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My first exposure to roguelikes was an Amiga graphical version of Hack in the 80s, so I always felt like they were "supposed to" have something more than ascii. But when I tried Diablo, I was really disappointed. It's not that the polished graphics detracted from anything, but that the depth of interaction was lacking.

I remember seeing a first person shooter after years of ignoring games, and being really impressed by the advances in graphics, but in seconds, I could see it was still a world made of indestructible cardboard, which was very disappointing. I suppose things have improved somewhat, depending on genre, but anyway, the issue is that people are easily distracted by graphics, not that they detract from anything per se.
How long have you been working on this project?
Wait, how can I get to near SOTA on Imagenet in a minute (!) for $40?
Coal power plants are more efficient than internal combustion engines. So yes, e-rickshaws are cleaner.
I remember that I learned HTML from http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2090 -- I can still remember the URL, in the Athens neighborhood -- but I haven't seen the actual webpage in 23 years. I'd love to find an archived copy.
The first version of Nethack I played had graphics for the walls and empty space only.
so list all ads for every category under the sun in every page?
Subscription-based
https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/15/leaked-shareholder-docs-me...
When the German Starbucks company (which actually is a Polish company Amrest Coffee) gives out a gift card an independent company in another company doesn't have to take it. They are just sharing a brand, but are different legal entities with independent ownership. (Franchise)

But even if it were the same company they could give out gift cards valid only in a single shop or something. Conditions have to be clear, though.
My Starbucks app is still linked to my credit card. So they must still pay the interchange fee...

Also why would Starbucks form an alliance with McDonald's? They compete in the same market. They both sell coffee and breakfast sandwiches... Would be a bad idea for sbux.
There are a few ways I think about this. The first is to follow the FB framework of focusing on your strengths and interests. The next is to overlap that with what you've been doing at your job most recently. If you're a partner you've likely had to shift your focus to selling deals since becoming a partner. Before then hopefully you had time managing teams of junior consultants. Because of that, I think your most obviously slots at a tech startup would be in business development or operations. Don't get BD confused with Sales as sales is a much more technical role that I don't believe you jump into late into a career at a senior level.

Good luck. As a former consultant that made the jump to tech early in my career, I can tell you it's a leap worth making!
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There's no much difference in lifestyle between making $100,000 a year and $110,000, but I'd sure know the difference if I lost $10,000. Either way though, at that level it's not really about the money itself.
Oh I forgot to add that this would be amazing for disaster relief and Search and Rescue.

Imagine sending in a little robot for rescue that also maps out in 3d the interior of a collapsed building!
4 years. The company almost died years ago but now profitable with a small team.
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Based on my experience of living in Mississippi: rural towns do not have swat teams(or a police force besides the county sheriff's office and maybe Highway Patrol if they are nearby), the suburbs also rarely have a swat team however every local police force or sheriff's office will have some "sharing" agreement with whatever the closest city is that allows them request swat if a situation requires it.

As for "nothing happens there" part, domestic violence and it's ability to turn into a hostage situation is usually why a swat team is used and is sadly a common issue; dumb bomb threat pranks to get school closed also appears to be an efficient way to get black trucks to show up in the middle of nowhere.

It's also worth mentioning when comparing US police to other countries that gun ownership should be a factor. Hard to compare what the appropriate fear level should be if the number of firearms encountered during day to day stops differ by magnitudes. Even in rural state like Mississippi that has very liberal gun carry laws, police still seized at least 4500 guns last year; the number of guns encountered in homes/cars/concealed carry that didn't warrant seizure would have a couple of extra zeros if it was tracked.
The labor laws make it hard to hire and fire. So yeah you can start something, but can't do much if the employee does not work out.
Possibly precipitated by this post which was on the front page yesterday with 400 upvotes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20761449
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It's the "economies of scale" effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale
The big players always have an advantage.

Although, having tried Starbucks coffee, I have to say it's terrible!

Maybe it's the way it's made with an automatic machine and a disinterested barista, or perhaps the beans are over-roasted and mass produced in a factory. Just about any small coffee shop makes better espresso based coffee than them, especially in Sydney, Australia, where Starbucks continues to struggle to gain a foothold.
On the plus side, this is the top comment, so the silent majority seems to agree with you.

Art just isn't critical to making amazing games... some old BBS games like Tradewars 2002 will always be among my favorites, and their ASCII images barely qualified as art.
My team and i tried leveraging different pivotal products as part of a test deployment of our current esxi managed vm deployment imagined through the pivotal kubernetes deploy.

