skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This collaboration ia about optimising the engine for Vulkan on Android.

Very nice of Google to support Godot this way. Looking forward to a new wave of Android games with great performance and minimal battery drain.
Ask HN: Do the younger generation lack professional standards?
Hey guys, there has been a situation in my team over the last few months which I'm unsure about. We have had several new hire React developers, who seem quite talented and capable at their job, but seem to lack professional standards. 3 members of my team have set their profile pictures on MS Teams to furry pictures, these pictures also show to calls with clients. To me this seems clearly inappropriate. While there is nothing explicitly inappropriate in the images, as I understand it, furries are a kind of sex thing.

I've tried to bring this up with management but have been told they don't see any issues and I should drop it. Am I overreacting here? Is this normal in a corporate environment? I get that with remote work, things have become more casual, but not too sure if this is too far.
Other broadcasters don't benefit from it. Channel 4 doesn't get a cut for example.

You need to pay it if you never watch the BBC and only non public service broadcasting. You also get public things for free without paying for it.

> Taxes tax something. A purchase, your income, something.

This taxes watching live TV or on demand things from the BBC.
This is the post that proves that you never used agile. And nobody you worked with ever used it. Sorry to hear that you have been scammed :(

"Standup is a scheduled management upgrade":
Nope. The manager isn't even there during the standup.

"Planning poker is a useless waste of time so the manager has some false sense of security when something will be done"
Nope. It gives the team a chance to see what's coming to them in the future, and a feeling to guestimate the work needed, so the less experienced people have a better chance to participate in the sprint planning.

"Retrospectives are actually useful, if the manager is out of them."
Yes. Retrospectives are a safe zone, so if your manager even tries to join them something is wrong. They do get the consolidated, actionable items though, and are responsible for helping to fix them.

"The Scrum Master role is made so the owner's son"
The Scrum Master is not a role-job. It's a role of the day, and every member of the team will take their turn.

"The PO role is where the money people..."

Ah. Worked with one bad PO before?
The PO is there to help the team, and highly incentivised to do so.
If he is not doing his job, in answering the questions they have and unblocking their work, the team will leave him hanging dry for a sprint or two, and he is gone.

"Sprint is just a cleverly crafted ploy to make the developers endlessly hurry towards endless micro deadlines, sprint after sprint."
Wow. I see some major depression there.
A sprint gives us the chance to tick a box every few weeks, instead of achieving nothing over years.

"Agile Coach role."
Really? That is a role at your company?
It's amazing what an Agile Coaching consultant can achieve by visiting 2-3 times a year, with an outside perspective.
If they are there full time, and paid like everybody else, they loose the outside perspective, and thus are not a Coach, but something ... weird.

Is Agile the holy grail of perfection?
No.

Is there anything else that gets even close?
Hell no, but if you know a framework that works better let us know.

It's always easy to say "X doesn't work",
the real constructive part is to be able to say "Y works better than X because of Z".
In the Netherlands WhatsApp became popular because they offered free SMS.
This brings back soo many old memories of mine @ Yahoo! . We had soo many tooling - YTS, YCS benchmarks, Vespa, SherpaDb, Pipes, shimproxy the list goes on. Its unfortunate leadership didn't have the foresight to saasify them in a way AWS did. Tooling at Yahoo!! was soo ahead of its time.
At what point does it not really matter anymore for desktops/laptops?

How common is the use case of full CPU loads for hours on battery? Or eeking a 10th hour of light-use autonomy?
Is that quote from something? It's funny. I couldn't find any Google result for it.
Godot re-added C# support for Android and iOS in Godot 4.2, not sure where you're reading that since it's not in the link.
Or unless Qualcomm comes up with better chips and Windows on ARM would be a thing.
You can fix that in other ways that doesn't block access to all extensions. Like yeah even just a checkbox to enable experimental extension support like "[] I understand Firefox can become slower from unsupported extensions I install".
You're not a world-famous tech multi-billionaire building a suspicious compound on a small island.
Just to be clear it was tied to live TV broadcasts not only BBC content. The point that it's not about owning a device is very important though.
Twice in my life, I've encountered unnecessary hassle from TV Licensing (TVL).

First, when I purchased my initial home, I didn't immediately get a TV. However, when I did, the retailer was obliged to inform TVL under The Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1967. The TV arrived, still boxed, and a TVL representative showed up implying he had the right to enter, which he did not. I had preemptively bought the license, but still faced this intrusion. His insinuations were met with a firm response, because it was clear they were trying to catch me off-guard.

Later, during a phase where I chose not to watch or record live TV, I didn't renew my TV license after moving. This led to a barrage of letters and threats from TVL, all addressed to "Legal Occupier." I called them to halt these communications, finding them harassing. They agreed to stop only if I disclosed my name. Valuing my privacy, I declined, suggesting they use "Legal Occupier" as my identifier. This was met with reluctance but eventually processed.

