skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intel is circling the drain; their revenue masks a deep illness, like a healthy looking person who drops dead of a heart attack at a party. I do think there's a chance Gelsinger can convince the company to turn around. They do have a lot to work with, despite having squandered many many opportunities.

Why do I say sickness?

- Most of their revenue comes from a single product line; every BU reported a revenue decline last year except mobileeye (small) and CCG.

- Their parts are not broadly competitive on performance/W nor raw performance except in diminishing subsectors.

- They have no presence in the largest growing sector: mobile.

- Oh, that "eye-popping" $20B investment in fab over the next three years? TSMC plans to invest $100B in the same period!

Now the Intel of old could probably have pulled out of these problems, but let's look how they got here:

- They have historically been a fab powerhouse, with process years ahead of the competition. But they have repeatedly missed their own milestones for smaller node size and are now (relatively behind or even far behind). They've had to throw in the towel repeatedly over the past few years in this area.

- They've spent time fiddling at the edges (e.g. depth cameras) pouring money into new businesses and then dropping them. Not a bad idea when you need growth and should diversify your revenue stream (look at my first point above) but terrible if you have a 100% whiff rate.

- Of those whiffs above they have had some bad ones, like radio chipsets, when they earlier had said they were counting on them.

- Their architecture appears to be inappropriate for mobile/low power. This is a self-own. They not only had for its time the fastest ARM product line (StrongARM, from the DEC acquisition) but threw it away because they were focused on their high-margin quasi-monopoly x86 line.

- Their partners (Microsoft, Dell, etc) are enthusiastically exploring ARM and Intel at the moment has no counter.

- Their "only the paranoid survive" culture is gone; business decision making has been slow and lazy for more than a decade.

- They are heavily dependent on their partners. If there is a phase change in the market (MS finally ships a decent ARM Windows, Dell produces a decent ARM laptop that runs it), well, bye bye a big chunk of CCG revenue. They could save some share by slashing price, but it's still terrible.

This is why I said it's near death.
http://archive.is/xjFK3
Usually these companies offer two plans, a monthly and a yearly deal. The yearly deal is cheaper because in the long run they profit more. When you cancel early you essentially pay all of the discount you got per month back.
The front-runners of Southeast Asia’s super-app race – Tech in Asia
my patch:

delete WebAssembly

injected with uBlock into every browser context before page loads.
But they aren't in any way in control of their own growth. See my comment a little above, or simply look at their gruesome financials: https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1439/...
Aaaaaand It's not the first time WASM seen in [0] wild.

[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=835887
I think that shopkeeper getting stabbed in Scotland forced a rethink.
> there's nothing unpredictable about the supply chain if you don't cancel your orders

Unless there's a fire at an AKM plant. Or a fire at a Renesas plant. Or a drought in Taiwan. Or blackouts in Texas.

When you're running at low utilization, lead times are shorter and the market is more forgiving of order alterations and incorrect predictions of demand. But that's not the case right now, and there have been several exogenous setbacks for the sector.
I'm not seeing the issue with the except you posted. In context, it seems clear to me that those are all very back of the envelope estimations. Not everything needs to be backed by multiple citations to double blind trials; approximations can be quite useful.

The point (IMO) is to take statements you strongly suspect to be true from personal experience (ex that a pointy-haired middle manager reduces your productivity) and attempt to assign ballpark numbers to them. The numbers don't need to be super accurate, merely within the correct order of magnitude. The hope is that such an exercise might allow you to estimate an expected return (to within an order of magnitude) for decision making purposes, or perhaps just to better understand the world around you.

Put another way, even if you dispute the exact outcome ($3 million a year), presumably you agree with the broader premise of being significantly more productive? (Note that increased productivity won't necessarily translate to increased income. It should give you something to work with though.)
> Prostitutes cost money.

That's odd. The prostitutes I visit don't charge me anything so long as I
clothe, feed, and shelter them. Also content with iphones and handbags.
This is singular the worst way to share information, he look here is a link to someone twitter feed, where you can read them talk about how they didn't read their contract for like 40 tweets.

