skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the very few games I bought somewhere else that gave me a free steam key when it moved to steam. Still gives me warm fuzzies a half decade later. Can't say the same about satisfactory.
There's some apparent overlap here with the perceptual research I learned about when I did my cartography degree. When selecting colors for a map depicting a single continuous variable, red is universally perceived as "more." Almost any other color will have cultural significance that is highly variable.
You need to read their financials closer. They are profitable without offsets.
I've talked to too many people who staunchly state that "it's a private company" when it comes to not caring about censorship in one sentence, but decry actions like this in the next, to really think there is an adequately beneficial solution to these types of problems.
IQ predicts income too.
Do they even have to betray anything? It's not like Apple has been using interoperability as a selling point...
A public company's value is based on a collective estimate of what people think its cashflows will look like in the future. For a mature company that you don't expect to change much, looking at present financials is a solid way to estimate future financials. For an earlier-stage, or more speculative company like Rivian with a wide range of possibilities in its future, current financials are not typically helpful, with a few exceptions (e.g. growth indicators, signs of poor management).

For example: Five years ago, I thought Tesla had a 30% chance of failing, 20% chance of being bought by a major auto manufacturer (for let's say ~30B), 30% chance of turning into a major auto manufacturer (est value ~100B), 10% chance of turning into the top auto manufacturer (est value ~300B), and 10% chance of turning into something that transcended auto manufacturing (est value ~1T). If you multiply this out, you get an expected value of 0+6+30+30+100 = 166B. At the time the market cap was around 40B, so I thought it was underpriced and bought some. Obviously I'm glossing over some things, but it's sensible enough and should illustrate how you can get there.

In terms of the notion of "what if you never find someone to buy it from you?" The short answer is that that's extremely unlikely. The longer answer is that you can also just price that into your probability distribution, but because of the low likelihood it's unlikely to affect your price much.

FWIW I don't know much about Rivian, but my sense is also that they are overpriced. You could go through the same little exercise above for Rivian and see if you agree. To summarize what my distribution would look like, I think they have a much higher chance of failure than Tesla in my example above (because they're much less far along), and not enough potential upside to justify the valuations being discussed. But I could easily be wrong.
If you actually read my comment (try it!) you will see that I make a statement about sheet music not uniquely specifying where on a guitar a specific note is to be played. I make no statement whatsoever about guitarists.

You seem to have trouble with the concept that the vast majority of instruments does not yield a recognizable melody simply by pressing the right button at the right time. All of those musicians are doing just fine, thank you very much.
I once read that Apple and Google actively keep track of Wifi access points so they can map out interior spaces, and also geolocate you even if you have GPS location services disabled. I don't know if that's true, but I wouldn't put it past them.
This currently returns an error if it doesn't find exactly one table in the image, so it might be able to work with larger images, but probably not if there are multiple distinct blocks of text.
Yup, this is the main reason I won't be upgrading to Windows 11 anytime soon. I've never been a fan of the icons-only taskbar and have enabled text labels since Windows 7.
How do you order an other car or a truck if you can't make phone calls?
Tesla’s market cap was $60B just two years ago, before model 3 production really ramped up, and the crazy stock bubble began.

By that point, it’s first production car was a decade old, and the company was on the verge of hitting 1 million vehicles produced (March 2020). So yeah, $80B for a competitor in the pre-production stage seems quite steep.
If companies were structured as employee owned worker cooperatives, then that sacrifice would be meaningfully rewarded. As it is now, a lot of people sacrifice so a handful can walk away with the rewards created by everyone else's sacrifices.
There is very little managing out. If you don’t perform they just fire you and give you a big severance check. Of course you get warnings and the firing isn’t usually a surprise, but there isn’t a lot of politics around it.
> others have a default aquamarine and specifying "blue" or "green" is kind of like when we specify "navy blue" or "sky blue"

One specific example: the Vietnamese word "xanh" means "blue or green". If you want to be specific, you say (the equivalent of) "sky xanh" or "leaf xanh".
If you’re on an i-device then reader view in safari (or other browsers) works well to get around the scrolling issue. Ditto for Android.
CPU market fragmentation in the pro-sumer space is not necessarily a bad thing and might pave the way for RISC-V adoption in the coming years.

More competition and a more diverse product landscape usually ends up benefitting the customers.
Taking a long time doesn't mean you've done more useful work.
I seem to recall, several years ago (when stopping the engine at traffic lights and restarting as soon as the driver released the brake), at least one company was exploring moving to 24V. However, the effort failed precisely because the lifetime of 24V switches was significantly shorter.

Naturally, I can't find any links to the info...
> we are asking about what happens when a new phone shows up without it

Nobody buys it.

