skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The board of directors. They have a fiduciary responsibility to the business and shareholders and obviously they were looking at high level financials and not digging in further. It is a bit surprising that Masayoshi Son of Softbank would fund so many rounds when it was quite obvious that it was a house of cards.

With Uber, at least there was a real business, with some real differentiation and not the tremendous Capex overhead of real estate to weigh down the business. Imagine if Uber had to employ all of the drivers full-time and also own the cars outright, that would be a dramatically different business.

But everyone is happy when things are moving up and to the right, but in this case, the losses outweighted revenue. It's one thing for a startup to be burning x% of revenue to grow market share, but to literally every year burn more capital than revenue at such a massive scale is completely bonkers.

The only logical conclusion is that Masayoshi Son was calculated in this. In that he had some belief that WeWork would work, but additionally if he was able to markup his shares through his own investments, he could then raise a second vision fund based on the supposed returns of the first one.

Obviously that plan is now shot with Uber trading below the value of his private investments, and with WeWork it is an even larger hole that he has dug for himself, because not only is it's value dramatically less than when he invested, but there is a real possibility that the company may not be able to get on to solid financial footing.

Softbank would literally be the only investor willing to put in more capital at this point, and they almost have to in order to save the business, but at that point, don't be surprised if the entire cap table is completely redone.
Which very well funded movement is that, and what evidence is there please?
Algorand's Cryptographic Sortition
No. More closely compared to Jekyll.
> I'm very surprised that a static site generator can raise this much capital

Why?

They charge $50/mo and maybe the recurring revenue checks out for preferential investors to feel comfortable with making a profit. If Gatsby can get their service included in a bunch of the domain name registration sites, pushing out Wordpress, then they get exponentially more customers!

The real question is what they plan to do with the $15 million, followed by why the founders wanted to give up that much of the company as the revenue is probably fine. I don't think they actually are scaling majorly, except sales people. I think they are going to be subsidizing open source development, another developer day care shop that ideally will have the byproduct of making the tooling they use even more easy to use.

Any insight?
Fair enough, sometimes the food selection is limited to fast food or fast-food-like.
I think it only upgrades over WiFi? I remember someone complaining that it was difficult to upgrade because of network issues.
I think you may be confusing Android Auto with Android for Cars. The former is the mobile app and headunit-only integration (audio controls) via video stream, which requires minimal integration with the vehicle. The other is Android repurposed for headunits, with full car integration, such as Volvo's integration.

Car manufacturers of luxury cars shy away from Android Auto partially because they believe it turns one of their main selling points and silos (advanced technology) into yet another commodity.
Engineering manager here. I think a lot of people miss the point of standup, or abuse it to somehow micromanage engineers.

Standup is for the team, not the manager or PM. It serves multiple functions, but the most important is the last bit: "are you blocked by something?". Most of the time, someone else on the team knows how to unblock you. Other times, your manager is better positioned to get you what you need than you are. Most of us don't care when you work, or how much progress you made today, or whatever. Our job is to keep the ball rolling, not manage your time.

The status update portion exists so that your manager doesn't randomize you in the middle of the day asking about that thing you're working on. Not because s/he thinks you're slacking, but because your work ties into a bunch of other work that's going on, and it's the manager's job to coordinate. While you may be more effective working as an information silo, your team and org are hindered by it.
> the bitshift divide in particular comes from embedded and other speed concerns

Please don't do this unless you are using a really bad toolchain: most compilers will optimize x /= 2 for you.
I mean, alright, but a five month wait time for a repair after an accident is completely unacceptable. Just because "basic replacement parts" might not be totally accurate, the spirit of the claim absolutely is.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/bjcedf/waiting...
you must have missed the second bullet point.
I think part of what flukus was getting at is not supported by that staff page. GNOME has outreach and sponsorship programs, but they all seem to be gender discriminatory, and focused more on external social causes than on the quality of GNOME software.

GNOME Foundation could probably just use GitLab.com, it wouldn't take a full time staff if their focus was infrastructure. It seems like the GNOME Foundation is predisposed with gaining institutional power over the symbols of GNOME, to egoistically control the community.
We live in a culture that idolizes the working class, and indulges fantasies of the contented blue collar worker--who for at least a brief period in the 20th century could be securely middle class, not merely fleetingly so as in recent history. And as the middle class hollows out, and victim culture internalized across the political spectrum, we're seemingly forced to choose between identifying as those who work (the good guys) or the wealthy (the bad guys).

It's not surprising that relatively wealthy people self-identify as the good guys. But that doesn't mean we should indulge or lend credence to destructive equivocations that put working and wealth in opposition. We already have a catch-all, no-hurt-feelings, ambiguously safe category--middle class.

