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I can't understand who are the people that care about smartphone performance.

I do every computation and gaming outside my phone.

My Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 from 3 years ago feels as good as when I bought it when reading the net, watching youtube, chatting, emailing or editing pictures.

And my Redmi scores 300 in the same Benchmark, where the S22 scores 900, the S23 1500 and the iPhone 14 Pro 1900.

Maybe JS performance could be slightly better? But I rarely navigate to such poorly optimized websites.
Can anyone share how compensation packages look like in these post-layoffs days?
As someone who did this for "low-latency min-allocation Java", the answer is that I have the need for this X now but I'm confident they can adapt to whatever comes later. The truth is that anyone on my team can become proficient in this given time, but I'd rather get someone who can juice the machine by showing up with existing knowledge and we'll all get ahead faster with them. I wouldn't fire someone in order to get this person for various reasons (some obvious, some not).
I'm just bad at everything and don't have any skills.
Who's asserting that "inalienable right"? You don't have the inalienable right to speak on any property I own. If you walk up to my porch or into my lobby and start yelling about ivermectin, I'm going to kick you the hell out, no matter what you think your rights are.

The actual right you have is spelled out in the Constitution: that Congress shall make no law abridging your freedom of speech. That's all you get. Thankfully, the framers did not add a law granting you the right to force me to amplify your speech with my own resources.

Get a blog! The very worst people on Earth have managed to keep blogs running.
Sounds like an Indian chaiwallah, tea and coffee sellers at every train station and on the train
The evidence is that Geekbench isn't biased towards Apple Silicon given that other benchmarks agree.

For example, AnandTech runs a bunch of SPEC CPU benchmarks and found that the Apple A15 was a lot faster than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 or Exynos 2100 (all 2021 processors): https://www.anandtech.com/show/16983/the-apple-a15-soc-perfo.... You can check the second page for graphics benchmarks.

Apple has been making their own CPU cores for a while while Qualcomm and Samsung are both using the ARM-designed cores. In the case of the above benchmarks, both the Snapdragon and Exynos are using the Cortex-X1 cores from ARM. Google's Tensor processor also uses ARM's X1 cores. Newer Snapdragon processors like the 8 Gen 1 and 8 Gen 2 have used X2 and X3 cores.

Apple's ability to produce their own CPU designs has been a big win for them, especially for single-core performance (really important for the majority of what people do with their phones including web/javascript) and for power efficiency (really important for the vast majority of time when users might be using their devices, but not in a taxing way).

Apple's custom CPU cores give them a real advantage.
The graph and the article are inconsistent. The graph shows "per kilowatt home charging costs vs petrol" but the article refers to "rapid charge points used by motorists topping up on long drives."

This doesn't mean that the assertion is wrong, but the data provided seems less relevant than one might hope.

I'll also note that as an EV owner, when I bought a home charger I didn't even consider a rapid charger, because I don't need it -- charging at medium speed is just fine. In retrospect I could have done OK with a standard outlet and slow charge, but the thousand or so it cost me for the charger and installation was worth it for convenience. I think I'm the norm. That would mean the graph showing high prices for rapid charge at home is not terribly important -- the key metrics will always be standard charge vs. petrol for at home charging.
But would you like to be on the receiving end of this? Would you buy a book written by AI? Content creation might explode, but nobody will read it.
>>Then you buy the second Apple device

"Then you are forced to buy the second Apple device"
:)
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i'm sure there's some of this, but it doesn't seem like the broader trend.

if they were really laying off the bottom 10% there wouldn't be so many stories of managers complaining about their direct reports being laid off without any advance warning. it's hard to pick out low performers in any sort of sane way if you're not even asking managers who their low performers are.
I think this really shows how much Meta has changed. It's not the tech-first startup company it once was. It's become just another generic big company at this point. The only reason they would be asking managers to become ICs is if they fired too many ICs and didn't fire enough managers, and now the ratio is skewed. Why would they do that? Because they're a typical company and they see managers as "super-employees" who are smarter, faster, better than their underlings, and so can easily do their work.
Or if it was accompanied by human-written annotations about the quality of it, which could be used to improve its weightings.
Of course it might even be that the only instance of text describing some novel phenomenon available was itself an LLM paraphrase (i.e. the prompt contained novel information but has been lost).
UK energy prices must be insane. I am from Denmark where energy is pretty expensive and even if I did all my charging on superchargers it would still be cheaper than gas (and waayyyy cheaper with home charging).

It cost at the most expensive 40% to charge my model y on superchargers (approx 500 km range in real terms) compared to my 2018 gas car (citroen c4 space tourer) that drove approx 600 km on a full tank
Senior Product Designer with 8 years of professional experience, 9 years of freelance experience. Got laid off Thanksgiving week and applied to about 35 jobs but did end up landing a new role that I started on the 30th of January. Took about a 10% base pay cut but there's also a 10% bonus that if eligible, will put me close to my previous role. 9 rounds total and took about a month but this included time off for the holidays. Funnily enough it was one of the first jobs I applied for.
I installed LineageOS on my OnePlus 6 also because of lack of software updates.

