skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this. I was at Uber in SF around 2016 or so when they did their "pixels and bits" rebrand which felt very similar. It felt very... "we are messiahs"? Most people felt it, only the people with the highest paychecks (or managers) played into it.

After hearing the core values of the company thrown around in regular speech so often most people got kind of numb to anything corporate (e.g. "I really like that you're always hustling so hard but I would love to see you do a bit more toe stepping").

I left SF a year or so after that so I wonder if that whole approach has changed in the bigger offices or not. Being in Europe now most people here (most ..) wouldn't play into it I don't think. Retrospectively feels very American.

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EDIT: Actually it's kind of hard to find info on the rebrand now. There's the announcement[0] but that only seems to allude to the weird philosophical aspect of it in the description, which leads me to believe they never published it publicly.

> The new Uber brand system is made up of primary and secondary components that tell the story of technology moving the physical world. Today, we're rolling out a new look and feel that celebrates the cities we're in and the technology that brings people what they want, when they want it.

It was more than just "primary and secondary components", they had somehow likened people and pixels together and were trying to create some weird (but similar) narrative of "connecting everything through transport" or whatever. I think the idea was that they wanted to start breaking into more verticals, a la UberEATS and whatnot, but I distinctly remember hearing a lot of "what ifs" about freight, air, etc. that I think were mostly fluff chatter to hype up the rebrand.

Most people, even internally, hated it it, and shortly after that started monthly, then weekly, then at times daily new public scandals about the company or TK, so many people left shortly thereafter.

[0] https://youtu.be/axjXNEordH8?feature=shared
By the time this is perfected the market for generic combustion vehicles will be near 0.
That specific suite is...not the best. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... is more focused on optimized implementations and showcases where the performance of .NET places given submissions someone cared to spend some time optimizing.

It is true that 2 years ago NAOT was in its infancy, it has improved substantially since then. Self-contained trimmed binaries already worked back then however.

I guess it is more about unfortunate timing than anything - even the compiler itself moves fast and in some areas the difference in codegen quality is very significant between 7, 8 and 9.
Too many adjectives. Fine dining restaurants usually avoid loading down the description like that.

The only adjective likely to make it onto the menu at a white-tablecloth restaurant is "house made", and even that would be on thin ice. The chef would prefer that you just know that of course he's making his own ketchup.

There's a great chapter on this in Dan Jurafsky's book:

https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/thelanguageoffood.html

(The book is almost ten years old, but the trends have only exaggerated since then.)
This take feels very out of touch with how tech was in 2012.

It was evident where the trends were heading, but that optimism that was heavy throughout the tech boom in the late 2000s was definitely still there.
The problem with 2-4 hour boardgames that require extension rulebooks, launched in the last decade, is that these games are islands. No game can point to another game to offer mental shortcuts in absorbing similar gameplay.
You're predicting the price of computer chips will not fall? They're just about the most price-fally truly useful thing in history.
By that metric, Jesus didn’t free the slaves, either, and he said slaves should obey their masters.
One could pretend that beans are intentionally burned, "The Vietnamese Way", regardless of the source material quality. Lighter roast would differ from batch to batch with varying not-so-good taste, but charcoal is always a charcoal.
The general theme is...

Before: You and your cofounders share 100% of the stock in your company that's valued at $X.

After: Your company now has everything it had before plus $Y worth of "something" from the VCs. Your company is now valued at $X plus $Y. The VCs now hold stock in your company worth $Y. You and your cofounders still hold stock your company worth $X.

"Something" might be anything. Cash, stocks, commitments to resources, whatever.
IANAL, but (at least in the US) I believe "notice sent via US Mail" is written into a large number of laws and regulations and official procedures. Blanket rejection might prove regrettable.
Yeah. That's the attitude! It's all about playing around the constraints. Tech has limitations? Yes, but also opens tons of new possibilities.
> My behaviors are pretty normal.

