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The investors & founders of Figma clearly got the upside.

I really don't know why every business transaction has to be some kind of mission that will take us to Nirvana.

What is wrong with people taking money?

If Figma is bad for Developers let them build an alternative since they are developers or they can just use several of the many Figma alternatives.
Don’t think Microsoft the dominant creator of games compared to Adobe which is the dominant creator of graphics tools.
He was having a face to face chat with Netanyahu like 2 weeks before war...
Even if you’re not going to restore them right away, I’d suggest removing the batteries ASAP. If you’re lucky, there’ll be no damage to the motherboard. If you’re unlucky, you can treat and stop any further corrosion by treating with white vinegar and an old toothbrush. Leave for a while then clean that with IPA (not the beer!). That’ll buy you the time to restore at your leisure.
And Kissinger played both sides and leaked information to Nixon. Mostly so he could get a job in either administration.
Elon has claimed to be slightly autistic, as the parent of an autistic kid I believe him, perhaps we all are to some extent.

He is an extremely busy man, and the same set of skills that lead to his success at engineering don't translate at all to success in the social realm. To simplify his social interaction decision making he looks for huristics, such as the tried and true: woke = bad!

So increasingly in following a simple heuristic he seems to have outsourced much of his personal philosophy to the Joe-Rogan-O-Sphere, and all the anti vax, transphobic, supplement pill pushing, pizzagate conspiracy believing, Jew-baiting quackery that entails.

The macho attitude of doubling then tripling down on unforced blunders works well if you are a contrarian podcast host "just following the questions...", but less so when you are CEO with obligations not to rock the boat, not to become a clown presiding over a circus.
The first time someone told me about an "array of satellite dishes" I was positively confused (and then briefly enthused that space types used a CS term for their space scanner). Also wait, the stress is on the second syllable?
makes one think that perhaps Apple isn't a good long term choice...
To me it's scarier because of the blood-brain barrier and restricted immune response--keeping disease out in the first place is probably more important than usual.
The way I do it is not flashing, which can be misinterpreted as police ahead or something else. I just turn on my high beams until they lower theirs and it works most of the time.
I'm with you. I usually prefer JSON to XML but in the example the XML is more readable
> for being exactly not a great leader or trustworthy person.

Didnt PGs wife invest/donate to Open AI?
It’s inevitable because of the CCP’s leadership and the objective conditions by their analysis. Remember CCP is an ideological party which means core party members do believe CCP as a party is more important than anyone including Xi. All decisions are made because the party’s ideology, not because anyone’s personal decision.

It doesn’t make sense from outside the party as I said so I think your feeling is probably why Kevin Rudd is lobbying in both U.S and Australia for better understanding the situation.

Also you can only go so far ideologically before stopped by the reality (or vice versa in realism because ideology is a larger part of our self-identity). A more ideological CCP only means they are more willing to afford the cost, push as far as they can, and retreat a little bit after over doing it. IMO cost-benefit analysis (or usually, who is the winner / the winning scenario) isn’t very helpful in such context because that’s not CCP’s calculation.
Woa! Of course!
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Yeah they’re all automatic over here. I’ve just never seen a physical, mechanical wheel that controls it. And I’ve never met anyone that dimmed their rear view mirror for the purpose of child monitoring. That’s.. odd.
Messy people can learn to be tidier and better organized
In my country I get them adjusted at the yearly technical inspection, don't they do that over there?
Yep, same acronym can be used when they work nicely, and when they stop working :)
That was so convoluted that I understood literally nothing.

But I can answer the title question: we engage in willful ignorance because it is physically impossible to consider all the consequences of all our possible actions, all the second-order consequences, and so on. Even trying to do so would be paralyzing.

Therefore we make choices based on incomplete consideration of incomplete facts, and we commit to those choices because it's all we can do.
That's indisputable.

Maybe faraday cages should be mandated in cars, in addition to rear-facing cameras. :)
Perhaps! Should be an easy one to prove. Feel free to point me in the direction of any evidence, such as a Tesla patent that has not been open sourced. Or in fact any concrete, straightforward evidence for your claim that he “lies a lot”. I’m interested. I have found him to be one of the most direct and honest people in big tech.
you're making e/acc sound more serious than it is, it's more of an aesthetic movement, a meme, than some branch of philosophy.

Altruists described a scifi machine god and accelerationists said "bring it on"
> On the contrary, the compiled languages tend to only be faster in trivial benchmarks. In real-world systems the Python-based systems tends to be faster because they haven't had to spend so long twiddling which integers they're using and debugging crashes and memory leaks, and got to spend more time on the problem.

