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What I don't understand then is this.

If the Harvard MBA types are so detrimental to a gaming company, why don't we see any or many widely successful gaming companies who are run by dev types rather than MBA types?
> My biggest recommendation for selling/pitching/positioning anything in cyber is to solve problems I already am dealing with. Do not go to a customer with a flashlight that points out new, unknown issues and requires additional resources to fix... it's fine to point out problems, so long as you have an easy button I can smash to fix it, without having to pull in someone to deal with it.

I hear this one. I can't count the amount of times some salesperson has managed to get the ear of a decision-maker and try to insist that we need to solve some new urgent problem category that the vendor's sales department has invented. The solution always promises to solve all our "newly discovered" problems but the solution requires us to dedicate someone 20-40 hours a week to just working their platform. Another fun one is they advertise that it's "automated" but the setup is so long and arduous with required organizational process changes that break workflows that it sits there doing 5% of the advertised capabilities like a gym membership you don't use often, but feel like you've admitted defeat if you cancel it.
The simple fact that AGI, Skynet, Blade Runner, Westworld, etc. are in the conversation with a bunch of programs using tensors to analyze data points.

I guess every time I do a general relativity calculation, Mathematica is alive too.

The whole Prometheus/Pandora's box/Apple imagery associated with this is entirely hype.

They are interesting tools and I use them, but they aren't coming to kill us.
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Ha, thanks -- that article is a perfect example of how bad the experience was at Best Buy, basically exactly what you would expect:

> I had to search the aisles until I found a lonely Quest display in an unloved back corner of the store...

> There was no special room or specific area set aside for the Quest demo at the store. Instead, the demo staffer awkwardly guided me to a small section of bare carpet...

> To make matters worse, about 15 minutes into my demo... interrupted by an abrupt "powering down" message when the headset ran out of charge. The demo staffer apologized, saying the unit "was at zero percent when I got it" and hadn't been plugged in for very long before our demo.

> The staffer running my demo told me that the Quest Pro is "more for business"... Unfortunately, without a linked computer or any linked 2D apps in the headset, I was only able to try out the (very unresponsive) stock web browser. And without a Bluetooth mouse or keyboard, scrolling and typing was not a natural experience.
It seems to me that locals are the ones inflating prices.
It’s not about friends being bad so much as the “you’re always second fiddle, deal with it” part.
Except for the Star Spangled Banner being written, it mostly isn't remembered at all in the US. The French and Indian War got more coverage in my US history class and that is a pre-revolution British/French war.
It's a LOT worse than C++ SIMD libraries.

In C++ (EVE, Vc, Highway, xsimd, stdlib), you can specify the ABI of a vector, which allows you to make platform specific optimizations in multifunctions. Or you can write vector code of a lowest-common-denominator width (like 16 bytes, rather than specifying the number of lanes), which runs the same on NEON and SSE2. Or you can write SIMD that is automatically natively optimized for just a single platform. These features are available on every notable C++ SIMD library, and they're basically indispensable for serious performance code.
This has nothing to do with real borders, but with the distance to the nearest capital (that's how Voronoi diagrams work)

For instance, that shows that more than half of Russia territory is closest to the capital of Mongolia (which is Ulaanbaatar) than to Moscow, that's the point.
In Europe and much of Asia, there is usually a core area that is very historic and very exclusive/desirable to live in, and of course by virtue it's hard to expand a historic area. These areas have been turned into a mixture of tourist areas and digital nomad areas, usually for Americans due to the strong dollar, and out-priced all the locals to the point that these areas have no life or character. I read complaints from Americans about how these areas are too expensive and have no life and how there are other European/Asian cities which are better, not realising that it is they themselves who are causing the problems.
This is probably the linchpin. Same thing with "tourist hate" I've read about; I've never had any major issues anywhere I've gone, but then again I don't do the "stereotypical asshole tourist" stuff.

