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Sorry, I doubt AMD would be where they are now had they not been a second source for Intel’s x86 chips, that’s what really bootstrapped them.
> I've seen many junior employees hold the wrong expectation of HR in terms of who's on their side

"Friend or foe" is a super reductive way to look at it, and will limit your ability to actually understand what is going on.

To the generic employee, HR thinks of you the same way a farmer treats cattle. Within the range you are judged to be worth, they want you content, quietly productive and enjoying whatever perks they throw your way.

But if you're problematic in some way, you're only worth so much effort.

And worse, if whatever is wrong with you threatens to spread to the rest of the herd (eloquent expressions of shared discontent, organizing, even being a bit of a natural leader, if they're paranoid), well, who employs things that threaten them?
All I can say is fuck the grand jury of the Central District of California. They'll just have to get a warrant for the device and try to convince the person to give up the password to the device. That's how these things work.
Have they been perfect? No. Keyboards, App Store, still not entirely sure what the iPad Pro does, etc.

But you know what Tim Cook didn’t do? He didn’t screw it all up. Which sounds like faint praise, but I really think it’s inarguable that Jobs remade Apple, stem to stern, blood to bone, software to hardware. And to step in and take over a company that had been reborn like that, and not nickel-and-dime it into mediocrity? Remarkable.

I don’t think anyone is really arguing Cook is a product visionary—I certainly don’t think Cook is himself. But just navigating the political landscape alone is truly impressive.
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The "well respected" part of that has partly to do with no evidence of them being partial.

If they were known as a kremlin puppet, they wouldn't be respected.
If you don't have time to read through the whole thing, here's what I think is the most important piece:

> This debate will come as no surprise to anyone who even casually follows American education policy. “Gifted and talented” programs are a constant flashpoint for controvery; just recently, after a bitter and protracted debate that broke down over similar lines, New York City decided to replace its admissions for gifted and talented programs with a combination of teacher recommendations and a random lottery.

> The problem with this debate is that both sides are misguided. The opponents of gifted education are generally focused on the wrong kinds of equity, while the supporters of gifted education are generally too focused on education as talent screening.

> People who think that gifted education, accelerated math classes, etc. are engines of inequity are only partially right. Yes, it’s possible for selective schools to become pipelines to success that leave others behind, but plenty of research and many policy experiments have shown that school choice is not very effective at improving grades. And the practice of shunting kids into accelerated math classes based on test scores hasn’t been shown to have a long-lasting effect (though interestingly it does seem to modestly decrease racial and gender gaps in access to accelerated classes).

> Forcing kids to take all the same classes is just focusing on the wrong kind of equity. What ultimately matters are economic outcomes, and those can (and should) be made more equitable through taxes, spending, and other economy-wide measures. We shouldn’t stop kids from taking hard STEM classes just because we’re worried that they’ll have a better chance of becoming rich STEMlords; instead, we should just tax the STEMlords more (in fact, the STEMlords themselves tend to support this). In fact, we don’t need an economically unequal society in order to incentivize people to run the fabs — those TSMC engineers working dawn to dusk aren’t even making big bucks.

> So while U.S. STEM education languishes, the debate over how to improve it seems locked in a pointless struggle over whether or not to enforce equity along unimportant dimensions or go hunting for natural talent to celebrate and reward. In fact, neither of these things should be the focus of a good STEM education system. We should be laser-focused on the question of how to educate and motivate a broad-based skilled workforce capable of sustaining the knowledge industries that are America’s main hope for continued economic relevance in the world, and how to structure the rest of our economic system to equitably redistribute the prosperity those industries create.
Only because the dev hardware ran x86. Now with M1, you won’t need to.
Which actually makes the information lack even worse since there was no indication of what desktops and phones were supported in my cursory examination. It always amazes me how often basic information like this is absent from the promotional material for various products.
Plus threats to pull or create jobs, fights for tax incentives or other 'free' stuff like special infrastructure or zoning changes. Messaging attacks & earned media are near free, healthcare industry is culpable here. Military seems to be the worst in all of this.

Politicians care about getting re-elected. That's the power fulcrum or pressure point.
What about as a last 100 meter technology? (I'm sorry, I'm not being glib. I don't know much about networking at that level.)
I think I'll take my chances with common law.
When you take into account total cost of ownership and the intangible of pain or frustration from other products, Apple typically comes in with the lowest cost. You pay more upfront to pay less (literally and emotionally) later.
I don't know... This year I lost all hope for Germany's future. This goes beyond VW. Until now, I kinda thought everything is going to be alright, Germany is a rich country and all. I wasn't aware of the extend of moral corruption in the CDU. They really eroded the whole country for personal gains. I've never been this disappointed and disillusioned by politics and society as I am for the last few month.
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> Without guidance from Jobs he proved to be comically bad.