This is an interesting premise.

Python in particular gets an absolute kicking for being slow. Hence all the libraries written in C or C++ then wrapped in a python interface. Also why "python was faster than rust at anything" is headline worthy.

I note your claim is that python systems in general tend to be faster (outside of trivial benchmarks, whatever the scope of that is). Can you cite any single example where this is the case?
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Hey HN,

I run a lot of small/medium websites, and I wanted to have basic analytics for all of them without having to use google analytics.
I've recently released a tool I created, after being annoyed with constantly seeing the $10+ per month subscriptions, mostly powered by DynamoDB.

I'm thinking of releasing it open source at some point (when the code is cleaner, curse of developer overthinking).
Let me know what you think.

Cheers
> That I have sympathy for this man?

No. That you understand how it happened.

> That I have sympathy for this man?

That’s fine. Stay away from geopolitical decision making. Most people shouldn’t have to weigh moral systems.
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For starters, since everything in Python is a pass-by-ref object, dicts store pointers to values, which then have to be allocated on the heap and refcounted, whereas std::map can store values directly. But this is the consequence of a very-high-level object model used by CPython, not its dict implementation that has to adapt to that.
I have read critique that the terms presented to Serbs were unreasonable. Maybe, maybe not, but let's keep in mind that Serbs had already committed genocide and kept aiming for it.
This is awesome - I’ve sent it to a friend of mine who’s currently most of the way through today’s route! I can’t say I solved it, Central American geography isn’t my strong point, but I will be trying the alternate game modes throughout the day.
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You could always start your own. Absolutely nothing stopping people from doing that but if you are going to make the effort of starting a company, I can understand why most people would want to profit from that.
> Say you vote for a tax increase. Everyone pays. You don't.

That's actually a bad example, because US citizens have to pay US taxes even if they've lived abroad for many years. As a result they also have to have at least a US mailing address and a US phone number since they still have business with the government (Uncle Sam). Also the opposite is true, you would be incentivized to vote for tax cuts instead, because you wouldn't reap the benefits of any social program that isn't tied to Social Security.

> That means you have been a part of the affected population recently enough and long enough to have "skin in the game".

You're take is a little too cynical in my opinion. Americans that move abroad don't magically stop being Americans, and they usually don't stop giving a shit about their country. Also as a superpower, what happens in the US likely still affects their life abroad. More likely though is that people who have lived abroad for many years are actually out of the loop, don't really know what's going on in the US and what's relevant or important, and so wouldn't make good voting decisions.

> billions of people under totalitarian regime sends millions of people to another nation. They instruct them to stay there long enough to become citizens of that nation

This is one of many variations of security issues, another might be foreign adversaries buying up properties or businesses, etc. I'm pretty sure the military is aware of these threats and has ways to prevent them from happening. They probably also have ways of dealing with circumstances that are technically legal but still a threat to national defense, as I'm sure things like this have happened many times over in different ways over the decades, and continues to happen.

> the potential nefarious use of "remote voting" in any nation

A valid concern but a bit too specific and slightly xenophobic. Really the problem is more general than that, as there are all sorts of conflicts of interest when it comes to voting, so an actual comprehensive solution would need to take all of it into account, if it's possible to sort it out.

For example, a poor person would be incentivized to vote for social programs that are targeted to support them economically, because they won't be paying for it in taxes. A rich person would be incentivized to vote for tax cuts for the wealthy. A religious conservative would be incentivized to vote for policies that align with their religion. A progressive would be incentivized to vote for policies that align with their progressive ideology. Etc. And as you can see, it can be complicated if not (currently) impossible, to sort out "valid" democratic participation over invalid participation.
Jesus christ someone hide the FlavorAid.
In Germany this would be considered "Scheinselbstständigkeit", not sure what the way around that is or if other countries have something similar.
DirectX, ActiveX, etc
I didn't know this. I had never seen it. I've used Linux for many years, but not an expert by any means. But it peeked my curiosity, and I found the explanation in this answer satisfying: https://askubuntu.com/a/135679
They're (were?) a popular choice in very poor countries due to their reliability. They did used to be built to a higher standard. The story I heard which I have no idea about the truth of, is that competition from lexus coming along in the 2000s made merc more price conscious, and reliability suffered as a result.
So is Figma gonna be the next Adobe XD?
Ah I see, I didn't realise. That explains a lot.

