skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this just a culmination of nearly a decade of unforced errors and mismanaged strategy? I'm a complete outsider but I see a couple of fundamental huge misses by Intel over the past 10 or so years:

1) Completely missed the boat on mobile. Their ARM-competitive chips (Atom, etc.)... weren't. Missed on every measure from power to performance. Let Qualcomm and Samsung eat their lunch.

2) Missed too many ticks and replaced them with tocks. Fell far behind because of ridiculous tilt-at-windmill folly around Itanium and other architectural decisions that absolutely didn't pay off. Ended up taking way too long to get further down on process size.

3) Lost their competitive edge so much that Apple finally realized they can do it better and suffer the transitional costs of building a middleware layer to translate off of x86. Apple's fully committed to that, so Intel doesn't just lose the "no one is using a PC anymore" market, they're also losing the "those people who DO use home computers which happen to be Apples" market.

It's absolutely incredible to watch these formerly phenomenally innovative companies falter at that very core competency of staying cutting edge but we see it happen over and over again.
22.04, coming from 20.04, if looked up correctly. So from Fosa something to something Jellyfish. Only thing that doesn't work anymore is that darktable lost a lens profile of one of my older lenses. Pretty sure so that this has nothing to do with Ubuntu so, and the profiles of the newer ones work perfectly fine as well.
Motte: All governments are like criminal organizations.

Bailey: Even some Western governments have issues with low-level corruption.
Children who started taking Adderall when it was first introduced in 1996 are in their late thirties now.
I think they are talking about the previous captain that pointed them at the iceberg.
> I have a feeling that the massive quantities of prescribed amphetamines we've dumped into the population,

Why do you believe so?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_of_ma...
Microsoft brings DALL-E 2 to the masses with Designer and Image Creator
Visiting two new craters in Kyiv
I live here. I went down to see the crater by the bridge, and to my surprise found another slap bang on the avenue I walk up into town on.
It seems like they're putting a tremendous amount of work into Horizon Workrooms, at least, and trying to nail the experience to make it great. And they're seeing what other kinds of apps people like, and supporting them in big ways. For example, exercise apps like Supernatural were kind of an unexpected hit.

I don't think there's really an either-or situation here, where they have to choose between defending their company strategically vs making experiences that people want to use. To succeed, they have to do both, and it seems like they are.
I used to work at NERSC and when they proposed putting a new supercomputer there (in the hills above berkeley) I told them it was a mistake. Pretty much nowhere in California makes sense to host supercomputers. I also told them that buying new supercomputers instead of moving to cloud was a mistake, but that's their entire business so they are not going to do that.
Yeah very true. Applying what you've read is the only way to retain the knowledge. Sometimes it's the only way to test to see if you actually understood what you've read. But if I just charge in and practice with just the docs I end up with suboptimal results.
And they picked a country known for its poor rule of law, constitutional protections and respect for privacy.
Obviously a lower bound is O(N*M), but it's not very useful. But I'm not aware of any tighter lower bound.
I think this is the first major layoff announcement at a big, established tech firm I've heard this year that is anywhere near this size. I mean, there have been loads of "couple hundred" employee layoffs, and certainly a lot of hiring slowdown/freezes, but again, haven't seen anything else near this big, and the layoffs previously seem to have been concentrated in unprofitable VC-funded companies. I know Tesla laid off a couple thousand people this summer, that's the closest thing that comes to mind.

Intel certainly has its own unique challenges, but even, for example, AMD had been doing pretty great up until this year, and they also just announced a big shortfall for their 3rd quarter results. Just wondering if this is really the tip of the iceberg for a true, broad retrenchment in tech, after the past 9 months of "Is a recession coming? Is a recession coming?"
Reports elsewhere ( https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/repor... ) suggest that the layoffs might be a bit concentrated in the Sales & Marketing departments.