"Influencer" is almost synonymous with "online asshole".
Some things I'd love to see:

- a difference metric between this coverage and the actual map (and country breakdown of same)

- a weighted version ([1]) with weights chosen to optimize the above distance metric.

The latter is in itself is a fun math problem -- the gradient on such an objective clearly exists (and the numerical gradient is fairly cheap). But can you prove anything about its structure? Is there a closed form that could be derived from the map information?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_Voronoi_diagram
This map doesn't preserve area, it only says which capital is closest by distance.
Sales and marketing CEOs pretend they work 24x7, but they spend much of their weekends on leisure activities such as golfing, travel, playing with their children, having expensive dinners with board members and politicians and so on. If you're committed it's really not hard to replace that leisure time with gaming.
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I was in a discussion about a decade ago on the topic of form following function. People were arguing that decorative bits were unnecessary and detract from the beautiful form of something that's functionally pure. A creative director that works with several name brands you've heard of ended the conversation there by replying that decoration serves a different kind of function, mainly communication. If engineers had their way, most products would have nothing but cubes and spheres. In this sense, decoration would be rounding the edges of a cube to communicate that the product is kid friendly, fun to play with and will not hurt if you step on it. Conversely, sharpening the overly round corners helps convey that the product is a serious tool for serious business.

I'm paraphrasing because here because this is so long ago but I hope you get the point. Apple doesn't make products that 'just look pretty', they also tend to be highly functional. (As long as you're not holding it wrong.)
Meta reveals Quest 3 starting at $499
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There were two potential concerns about accounts and one of them has been resolved:

1. Requiring an FB account resulted in users who were banned on FB not being able to use their Quests. This has been resolved since users only need a Meta account now.

2. Concerns about having any account with Meta. I doubt this will ever change since they're selling the headsets at such a low price and obviously want to make some money selling users software/games.
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Sports is one of the most fascinating and underexplored examples of Goodhart's law (collapsing correlation between the metric and a goal).

One of the most widely known examples of this is a London 2012 badminton scandal, when tournament design led to misaligned incentives for teams (it was beneficial for them to lose a game, to meet with less formidable opponent known beforehand). But there are dozens of such cases across many sports. One of the attempts to collect them can be found in a paper "When sports rules go awry" (DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2016.06.050).

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Maybe the model disproportionately helped moving fast the chats that had no possible solutions
It doesn't combat spam very well. So I doubt it will come back at least in substantial way. Other thing is that you would need some agreed standard to make it "rich" as in user experience.
Norway currently gets 90% of its power from hydro. If they didn't use hydro while the sun was shining and/or the North Sea wind was blowing, the combination would serve > 5X as many people. And if some of that solar and wind was used to pump water uphill, the number would get even igger.
Making a distinction between "Activision" and "Blizzard" is a distraction. It's "Activision Blizzard". Has been legally for 15 years, and in practice for at least 5 years now.

It doesn't matter if it's Ybarra or Kotik speaking now - they're playing by the same book on the same field.
> broken usenet model

That's a bold assessment.

It was slowly abandoned because it lacked fun graphics and emojis and all the other frilly parts that casual users love, but I wouldn't call it a broken model. It had (and has) a place.
About twenty years ago, The Washington Post had "media critic". One could occasionally read in his column what the New York Times had said about an article in The Washington Post. I'm not sure whether the recursion was ever carried farther than than. But it has been going on for a long time.

And if you count entertainment, it's worse. The space given to the show Succession this past week in the metropolitan papers probably would hold a small-town newspaper's weekday edition.
The law and rules effectively ban short-term rentals in New York City

An intentionally misleading statement from Airbnb. The law in question does severely restrict the class of permissible rentals (to owner- and tenant-occupied units), and will certainly bite them in the ass as far as this market is concerned -- but, as Airbnb is perfectly aware, it is not a blanket ban on short-term rentals at large.