Anyhow, FWIW, I've been upvoting both of you because I [feel like I] appreciate what you're saying. I'm mostly objecting to the doctor's sentiments, and the notion that we should sympathize with them. The sentiments are self-serving and socially destructive. That doesn't make him a bad person, but I feel like the sentiments should be called out for what they are.

This is the problem with the check-your-privilege movement. If disempowered groups think they can shame the empowered into giving up power, they're seriously deluded. What will happen--what is happening--is that the wealthy and powerful will self-identify as the disempowered. So I'm not saying that this doctor should "check his privilege", so to speak, but neither should he be doing the exact opposite by willfully denying his privileges. And that's why I say such sentiments are destructive. With privilege comes responsibility; if you can deny the privilege you can shirk the responsibility, such as a civic mindedness that emphasizes constructive cooperation across all groups, and particularly the financial and political participation of those with financial means. If everybody thinks they're not wealthy enough, that it's only the other guy that should pay more taxes, etc, well then we know exactly where that road leads. We shouldn't vilify or shame the privileged (the notion that we can shame people into civility is preposterous), but neither should we condone the privileged pretending that they're not. Those are two sides of the same coin.
Out of curiosity is the fraction of time you spend indoors vs outdoors similar between the UK and NZ?

(Asking as someone living in the UK noticing his eyesight getting a little worse every year)
The co-processor has some kind of IO. On a GPU that IO is generally a PCIE port of some kind.

Once you have the two machines able to talk to one another on the physical level, you need to decide what kind of protocol they're going to use.

The simplest example of that whole flow is serial ports, which you may be familiar with if you've ever worked with arduino or microcontrollers or other embedded systems. So basically the answer is "the same way any two computers talk to one another", a protocol carried over some kind of physical medium. At the point you have to create your own drivers, and your own way of compiling code to run on the co-processor, but fundamentally it's no different from loading an arduino sketch onto a micro-controller.

There are also solutions involving shared memory, where all the processors/co-processors are connected to the same ram chips. Those generally aren't practical with x86 chips, although it's a popular way for baseboard processors to talk to the ARM chips that run cellphones. It's also ultimately they way "symmetric multiprocessing" works in every computer that has more than one core on it's CPU. It's also probably how the "neural processor" CPU communicates with all the custom silicone that actually enables this product. It's likely they have a conventional microcontroller core that handles the input stream from the host computer and puts that data into the RAM layout required by the "NPU". What they've labeled the "front end". I haven't really looked into their architecture in any depth though.
Don't know, my experience has directly contradicted this popular narrative. I think, perhaps, these experiences are less frequent than public outlets suggest.
Or Solaris (25% share of 2019 Euro electric bus market). https://www.solarisbus.com/en/vehicles/zero-emissions/urbino... >3500 buses deployed and operational in Europe to date with more orders coming in.
So your argument is that the management class could stop working and not experience a change in lifestyle?
You can do something similar with fastmail. Get a domain for your email and make an alias address of the form [anything]@[alias].domain.com . You can then make 'sending identities' for an instance of that catchall domain for the rare time you need to send email as mortgage_company@a.domain.com . You can also create rules to blackhole a specific alias email or whatever you want when you need to invalidate the email.
Agree about the quality of life afterwards being the most important issue. I have seen too many people who have lingered "alive". I suspect that if I get knocked down then there is a dichotomy of outcomes:
1) unpleasant, painful, survivable, not time-critical, not life-changing
2) major trauma, life can be saved with a time-critical intervention. Prognosis post-event is for a decreased quality of life. Would probably die if left without unusually quick ER.

I can only see the watch being useful for #2: the exact situation where I think it would be better that I die.
Raising capital isn't success. Profitability is success.

I think the main value of Gatsby is the community-generated recipes to plug and play...but is there value here?

If you have one very generic application, then maybe you save time upfront. But you are tied into this heavy wrapper around React that will probably cause you problems down the line. And you probably still need a backend. So I am not sure what value is being created?

If you specifically need to generate lots of sites, or you have some performance requirement (and data that doesn't change often) then maybe. But I wouldn't use it to build anything complex (i.e. that would tie me into their product) because building an app isn't that much harder. I am sure there is a niche use but I think most people aren't doing anything complicated with it (I use it that way).

I also don't really see how this could be a Wordpress killer (which is the intent of the fundraising presumably). Wordpress is totally end-to-end, it abstracts away all the right parts. This doesn't. $15m won't change that.

In theory, I think applications like Prismic or Contentful (I think it is) actually break up these tasks better. From your app, you have a (usually) simple API. And it reflects the division of labour in most companies i.e. that code and content are separate (before anyone says it: they aren't offering a different product to Gatsby, if it seems that way then that is the point).
Program Synthesis [pdf]
Yes, they have a bunch of special model compilation stuff that needs to happen in order for the ML model to run on their hardware, such as weight quantization, and then they'd also need to generate the a program for the NPU so it knows what to do -- what to convolve with what, and so on.
Well, yeah, sounds like they will be. It's not the driver's fault they were carting around a dipshit, so I don't get the snark.
Hold them accountable to what? For trying to live their best life?

