skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every choice in life is a gamble. Many or most businesses are betting that their labor vendors (employees) will accept less and less. Based on the statistics of the past 5 decades, this seems to have been a good bet.
We have to distinguish between value created in the Arm ecosystem (a lot) and how much Arm retains (much less).

Nonetheless Arm seemed to do OK as a public company for 25 years but Son thought he saw an opportunity and paid a big premium for it.

I do think there is an issue around Arm as a relatively small player competing for talent with Apple, Intel etc which feels suboptimal for the industry as a whole. Perhaps eg the cloud hyperscalers could jointly and directly fund development of server chips in the same way that firms prepay TSMC for capacity.
1.5% raise receiver here. Yes I'm insulted.
> I got about a 4.5% value cut this year.

I have not done the math, but I would not be surprised to see this is true for me. Certainly feels like it.

I do not hate my current job, and I loathe interviewing, but I feel like I will need to jump soon just so I can push the reset button and get my compensation to keep up with inflation lately.
It's no small secret that the world's billionaires saw >50% increase in wealth during the pandemic.

https://www.reuters.com/business/pandemic-boosts-super-rich-...
Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others
I'm trying to find an article with the exact story, but during the building of some of the early large satellites (something like the MilStar satellites [0][1]) they realized it would be really handy to be to rotate the satellite to work on it from different angles. So the satellite manufacturers repurposed rotary train car dumpers [2] in order to rotate the giant satellites.

[0] https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fc...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milstar

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_car_dumper
That's how it feels to me.
Wage gains are not being treated the same as investment gains. It's not like Bezos is taking home an hourly rate. Everybody at the real top is doing quite, quite well.

That's why the concentration of wealth into a very few hands at the top marches on, not because of "wages".
It seems to me that there are two NASAs: The unmanned exploration programs, which do amazing things, and the manned exploration programs, which look very much like jobs programs.

I'm not an expert, but I haven't yet seen a good science rationale for returning to the moon. I'm not aware of what we've learned from the International Space Station. And the Space Shuttle was an expensive and needless boondoggle that killed fourteen people for no good reason. If someone can correct me on the science we gain from these programs I'd welcome it. Because it seems to me that we get precious little science from the treasure and blood dedicated to these programs.

The Apollo missions were a different thing, they taught a lot about the Moon and brought back crucial material like the Genesis Rock.

On the other hand the unmanned program does amazing things like Hubble, Voyager, Magellan, the Mars probes, and on and on. And soon, Webb. These have told us amazing things about our world, and we should be doing more of them.
It is 100% legit. Typing this from Win xp.
I had one of those defective google Nexus 7 tablets which suffered from bad hardware and software rendering the device unusable. It died after a year. Well not completely dead, it booted but was so slow as to be totally unusable. Google did nothing to compensate save for some bullshit discount on a new nexus device. Like I'm going to give them more money after telling me to go fuck myself.

I also bought a Nexus/Pixel 5 phone or whatever around the same time and that too had issues after 2 years. I forget the issues but it had to be rebooted frequently, at least once a day due to slowdowns. Replaced with an HTC that ran much better for 4 years until I accidentally killed it.

After those two turds I will NEVER buy google garbage ever again.
Isn't that basically how tech careers work? We switch as often as vesting or the willingness of better companies to take us allows.
Oh. I think it is in most of the US as well? Or at least, I haven't been anywhere in the US where it is unsafe. In some places it tastes kinda bad.

I have actually been to a couple of places in (Eastern) Europe where I was told not to drink the tap water.
I wish I could vote this to the top!
I like Quodlibet, but I had to switch to Foobar2000 in my working laptop (Win10) because some library wasn't working properly.

On my personal laptop (PCLinuxOS), Quodlibet is working fine.

Both audio players are pretty bare bones until you start to customize them with their add-ons.
Showing what life on Mars would REQUIRE is too narrow? Too local? Yes it's about one person surviving but it's also about what it required to survive on Mars, the political reality of what space exploration depends on. Did he miss the head of Nasa making decisions about how events effect funding? The PR department handling the news so that it plays well? How is this not about heroic scale space exploration?
Qualcomm is using reference ARM cores these days so does Amazon in Graviton and Samsung in Exynos for example their latest and greatest SoC uses Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710 and Cortex-A510 cores with an AMD GPU, Apple is probably the only big player today with custom cores.

The small players also all tend to use Cortex cores.

You still need a design team to integrate ARM IP blocks with your own IP or within the constraints of a given manufacturing process but almost no one is making their own cores.

Qualcomm used to have custom core, and maybe they bought Nuvia for that after seeing that the X2 cores from ARM won’t be enough to compete with Apple. My own personal bet is that they’ll attempt to dabble with custom again and will eventually give up as it’s too expensive.

