skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can see this being solved for one database. But not across all databases and a common api.

Database client libraries are already database-specific. Why boil the ocean? We could start with one database with this very easily until we figured out a good IR for queries.

It could even be database-version specific if you wanted, through the use of wasm. Make the database client library embed a wasm VM. Then on startup, the database sends any connected client application the latest query optimizer / whatever logic in a compiled wasm bundle. This would allow the database to make improvements to the IR with successive versions without needing to update all the client libraries out there.
What other US companies are equipped and interested in running a giant chip design/fab? NVIDIA and AMD are likely the only two candidates.
Agreed. My career at Intel coincided with Pat's, although I jumped ship a little earlier. Admittedly this means I probably have a little bias, but based on my hundreds of conversations with Intel vets I do think his business strategy was the right decision. He came on board a company years behind on process, packaging, and architecture technology after years of mismanagement by a largely nontechnical staff, which favoured buybacks and acquisitions over core business practice.

He had two routes with the capital available following a cash injection from COVID-19 and the rapid digitization of the workplace - compete with AMD/NVIDIA, or compete with TSMC/Samsung. The only sensible option that would capture the kind of capital needed to turn the ship around would be to become a company critical to the national security of the US, during a time of geopolitical stability, onshoring chip manufacture and receiving support from the government in doing so. He could either compete with competitors at home or those abroad, but not both simultaneously. The thesis makes sense; you've lost the advantage to NVIDIA/AMD, so pivot to become a partner rather than a rival.

I don't think it's a coincidence that just a week after Intel finally received the grant from the government, he announced his departure. The CHIPS act was a seminal moment in his career. It makes sense he'd want to see that through till completion. He's 63; now is as good a time as ever to hand over the reins, in this case to a very capable duo of MJ and Zisner (who were always two of the most impressive EVPs of the bunch in my book).
The UK doesn't use any form of electronic voting. I don't think anywhere even uses electronic counting machines any more either.
>but there is some wisdom to that post.

That's just speculation. There's no guarantee that would have happened. Nobody has a crystal ball to guarantee that as the outcome.

It's like saying if someone would have killed Hitler as a baby, that would have prevented WW2.
For works produced by a company's employees and owned by the (immortal) company, its 95 years. For works produced by a mortal human it's that author's life + 70 years.

That's how it is in the US and most of Europe.
Black Friday/Cyber Monday Stripe transactions in real-time
I don’t know. My shop wanted 1800 to change my brakes. I bought the parts for 300 and got it done in a day (first time). Seems like a pretty good payback and good skill to have. My neighbour has a car lift which certainly helped.
Long term technologies, waiting in the background
> And as others have said they cant buy back stock with this money grant.

Money is fungible though. If I gave you $1000 and stipulated that you can only spend it on your mortgage, and you do indeed do that, you still have an extra $1000 you normally wouldn't have at the end of the month. Now let's say you decide to buy a TV with your extra $1000. Did the $1000 I give you go towards paying your mortgage or buying a TV, which is something I explicitly said you couldn't do?

Now scale that scenario up to Intel's case. Methinks they'll build a fab AND do a stock buyback. Under normal circumstances, they'd have to pick one of those things to do.
as per wiki, it seems still alpha and is not shipped with devices?
Public announces $135M Series D-2 capital raise
Yeah, what both companies would need to be competitive in the GPU sector is a cuda killer. That's perhaps the one benefit of merging Antel can more easily standardize something.
I love it too. Very readable, very focused, no distractions. I like it so much more than all those soulless "modern" web 2.0 (or whatever) style clones. This LaTeX look is like a great suit.
It depends on the application.

When using SeekStorm as a server, keeping the latency per query low increases the throughput and the number of parallel queries a server can handle on top of a given hardware. An efficient search server can reduce the required investments in server hardware.

In other cases, only the local search performance matters, e.g., for data mining or RAG.

