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“Profit is up 1000% and they’re creating some plants last month and hope to use advanced packaging in 2 days…” Wishful thinking and hyperbole yet again! Social media runs with these unsubstantiated claims with no verification. It’s boring and tiresome to see this versus the reality. They’re decades from being fully independent. It was only recently that Washington revoke Intel, AMD and NVIDIA licenses to export chips to Huawei.

Stop believing everything you see on social media. Think critically. Do the claims sound too good to be true? Probably are, we exist in a misinformation media environment.

Google is the new Yahoo and sliding into irrelevance. Layoffs like this cut the core engineering functions of a company. After a while it becomes harder and harder to innovate and create meaningful products. Offshore teams can never replicate or replace these functions. This is crazy and the executives are clueless. Bring back Larry and Sergey now before it’s too late!

What can be described as “Western Civilization” is a much bigger cultural zone than we define it. Historically people also never really divided the world this way. It’s just modern academics that screw these concepts up completely, have obvious agendas and lack context. Europe, North Africa and Middle East are all part of “The West”. The regions were only ever divided at various times by empires, language groups and religions. The author of this article is disingenuous with their argument at its core as a result. Musical traditions from Baghdad are still western. This is why music could influence other music because these were all western musical styles.

Edit: Wanted to add that the alphabet is a western linguistic concept that’s common to all western languages.

Musk wants to make sure that BYD has little or no competition. Kamikaze management yet again from another American company. Musk is such a genius!

Because you're looking for a very specific language or tool experience and not capabilities. This is a common mistake. Many developers might have loads of experience in the problem domain your company needs but not a specific language or framework. Like you do integrations for banking clients. You look for a Java developer and find someone who knows the framework you're using but they've only ever developed APIs for mobile apps. Instead look for the person who might have done some Java a lot of Cobol and has worked with mainframes and banking systems. That person might have even been a sysadmin and learned coding but they'll hit the ground running.

This is a bubble and one that will burst very hard. AI is the perfect technology for this. It's opaque and most investors (who barely understand tech in general) have no clue what it really does or how it works. This is the closest we've ever had to multiple large respected tech companies selling "snake oil" a cure all. The capabilities of AI they mention as if they're available today are literally many decades and generations away. Automating information workers, creatives and engineers will take AGI that's simply impossible with our technology.

When the AI bubble bursts I wouldn't be surprised if takes down major tech companies with it.

Wait does this mean that private corporations from the United States will compete against national governments in space? If so it’s history repeating itself and the private corporations will probably win again. Great news and proof that it’s working bravo!

The problem is Chinese companies are subsidized by their government to manufacture things of little or no intrinsic or critical value. Automated vacuum cleaners and consumer drones are niche electronic novelties. Electric cars using solid state batteries are also novelty that will be obsolete once electric engines that use liquid fuels become mainstream (fuel-cells).

The purpose of subsiding what are zombie companies is to maximize employment to ensure internal stability. The wins these companies show are propaganda wins only and don’t make the country more competitive. Foreign manufacturing is also migrating out of China at an alarming rate as shown by falling exports and GDP growth.

None of the development in the Chinese technology sector is sustainable. These companies would never survive on their own without subsidies and are dependent on them. It’s a cascading failure waiting to happen in the Chinese economy and will likely be a global shock. At least the Americans may appear to take longer to develop winning companies but once they do they tend to be sustainable and long lasting as organic enterprises.

Edit: The American free market is working as intended because it rightly values robotic vacuums as useless devices.

No it's not real engineering at all but a different thing altogether. Engineering is the application of hard sciences like chemistry, physics and biology to solve real world problems. Software development can be part of what an engineer does to solve that problem but it's not engineering in itself. Software "engineering" is actually applied mathematics particularly logic to program a computer to complete tasks organized as algorithms. This is why some algorithms and functions in software can be proved via mathematical proofs.

Jokes on the writer because Buddhism originated in India and evolved from Hinduism and spread as far as Southern Russia and Central Asia in addition to East Asia and Southeast Asia where it become popular. Ignorant people everywhere these days get to write articles who don't have basic history lessons. We learned this in high school also about Ashoka and how the Indian emperor spread Buddhism literally everywhere in the world. But whatever racists aren't known for their learning, understanding or intelligence.

Civil forfeiture is a direct and obvious violation of the US Constitution and shouldn't even exist under the USA legal system and is dangerous to the US legal system:

"Article the sixth... The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Police under the US Constitution have to go before a judge and court and make an Oath under perjury of law describing the items to be seized. There has to be a justification and supported by affirmation meaning evidence and supporting facts. In the case of the building that was seized it was operating a perfectly legal business under state law. It had the necessary licenses and permits. There needs to be a direct challenge against this type of extra-judicial seizure in the US Supreme Court as it's a clear challenge to the entire operation of the rule of law and legal system.

The simple verification aspect of unit tests makes writing code easier and more purposeful in my opinion. At a most basic level it's kind of like a small informal proof. When the code base get's complex and larger in size this is invaluable if unit tests are written correctly. Tests have to make sense and be written well just like any other piece of code.

It also helps form thinking about test cases and logic before writing code. Before I used exhaustive unit tests I would just start writing code right away and often times this would result in constant refactoring as the code evolved or during debugging. But unit tests encouraged me to scaffold out abstract functions and write tests before implementing the code. It got me thinking about what the logic and workflows then implementing the functions meant having the tests pass as verification.

Seems like the GNOME strategy is to prepare the desktop environment for unconventional mobile form factors rather than workstations. Which is bewildering and confusing because I wouldn't think to use something like a Linux distribution on anything but a workstation. Though in my opinion Windows (WSL) and MacOS (UNIX) provide elegant developer experiences and advanced capabilities for workstation machines.

It's hard to say where GNOME fits in these days and if it's still relevant. These sorts of changes are great and I appreciate GNOME's work so I have a balanced perspective. Steam Deck even uses KDE Plasma and not GNOME so I don't know other than Endless Mobile where GNOME has opportunities to deploy this other than as a sort of proof of concept demo.

> I think you're generalizing too much.

> These are AI/ML researchers, and so you can probably talk about that area at Meta, but it doesn't apply to other departments necessarily.

When you look at their products as a whole at their root are essentially AI/ML driven or rely on the capability. This is very relevant to and applies to those that are most directly revenue generating like advertising.

> I can easily imagine a lot of AI projects being canned or back-burnered like that now. What's ML used for at Meta? Feed recommendations, social graph inferences, face identification, etc? All those are under heavy scrutiny, and a lot of the work of doing it "right" is not even an ML question at all, but one of policy, regulation, and product

Correct due to multiple factors there's little growth or innovation possible in the main products that Meta generates revenue from. Right now they only sell a single product which is advertising.

Metaverse is a highly speculative venture that may not work and there are companies like Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft Gaming that are better positioned to rely on existing technologies, platforms and synergies that have a major edge here.

That's why I would interpret AI/ML researchers leaving as a sign that Meta's best days are behind it and Metaverse is an act of desperation.