They signed up for an annual subscription with monthly payments, and are acting like a cancellation fee is a surprise?

I don't like the practice, but this is hardly news.
Theese are also known as "Topology-disturbing objects". This article (also by Sugihara Kokichi) goes into a lot more details: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17513472.2017.1...

See also the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21602121
I don't understand what's scummy about this. Every service out there offers discounted prices for longer-term contracts since they are guaranteed a sustained future income. If they didn't have a penalty for breaking the contract then everyone would just game the system.

What should they do instead? Not have the annual payment option and screw over all the people who do want to pay for the entire year and are happy with the discount?
Παρι Σεν Ζερμεν vs. Μπαγερν Μοναχου, οριακή σύγκρουση στο Παρίσι
Κοιτάζοντας προς το φάσμα του αποκλεισμού από το Champions League, η κάτοχος Μπάγερν Μονάχου θα προσπαθήσει να ανατρέψουν την ήττα με 2-3 από το πρώτο ματς του προημιτελικού με την Παρί Σεν Ζερμέν όταν συναντηθούν στη Γαλλική πρωτεύουσα. Μια συναρπαστική συνάντηση πέντε γκολ στο Allianz Arena τελείωσε με την ομάδα του Μαουρίσιο Ποκετίνο να διεκδικεί ένα λεπτό προβάδισμα στην πρώτη μονομαχία και οι δύο σύλλογοι έρχονται στο παιχνίδι μετά από διαφορετικά αποτελέσματα στα εγχώρια πρωταθλήματα τους. Η αποδυναμωμένη Παρί πε΄ρασε από την έδρα του Στρασβούργο 1-4 το Σάββατο, ενώ μια πολύ αλλαγμένη ομάδα της Μπάγερν μπόρεσε να συγκεντρώσει μόνο ένα βαθμό από τη σύγκρουση με την Ουνιον Βερολίνου με ισοπαλία 1-1. Δεν χρειάζεται κάτι άλλο, προς το παρόν για τα σημερινά Παρι Σεν Ζερμεν – Μπαγερν Μοναχου προγνωστικα στοιχημα.
> BTW, vaccination strengthens lymph/blood system immunity, but not nose/throat lining, where viral aerosol producing

I don’t see that in the paper you referenced.
>Technically, the French tacos is a sandwich: a flour tortilla, slathered with condiments, piled with meat (usually halal)

"Usually halal". Yes, so it's as much stereotypical French food as a kebab then /s

Typical French street food is jambon-beurre (ham and butter sandwich, in a baguette) or in Brittany a galette saucisse (pork sausage in a galette, which is a savory type of crepe).
Sorry for not being clear — I was just referring to switching banks with whom you have credit cards. I don't know if GP was referring to "banks" in the context of credit or debit, but it seems most people in the US who are savvy about such things use credit cards because of the available rewards.
Pirate Bay is the ultimate literary critic. "Nobody steals bad books", says Palahniuk, the most fleeced author of all times.

Finland has only one author at that level: Sofi Oksanen.

In comparison, Sweden has Hundreds and Norway has about three.

Edward Dutton, an Englishman living in Finland has had some success. But the book was about Islam, and it was leeched like crazy, probably millions. Then the book was banned from Amazon and removed from PP. Baddest of the non-bad books.
It took me over an hour with chat support to cancel without the fee. That was 3 years ago. I won’t go back.
Art. Literature. Music.

Fields without gatekeepers at every entry point.
It is not inference but deduction and knowledge. Iran has long said that they enrich 20% uranium and can enrich 60% if needed. 20% is the minimum needed for weapons-grade and is 4-6 times what is needed for civilian power. There were talks between the US and Iran in 2010 about lowering the enrichment levels.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26786563
The E.O. Wilson anecdote at the end amused me since he says if there are ants invading your kitchen you should lay out a piece of food and I thought he meant this to trap the ants somehow. But no he meant to just introduce yourself to your new neighbors!