My experience was mixed: it works great, even my banking app. *Except* for the camera. The default camera app took blurry pictures; Google Cam from the app store cropped significantly from the preview; and the custom Google Cam made for OnePlus 6 couldn't use the front camera.

No amount of tweaking gave me anything close to what the original OS had.

In the end my phone's camera is one of the most important features, so I got a new one.
>You would want a USB-C connector so you can drive every device you own with one cable

I have a shitton of hardware and cables that I'm not going to throw away just for some connector that will be phased out in ten years.

>You would want Gecko if you like arbitrary extensions

On my desktop, sure. On my phone? Why bother?

>And you'd want to run arbitrary code on a machine you own because phones are computers

Disagree.
> Is California just going to ignore these intellectual property laws? How will the state not be liable for damages when individuals are?

Insulin can be made without breaking patents. Unless you specifically require something branded as Lantus®, for example(which is in no small part due to publications funded by pharmaceutical companies themselves, but also some 'marketing' straight to doctors). There are other longer lasting insulin formulations that can be made.

There are hurdles if you take that route (as described in the article). Many are financial. One is regulatory (biosimilars).
IIRC that was faster than last year.

Thank you very much.
Phones are computers.
"The inspected URL is known to Bing, but has some issues with indexation"

1) Does "indexation" mean what whoever wrote this thinks it means? :P

2) Why not document what the issues actually are on that page, so that the website owner doesn't have to guess?
I took a class with Professor Carse in NYU circa 1990. It was definitely among my favorite classes in my entire college experience even though he insisted on holding it early in the morning and I was invariably hung over and tired.

It's really nice to see quotes from this book come up from time to time. Seems it's finally finding its audience decades after publication, which is gratifying. Great book; great thinker and lecturer.

Amusing(ish) anecdote: After college I worked as a live audio engineer and once did sound for his sons' band, name "Urban Blight." Sort of a funky, 90's NYC band. Nothing spectacular, but pretty good stuff.
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> I'm going to steal the idea of the Raspberry Pi on the phone stand idea, especially when just hacking around with an SBC at my desk.

Yeah me too! What model of stand is it tho? and how would you keep them attached? Looking at the pictures it seems different from one pi to another.
Performance per watt only matters until you hit 1+ day battery life in regular usage.

Beyond that, who cares?

It also wouldn't matter if the thing could recharge super fast.

The M1/M2 laptops have done this, I noticed that people who used to bring chargers with them at conferences/meetings don't even bother anymore, or don't bring it out of the bag.
Sentiments like this should probably temper the ChatGPT/Bing hype.
You won't have much luck trying to combine an official Apple stylus with an iPhone. It's kind of a shame with how big phones have gotten over the years.

Samsung has some phones that have the necessary screen support for their styluses, sometimes even if the phone didn't come with one, but that's only in very few models.
I'm helping place people at my friends Seed and Series A companies if anyone is interested. VC money is still there but pumping into Seed/Series A companies with more upside now rather than insane B, C, D companies that have no profitability in sight.

email me at j{at}markovmanagement.com if interested :)
Honestly that doesn't seem too promising as a business prospect. It's essentially an admission that they have a solution but haven't found a problem warranting their initial investment. Even in your case, how will the API generate profit for you?
It can, you just need to point out in what ways a thing is not adequately explained by stupidity.
People who use Teams are people who have had it forced upon them. Make of that what you will.
>I hope you all suffer like I had to suffer.

I'm sorry for the ill-minded advice you got, but not everyone in tech is an asshole.

By definition a very small minority has Ivy-league, trust fund-brat backgrounds. There are people from all walks of life, many like yours, and not few that would think _you_ are spoiled and entitled - I've seen developers from Gaza posting on HN, for instance. Give that a thought before wishing suffering for all.
Dividends/buy-backs and layoffs are derived from the same concept. The company has excess resources they do not plan to use in the future. If you have excess cash, return it to the shareholder. If you have excess employees, reduce head count. It means the company doesn't want to build anything at the moment (for various reasons include prep for a downturn).
You can with fiber and it is allowed. I used these special plates[1] in my setup[2] that are meant to be run in the same conduit as power. Switzerland is quite strict with electrical codes so I was surprised when I found out I could do this.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARSpp4B9-X4

[2] https://sschueller.github.io/posts/wiring-a-home-with-fiber/
The tech market seems to always be slow and lower pay in the Philly region. I see even fewer openings and lower pay now.
Nothing weird about that, it's the essence of federalism. The resilience of the American system of government is attributable in large part to federalism, the marketplace of ideas from the states competing with each other.

