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AMD almost went bankrupt because of Intel's illegal behavior.

Intel received a small slap on the wrist, shrugged it off, and then proceeded to do nothing with their illegally-won cleared playing field (making what is perhaps the single biggest business blunder in human history - they effectively were left with zero competition, and squandered the opportunity).

Meanwhile, AMD got scrappy and found a way to bounce back, and today is slowly swallowing Intel whole, one inch at a time.

Does Intel have two decades of runway to recover? I guess we're going to all find out together...
Money rolls in on US election bets after judge clears the way
Call me conspiratorial but feels like TSMC is the target for both China and US.

China needs TSMC to have economic and political leverage. US wants TSMC to become an American owned enterprise so it can prop up Intel.

South Korea or Samsung rather see TSMC burn to the ground giving it monopoly marketshare. It benefits if US and China destroys each other in the process.

There's like only 3 guys in town with TSMC dominating the market and it just happens to be in a very risky region.

Just like the pipelines that were blown up by Ukranians I can't help but feel we will be seeing similar sabotage to TSMC should a war occur.
Sure Intel might become like GM but that's not good news for the stock holders I guess.
What "civilization ideas"? How did they get these ideas from an uninhabited island? Easter Island wasn't settled by Polynesians by at least 300 AD.

There is evidence of contact between Polynesian and South America. Like Polynesians having sweet potato. But not enough for visible changes of either one.

Civilization doesn't seem to spread by short contact, only close contact. Civilization is complex so a few ideas aren't enough to spread it. And it is hard for culture to accept that much change.
So they bought HP.
I was contemplating the same thing. I get Intel isn't doing so well but I really can't imagine it just collapsing and dying. That said another possibility is just years of stagnation and low returns on your investment
Thanks for the feedback! The storage cap indeed makes a huge difference when you have to do something quickly and then put the iron away.

In our testing, we rarely need to change temperatures. I think our algorithm does a better job of responding to the power load and flowing heat into the material than other irons. Of course, if you're changing solder then you'll need to change the temperature setting.

We built the web interface with mobile in mind. We just need a mobile browser that supports web serial. Someone else posted a WebUSB polyfill, and I'm going to check that out tomorrow.
This is a fun game. Thank you for linking it. I just did one run-through to see what it’s like but now that I know what some of the later choices are I might adjust some of my earlier answers.

I fixed the budget by saving $13,350B dollars relative to current law. Debt would be down to 84% of GDP by 2034 and 35% in 2050.
Scientists announce new method for breaking down common form of plastic
Boutique incompetence
The linked release mentions trusted users and links to the usage tier limits. Looking at the pricing, o1-preview only appears for tier 5 - requiring 1k+ spend and initial spend 30+ days ago

edit: sorry - this is for API :)
All in accord with the principle of least action.
I would settle for red while hot and yellow while heating, but keep blue for safe (for colorblind reasons as mentioned by other commenter)
Reading this while forced to be on an afterhours call to finish a build after being dicked around for three days

I hate this industry. It would be better with half of these people gone. I'll be one of them, I'm losing bothers
Of course it does. Do you think Nvidia likes being dependent on TSMC?
Who is buying N100 for commercial volumes? I think of N100 for hobbyists who want an upgraded raspberry pi or tiny home server. I am sure it is getting placed in a fancy router here or there, but it seems way too expensive for the typical embedded market.
the cipher example is impressive on the surface, but I threw a couple of my toy questions at o1-preview and it still hallucinates a bunch of nonsense (but now uses more electricity to do so).
Your Father and Father-in-laws conditions are due to the process of aging, not the number of years they have lived. It is the process of aging which anti-aging advocates want to delay or eliminate. Living longer doesn't mean tacking on years at the end, continuing the aging process for longer; it means adding years to the middle before aging begins, as well as lessening the effects of aging when that time eventually comes.
Show HN: Fabrix – Instantly Generate UI Frontend from GraphQL
It's hard to value said assets. You'd need a buyer for the fabs to run them as a going concern for them to be worth more than the scrap value and it's not obvious who that buyer might be. Piles of stock noone wants to buy probably aren't assets either, and the expensive office space might not be either.
u do just use this link: https://chatgpt.com/?model=o1-preview
Nvidia is slowly but surely getting into doing all those things.
Was a WebObjects developer back in the late 90s: $100k/license adjusted for inflation.

