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> The time they take to design a new core is not affected by how long people making SoCs or boards or consumer products do or don't take to make their own products.

I don't think anyone implied otherwise. But the product in my hand is still lacking.

> Are you aware that major chip company Microchip

I don't see how this affects my argument in any way?

> Are you aware that people still announce new chips based on the Arm A53, a core announced in 2012?

Not for the main cores of laptops they don't.

> "Old" is not relevant to anything. Only design features are relevant.

There is sufficient context here to tie the two together. These cores are slow because of relative lack of development time. These cores lack vector units specifically because of their age, because they were designed before there was a spec (which you brought up).
I agree with your example and that this functionality sucks. However it cannot be an engineering issue as it must be technically very easy to implement in a better way. It must be a product/UX/marketing kind of decision behind it or just plain ignorance.
It's already ridiculous that the contracts are always one-sided. It is not a consumer service after all.
> It is very unusual for AWS not to issue refunds in situations like this

...when asked to. But what percentage of mistakes like this end up just being "eaten" by the end-user, not realizing that they can ask for a refund? What percentage don't even get noticed?
"off-package dram"

Yes, the real ARM vs. x86 discussion will come around Ryzen Max 2025Q1 with 128mb on-package dram (hope we get desktop board manufacturers to sell this).
Think about it from the perspective of outside the box.

Would you prefer people pop into the boxes to fart privately, or fart publically in the shared space?

At least using them for hotboxing covers up the smell of the farts.
Really no idea what you're getting at. It's really simple and not some nefarious scheme. The Chinese government wants to be energy-independent so they don't have to import foreign oil and gas. Developing domestic green energy happens to align with fighting climate change, as well as transitioning the economy to a high-tech based one in order to escape the middle income trap. The incentives with the private sector are also aligned because this development is profitable. So they do it, by whatever means possible.

They sell some cars to Europe and North America, but the amount is negligible compared to what they sell domestically, and still much smaller than what they sell to ASEAN and the Middle East.

It's that simple. This isn't some grand plan to destroy foreign car manufacturers. If foreign car manufacturers get destroyed then that's by accident, as a result of them not staying competitive enough, not because that was the end goal from the start.

Of course it's in western governments' and manufacturers' rights to not accept this fate. But the most productive way to avoid that fate is by increasing their own competitiveness and by moving faster themselves, not closing themselves off while at the same time staying lazy about the energy transition. That's just rent collection.
Considering judges just decided Google paying for preferential treatment is anticompetitive, they need any revenue they can get
Which makes sense if you look at demand. We went from people will never live in cities again at the height of covid, to things like revenge travel and everyone wanting to give big cities a try now that prices were briefly down.
https://freetube.io

Youtube Win application with adblocking and sponsored content skip implemented + many other twraks like disabling recommended videos, autoplay or show dislikes. No need for google account, you can still subscribe.
> I’ll admit that I myself am only using OpenSearch because it supports geo_point bounding-box queries, a subject that I don’t have a full understanding of. Perhaps there is a way to do these with a simpler product, and OpenSearch is overkill.

How about postgres with postgis? https://postgis.net/docs/using_postgis_query.html
Thanks for the kind words -- glad Keras has been useful!
Interesting, and a testimony to the stability of the jdk in a way. Did you use any automation tools for the migration I wonder?
M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS
Once upon a time, I loved buying my games on GOG, most of the time at full price.

But then I’ve been burnt more than I should by developers who then forgot that this platform exists and go all in on their Steam customers : cross play ? That’s for Steam. Announcement of mods support ? … on Steam Workshop !

The more recent example in my mind is Timberborn : I love this game and I bought it on GOG because I want my games as DRM free as I can. Boom, they recently added offcicial mod support … on Steam !

But ! I must say once again : Big up to Satisfactory devs who announced that they won’t support Steam Workshop to not harm their Epic customers. We have a good old semi official community managed mod loader (ficsit.app) and the modding community is thriving as much as it would on Steam workshop.

I just want to add : I have nothing against Steam, it’s one of the companies I still consider to be great (as a customer at least) and I have a huge Steam library. My issue is more with the developers selling their games on all the platforms then making anything non Steam second class citizens. And it’s especially infuriating with games who launches only on Epic Games because they have negotiated a temporary exclusivity (which was the case of Satisfactory, but for once they managed it well) and then release a Steam version with more features.
L8 at Google is not a random pecking order level. L8s generally have massive systems design experience and decades of software engineering experience at all levels of scale. They make decisions at Google which can have impacts on the workflows of 100s of engineers on products with 100millions/billions of users. There are less L8s than there are technical VPs (excluding all the random biz side VP roles)

L5 here designates that they were a tenured (but not designated Senior) software engineer. It doesn't meant they don't have a voice in these discussions (very likely an L8 reached out to learn more about the issue, the options, and ideally considered Francois's role and expertise before making a decision), it just means its above their pay grade.