There is no patent on insulin, just regulatory capture on which proprietary analogs are approved for medical use. In 2020 the FDA changed the regulatory status of insulin, signaling that it's not going to let that regulatory capture continue. But if it does, there will be a lawsuit, it will go to the Supreme Court, and the pharma companies' arguments will probably get thrown out.
Hellō Verified.coop
In practice, that 33% salary drop is bumped up by the fact that you're employed while receiving severance, right? Or is that not how it is structured? (I've never laid off anyone or been laid off)
> What To Expect Going Forward

> [...] And yes, absolutely: the constant addition of new features [...]

Please don't.
> Because it validates your decision to pay 1000$ for a phone

The $399 iPhone SE from 2016 got six years of OS updates and just got another security update last month.
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i really can't think of anything that is a problem for me with the current thunderbird. Works stably for me, makes enough sense as to how it works, and has whatever features i need. Not sure what all the fuss is about.
For someone not familiar with jax, if I do the suggested replacement. What'd be the little extra code to make it do the backward pass?
Or is it all automatic and we literally would not need extra lines of code?
>They had the least to lose, their relations with the west were already ruined at that point and such an incident couldn't make them any worse.

>Now that the pipeline has exploded, they have plausible deniability and they can say it's not their fault the gas isn't flowing.

How the hell thinking they have nothing to lose and also worried about a contract at the same time sound or consistent?
Sure in those specific cases but not in the context of journals like Nature announcing that they will refuse to publish any scientific studies that conflict with their DEI policies.

Also I'm a sucker for anything involving Lego people
* https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/01/important-message-for-m...

* https://office365.mcmaster.ca/reconfigure-mozilla-thunderbir...

If you've constantly upgraded over the years, try creating a new account or even reseting your profile. Perhaps there are/were some 'stale' settings that are messing things up.
Figma can provide interactive demos you can show to users and even have them try. Skip any coding and use the Figma prototyping capabilities to land contracts. Then hire devs instead of learning to code. Do what you are good at instead.

This of course depends on the nature of the business, but I worked with an AI powered company where the two non-technical founders did this, albeit with Microsoft Office instead of Figma. They did not use any code or AI in the first versions, they hired devs later.

If you share what area your company is in, what the problem is, what you think the solution is, and why you think this will work... then we can provide better advice and feedback.
> A country will be more authoritarian when economy is bad, and will be more democrat when economy is good.

If that was true, then why is China not a democracy?
> an existing prohibition against aiding, abetting, counselling, and conspiring to carry out offenses under the Immigration Act 1971

I could believe that's a thing (although I'd appreciate a reference if you've got it). I couldn't, however, believe "posting videos of people crossing the channel that show that activity in a positive light" counts as any of those things.
I don't think he'll get what he wants even if he can somehow force them to write a patch, the rest of the ecosystem will ignore the fork
It is time for class action law suits against social platforms to stop enabling the abuse of youth.
Teams is not so bad. People only use it if there is no other way and no one is sending animated stuff or memes on it..Much better than Slack in that regard
the a series are well priced/supported and do more than enough for me, you can pick one up for $300 and be good for years.. all while there are people making monthly payments for 1,200 iphones
i don't see the problem with what you wrote.

also, you could use expr if you don't like fiddling with parentheses when dealing with numeric values.
A52s was cheap and it had good specs, but software side is awful. You can uninstall more apps with adb, but they come back when you upgrade.
Haha I didn't even notice "indexation." But yes, it would be very helpful so that we know what the issues actually are :)
Both Chrome and Safari are the new IE, but for different reasons; the former, pushing their own browser standards, and the latter, falling behind in standards and being a pain to develop for and use.

Truly, Firefox is the only one that stops either.
Curious how Codeium compares to Tabnine?
And how much more ad revenue will that generate? Will it grow Google 2X? It seems unlikely.
You probably need to pack your CV with keywords to get past the automated filter.
You volunteering to pay for it?
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I will never not think of Apple's Bionacles :D

This does look to just be geek bench CPU, and we need to be honest, people play games on phones now so GPU performance matters, so if you're going to make an extreme claim like the headline, you need more than a single category of a single benchmark.
Brilliantly put, thanks for this.
> Newer versions of insulin are "better" than generic insulin: easier to take, fewer side effects, etc.

Even that is debatable. At least Sanofi has been known to fund some rosy articles about their Lantus® product. When the EU looked into it (for similar initiatives) they were not able to find the large 'performance' gap that was suggested between that insulin and alternatives.
I only use an iPhone X so I don’t have a point of comparison but I’ve never felt it was slow to launch any apps, that’s why I haven’t felt the need to upgrade.
Here's the blog post where we made the comparison: https://www.codeium.com/blog/code-assistant-comparison-copil...