PS: I thought I saw the issue listed as "New Issue" and thus open but apparently not. Weird.
When I bought a new 2012 VW GTI there wasn't even a schematic for the fuses. Apparently the wiring is not even consistent on a model year, so they just didn't provide it. Easy to understand why with even computer codes mechanics are stuck with a plug and pray methodology.
I did some Googling and I can't find anything on this, are you sure? Did you mean "it's roughly as capable as a 6502"?
The sanctions also seem to have done a great job accelerating Chinese mainland semiconductor technology. Before the sanctions most mainland companies were happy having their chips fabbed by TSMC
Amazon seems like a really awful place to work, at the warehouse or at the corporate office. Why do people still work, and want to work, there?
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If MSFT and AMZN are making a 70% margin then why wouldn't google accept a 30% margin and eat their lunch?
The title needs “(2016)”. This is the original announcement, not new information.
I would guess most of them, they just dont post on twitter for everyone to see
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once threatened for the princely sum of one Bitcoin, back when they were $5,000. Blender has that much to pay in ransom, if they capitulated.
Money is a powerful motivator
> I am so looking forward to finishing the job of building beneficial AGI with you all—best team in the world, best mission in the world.

Sam Altman lives in a very different world to mine.
For the ix1600 they updated the Firmware to support SMB.

Source (German): https://www.synology-forum.de/threads/dokumentenscanner-dire...
Because monopolies hinge the growth of human development and should be avoided by any true capitalistic economy.
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I think even Chinese companies believed that Huawei was banned and sanctioned because they did something wrong and not just because they were Chinese and really good at what they do.

Now of course they are all sanctioned and Huawei is sitting pretty with years invested in a sanctions proofed supply line.
Where/when did he say this?
Musk said : "let's see what the 'judge' says", meaning the public.
The average age of a car on the road in the EU is 12 years, varying from 8 in Austria to 17 in Lithuania.

This may well increase with electric cars being more reliable, but other failures (rust, collision) won't change much.

So 99% is too high. VEH1107 shows that 22.5% of cars in the UK were 13 years or older.

[VEH1107] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-...
high compensation for skilled workers, lack of options for the unskilled ones, probably.
hinge -> hinder ?
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You could do it as a single encrypted text file. The UX on it is more difficult. My password manager is frictionless and secure (I currently believe, based on best available info).

With a single keystroke, while in a web browser where the majority of my passwords are requested, I fill in the username and the password for the site I am on.

Vs. an encrypted plain text file, it has the following advantages:

- A single keystroke in the web browser, vs. typing longer commands

- No searching through hundreds of entries. At most a small handful is shown if I have multiple logins.

- No worries about wiping my terminal scrollback buffer or forgetting to remove the temporarily-decrypted file.

- Correct password for correct site, and no thread of lookalike sites

- All devices have access to same password list, via Dropbox sync of encrypted DB files.

- Can store other structured data in addition to passwords. Even binary data like images.

- Can use is as a TOTP, but that is arguably a bad practice. It's convenient though.
Microsoft is trying to buy more than just Activision/Blizzard I the games industry.
Agreed. I'm actually interested in a discussion about his mental health.

A change in behaviour towards irrational aggression could be due to extreme stress, lack of sleep, drugs, a brain tumour, bipolar disorder, etc.

My questions:

1. Has his behaviour changed, or has he always been this unstable?

2. Are there any evidence of health problems?
Immigration, money, CV.
Microsoft’s aquisirion of activision likely saved blizzard. MS only has 15% of the console market.
Even if that was true, don’t you think it would be ironic if I just rather took the word of a random internet user at face value?

Regardless, some evidence to back up the claim should be easy to provide. There are plenty of legitimate medical journals with publicly available content online, and at least one should be carrying a study on psychiatric drugs contributing to violent and erratic behavior. There should be also some sociological papers out there outlining the relationship between psychiatric treatment and homicidal tendencies.

Yet nothing of these sorts has been provided, and here I am, being told that I don’t have “evidentiary standards” because I have asked for proof. The burden of which is on those who made the claim, by the way.
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> now most software engineers are using AI Copilot and ChatGPT in their work

Citation needed. I doubt we’re at the level of “most”. And if we are, I worry (even more) for the quality of future software.
The mindset of a lot of engineers working at these companies is to stay a year or two, get the bonus, put it on their CV and get out.

Of course, this kind of staff turnover is terrible for the company, but they reap what they sow.
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This idea is amazing yet completely evil at the same time.
Yes, almost everybody who looks at memory usage in production will eventually discover glibc's memory fragmentation issues. This is how I learned about this topic.