I'll let Francois provide more detail on the exact situation.
This seems a bit overcooked to me.

I suspect if I were to recursively ask "why?", we may eventually wind up at some triviality (to the actual business/customer) that could have easily gone another way and obviated the need for this abstraction in the first place.

Just thinking about the raw information, I don't see how the average streaming media consumer produces more than a few hundred kb of useful data per month. I get that the delivery of the content is hard, but I dont see why we need to torture ourselves over the gathering of basic statistics.
You can set up daily or hourly cost and usage reports on the account. I built a finops function based on it, feeding the data into a Postgres db. Make sure to select incremental updates, if not you’ll en up paying for tb of s3 storage.
I thought the tag editor was where one could get a comprehensive inventory of account resources? (Unable to check as I don't currently have easy access to the AWS console)
You do you. I think k8s is overly complicated stuff that almost no companies (outside google/meta/etc) need and some peopple here peddle for some reason. That's fine. We like making profit instead of waste time with the latest nonsense.

I don't think it's a good idea to spend time and resources learning complexity you never need. You are probably going to say that's not true as your cloud hoster has this all set up, but yeah, that's where the making profits comes in. We save millions/year on not cloud hosting. And managing your own k8s cluster apparently is quite hard (at least that's what even the fanboiz here say).

Starting today, I would use Go probably instead of Perl, but I would do the same. It's much simpler than kubernetes. But sure; for our goals; we like simplicity and don't need resumes to drive.
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An open source project to schedule posts to Bluesky
I'm saying this for years and deleted all my personal credit cards on cloud providers which can scale/bankrupt me in a minute.
Would you be okay if they compete with your mainboards? For example, they produce a lower price AMD board.
This seems to be a Chrome app, since I can't get it to work on Firefox
Done something similar. The root issue is that hosted search is much more expensive on AWS than you might expect.
Cost and usage reports will show you what is being paid for. Then there are resources that won’t show up on that so I have used aws:config to pull down other resource lists and finally you can cross both reports to more less find everything.
This is just the standard Google ladder. Your initial level when you join is based on your past experience. Then you gain levels by going through the infamous promo process. L8 represents the level of Director.

Yes, there are conflicts of interests inherent to the fact that OSS maintainers are usually employed by big tech companies (since OSS itself doesn't make money). And it is often the case that big tech companies leverage their involvement in OSS development to further their own strategic interests and undermine their competitors, such as in the case of Meta, or to a lesser extent Google. But without the involvement of big tech companies, you would see a lot less open-source in the world. So you can view it as a trade off.
Ok, but which rule specifically allows these two search companies to compete?
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Do Stars Outnumber the Sands of Earth's Beaches?
Managing SELinux policies was a challenge I noticed while working (https://www.flatcar.org/blog/2023/07/summer-2023-my-internsh...) with the Microsoft Flatcar Linux team last year on their composable images initiative.

Talking with other distro maintainers at companies like AWS, I realized this complexity is a common problem across the ecosystem. That inspired me to dive into a machine learning approach to tackle it - excited to see where this project leads!
> Practical engineering can mean many things, but a definition I often return to is: having clear goals and making choices that are aligned with them.

The main takeaway from this post. You will not encounter exactly this or similar issues at your workplace, but this single piece of advice can help you fix any issues that you do encounter.
Yea it’s ok for that but won’t list everything. Example: ec2 snapshots won’t show up in the aws:config report but you will be charged for it, so Cost and Usage reports will show you what you will be charged for.
Patches are also often delayed on GOG compared to Steam (usually by a couple days, but in extreme cases even weeks). Achievements and changelogs are sometimes neglected as well.
Lately, the user experience has gotten much worse for Windows users: In July they removed the ability to download content for offline viewing. So everyone who wants to watch content while travelling, for example, has no other option but to use a competitor like Prime Video.

I would also like to point out that those "savings on infrastructure costs" seemingly do not benefit their users: They have repeatedly increased prices over the past few years.

I'm also unsure whether they are using their competitive advantage properly. Anecdotally, it used to be that almost everyone I knew was only streaming on Netflix. These days, the streaming services that people use seem much more diverse.
How to Work from Home Without Going Insane (Repost from 2011)
2011 post. WFH wasnt a hot topic at that time, still insightful.

This is original post and discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3219929
The point was that the Saudi Prince more or less admitted he said it because of political opportunism in the realities of his rule. He still tries to normalize relations with Israel as much as possible.

You try to throw stuff together on the topic of occupation, but anyway...