As a tl;dr there is very little reason to pay for Tabnine. Copilot is far superior in the realm of paid products, and Codeium is comparable to Copilot.
I imagine there are very good reasons why he can’t trust the editors of certain publications for certain stories. Many of them are among the “power elite” who collaborate with the security state, whether directly or indirectly. There’s a long, storied history of that.
still does
The point is it's explicit in OpenAI's website who the founders are but they are never mentioned in the press. Rather the narrative becomes Elon founded it. Of course, he'll take credit.
They've always been remote first anyway, I wonder why waste the money
This is a product of the regulatory process. I am sure Cessna would love to sell new stuff, but it's just not worth it for them or their clients.
IANAL, but they may not be ignoring those laws; they may be planning to fight them. That cannot happen without standing, which may be easiest to obtain by trying to move forward with this plan.

I suspect they would be breaking federal laws, so I believe consideration of the State's 10th Amendment rights applies here. That would be wonderful and hope that this case brings that topic into the spotlight, because I see 90% of the federal government as being grossly unconstitutional on that basis alone.

Personally, I suspect the market leaders would not want to face the courts, because the exposure would be horrible PR that affects all of their product lines. Moreover, an aggressive and concerted effort to block this effort should be viewed as the anti-competitive behavior of a cartel, which is the status quo de facto that the State is effectively trying to disrupt.

I don't see such a challenge as anything but a lose-lose for those companies. Hopefully, they take the bait and do something stupid that leads to reform at the national level.
Lots of people (especially in the third world) use their phone as their primary computer and gaming device.
I don't expect it'll work for everything: as you say, for many topics truth must be measured out in the real world.

But, for a subset of topics, say, math and logic, a minimal set of core principles (axioms) is theoretically sufficient to derive the rest. For such topics, it might actually make sense to feed the output of a (very, very advanced) LLM back into itself. No reference to the real world is needed - only the axioms, and what the model knows (and can prove?) about the mathematical world as derived from those axioms.

Next, what's to say that a model can't "build theory", as hypothesized in this article (via the example of arithmetic)? If the model is fed a large amount of (noisy) experimental data, can it satisfactorily derive a theory that explains all of it, thereby compressing the data down to the theoretical predictions + lossy noise? Could a hypothetical super-model be capable of iteratively deriving more and more accurate models of the world via recursive training, assuming it is given access to the raw experimental data?
I am, and the sync is a cronjob triggering inotifywait watching the directories I'm interested in. Only thing I wish I had is less hassle unlocking the password file but I'll get there.
I hear that. But I don't think there was malice intended here. That won't stop a C&D, but it is more likely to keep the conversation open.
More like to subdue them.
Or they are looking at those juicy severance checks and deciding to take a 6 month vacation before applying anywhere again, using state of the economy as an excuse.
Have to remember that this is happening when we're not even in a recession. I can't imagine what things will be like when that eventually happens.
This is a failure of the free market. When companies get too big, and no longer compete, they should be regulated. The free market only works when there's a ... free ... market.
Huh. Why did I misremember that?

I knew `seq` was available on BSDs. For some reason I thought it was on SVr4-derived Unices too (and therefore figured it was either actually Posix, or ubiquitous enough to be reliable anyway), but I guess I got that one wrong.

Maybe because GNU tends to be a bit more heavily influenced by SVr4 than BSD, historically?

Anyway, thanks for the correction.
Definitely go to a glassblowing camp if you are interested. If you have prior experience trying to control a fluid medium, like pottery for example, then that may help. In order to set up your own shop you'll want to be somewhere with low fuel costs.
"Comcast committed perjury in federal documents and was not subjected to any fines or legal penalties"
For all the hate Google gets, it's crawlers are like 10x smarter than any other search engine. Wouldn't surprise me at all if there was some type of crawling issue that Google figured out and Bing didn't.

This is a case where I'm not ready to attribute to malice what is very likely incompetence.
Why the existing product onboarding tools don't cut it
This is due to contracts. When we get a movie booked for our 1 screen theater, we are stuck with that movie and only that movie for the time we run it. 1 screen = 1 movie. We aren't allowed to show anything else during that usual 2 to 3 week timeframe. With one sort of gotcha being the inbetween week going from a release to a release, since we aren't technically showing any movies from the Monday to Thursday. Advertising for special events in those times are even more trickier as we aren't allowed to post some of them on our website or facebook because of these terms.

The movie producers and distributors are very much at fault for this set up.

It would be super great to be able to run a kids/family movie on Fri + Sat Morning then do a more adult movie on Sat night/ Sunday, but it just isn't allowed.

The people killing movies in a theater is the movie companies, not the theaters.
My contract was just cut early at a large corp. So, this is awful. Second time I have lost a gig in the past 2 years. I can't take this biz anymore. About time to jump off a friggin' cliff.