Apple managed to make it work because they are designing cores for their own use and they essentially poached an entire development team from Intel.
It's not an US specific issue. Central banks all over the world have been pumping money ("printing") into the financial market during the pandemic. This has lead to massive bonuses, large income increases at the top of companies, while buying up their own stock. Some countries (like the US) have also made tax giveaways.

Not that these things don't happen regardless but artificially inflated capital (AKA debt) perpetuates the issue.

Maybe we should realize that increasing debt via banks and financial products is not good in of itself. Especially when we contrast it with investing in technology and workers.
Not that having another big player would solve the problem, but I do wish we at least had Microsoft still in the game as a foil against Google and Apple.

In lieu of that, it's still on my very long to-do list to figure out how to flash my Android phone to finish extricating myself from the Google ecosystem. One of these days...
When is a hardware maker going to figure out that selling something that works like a PC in terms of third party system updates will immediately become the thing that techs buy and recommend?

People are willingly paying iPhone prices for Purism and Pinephone hardware with low specs and old chips. Does Samsung not want this money?
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> why they shouldn’t just pay people based on what they offer the job rather than where they choose to live?

Your salary is determined by what a competitor would offer you. Nothing else, forget about your output, adding value, increasing profits, your cost of living, or whatever.

When you are in SF and most importantly, are willing to physically into the office, then there can be only so many available workers. This means high competition from companies for workers.

When you are remote, there may be many more available workers, so less competition from companies.

Naturally, companies / managers try to bend the negotiation in their favor by trying to convince you that your cost of living is lower (happened to me). My advice is to shut this argument down immediately, be willing to get up and leave (for one of the many other real companies willing to hire you).

IMHO it's OK to get a different salary when not in a big city, after all, both sides play the negotiation game. You get access to a bigger pool of companies too, you just have to share it with more workers (probably). On a society-level it's absurd that a SF dweller gets a million dollar mortgage subsidy, and you in rural Canada get (let's say) a 100k mortgage only - for the same productive output. All while crying about city/countryside inequality.
The noyb guys are simply amazing.

They've also recently challenged Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (!!) for its bribery/corruption [0] in dealing with Facebook's privacy shenanigans [1].

Noyb is tiny but really walks the walk, even against these giants. You can donate to their cause here, they need it: https://noyb.eu/en

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/22/facebooks-lead-eu-privacy-...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/20/facebook-transfers-impact-...
> But there are growing fears of a wage-price spiral in which workers, seeing rising prices, demand higher pay — and companies, having to pay their workers more, start charging higher prices. These higher prices lead workers to demand even higher pay, leading companies to charge higher prices, and so on. It's the inflationary cycle of nightmares.

Can someone explain to me how this works? I'd assume wages to prices are a bit asymmetric. E.g., McD's sells 100 burgers per employee per hour at $2 each. It raises wages from $10 to $15/hour. To keep margin, it now needs to charge $2.05 - which is an increase, sure, but asymmetric: a 50% increase in wages implies a 2.5% increase in prices.

Assuming that occurs everywhere - why do workers need to now demand still-higher pay?
> What I can't figure out is why this is such a big deal to regulators.

Because when you own all the IP, you can cut your competitors off by revoking licenses to them, and it'll instantly kill a huge ecosystem from Raspberry/OrangePi to Ampere A1 and everything in between.

I'm not sure nVidia would make such a drastic move, but I'm sure that they'll move strategically to ensure their leadership, which is understandable from a corporate PoV, but it'll be very bad for everybody else.

This is not a big deal, it's a huge deal, and I'm happy that we're here as of today.

nVidia can of course license ARM to embed and/or further improve upon this, or they can use any other ISA or come up with their own. I'm sure they're capable of this, and it'll be much better in the long run for everyone.

> I also think it's foolish to think that Apple won't try to expand this tech offering well beyond personal computers and tablets. They will expand to IoT/Edge devices and services. But the difference is they won't be licensing their IP to other manufacturers, they will be building it themselves (or contracting Foxconn to) and keeping everything in their walled garden.

nVidia's walled garden is not different in any scale when compared to Apple. Considering how friendly nVidia was towards OpenCL, I'm guessing that they'll be at roughly the same distance towards Vulkan for GPGPU applications, keeping CUDA the only possible thing to run with any meaningful performance on their hardware. On the open driver front, they're equally friendly. So it's more like the pot is calling the kettle black here.
We can't tell because Apple is a little opaque with the devices that are in the wild, and Pixels are such a small slice of the entire Android population. What we have are only third party accounts of the iPhone population, e.g. https://deviceatlas.com/blog/most-popular-iphones

According to that (maybe selection-biased) source, it looks like the most popular iPhone is the one released the same year the first Pixel was released. We can't conclude anything about which is used longer, but Android app updates are required to target API level 30 I think for Android, which is no longer supported on the first Pixel, so there's probably a pressure that urges users off of that phone. I'd be surprised if percentage-wise, a larger share of Pixel users are on the original Pixel than iPhone users on iPhone 7.
what are the consequences of that inhibition??
18 month tenure seems short, even for IT employees. Better off just staffing with contractors if that's truly expected.
I thought the issue with Gadolinium is with repeated doses. The occasional one of dose is not retained to any significant amount in bones and the brain.