Is it just me, or do some other folks also smell "corporate bloat, which better management would not have allowed to happen"?
I don't think Telegram should really be seen as an alternative to Signal. It doesn't use E2E encryption by default.
A Diffusion of Innovations – Some thoughts on the latest diffusion models
Unfortunately being on-call 24x7 is the base expectation at big companies, from my experience. And since most people seem to go along with it, standing up to it leads to you being bullied out.

Edit: and being on-call just means free overtime.
> it seems to take only the inevitable one or two odd instances of corruption to start the rot that will bring it down

This seems to be based on the premise that there could ever be a system that was somehow perfectly free or corruption to begin with.

I think that’s far fetched. I think all human systems are messy and are going to contain some instances of corruption.

The question is simply whether the level of corruption reaches the level that cancels out the benefits of the system as a whole, or not.
The rise of robots increases job insecurity and maladaptive workplace behaviors [pdf]
Slack does it, when you clear out your unreads.

All clear.

Everything’s sorted!
Let’s start something new.

You’re all read.
Here’s a pony.

There! Caught up.
Set your mind to something new.

All done.
The future is yours.

Done and done.

All done.
The world is your oyster.

etc.

Salesforce is not a small company, and not one known for whimsy.
That's really interesting that neuro linguistic programming helped you so much.

I don't want to inquire into your own experiences as it's personal. But, I used to follow NLP very closely and sort of lost interest over time.

Anyway, I felt it was best suited to 'software' changes in oneself - say at level of beliefs about the world, and how our use of symbols and language can affect our experience and abilities.

ADHD, as condition seems more like a 'hardware' thing. It's intriguing to imagine how conditions like that can be helped with a 'cognitive' approach. Perhaps it's used more to help manage things through techniques and strategies.
I'd take a decent "export my chats" option. I have chat history that goes back years that it's often convenient to be able to search. I'd love to be able to move it off the device, but instead the Signal backup just keeps getting larger and larger.

To be clear, Signal allows you to backup and restore back into Signal on android, which is great. What I meant is that it would be helpful to be able to export that content out of signal and keep an accessible searchable archive off of the device.
Darn, I was hoping to see things rotated 45' ccw and viewing from the back of mario running forward towards a horizon (almost appearing to run uphill) and then jumping onto blocks and pipes as if they are coming at him.
It's very helpful for understanding the software many of us use on a daily basis though, which is extremely important. That sort of knowledge helps you evaluate when different solutions are appropriate, what their shortcomings and strengths are, and to understand why those shortcomings and strengths are there in the first place.

A lot of it is things that could be explained individually, but there's really something to be said for holistic views on a topic.
The public being informed is really the crux of the issue.

You cite transparency, which is one aspect- but the other interesting problem is the incestuous relationship that our intel agencies have with the media as well.

How much political news coverage was shaped by "anonymous sources" from these intel agencies?

I forget who it was- but I remember one retired agent speaking pretty casually about how the FBI leaks information to journalists by sharing information with retired agents that still hold their clearances.
> gas company, electric company,
Especially when there are issues that's how mine send updates. To say nothing about companies that require 2FA through text!

> bank
I can't use VOIP numbers with them, not sure about Twilio.

> my elderly neighbor who can barely use a phone and I taught how to text
You make the assumption that they even have a computer: they do not. They do normally just knock on my door, but they want to send and receive pictures to their family and other people who do not live close by.

> every restaurant I order online from
I want to know when my order is ready.

> the plumber I just texted literally an hour ago
He asked for a picture of the leak and to text it to him. He's reliable and has done good work before, I'm not going to switch just because he doesn't use email.

My point in all of this is that in the U.S. SMS is ubiquitous. As much as I would love to leave it behind, there are just so many situations where you need SMS.
A quick DDG image search turns up

https://www.ancient-code.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/saqq...

https://www.theancientconnection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021...
Strictly following the law because it is the law is precisely amoral. You are taking moral judgement out of the question.
> sending hormones to children without medical professionals involved is illegal. do you know of teachers doing this? call the police. problem solved.