In my experience, the best way to get rid of ants is to find where they are getting in and trace their supply lines back to the colony where you can dig it up and kill the queen. When I was little we had an ant problem in our house and one evening on the back patio I laid out an oreo, a strawberry, some saltines, and a few other snacks to see which ones the ants would like the most. The next morning our patio was a literal carpet of ants. The oreo and strawberry were long gone and they were working on the crackers with less enthusiasm. Following the ants we could see that the colony was underneath our green turtle sandbox off the end of the patio. Pushing it aside revealed the most intricate and bustling ant colony I've ever seen -- with separate chambers for eggs, larva, and pupa and tunnels interconnecting them across a 3 foot radius. Sadly, this colony was a big problem for us so my mom and I dug into the chambers until we found the queen (the one ant 10- or 20x larger than the rest) and then we killed it. Within weeks the colony was collapsing and our years-long ant infestation was resolved.

Since then everything about ants has been fascinating to me, from their physiology as this article gets into, to their behavior and organization. I even made a web game about ants at antocracy.io where you control a queen ant and use pheromones to influence your otherwise-autonomous workers.
I really really really wish the FSF-haters all the luck in the world in their quest to thread the needle between bigcorp-hostile, GPL-style copyleft and user-hostile, bigcorp-friendly open source.

I'm sad they can't learn to love GNU projects. I for one do. They just... work. Whenever they don't, invariably there's some freedom-hostile hardware in the way. This makes me want to move closer to FSF-recommended hardware.

I wish them all the luck because the FSF just seems cursed at this point. They do absolutely essential legal and advocacy work and the world wouldn't be what it is without them, and virtually nobody has a deep enough sense of history to recognize that. They will still get my donation dollars for the foreseeable future, and I hope they can rehabilitate their image.

I do sorta think this whole thing will end up working out well overall for the FSF's mission of building a software domain that's solidly out of the clutches of proprietary predation. I've never seen the FSF, the distinction between open and free software, in the public mind more than the last year. I can get really snarky about how all these people who never cared before suddenly come out against the FSF. You didn't care before, you still don't care, good job expressing the total lack of impact you insist on wanting to have.

Are more free software foundations a good thing? Probably. It'll dilute the impact in the short run, these new projects will have to spend time and effort solving run-of-the-mill nonprofit stuff that the FSF worked out decades ago, but it also means more people will get invested. Eventually the new blood will learn to work with the old guard and we can all build a new order together.

Color me optimistic about the future of free software.
Education Doesn't Work [for creating socioeconomic mobility]
Desktop computers, or even servers, don't need to handle anything like the heat, cold, or vibration that cars are subjected to though.
Russian propaganda does not say that. Putin himself said on multiple occasions that any theories of staging moon landings are silly. Don’t have a reference at the moment but I have seen several Putin’s interviews to that effect.

Russian propaganda is alive and well on many topics but denying American moon landings is not one of them.
It should be 100% of the months you have used that year. e.g. if non contract is $20 and contract is $10, and you used the service for 5 months you owe $50
Shifting Emphasis
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26770929
Kind of depressing an 18 year old was able to do this.
The whole idea of offering annual pricing is that the income stream is more consistent, so the price can be lower. It does hurt Adobe (not much relative to their income, but still some) to have that income not materialize.

If you're not happy with a cancellation fee, that's what the monthly pricing is for—you pay more month to month but can cancel any time. It's a very normal trade-off. The only real alternatives Adobe has to a cancellation fee are to only offer monthly pricing or forbid cancelling an annual contact at all.
Swan wasn't the problem, as I understand it. Krzanich was an atrocious leader, and Swan's job was basically to put out the dumpster fire that Krzanich left behind after he was forced out.
So if you have used 10 months and want to cancel you should pay $100 instead of $10?
Have you ever worked in the embedded space? The technical work is often fun while the business side is miserable.

I worked with Toyota when they were literally trying to shave a ¥100 from the engine control unit of a new vehicle. A new design! Once they entered production they were going to shave the cost even more on the backs of their suppliers.

