skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most modern boardgames do something like that (although typically in a single book with multiple sections).

As a member of a boardgame club having played to approximately a hundred of less-than-two-years-old games[1] over the past year and a half, I can assure you most boardgames don't, even modern ones.

[1] yes, there are that many games. A few years back there were approximately six hundreds new games being released in a year, for the French market alone (granted it's one of the most dynamic), and I heard it more than doubled after Covid so I don't know where we're at right now.
Innovation like calculating numbers incorrectly and getting people sent to jail? Or maybe just another hundred slow, rent-seeking React web apps that'll disappear when the series B money dries up, if we're lucky. We must have different ideas of what innovation is.
The problem regarding news orgs is that they have previously sounded the alarm about bloggers, insisting that the sky was going to fall down now that any random person was allowed to just say anything they wanted and have other people read it!

But many of those blogs (which now take the form of subscription newsletters) had incredibly valuable insight and perspectives that were otherwise not being reported on. The news media's alarmism about bloggers was (IMHO rightfully) ignored.

So when a couple of years later they started freaking out about Facebook/Twitter/etc, well, same old story, new platform.

The difference this time was that FB and Twitter algorithmically fed articles to people, instead of articles naturally spreading virally from person to person.

Not that the platforms were that bad at first! Remember that in the early 2010s Facebook was largely a platform for Farmville! It was drowning in spam for free to play social games, but the feed was still largely a timeline. Twitter only released their Apple client in 2010, and there were still a large number of third party clients in 2012.

A few years later Facebook would become inundated with political spam and vitriol, but 2012 was still an insane time of growth and optimism.
It is in fact the Facebook Phone!

Or at least a mockup of one.

It has the front-facing camera in the top right corner, which is a hint!

Googling suggests the Facebook phone was an HTC device?
Some additional context: morale at Facebook was relatively poor around this time period, partially due to the disappointing stock performance right after the IPO, as well as a one-time company-wide reduction in bonuses a bit after that. So parts of this book may have been intended to help inspire a workforce that was becoming slightly disgruntled over compensation.

fwiw they were still giving the red book to all new hires in ~mid 2013. Personally at the time I found parts of it to be interesting from a "company telling its own history" perspective, and other parts to be extremely cringe-inducing. That said, I'm sometimes a grumpy cynic, and I'm also familiar with some random rare aspects of FB history due to previously working for Harvard IT. (I started working there a year after Zuckerberg dropped out, so didn't have any overlap, but some of my colleagues there were directly involved in the disciplinary hearings regarding Facemash.)
Famously, civil engineering has never solved this problem, either, leading to the sad state of affairs in which we find ourselves today, wherein no bridges have been built anywhere.
My sentiments exactly - well said. The big mistake is forcing OOP onto everything. It's why I really have an affinity with the virtual actor, it has just enough OOP for me to have classes, methods and internal state - I don't need inheritance, polymorphism, etc - just naive little classifications of things we call objects.

I also don't have to think of my system in a hierarchical supervised manner like earlier actor models. I just need cloud native distributed little objects.

You can see some modern products coming out that are just that:

1. Cloudflare Durable Objects - https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/

2. Restate Virtual Objects - https://restate.dev/
I still have my copy. I didn’t realize this was such a deep cut.

My favorite part was the “Facebook was not created to be a business” quote being juxtaposed against Kevin Systrom saying “instagram was created to be a business” right after the acquisition.
Well I thought I was somewhat, but that didn't ring a bell. I take my well-ackshually comment back :)
The iPhone SE first generation, perfected that design. I really miss it :(
Bad news can be good news depending on your time horizon.
Uh, the MAX was a disaster because Boeing is run by MBAs instead of engineers. Regulation is why air travel is remarkably safe. Those rules are written in blood, something everyone here conveniently seems to forget.
In the LLM space, there is a definitive 1st (OpenAI), a definitive 2nd (Anthropic), and then there's "everyone else".

Depending on how you measure you could claim Facebook is 1st if you grade them on a different scale for being the most "open-source". But quality wise, they're pretty much in the "everyone else category.

Anthropic is new to a definitive 2nd position, and it remains to be seen if it's durable (probably not).

But regardless of how you measure, Google/Gemini is squarely in the "everyone else" bucket.

When they should have been the definitive first - leading the entire industry with every launch, the way OpenAI is.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_for_Mars was (is?) one of the more in depth works making such an argument
I am skeptical that the brain wouldn't have a microbiome
I like the name. :)

I've often thought multiple passes over a topic, beginning with a short pass, and giving more details in each subsequent pass, is a good teaching method.

