skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more than process problems though, and really more than BK too. Intel was the proverbial termite-riddled house by the 2010s on multiple levels.

BK was COO from 2012 and CEO from 2013, and intel was already starting to spin its wheels by that point on stuff like modems and atom and wireless and lacked a proper strategic direction. It's hard to know how much internal jank was in the architectures back then but it probably wasn't insignificant, after all Core M ties back to Pentium III and P6/Pentium Pro at least.

He certainly didn't help anything but the organization that produced BK (he started as an engineer) and put him in the boardroom wasn't going to pick Lisa Su or Jensen Huang as plan B. The organizational forces that gave us BK would have put another suit in the chair and applied the same pressures to them, the problem with historical counterfactuals is always that these forces really matter more than specific individuals being in the chair in most cases.

People forget, he was literally a process engineer by trade too, it's not like he came in as a beancounter. That was all just natural pressures of the market.

On the other hand, if you count out 5 years from when he became CEO... that's around the time the problems started with 14nm (Broadwell struggled to be born) and the point where uarch performance progression really stalled out etc. And of course 14nm was followed by 10nm and the interminable delays.

But in hindsight a lot of the delays appear to have been "termite problems", yes the process was a mess but the IP teams couldn't get their shit together either, and that's why server products have been running 2+ years behind schedule, Alder Lake has its AVX-512 disabled, Meteor Lake is not happening on desktop, and 2.5GbE is going back for its... sixth stepping? Those teams are underperforming and it has nothing to do with 10nm delays.

I realize 2015-2017 is when shit started really hitting the fan but like, unless BK walked in on day 1 as CEO and was like "alright boys we're making Broadwell shitty and giving Skylake-X the worst AVX-512 implementation known to man" it's not entirely his fault either, just the termite rot was still not structural yet. Both the fab teams and IP teams were having visible problems already not too long after he took the chair.

He's not a great CEO by any means, and he actively made things worse over his tenure but... it's kinda hard to believe that he just actively made Intel shit in 4 years as CEO all by himself. They had to have had problems already, and some things like Pentium 4 and Meltdown (which goes all the way back to P6) point to that. But moore's law was the great equalizer back then... just right the ship and catch up on the next node and you'll be fine. Nodes are an active problem right now and it requires advanced packaging that is placing more emphasis on the architecture to cater around that. Things are just a lot harder now.
Yes, of course this is political, it simply can not be if obesity is effecting large parts of the population.

>But whilst that might be interesting to an academic,

I think it should be important to politicians. If the literal health of their populaion is not a priority, then what is?

>You're not going to lose weight by complaining about the lack of healthy restaurants around you.

Absolutely. But I am not talking about "me", since it is a population wide problem, population wide solutions are the only solutions.
> being resistant to attack by bad actors

The recorders already to work really well for the purpose they're designed for.

The "bad actor in cockpit" plus "unexplained disappearance" scenario, for which they're not designed, simply doesn't happen often enough to be worthwhile worrying about.

Short version: flight recorders aren't broken, they don't need "fixing"

Long version: imagine you were to propose a major redesign to your employer's systems to attempt to diagnose unaccountable failures which based on historical data happen 0.00000018% of the time[0], what would be the response?

[0] back of napkin maths based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36284912
It's been fixed now.
I like it. Annotations--, Reactive Streams--. On that note, what are the views of HNers on Reactive Streams everywhere ... is it a dream come true or a debugging nightmare?
UTF-16 is the internal encoding of ICU to this day. If you're using ICU, you're using UTF-16. The library treats UTF-8 as a conversion target rather than a native representation. If you ever see a new project pick UTF-16 and you don't know why, it's because of ICU; any other choice forces a round trip conversion on every ICU call. If you pick UTF-16 you can just use icu::UnicodeString as your string representation and life is easy.
It's a lot better than earlier work, but still not really at the level it needs to get to.
it's really really weird man. There are so many pieces in place here for Apple to take over gaming but they seem allergic to it or that it's beneath them or so embarrassed by it that it is beneath them or something. It's so weird.
Certainly writing is a skill that many programmers are not good at.