I said nothing about not saving the climate.
No.

But Google and Apple ought to require clear disclosure of price and conditions. Also, free trials shouldn't transition to paid usage without explicit authorization.
Why I Resigned from the Gates Foundation
I am not talking about sacrifices for its own sake. What I am saying is to do things that reduce greenhouse emissions. The problem needs to be tackled in top-down (government policies) and bottoms-up (where consumers make behavioral changes).

Europe seems to be more in tune with top-down. In the US, bottoms-up seems to be the only option. Once people change their purchasing decisions - e.g. stop buying anything that comes in individual plastic packing etc, companies will be forced to make changes. Another example - stop giving non-sensical loot bags in b'day parties or stop taking or giving gifts altogether.
I don't disagree, but that somewhat kicks the ball down the road: why didn't a similar disparate group of elites do something similar in France, or any of the other myriad instances of failed revolution? (As an ignorant layperson, I'm sure there are revolutions in recent history that successfully cloned the separation-of-powers model, but there have still been countless revolutions in the past two centuries that skewed authoritarian rapidly, whether or not they wore democratic costumes.)

And the obvious corollary that motivates the question: if one wanted to maximize the odds of a positive outcome to the next revolution (independently of whether one thinks that's a good thing), what ideas/technologies/institutions/etc would we want to promote or enact now, either from within the revolution itself, or in the surrounding cultural ecosystem?
They are such bad reasons to rule out a car that you seem to have very little idea about.
(1) You are being extremely dismissive, indicating that your mind is closed on the topic, so there is really no point in any further discussion.

(2) As I mentioned previously, we are not going to settle this debate here anyway. There's a huge amount of literature on the issue. And even just "getting" what the issues are often requires attending a Philosophy of Mind class for weeks or months and doing lots of reading and discussing and philosophizing with an open mind.

(3) If your mind is less closed than it seems, and you don't have access to a good Philosophy of Mind class, you might read this book by David Chalmers:

https://www.amazon.com/Character-Consciousness-Philosophy-Mi...

I'm guessing it'll be kind of a slog, though. And I don't agree with much of what he says, but it's a start at least. He's also the most famous proponent of "the hard problem" (or at least he was when I was actively studying Philosophy of Mind). He's also the person who coined the term "hard problem of consciousness".

Or you could start with the Wikipedia page, but I doubt that anyone would be convinced by it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
Ah, yes... domain name addiction. Been there, done that =)
My personal site is running Gatsby on Netlify, I haven't paid for anything except my domain. I'm not the biggest fan of Gatsby, but it's pretty decent for some projects.
Women marry up or across on the social ladder. Men marry across or down on the social ladder.
People who fish as well.
Latency, thanks to all those dozens of third party JS, font, tracking and other service calls, seems to be what we completely lost. Just about nothing feels instantly snappy any more, even if overall the page completes pretty quickly - for a Web 2.0 version of pretty quickly. :)
New Mac Pro Tech Specs
I am not an expert in either of these fields, but I wouldn’t dismiss the correlation. Quantum mechanics tackles the problem of the observer. If you put a cat in a box, it’s in an undefined state until someone looks at it. If you send your friend over to check the cat, he sees the cat but to you it’s still in an undefined state. Now the friend comes back and tells you the information about the cat, and suddenly your conciousness has indirectly “resolved” the state of the cat. You can extrapolate this to all events in the universe, basically when your consciousness came into existence you have resolved the entire history of the universe.
Some stay around. Others don't.

So your statement does not invalidate the original point.
or it may be economics or sociology or any type of trying to build a rational model of how things work.
> Case in point, Idiom #46 in C[0] uses strncpy and predictably fails to correctly terminate the buffer.

calloc returns zeroed memory.
I believe its the button on the side of the chair to adjust it
Well, I am that person. I can go through a ton of other limitations that macOS has if you want…

But you moved the goalpost on me because first you just asked for a limitation and I gave you probably the largest one. You didn’t say anything about it being an unknown limitation before I got started using it… You said “I’ll bite“ as if you could not think of one limitation of the platform. I knew about the main limitation, that you can only run it on Apple hardware, before I bought it but I decided to go forward anyway because I want to compile an app for iOS and I decided that it would be much better than trying to maintain a hackintosh.

There was zero sarcasm in my response. Not even the part where I said “enjoy your center ship I guess”, because Apple fans seem to love making my text disappear for others if I don’t gush over Apples products. If you really want to know about all of the limitations that I did not know about before I purchased into the platform I’ll be glad to do that.