No, I know of the person sending the hormones. They had the police called on them but they cried to the media and ended up getting the site with the proof shut down amid a total kerfuffle. There are a lot of people like this though and reporting them does nothing.

> then those people would be arrested

Sadly, no. Often not even fired. Teachers are bringing strippers to school to dance for the kids and when parents protest they're being attacked by the school boards. The media is haranguing parents for trying to even be involved, let alone when they point at the problems.

They don't touch the drugs themselves, they simply get the kid onto the Mermaids chat or any of the others and find a groomer to help them.

> you are confusing "giving drugs to kids" with the practice of teachers keeping confidential when a student verbally expresses to a teacher that they might want to identify of a different gender

I wish. Not only do they present "gender affirming" surgery as an option for mood related problems but they don't even wait until a child says they want to identify, they often ask the kids if they want to and in some cases harass them because 'cis is boring'. And the school will definitely broker meetings with counsellors and doctors if they get a hit.

There's a case from my area where the school called the parents in after the child had many (around 10) counseling sessions and had seen a "gender surgeon" for a consultation. The parents were told by the shrink that their daughter was a son and they could recognize that or would have a suicide on their hands. The counselor delivered a suicide threat in the child's name, in front of the child. They already had the testosterone waiting (from the surgeon). When this went to court the school continued to file briefs in the case in concert with the law society and in the end the child was taken away and transitioned. Breasts cut off, poisoned with testosterone.

Had the parents known when the school, the teachers and the counsellor, convinced the child that they were trans they could have responded before she'd been fully groomed and sent off for "affirmative care".

> go to a halloween party wearing blackface

Do you recognize that womanface is just as stereotyping and harmful?
> if someone wants to sell a gun for fair market value, they don't need the state as a counterparty. unless of course they don't legally own the gun, in
which case the "fair market value" is zero.

Or,

Old widow has some rifles her dead husband left in her closet. She legally owns them, but she doesn't know that and she's afraid she might have done something wrong.
I am fairly technically savvy so I tried using it today and followed their installation guide.

1) I had to change their code to accept a release that is older than 30 days old.
2) It had me pick my domain, say it started, and gave me a sandcats URL to go to that doesn't work. Feel like something is missing from the installation instructions.

I wouldn't say its too hard for your dad to use, it's just poorly documented
The Story Behind: David Bowie and Queen's Cocaine-Fuelled Romp 'Under Pressure'
Except for the fact that the reason many markets buy android phones is because they are very budget oriented devices. Go to Mexico, India, China, Eastern Europe, anywhere where the purchasing power isn’t nearly on par with the US and you’ll find the reason everyone has android phones is because their carrier gives them a free one that happens to be years old and just about as terrible as they come. It’s essentially the equivalent of a galaxy s7 (great phone) in 2022. It’s just a bad phone by todays technological standards
Doing so comes at a cost to privacy — by signal having a hosting server, even if the contents are E2EE, retrieving and storing these contents creates a metadata trail. I actually go over these drawbacks and tradeoffs in a recent blog post: https://cassieheart.substack.com/p/notes-on-e2ee
I am currently using Python with IntelliJ. What exactly am I missing from PyCharm?
I would've expected a compiler to have a huge integration/regression test suite which just consists of other pieces of software's test suites. Grab the N most popular Haskell programs with test suites, compile them, run their test suites, verify that they still pass on the new version.
This is insane. Surely they can't ALL be sales and marketing people.
If Linkedin data is trustworthy, headcount growth has been 9% last year, 16% last two years. https://imgur.com/a/tTjb2ZM
Apple does a lot of marketing around protecting user privacy better than the competition. In this case, iOS leaks more data than Android.
> But I can't help but wonder whether there is some kind of correlation between being an HN reader and liking Kafka's works, or whether people just see the word "Kafka" and somehow think it's related to Apache Kafka [1] and upvote. Curious about what others think about this.