There's a reason why Intel got out of this business. Ever wonder why AMD can use x86? They got that license back when nobody would design in your part unless there was a second supplier of the identical part. So they got a license so that Intel could sell parts. Intel abandoned that world without a backwards glance.
Maybe Amazon treating open source developers like it treats its blue collar workers will open people's eyes about working conditions in 21st century American capitalism.
That first video is so much more helpful than the second. Funny how you (or I at least) can see the thing rotate and still have no idea what it looks like.

An interactive experience would be more illuminating. What's some good software that'll let me rotate the 3d model?
people complaining about breaking contracts. really?
>The bank said its policy towards cryptocurrencies had been in place since 2018 and is kept under review. It could not immediately say which countries the ban applied to.

My guess is that it's just some middle manager blindly following directives from 2018 that haven't been updated. I can't think of any other reason why they'd ban it when everyone else is moving in the opposite direction.
Yes, I am saying just that. The body uses 100 calories of corn chips and Coke differently than 100 calories of bacon eaten by itself.

Read Taubes for references to the scientific literature.
Maybe it depends on where. AFAIK you're obliged to pay the entire lease with a few exceptions that might help you get out earlier. One being a nice landlord (so not a law)

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/renters-r...

AFAIK what you linked to only says a landlord is required to try to find a new renter. In SF that's probably easy to find but any many places it could easily be several months all of which you'd be required to keep paying.
Most VM providers now support live migration for common machine varieties, so forced reboots are uncommon.
There's also the issue that it's much easier to do quality control when you're receiving your supplies Just In Time.

The longer the lag between producing a faulty part and trying to use it, the harder to diagnose the problem.

The analogous software problem is probably having database backups sitting around without regularly testing if you can successfully restore from them.
This happens every time I ask for use cases in these threads. It is always something just over the horizon.

The early internet immediately allowed people to do cool stuff that was explainable if someone had a moderately open mind. If wasn’t vaporware.
I wonder if they let you buy GBTC, ETHE, or LTCN.
Visibly, it launches calc.exe on Windows. But only reproes if launches as file:///
> I'm guessing the next thing we will hear is a pitch for federal subsidy for this under a national security banner.

Just open your ears and you'll hear it already: "Intel CEO calls for "moonshot" to boost U.S. role in chipmaking" https://www.axios.com/intel-ceo-gelsinger-chipmaking-moonsho...

Nom nom!
Nah. Both of those 'dying' businesses are seeing an explosion of demand.
Yeah. And it's not even bugs in the Wasm engine that are the problem; the RWX memory for Wasm JIT code makes all other bugs into potential RCE bugs. It must be banished! :)
Prostitution does not require money, it requires trade. Trade, or the mutual satisfaction of values or preferences through the exchange of goods or services, is not a concept that requires much thought to invent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/magazine/monkey-business....
If this really came down to a nondisparagement clause that would be shocking. Getting to make an offer on the rights to some of the best selling music of all time is itself substantial. This explanation would also diminish the emotional/moral attachment Swift still claims to her earlier works -- owning the masters meant a lot to me, but not as much as this tumblr post? The world of celebrity is bizarre so I don't know, but I think there has to be more to it than that. Either that they were never for sale to her, or the price was too high.
That's exactly the dark pattern is - the convoluted pricing and terms. Also, not everybody is a uckin lawyer, that's another problem.

The customer has already been paying more than they'd have paid if they went for a long duration contract.
Thanks for checking us out! I'm sorry about the confusion. Please try the Audio-Technica build. Despite the description, all the builds work with any pair of headphones. We do tune the EQ to improve the experience for specific headsets (hence the different versions). But in the Audio-Technica build there is a "Generic Headset" option. We will also be releasing tunings for more headsets very soon, but any of the builds should give you a good idea of what we're about.
I have "umask 077" in my ~/.bash_profile.
Trader Jeff Yass Parlayed Poker and Horse Race Handicapping into a 12B Fortune
https://i.imgur.com/CZSCvw8.png

If you click the options you can see the prices. This is a common practice, I feel like there are people are really trying to make this a bigger deal than it is.
Several other women had contributed to GCC including being the official maintainers of pieces of it.
Intel has ~23 billion in cash reserves [1]. MSFT in the 2000s (when lots of people were proclaiming their death) had cash reserves of ~40 billion [2]. Microsoft came back to compete with Apple as the most valuable company. Apple was far closer to death & managed to come back. AMD was routinely having problems competing & managed to stay in it enough to come back as the x86 leader.

