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If the AI is going to lie and cheat on the code it writes (this is the largest thing I bump into regularly and have to nudge it on), what makes the author think that the same AI won't cheat on the proof too?

Where's the antitrust enforcement? This seems blatantly illegal.

What are the 5 NOPs for before the RETI?

The way the execs talk down to employees now is really depressing to read about. That's a really unfortunate culture change since I was there.

Question for @kens -- this circuit you found, how would Intel have designed and tested this?

Quality has not gone up. Products are deliberately made to fail sooner by Chinese manufacturers who are reducing costs on super tiny margins.

The mantra that "consumers get lower prices and everything is better as a result" deliberately elides any discussion of quality and reliability.

Dude I think the whole "we're going to fire you" thing is weird on Apple's part. Look at how good the color picker became once it became yours. A bunch of resource string names should not be a big deal.

Is it anywhere close to swisstables?

Much too quiet here on HN on this post

Science underpins technology, people.

If you want to see the US rapidly lose its place in the tech world over the next decade, this is a great way to go about it.

What's old is new again. Some of the same techniques used to keep pre-MacOS-X applications responsive, back when MacOS was cooperatively scheduled, show up here.

This begs the question of what is a reasonable programming model? In the MacOS case, the forcing function was buying NeXT, using their Unix kernel for MacOS, and literally firing the OS engineers who disagreed with preemptive multitasking.

For these browsers, is there a programming model that could be instituted where processing in these handlers didn't hold up the main UI thread?

This looks fantastic. I particularly love how cool things look at the different perspectives -- presumably this is because you did the hard work of making the planet at realistic scale? Thanks for sharing the process. It was fascinating!

This is great and all, but will we be addressing the fact that the acceptance rate of these institutions are all artificially low? The size of freshman classes are the same or smaller than the same in the 1980s, and the population of the country is much larger.

Tuition isn't the only problem here. If we want a country with social mobility, our higher ed institutions should reflect this and not create artificial scarcity.

Is Apple going to upstream this so it's part of Linux?

The Ford Mustang Mach E is a compelling alternative to a Tesla.

And this is how we operationalize age discrimination. Note the layoffs of middle management announced at the same time. Force everyone into the office, ideally through a difficult commute into an area that it's very expensive to have a family.

People for whom this is really untenable will quit without severance. Some with difficult circumstances you can PIP out without severance. Then the rest you lay off. Congratulations now the severance bill you have to show to Wall St. is a lot smaller.

Sociopaths.

Why is this not cancelled?

Modern processors, with their nanometer-scale transistors, are much too small to study under a microscope.

So, can we all take up a collection so Ken can get a nice electron microscope, or what?

Why would Facebook not just block messages from Nigeria to rando North American towns at this point? Shouldn't the network analysis required to detect this sort of crime ring be a slam-dunk at this point? I don't get how this is still even possible.

Wow this is really great.

All these complaints about laws banning these bags are kind of whiny considering how not a big deal this is. C'mon.

What's striking about this article is Gates's refusal, even now, to say anything bad about Welch.

Why is that?

The vast majority of the bar culture problems are traceable to Welch, as is the shadiness of GE Capital.

This.

Hmm...dealerships who make most of their money on service don't like to sell EVs, maybe? Surprise? Have had a Mach E for going on 3Y with 20K miles on it and it's literally needed cabin air filters and windshield washer fluid in that time. No there aren't any buyers being steered away from EVs by dealerships, noticing this...

Oh, and the oil companies selling gasoline have nothing at all to do with the "OMG such DOOM IF EVERYONE PLUGS IN THEIR EV" articles, eh? Let me translate that for you: "OMG such DOOM IF EVERYONE SWITCHES TO AN ENERGY SOURCE FOR DRIVING THAT'S REGULATED". When I charge at home in one of the most expensive states for electricity in the US, I'm still paying half the per-mile electric cost as the Subaru we also have. Oops. Thermodynamics are real, eh?

And let's not mention that it costs a lot of money to buy an ICE car that has anything like the acceleration and torque of a typical EV. I've had relatives (usually of the Fox News watching variety) grump about my car. You know what, it has just enough "mid-life-crisis" fun factor for me -- and that's why I got the damn thing. Because EVs are FUN TO DRIVE, PEOPLE.

So nya nya nya to all you trying to seem reasonable in the HN comments...

Yeah I saw this process unfold over my decade there as well. I'm very grateful for my time there, my colleagues, and the great work we did (go Monarch team!). The latest evolutions there make me sad.

Yeah I worked in here for Lucent before the OG dotcom crash. It's a pretty neat building. When you went in back in those days, there was a big communication satellite suspended over the entry lounge, with various things like telephones, transistors, etc., which were productionized here. IIUC there are antennas on the property used to discover the Big Bang too. There's also a big water tower in the shape of a transistor over a reflecting pool. It was a rough time watching this building emptied out into dumpsters during Lucent's auguring-in.

I find the anthropomorphisms of "swallowed" and "ate" and "cheated death" so annoying that it's hard to read the article. I really wish science writers would tone this nonsense down. It gets in the way.

Isn't the average Google data center larger than this?

The most significant of these, the Commodore 64, had a social leveling effect as well. The Apple II and the IBM PC were essentially unaffordable for all but the well off. However, selling 10 million Commodore 64s at essentially 1/4-1/8 the price of the Apple II allowed a generation of working class kids to have upward mobility and real careers. Didn't hurt that in some ways the Commodore 64 was a better computer as well.

Also, firing people on parental leave, and firing people on H1B who have 60d to get a job or leave the country.

It does mention it. 4 weeks severance. The people who decided not to sign up for "hardcore Twitter" got 3 months.