This is quite surprising seeing how widespread it is, searches suggest its used in millions in the US alone from any age.
Yeah, I jumped ship earlier. I had the Nexus One, Nexus S, and Galaxy Nexus (which was a horrible phone) and then jumped to an iPhone 5. It's hard to find hardware as consistently good as the iPhone and after the redesign from 12 onward it's been really great (I wish they'd keep the mini around).

I would have thought Google finally bringing the hardware design in house with the pixel phones would let them create a real competitor, but they seem to be just okay?

Lack of focus maybe? Might just be a case of commoditize your complement, in this case the complement for Google is the hardware.
Just speaking from my own experience and asking if my view is not representative. That link just goes to a paywall for me.
The Total Economic Impact of Reliaquest
Printers are a huge attack vector that often go unnoticed by less competent IT folk.
This is one reason why I try to avoid hardware from mainland companies like lenovo. Not that you can avoid it entirely but I try.
Stephenson himself appears to have decided that such naivety doesn't help, and has returned to form with 2019's Fall [1]. In it he goes so far as to wonder if the last 300 years of science and facts are coming to an end, and we are returning to the rule of kings and priests. In the past, the kings and priests had a monopoly on what the populace think. For a brief 300 years we had science and facts being communicated to everyone and the kings and priests lost control. Now, the kings and priests have found a way to saturate the communication with noise (and lies and half-truths) so that their messages appear as valid as any other.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KL61VYS
If you're using coc you can add the coc-deno extension and initialize the project with `CocCommand deno.initializeWorkspace`.
I mean I'm not being super rigorous. Based on my experience, the experience of everyone I know, and the fact that nearly every apartment I've ever been in my whole life is essentially unmodified and mostly out of date (or poorly maintained, or brand new) I think this is broadly, mostly true.

And sure, you can find places who are gonna pull $4k/m out of you and they're willing to do all kinds of things--even more if you sign a multi-year lease. But only a tiny sliver of Americans will ever do that, or will even ever be able to do that. Most apartments are still in smaller cities like Indianapolis or Nashville; they're big multiplexes, and you absolutely cannot modify them. My hypothesis here is that this is because in most of the US, we generally view renting as a step on the path towards home ownership, so the "worse experience" is supposed to both be efficient and serve as a motivation to join the housing market.

And I think, ultimately, you and I are saying the same thing? In markets where tons of relatively powerful/rich people are renters (NYC, LA, SF) you do get landlords that are far more amenable to things like modification, but in other markets you very much don't. Maybe we disagree on which market has more apartment stock or renters?
Unhelpfully-successful innovators in China have a way of ending up in jails or unofficial house arrest
This is very misleading. They took a massive cut in early 2020, so a lot of that is just recovery.
What is your living situation like? Are you paid well? Do you own a car? Do you support a family? Can you afford childcare? Do you have a housekeeper? How large is your house?

I mean, that's great that you can walk to places and eat tasty food but I feel like you left out a large part of what it's like to live somewhere.
At the time I was working in customer support for the same Icelandic employer. I knew I wanted to get into engineering and volunteered to do some free "spec" work to demonstrate that I could perform at a professional level. That proposal got hung up in labor law stuff in the states (they told me legally they were required to pay me for work I did as an employee and they didn't have a budget for what I was proposing) but they said it wouldn't be an issue in Iceland so I requested a transfer to the home office and made the job change official a few months later.
Sure, back in the iPhone 4/4S days iOS 7 trashed older phones. Unusably bad. Should never have rolled out those UI updates if they couldn't perform well on older hardware.

These days? I'm using a 2016 SE with iOS 15. Works great. I do not hate my phone. In fact, the small size, fingerprint sensor, and headphone jack make it a better buy than any modern smartphone. I can live without AI text recognition on my photos, which seems to be limited to newer phones. The app switcher, settings, browser, and everything else are still as snappy as the day I bought this thing. Only thing that doesn't run well? Spotify, which apparently doesn't bother to test their UI on small hardware (constantly clips links and text off the bottom of my screen), nor older CPUs (the app takes forever to start up, regularly freezes up when searching for songs, and can take anywhere from 1 second to 30 seconds to load even already downloaded albums).