Setting the env var MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_=65536 usually solves these problems instantaneously.

Most programmers seem to not bother to understand what is going on (thus arriving at the above solution) but follow "we switched to jemalloc and it fixes the issue".

(I have no opinion yet on whether jemalloc is better or worse than glibc malloc. Both have tunables, and will create problematic corner cases if the tunables are not set accordingly. The fact that jemalloc has /more/ tunables, and more observability / debugging features, seems like a pro point for those that read the documentation. For users that "just want low memory usage", both libraries' defaults look bad, and the musl attitude seems like the best default, since OOM will cause a crash vs just having the program be some percent slower.)
Other way around, until last month China officially banned most of the loongson chips from being exported. The ban was reportedly lifted due to interest from Russian companies in using the chips. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/loongon-cpus-bound-for-rus...
This completely tracks with regards to some folk I’ve interviewed recently. But then again it’s not an Amazon-specific thing (the process and targets, even if they seem to be a lot more aggressive than what I’ve experienced and talked about with peers in other companies).
> a tiny interpreter that sits in L1 and takes its instructions in a very compact form ends up saving you more memory bandwidth

There's a paper on this you might like. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2749121_When_are_By...

I think there's something to the idea of keeping the program in the instruction cache by deliberately executing parts of it via interpreted bytecode. There should be an optimum around zero instruction cache misses, either from keeping everything resident, or from deliberately paging instructions in and out as control flow in the program changes which parts are live.

There are complicated tradeoffs between code specialisation and size. Translating some back and forth between machine code and bytecode adds another dimension to that.

I fear it's either the domain of extremely specialised handwritten code - luajit's interpreter is the canonical example - of the the sufficiently smart compiler. In this case a very smart compiler.
Amazon pays less than local outsourcing companies in Eastern Europe.

Faang salary my arse.
Works fine for me on firefox 120 on windows
This is your daily reminder that most EAs will just donate to the top GiveWell charity even though people will talk a lot about the interesting edge cases.
I still wondering if those advertisers set guardrails with Twitter regarding around which content they want to be shown. If not, then it is mostly the advertisers fault in my opinion.
Not surprised, the point being to squeeze you out of everything. The point being to basically put you in prison until you can retire and die.
Pretty confusing considering he actually is getting a literal judge involved in this right now.
Oh my god, people are going to start calling virtual reality "the metaverse". It's Google all over again.
This seems common in American companies.

I wonder how much of this is a result of lawsuit culture. For example, American companies won't tell job applicants why they get rejected, lest they get sued by the rejected candidates. And perhaps this has carried into feedback for actual employees. It sounds like the author wasn't even he was on a performance improvement plan, he had to infer it and pull it out of his manager.

Is this the general state of things in the US? In the same way people are afraid to say their (non-racist) opinions on Twitter due to groupthink and getting hit by mobs, are companies now taking this approach with their employees out of fear of being sued?
Doesn't make any kind of sense to me. It might be best practices, but if you can automate things, you should be doing it. And the best automation happens behind a great abstraction.
6% target for people to leave sounds very much to me like inflation targeting [1] modern economies use. i wonder if the reasoning is similar

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_targeting
Other attempts to crack this failed mostly for economic reasons, not technical. Of course, not understating how hard it is technically, but the bigger problem was that competitors didn't have the funds nor the risk appetite to invest 20+ years of R&D into something that may or may not work.

We now know it works. Before, why should China bother when they can just buy from western suppliers and TSMC instead? Now we gave China no other choice but to invest 10-20 years into this until they have something that works. This is why you see all the chip manufacturing equipment makers in China have something like 150-200% YoY growth in the past 3 years. Their R&D centers are pursuing multiple avenues to make sub-5nm chips possible. Not only multiple avenues of making EUV work, but also non-EUV avenues. It just so happens that starting this year we know that nanoimprint lithography works, and is cheaper than EUV. Huawei's newest CPU performs on par with CPUs on smaller nodes. That's because Huawei invested heavily in CPU design and heat dissipation technology. They haven't even gone into advanced packaging yet.

Will they stay behind western technology forever because we have an R&D lead? People who claim this are ignoring a big factor: they will no longer be able to profit from Chinese buyers. These profits are necessary for future R&D investment, which is necessary to maintain the lead and R&D speed.
> average driving style of Porsche owners

Just recently I've had a driver completely ignore me on a crosswalk, which I almost never see happen, and it sure was a Porsche.