Do Linux phones have access to WhatsApp? If not, there is no point. It will be a perfectly good mobile computer but it will never actually replace the one in my pocket. And that's coming from a programmer who loves Linux. Imagine the utter disdain normal people would have for a phone that doesn't even run WhatsApp.
I just saw my first one last week. It had manufacturer plates though. Last week was the big press launch, of production vehicles. Car and Driver is driving one across the Trans America Trail right now.

I believe the first customer car rolled off the line Sept 20. First deliveries were supposed to have been in Sept. It looks like they have, in fact, started.

If you try to order one now they say "January delivery" which surprised me that they could promise so soon with so many preorders.
I don't see you complaining about ASML being the only way of getting photolithography machines, or TSMC being basically the only constructor at scale.

Some industries are awfully complex and getting into it requires insane amounts of work. x86 processor making is one of these. It's the same as making new browser engines/js JIT/etc. There is just so much work that catching up with the incumbents is almost impossible.
Some of the numbers in this article are complete B/S, like the unemployment rates y/y% (as if there is no covid crisis) or the wages (which seem cooked, and anyway, are only in one sector).
WhatsApp isn’t installed on 100% of phones in any country, try to look at actual statistics before making such bold claims.
Except... we cannot predict how future folks will be able to use e.g. neutrinos to achieve some fantastic future tech. And apart from the sheer desire to 'understand the world', physics research is giving future technologists some phenomena to (possibly) exploit.
Interesting concept, but I have a few questions:

1. How scalable is it?

2. What is the expected messaging latency?

3. Data loss protection?
I would be concerned if any Zune was spying in 2021!
If they could kick out Maduro and get a sane government things would be quite fixable. Venezuela used to be the richest country in South America. Their problems are very man made.
I'm a VP of Engineering now and I made it here without ever having to do any of the above and most engineers I've worked with haven't had to do any of that either. Your experience isn't the norm and you also sound incredibly arrogant and out of touch.
... and

The proprietary cpus will only run software obtained from the corresponding app store.

You can take that to the bank.
Extropians are everywhere. Many names come to mind, like Assange, Hal Finney, Jurvetson, and many others.

I hope that something like this group comes back, but with a vengeance. Call me an optimist, but if they had put their minds to it, they could have accomplished much more than a mailing list, which has unfortunately dwindled in the last 10 years.

Cypherpunks write code- but what about the extropians?
Thank you! I have also been kind of obsessed with this problem. I have tried to solve it myself, going from an image to bounding boxes and trying to separate the boxes into columns. But that problem is just fraught with edge cases, so I decided to just use an existing tool.
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"Dear John Q, your Gbank account and cards linked to it, have been frozen due to un-Googley activity.

The appeal you are thinking of submitting has also been proactively denied.

Enjoy your vacation."
This is the beginning of the commoditization of computer processing. Right now, the only thing that gives you a lead is what you can have fabricated... Apple and AMD using TSMCs fabs have proven this to be extremely true taking the top CPU spots from Intel the past ~3 years. While we will probably see a small spike in "custom dogshit CPUs" I don't think it will be long lived (maybe ~5 years that suck starting around the end of this decade). It certainly won't be worse than the current variety of processors in phones or random other small electronics. Not to mention there's little incentive to use hardware that has poor software support. Eventually (~25 years), the fabs will go from billions to millions to maybe a few tens of thousands of dollars. Purchasing a CPU will (eventually in like 40-50 years) simply be deciding how much power, heat, and physical space you have to budget...

The reduced cost from mastering processes will mean companies are competing on price; which, is typically good for consumers and awful for the businesses involved. If anything, as we really push physics to its limits, the largest companies will likely be forced into cooperation to make any reasonable gains via something like RISC-V because of diminishing returns.

I believe "Machine Learning" will be what leads the way for eventual commoditization of processor fabrication. Pretty much what Relativity has done with 3D printing rockets: using ML to correct, predict, and/or even utilize, what would now-a-days be considered physical flaws to produce extremely perfect parts... but instead of rocket parts, it'll be lithography and CPU fabs one day.
It is legal because of the contract between the developer and Google. In this case Google decided that the developer violated the contract's terms and terminated the account.

Also, there might have been a human review, and it was decided that termination is going to proceed, hence no basis for human to intervene.
With hundreds of billions of profits on the line this shouldn’t be surprising.

The only thing a business cares about is profits. Everything else is branding.
What? Like half of all modern tech is built out of weird physics. Photoelectric effect, liquid crystals, transistors, most camera improvements, capacitive touch - all applications of discoveries in physics.
I stopped ready at "504 Gateway Time-out"
Or I can just not generate e-waste by using my perfectly capable device until the end of its life.
Epic tried to get people to sideload Fortnite, and it was not successful. Epic is a billion dollar company. The right content is not the problem here.
The levels aren’t covert, they just don’t have any. But I wasn’t getting a level promotion every year and neither were my coworkers. Besides I started at the equivalent of a senior principal so there weren’t a lot of promotions to be had.
What good are performance and battery life if you don't get to decide which apps you are permitted to run on this device?