Kafka isn’t obscure. Everyone has heard of Kafkaesque.

Why ask whether people just blindly/ignorantly upvote?
VRChat is an amazing experience but it really does require a high-end gaming PC to run well. VRChat on Quest is a joke.

Going with a very conservative graphical quality seems like it gives a lot of advantages as well.
> so to watch a 20 minutes animated show I’d have to take a +40$ subscription.

You can buy season 6 on Apple TV and Google play for $19 according to this site:
https://www.justwatch.com/ca/tv-show/rick-and-morty/season-6
> sitcom dad is slowly dying off

Thank goodness. Hopefully the commercial break dad will die off next, though I see that caricature having more staying power.

> Gay characters are treated with more respect and nuance; they're no longer a punchline.

They are treated with more respect, yes, but I wouldn't say they are no longer a punchline entirely. They're still very much present in many current storylines because of how different they're perceived to be. Homosexual interaction on-screen is and probably always will be a sort of spectacle for the general audience. It's an improvement over gay character merely being present to be flamboyant, but I don't think their current inception in entertainment is totally flattering.

> There's no longer just Rambo McBiceps

There's no longer "Rambo McBiceps" at all, and I don't think that's necessarily a good thing. A variety of role models would be better than only having role models that are of no threat to the establishment.
If I want to message someone I open the contact and click on one of the messengers that are listed for the phone number. Why would I leave the memorizing to my brain?
It's a single toggle to turn off all telemetry (anonymized, limited to feature usage - no reporting of source files/projects that I've seen), which takes a few seconds to configure at install time as it's literally a menu item (Code > Preferences > Telemetry):

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry

You can also dump all possible telemetry events at the command-line.
Sorry, care to explain why did you mention Wall Street in your post? What does it signify?
No, it’s not. A dimension requires freedom to be parameterized and independence from other dimensions. In this example “Y” is invariantly defined as 1. Similarly a level surface defines a dimension to a fixed value and provides an n-1 dimensional view of a n dimensional view. Mapping this to a level surface you declare Y=1 and only X is varying. Y has scale but no dimensionality due to its lack of freedom.
Yeah, this strikes me more as, "I need to get the word out about my Super Totally Justified beliefs" than a sober look at ADHD research so far.

I'm getting adhd-as-a-lifestyle vibes off of this, and as someone who has ADHD I stay away from that mentality with every ounce of effort I can muster.

ADHD is a thing I have, not who I am.

Edit: The actual "statement" is a much better representation of what this site (and its organizers) are about:

https://www.adhdevidence.org/ics

Seriously, I'm stunned by how terrible the landing page is. If the person who built this is here, you've really got to quiet that landing page down, there's way too much going on. In particular, the AMA accordion component should be removed entirely.
Stigma is psychobabble to you?

Even if you somehow don't care what other people think, stigma gets in the way of medication.
>Microsoft ignoring AMD in their latest Surface lineup is a hint for the people looking for answers

For those of us who are bad at subtext, could you elaborate further? What are the questions that this is the answer to?
That’s always the problem. An R&D group I worked for laid off developers but no managers, which lead to more layoffs because overhead went up, which mean rates went up, which meant more consultants came in instead.

Really at least a fifth of your layoff should be managers. If you lay off about six reports, that’s one less manager you need. So 1/7. If you lay off six managers, that’s one skip level you don’t need. 1 + 6 + 36 = 43. Go to three levels and that’s 1 + 6 + 36 + 216 = 259, or 43 / 259 or about 1/6.

But if you want to keep production capacity, you should move to slightly more reports per manager, not maintain steady state. Just to keep the math simple, if you had 216 developers reporting to an organization of 43 managers, if you went to 7 reports per manager you need 31 line managers, not 36, which is a 2% RIF without losing a single producer. Or if you do both you get about 1/5th of laid off people as managers if you lay off less than half your developers.