Also, it's not only about averages but also about tail latencies. While network latencies dominate the average search time, that is not the case for tail latencies, which in turn heavily influence user satisfaction and revenue in online shopping.
If you're trying to make a statement about the number of transformative discoveries or the rate of change, I'd disagree.

While progress might appear slower, it's because the low hanging fruit have been plucked and we're working on much harder things.

Autonomous helicopters on Mars and giant 45 degree Kelvin mirrors at LaGrange points are harder than plumbing. Nevermind EUV lithography. Or the previously mentioned rapid drug development.

It's pretty remarkable how far we've come in just the last ten years.

Even the stupid things like endless on-demand entertainment are great. And travel, communication, keeping memories, live entertainment. They didn't have drone shows or voice changing VRChat VTubers.

I'd prefer to live in today's world over the Victorian era. And the coming generations will have it even better.
Being a customer shouldn’t protect a company from lawsuits. ARM feels they have merit here , just like Qualcomm did when they sued Apple. It’s not that rare in the corporate setting to have suits between companies with otherwise amicable relationships.
So many thoughts.

I have a feeling that there is no-one to learn from eventually as everyone is in continuous learning and the industry is fast evolving. In general, there are circumstances where this is definitely not true, but living in it and obsserving it to my current age of considered senior I am still a complete beginner in most of the tech scene tells me this way. My encounters and direct experiences generate a strong bias yet keeping an eye out here and else draws me to this conclusion and tells me that this must be mostly true.

From an other point of view there are lots of seniors. Anyone with 3+ years experience can be considered senior in this industry, given the pace techniques and approaches change (calling improvement would be part lie to a good portion). Which again, tells the same story: not much to rely upon but yourself and keeping a sceptic curiosity about the practices, especially the famed trends. These come and go. Those famed 20 years ago (hehe, more like 10, sometimes 5) are reformed and evolved a lot, mostly past recognition, or most of the time just died. Past techniques considered baaaad practice now, new ones dragging the industry to burning discussion topics and hiring sprees are infants.

The human and social aspects are downplayed in the industry with overwhelming technical dominance.This is where seniority may be a good role model, in mentality and attitudes, but it has no focus. Or sometimes work against it by promoting procedures of replacability: expected work methods and procedures promote the non-dependence on key persons, for the investment heavy industry it is better if the workforce is easy to pick up and lay off. Replacebale parts basically. That is not really an encouragemment for investing in continuity but to show off in trendy areas.

Probably you are already doing your best for doing your best and not making stupid mistakes. Perhaps you could harden your soul like everyone else and not taking seriously after making a stpid mitake, because the future you and all will look back at it and say, this was stupid. Like for so many past things we say now.

> to the highest standard of the industry

I believe I leave this uncommeted despite my deep intrinsic urge, not to attract even more downvotes when I share my mind in this topic, about the 'highest standard of the industry', both as participant and user. ; )
Money and Language (2017)
That would be a hard call

One of the reasons where Intel "let" AMD compete in the x86 space is US Gov requirements for being able to source chips from two vendors at least
Basically the same conclusion I came to, I was hoping the article would really make a point at some stage but it just fizzled out without really asserting anything with any supporting evidence.

I particularly didn't enjoy how it completely failed to take into account the well-established practice of using RAII alongside arena allocation in C++...
eInk Picture Frames
Always wanted to have a relatively cheap eInk picture frame that can be updated from anywhere.
The battery lasts around 1 year and it looks like paper. Colors are also possible, but photos might look slightly dull, but with Spectra 6 (a new eInk version) it should also look good for photos).
What I like about QR codes is that they have a special "alphanumeric" charset which has uppercase letters and numbers and : and / to make URLs. This encodes chars 5.5 bits per bytes and was a far-sighted choice for a standard defined in 1994.
They aren't divesting from discrete GPUs. The Battlemage launch is tomorrow.
If China has half a dozen that count by whatever bar you're setting, then TI surely clears that bar.
Has Intel ever made a production chip using their own EUV process?
They keep moving the goal post so they'll be state of the art when they get there - currently aiming for "18A" with high NA using the absolute latest equipment from ASML. But I don't think they've demonstrated mastery of EUV at any node yet.
Yes, I have Envy apples at my grocery stores in the US. Wikipedia says they are grown in Washington state here.

