You mean coding puzzles is not a thing?

I think what Intel needs is a culture of innovation. Where things can be experimented with, failed, evaluated with data-driven insights.

I actually think somebody who is creative, can articulate vision, and act effectively on criticism (eg change direction), be just a little less -inclusivity-building and more meritocracy-building -- is all they need.

Somebody like Elon Mask.

@nostromo -- you are exactly correct. The US Fed govnt policies caused inflation, now trying to cool it down through raising interest rates on govn bonds. So investors that were buying commericial bonds, now go and buy govnt bonds.

Then, the commercial bonds (for good sound companies), loose values. Then commercial bonds investors loose their investment...

So the loose-loose sitation were are looking at:

a) continue printing money out of thin air -- raising inflation and indebting the generation of kids who do not even vote yet

b) get the current economy go into depression.

It seems like the current generation, with their choices of leadership and the habits is responsible -- so ( b ) has to be chosen (to be fair).

But since we do not live in the world where accountability is a thing -- ( a ) will be selected.

The argument with the kids is really bullshit. I‘ve heard it again and again in different contexts. As if anyone could know how the short term economy will affect the kids. As if the kids would only start living in their 30s and the experience of poverty in childhood would be nothing. As if the economy would be a fixed thing that could be predicted for a few decades in advance.

loans to insiders is a form of payment when stock is expected to fail, or the company is expected to get bought out and those folks to get fired.

I do not think it is 'kosher' by any means... but this practice exists in western societies where corruption is hidden behind 'book deals', 'documentary deals', incredibly 'visionary' stock market investors (that sit in US congress and senate), etc.

In other places, same corruption -- but not hidden behind the financial instruments

I think centralized ranking performed by private (or even public entities) -- leads to significant bias (either because of corruption or because of .. bias).

So the solution, it seems, would have to be some system of cooperative, transparently weighted contribution to the ranking process

> How Many More Governments Will American-Trained Soldiers Overthrow?

As many as it takes to maintain the US dollar as reserve currency, and necessary access to mineral resources.

What I do not know if NATO was able to change regime in a country, without having it (NATO) being directly involved in a conflict.

In my understanding if NATO was able to change a regime, there were expressly military boots on the ground (or bombing campaigns like in Yugoslavia)

Some of these regimes are horrible to their own people, so the change by NATO (acting an alias term for 'US') is good.

Sort of like the Spanish Conquistadors stopped the horrors of the Aztec empire [1]

[1] https://www.iflscience.com/bizarre-child-sacrifice-confirms-...

I am guessing that all these businesses that looked 'cheap' to the money-making, investor-darlings machines (the FAANGs) -- will now get closed.

The inflation apparently, does not just affect the currency value -- it also corrects the value of salaries compared to the outcome.

I am also expecting that 80% of the companies behind the 2,600 apps in this list: https://theresanaiforthat.com/ will close those efforts down within 2 years.

The next iteration of businesses/sites that come in place of dpreview -- will be ad-ridden, small budget enterprises like

emulsive.org

petapixel, flickr groups there is 500px (this is more image oriented)

100asa -- for more professional photographers, and

photrio.com for the film camera, and film-development crowd.

I do not like petapixel -- because they ask me to register with google or discuss not interested in any of those...

I am surprised that dpreview was owned by Amazon. Never knew about this.

Some DSLRs have function of combining of multiple frames together as well (I think Nikon D500 and latest Olympuses as examples).

This is often called HDR.

The issue with combining images together is that it works for static objects well, but if things move -- it does not. So low-noise digital sensors still seem to offer much better results.

And certainly, startup-time (or app selection time) + focusing speed, is simply unmatched by phones compared to DSLRs or mirrorless with phase focus detection

I do think that Denoising images with AI/ML will be common place even in open source Image processing tools like Rawtherapee.

So DLSRs having APS-C or full frame sensors with lower megapixel count will do well if images are post-processed (or in camera processed) wit these AI tools.

In fact, I was thinking that buying a used DSLR from 2012 circa for 150$ bucks -- will yield similar results as a 2K camera or a 1k smart phone.

Phones are easier to transport/carry. That's has been their reason to take over the lens+camera systems.

But I think camera makers can make photo gear fashionable again :-). I am working on some ideas in that area :-)

>The issue with combining images together is that it works for static objects well, but if things move -- it does not. So low-noise digital sensors still seem to offer much better results

The problem is mirroless/dslrs have much bigger sensors with slower readout, and much worse DSP capability than say an iPhone. They also use it much more conservative that a mobile phone marker too (which just cares to get a nice looking image to the casual user, not for fidelity and ultimate control).

So, mobile phones for low light can still get better post-processing results for moving subjects compared to any mirrorless/dslr "HDR" mode, through quicker intermediate shots taken and combined, and more DSP resources to devote to the task.

(Samsung, Google, and Apple also have much more money than Sony and Canon to spend on state of the art AI/ML applied research and DSP developers).

wonder if could also also assume that their vaccine related death are under-reported, or reported at all?

Can we say the same thing about social media companies ?

I would also suggest that 'owned by public sector' does not mean 'public good'.

Even when a private corporation influenced/directed/controlled by federal authorities -- it is problematic.

I do not know of a political system that can effectively check federal government so that it stays for public good.

Money-sponsored or various threatened-by-force election models are not effective at checking that premise.

> Can we say the same thing about social media companies?

Gotta be "good" to be a "public good."

> 'owned by public sector' does not mean 'public good' What does mean public good then?

I believe you're misreading GP's comment and playing on words. "owned by public sector" doesn't have to mean "being run by people elected through general elections". You seem to refer to federal government so probably you're referring to US government and how your opinion is that it is inherently bad. That's another debate i don't have anything to say on (not US myself) and i believe you have a bigger problem if you don't trust your government. Now tons of "public sector" enterprises can well enough be run in relatively closed loop. The solution is quite easy: have dedicated taxes for dedicated such enterprises, instead of all the taxes going into a general budget at the hand of general politics. This is how public healthcare, pension or stuff like water used to work in eg france, before it started to get teared into pieces. They are self-funded basically by people paying for the service, but since we have realized basically everyone needs it, paying is mandatory, and the amount you pay is proportional to your salary: the so-called salary-contributions and company-contributions.

In my country, many of the state-controlled public services (e.g., electricity, water and sewage) are very expensive due to mismanagement. Others, like public healthcare are mediocre (don't scale well), albeit costly. Many of these entities suffer from being exposed to political influence.

This being the crux of the problem. Obtaining the benefit of state owned/controlled operations for such things without allowing them to be ruined by constant political interference in sync with the routine electoral cycles. A public health system or sewage or electricity is a multi decade resource of benefit to several generations of citizens… but politicians tend to think about the next election not their old age and future generations needs. It really requires and active and engaged citizenry to make proper operation a priority over the normal sort of political pandering.

Depends on the state, sort of like the quality of private companies vary and if you’ve ever lived in a part of you’re own country where the grocery stores are crap and later you move and their very competitive and a comparative delight. However, one has to experience the difference themselves to understand this fact I believe. There are a huge multitude of factors at play.

Many of us (me included for most of my life, hell maybe I’m doing it now), tend to over extrapolate how much our own experience is the experience everywhere and that what we see must be fitting some logical rule or trend. Reality is annoyingly more complex than we like.

>Can we say the same thing about social media companies ?

Good god no. One of the benefits of the Twitter-Musk saga is that it proved that the feds really were meddling quite a bit with social media companies requesting censorship. You want to give them the keys entirely?