However IMO an easy trap to fall into is to start documenting without a bigger understanding of the audience and the purpose of the doc.

A good way to start is to identify which of the 4 types of documentation you are working on.

https://nick.groenen.me/posts/the-4-types-of-technical-docum...

Personally I find it very easy to put too much explanation in the wrong places.
Hire a couple of technical writers with experience and let them get on with it, and then make your devs document every new feature and change. Nothing passes code review unless it is accompanied by updated documentation. Getting your devs to document the existing codebase when you've inherited a shitshow like this will pull them away from their jobs for too long.
China raises nuclear arsenal by 60 warheads: think tank
Hare and Ke
I don't think the flag works for "experiments" mandated from the higher-ups
It's not a problem with reddit. I've been there maybe 15 years and never had a single "friend". I rotate the accounts every year or so, not a big issue.
If you're looking for more, i have some recommendations for longer stuff around personal growth and insights:

- Erich Fromm, The Art Of Loving. It's about how love (romantic, interpersonal) is not rosy but hard, hard work. All of Fromm's writing is amazing, but this one (for me) had the most personal impact. Another great one is Fromm's The Sane Society.

- Kishimi/Koga's The Courage To Be Disliked. It's classified as self-help, but it's more a pop-psychology summary of Adlerian Psychotherapy. We can choose not to be the product of trauma, or our surroundings. We may get pushed into negative corners by our upbringing, but then we get too comfortable in those negative corners to push ourselves out. The title alludes to a person who has no friends and has a negative image of himself, maybe he's that lonely because he is afraid of being rejected/disliked. He is lonely and miserable, but he is comfortable in the loneliness. It takes courage and hard work on yourself to move out of those holes.

- Hillman/Ventura's We've had a Hundred Years Of Psychotherapy And The World's Getting Worse. In a nutshell, the problem is not always with the individual, often it's just the environment; mindfulness will only get you so far if the house is on fire.

- Becker's The Denial Of Death. We know we die but we don't realise that. How do we generate meaning in the presence of death? There are 'good' (a life project, pushing societies' boundaries) and 'bad' ways (hedonism, drugs etc.). What are the necessary illusions we should create for ourselves to keep pushing?
It has a better mobile experience than Reddit
> Also - I know there are various attempts at easier/less annoying Java web things like vertx and such, but they a) don't support virtual threads yet, and b) many of them are small enough im worried they'll rot eventually. Jetty meanwhile isn't going anywhere.

Vertx is arguably larger than Jetty or at least NOT smaller. Vertx is used by Quarkus and other Redhat/IBM projects e.g. if you use the newer Keycloak you're using Vertx. It's been around for a long time and has received constant updates.

Vertx is also 1 of the top performs of Techempower Benchmarks keeping Java in the race for those that care.
I've used many dedicated GPUs on an almost daily basis for over 20 years. Mostly for graphics, but sometimes for GPGPU, crypto mining, and ML training.

My point is: Apple doesn't want to support external GPUs, because they've moved to a new architecture with the components of the PC integrated on the SoC, not across an off-chip PCIe bus. They've done that because the on-chip GPU has performance advantages on multiple dimensions.

I've no doubt that Apple would love to retain those customers who want 1.5TB of RAM, and 6 GPUs churning away at whatever task, but ... it's not worth building a SoC to support that niche, and it's not worth the performance compromise that an off-chip solution would imply.

The solution they've implemented in the Mac Pro, using PCIe switches to multiplex a bunch of slots across a handful of lanes, is treating PCIe as a secondary, low-performance I/O bus for things that don't need low-latency/high-bandwidth access to core CPU, GPU, and RAM. Which is fine for some stuff, but not really what you need for a GPU.