Envy apples are my favorite. They tend to be more expensive than Fuji, but are about the same price now.
China does not have a single cutting edge fab.

The only players in the space globally are TSMC, Intel, and Samsung.

The US has many fabs that are on par with Chinese fabs.
You don't get a CUDA killer without the software infrastructure.

Intel finally seem to have got their act together a bit with OneAPI but they've languished for years in this area.
Yes, but this is from the introduction of the article. It isn't until the 6th paragraph of the article, after the part I quoted in the 5th one, that they mention anything about passengers. Before that it's all about "(air)plane crashes" and "US airlines", no mention of passengers at all.
This is terrible advice.

OP is profoundly lucky. He's working in a hard-to-break-into niche in our industry with super close access to someone that will dramatically level up his niche-industry knowledge.

This positions OP for long-term success. I'm late in my career and can tell you that engineering skill only really matters in a few places and that what and who you know, as well as how you treat people/circumstances, is 99% of the job.

I worked in a different niche earlier in my career and had access to industry leaders and two of my coworkers from that job started their own agency out of it. One of the biggest mistakes of my life not going in with them and chasing tech skill at a different job instead.

OP becoming a problem-solver in his industry will create vastly more career-potential than being pidgeon-holed as a data engineer.
Thanks for that, it makes sense.
Looking for volunteer work in AI or ML
I do have some knowledge in AI and ML. I am looking for some volunteer work in AI / ML.
This isn't (or doesn't have to be) about laws specifying how all software has to be made.

What they need to specify is the standards for software that certain types of organizations can use. Like government agencies, government contractors, medical organizations, construction and engineering firms, and probably some other kinds of large private businesses, depending on their industry.

Basically, if the software your organization uses can cause the level of destruction that Horizon did, it needs to have specific certifications, or you can't use it.

In order for such software to be certified, it needs to meet certain clearly-defined standards of quality, potentially including having all the technical leads of some level (or just all the developers, depending on various factors) be licensed, and have their licenses on the line of something like this scandal occurs.

It's not a panacea, and it would definitely be an absolute bear to get the terms of all of it defined both clearly and in a way that is likely to actually produce a quality product, but IMO it is likely to be worth it in the long haul.
I am perhaps one of Pat's biggest fan. Was in tears when I knew he is back at Intel [1];

>"Notable absent from that list is he fired Pat Gelsinger. Please just bring him back as CEO." - 2012 on HN, when Paul Otellini Retired.

>"The only one who may have a slim chance to completely transform Intel is Pat Gelsinger, if Andy Grove saved Intel last time, it will be his apprentice to save Intel again. Unfortunately given what Intel has done to Pat during his last tenure, I am not sure if he is willing to pick up the job, especially the board's Chairman is Bryant, not sure how well they go together. But we know Pat still loves Intel, and I know a lot of us miss Pat." [2] - June, 2018

I am sad to read this. As I wrote [2] only a few hours ago about how the $8B from Chip ACT is barely anything if US / Intel wants to compete with TSMC.

Unfortunately there were lot of things that didn't go to plan. Or from my reading of it was out of his control. Cutting Dividends was a No No from Board until late. Big Cut of headcount wasn't allowed until too late. Basically he was tasked to turn the ship around rapidly, not allow to rock the ship too much all while it has leaky water at the bottom. And I will again, like I have already wrote in [1], point the finger at the board.

My reading of this is that it is a little too late to save Intel, both as foundry and chip making. Having Pat "retired" would likely mean the board is now planning to sell Intel off since Pat would likely be the biggest opponents to this idea.