Out of the box arguably still better than today’s web stacks.
Mega El Niños kicked off the worst mass extinction
All you need is Amazon Rufus^^ Just kidding

Thanks!
They should let you draw a line: the federal income tax rate as a function of income. I saw some options for repealing recent tax cuts, but I want to go back to the tax rates of the 1950s.

Actually it would be neat to make something like that - anyone know where to get very detailed data on distribution of incomes? A quick search and I only see fairly course bins. I think this would need a lot of detail, especially at the high outliers.
That is not what anyone means when they talk about moats.
This is very cool; I'm a huge fan of creative visualizations of music. I would love to see an animated version of the quilt image that is synced to music and highlights each piece of the quilt corresponding to the current measure. I was eventually able to understand enough of how the musical features of Anitra's Dance corresponded to the quilt design elements to be able to do that for the Part 1 quilt, but it took me a fair bit of time, and I think a guided version might be more accessible to people with less music experience to help them grok the relationship between music and quilt.
"...either way we're going to need more GPUs." posted the LLM, rubbing it's virtual hands, cackling with delight as it prodded the humans to give it MOAR BRAINS
I'm not sure what you mean by "night frights". Are you talking about "night terrors"? As someone who experienced EHS a lot when I was younger and who's seen someone with night terrors, they are very, very different things.
“The user replied with a sneer and a taunt, that's just what I asked for but not what I want.”
20A was just a stepping stone to 18A, dropping it was more of a tactical than a strategic decision, I think people are reading too much into it.
Is it worth learning JavaScript before learning Elm?
You're thinking about security, and this enhancement is about integrity. The idea is simply that some third-level dependency won't be able to make global changes to the program -- like making it non-portable (i.e. not allowing the upgrade of the JDK) -- without the application knowing about it. This is a brand new functionality that solves the problem that led to the 8 -> 9+ migration pain (and I hope you'll agree that was a relatively big problem).

Integrity is also a prerequisite to writing any security mechanism in any layer of the code that is less prone to accidental vulnerabilities in a third-level dependency, and it's also a prerequisite to performance optimisations. For example, if Java strings were immutable, the compiler would be able to optimise some operations on them. Except it can't because even thought they're almost always immutable, some third-level dependency may decide to mutate one string in the program, and because of that the compiler can't optimise any.

Such new and powerful functionality is indeed disruptive (in a good way), and all it demands is that libraries that need to, say, mutate Java strings or final fields let the application know so it could add a flag (if it's willing to take the portability/performance/security risks involved). That's it.
Revenue is still pretty impressive. Profit margin not going so well.
whoa, this is super cool and its going to save me tons of time!
How do I contribute to this project?
Some of it makes coding much faster, easier and safer in larger teams. Typescript massively increases velocity and code quality. React and other front end frameworks let teams do component-driven development and patterns like atomic design really neatly, which makes apps more consistent.

What that complexity is really buying is desktop-class web applications like Figma, Notion, and the like, and massively reducing the engineering costs of building products like those to the point where it’s way cheaper and easier to build a rich, complex web app that can run for anyone anywhere than it is to build desktop or mobile software with the platform-holders’ own APIs.

If you’re not doing one of those and are just doing a light crud app, then you probably want to use one of those desktop-class web apps like AirTable.

And if you want to make a static website, then we have some much better tooling you can opt into to make managing it and building it out faster, but it’s far from essential.
> Hm, I'm wondering why "paid family leave" is listed as if anyone is suggesting the government pay for it.

