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Nice product! Any integration planned for jetbrain ides?
> Argo AI burst on the scene in 2017 stacked with a $1 billion investment from Ford — and Iater an investment from VW. The startup shuttered suddenly in October 2022 after Ford and VW determined they would no longer pursue AV technology, at least not under the Argo umbrella. Ford said, at the time, it was making a strategic decision to shift its resources to developing advanced driver assistance systems, and not autonomous vehicle technology that can be applied to robotaxis. The company said it recorded a $2.7 billion non-cash, pretax impairment on its investment in Argo AI.

Expensive flip-flopping on AV.
> The card, it is believed, may have originally been addressed correctly and so was sent to the right area of England - but with an address label that fell off at some point.

That's a multi-stage letter, not fair!
Ya, and it doesn't seem to pick up the context very well, and the quality of responses seem poorer.
It's not random. It's probabilistic. There is a very big difference. The types of errors are predictable which means they can be improved, and empirically so if you follow the academic literature.
Nashville has experienced really rapid growth too over the last 20 years, and I think it takes a while for naming conventions to catch up. Given by the fact that what people call suburbs appear to you (as I'm assuming, a relative newcomer) to be "inside the city".

My own hometown has experienced rapid growth over the same time span as Nashville, and has annexed large portions of what were commonly known as the suburbs. So there has been a literal change from what used to be suburbs to now be within city limits, in the course of a generation.
Today, it's no longer person of color.

It's "theirsxn of sholor". Please respect this and stop the violation and violence against theirsxns of sholor which is incurred when you use othering phrases.

(not thereson-- because it has the word "son" in it, which is offensive to non-sons. sholor because it's closer to shalom which means peace.)

/le jokes
They will just put out more PR.

Probably write it on the way to Davos in their private jet for the climate conference they'll issue it at.
> Let's just agree it's a problem everywhere?

Let's just not, because the ones carrying the baton of "liberty" are the ones that ought be measured by that same stick

China or other countries do not fall on the hypocrisy of saying that your info won't be part of the dragnet, this is not the case with said western govs which then proceed to decry the evil non-western countries for doing the exact same thing and expecting their populations to somehow do something about it¿? ¿? ¿ It is indeed nauseating
We're individual units. House number was my choice, and that's 3 digits. Trying to figure out if I get it to one alphanumeric character. First letter of my last name might do it.
sorry for killing the mood. great article and great progress.

but.
didn't openai start as a nonprofit, too?
Nutlope/roomGPT: open-source clone of Interior.AI
That’s the Marxist analysis and there might be something to it, but I think the main driver is just human nature.

People like to feel superior. In one era that was “I’m a devout Christian from a good family unlike those other whores and sodomites,” in another it was “I’m a hard working industrialist unlike those lazy, old money playboys,” and now it’s “I’m a social worker dealing with the problems of BIPOC folx, unlike those finance bros that only care about money.”
Game piracy doesn't work on game consoles. In order to pirate you have to jailbreak it (and risk bricking it in the process). Jailbroken consoles also don't work online. And not all firmware versions are vulnerable. Basically - it's a mess and most console players don't bother.

And as far as I know - XBox One, Series X and PS5 haven't been jailbroken at all.
It's disgraceful that Apple has been able to fragment/break something as fundamental as "SMS with extra sprinkles" for so many years.

I know people who are trapped on iOS because they will become second-class citizens within their social circles if they "downgrade" to an android phone.

Opening up iMessage is a decent move, but we also need to get RCS well-supported everywhere so that we can all share a reasonably modern communication foundation.
We have a number of donors including Hugging Face, Stability AI, Nat Friedman, Lambda Labs, and Canva that make our work possible. We also have some orgs that provide sponsorship for computing resources specifically: Stability AI, CoreWeave, and Google Research.
It makes sense though, cause it's the United States of America. It's usually obvious from the context. Mexico and Canada are already single word countries, so you can easily say Asian Canadian or whatever.

South Africa would pose a similar conundrum, where people are called South Africans, but they aren't the only people living in Southern Africa.
I'm not sure we should expect Google's plus codes to be around much longer. They seem like they'd be perfect for use in shortened URLs (like when clicking "share"), however Google generates some other unrelated code instead.
Apple currently provides no encryption at all when their users communicate with the owners of the 75% of mobile devices that are not Apple. Apple could do better for it's customers.
Who said these people represented the general Spanish-speaking population?
Reaper isn't bad however qtracktor is really good and now supports the CLAP plugin format.
The days of friendly truck drivers blowing their air horns for kids along the highway are numbered. Someday soon, that 18-wheeler you pass might have no one behind the wheel.
Without social media, the phones would be fine.
All animals adapt (or try to). In the first place, it doesn't necessarily work (things go extinct), and if it does, it may require evolutionary changes which take a (really) long time. If you think of examples of short-term adaptability, they don't substantially change the animal (e.g. reward circuits); usually it involves strategies and/or symbiosis. For simpler beings like bacteria maybe it's faster.