We found that Pivotal's kubernetes makes it easy to run kubernetes on top of existing vmware infrastructure, so our ops team could continue to manage their normal vmware stack, with an admin interface to manage kubernetes clusters that live within esxi. They could provision us devs with a cluster for a specific use, and hand us the keys to do the rest.

It was pretty cool, except for the fact that we discovered kernel incompatibility with the underlying esxi version/os that brought down the entire deployment repeatedly a few days before the event where we intended to stress test the product.

The use case is definitely there for larger orgs who want to share hardware, but you also get the "on prem cloud" quick wins. Our experiment obviously failed in a low risk way, but i think the idea is sound.
> The average price of a home in the US in 2019 is $226,800

Yes, because the average home in America is 2000+ square feet.
The OP explicitly made the comparison to 1950. And in 1950 the average home was 980 square feet. It'd be like me complaining that cars have become unaffordable because I decided to double the number of cars that my household owns.

You can easily find a 1950s size home for less than $125,000 almost anywhere in America. For example check out the Zillow listings for Omaha, Nebraska. There's a plethora of 2 bedroom/1 bathroom homes (typical 1950 sized house) priced around $100,000. (Many actually built in the 1950s.)

Omaha has the third lowest unemployment rate in the country, and Nebraska's educational system is ranked above average. If your benchmark is 1950, which entails a four-person family, a 1000 square foot house, a job, and decent schools, that's easily achievable today, unless you insist on living in a high cost metro like New York, San Francisco or Miami.

> Although most places pay more than minimum wage, the current federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr.

Only 2% of full-time workers make less than minimum wage. And of those ones that do the vast majority are under-25. Not exactly the typical 1950 head-of-household. You're trying to compare the poorest segment today to the upper-middle of 1950. You can't compare advertising executives from Mad Men to modern-day dishwashers, then declare that things have gone backwards.

If you do want to look at the poorest Americans, instead of the middle-class, then 1950 looks even more bleak. 25% of homes didn't have full plumbing. 15% didn't have a toilet. 20% didn't have electricity. A third of were heated with coal (which is filthy, unreliable and terrible for the respiratory system).

Without a doubt the bottom quartile of Americans had much much worse housing conditions in 1950 than today.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2016/home.htm
[2] https://aceee.org/files/proceedings/2004/data/papers/SS04_Pa...
The telecom company is the third party.

Yes, I'm suggesting to not use data from telecom companies, unless they have a way to prove that said data is real.
I wasn't being ironic :)
It was interesting trying to find reliable stats on this. I might look into it more one day in the future
> only

https://emby.media/

https://jellyfin.media/

https://kodi.tv/

https://mrmc.tv/

https://firecore.com/infuse
ITS had :UNTALK (around 1982)

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/41180/AI_WP_2...

>Another useful comlink program is UNTALK. UNTALK is similar to TALK but does not work across machines. However, on a display terminal, UNTALK splits the screen horizontally and allows the two people to type at the same time on their part of the screen.
It seems to me that armed drones have already taken on the new long-loitering fire support platform.

Although there are programs looking into a cost efficient replacement that still fulfills the `guy-in-an-armed-flying-metal-box replacement` [1]
https://www.indrastra.com/2019/05/USAF-OA-X-Program-6-Light-...
Efficiency.

Here's an analogy using your question:

Why do aircraft builders optimize for weight?

Just to be clear, I'm not talking about cargo planes or helicopters, those are separate conversations.

I'm talking specifically about passenger airliners, fighter jets, and other aircraft that are built in large quantities.

What's the reasoning for so many aircraft builders optimizing for weights <50000 kgs at the expense of usability?
That example was given in the original post. That opinion is Raph Levien's ("One of my hopes for xi-editor is that the core would be lightweight"), so if that's the only example, the OP should have asked him directly.
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Even dirty coal is possibly better than dirty diesel and petrol. Yes, its dirty: what kind of remediation can be done in a centralized generator, compared to distributed catalytic converters in exhaust (which fail in service, or are not fitted) and a huge burden in NO and related problems.