In my experience, the thing that makes people wary isn't that they think you might be some sort of strange geek. It's that there's fairly widespread anger and fear over the effects that the tech industry has on society.
It is not apple's decision that is the bad sign. There can be plenty of reasons for that as you mention and wouldn't be of note if their chips were poorer or even similar to intel in performance

It is the fact they can build a much better chip in almost any metric so far ahead of Intel is the red flag.
Then we will simply see fewer and more expensive models available for sale as some manufacturers and investors decide these regulations are too much and exit; others will raise prices to pay for the compensation and extended software support.

Every action has a reaction.
this is my uninformed guess.

why would bob see anything? I understood that the event horizon is a threshold, not a shell that you cross and suddenly can see inside.

to see something photons have to bounce on something and reach our eyes, we stop seeing stuff inside the horizon because those photons don't bounce back and they are pulled into the singularity.

my logic said that if light can't escape the horizon, then it can't escape alice to reach bob, even if he's inside the horizon, photons can't suddenly go backwards from alice until bob, they are being pulled further inside.
New export controls curb China's AI chips
USA has increased its export controls on advanced process node chips, with an act that comes in to effect today, and will get published in a few days' time. The preview is available at https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2024-28270... .
What's so enraging? A company puts out some propaganda about how wonderfully world changing it is. Not all that unusual or unexpected.
Just about the only innovations in board games per se that I've seen, that've made them easier to play, are increased focus on helpful iconography, and more widespread use of "cheat sheets" (cards, little cardboard bits with print on them) for each player. Not every game uses them, and not every game uses them well (the iconography, especially) but damn is it ever nice to sit down to a game you haven't touched in a year and find that just glancing over the player cheat-sheet and icons on the games' various bits is enough to refresh your memory of the rules well enough to present it to newbies again, leaving maybe just a few details of initial set-up to be looked up in the rulebook (and sometimes the really good ones sneak those onto the cheat sheets or graphic design of e.g. the board!)
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Have you considered the indirection in play, adequately?
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It’s easy to underestimate the immense effort of building and operating the machinery that Fir aims to abstract away. Early on, Adam Wiggins (Heroku Co-Founder) wrote about the compounding effects of “Ephemeralization” (https://adam.herokuapp.com/past/2011/4/7/ephemeralization/) -- how technological advancements enable us to “do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.” When I worked at Heroku, this philosophy was a cornerstone of our approach to simplifying developers’ lives. Yet, it was also incredibly complex to refactor our own software stacks and operational practices atop new advancements.

I’m sure it took a lot of perseverance for the team to launch Fir despite naysayers and competitors claiming Heroku was no longer relevant after the 2022 security incident, and the previous era of lackluster investment from Salesforce. It’s exciting to see Heroku continue to evolve the platform with a principled approach. Fir doesn’t just update the tech stack; it reinforces Heroku’s core mission to maximize developer productivity by minimizing distractions. It’s not just about doing more with less. It’s about enabling developers (and operators) to focus on what’s important without getting bogged down by the ever-growing complexities of cloud-native development.
Nice.

I can move that fast, faster even, when I know exactly where I'm going.

I imagine if I was doing this kind of problem solving all day every day it would be possible.
Secondhand bookstores still exist. I’ve found first editions at them before, so that might not be a bad place to look, actually.
It was common in some circles, sure. It was not a commonly held belief.
Both of those sources paint the picture GP was telling. For 2020 the iPhone SE sells 2nd place in unit count... nearly tied with a unit that was out for 6 fewer months that year with twice the ASP. Nearly 1/3 the sales of the previous generation model that year. Same for the top 10 best selling models in Jan 2021, combine both the iPhone SE 2020 and iPhone 12 Mini and you've got the monthly sale volume of the previous generation iPhone 11 at half the sale price and 2 models worth of R&D. This data for a the year after a slump of smaller models not being available.

If this was OnePlus or someone those would be decent numbers. The problem is they are Apple, they already held the top 4 spots by significantly larger margin with premium devices. Building low cost devices to only make 8th and 10th place with them isn't necessarily a win for them. They can just cut margin on the older versions of the popular models if they want to capture that price point without stifling their focus on their new products each year.