Some conditions are sure to be either entirely negative, or at least lead to deleterious effects for a very long indeterminate length of time. For instance, chronic calorie restriction (or overconsumption), or having no exposure to bright light or sunlight. Survival is one thing and quality of life is another. Some animals may have evolved to be solitary; how many of those were previously social beings, in the evolutionary chain? That may suggest how likely and viable a strategy that is. Language has evolved as a human power because we are so social - it seems infants learn from direct exposure but don't pick up language well from videos. I don't think emotional needs can be satisfied with cheap substitutes, and as entertainment technology develops, you see the offerings trying to more closely mimic real human interaction (VR, AI, etc). If we surpass the uncanny valley it will be because the synthetic experiences will be indistinguishable, which makes them redundant. It would mean that the way to "adapt" to isolated virtual living is to deceive ourselves with false reality (also see Brave New World and all the consequences entailed as to agency, liberty, the human experience). It becomes a support system for living in isolation - as opposed to devising a support system for living well.
>Frankly that seems more like a google search algorithm failure

it is, but it is also people writing crap all over the internet.
We've had very few false positives. It's a conversation and we understand and appreciate when people say they don't know. We understand that really good engineers say "I don't know how that works." If all of your answers are "I don't know how that works.", it'll be red flags enough for the team. The team of interviewers has a very wide and deep knowledge of technologies (it's kind of a virtuous cycle). We call it out in the pre-interview handout that if you pick something super obscure it'll hurt your chances as the team will struggle to ask good probing questions.

The nice thing about this is you're giving the candidate a choice about what they want to describe. Good engineers will choose appropriate topics.
> Does it really matter?

Insofar as people are repeating the false origin as if it matters, apparently.
The probability that the broken clock is right is straightforwardly 2/1440 = 0.001 = 0.1%, innit?
For better or for worse, people like to pump refrigerant through pipes in buildings, and flammability can be a problem. Also this requires a lot of refrigerant.

One can separate the refrigeration part and the moving-heat-around part, though, by using good old H2O in pipes. Water is non-flammable, non-ozone-depleting, cheap, and has zero GWP. It can be a bit messy if a large amount spills indoors, though.
No, its a generation behind the YT710 instances at alibaba, which are now in preview even in the US.

https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/ecs/g8m

"As the first instance family that uses ARM v9 architecture CPUs,"

and "Arm-based Alibaba Cloud T-Head Yitian 710 Crushes SPECrate2017_int_base"

https://www.servethehome.com/arm-based-alibaba-cloud-t-head-...

The gravaton3's are V1's (ARM v8.4), so yes AWS is ahead of the companies using the N1 cores from ampere. But, its a bit of a US centric view.
I’m betting that most people who listen to Cramer aren’t watching his videos the very second the come out, on 2x speed so they can get the tips before they are public knowledge. So effectively he is inciting mob action on stocks, but not in real time.

So if you disagree with him and follow him anyway, you have a sort of moral equivalent of insider information. If you sell a stock in the middle of their buying frenzy at least. If you buy a stock the day after he says sell, you can benefit from the market correction when the rest of the cramerless world can’t figure out why TSM dropped five bucks on Monday for no reason, and decide to buy more.
Biometrics are not secure. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34913240
Many things are done for the sake of growth at the expense of employees...however those employees generally get much higher salaries in exchange for that. There is a reason Google, Facebook and Apple are the huge companies they are...and they were all started in the US.

Companies like Intel are facing new realities in over hiring as well (not to mention overextending on new fabs)...apparently they preferred not to have layoffs but instead cut salaries, bonuses and 401k matching. Personally I would prefer to fire the bottom 5% than risk the top 10% leaving because of a short sighted cash flow play.
I'm a white Jew from Africa:)

So race wise I'm either Jewish, White, African or maybe African American now that I live in America.

Joking aside, I agree with your point
They were on my mind because I used them last week while arguing with a FedEx rep about an 'undeliverable' address in Amsterdam.

The formal address system for the destination was just the name of the road and the warehouse number.

FedEx refused to attempt to redeliver without a more specific address, so I read the Plus code over the phone and that seemed to work.

It was very confusing as typing either the address or code into google maps brought up the same result, so I don't know why the code worked any better.