Coal is bad, polluting, creates health hazards and we need to get rid of it. Petrol and Diesel are not "better" and there are reasons central generation may overall be net beneficial especially given the efficiency of generation, transmission losses and in-engine effects comparing ICE to EV
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Not at all. From the fact that I made an assertion, as everyone here does, it does not follow that I was under any special obligation to defend the principle in question. Contradicting my assertion with incoherent counterclaims and false assertions accomplishes nothing. Same for presumptuously guessing what I “seem to think”. FWIW, natural law theory (from which the principle is drawn), is, at the VERY least, very defensible.
Google needs to own its failures. It can't ship anything new or innovative. The only things that they've been good at is acquiring things that other people have invented (Youtube, Android, etc).

Buzz? dead. Wave? dead. Plus? dead. Allo? dead.

It's so bad now that even features and innovation on their existing platforms are dying.

Youtube? Everything they do with Youtube is a screwup. Android? Good luck getting an app in the app store without Google accidentally killing your company.

Google Cloud? Sorry... everyone's on AWS or Azure.

Search? Nope... Elasticsearch now dominates that space. Think about it. Elasticsearch now beats Google at what Google should have dominated - search.
Please define "did better" because small businesses in those cities generally took a beating.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2019/07/10/the-uninte...

> ...reduced hours worked in low-wage jobs by 6-7 percent, while hourly wages in such jobs increased by 3 percent ... consequently, total payroll for such jobs decreased.

> ...

> Those who were already working more hours before the wage increase saw “essentially all of the earnings increases,” while the workers who had fewer hours saw their hours go down, but wages go up enough so that their overall earnings didn’t really change

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/7/13/20690266/seattle...

Seems like its a mixed bag, and depends on circumstances.
Sure. It’s easier to switch a few coal plants to gas, solar, etc than try and convince millions of people to switch to EV’s.

The hard part is done.

The article says the electricity is often stolen. We’ll call that market forces.
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Related: "Ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne says he got 'fishy' orders from Peter Strzok"
https://www.foxnews.com/media/patrick-byrne-overstock-claims...
"If this material (hBN) could be made industrially at scale"

It exists already as an abrasive, cubic and hexagonal crystal forms. It is what I use when I don't feel like using diamond for stone grinding and polishing.
They didn't say anything about passwords. This was credit cards and address information. An online retailer breach could be purchase history on top of that.
After reading the article, I thought this comment may have been the funniest possible first post.
Elasticsearch does not at all compete with Google Search.
People like to play the victim. They will leave private messages on, get messages they don't like, and then produce bad PR for YouTube due to this. It's honestly the right move strategically given their goals.
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I’d love get some feedback and I’m happy to answer questions!
>loading time and storage space are not major issues below the 30~50mb mark.

Even if you have ample disk space and memory, smaller binaries can be a performance advantage. A smaller binary with less instructions will more easily fit into CPU caches. Binary size can be an indicator of performance.
Checkout Carbon Black’s stock today before the announcement. It was way up, well before the news became public ....
I guess one issue these tools have had historically (collaborative outliers, and Wave along with it) -- was what are they actually for?

Google Docs is for writing documents, letters, school essays, etc... The output is a document of some kind.

Sheets is for performing calculations, modeling numbers, etc... the output is normally some calculated value (or values). The benefit of this over just writing a single function/program is that you can potentially have more insight into the way that calculation is performed, but in general, the output is some calculation.

But outliners are different... what is the result? The NLS demo describes a shopping list. Which is nice, and you can slice and dice the data around, but fundamentally, it's a shopping list. And that function can be achieved with Google Docs for 80% of the functionality. Sure, it doesn't make moving bananas and carrots into a 'produce' category easy, but with copy and paste, it's a pretty well solved problem.

But the basic outliner functionality you're describing -- what's it actually used for? What's the payload that you're organizing?

Even Dave Winer's tools were used not for making lists, but for making websites. There was a "payload" present. You were managing data for websites (at least, as far as I can understand it, I didn't have a Mac at the time, so never used most of the UserLand programs).

So, would you say the "point" for these tools is making other tools? For example, using Frontier to manage websites? Or Wave to make a chatting tool?

In my mind, this was the problem that Wave came across... it wasn't easy to describe what it did in a simple way. It wasn't email. It wasn't chat. It wasn't collaborative writing. It was the backend that made that all work. It was incredibly ambitious, and that made it difficult to get people to use.

If it was "just" chatting -- I think that would have made a huge difference. Users don't care that you're using OT to write messages on the fly... they just want to be able to chat with friends or colleagues.