The way people talk about smaller phones around here you'd expect the 2020 model was outselling new models through this day and the masses were waiting with bated breath for updates. Truth is there is just a smaller portion of the market that actually wants such phones when it comes time to upgrade but you here from them more often because they are one of the least common and least valuable segments of the market to try to service.
I was that naïve in 1998, owing to that being roughly when my pocket money first stretched to buying a modem. Almost the first thing I stumbled into was a flame-war.

Yet even today, I see people regard the lack of moderation on certain sites as an unadulterated axiomatic good. Is that blindness really naïveté, or is it just a political stance like all others? If so, I would not call that naïveté even if the effect is the same, for it is a thing all suffer from, it's the blind spot in our thoughts, no matter how experienced and sophisticated and pragmatic we may otherwise be.
Which, to be fair and clear, there is nothing wrong with getting upset about having to upgrade. Nothing wrong with complaining. Sometimes, can probably be good?

I'm just confused as this article doesn't even try to present this as a latent demand from others. Such that I don't understand the opening comment. Reminds me hearing folks complain about bad pockets in formal wear. Is largely a true statement, but I think it is also clear that the demand does not exist for it. Despite how vocal some people can be.
I'm not aware of how Eichenwald got access to the communications he uses in the book, but in addition to, yes, the highly complex, dare I say innovative structures they created to temporarily satisfy Wall Street's demands, he also cites example after example of Fastow and Skilling doing or approving actions and special projects that had fundamental flaws that were certain to eventually implode - it's not like they were playing 5 moves into a game and getting it wrong occasionally. They were playing 2 moves into the game, often getting it wrong, and then covering it up with some equally flawed fix that in turn itself would later become a grenade. It's easy to argue in reading the book that they definitely weren't the smartest guys in the game, just the most audacious.
True, graph is not wrong per se, but in my experience I saw a lot of problems, the moment it starts to be a little more dynamic. Main problem is predefined edges. That's where you bump into things like conditional edges, cycles edges and so on. That's also my problem with frameworks like LangGraph. They just get in your way by pushing on things which looked like a good idea in the beginning.
You would think.

Some people get scarred working in other langs and can't let go, I guess?
Maybe you would receive an email for every undelivered letter, giving you 30 days to pick it up from the post office if you wish.
Yes but in Germany food is safe. In India? Heck no. There is a reason for all regulations.
Yikes.

I'm a paramedic. I have a history of diverticulitis and kidney stones.

I inputted my symptoms from this weekend: left flank abdominal pain, 3/10 severity, episodic, just out of curiosity:

> What you described are symptoms associated with hepatitis b, malaria, typhoid fever, Colon and rectal cancers

I don't think this is going to improve hypochondria.

I added in 'nausea', per the agent's request to expand on my symptoms:

> Your symptoms are strongly associated with hepatitis b and malaria. Consider visiting a healthcare professional for further diagnostics.

Oof.
I'm a little surprised that with the current state of electronics and machine learning there hasn't been (as far as I'm aware) a resurgence of similar toy robots - a sort of updated Omnibot as it were.

I remember wanting one of those so badly as a kid and they didn't even do much.
That might be the most blatant "no true Scotsman" I've ever seen. Practically out of a textbook. I'm educated. I and hundreds of coworkers at multiple companies still believed it in 2012. You said something that is simply, provably untrue.
> But that base is, for the present time, being set by humans.

This itself requires explaining too. Axioms can't be justified except by axioms outside of their system, so you're still relying on something to place humans on top. It is something you may agree with, but I am not bound to it for my basic beliefs.

> When one does, one isn't asserting a human privilege, but a privilege of the living.