These experiences highlight the invasive procedures of TVL, especially for those who value privacy.
I sometimes wonder if advanced mathematics in Western Europe would have a survived without the need to calculate the date of Easter!
I was just making a parody of what the article title was.

Sorry but we don't bother to back up our claims.
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It reached the 69th position in market cap by reaching $1 billion.
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> iMessage is not perfect but they did get the sms fallback right

Did they though? It’s unreliable.

Other than this point, I very much share your position.
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>Nvidia could have shifted the model by firing the customers and bringing things in-house.

That wouldn't work since many companies already had been licensing the ARM architecture, not just cores.
Uncertain: https://arc.net/faq
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Nomad will be there when managed k8s gets too expensive. I was looking at it seriously last year for on prem. I chickend put bcz I didn't want to be the only person on my team that understood it. We still don't have a solution, but nomad will be there for when we are ready to progress, regardless of the license.
Your examples at best support, not contradict, my position.

1. Repeating "company" fifty times followed by random factoids is way outside of training data distribution lol. That's actually a hilarious/great example of creative extrapolation.

2. Extrapolation often includes memory retrieval. Recalling bits of past information is perfectly compatible with critical thinking, be it from machines or humans.

3. GPT4 never merely regurgitated the legendary fast root approximation to you. You might've only seen that bit. But that's confusing an iceberg with its tip. The actual output completion was on several hundred tokens setting up GPT as this fantasy role play writer who must finish this Simplicio-style dialogue between some dudes named USER and ASSISTANT, etc. This conversation, which does indeed end with Carmack's famous code, is nowhere near a training example to simply pluck from the combinatorial ether.
I like that we sent unsolicited nudes. An act I could likely be convicted for if I sent it to a neighbour no matter how nice the gold disk or long the journey...

... but now I look at the pictures on wikipedia and see there are no nudes or even a Vitruvian Man. How strange to have a belief of many decades suddenly corrected. Seems that I have mentally fused the earlier Pioneer plaque with Voyager.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque

> After NASA had received criticism over the nudity on the Pioneer plaque (line drawings of a naked man and woman), the agency chose not to allow Sagan and his colleagues to include a photograph of a nude man and woman on the record. Instead, only a silhouette of the couple was included.[15] However, the record does contain "Diagram of vertebrate evolution", by Jon Lomberg, with drawings of an anatomically correct naked male and naked female, showing external organs.[16] The person waving on the diagram was also changed: on the Pioneer plaque, the man is waving, while on the "Vertebrate evolution" image, the woman is waving.
I almost wrote my thesis on a system using Pipes, until my professor changed his mind and I did something else. Good times.
OK. How can we operationalize the definition of "understanding" you are talking about? That is which tests will allow us to know who understands "hot" and who does not?
>And in the cloud, custom arm seems to be the path that was chosen

Doesn't the cloud run on x86?
I’m not talking about your father but I really doubt that the millions of people running 6+yo phones would care a lot about this. They could still send SMS, it’s not like they would became suddenly unreachable.

Apple could even be generous and still allow group chats or whitelist existing accounts.

Also, you have to take into consideration that iMessage is pretty US centric, the rest of the world wouldn’t really care about this.
what was SherpaDb?
Let's not forget the free IDE comes with a telemetry tracker.
But again, why is it a sudden cut-off and not a gradual one?
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This is simply not true. I am very well read in language acquisition research, and no evidence supports that children would need corrections to get language right.
The answer is the same: because their platform is not very good. So if buyers had the chance they'd instead buy Zelda games for the PC for instance.

It would be a real problem if Nintendo had a monopoly on good games on the US.
I saw the same. And I have thought of a Porsche 911. Much better than the crap they build at GM.
>I wish they'd capitalize on it by making ARM as well supported as x64 is, where any program, any OS, any line of code ever written will most likely run flawlessly.

Who is they? X86 had IBM to establish a standard. And when IBM wasn't interested anymore, it was Intel who stepped in.
'The American dream is to leave America.' the US TikTokers reveal life abroad
The whitelist would be on the phone number/icloud id and not tied to the device.

That’d be pretty difficult to get second hand, especially when you can just spam over SMS.

They could even release a new iMessage protocol with another bubble color and let the blue ones become uncool.
Gelsinger is a typical hardware engineer out of his depth competing against what is effctively a software play. This is a recurring theme in the industry where you have successful hardware companies with strong hardware focused leadership fail over time because they don't get software.