Also, the law in question does not create new restrictions at all -- but rather creates a structure for enforcing existing restrictions.
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If an influencer craps himself where no one can hear, did he really crap himself?
Having known a few people of those two physical descriptions, and quite a few people who've used psychedelics, in my small sample set you'd be looking at the wrong people.

Change "long hair male" to "dreadlocks on a white male" and you'd have a point, but the majority of long-haired men I've known either wouldn't do drugs or are into non-psychedelics.

And having spent a lot of time in clubs/festivals/house parties around drug use, of the many many users and dealers of psychedelics I've met... I don't think I could narrow down a single "look" that's more, or less, likely than any other.

On the other hand, a) there is "a look" to facial expressions (not dissimilar to a weed "stoned" or amazed expression) that can be quite recognisable of somebody being under the influence - aided by things like super wide pupils and b) there are activities - such as being in a place where people are dancing to electronic music of some genre - where plenty of people use psychedelics and those faces can often be seen (though easily confused with expressions caused by other classes of drug).
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Zig does not have anything analogous to constinit, because Zig does not have object lifetimes or constructors. Comptime is also a massive pain to use for generating new data types (you have to return a type from a comptime function), and it cannot express anything analogous to CRTP.
The value of venues I see as facilitating networking and collaboration. Maybe these could be centered around invited speakers and presenters?

For the difference between ML and physics/other sciences, there are a few points that I see.

- First, ML submits to conferences rather than journals. This means typically you have one shot at acceptance, and possibly one chance to rebuttal. Other fields use journals, where there often is a push to accept and that the reviewer's job is to make the paper better rather than filter absolutely. This results in no one actually advocating for the paper to be published other than the authors (no incentive to accept). Worse, we have a zero sum game, so if reviewers are also authors of other works (common) they have an optimal strategy of rejecting other players' works (large incentive to reject).

- Second, ML is extremely hype driven. The field just moves lightning fast, it is insane. This leads to incremental improvements (technically true for all science) but muddies the waters since it is easy to reject on low novelty but if you don't release your work fast you get scooped and get rejected for again low novelty. Unfortunately we don't define concurrent work well (and I've had works actually rejected because we did not cite works that were publicly released (arxiv) around the same time as us or, worse, after we submitted to the conference!).

- Third, there are a large number of people submitting works (nearly 10k per conference), the field is wide (reducing domain expertise), and highly empirical (few learn theory and base understandings and instead rely on benchmark results to evaluate). The size brings with it a lot of noise and the empirical nature reduces rigor (noise in evaluation). The large number of works also results in low reviewer quality as chairs scramble to add reviewers to works (in my last review, 3 of 4 reviewers self reported 3/5 confidence scores, meaning they did not work in this domain). So we just have way more sources of noise than would be seen in many other fields. Consistency experiments support this as well: finding reviewers are good at rejecting bad works but bad at rejecting good works. Which concludes that reviewers over reject (default strategy).

I also appreciate your opinions. I certainly don't have all the answers. As I see it, we got to decide as a community. The only way to do that is to hear complaints, proposals, and challenges. We're all in this together so to me it is most important that we openly discuss these. Thank you for your thoughts and comments.
It's amazing how much of how-to-get-drugs-advice is be social and talk to people. Props for including the technical solution too!
The "harvard mba types" brings a certain kind of distaste to my mouth. Using it to describe someone who is in fact nothing of the sort feels a little too sloppy.
You might like Odin, it has a similar philosophy to Zig and supports swizzling:

https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#swizzle-operations

Matrix types are also built in:

https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#matrix-type

I’ve thought for a little while that Odin could be a secret weapon for game dev and similar pieces of software.
You'd be surprised how often knowing assembly can come in useful - I certainly never expected it. I work in the healthcare sector, which is infamous for having tons of legacy software. At least a couple times a year I end up finding it useful to load some ancient binary into radare2 or Ghidra for debugging, extracting data, or just adding a jmp to avoid a problematic syscall. I'm by no means an assembly expert, but know enough to get the job done.
To me, this sounds a lot like hero worship.