It was also very frustrating as my shipment was headed to warehouse 5, and warehouse 25, 1km down the same road with the same type of address was an official FedEx ship location.
Well at least we will all be hurting.
Openly pro-Israel Oracle now has control over UK’s national security data
> While opening a new data center in Jerusalem in 2021, the company’s Israeli-American CEO, Safra Catz, laid out Oracle’s purpose, stating,

We are not flexible regarding our mission, and our commitment to Israel is second to none. This is a free world and I love my employees, and if they don’t agree with our mission to support the State of Israel, then maybe we aren’t the right company for them. Larry [Ellison] and I are publicly committed to Israel and devote personal time to the country, and no one should be surprised by that.”

Catz made the comments in response to a question about Israel’s poor human rights record and the rebellion of Silicon Valley employees refusing to facilitate the country’s war crimes. In 2017, Catz was offered the position of U.S. Director of National Intelligence.
by the same company who made SARK

https://www.trackinsight.com/en/fund/SARK

The short index of ARKK Innovation ETF by Cathie Wood
His job is to attract viewers. Not to make accurate stock picks. When I watch a comedy show it's because I find it entertaining, not because I actually take advice from comedians.
Russell Paradox violation.
> This meant they had to go through the property records and redraw all the plats with the new labels...I don't have any idea how a city or country can do any kind of property taxation without formal addresses.

The legal record for one of my past houses was by Map and Plat number, not by street address. There is a mapping table between street address and tax lot, but it's not the legal record of the land. (That particular parcel was last changed in the early 1800s, but it seems like all of them are by what amounts to a locally unique identifier and then has an address mapped to it.)
Closing the store is an opportunity for the union. They can take over the location and open it as their very own union shop, and pay themselves as they see fit.

People open coffee shops all the time. It isn't that hard.

(Though it is hard to make money running a coffee shop. Source: I know people that do)
Congratulations to the 2023 YC Top Companies
Brave Search introduces AI-based ‘Summarizer’ feature as a response to ChatGPT
If it only hallucinated facts in 5% of cases, it'd be more trustworthy than most people I know.
No it was not since the origins of the phrase are unknown.

And even if for a moment it is true, since when do those few represent the whole?

I swear you linguistic imperialists are insufferable. Leave your hands off of my language.
I am on the interviewer side of ~1 system design interview per week and have done probably around 100 of them at Google and other companies.

Most of the advice here is good, although it could be condensed quite a bit.

The biggest red flag for me as an interviewer is when candidates list off concepts or technologies they don't understand. DO NOT say things like "we can't do this because of the CAP theorem" or "we should add a cache to reduce latency" unless what you are saying is true and you can explain why this is true (the guide mentions this).

The biggest green flag is when the candidate obviously has thought deeply about related problems and made design decisions based on real world constraints and requirements. If you bring up a lot of related things you have worked on, explain why you made the decisions you did in those scenarios, if its obviously related to the question, and if you don't spend too much doing it, then you will definitely get a positive recommendation from me.

The purpose of the system design interview is to convince me that you could build, or lead a team to build, the thing that we are discussing at a company like the one where you are interviewing. I feel like I can easily see through interview practice or coaching, so I don't recommend spending more than an hour or so "preparing" for system design interviews. Unless you are interviewing somewhere with very inexperienced interviewers...
not surprising, but I'd bet SWSB would have been going strong in the interim...
> allowing alternative messaging apps to be installed in your OS

The very idea that someone 'allows' me to install something in my device reeks of serfdom.
> Who said these people represented the general Spanish-speaking population?

That's a very good question. Since you appear to be arguing against that strawman, tell us, who said that?

EDIT: My point is, if we can acknowledge that, like Hispanic and Latino and Latino/Latina (each of which are strongly objected to by some in the community, preferred by others, and tolerated but neither preferred nor objected to by others when talking about the broader group inclusively) these are preferred identity labels of part of the community which is being addressed, we can then talk about how to address a community with internal divisions over preferred identity label, when one specifically wants to address the whole group and not just those who favor a particular label. But we can’t even get to that point as long as we pretend that this is just an external imposition unconnected to preferences expressed within the population described.
I don't know who your current processor is, but if you have any real volume, get off Square/Stripe if that's where you are at. Their rates are awful for volume sellers.

Square approached us a few years back and could not comprehend why we weren't jumping at their offered 2.6% + $0.35... "but the AI!?!?" is all their sales people could come up with.

We're well below 2% + $0.20 per transaction for all cards (including AMEX, believe it or not). Square/Stripe and the rest are great for being Turn-Key for new businesses. But for anyone with real volume, they are a joke.
Aesthetics are more important than content?? Where did you get that idea from?
That's a data layout problem largely, though.