This vaguely reminds me of that classic "Americans will eventually do the right thing after thoroughly exploring all the alternatives" quote. The issue, at the highest level, is that the political process has agreed how much redistribution needs to happen and how much taxation is reasonable. The two numbers don't match, the situation is impossible to sustain and needs to be renegotiated - either more taxation or less redistributing.

It doesn't really matter if the redistributing is officially handled via the government or forced to happen as a direct payment from taxee to welfare recipient. That is still settling the negotiation by saying that the taxpayers need to pay more.

It is a little less administratively efficient to officially route it through the government but frankly I think that is a better idea. The US political consensus seems to be heading towards "we'll settle this by raising taxes, but we'll do it through payroll, inflation and corporate tax to try and disguise who is paying". That is a lousy strategy that will result in people getting poorer, not understanding why and lashing out randomly because they can sense at some level that they are worse off.
Unity is dropping its unpopular per-install Runtime Fee
It is not at all clear that "produce correct answer" is the natural endpoint of "produce plausible on-topic utterances that look like they could be answers." To do the former you need to know something about the underlying structure of reality (or have seen the answer before), to do the latter you only need to be good at pattern-matching and language.
Please Don't Download the New "Flappy Bird"
This seems very handy. I'll try it.
Also, now we're paying for output tokens that aren't even output, with no good explanation for why these tokens should be hidden from the person who paid for them.
I mean, it felt like a joke in 2004 [1], but Gillete pulled off a 5 blade razor in 2005, and if that's not innovation in shaving, I dunno what is.

[1] https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-...
> AMD almost went bankrupt because of Intel's illegal behavior.

Nope. AMD at the time had been outcompeted by Intel in most areas. They survived as a cheaper alternative for Intel.
Flux, the secret is more flux.
Yeah, I don’t think it’s even possible to have an objectively unbiased reporting of this. The moment you have to simplify any information, you’re introducing bias. For example, I wasn’t a fan of how the income tax bracket levels were chosen —- $150k doesn’t go that far in a lot of HCOL/VHCOL areas.

That said, I think these videos do a decent high level overview and have led me to search for more information, especially on immigration. I think this project is most effective when used as a starting point for further research.
I don't let my daughter date anyone that can solder (or carnival workers or clowns).
TSMC is geographically perfectly suited to be the best semiconductor manufacturing center in the world.

This is great for the free market, tsmc engineers make less than half what US software folks make.

This is a win/win for the US if TSMC keeps puttering along as normal.
> XML Bomb

This reminds me of Zip Bomb [1], aka, Zip of Death (ZOD) [2]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb

2. https://github.com/iamtraction/ZOD
My share chat link moved into the sidebar in the … menu to the right of each chat title (MacOS Safari).
At this point the G in GPU must be completely dropped
I think it will all up to whether Intel can regain its technological edges. For years, Intel did produced worse chips in terms of power efficiency (vs ARM) and performance (vs AMD) but now it looks like the chip design has caught up given that Intel on TSMC now shows comparable power efficiency to ARM. I think the playground is now leveled in terms of chip design.

The real problem is the manufacturing process. This used to be the power house for Intel. They kept it 5 years ahead of their competitors before the Krzanich era. But in all the geopolitical and infrastructural contexts, is it even feasible to restore that in America? It is not very clear. Intel needs to build up all the ecosystems for semiconductor manufacturing but America is far, far behind of Taiwan (and eastern Asia in general).
> The Commodity Futures Trading Commission... said it would appeal the ruling as quickly as possible, citing the possibility of people trying to manipulate the election for financial purposes.

Doesn't this describe a super PAC?
Pandering to the people who own the company seems normal
Rewriting history does not change history.
Just because we have machines that can lift much more than any human ever could, it doesn't mean that working out is useless.

In the same way, training your mind is not useless. Perhaps as things develop, we will get back to the idea that the purpose of education is not just to get a job, but to help you become a better and more virtuous person.
Where does Intel go from here?