I used to work at Nokia Research. The problem was on full display during the period Apple made it's entry into mobile. We had plenty of great software people throughout the company. But the leadership had grown up in a world where Nokia was basically making and selling hardware. Radio engineers and hardware engineers basically. They did not get software all that well. And of course what Apple did was executing really well on software for what was initially a nice but not particularly impressive bit of hardware. It's the software that made the difference. The hardware excellence came later. And the software only got better over time. Nokia never recovered from that. And they tried really hard to fix the software. It failed. They couldn't do it. Symbian was a train wreck and flopped hard in the market.

Intel is facing the same issue here. Their hardware is only useful if there's great software to do something with it. The whole point of hardware is running software. And Intel is not in the software business so they need others to do that for them. Similar to Nokia, Apple came along and showed the world that you don't need Intel hardware to deliver a great software experience. Now their competitor NVidia is basically stealing their thunder in the AI and 3D graphics market. Intel wants in but just like they failed to get into the mobile market (they tried, with Nokia even), their efforts to enter this market are also crippled by their software ineptness.

This is a lesson that many IOT companies struggle with as well. Great hardware but they typically struggle with their software ecosystems and unlocking the value of the hardware. So much so that one Finnish software company in this space (Wirepas), has been running an absolute genius marketing campaign with the beautiful slogan "Most IOT is shit". Check out their website. Some very nice Finnish humor on display there. Their blunt message is that most hardware focused IOT companies are hopelessly clumsy on the software front and they of course provide a solution.
There was a time VW sold more cars in a year then Tesla did in its entire history (they still do by the way, a lot more), had the best selling car in the world, the VW Golf, for years in a row, was profitable, on its way to surpase Toyota as the biggest car manufacturer by units sold and had nowhere near the multiples in the valuation that Tesla has.

So no, having the best selling car is by no means a reason Tesla share prices are where they are.
yep, this is such a great and detailed writeup. I have never decapped or even freed a chip from that black epoxy blob but after reading this I feel I could do it if I needed. I have saved this for the future.

I have a old clock radio in a box which I was thinking to turn into a internet/podcast radio at some point (so I could always get the news right when I'm supposed to wake up)

I was planning to retrofit a piTFT or something into it but it would be much cooler to reuse the existing LCD... although based on the amount of work required and history of me completing these "interesting" projects I have on the shelf... I will probably do neither and at some point just buy something suitable :-)
At some point there were burners with speeds like 48x, and MAX reads at 48x, so the writed were in practice faster than reads (but only marginally)
>ARM manufacturers could adopt that if they wanted to, but apparently they (mostly) don't want to.

ARM manufacturers don't want compatibility.
Doom's creators reminisce about "as close to a perfect game as anything we made"
You don't have to go that narrow to refute this nonsense. Pretty much nothing was better back then. Many countries experienced regular famines. Much higher infant mortality. Much lower literacy rates. Wanna get surgery in the 70s or now? Medicine might as well be from another planet today. Even just looking at the US many of these statistics are worse and the "a single income could get you a house for a family of four"-BS is also not covered by fact, but by thinking the 70s were accurately depicted by tv shows. Much smaller houses and lower home ownership rates and families statistically had one car, not two as today. On top of that we have people fuming now because we are giving a few billion USD worth of equipment to Ukraine instead of paying for the expensive disposal off that hardware. Back then we paid enormous amounts on preparing for a war to end all wars against the Soviet Union. Things are so much better, it's insane!
I memorised that as a youngster, and still use to get ballpark figures of space distances.
You absolutely can disable iMessage for yourself and text anyone using regular texts (SMS) only, you are never forced into iMessage. You can deregister your phone number on Apple's website without any Apple device.

Also, where is the "illusion" about "being better at texting"? Apple is literally coloring the bubbles differently to tell you that _iMessage is not the same_. How much more explicit can it get?
Why Argentina's shock measures may be the best hope for its ailing economy
No, the CPU tile, which is the only part made by Intel in Meteor Lake, is made in the new "Intel 4" CMOS process.

While it appears that with "Intel 4" Intel has succeeded to reduce the power consumption to be competitive with the CPUs made in older TSMC processes, like the AMD CPUs, history has repeated and exactly like at the launch of the "14 nm" Intel process in 2014 and at the launch of the "10 nm" Intel process in 2018 and 2019, Intel is unable to achieve in the new manufacturing processes clock frequencies as high as in their previous mature manufacturing process.

Because the P-cores of Meteor Lake have the same microarchitecture as the P-cores of Alder Lake and Raptor Lake, but a lower turbo clock frequency, they have a lower single-thread performance.

Nevertheless, the Meteor Lake E-cores are improved and the clock frequency when all cores are active is higher for Meteor Lake, due to the improved power efficiency, so the multi-threaded performance of Meteor Lake is better than in the previous Intel CPUs.

The best part of Meteor Lake is the GPU made at TSMC, which has 4/3 times more FP32 execution units than AMD Phoenix or Hawk Point at a clock frequency that is higher than 3/4 of the AMD frequency, so the Intel iGPU is faster than the AMD iGPU, and it is twice faster than the older Intel iGPUs.