At less than $100B I am sure there are plenty of interested buyers for various part of Intel. Broadcomm could be one. Qualcomm or may be even AMD. I am just not sure who will take the Foundry or if the Foundry will be a separate entity.

I dont want Pat and Intel to end like this. But the world is unforgiving and cruel. I have been watching TSMC grow and cheer leading them in 2010 before 99.99% of the internet even heard of its name and I know their game far too well. So I know competing against TSMC is a task that is borderline impossible in many aspect. But I would still wanted to see Pat bring Intel back to leading edge again. The once almightily Intel.....

Farewell and Goodbye Pat. Thank You for everything you have done.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25765443

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42293541
Obit for Thomas Schelling:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13172957
It's not a valid reason for adding more of them. It's only a reason to be stuck inheriting some.
They would have at least 5 years to figure it out before ARM becomes viable on desktop assuming there continues to be movement in that direction. There is so little incentive to move away from x86 right now. The latest Intel mobile processors address the efficiency issues and prove that x86 can be efficient enough for laptops.

IT departments are not going to stop buying x86 processors until they absolutely are forced to. Gamers are not going to switch unless performance is actually better. There just isn't the incentive to switch.
Yep, or program it.
> FWIW, though, he manufacturers his merch overseas doesn't he? Seems like if he supported domestic manufacturing, he'd... use it?

"Official Trump campaign merchandise is made in the United States, which the website explicitly states. However, there is a market of unofficial Trump merchandise that is made in other countries and sold online and at rallies."

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/09/fact...
I don't think you are something wrong, I think it's wonderful that brains can be so different. I'm fascinated by every type of neurodivergence. You should be proud of what you are, not ashamed of being "something wrong".
It really is a sad world where the prospect of there not being enough work to do for humans is a scary one.
It feels like you've got your answer and are looking for a way to find the fit problem.

> Renewables did compensate nuclear's underproduction

The underproduction episode in 2022 was mostly handled thanks to imports and consumer sobriety.

> Moreover ~60% of France's final energy is obtained by burning fossil fuels

Yeah, that's my point. France would be better served by electrifying its non-electric energy usages rather than trying to replace one clean production by another.

> => deploy new gridpower-producing equipment and such heavy industry thingies cannot be built overnight.

France has a healthy margin before needing to rush production, with electricity usage going down for two decades, and a significant share of its power being exported currently.
I wonder what the long term solutions to these kinds of problems are in East Africa and similar contexts.

The remnants of colonialism continue to produce winners and losers economically, with the winners stuck in local maxima where they extract value from the people, but the people themselves see only marginal benefit, and development is stuck at a snail's pace.

As with seemingly everything in life, the incentives for the different players really don't line up. Consumers lose, producers lose, and only a select few middlemen win anything at all.
Did bottlerocket get any closer to stable and usable outside AWS walled garden?

Last time I tried was admittedly in 2022, but in testing which distro to go with bottlerocket lost because we couldn't setup local builds...
Couldn't agree more.

To me, AMD's approach demonstrates planning and buy-in across multiple teams (CPU die, Ryzen IO die, Epyc IO die, etc), and that suggests a high degree of management involvement in these engineering decisions.

Intel's activities seem comparatively chaotic. Which I agree smells of disincentives and disinterested middle management hyperfixated on KPIs.
AnyChart Integration for the Financial Trading Dashboard with Python Django
The more money people have, the bigger they spend, the bigger their monthly payments are. Somebody making 100k and somebody making 200k both feel like they're barely getting by. Meanwhile somebody making 50k (in the same city) is also getting by, but may as well be invisible to the first two..
Boeing should buy Intel the way they bought McDonald Douglass. It's gonna be a success, trust me.
YouTube does this as a feature that randomly gets advertised hard, then completely disappears into Google idiotic GUI design.
China and the EU would never allow an Nvidia Intel merger, not under any scenario the US would find acceptable.