What certainly is wrong though is your framing of an ethnic cleansing campaign in 48. That is just nonsense. At the time Jews were suppressed by Arab nationalism. The mufti of Jerusalem became a puppet of Hitler and was kind of convinced about the idea of a holocaust in the middle east. Of course some people had to move after Israel won its war for independence, that is nothing new in war. Even more Jews were driven from surrounding countries, the majority of todays Israelis. That issue is part of the reality of nations forming or not and a reality Palestinians need to accept. Some are ready for that, parties like Hamas are not.

A blockade isn't an occupation at all, again, words do have meaning. Security interests are relevant. Israel can prove that building a wall did save lives. There is evidence of that. Further blockades are entirely legal, but do not form any form of occupation. That Israel has military capabilities is of no relevance.

Whether my opinion is a minority position or not is not of relevance. You should strive to have the correct opinion, although I would certainly say that "Israel commits genocide" is a fringe opinion, but maybe our circles diverge. Calling it opinion from my perspective already gives it some more benefit of the doubt.

Again the question, what do you see in the future? Intifada 5.0? You believe it will end in a different result than we now see in Gaza. By the way, some people confirm the propaganda kids are subjected in schools there. The kids are innocent, other that could know better not so much...

> surely you must at least suspect there might be a genocidal intent among some of Israel’s rulers

I do not, such insinuation would be quite unusual and would be entirely irrelevant de jure. I can play that game too. I believe you don't give a rats ass about Palestinians, you just want to throw more of them into the meat grinder. Maybe we should leave ascribing intend to anyone and stick to reality, shall we?
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What were the guardrails?
I had no idea what even the question was. I had chatgpt (4o) explain it to me, and solve it. I now know what candidate keys are, and that the question asks for AB and BC. I'd share the link, but chatgpt doesn't support sharing logs with images.

So you did not convince me that LLMs are not working (on the contrary), but I did learn something today! thanks for that.
Despite the apparently glowing write-up from the time, hailing it as a success, no doubt there were constant cringeworthy "technical issues", of crackly lines, poor volume, calls dropping off, etc - I can well imagine the organisers saying: "we pulled it off once, for the lolz, but only just... Never again!"
Are you responding to the headline and saying that buying drugs through Tor is nothing new, or have you read the article and are aware of these methods of, for example, using dead drops common in other countries?

I know quite a few people who've bought drugs online in various countries, but I've never heard of it happening without the drugs being sent through mail or courier companies.
They are decent about giving refunds if you ask, but also.... Got what you deserved there for even trying Amplify. That shit pile needs to die.
This is incorrect. The example you give is perfect. Twitters community notes reflect the received wisdom of a mob. Not the truth. They stand when the Twitter user base thinks they should.

As a right wing hub they oppose realities which don’t fit their world view.

Using the example you linked there is a long documented history of minorities in the Uk, including the Irish, being treated much more harshly by British police. Stop and search laws and multiple incidents of innocent people being framed for crimes.

The rights which to pretend this is targeted at the white majority, simply because multiply convicted criminals like Tommy Robinson are being jailed, is a myth.

No British policeman can stop you on the street by psychically intuiting your political views. They can stop you if you are breaking windows, chanting slogans, or have a different skin color.

The Guardian publishing real journalism (the paper has broken more significant news stories in recent decades than any other British outlet) into a toilet of right wing opinion doesn’t make sense.

As there is no way to rebut a community note the last word is always with the mob.
Every official AWS guide is designed to make you use as many AWS services as possible, which increases the risk of spend. You have to be extremely critical of anything they recommend (GUI defaults, CLI tools, guides, recommended architectures etc).

There's a reason there are very well paid positions in companies to guide colleagues on how to use AWS cost-effectively and with lower risk.
Do you know that Walmart’s services are available in 19+ countries on both stores' and e-commerce websites? There is no doubt that Walmart has built a larger-than-life business legacy. You can also consider it as your idol to create your eCommerce app like Walmart. Get into the deeper technicalities to develop your thriving retail app in the market!
IMO, an even better tool was the Cube 2 Sauerbraten ingame editor - a combination of octree(e.g. variable-size) voxels spliced with per-vertex heightmaps that let you treat parts of it as terrain, others as cubes, and sculpt others into arches, rocks, spheres or vases.

It had that same intuitive sculpting feel, but even more powerful and quick to work with.
Done properly and to the correct extent, scaffolding generates more maintainable code by ensuring that everything in all the codebases is structured in the same basic way, uses the same base libraries, has the same build steps, etc. Done over the top, it could include things most projects don’t need. Like anything, it requires using good judgment.
The whole article is very explicit about looking at the past through the lenses of today, and it is written in a informal style. The 'Boo' fits right in, and I don't understand why it somehow triggered a response. It would be pretty weird if they mentioned to 'no girls allowed' without any commentary.
All this pay-as-you-go BS is such a scam (note: I'm not blaming victims here.) There's just so many ways to screw you. Like a program gets bug and starts sending out a metric crap load of traffic. Or you get DDoSed and charged for the bandwidth. Or your disk fills up from log file spam, it gets 'backed up', you get charged for it. Or a program is caught in a loop and uses limited CPU usage.