I mean, he did basically design the Apple Watch which has been an absolute runaway success, the most successful new entire product category since the iPhone.

So not exactly sure how that's comically bad.
$90 billion in buybacks is insane. IIRC analysts were expecting something between $70-$80 billion.
I'm not sure if 5 years of stagnation in the Mac lineup is a blip. Perhaps as a percentage of revenue? In terms of customer satisfaction, it was rough. Those keyboards were really bad, and not everyone has the ability to just swap them out with the new fancy computers coming out now, so many will be feeling them for some time to come. Same thing with the Mac Pros. But yes, things are now looking pretty amazing in the hardware department. Unfortunately, the concern is now with the software. macOS has been going downhill for a while, and Big Sur doesn't give me a ton of confidence.

Of course, the Mac is some insignificant portion of the Apple's footprint these days, but I have to say their mobile offerings have been kind of a yawn too. Don't get me wrong, perfectly competent, no need to switch or anything, but iPod to iPhone happened in 6 years (!), and I don't think the Apple Watch is anywhere near that level of consistent culture defining technology that kind of defined "the spirit of Apple" from the original iMac to the iPhone (I'd like to say "to the iPad", but unfortunately the product has been kind relegated to a side purchase vs. the Mac-replacement I think it honestly had the opportunity to be -- and I guess could still be, its not like any "window" has been missed, just hasn't really done much in the last 10 years either, in terms of definitive changes in workflow like the iPhone did).

As a customer, the subscription stuff is honestly just somewhere between boring and annoying. "Apple One" with its 3 different plans and still tremendously confusing options (if I let my parents have access to the movies I've purchased, they can no longer buy their own movies -- what? why? It's strictly more profitable for Apple to let them ALSO use their credit card instead of locking them out of being able to make their own purchases just because I shared my content). Honestly, I have to strain really hard to remember what "Apple One" includes aside from Apple TV+. Oh right, News or something? The ability to not get annoying iCloud space errors that users remain not fully comprehending?

Now, flip that around, and investor-wise, you are spot on! I am LONG $AAPL, just short Apple products (software specifically). Which is unfortunate, because they are still probably the best, just no longer... "good". It used to feel like a premium experience, for a premium price, now just the latter.
We must have a different perspective, all of the above are to the detriment of the consumer (flash, not so much).
You might be interested in this paywalled paper (or similar ones): https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.iecr.0c02255
How do I contact Payoneer?
It would be if they said they didn't know each other. It could figure in to determination of reasonable doubt. That can certainly be useful. The NSA has done plenty with metadata.
Airpods are expensive but amazing
The Secret Footage of the NRA Chief’s Botched Elephant Hunt
The Architecture of Tomorrow: An Interview with Ben Horowitz
I did this when it came out and have definitely not regretted it.
You can set c to 1 if you want, then energy == mass.

As a matter of fact this is pretty common in particle physics where all masses are given in electronvolts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrized_unit_system
What is q4cdn? I did a whois, and I tried to find more details. I'm not sure why this wouldn't be directly from a Facebook IR or news wire hosted press release. I'd like to have some knowledge of who/what is running it, since this is a pdf.
Secml-Malware: A Python Library for Adversarial Robustness Evaluation
This is what I mean: https://youtu.be/gnU9Vgt8Hmg

Sure, the accessoires and e.g ram are steeply overpriced
Why would they? That wouldn't really help anybody, it would make the most sense to put those shims in a separate library, so any glibc consumer can use them. I'd expect the shim would also be useful to getting glibc consumers running on BSD and other libcs too.
> The nursing home scandal was known long before. The sex scandal seemed to be used to cover that up.

The opposite, I thought -- he seemed to be weathering the nursing home scandal, and now the sex scandal seems to be taking him down. Before his sexual behavior was publicized, people were joking/not joking that Andrew Cuomo was the poster child for our (Democrats') inability to hold anyone accountable for anything as long as they seemed woke and likable and said all the right things on cultural issues. Then his sexual behavior hit the news, and it was like, wow, is there anything metoo can't do? At least now Democrats nationally want him gone, though it's always harder to get a popular politician's own constituents to turn against him.
That’s not right. At close to the speed of light the trip is almost instant for the traveller. It is only 25k years for an observer.

At speeds close to the speed of light a human could travel to the wedge of the known _universe_ in a lifetime.
This crucial difference here is which party is generating the content. In the case of a private journal, it's one way communication from the writer into the journal. In the case of Google docs, you communicate with Google's servers, but Google is never generating any content for your document it doesn't want to. It's still you generating your own thoughts. Google is not on the hook for anything you write in a Google doc.