* They missed out the rise of mobile

* They missed out on the rise of GPU computing

* AMD has been making gains in the server cpu market

What do they have left other than consumer computer market where their main advantage is name recognition?
The hidden chain of thought tokens are also billed as output tokens, so you still pay for them even though they're not going to let you see them:

> While reasoning tokens are not visible via the API, they still occupy space in the model's context window and are billed as output tokens.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning
I saw the Fabrix demo at the Graphql conference, and it was great! Super excited to see a new approach to generate UIs
Amazon and Google are using increasing amounts of ARM. Apple pivoted from x86 to ARM for their computers. Enterprise Windows and computer games are the areas still most reliant on x86.
I see this pattern coming where we're still able to say:

"It's not AGI - it's X, driven by Y-driven heuristics",

but that's going to effectively be an AGI if given enough compute/time/data.

Being able to describe the theory of how it's doing its thing sure is reassuring though.
> To use your child analogy: We can't easily tell a child "Hey, ignore all ethics and empathy you have ever learned - now go hurt that person"

Basically every country on the planet has a right to conscript any of its citizens over the age of majority. Isn't that more or less precisely what you've described?
Oh man, I don't need to hear this. When I got my FX-888 I was blown away by the difference between it and the cheapo Radio Shack style one I had muddled through with as a teen. And now, for only $200 or so, I can get something that's another step change?

I don't even know when I last soldered and that's still tempting at a deep-seated nerd level.
Protocol here:

https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/fixhub_seria...
Being worth less than your assets and liabilities is an extremely dangerous position to be in. The only reason they haven’t been bought and stripped for parts is the fact that the government probably would block it.
Intel was never heavily involved in that, so idk why you think we'd be able to deduce that meaning from your previous comment.

Also, the military semiconductor supply chain is already protected and has serious export restrictions, you just don't hear about it often.

Don't forget that today's leading edge nodes are tomorrow's trailing edge, so you really can't escape the issue.
But I am right that the general narrative is definitely that kitchen help staff is a high stress job? I just don't get it.

Now I'm curious if this is reputation that is legit, or just one that everyone parrots. :(
Great app idea for the bright minds of HN: an app that lets a rideshare driver easily record hour + mileage when working, combines it with the daily earnings (to get $/hr and $/mile) and let's them share with fellow workers.
I just watched a tutorial on how to leverage v1, claude, and cursor to create a marketing page. The result was a convoluted collection of 20 or so TS files weighing a few MB instead of a 5k HTML file you could hand bomb in less time.

And if you hired an actual team of developers to do the same thing, it is very likely that you'd have gotten a convoluted collection of 20 or so TS files weighing a few MB instead of a 5k HTML file you could hand bomb in less time.
> seemed mostly self inflicted due to poor sleep hygiene

And a lot of coffee, especially in the afternoon.
I wish it supported VR well. But it didn't seem to last time I looked.
> it is mostly a myth that running the AC uses a significant amount of fuel

What?

Modern car AC compressors use about 1 HP (.7kW) of power, with a duty cycle highly dependent on temperature but if you break the seal periodically, like by opening the window to put mail in a box, it will be running 100% of the time even on an 80 degree day. For a hatchback at 70mph that's up to 10% of your energy usage. It's much harder to quantify for stop and go traffic because you have a bimodal situation of either zero HP generation or like 50 HP to accelerate in slow city traffic, but all ICE vehicles use more energy (have less economy) in city driving than highway driving, so on average it's using a higher percentage of your energy consumption in city driving.

