skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a more interesting question, and history behind the answer, than you might expect.

Indeed. I'm just glad that there exist people whose purpose is to stay on top of subjects like this.
This may or may not be true - but a random picture of people standing in line is not evidence of anything.

Be wary of random imagery with provocative captions - it's a pretty common and easy misinformation tactic.
This seems like a silly solution to a silly problem. If you're tracking your employees' performance based on actual business metrics, who cares how many times their mouse jiggles in a given day?
NTP time sync is nice, but arguably that could be solved using a WWVB receiver for a much smaller bill of materials.
Let me stop you right there. Just because something worked for Google when they were a hot new start-up, doesn't mean it will work everywhere.

A lot of workers from many industries are sick and tired of consultants bulldozing by force down their throats various cargo-cult management techniques like SAFe Agile or the conjoined triangles of success into their jobs, but it's not a guarantee solution everywhere.

Every company is different, every org is different, every team is deferent, every employee is different.
I'm assuming they'll just re-encode everything, for every user, to a lower bitrate
using this codec.

So, with their huge user base they'll be saving a gazillion terabytes hourly, that's what I concluded from their "2 years in the making" announcement.
Works really well as long as you can find trees that don't consume water.

The challenge in these western cities is that they don't even have enough water to run the taps. The reality is that the western US should not be this populated, period.
Strangely I'm more comfortable with this kind of market.

I was fed up to see entitled wannabees be paid a lot of money to slow me down by forcing me to do some parody of scrum that they learn at one bootcamp, feeling they were in any way important as they drank they in-house latte during multiple remote meetings a day.

I much prefer a market where people I work with are actually paid according to their skill and ship code rather than power point or worse, an update to the code of conduct to include some inclusive edge case.

I would prefer a balance of all worlds, that would be fairer. But you can never quite reach it, because you pass it on the way up or down quickly as the pendulum swing.

So if I have to choose, I prefer a hard market.

I understand that people need to eat and that it's not everybody's preference, though.
No, it's not a theory; I'm describing to you how Android has worked for at least the last decade. If you have an Android phone, this is how the device in your hand works today.
Olivetti M20
Um they already delivered, for example on 8 years of updates for past Chromebooks.
Sadly, the site is down. Too much traffic?

https://web.archive.org/web/20240612203731/https://computerw...
not just interesting but very very important

move the whole things for a "wtf is the US doing now" into a "okey sucks but makes sense" territory
Canada moves into top countries in refugee claims
I will start to believe the "7 years of updates" promise for Pixel phones when the first model that was released with this promise is approximately 7.5 years old. At that point, I may begin to reconsider my opinion. I fell prey to Google marketing when they released the very first Pixel model - I spent an exorbitant amount of money on it, only to have it utterly abandoned and deprecated, with support and updates dropped just over a year later.

As in all things relating to anything stated by Google with respect to the privacy, availability or expected lifetime of a consumer product, the maxim is not even "trust but verify", it should be "distrust, watch carefully, and assume the worst".
Or if you can code, it's a simple flag an application can set to tell the OS it can't fire a screen saver (that flag the player uses).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/...
This is framing the story as a simple interaction (or interactions) between Harris and business leaders at Microsoft. It wasn't. Microsoft has a team responsible for translating between security researchers like Harris and its product teams/leadership. That team dismissed Harris because that team's priority was to ignore or downplay issues that were brought to it. Harris went around them and was still ignored. It seems like he tried everything short of calling the press directly to get someone to pay attention. Even after the issue was made public by other security researches, MS did nothing.

What happened here was a systematic failure on MS' part to address a fundamental flaw in one of the most critical pieces of security infrastructure at the entire company.

Companies like MS (and everyone else it seems) need to get out of this Jack Welsh mindset of the only thing that matters is the shareholders. MS acts as the gatekeeper of the most valuable organizations and governments on the planet. Their profits have to take a backseat to this type of thing or they shouldn't be allowed to sell their products to critical organizations and governments.
Not meeting the job description requirements, failing to deliver, consecutively under-performing KPIs, etc.
Yeah, equally there is a document that says what Qualcomm's lawyers want it to say. Sorting through both and providing a summary is part of "journalism".

Here's one from Qualcomm: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.798...