They'll barely allow Nvidia to acquire anybody at this point, no matter how small. See recent EU response to Run:ai. Intel would be considered 100x worse.
Not a resident of Chicago, but I visit frequently. Everybody knows where to be and where not to be. If you find trouble in Chicago, then chances are you went looking for it.
(author of the project here) we tried extensively [1], but unfortunately concluded that obtaining consistent outputs across various platforms, not to mention across different versions of the same browser, is not feasible at present -- if you want a nicely typeset PDF document, use the real LaTeX (or an alternative such as Typst).

[1]: https://github.com/vincentdoerig/latex-css/pull/62
I could actually hear the different voices in my head as I read the second and third paragraphs, distinct from the first. Your assessment of the unable-to-take-a-side is spot on for OpenAI, possibly Gemini too, but not for all LLMs.
The market isn't really the greatest indicator of anything. Gelsinger has spend three years trying to turn Intel around and the company is only now starting to turn the wheel. It will be at least another three years before we see any results. The market doesn't have a three year patience, three months maybe.

I hold no opinion on Pat Gelsinger, but changing the CEO in the middle of ensuring that Intel remains relevant in the long term, seems like a bad move. Probably his plan for "fixing" Intel is to slow for the market and the board. Let's see who takes over, if it's not an engineer, then things just became more dangerous for Intel. The interim people are an administrator and a sales person, that does not bode well.
Stock moving up slightly? In the context of the last week even it seems like Wall Street mostly doesn't care either way.

At this stage in Intel's life I think having a financier overseeing the company might actually be a good move. Engineering leadership is of course critical across the business, but they company has historically paid large dividends and is now moving into a stage where it's removing those pay outs, taking on debt and managing large long-term investments across multiple parts of the business.

Someone needs to be able to manage those investments and communicate that to Wall Street/Investors in a way that makes sense and doesn't cause any surprises.

Pat's error isn't that Intel revenues are slowing or that things are struggling, it's the fact he continued to pay dividends and pretend it wasn't a huge issue... until it was.
What the hell, my favorite cats are the black ones. Even my cat is black and I chose her from her litter specifically because of her color. Is this all because of stupid superstition?
Cancer Cells Fend Off Starvation and Death from Chemotherapy
Best comment/advice I've seen in the thread so far.
This is really cool, I wish there was some sort of life planner software where I can write down appointments, notes, ideas, and more in a simple format like Markdown, and automatically get notifications/reminders based on what I wrote.
What do they do that Nvidia doesn't (and that Nvidia would care about)?

They already do networking, photonics, GPUs, high speed interconnects, and CPUs. They are planning on selling their FPGAs (the Altera acquisition) to Lattice.

The only things left are their fab ops, thunderbolt/usbc, wifi, and ble.

Their fab ops would take over a decade of heavy investment to catch up to TSMC or Samsung and idk if even Nvidia is ambitious enough to take that on.

Wifi and BLE could be good additions if they wanted to branch out their mellanox portfolio to wireless. Thunderbolt/USB C also might be worthwhile.

But that IP is probably going to be cheaper to buy piecemeal so idk if it's worth it to buy the whole company outright.
>they could have a line of ARM CPUs now to compete with the onslaught in all major CPU markets.

Disagree. Selling ARM chips with high profit margins is tough. There's too much competition from the likes of Samsung, MediaTek and until the US ban, Hi Silicon(Huawei). ARM chips are a race to the bottom in terms of price with a market dominated by companies from Asia. There's no guarantee Intel could have had a competitive ARM design that could beat Apple's or Qualcom's.
I think you may be either misinterpreting my post or misunderstanding the sequence of events.

What do you think has happened so far?

Your mental model of the world may help me understanding the point you are trying to make.
Actually this is what Mathematica does:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1294852/why-does-wo...

Mathematica calls this point on the Riemann sphere "complex infinity".
I can relate to this exact experience and I think anybody who's tried to bring scraping to prod can as well!