As an engineer for 40 years, I don't need to be led. I know what needs to be done.

I would say "leadship" is a highly emotional (on both sides) behaviour that would be perfectly fit by a solution based on historical statistical analysis.
something similar could arise even without double goals in extra time. let’s say your opponents have a man sent off, and you’re up by 1 with minutes left to play, but you need 2 or 3 to qualify. an own-goal to give yourself 30 extra minutes to score those few goals against a weakened opposition is probably the best choice

it’s "no draws" rather than "double goals" that creates the unusual incentive. double goals just exacerbates it
One person can put up 100 stickers. It's the kind of thing where you go "Huh" and then never notice it again.

When I moved to Seattle, I noticed the "Fuk U Techie" stickers, but I pretty quickly tuned out NIMBY screeching.
Granted, but if the tools were ergonomic it would be easier to use the SAT solver and, in the habit, you might find more problems they are good for.
They have such a huge load, I’m not at all surprised
We have something similar. One piece of advice I received was to carve out some time for yourself, 15 minutes a day or a block, and crank out the Powerpoint for what you're interested in learning.

Congrats on (volunteering to) take it over. Don't let it die.
This is it; if the ONLY interactions you have with others are negative, they will view you negatively. So if you hide in your house all day and only emerge to complain about the neighbor's dog or something, you're going to be disliked.

All you have to do to counteract much of that is just say hi now and then, talk a little bit. Kids help tremendously here, because they have absolutely zero filters and feel it's entirely appropriate to run up to random strangers and yell "I POOPED".
I like traveling but I've never done it for more than a month at a time and, with some brief exceptions (mostly when I've been doing "enough" work for a few days not to take vacation when I've been mixing things up with business travel), I've mostly never traveled somewhere on my own where I'm trying to both work full-time and fully enjoy the location I'm traveling too for pleasure.
You touch on a major reason where a lot of American digital nomads fail, and that is that it takes A LOT to integrate into a foreign culture. Europeans tend to have a lot more contact with diverse cultures and are more likely to understand that they will suffer from not being about the integrate fully into a foreign culture, but I think that Americans assume that they will be fine wherever they go. Asia in particular is a place where lots of Americans go and end up failing, but it can also apply to Europe and Latin America to an extent.
It really is rocket science.
i know the complaints and stories, but its never been scientific. just blaming the outside group. but these rising prices are happening all over the world. its americans going over the entire world raising prices? or airbnb is the other culprit always. seems unlikely. its always trust me im local, its the outside group. every city ive lived and looked at lviing in, this same exact complaint about rising prices is happening. even in america too.
the digital nomads will eventually drive me out of this part of town, onto a shittier part, same as I will drive out some other less wealthy sucker even farther out of the nice parts onto even shittier parts.

such is life. so this is why I am glad the dollar reign is coming to an end; I may still get fucked (too late for me) but I'll be glad to watch the mechanism by which I got fucked fall and crumble
If I were thinking about moving (as I’ve done a few times since marriage) my wife and my kid would be coming along and nobody else would. So it seems pretty natural.
I was mostly thinking about 'in' and other kinds of language keywords that get prepended with underscores and stuff.
I'd probably go by more of non-visual characteristics (openness, uncommon worldviews, unusually emphatic and so on) rather than just visual clues, but YMMV
I think a sensible approach would be to allow these larger/automated drones only in class C, or extend the adsb mandate to ultralights.

Alternatively, maybe it's time to push them to have a lighter, non certified version of ADSB for light aircraft/drones and mandate a price requirement for a mobile transponder/receiver under 1k. If apple can sell an AirTag for $20, there isn't any reason we couldn't get the prices of longer range beacons down.
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> Funny you should mention Reddit, because IIRC Reddit itself started with first-party bots pretending to be users, manufacturing "social proof" to cheat around initial user acquisition hurdles.

"started"?

They are still doing that today to inflate their user count...