And a quote from it, where Qualcomm states that it has the rights to use the IP from Nuvia because it has a ARM-license covering the same IP as Nuvia's ARM-license:

"3. Qualcomm has its own license agreements with ARM, under which Qualcomm has licensed and paid for the same intellectual property that NUVIA licensed under its own separate agreements with ARM. Therefore, even though ARM terminated the NUVIA licenses, Qualcomm owns independent licenses for the same ARM technology and information"

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To this statement of ARM: "Upon termination, the Nuvia ALA requires Nuvia to cease using and destroy any technology developed under the Nuvia ALA, as well as cease using Arm’s trademarks in connection with any technology developed under the Nuvia ALA"

The response of Qualcomm is this: "4. The notion that ARM has the right to control technology that is not ARM’s—and worse yet, to ask Defendants to destroy their innovation and inventions unless substantial monetary tribute is paid to ARM—offends customary norms of technology ownership, as well as NUVIA’s and Qualcomm’s rights under their agreements with ARM."

and this: "7. ARM’s position is a threat to the industry generally. Unless this Court rejects ARM’s arguments, ARM’s extreme position could be weaponized against all of its licensees, allowing ARM to claim ownership over all its licensees’ innovations."

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So, as an amateur reading through the case, there is sufficient information to conclude that ARM has a contract that limits the use of Nuvia IP to Nuvia alone, and Qualcomm tries to argue that these terms are "offending" and "a threat to the industry".

--> So, there is obviously no disagreement that these crucial terms are in fact part of the ARM/Nuvia License contract.
> I'm not making any judgement on unions

> have an obviously cancerous group inside your organization

Is comparing unions to cancer not a judgement? Your comment reads anti-union and oblivious to the concept of worker’s right and the history to corporations literally attacking union members.
When you successfully block ads for a long time, and acclimatized yourself to an Internet without them, and then suddenly turn off the blocking, it's jarring. Like, my-brain-hurts jarring. It stinks like getting suddenly tossed into a sewer. The first thing that comes to mind when I browse a non-blocked web is "how do people without ad blockers even live like this?" I've kind of lost the ability to concentrate with them all over the page. It's almost headache-inducing.
An exception? Like how the CFPB was created independently such that it didn’t answer to the president?

(Actual exceptions like this would violate separation-of-powers principles and typically get struck down.)
Yes and innovation curve tends to go down in large companies because of barriers which a startup is not bounded by. This is how future big companies are created.
Like any other private company? All choices are to maximize profit, even when they spend resources in security, it is to maximize profit.
If this was true, why did so few games implement BSPs?
I remember reading the graphics programming blackbook and it took me quite a while to understand the concept. My guess is that, of all space partitioning techniques BSPs where harder to do right and a lot less common.
Yip I've lived in many places where you have months of 40C+ (~104F), but when you past through a nice forested area the temperature just instantly plummets.
Besides persistence, terminal multiplexing is one of the greats things of tmux. If I'm programming on a remote machine I don't want to open a new ssh connection from each of the five terminals that I need. Seems tedious when I can just create a new window inside tmux. Even locally, I don't want to have 10 terminals opened (or tabs), tmux lets you have multiple terminal windows/panes from a single physical terminal and lets you easily group and switch between them into what they call sessions.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. We need smarter policies not blaming employees for doing what they need to do to work around them.
>Having all 9 justices make a decision that runs contrary to the ideology of a majority of them should make me question my belief that they will always choose ideology first and find a justification afterwards.

This is an effect of media quite literally lying about the nature of the SCOTUS. The vast majority of cases they rule on are settled on apolitical lines. There has been a concerted effort in the past ~5 years to undermine the legitimacy of the court by trying to portray it as some hackneyed partisan legislature. Do some things get decided on political lines? Absolutely, but not any more than the SCOTUS has always handled these things.

Populists, both left and right, benefit from eroding the perceived legitimacy of independent institutions.
Hah. I bought and tried to use a pantograph. It was fun, but seemed only accurate for scaling up or down over a limited range of scales. Obviously I'm a terrible amateur at using them, so perhaps it was a skill issue...
> the SCOTUS has authority over Congress’s ability to determine SCOTUS authority.

Not really. Congress can, for example, impeach 1 or all of the supreme court justices. The supreme court cannot stop themselves from being removed from the court. They can claim authority and that they have the right to do that, but they are not above congress, they are coequal.

> Yes, officially they shouldn’t, in practice they do, and the law is what is practiced (otherwise adultery is still illegal in Minnesota).

Agreed, ultimately the ball is in congress's court (which they will most certainly drop). Congress could decide that this is the supreme court taking too much power and remove them all, but they aren't going to do that because this is likely a decision most representatives are perfectly fine with. So nothing will likely happen here. I'm just saying that this decision is one that the court never should have heard, not that practically they have heard it, and their enforcement is likely to stand.
mi300x production is ramping , in latest earning report lisa su said 1H2024 is production capped , 2h2024 have increased production ( and still have some to sell ), thanks probably to cowos and hbm3/(e?) supply improved

large orders for those accelerators are placed months ahead

meanwhile mi300x on microsoft are fully booked...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-high-performanc...