Does Intel have a problem? Yes. They know it too. I think you're overlooking how long a runway $20 billion buys you though to correct things & try different strategies. It's also ignoring the huge push within the US government to subsidize silicon manufacturing in the US for political & security reasons, of which Intel will be a huge beneficiary.
I fully expect in 15 years Intel will still be a very valuable independent company with a market cap larger than today.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/INTC/intel/cash-on...
[2] https://money.cnn.com/2002/04/12/pf/agenda_msft/
Thanks for that... I’ll check it out
That's like stabbing yourself in a face with a plastic spork multiple times to be cool and stick it to the man. The amount of $$ you would lose with a collection on your credit report until it drops will dwarf the amount of money you will make on adwords.

If you can afford Adobe subscription, just cancel it and pay the cancellation fee. Or run it into the end of the period. The costs are minimal. Definitely smaller than the costs of a collection.
Why would you ever pay a dividend when a stock buyback is more tax efficient for US investors?
The TLDR is that also chemistry is mostly about electric charges, actually speed plays a role in which reaction is favored when there are competing reactions, and reaction rate decreases with mass. Hydrogen being very small, one neutron makes a big mass difference, so it's the most susceptible to mass change.
Move fast and do things. Amazing way to cut through bullshit.
I sent this to a guy who did lots of Photoshop in college. His response with a rolled eye emoji - "Damn! People do pay for Photoshop. Never knew."
It uses WebAssembly VM bug to get arbitrary memory address write/read capability within Chromium sandbox.
link please...
Of course it's a fucking zx2c4 project. Does jason do anything that's not cool?
> developers are comfortable with more operational complexity

developers should never be comfortable with operational complexity. It's like saying javascript is a good language because you got used to the quirks and warts.
George Floyd death: The prosecution's case against Derek Chauvin
> Technically, the French tacos is a sandwich: a flour tortilla, slathered with condiments,

That is either a taco, as the name suggests, or possibly sushi, but it's not, in any case, a sandwich.

EDIT: Actually, given the packet description from the article, its a calzone.

https://cuberule.com/
When researching hedge fund jobs I had heard of the Susquehanna International Group (Jeff Yass’s firm), but never knew their story until reading this article.

In addition to trading, SIG now is a major venture capital investor. They put some of the first money into ByteDance (TikTok parent company), and parlayed a few million dollar investment into a stake worth billions.

Yass, a libertarian, just got a new futures contract approved that is based on USA tax rates. As a way for people and firms to potentially hedge on Joe Biden (or a future president’s) potential tax increases.

Lots more interesting stuff in this detailed, well-written history.

EDIT: This article reminded me of another great gambler-turned-investor story from HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16985413
I'd be worried this would be full of idea guys and other people who don't actually know how to code. I view my own personal projects as me being able to flex my coding skills before worrying about making tons of money. I hate idea guys with a vengeance, twice I've been times where I'll build out a prototype for someone out of goodwill, and then the moment I mentioned compensation they take the prototype and run
Surprised I haven't seen any comments about Microsoft. This was the qubit type that Microsoft was betting on, I think the lead researcher behind the reproducibility issue worked for them too. Very curious if they are going to pivot to something else, they have also invested heavily in QC startups.
I bet the last time you used console.log was a race condition bug then :-)
You are stretching the definition of convoluted. Offering discounts for signing a longer-term contract is standard practice in every industry. Don't need to be a lawyer to figure that out.