching, they're benefiting. At least on paper. People are too excited about the prospect of doubling or quadrupling or 10x-ing their money that they don't want to believe anything could be wrong with the system.
What seems fishy about it? Each tether is created when someone gives up a dollar. That’s why the conversion rate of dollars to tether is (almost always) 1. There is no mystery here. The only concern is that maybe they don’t have enough reserves to cover all the tether they created. They say they do, but there was some audit drama in recent years.

Anyway, this and other comments here all point to how much the Hacker News community grossly misunderstands markets and economics.
That doesn't make sense....
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Yeah, exactly this.

Intel has really stumbled on fabrication the last 2-3 years, but the idea that they won't correct that ignores decades of precedent.

I'm an AMD fanboy from the K6 days, and I love what Lisa Su has been able to deliver for them, but if it wasn't for Intel's stumbles, they would still be single digits at best in most markets.

Look at their progress from Pentium 4 to Core 2 Duo (makes me feel real old to see that was 15 years ago). We probably won't see quite as dramatic an improvement over the next 3 years, but I'll be stunned if AMD still has the performance lead at that point.

Apple's a wildcard, but they aren't going to sell their chips, and they represent a fairly small part of the PC market. No other non-x86 chips have made even a tiny dent in the PC market, and even in the datacenter, it's still mostly x86.

The absolute worst I can imagine happening to Intel over the next decade is that they no longer define the CPU market. But that's a long, long, way from dying, and will probably be good for the market and good for Intel in the long run.
Yes it is backed because when they print a new tether they sell it for 1$ which they put it in their treasury.