I think its all hiding the fact that people don't want to take the time to design (and maintain) scalable infrastructure and instead rely on fake abstractions that pretend to be infinite, always-available, magic, or w/e. I'm sure there is some open source software that helps here.
“There is a problem in cybersecurity: solid industry analysis is hard to come by.”

There's no problem in “cybersecurity”. The problem resides in the computers connected at either end, As in they can't differentiate between OPEN and RUN and can be hacked by opening an email attachment or clicking on a malicious URL.
Lightfoot solar scooter
They tell you in hourly increments for almost everything?
Ask HN: Energy Policy Background, Passion for Coding – Career Advice?
I have a background in mechanical engineering and a master’s in Renewable Energy. I spent a few years working on mini-grid sector before moving to a think tank/non-profit, where I focused on energy policy at the national level. My work there involved energy system modeling (primarily using PyPSA), and I discovered a real passion for coding through this experience.

Now, I’m currently unemployed due to limited opportunities in the policy field where I’m based. I’d like to transition into tech roles that integrate my experience in energy/climate with programming. I’m open to any advice on fields to explore or specific areas where I should upskill.

Thanks for any guidance!
> How are these levels determined?

I have no knowledge of Google, but if L5 is the highest IC rank, then L8 will often be obtained through politics and playing the popularity game.

The U.S. corporate system is set up to humiliate and exploit real contributors. The demeaning term "IC" is a reflection of that. It is also applied when someone literally writes a whole application and the idle corporate masters stand by and take the credit.

Unfortunately, this is also how captured "open" source projects like Python work these days.
I think you're agreeing with them?
Yes, thats why all these services are popping up and earning tons of cash… look at next.js for example.

They lead young devs into their framework and make them believe that the only way to serve their sites is through them, and to pay their extortionate prices…

People are not educated to self host. Everything is run in a “droplet” and just a click away.
I don't think it's that much of an outrageous claim, plenty of our fellow countrymen works at local regional branches and English wings of China-owned companies these days. It doesn't take much stretch from there to imagine some of them moving to near their HQ.

It's annoying that sometimes people thinks there has to be basic mutual intelligibility between Chinese and Japanese languages against the reality that there's none, but this is not about that at all. Chill.
Terence Tao: "It can become more rational to think and act more boldly"
Could that be restated as "Spotify doesn't have me"?
For a first time buying it can be daunting. I even used a 'good' agent in the past. But, what made her good was that her and her husband were also contractors and together they were effectively real-time home inspectors with any house we looked at.

Since then I've bought a house without an agent and am about to sell another. All you really need is a lawyer and the internet. Then there are services you can pay to get on MLS.

IMO, RE agents hosed themselves by not self scaling down their commission percentages as prices went up. Even people who do want their help will balk at paying someone 20k-30k+.
>> computer-vision, as a field, is (an) artificial-intelligence

A lot of our visual perception happens on the retina and in the 'processing pipeline' before reaching the brain.

Margaret Livingstone provides an excellent overview in her book "Vision and Art" and she takes a view similar to yours.
But that point drives right into this one: compressed CO2 is valuable. So the value of your carbon capture process is already very substantial after you've extracted the CO2 from the atmosphere. I mean I have a cylinder of CO2 under my kitchen counter right now for this reason.

So the question is, is this so valuable that it outweighs just selling that CO2 once you've pulled it out of the atmosphere?
> .. if siemens .. Is it malware incident? Some cryptolocker? Or is it exfiltration of IP?

The CIO clicked on a p0rn site?
There's certainly wastage in large organisations. Over provisioning or keeping that huge S3 bucket full of data from some long forgotten project.

I suspect a lot of the huge AWS customers just eat this because it's so hard to mitigate.

If a business has hundreds of AWS accounts it becomes very hard to track, and if each account can only shave a few hundred dollars a month off their individual bill then there's very little impetus to actually do the work for the individual teams. Despite that possibly adding up substantial savings for the overall business.
Dont you see the survivorship bias in your thinking?

You learnt the bike and practiced it rigorously before stoppping for 10 years, and you're able to pick it up. You _knew_ the commands because you learned the them the manual/hard way, and then used assistance to to do it for you..

Now, do you think it will apply to someone who begins their journey with LLMs and doesnt quite develop the skill of "Does this even look right?!", and says to themselves "if LLMs could write this module why bother learning what that thing actually does?" and then get bitten by it due to LLM hallucinations and stare like a deer in headlights.