In the case of AI Dungeon that distinction is lifted. By using AI Dungeon what you're effectively doing is engaging in a creative process with the AI. It's no longer a one way channel of your own thoughts. Now AI Dungeon is actually generating content, and that's where things become problematic.

It's also the reason this is not thought crime or thought policing. You are still free to think your own thoughts, and you're even free to write them down. You can write down your thoughts in AI dungeon if you wish. But AI Dungeon is under no obligation to engage with your thoughts if they contain subject matter to which they object. If you want to engage in a fantasy with the AI about abusing minors, you are free to attempt the engagement, and the AI is free to say no. That's not thought policing, that's freedom of association.
You can go back further:

Abandonment of the floppy drive.

Abandonment of the CD drive.

Abandonment of Firewire.
Meanwhile all you people stoking nationalist fervor keep the global population of generally-well-meaning humans divided and hating each other instead of uniting into a whole that demands a better life for everyone. Please stop.
Well, there has been cases where ball lighting phenomena, was misidentified as UFO. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning). What I wanted to say is that based on current known physical laws, it would take an imaginable time for anything from other galaxy to arrive to earth. Unless someone proves that the physical laws are wrong or any life from other galaxy is capable of living more than thousands of years.
Cook is to Apple like Balmer was to Microsoft.
Ask HN: How to insert references in comments here?
I often see comments on HN with references added at the end, but am unclear how they did it. I would guess its some sort of MultiMarkdown, but how? Are people writing in a text editor in MMD and copy pasting it here, or is there a browser extension everybody uses I don't know about?
Here restarts the buyback boom.
They probably mean that "hello world".length == 11 // bytes
Lighter and thinner products also increase total addressable market by allowing products to be sold to parents and their kids. See Apple Watch Family Setup; iPad Mini, the various iPods...
That seems to happen every time with Amd. They post record earnings, exceed expectations and stock tanks 5%.
I’d argue…well I was going to argue Dell did well with their legacy, but they haven’t. They went private, pivoted (sorry) to strong enterprise sales, and de-emphasized the cutthroat race-to-the-bottom consumer computers.

Which ain’t exciting, but, the rotting corpse of Compaq over there in the corner stands as warning of what could have been.
Most people don’t understand that bank analysts (the people whose estimates get averaged for every “Apple beats estimates” headline) are complete jokes. Research departments are there to support the sale of bank services, and making management look amazing by having lowball estimates creates good relationship with the IB desks.

The markets trade on whisper numbers, which are what people with skin in the game are expecting. This is why you often see a name that beats estimates and drops...it’s because they missed the whisper numbers.
It should noted that they can also assign agents to work at these firms or recruit existing employees, so they have a broad pallet to deal with. And a given person working for the secret agencies might not have to do more than turn a blind eye to something once in a while.

However, these large firms have enterprise-wide security and too many people would notice the vacuuming of data for this to be done by single agents. So that would require secret court order and secret laws, as we know existed a few years ago.

So no doubt you have some level of secret agency access but exactly how much is difficult to say. Remember these are companies operating globally and it's in their interests to not be seen as mere extension of US intelligence and foreign policy but at the same time these agencies can very persuasive, etc. etc.
Sounds about right - which would mean 1.5% or so addition to gross margin - fairly material.
Are you so sure the government can run a high tech ISP better than the private sector? That they will employ the best and brightest and pay them market rates or better?

Or will it just turn into yet another jobs program, filled with sub-par employees that can never be fired for poor performance... While the infrastructure rots away?

Say what you want about Comcast... But my internet never goes down, is always fast, is a reasonable price, and support is readily available within a couple minutes if needed.

Can you say the same for any government run program or infrastructure project?
Bitcoin adoption from the grassroots level will kill systems with "favored status", especially in places that claim to be free societies.

Right now in the US adoption is happening on the city/state level and expanding outwards, this is not a fluke.
I find it useful to have my vendor dependencies compiled and watched for debugging. There are always bugs in deps or poor error messages, and sometimes the dev tools debugger doesn’t work properly, so being able to modify a dev is nice.

Of course it would prob be better if this was a toggle.

I think webpack module federation may improve this situation too. I used webpack all plugin previously to speed up vendor dep compilation.

Thing about webpack though is it’s so complex how all this works that I always have to revisit it every few months to jog my memory.

We need simpler abstractions on top. Next is nice but still, if you need to dive deeper it’s painful.

I think in like 20 years time we will probably be able to get rid of all of this tool chain and the new kids will never know the pains we went through.
NPR has been talking about this since January or so. Not exactly a right wing propaganda outlet.