Here’s a big one: you simply cannot operate the entire OS with just a keyboard unless you add some third-party usability-correction utilities. It’s impossible. And those utilities are suck and they don’t work well and there’s a chance that Apple will take them away from you or cause problems with them in any given update. That’s why Stephen Hawking always used Windows, same as just about every other disabled user in the world.
> Epstein is the ultimate example of charisma+network being a career choice

pretty sure a good bit of his 'brand' was in profits from his 'side business' here as well..
What websites are storing your mother’s maiden name?

Besides maybe the bank
1000fps+ allows you to have a larger sequence of decisions "to vote" for the next action taken with higher certainty and lower decision latency. Imagine you have a 5fps self-driving car system; if you drive fast, one frame in 0.2s must give you a correct decision for a quite large travel distance; with 1000fps you can chain e.g. 10 decisions in a row via heatmap or Bayesian rule and get a pretty good certainty about what is going on around you and what action needs to be taken right now. In perception you hit false positives/negatives all the time but appearance of the same issue on two-three consecutive frames goes to 0 pretty quickly.
Jim Mattis and the Duty of Reserve
I think it would me more like "suffering under the current state is worse."
I remember mine, but Yahoo deleted my account after a short period of inactivity... I wonder if anybody still have theirs. That is one reason why I never had a Yahoo email address.
So how would you handle this breach with your fastmail alias?
or, you know, just use linux.
> Our new “Car-aoke” feature lets you sing your heart out with friends on a road trip – or by yourself.

Wait what.. you're encouraging drivers to look at the entertainment panel to read song lyrics? While they're driving?
Steve Jobs’ Blueprint for Revolutionary Marketing
let bool = !!(whatever)

Yuck

let bool = Boolean(whatever)
Fully expecting utter disbelief and skepticism, the best information I have indicates the compensation cap at FB is ~$3M. I have personally made up to $1.5M in a year doing AI work. If I had a higher threshold for pedigree BS in tech, I could have made ~$2M this year (but I don't and I have run out of you-know-whats to give about that personality type because life is too short for working with them IMO). In contrast, the NYT reported (previously) non-profit OpenAI's CEO made $2M annually from the get-go. I'm sure it's more now that it's OpenAI LP. And then there's Anthony Lewandowski's $120M comp at Waymo that somehow just wasn't enough for him. I can't relate to that.

Before AI, the most I had ever made in a year was $800K based on a long stock options play for a public company I knew was undervalued (and I was there for its rock bottom). And in academia, the most I ever made was $30K as a post-doc and $13K as a grad student before that. That anyone wonders why non-tenured sorts flee is mind-blowing.

In contrast, I've seen ruthless tenured types pull 7 figures with multiple labs at multiple institutions and lucrative consulting contracts with private industry and the military. All whilst cheating on their spouses or sleeping with their students, sometimes both.
Talent agency Endeavor abandons IPO
Your norms and intuitions are based the present craziness. Here's Higgs (of Higgs-Boson fame) who's published 10 papers since 1964:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...
When you'll have 4 cores per cpu, there will be usecase fot it. Generally IO is catching up with cpu performance, so it makes sense to do this.
If there is going to be leetcode round after code assigment. I beg ppl to reverse the order, always have leetcode round first and respect candidates time.

Way too many companies have leetcode down the line after the candidates have invested considerable time in their process.
The pipe operator is the key thing I'm really looking forward to as a general quality of life improvement.
They prioritise upgrade downloads over wifi, even faster over service centre wifi (from my experience)
I have no idea how well the hosted service works, but Gatsby has been one of my favorite frameworks for a while, and I'm happy they're throwing some extra talent into making it awesome.
This doesn’t change the fact that meritocratic admission is fundamentally broken at the other schools.
If we are going to be pedantic about this, and you pretty much have to be given the topic, a parking violation is not considered a traffic violation. Obviously a private parking lot isn't some completely lawless place, but many (most?) traffic laws don't apply there.
I remember putting one of those in my old Jetta. Thing was a piece of crap. Slow UI, programmed for Japanese radio stations. Looked much better than the stock head unit though. Its saving grace was Bluetooth streaming.
I make good money (being a reasonably able software dev), and though physically attracted to women, am not interested in them, and haven't been for over a decade now. I was somewhat successful in my youth, but certainly no cassanova.

I find chasing and/or engaging in romantic relationships with women costs me far more than I estimate their worth at (the relationship, not the women themselves). And I'm not just talking money. I'm talking time, freedom, responsibility, cognitive cycles, etc. I think my time is best spent elsewhere on hobbies or video games or mindless entertainment or work.
Thanks for what I thought was a really nice explanation for the uninitiated! Certainly helped me conceptualize it better.