Does the recent removal of apps [1] from russian appstore ring some bells?

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/world/europe/russia-naval...
That's interesting. Thanks for reporting!
Why not? It is trained to guess the next word, and giving it a few lines of dialogue makes it continue the conversation.

The only reason would be hitting the hardcoded input length limit.
11 out of 13 of the comments on this post are about the scrolling behavior rather than the substantive content of the article.

I'd say this is a problem.
The way items “should” behave is up to the designer/developer. It is not a bug if it’s an intentional design decision.
>Cars can generally stop safely.

"Brake-by-wire is used in all common hybrid and electric vehicles produced since 1998 including all Toyota, Ford, and General Motors Electric and hybrid models."

"Three main types of redundancy usually exist in a brake-by-wire system:

Redundant sensors in safety critical components such as the brake pedal.
Redundant copies of some signals that are of particular safety importance such as displacement and force measurements of the brake pedal copied by multiple processors in the pedal interface unit.
Redundant hardware to perform important processing tasks such as multiple processors for the ECU"

"The highest potential risk for brake system failure has proven to be the Brake Control System software. Recurring failures have occurred in over 200 cases documented in NTSB documents. Because each manufacturer guards the confidentiality of their system design and software, there is no independent validation of the systems.

As of 2016 the NTSB has not directly investigated passenger car and light truck brake-by-wire vehicle accidents, and the manufacturers have taken the position that their vehicles are completely safe, and that all reported accidents are the result of "driver error"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake-by-wire
… and now the site is down, too…

(…and now that I'm reading a cached version… does it actually answer the question in the title?)
"Windows 10 will be the last Windows, a continuously updated OS that you can rely on"

"Uhh, turns out we can't make that much money off of it"

"Windows 11 is the most exciting Windows OS yet!"
I have a feeling these things are caused by jealous Google engineers. Once they see an app or company being successful they will find ways to mess up the business. Either through their store account or their Google rankings. We’ve seen these stories too many times.
Who forced my neighbor to buy a Ring? Should we have any confidence that my neighbor's Amazon state of the art far field microphones don't also pick up the vibrations from my house / condo?

There is nothing I can do about it short of becoming obscenely rich and buying a large enough property that Amazon's spying tech can't physically penetrate.

Just to be clear, this is the corporation we're talking about:

> Amazon says it does not eavesdrop on customers' conversations to target advertising at them, after it emerged it had patented "voice-sniffing" tech.

> The patent describes listening to conversations and building a profile of customers' likes and dislikes.

[...]

> However, the patent describes an algorithm that can listen to entire conversations, using "trigger words", such as like and love, to build a profile of customers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43725708
No, mortenjorck had it right. There is a clear distinction between government and private enterprise--governments have the force of law to back them up. That's the critical threat. Yes, it's a problem if power is centralized in organizations, but you always have the option to walk away from Facebook, Twitter, etc., or even start a competitor. There's a huge difference between "Facebook jail" and actual jail.
This x 1000 !

There are not enough upvotes in the world for the parent post, but please add yours.
This is literally what competition looks like, the opposite of a monopoly. Isn't that what we all want?
You don't need to send location data to reveal it. E.g. WiFi signal strength of different devices and cell tower strength or switching are easy points to help locate someone. Google was already prohibited from collecting WiFi data in the EU (with streetview cars specifically, but what would stop them from using any android device...), you can bet they still do it in the rest of the world.
And note the timing. I suspect the hack did something evil to the deployed version and Google picked up on it.
Yes, interesting. A lot of fruit is red and people see red, so there seems to be some link there. Many animals do not see red. Foliage is green (leafy plants), or maybe yellow (dried grasses) depending on area.
maybe if there was any other option. It's not like everyone on Android has a million distribution options. It's the most popular OS in the world and there is essentially one company that makes its own rules controlling what gets onto phones.
I've personally been vaccinated against COVID-19.

But I'm philosophically uncomfortable with the government being able to require me or my family to submit to an injection or any form of medical treatment.

Creating a bunch of second-class citizens who can't access education, employment or travel seems like it's just a bad idea.

I do have a few doubts about the vaccine:

- If the vaccine's so safe and effective, why do the vaccine companies have a liability shield?

- Why are so many medical workers, who know more about vaccines than I do, and see COVID deaths every day, refusing the vaccine? What do they know that I don't?

- If the years of testing traditionally required by vaccines were always deemed a necessary safety protocol, isn't skipping them essentially gambling that the COVID vaccine doesn't have long-term side effects?