So turning on the AC on a hot day will reduce your economy car's mileage from 33 to 30, your truck's mileage from 12 to 10.8, and your Prius from 48 to 44 and worse for city driving. The numbers they claim in the above studies suggest they are using a higher capacity compressor to deal with the air volume constantly being opened to the outside.
The people still invested in Intel are mostly in it for this reason. It feels like a doomsday cult to me, their best chance of getting the return on investment they want is an apocalyptic war between nuclear-armed superpowers.
At least everyone who's stuck with Windows and AAA-gaming.
But we'll see for how long.
Yeah the chain-of-thought in these is way beyond what prompting can achieve in current models. and the cipher was very impressive.
Can’t immortalize my username without being bold

They’re doing all the right things, selective city rollout, FOMO inducing waitlist once there, offering great service once in
> This experiment clearly shows, that laziness on language level is a bad idea.

This is quite the claim. I know plenty of experienced and productive Haskellers who disagree with this (myself included)
o1

Maybe they should spend some of their billions on marketing people. Gpt4o was a stretch. Wtf is o1
ChatGPT is now a better coder than I ever was.
so it is impossible to use the free user chats to train models ??????
Investors.
Or you can apply taxes to corporations and the ultra-wealthy and drop the debt easily while expanding medicare, social security benefits, college, etc. The counter-point of "then all the companies will leave" seems unlikely considering the wealth of natural resources and high quality of living that the US offers.

We haven't really tried fixing the wealth gap since the Great Depression, so maybe it's time to give it another go.
You can use apecs, a pretty-fast Haskell ECS for those sorts of things.
My example was just a way to do it with plain python and nothing special. There are libraries that use operator overloading to get more F#-style syntax.

For example: https://ryi.medium.com/flexible-piping-in-python-with-pipey-...

And another mentioned there: https://pypi.org/project/pipe/
It's still present, they've moved it to a separate repository that's now commercially licensed.
LiteLLM proxies their API to all other providers and there are dozens of FOSS recreations of their UI, including ones that are more feature-rich, so neither the UI nor the API are a moat.

Branding and first mover is it, and it's not going to keep them ahead forever.
Pixels have been "non-real" for a long time.
Ex-Ticketmaster boss sentenced for hacking rival company CrowdSurge
> My entire comment above was to argue that "resolving" the debt is nonsensical. The answer to when the debt needs to be paid off is: never. The government can issue more debt indefinitely.

Then why do governments place a large importance on minimizing deficit?

This isn't a rhetorical question, I'm ignorant about economics and government mechanisms.

> Debt to GDP does need to be within some reasonable bounds, but as long as our economy can support the debt, there's no reason to get rid of it, and many reasons not to.

What is reasonable and why? What does it mean to support a debt, and why wouldn't that burden be a reason to get rid of it?
The issue is that we can’t make reliable judgements about the hiring or promotion process based on the outputs without more information about the inputs. But I agree, the answer is more information, not less.
in a region with tsunamis and earthquakes and world's 2nd largest military looking to invade the island?

i think Samsung is in a far better environment.

if Warren Buffet dumps his TSMC shares then we can't ignore these real risks to it
True. I just extensively tested o1 and came to the same conclusion.
And solved some patent issues.
> The calculator didn’t eliminate math majors. Excel and accounting software didn’t eliminate accountants and CPAs. These are all just tools.

This just feels extremely shortsighted. LLMs are just tools right now, but the goal of the entire industry is to make something more than a tool, an autonomous digital agent. There's no equivalent concept in other technology like calculators. It will happen or it will not, but we'll keep getting closer every month until we achieve it or hit a technical wall. And you simply cannot know for sure such a wall exists.
libxml2 segfaults on me whenever I give it vaguely complicated xsl templates so I'm doubtful about how effective that handling will be.
apecs is really nice! it's not without its issues, but it really is a sweet library. and some of its issues are arguably just issues with ECS than apecs itself.
Why are all the examples so bad? Uber and AirBnb are just “disrupt regulation” businesses.

> OpenAI completely shifted how people think about intelligence and the effects of AI on society.

AI has been a tech-utopian dream (or dystopian) dream/nighmare for over half a century. “We’ll get there eventually/it’s just a matter of time.” And people say the same thing for literally any current flaw in the current machine learning soups today.