The other nice feature of Meteor Lake is that the SoC tile (made by TSMC) includes everything that is needed when a computer is mostly idle, like when reading documents or watching movies, so in such cases both the CPU tile with 6+8 faster cores and the GPU tile with the 3D graphics can be completely shut down, leading to a great reduction in the power consumption for anything that can be handled by the two slowest cores and by the video display engine.

For consumers who do not need the higher performance of 45 W CPUs, laptop or SFF computers with Meteor Lake are a great choice.

While one model of 45 W Meteor Lake will be available some time later (Core Ultra 9), it will likely be too expensive and too hard to find in comparison with the 45-W AMD CPUs.
> Wikipedia has nationalism modern root in the French Revolution but as a non European I find that unconvincing.

This is just an armchair theory of mine: the seeds were planted by Luther who insisted that every nation should have a Bible in their native language. This naturally forms a strong identity. Those sprouts were then nurtured by westphalian nation-state system. Which then got infused by ideas of French revolution via a short period of Napoleonic empire throughout Europe. And in Balkans too. Any references to older events of identity in history should be regarded upon as suspect of revisionism for current political purpose.
You are thinking of free (as in freedom) AND open-source (FOSS). Most people define open-source as just the source being open/public.
Well you said "1977: peak humanity" and not "1977: peak space exploration and science"
Mean/median income/wealth of an iOS user has gotta be several times that of an android phone user.
Whether Schmidhuber is a bad actor taking advantage of the "system" in general is separate from the specific case I was responding to (not sure if that was your comment or somebody else's.)

But as I said before, we should take the long view. Globalized scientific research ought to have a more neutral way of assessing citations. The 20th century way of doing it may not be the right way any more. I don't see anyone else suggesting a problem of this scope.
> Do the younger generation lack professional standards?

Yes, always has, always will, for every generation.
Having a clear setting would be great. Casche for 1 day, 1 wee or 1 month? I would like to choose.

I think I would go for 1 month cache. Balance the possibility of change with the likelyhood of no change.
Thank you; wish there would be a pinning comments feature or something that could refute, straighten things up under hot topics.
This looks mid compared to Apple and AMD. I don't know who is supposed to be impressed. Gamers should all be switching to AMD soon, it's a bit embarrassing to even be running Intel this year. Maybe Intel should focus on server, where it still dominates, since for whatever reason Arm64/Apple hasn't taken over yet.
Ah I see. Ok.
Approximately 1000 years to get to Omicron Persei 8, according to Futurama
It's common practice these days in Android apps to request the user to turn allow the app to run on the background, opening the necessary Android settings page if you want to grant the app access to this. If an addon needs that feature, the app could request this for the addon at moment of installation.
Hasn't every older generation said this?

That said I'm approaching the old fart age and it's not how I'd want my employees representing my company, if I had one...
I am not and you're probably right, but as I said what can we expect to learn from those paintings that will further human civilization?

At some point the past has nothing to teach anymore.
Limited resources: time of highly competent researchers, management time

Science takes time. A single paper needs not completely answer everything. Also, in many fields, it’s common to find out what works before why it works.
This is indeed an angle of AWS lock-in that people often underappreciate, and possibly a main reason for their extortionate external traffic costs?
I think ‘readily accessible’ was the important bit.
I have to read Schopenhauer's "The Art of Being Right" again.

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Or change it to ArmonCorp to balance it out.
I think the people you’re working with lack professional standards, no point in trying to generalize to a whole generation.
A simplified recap of the video:

He wants code:

If x then return y

With y an unsafe expression, and x always true if y can be evaluated without invoking undefined behaviour.

He wrote it as:

return x.then_some(y)

This always calculates y, but throws it away if x is false.

By calculating y, he accidentaly gives a proof to the compiler that x must be true. The proof is of course invalid, but as y is unsafe, the compiler trusts him nevertheless. So the 'if' gets optimized away.
yaml is not a configuration language!

yaml is a tree serialization format with some human-targeted ergonomic features like comments and multiline strings built in.

it'll work for simple configuration files just as well as format-less .ini files will. for complex configurations, even xml is better, and that's saying a lot.

in practice for object graphs of any sort of complexity, like cloudformation or k8s configs, you want a programming language which can reduce the kolmogorov complexity of your configuration, because that dominates ops in the limit. or, IOW, configuration is code is configuration is code is ...
> but have been told they don't see any issues and I should drop it

HN is not your supervisor.
Yoko trying to collect royalties from aliens in outerspace was not on my bingo card.
I don't think this is universally true. Some people actually make an effort to sort the stuff of their grandparents in the attic and figure out what still has some (emotional) value. But it's probably a minority of people.