If your data is fragmented across a bunch of small containers/classes, passing it around will be expensive whichever the method (either passing to C++, or just in terms of cache efficiency).

If you just pass an array of data back and forth it's cheap.
That would be a great experiment.
checkout https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox

> Devbox is a command-line tool that lets you easily create isolated shells for development

it uses nix, and they just added

`devbox global`

> Devbox Global allows you to add packages to a global devbox.json. This is useful for installing a standard set of tools you want to use across multiple Devbox Projects. You can also use Devbox Global to install and manage packages on your Host OS, as a substitute for tools like brew or apt-get.

https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox/releases/tag/0.4.0
Even if that were true, I'd still not put any faith in the empathy skills of people who use e.g. "incel" as a slur, who claim "it's okay to be white" is hate speech and who call arson, vandalism and looting "mostly peaceful protests" because the in-group did it.
Heh, last year I was renewing my car registration online and used an option in the system to send the license plate tags to a new address I recently moved to. I ended up fat-fingering the zip code and was really worried that they wouldn't arrive, but to my surprise new registration came to my new address a couple of days later. I can now see how such a small typo is a non-issue to a carrier that's dealing with routing issues like you're describing!
Nobody said they did? They were representing themselves as non-binary Spanish speakers.

New terms arise all the time. There's no 'native-spanish-speaker referendum' for each new term that is created.
They'd probably keep the time of their primary trade partners. I feel like there is a nautical precedent, but can't remember specifically.

Does everyone on the ISS stick to the same time zone? Or do they tend to sleep with their country of origin?
> "LatinX"

How is such a word pronounced? Is it "Latin" + "ex" or is it "La" + "tinx" (-inx like in Sphinx)?
Probably one of the more rational takes I've seen in this discussion... I happen to prefer the Deno approach, while I really do appreciate the efforts for better node.js compatibility, if only because of the sheer volume of modules out there.

I do think that new libraries should probably go the other direction with Deno first and Node/npm as a separate build target. I've started also reaching for Deno first for a few shell scripting chores where I need more than bash...

#!/usr/bin/env -S deno run ...

Which has been pretty handy.
That's why I mentioned dropping it in crater, to redirect part of it into desired direction
Whether something is already implemented in a language's core library, or a package you can use, or you build your own library, is immaterial. You can implement any patter with any turing complete language, and you can build your own language.
The average quality Jira ticket would not produce an actual bug fix.
https://sourcehut.org/pricing/
I don’t like this approach because it doesn’t provide measurable or repeatable criteria for comparing candidates. It also suffers from a sort of Gell-Mann amnesia where a candidate who spouts good-sounding BS about a topic you’re not familiar with is assumed to be competent across the board.
We assume that good engineers will know something about technical systems that are not directly related to the exact thing they're working on now.
SoLunar – Visualization of NOAA's worldwide tide data
> people here enjoy seeing big tech companies "owned" by big governments

Absolutely. These corporations laugh all the way to the bank as they destroy our privacy and exploit us for profit with surveillance capitalism, destroy our computer freedoms with hardware cryptography only they have the keys for, pollute our web with unending advertising and annoyances driven by "engagement engineering". Someone really ought to check their goddamn audacity. My only complaint is the fines aren't big and frequent enough to surpass their cost of doing business.

I'm sorry, I just don't feel sorry at all about the trillion dollar corporations. Maybe they should try not being monopolists who want to own the platform and their users. Then maybe the state won't feel the need to remind them we are not cattle to be sold to the highest bidder.
Also worth noting what his idea of a "small efficiency" was; he goes on to note that, say, 12% efficiency, easily gained, is not small at all!

He never says to throw all ideas of performance out the window when writing your initial run of code. It's just not worth it to dig down into the weeds and micro-optimize everything ahead of time, is all.

But people just take this quote as liberty to completely ignore all notion of performance in their code. Maddening, and a total disservice to Knuth.
Ancient genomes show how humans escaped Europe’s deep freeze
That's the case if Cramer is just an honest guy making his honest picks completely independently, and nobody with any power would even dream of using his platform to do anything untoward, because everyone with any direct or indirect ability to influence him is just so darned honest that they wouldn't dream of exploiting such a large pool of useful reputation.

I don't know why I feel I should point this out. I'm sure it's completely true. Don't even know why it would cross my mind to wonder. The financial world is so honest and full of integrity that it's obvious that this is true.
Are you okay with the other 14 then? I understand how you can find issue with one of their proposals but then Starbucks ought to handily agree with all but the one and offer to negotiate #4.
BS its origins are unknown. You have no idea who made it.