I'm personally no fan of losing the expansion card model, but the tradeoff is worth it for most of their customers.
But JS is UTF-16 native. Would it even be feasible to migrate?
journalfs – mount, explore the systemd journal as a FUSE filesystem
Not sure what you mean by "threshold for action" but I think cost has a great deal to do with it.

Running a cable (copper or fibre) along a street is expensive. So is putting up a wireless tower. And either have to be connected to the next town (cable, microwave, satellite, etc) and so on.

Passing around some USB sticks is much cheaper - has rather poor latency but fine bandwidth :)

I'd like to see some kind of peer-to-peer system doing the same thing. I imagine small devices (phones, raspberry pis etc) close enough that they could propagate updates or messages autonomously, and providing local wifi access to their collection of data. Perhaps fetching more recent updates from users when someone with more recent data wanders into town. Wouldn't work for streaming movies but might provide a nice sneakernet alternative.
There’s no right answer to remote work versus in-person.

In person is better for collaboration, for social interaction, and for a sense of a company on a mission. Some of the jobs I had were fantastic experiences and that was because of the people. And not just your direct team, but you also get to know lots of people outside your team. You learn from them, you have fun with them. It’s well known that many people meet their partner at work - or they used to anyway.

But remote is what people … especially developers … want. And remote is what makes sense, what’s the point of traveling 2 hours a day to sit at a desk and do what you would do at home?

On the other hand, some people do exploit remote working…. they work less, the slack off, or even have two jobs or freelance clients. This is well documented.

There’s no right answer.
Until users understand their value. Companies will treat them like aholes.

If companies break your trust make them suffer. Leave. Find alternative or build them.

Any user who continues to use a platform and keep getting treated like a ahole deserves it. Look at recent netflix flip on password sharing, users rewarded them by giving them more subscriptions instead of leaving and finding alternatives.
Mono: A Simple UI/Web/Desktop/Mobile Framework Written in Nim
I didn't see any ads.

Reading on my phone using Firefox with adblockers. Why are you using no adblockers.
"You'll get over it."
til. For whatever reason I totally imagined it was some RL based method trained on sims. In my defense, RL is used for control problems as well, but this is so cool! Thank you for sharing.
I'm a backer too. From what I've gleaned, he's had a few family/life issues that have ended up being pretty all-consuming.
Just deleted my 10 year old reddit account. Thanks for helping me break the addiction, Steve Huffman.
I think about these questions very often, but I don't feel like going on a long rant about it from a philosophical perspective. I will instead give an anecdote:

I think from my teens to my early 20s my political stance changed dramatically, and at any one point in time I would think that whatever I held to be true I would continue to in the future. But what always changed my belief system was not encountering some new piece of information that changed my idea or made me "update my priors" (in the crude Bayesian system, a most despicable philosophy of our era). It was always something that radically changed how it was that I understood the world around me, something that made my way of thinking about things shift so dramatically that I had to abandon my old ideas. I think everyone should read Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud for that reason, even if you think they are heinous and evil, because they radically question the logic and order of society and knowledge, and their writings are deeply disturbing to many for that reason.

What changes people's perspectives is generally what people want to avoid (to the author's point). And the more you want to avoid something or "prove it wrong," oftentimes the more it changes the way you think about the world.
You can launder money with bitcoin, if you don't reuse wallets. But typically (not that i would know), a cash conversion mechanism is involved like moneygram or giftcards. You can KYC yourself and trade monero for cash and buy dirty btc with monero and then cash that btc-taxes. Only the dirty btc wallet needs to be fresh each time.
Digg was also killed by a user-hostile redesign. Reddit was wise enough to keep its redesign indefinitely optional, at least.
Nothing beats Englishman being woken up at 4am by a group of elderly German tourists singing their favourite worship songs.

Apart from that airports are good for overnight stay.
You can trust 1+1=2 and that's about it.
Can attest, I studied Nocedal & Wright's book last year during my master's, it was my favourite course.
And what exactly is user-hostile there? It doesn't look beautiful to my tastes, but functionally nothing is particularly complicated to understand.
I like that you could use swear words by paying for it.