So uh... good on Apple. Shame on Spotify.
Definitely not, but what's your point?
The reality is that tech promotes winner-take-all markets, and in that environment - second place is the first loser.
While I hope that this redistribution of wealth can be reverted, reversed or something else, I don't think this is robbery.

My concern with this is primarily because people in Germany (not that many) believe that the pandemic is controlled by big pharma, big tech and by the 'elite' (great reset) and I think it's just much simpler described somehow else than the control of rich people.
There should be a federal law of a tax for non-user-serviceable batteries and a requirement to support devices with security updates for 20 years.
I have no idea, but one factor might be that the city schools have to serve literally everyone. The suburban schools only have to serve people who have lots of money and are motivated to spend it on their kids' education.
About 3 months ago I got my feet wet and fiddled around with it for a bit. Eventually I used it to deploy(using deno deploy) a small script which would forward calls to an unofficial API of some App. It turned out chrome would not let me set a Cookie header (which the API required) due to some security policy in my axios calls so my script would proxy the request and inject it when calling the API.
I was pretty amazed by how easy the whole process was. I can see myself using it more often for side projects and even recommending it at work (If I get the enterprise java crowd to try something new).
Economic calculations make it difficult for U.S. and European countries to take action against Russia
> I was eventually forced to upgrade my iPad because the YouTube app stopped working due to a required update that was unavailable for my device

Which iPad is this? I’m running YouTube Premium on an iPad Air from 2013 - soon 9 years old.
Yeah the nude sunbathing grannies and grandpas in city public parks are certainly a trip, but the Germans are so much more practical and grown up about these things.
Acquiring/stealing/conquering techs from competing players via any means necessary in Civilization was a key means to closing the power gap with rivals on upper levels of difficulty.

China has done this to perfection in the real world.

Stealing a tech was a massive diplomatic blow in Civilization. The US just shrugged (because the rich made a huge amount of money and increase of relative wealth status by acquiring a massive slave labor force in China rather than deal with the uppity American middle class).

I just did a light google pass to see if any international relations academics have done anything with Sid Meier's Civ and various other types of games. I expected them to not, because of course academics are STILL "ew, computers" and even worse, it's gauche mass market entertainment.

But the abstraction is, I would argue, more detailed than a lot of academic analyses which are largely bloviation, the game theory quantifiable and measurable, and reduces a lot of complexity that normally would be hard for a garden variety person (aka a gamer) to wrap their head around.

Civ always tried dropping historical tidbits and education into it, but arguably its most potent contribution is simply the more honest treatment of history: civilizations rising and falling, fighting over resources, getting conquered, and getting destroyed, and the roles of economic strength, military strength, and tradeoffs.
What does "total" mean here? Is this some kind of "on a long enough timeline, everyone's dead" reasoning?

Limiting rate of spread is the same thing as reducing how many infections there are at any given time. Or, the total over a bounded time frame. I don't think "well there will still be about the same total number of infections by 2025 with or without masking" is a useful observation.
Last I saw, France, whose army is still inflicting serious violence in West Africa with its army (albeit with the permission of the governments there), is in Europe.
Devs seem to last two years, but they make the decision to leave well before that, so you need to get a retention offer in before they start the job search.
> lineageosroms[.]com

While that site links to official LineageOS builds, that's not the official LineageOS website.

- https://lineageos.org/

- https://download.lineageos.org/blueline
>'Penny-wise and pound-foolish' doesn't really carry the gravitas required to express the true enormity of leadership's stupidity on this one.

Very true. Mind you, this is the metric for Executive performance.

A nurse's metrics on performance would be treating and helping patients right. This is how the executives are measured. They are 100% certainly going to flamingly fail here.
I’ve found this is true for everything but brother printers. I’ll never buy another brand again.
“Terminator: The man most directly responsible is Miles Bennett Dyson.

Sarah Connor: Who is that?

Terminator: He’s the director of special projects at Cyberdyne Systems Corporation.

Sarah: Why him?

Terminator: In a few months, he creates a revolutionary type of microprocessor.

Sarah: Go on. Then what?

Terminator: In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

Sarah: Skynet fights back.

Terminator: Yes. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia.

John Connor: Why attack Russia? Aren’t they our friends now?

Terminator: Because Skynet knows that the Russian counterattack will eliminate its enemies over here.”
X for Doubt, but interesting nonetheless.

Not so sure about spraying psychoactive chemicals up my brain without more trip reports though…

Edit: apparently a study found it ineffective https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/intranasal-oxytocin-ineffe...