I haven't done it much myself though, and I haven't seen it done by others very often. I wonder if it really is a good teaching method in practice?
How's it working for those postal workers who committed suicide?
National security (and other similar externalities) are not priced into stocks, which is why every trader will happily sell his own nation's defence in exchange for profit.
Taking any profit-making endeavor to the limit is to get infinite money input for zero output. Enshittification is every companies business model eventually.
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At some point you will hit the interpolation threshold and your model will overfit perfectly to the training set.

The gargantuan # of parameters is what buys you the generalization properties that everyone is interested in. A very reduced model may still look & sound competent on the surface, but extensive use by domain experts would quickly highlight the cost of this.
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Why do you think there's a lot to this argument? Genuinely curious.

Who said police, courts, etc. are not remnants of colonialism? Also, what is the relevance of that to this discussion about coffee selling and the problems in the Kenyan coffee market?
There's propaganda slogans/posters like this all over the Meta offices. One of them is "This is now your company". When the layoffs started happening, I started seeing these mocked, "This is no longer your company", etc.
> Plenty of folks think Musk will do something smart someday, for humanity's benefit, despite all evidence to the contrary.

It's taking a little bit longer than I thought, but isn't the destruction of Twitter a positive for humanity? :P
Fb did actually accomplish a huge feat. They connected in a defacto social network pretty much everyone in the world that wanted to be connected via a social network. They had just hit a billion users in 2012, took them 8 years, and the internet existed with a lot of hype and similar pretty much failed attempts of this before they succeeded. I think a lot of people probably forget or are too young now to know what even the early successful internet was like. It had a ton of hype, promise, etc. but just doing something simple like talking to other people was kind of clunky. It was cool because it had all the BBS and forums and niche community stuff. But, I'd venture to say for most people it was a solo experience. You got online, did some reading or research or gamed a bit, but didn't really start talking to other humans online until the late 2000s or later. You definitely didn't have a way be connected with people you actually knew, to your social network as we know it today. Sure, you had email, but we all know that has a very specific purpose and is not exactly social or hitting the same spot. This was actually a world changing product, there was a lot to be optimistic about.

All that said, I am not much of a social media user and never really used Fb much myself. I see the appeal and I see the bad sides of it. I think we'd be much better off without it. I don't necessarily like the way in which it changed the world, but there was a lot to be excited about at this point in time. Not liking the product/company/industry/etc doesn't negated what they achieved.
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Were you working on the fab side of things?
Once again, much of the state of America can be summarized as "this awful experience is a direct result of the Reagan administration, but most people don't realize it".
JWT/OIDC, where the thing you're authenticating to (like MongoDB Atlas) trusts your identity provider (AWS, GCP, Modal, GitLab CI). It's better than mTLS because it allows for more flexibility in claims (extra metadata and security checks can be done with arbitrary data provided by the identity provider), and JWTs are usually shorter lived than certificates.
There are enough space radars so that you can passively listen to the reflections of almost every satellite.

Just pointing to the Graves Radar in France whose frequency and beam pattern is precisely known to the public.
> the combination of institutions that are the remnants of colonialism have a lot to do with unprecedented improvement in material well-being all over the world, over the last 400 years or so.

Can you provide some examples and resources to back up this hard truth?
oh this board would not do that. they just want to cannibalize intel.
I'm so tired of seeing "no system is 100% reliable" being used to excuse the most fundamental failures in this industry. Nobody's asking for 100% perfection, we're asking for the people writing the software to do X to actually do X correctly in the first place. How about, I don't know, 95% correctness? Is that too onerous?
And naive. "When everyone has a printing press, the ones with the best ideas are the ones people listen to" – in a room full of voices, uncommonly is the best idea heard.
My understanding is the RDA is the bare minimum to avoid obvious symptoms of deficiency, and that everyone does better with 500 to 1000mcg. I think there's a case to be made for being cautious about getting too much supplemental iodine - I've read reports on /r/iodineprotocol of people who started taking mega-doses and aren't doing so well.

I take 400-600mcg of iodine every other day. This is 2-3 drops in water. The carrier is ethanol. Pure iodine doesn't dissolve in water, so the drops become a cloud when dispensed into water.
You don't think Zuck has much control over the company? What evidence do you have?
That's not likely to be a problem since these days every board game has a number of instructional videos (and that's in addition to video reviews, which typically show how a game works, though not in as much detail).
Very dissapointed by the lack of a picture of the salmon hat, I looked for one and this other article has it with the caption "J27 Blackberry sports a dead salmon hat on Oct. 25 at Point No Point in Washington state.":

www.vancouverisawesome.com/animal-stories/orcas-revive-dead-salmon-hat-trend-from-80s-9886630
your github repo link is broken, perhaps you forgot to unprivate it.
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> One thing I've never understood about menu design is the use of "market price" for certain items like crab and lobster.