"Scalable AI infrastructure running the capable OpenAI models
These VMs, and the software that powers them, were purpose-built for our own Azure AI services production workloads. We have already optimized the most capable natural language model in the world, GPT-4 Turbo, for these VMs. ND MI300X v5 VMs offer leading cost performance for popular OpenAI and open-source models."
Recent big thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40431835
One obvious alternative is to use a real optical mouse, but move the surface next to the sensor. This would be easy with any of several motorized mechanisms, e.g. a turntable -- but that would be bulky, most people do not actually have a turntable, and many cheap implementations would make noise.

That makes me wonder what would happen with an optical mouse atop a tablet, displaying a slowly-panning video of a texture. However, there are a few obstacles. First, Google tells me that optical mice have frame rates of 1.5 to 5 kHz. That's very fast. It probably makes the optical flow problem easier, since there's less change between frames. But it's also much faster than the, say, 60 Hz refresh of a tablet's screen. I don't know what a bunch of "stairsteps" in the position signal would look like to the mouse. Second, there's the issue of wavelength. Google brings me optical mouse sensors with sensitivities in the 832 - 865 nm range, i.e., in the infrared. Visible red is around 740 nm. Looking at this chart [1] and extrapolating just a tiny bit, it seems that LCDs have almost no emissivity around 850 nm. So this probably would not work. Whether an LCD with an infrared backlight would work is left as a question for another time.

What might be easier still, would be to somehow hack the USB device itself to spoof the vendor and product ID. I don't know how to do that myself, but it might be easy for anyone who's familiar with USB device development.

Of course, this is a silly arms race that it wouldn't actually be worth participating in, but it's amusing to consider what you could do.

I heard a story of an employee health plan that issued pedometers and issued cash rewards for higher step counts. In short order, one employee had put his on a clock pendulum, another had secured the thing to the collar of his hyperactive dog, and a third had hacked the thing to display all nines.

[1] https://www.displaymate.com/Spectra_4.html
> The PlayStation 3 pretty much lost the generation handily to Nintendo's cheap, casual-friendly Wii and Microsoft's less powerful but easier Xbox 360.

No it didn't. The PlayStation 3 outsold the Xbox 360. Have a look at the 7th generation charts on VGChartz:

https://www.vgchartz.com/

It's true the Wii sold the most.

The 8th generation didn't go well for Nintendo. The Wii U was a flop. But they're back on top with the Switch.
In this particular case they did not do the R&D and build the systems. They are just receiving the access because it is perceived to be a cheaper way to do business.

Supporting citizens first is not a nationalist sensibility I'd be ashamed to have, because a nation without laws and the rule of law and protections for citizens is not a nation.
Calling a person who was arrested and put on Nixons enemies list, a spinless coward is... a likely statement of a spineless coward.

> being consistently wrong

So easy to throw grandiose statements like that substantiated by nothing and build your whole argument on it.

I was only aware of the Sam Harris clash, at the time that it actually happened. As I read both of them. Harris was a child with a chip on his shoulder, desperately trying to 'win'.

I had to read about this Zizek clash and again more of the smoke than fire. He accuses him of lack of empirical evidences, gives none in return, brings back Cambodia (a low blow, as he must be fully aware of the bigger picture) and then he tangents of to some power dynamics in academia for majority of it.

more of the smoke than fire

Again using Cambodia as only example is just boring. The whole thing of 'denial' is much more complicated as was going on at the time events were unfolding. At the time Chomsky convinced himself that this was a propaganda move to push war narrative. And he was wrong. Plain and simple. Even as more reports came in he convinced himself that he was right.

But still US was using the genocide as a drum-beat for war across SE Asia.

Analogously, if he was saying that Saddam didn't have weapon of mass destruction - that its a hoax of CIA to gain casus belli - and US Army did find some. And then be forever chastised for everything you say because of a misjudgement.

But its much easier and convenient for right wing hawks to just bash 'Chomsky denies KR genocides' a black and white narrative.

I don't fully agree with Chomsky worldviews, but he definitely shaped a lot of them. And help to create a counter narrative to US propaganda. He absolutely leans in too much into US imerialism bad angle.

But this in itself is a great tool to forge your own opinions against.

Nobody ever mention his takes on power affecting press and free speech and takes on neo-liberalism. Because I find it hard to argue with those, and never found any worthwhile critism of those.

But again all you hear is smug morons like you screeching 'Chomsky bad cuz Cambodia'
> Most of Asimov's robot books were about how the laws were broken, not how they were upheld

Yes indeed.

> and thus the writing satirical to an extent

I don't follow here. Asimov's books don't feel satirical. Or I missed something important, but I doubt it.