Edit: fractions and ratios are not interchangeable, bad math.
It's end-to-end, clients store the keys.
Might make sense: If you're selling mostly to mobile OEMs and data centers you need a completely different sales/marketing strategy that's more focused on whale hunting than building "brand awareness" to a broad consumer market.
Yes... Unless it's able to somehow alert you that you're texting someone with Signal, it seems like Signal will be phased out because everyone will default to SMS, unless they have a reason to use Signal for a conversation, which hurts the entire privacy ecosystem.
> It's absolutely incredible to watch these formerly phenomenally innovative companies falter at that very core competency of staying cutting edge but we see it happen over and over again.

To be frank, I think that's a great thing. I don't want companies to stay giant in perpetuity, I think it's great that they are essentially "recycled" when new, better companies come along and eat their lunch.

If anything I think it's quite bad that over the past 25ish years that a lot of big companies have really learned the lessons of "disruption" and have responded by just buying up the smaller but up-and-coming competition before they can overtake (looking at you Adobe and Figma).
> Music is about tempo and sync. I

That's an exceptionally limited definition, and misses out so much music from around the world and throughout time.

It's also not even particularly reflective of how human musicians playing even "dance" music (which you'd think would be most exemplary of this definition) actual perform.

Eno's interest in what used to be called "process music" was very much of the era (some of the minimalists had similar interests), and they were much less about avoid avoiding particular characteristics of music as reinventing the compositional process.

Also, if the set of loops really are ill-suited for each other, you will get chaos and dissonace. A good part of the art of generative music (a phrase that has taken over from the 60s/70s "process music") comes from carefully selecting things that, despite their somewhat random relationships, nevertheless sound good (however you define that) when combined using some algorithm/mechanism. That's a non-trivial thing to do.
It's technically the way the camera is supposed to operate but in order to find that mode of operation I had to disassemble and study a binary. I'll say it's not a user-facing feature.
A cynical person would think DEI was invented precisely because solving that would be hard but treating everyone the same by skin color allows for easier solutions such as simply importing non-aggrieved people to replace our marginalized ones.
Same for me. A mug of British tea will rehydrate and refresh me a bit, but a cup of black coffee makes me ready for a nap in 30 minutes!
I don't know, and you don't either, because I'm willing to bet that "Google" is smarter than both of us.

That's kind of the point. We have to trust that Google won't mess things up and we have essentially no recourse if they do.
As others have said, unless actually tested, it is only an extra fee for storage, no more.

However if you do get locked out, and the usual story of no support happens, you might now have standing to sue for fraud.
What's the purpose, and does the purpose make money? Unless the ordinary user can make money using VR somehow, I don't see it having the essential reason for the tech to go mainstream. VR gaming and porn is not that compelling.
>Disney owns about 1/3 of all box office revenue.

In what way does Disney "own" box office revenue. It spends the most and gets the highest return? I know there are some anti-competitive theatre negotiations at the margins, but at the end of the day anyone could invest in their own business and produce good movies - if they had the talent.
Brave, the federal government could go down on him hard for manufacturing and transporting those parts.
It seems to be the only question they are unwilling to answer.

Keys for me, but not for thee!
This is a nice page comparing Forth and Joy.

Synopsis of the language Joy - https://hypercubed.github.io/joy/html/forth-joy.html

Indeed, it has a beautiful simplicity like Lisp, expressing any computation with a small number of core concepts.
Fair point. I would say that bullying is something insecure people do to feel better about themselves, though.

Sociopaths are often not insecure, at all. They just act cruel, because it achieves an end. They can also act amazingly empathetic (then switch it around in a second).

People like Adolf Hitler and Idi Amin were known for being incredibly engaging, sympathetic, and entertaining, but would whisper "Kill him," to the guard, on the way out.
NASA supercomputer simulation sheds light on Moon's origin