Sure. I am against any arguments put forth by living beings for lunar development in the way that humans have right now. I was under the impression that we all implicitly use "human" for succintness; do you personally see a difference in how another sapient being might make the argument, all else being equal?
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If you want to run demos, you need a device with (close to) 100% 1541 compatibility. The Ultimate II+ cartridge is your best bet, but it’s a bit pricey and availability is sometimes spotty. Pi1541 is a cheaper option, especially if you diy, but you’ll need a fast loader solution as well. KFF, sd2iec, and other cheap devices don’t offer hw level 1541 compatibility and can’t run demos.
I too find the "dante's inferno method" (i just made that up) effective, in which you start with a high level explanation then progress through deeper details iteratively.

* Hearts is a card game
* Hearts is a card game with tricks
* In Hearts, winning tricks is bad, you want others to win tricks.
* In Hearts, you win tricks by...

Often it's really hard to see yourself in the newbie's eyes.

(e.g. turns out I don't know what a trick is, so while you're explaining the nuance of tricks and going into more ad more detail, I'm waiting for you to explain what a trick is getting more confused and frustrated.).

You aren't aware of what concepts are confusing, or how many weird words/concepts you can pile on before someone just disconnects.
Why not? It is mostly correct. One on one most people are reasonable. In large groups, or when posting online with the need to show in-group behavior, or when posting publicly where everyone in one's social group can later judge, people start doing the herd mentality thing, and they also become rude to anyone not in their same social circle.

I have no proof, but I dare say the majority of angry people posting horrible stuff on social media are rather pleasant when around friends and family.

But all of a sudden, when they get up on stage, they feel the need to copy the behaviors of those around them, which means anger and vitrol.

When I first joined the Internet (1995!), there was more of an expectation of civility (IRC being a notable exception), and that is the behavior pattern I picked up upon.
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Burnt coffee taste like burnt coffee. Vietnamese drink coffee with 1/4 can of condensed milk in it.

Bad coffee beans if not roasted to charcoal state taste even worse. Argument that that most of available coffee in VN is made from pretty bad beans, so roasters have no other way to roast it to that level.

That's it.
Yes but here's the conflict. You design a typed language, you want the primary operators to be type stable so you can compose them. Then there's no room to return an error from a basic operation. So if your language also makes it a priority to NEVER CRASH, you are stuck.
No evidence, intel doesn't have the resources to be fighting tsmc, and, arm and nvidia, apple and samsung in different technologies at the same time.( foundry, gpus, cpus, NAND ,SSD etc)
They already sold the NAND memory business to SK hynix in 2021.

They will have to focus, that means getting out lines of business which may likely die.

That would be better than going bankrupt and your competitors picking the pieces
I always follow the same framework -- set the stage (What's the theme or idea?), explain the object (How do I win?), explain the overall structure of the game (How will the game flow and end?), and then hone in on your turn (What do I actually do when my turn comes up?).

The final step should naturally lead you into the finer nitty-gritty as players are ready.
Americans want a second passport and are willing to pay
Wasn't advice. Just correcting your intentionally false statement.
For those that don't understand - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_sofa_problem
Does 4k matter?

I was doing a11y work for an application a few months back and got interested into the question of desktop screen sizes. I see all these ads for 4k and bigger monitors but they don't show up here

https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/w...

And on the steam hardware survey I am seeing a little more than 5% with a big screen.

Myself I am swimming in old monitors and TV to the point where I am going to start putting Pepper's ghost machines in my windows. I think I want to buy a new TV, but I get a free old TV. I pick up monitors that are in the hallway and people are tripping on them and I take them home. Hypothetically I want a state-of-the-art monitor with HDR and wide gamut and all that but the way things are going I might never buy a TV or monitor again.
Where were you during the "arab spring" ? I'm not of the opinion that twitter actually made any difference on-the-ground but that didn't stop the mediascape from preening at how hopeful the future was now that individuals could get information in and out of otherwise closed societies.

I thought I'd try and find some evidence from that time period, 2008-2012, and found this article summarizing a metastudy [0] on perception and outcomes of social media on civic engagement.

Among all of the factors examined, 82% showed a positive relationship between SNS use and some form of civic or political engagement or participation.

[0] https://journalistsresource.org/politics-and-government/soci...