I don't agree with this "thus", the implication doesn't seem automatic to me.
No. Being kicked out is the opposite of allowed.
So I had the exact opposite experience growing up in a very rural area and take no offense to your statement. I had access to hundreds of acres of woods/farms growing up, which for a young kid was total freedom. Around 10 or 11 I was taking care of varmints for local farmers with a rifle that was given to me, which might seem crazy to the average parent now (including me). Of course friends weren't knocking on my door every 5 minutes, but we all saw each other at sports/school/weekends and the occasional birthday party. And once my friends and I started getting older it was a lot of outdoor powersport type stuff, or going to the local swimming hole or hangout together. It was a completely different world than the city/suburb life.

I've never felt it hindered me at all, except for a longing at times to live rurally. I've worked in different countries around a wide array of people in tech, both in project management and software engineering roles. My kids now have the same experience as you - they can walk outside at any given moment and have someone to play with in our subdivision, and they seem to really like it. But of course we are constantly going back to where I grew up to land my family owns, hunting, riding 4 wheelers, etc...

I think it's probably dependent on the person, but balance always seems like a good starting point.
Finally, a LLM that will talk to me like Russ Hanneman.
Yes, but remember that the Supreme Court also has the power to interpret the constitution and declare laws unconstitutional.

But I don’t think your reading is quite right. If congress could simply declare exemptions to Supreme Court appellate review, the court would have no power at all.
While the law allows it, in my opinion there is no real moral basis for a company to lay claim to all of an employee's time. If the employee is sufficiently responsive and productive, there is no issue. If not, the company can dismiss the employee. There is no reason for the company to have more surveillance and control power over the employee than this.
Real security cannot be feature.

Your complete system design and other features should be based on the idea of ”security first”, if you really want to build secure systems.
My daughter is having the same issue. She has almost 2 years experience and is very good at selling herself. But she is being pushed back for either not having enough experience to hit their requeiment, often 2 years or she gets to the final round but is usurped by people with ‘way more’ experience. She has been a manager is her previous career and comes with other really useful skills. There are very very few pure ‘grad’ positions out there and those that are asking for say 2 years experience min are being flooded with applications from people with a lot more than w years. Agree with the other poster that this will bit the industry later but I’m more worried about now for her. There just simply aren’t enough roles out there for whatever reason.
The situation is quite different in a state that gives you an offer you can't refuse that gets you into a situation where you're almost surely going to die vs a more (though not entirely) rule of law-based environment that gives you proper training and leadership.
To be fair to Satya, every leader should be judged on what they do not what they say. This isn't a Microsoft or Satya problem, pick a large corporstion and you'll find examples of this behavior everywhere.

Words in an email hold absolutely no weight, when leaders choose to trade security for something else that's all employees need to know.
Water is the problem. You don't see a lot of trees in southwestern cities because we don't have the water to keep them alive.
Just wanted to update this to say: I was completely wrong. The announcements were more ambitious than expected, and the stock had a bump!
I work at a big company and commented once that some decision was stupid and one of the top two engineers at the company dropped in to tell me I was wrong. I felt so honored. (And he's wrong.)
Salesforce sales cloud, the core crm app. As opposed to other apps like marketing cloud (sfmc) and others.
Or speex narrowband or others. I think the tendency to pick Opus is just because it has a newer date on it -- its design goals were not necessarily to optimize for low bitrate; Opus just happened to still sound OK when the knob was turned down that far.

One other point I intended to make that is not reflected in many listening/comparison tests offered by these presentations -- in the typical applications of low bitrate codecs, they absolutely must be able to gracefully degrade. We see Mlow performing at 6kbps here; how does it perform with 5% bit errors? Can it be tuned for lower bitrates like 3kpbs? A codec with a 6kbps floor that garbles into nonsense with a single bit flip would be dead-on-arrival for most real world applications. If you have to double the bitrate with FEC to make it reliable, have you really designed a low bitrate codec? The only example we heard of mlow was 30% loss on a 14kbps stream = 9.8kbps. Getting 6kbps through such a channel is a trivial exercise.
macOS has `caffeinate` built in as well.

https://ss64.com/mac/caffeinate.html
Arizona is a bit too warm for me, but a lot of people consider driving to be a positive.

I would rather spend 15 mins in my car than 15 mins on a bus. I'd rather live in a place that is sprawling because then everything is bigger - I'd rather have a large house than a small one, a large garden than a small one, and I'd rather shop at a big box store that is more likely to allow me to be hands on with everything I need vs. a teeny high street shop and ordering online.

I currently live somewhere quite urban and barely spend any time in the walkable/public transportable centre because there's not much I want to do there other than pubs and restaurants.

edit: The responses to my post are kind of weird, I'm not telling you to adopt my preferences.
What Microsoft can provide are lots of nice stickers saying they conform to this or that security standard, making security folks in IT departments all warm and fuzzy.

At least that's how it appears from our POV, selling B2B applications. They don't seem to care that much about actualities as long as the security checklist passes.