> You can purchase FarkUnits for $10 for 100 FUs, or you can get a discount if you purchase in bulk.

> Using it is easy. If you type a word with "fuck" or "shit" in your comment, a new button will pop up that says "Add Comment using SwearJar - 20FUs." Just click or tap that and those words won't be filtered to the customary 'fark' or 'shiat.'
> Not all of the early lab-leak voices were racist.

That sort of statement is always true, but that doesn't negate the real dangers of the Right using it for political advantage. Their general approach is to drive a wedge between different groups in the US (and abroad), pit them against each other, and have them take out their rage on each other as a means to distract them from the real issues going on. It was clear at the time that the Trump administration wasn't after "the truth" but more after a way to keep people occupied - and if that puts a lot of people in danger, they don't really care.

And before anyone tries to defend the Right, take a look at these basekless attacks on drag queens. Meanwhile we have school shootings happening all the time and they don't do anything about it. It's a big shame because the a large portion of the USA isn't about trying to make things better - they just want to rage and cause damage towards others.
Where did you get the $50 million from? The actual amount seems to not have been disclosed and it sounds a bit low for the time and 200 million user base.
> In short: don’t ever try and redact real private keys. For documentation purposes, just put “KEY GOES HERE” in the appropriate spot, or something like that.

Personally I've always liked redacted keys because it makes it clear to users what they should expect.

Does this system want a PEM or a DER or a CER or a CRT or a JKS or a P7B or a P11? Or some vendor-specific format? The public key or the private key? Or both in the same file? A literal value, or a filename of a certificate on disk? A keyring?

It'd all be a heck of a lot easier if we didn't have such a mess of key formats.
The API prices are a de facto redesign for many users because they'll have to use the less than adequate official product now.
Sorry but you're just a bad friend.
According to the linked page, Histre is for “supercharging Teams with AI”. What does that even mean and what does it have to do with bookmark management?
Majority own appreciating assets. Rent depreciating assets.
One of the interesting thing about the open source federated alternatives (like Lemmy) is that each instance can run their own version of the UI. So even if the maintainers decide to completely redesign everything, nothing is stopping instances from staying on the old design forever.
This is a classic read: http://datagenetics.com/blog/november12013/index.html
[dupe] Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers
The original article is also shaming someone, although from 3 years ago maybe it's less an issue now (?)
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Boy, and that's just the opening paragraph of the introduction.

> Exactly what arcane requisite elite math precursors are necessary to even remotely understand this?

You don't have a degree in some STEM area (or even economics)? To me, this rather looks like the kind of basic mathematical notation that you learn and get become perfectly used to in the first two years of your degree course.
What we really need is more shows to take up the concept and satirize modern tech (and SV specifically) from their own unique angles.

The only one that did was the short-lived Amazon original Betas, which had more irritating younger characters, yet for all of its memespeak it really did feel like it grokked the startup bubble culture well enough, especially since it was actually set in the SoMa of San Francisco, rather than Silicon Valley’s Palo Alto!
Their mobile app is the new user-hostile redesign. I had no idea before today that they had experimented with cutting off mobile web access in favour of the app[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36287411
for reddit based on the current mobile behaviour on android which doesn't allow you to use mobile version and forces you to use the app it means its no longer optional
It's not broken if "character" means "extended grapheme cluster".

Though in that case it makes it very hard to index the column.
A presidential campaign lured in my educated aunt. It will never make sense.
I wouldn't call generating a couple of semantically equivalent (but fully valid and 0 error) QR codes and giving each of them as inputs to diffusion model brute forcing.