So, what is the killer application for a collaborative outliner? Why would I need one? I'm genuinely curious as to your thoughts, as you've clearly spent a lot of time thinking about this.
RabbitMQ was its own startup for a number of years (I think called "Rabbit Technologies") before it got the attention of the SpringSource/VMWare crew.
You would notice by looking at your account balance.

When I worked as a part time cashier in the midwest, I could notice $5 missing from my account. In fact I did notice an errant $7 charge. I didn’t have to be particularly vigilant, just, there wasn’t that much money flowing through my account.

As an engineer in the Bay Area, I could miss a $100 transaction. Not saying I would necessarily, but looking at month to month finances, nothing would really look too out of the ordinary. It could fade into the noise.

Of course this has mostly to do with the amount of money flowing through accounts, but I am pretty sure that if 4 billion dollars disappeared, it would be promptly noticed. That’s still a huge net change, even if month to month finances scaled up linearly with account balance - and I don’t think they do.
It says “identity”, not cookies. Maybe it means cookies are partitioned. Maybe it means some new form of identity token is created (Googles have proposed them at various times) and is partitioned, but cookies are blocked. Maybe it means new token plus cookies remain as they are based on the “fingerprinting is even worse” argument. Maybe there are different settings. Who knows?

Anyway, the reason we moved away from cookie partitioning is that many third party embeds got confused when presented with non-empty cookies, but ones that weren’t the user’s canonical cookie for that site. Bugs were reported to us by embed providers, including Google web properties. This is a bummer because partitioning is elegant and has been WebKit’s go to approach since 2013, when we partitioned all storage besides cookies (LocalStorage, the HTTP cache, etc). A move that, incidentally was opposed by Chrime Engineers back when we shared an engine code base, though they are coming around now.

(I should mention also that partitioning cookies made many social embeds stop working at all until we provided Storage Access API and got embed providers to adopt them, which is why ITP originally had a 24 hour user interaction exception. Fortunately the web has adapted now.)

I should also mention, WebKit ML solution is deterministic. It’s trained offline. And it doesn’t substitute for enforcement actions, it substitutes for a block list of known trackers, which other tracking prevention systems use. One downside of strict rule based systems is that it may allow malicious players to game the system. So there has to be an out for changing the rules or ratcheting up enforcement.
Dirty coal and the inefficiencies associated with generating electricity, then storing it in lead-acid batteries and then turning an e-rickshaw is definitely less efficient and far more polluting than autorickshaws running on CNG.
I don’t understand how that implies people who dislike his art style to be stupid. I’d see the expression more as a reflection of “find your niche, ignore everyone else”
> Google Cloud? Sorry... everyone's on AWS or Azure.

Google Cloud was late to the party, but they were very smart to invest in GPUs near edge nodes. I think Stadia is primed to eat the gaming world's lunch. They can reuse this capacity for ML during off-peak hours.

I'm actually kind of scared of Stadia. I like having physical copies of console games, and if Google makes major inroads they could become the dominant player in the gaming industry. They definitely won't be friendly to physical form factors.
What do the VC folks feel about the current state of the startup, do they want to wait it out?

If you jump ship I gotta think anyone lining up with money for the next startup might wonder how long you stick around... maybe others too?
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I'd imagine gun control/culture plays a big part in it. Police have a right to look after their own safety and in a country with so many guns floating around that means swat teams become necessary.

In countries with no guns and/or better gun control the police don't even need to be armed with deadly weapons.
Chrome, Kubernetes, TensorFlow, Golang, AngularJS, Prometheus, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Vitess, Spanner, Flutter, Bazel, GoogleTest, Istio, V8, AlphaZero

Seems like Google innovates and builds a ton. It's the whole dealing with customers part that they don't like.
Can't wait for the Google alternative to Slack....
As an elder millennial, I agree with your last paragraph, still a funny name for it though.
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Of course. The OP didn't mention which key, so assumed they are talking about the private key, especially when they mentioned out-of-bound sharing, usually terminology used for asymmetric cryptography. Public keys don't need to be shared out-of-band, in fact they are always published along with the transaction on the blockchain. (well technically, only the curve points and the hash are, but using these, we can re-create the public key)
How much does it compete with the (defunct) on-site Google search appliance? Or rather -- how much could it have competed if it hadn't been killed?

Imagine if there still was a private Google search tool for businesses where you could have patched into those APIs for integrating new tools. Everything could have been searchable -- Slack, Email, Docs... everything. Instead, they are all siloed.