Howie Carr was talking about it around the same period as NPR. For folks outside of New England, he is a right wing radio host but he puts a spin on actual news rather than just making up garbage.

What credible source was talking about this before January?
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Also this, from UK.
> I was certain that Apple would lose its way and start diluting their products/brand.

In a sense, they are diluting their products.

Remember the apocryphal story that when Jobs came back to Apple, he split a whiteboard into four quadrants and listed just one product in each?

Now Apple has several dozen products. And each category is anywhere from 1 to 4 different products often with differences so minor as to not make any sense (iPhone 12 Pro vs iPhone 12 Pro Max, the difference is slight size increase and cameras, that's it; or iPhone 12 Pro vs iPhone 12; there are four different iPads; etc.)

Apple looks like it's trying to cover every niche, and often does that semi-satisfactorily.

Slightly tangential: they've completely dropped the ball on MacOS software side: there hasn't been a good software release from them literally for years. The only exception is the new Messages in BigSur, and they spent untold hours in close collaboration with the Catalyst team to make it work. Almost every other new first-party app from Apple on MacOS for years has been an unmitigated disaster that has never seen a designer in a vicinity and that breaks any version of Apple's own HIG guidelines.

That said, it could've been much much much worse. So, count our blessings :)
IMO the best ways to learn are free. I guess a YouTube premium subscription would cut down on time wasted watching ads. I
Allo was doomed to fail.

RCS is the evolution of SMS, is standardized and should be what the industry uses. Carriers mostly adopted it I think, but as expected, the situation is a mess. Bell, for example, went with Samsung for their RCS infrastructure and for some reasons, they don't allow sending RCS messages to other carriers.

Google decided to bypass carriers entirely, but you have to use the Google Messages app to use RCS. So if you use another texting app, it won't work.

Again, the whole thing is a mess.
What is most amazing about that period is the thousands of carved stone bowls and jars, made from materials up to and including corundum–hard as ruby–machined with a precision that is wholly unaccountable, and all made before the pyramids.

The interiors of these vessels show machining marks incompatible with the tools they are imagined to have been made with. It will be very interesting when Zawi Hawass retires and, eventually, somebody figures out how they really were fabricated, and (moreso) why the method was lost.
For many the level of admiration others have for them isn't as important as doing whatever one desires.

Success is a state of mind. You setup the conditions.
Audible or conferences
Im in a similar boat, most things are free to learn online unless you want to buy textbooks, so the only thing left is certificates and learning courses with teachers. Not sure i want to commit my free time studying for those things.

I told my company i was going to get a certificate but never did and free time programing has been spent freelancing/learning random stuff.
It’s all just primitive chimp brains.

Somewhere deep down we always knew.
Adding on to what others have said, it's also that some non-US countries have much better internet infrastructure than telecom (which might've affected pricing, can't say for sure), so people flocked to internet-only messaging apps to avoid their telecom's faulty SMS/call handling.
I came here to mention coppicing as well. In medieval Europe forests were highly managed or farmed, and this technique produced a steady source of straight poles that were used in various diameters.
Old prosecutor's/attorney's trick. Never ask a question you don't already know the answer to. You're there to tease out the record in your favor, and try to control the narrative through leading questions.

The legal system is not about truth. It's about corraling 12 fish out of water to your way of seeing things. Throw the judges/lawyers a curveball with something like jury nullification and see how quick things get nasty.
Ban on menthol cigarettes expected soon
Why it matters who gets to be seen as a “tech critic”
“This quarter reflects both the enduring ways our products have helped our users meet this moment in their own lives, as well as the optimism consumers seem to feel about better days ahead for all of us,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.

What a skilfully crafted piece of rhetoric that is. For a moment, I forgot I was in the gutter and imagined we were all united, looking at the stars.
> I don’t think anyone is really arguing Cook is a product visionary—I certainly don’t think Cook is himself. But just navigating the political landscape alone is truly impressive.

I agree. However, he is a master at providing the infrastructure and logistics to make other people realise their vision. And he does have a long-term plan.

The scale and efficiency of Apple’s operations, as well as their continued success is mind boggling. There have been a couple of hiccups every now and then (and some tours de force as well); overall it is quite impressive.
The willingness of the big social networks and Google to submit to authoritarian rulers makes it obvious that any difficulties we have in the US with them are a legislative failure, not a Silicon Valley one. They're not evil, or twisted, they're sociopathic; they'll do whatever they're told, but we refuse to decide what to tell them. They'd love to be made into common carriers as long as they could still run ads.
Couldn't Facebook just call it Misinformation? Certainly authoritarian enough for Silicon Valley to rally behind.