Even the normal AI image generation process often involves some trial and error. Generating a bunch of variants by changing random seed or slightly tweaking prompt keywords and choosing a result which looks the best. Doing multiple attempts with multiple different inputs doesn't seem more crazy than doing multiple attempts with same input and hoping for better results.
The image is a bad photoshop? The left signal should not have been mirrored.
Anyone else remember the great Digg exodus? It’s wild watching Reddit quickly following the footsteps. Steve Huffman (aka Spez) let his true colors shine, with (IPO) dollar signs in his eyes.
I have worked remotely for 10 years in smaller companies before going to a large FAANG and working in office for 10 years, then remotely since 2020.

Working remotely for the smaller companies and startups was much faster faced and productive. Part of it is due to company size and not remote vs. non-remote. We met regularly (once a month or so) to set direction, we executed at 2x - 3x the speed than at a larger company.

The FAANG company never embraced remote work fully. 2 years after I started remote, HR still messes up counting local holidays. Newly hired remote workers were promised they could travel for 2 weeks per year to meet face to face with their team. In my experience, it did not happen. Travel was severely restricted and new team members were not allowed to travel.

Now, leaders are complaining that remote worker productivity is lower than hybrid workers because of face to face interactions after they sabotaged remote workers and failed to deliver on the exact promises that would have solved this problem.

This sly behavior is unacceptable.
I have a 14yo reddit account, and was a Digg user for years prior to that. While there were scandals like the HDDVD code stuff, ultimately the user-hostile Digg v4 redesign killed it for me- the day they forced it on everyone I never went back. Tonight watching all the subreddits go private is the first time I’ve ever felt like Reddit is the next to die.

If anyone from reddit corporate is reading this, understand that you’re playing with fire here. This week is critical to saving your platform.
No subreddit is going to survive or have any activity if all the "power users" leave, and everyone that's left just lurks. The lurkers are there to see the posts by the power users, and to enjoy the moderation by the power users (assuming the moderation is good...). No web forum can survive without active users.
They were avoiding the Tibetian plateau not China. The plateau is about 4000 m above sea level, 2,500,000 sq kms and does not have many airports. This makes it very risky for civilian aircrafts and almost everyone avoids it. Additionally, if you are starting from New Delhi, you have to fly over the Himalayas which is even riskier.
In defense of Quora, I find many really interesting and well-thought-out answers on there.

However, that's all it is: a place for some people to write up small dissertations to various questions (frequently what-if questions). It's not really a social media site: it's not a place for people to hang out and have discussions.
The only major downside (and the one that will ensure Lemmy doesn't gain any significant traction after this) is that its incredibly underdeveloped and nowhere near as close to being able to replace Reddit as Mastedon was for Twitter.
Hey, reddit mod of a top subreddit here. I can give some insight into what mods are thinking.

This current 'movement' is extremely organic and decentralized. A couple power mods started rallying the troops, and the movement went viral among mods over the course of about 2 weeks. There is very little direct coordination between subreddit mods, and it is mostly people deciding on the fly to make big decisions.

TLDR, nobody is really thinking much about the concerns that you are pointing out.

Its certainly something that people have thought about, very minimally, but the current counterargument to the idea of reddit just replacing mods is twofold.

argument 1: "They can't replace all of us!"

IE, subs are all run by an army of volunteer mods and mods think that they have a lot of bargaining power here.

argument 2: "I don't care. Let all of reddit burn to the ground!"

Quite frankly, a lot of people on reddit have gotten very worked up about this situation, and do not care about the consequences. If they get replaced, or reddit drops the hammer, they are fine with the consequences and will just leave.

But, the most important thing to note is absence of the following argument.

Argument 3 that doesn't exist: "We have a coordinated plan, back plan, and backup backup plans as for what to do about this, in communication with all the other mods"

That would be the smart way to do this, but unfortunately for the mods involved in it, this isn't what is happening. For better or for worse this is a viral outrage movement with nobody in charge.
Ads are easier to block on the browser.
I would be curious how well redesigns go over in general, given that users are used to things working a certain way.
Babies believe this.
Just gotta love politics making everyone's life more difficult.