- Why will COVID vaccines eventually require boosters? Why don't they do what they did for measles and polio and whatnot, and make a vaccine that lasts a lifetime?

- If I'm not given reasonable answers to these questions, and instead told "Shut up and take it, or you'll lose your job, your kids will be forced out of school, and you'll never be able to get on an airplane again," why is it so unreasonable for me to conclude that maybe someone somewhere in the government or the big pharma companies knows the answers to these questions are, shall we say, not exactly reassuring?

Vaccine mandates are bad policy and dangerous precedent.
broken scrolling is absolutely a common complaint. (maybe slightly less so today since devs have started to learn to not do it)
I always find Confluence to be the place where docs go to die. There's very little motivation to keep it up to date and tends to be one or two people driving it. When they move to another team or job, then it gets abandoned.

The things my team uses GitHub pages for tends to do better because devs don't object too heavily to writing code comments (for generated docs), markdown (for design docs), or API specs (for API docs). The last two in particular have become a big part of the design process, so it's been bought into heavily. Whether those stand the test of time remains to be seen - they're relatively new.
Driven and intelligent people will always be pushing the boundary because they feel a calling to it. The only tragedy is they're often not justly rewarded for it.

I'm in the "not an ounce more" camp, but I also don't expect a cent more than I'm owed in return. Those who do push themselves further for the benefit of humanity deserve more than I do.
Buying a GPU in 2021 is tricky for most people.
I can see how this can be a safety issue but IIRC even with genuine apple parts faceID stops working :/

so this only concerns 3rd party repair shops or individuals who dont want to pay apple to replace their screen.
Interesting, thanks!

Do you happen to know how to paste regular UTF-8 text into Excel/Google sheets as multiple cells? If I copy two cells in Sheets, I get a tab character (\t) between the cells. But if I try to paste "hello \t world" into Sheets then it's just dumped into one cell.
They have $3B cash on hand or enough to survive 3 more years selling zero cars.
Also, unfunded US govt retirement benefits come in two forms:

A) future pension and medicare costs, for people who are alive today, and

B) future retirement benefits for current and former govt employees

IMO (B) should be prefunded (or at least have an actuarial value on the govt balance sheet) because it's an actual liability.

But whether or not (A) should be treated the same way depends on whether the benefits are fixed as of now, or whether they can be reduced/eliminated if they take too large a part of the total budget at the time they're due to be paid.
I'm not complaining about anything, just saying there are two companies that have licenses to make x86¹, so it's not true that anybody could implement a cpu with sse4 extensions.

¹Not sure what happened to that x86 license that Cyrix had.
I guess they associated colors with object classes. Animals are red and plants are green. Some plants are also blue, like flowers, so blue is also a plant color, so if you have one word for plant color you get blue and green as the same. Not sure about yellow, is it associated with fire maybe?
Thanks! No, I hadn't heard of either - thank you!
Yeah, me too; i have paid email, paid adblocking dns. I de-googled my life and ditched FB, insta, twitter. (Ok, that I also did for my own mental well-being)

But I'm, what, a 0.1% minority of global internet users?

Meanwhile I try to find suitable games for my kids to play or video's to watch, and 9 out of 10 things I find have monetize through some quality-reducing, interruptive, annoying ad-driven modus operandi.

It's not just services or software: consuming content is equally degraded by the expectation of limitless quantities of free shit.
I largely like ChromeOS as itself, but I wouldn't want it for a general purpose system; it works because it's a limited system
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Which employees? Its like the old claim that only 10% of the money spent on advertising is worth anything but nobody can figure out which 10% it is.

So the corporation knows that 99% of the employees showed up for work the day after their $10K paycheck, and the replacement for the guy who quit won't show up for less than $11K. Well, if they give no one a raise next payroll will cost 99 x 10 + 11 = $1001K, and if they give everyone a pay raise then no one will quit but payroll will cost 100 x 11 = $1100K. That's an extra $99K and that's gonna cost some HR exec her bonus.

So you can guess what strategy they pursue.

Companies also have a political/cultural/religious view that individual contributors are instantly interchangeable cogs and they have MASSIVE cognitive dissonance if you point out thats not true and the recruitment and onboarding process are staggeringly expensive, so everyone job hopping all the time would cost like 25% the total labor budget so you're paying (in the example above) $1001K but who cares whats outgoing, you're only getting at most $750K of work out of them when they're hopping vs you'd get $1100K of work out of them if they didn't hop. And you're financially in the long run far better off paying $1100K for $1100K worth of work output than paying $1001K for $750K of actual work output. But like I said that goes against their political/cultural/religious views so they'll slap hands over their ears and chant "nah nah nah" when you point it out.

You get more of what you measure, and cutting productivity by a hard to measure 25% is worth it in a corporate Dilbert sense, if it saves an easy to measure $99K.