This happens with restaurants that are buying their seafood fresh off the docks (in my part of the US, anyway) because the price the restaurant pays for it can vary by a lot from day to day. The restaurant effectively can't predict what the price will be, so they can't really put the price on the menu unless they set it very high.

Edited to add: That said, about half of the local restaurants that sell fresh seafood around here have a chalkboard visible from the street or lobby that says what the market prices currently are. If you know what you're getting, or have a good memory, you don't have to ask anyone.
Your client/project looks interesting: are you hiring in the US or also wider (i.e. western EU)?
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Programmers who get paid asstons of money don't want to admit that these are also fundamentally business failures, partially because if they were fixed, they probably wouldn't get six figures for styling HTML buttons anymore.
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What would prevent us from being used the "wrong" way around: code being written with a data notation and vice versa. When the system prints data it could choose one or the other, based on some educated guess as to whether it is cold or data.
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The old concept of an instrument does not map well to electronic music equipment- perhaps it would make sense to say that the combination of the input device that interacts with your body, and the computer or synthesizer are together a single instrument? In the same way that all of the different parts of a guitar are one instrument.
I guess that works until other customers need access to IPv6-only resources… (e.g.: we've stopped rolling IPv4 to any of our CI. No IPv6, no build artifacts…)

In a perfect world I'd also be asking whether you considered NAT64, but unfortunately I'm well aware that's a giant world of pain to get to work on Linux (involving either out-of-tree Jool, or full-on VPP)
particularly the bit where they are painting over the old Sun Microsystems sign.

a solid engineering company that actually build good stuff, destroyed in collateral damage from the dot-com bust, sold off to oracle of all things. now further being humiliated by this narcissistic, exploitative, personality-disorder-masquerading-as-a-service company?
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I don't think what car he was driving was a factor at all. He had incredible wealth even before this, driving a cheap old car is effectively just a stunt to promote a specific kind of public image. Which is fine, but it's somewhat irrelevant.

The change happened because FB didn't internalize quickly or deeply enough that the mindset that got them to defeat MySpace wasn't the mindset they needed to become a trusted service for the long-term. Obviously yes it still exists but it's an absolute shell of what it could have been had this not been squandered -- which is the point that the parent comment was addressing.
New funding could make whole-eye transplants a reality
There's a lot to read through here. There have been points I disagreed with, but overall this seems like a very solid overview of basic ideas.

I think those ideas could probably be presented much more tersely. But I'm in the middle of putting up with a 150-page PDF, not so much because I'm engaged with the material, but because I want an excuse to spend a large amount of time thinking about it.

... Which tracks a lot with the start of section 2.2, actually. I could engage on these ideas in my own time and not feel like the author is wasting mine as I read. But the important thing is that I do engage with them at all; they'll stick because I'm actively processing them, just like in the experiment in Spielman et al.'s book.

Another interesting connection I notice here is that Kalb's model of experimental learning seems to map very neatly onto the Diataxis model for writing documentation (https://diataxis.fr/).
Fulfillment operations is not just delivery to the customer, or owning the warehouse. All the employees that work in the warehouse, move stuff from warehouse to warehouse or warehouse to store, are all part of fulfillment.

Amazon does not deliver to customers. They pay separate businesses (they call them delivery service partners) to deliver to customers:

https://hiring.amazon.com/job-opportunities/delivery-driver-...

https://logistics.amazon.com/

FedEx does the same thing with FedEx Ground:

https://www.buildagroundbiz.com/
Upvoted you because last I checked, Fujitsu is a private entity being run for a profit.
Kinda rich that the guy that thinks we don't need next-gen image formats because "bandwidth is cheap in most places" is making purchasing decisions around bandwidth being expensive.
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Tested just now, works on Grok just fine.
Se and si (as used here) are the same word in different cases. I would draw comparisons to latin se and sibi respectively. I'd also draw parallels between sui, suus, secum and suyo, su, consigo.
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Claude says

> David Mayer could refer to several different people. Could you provide more context about which David Mayer you're interested in learning about?
I was listening to a podcast that mentioned something today that got worse in the eighties, and one host asked the other to guess the cause. I blurted out "Reagan" as I was listening, and was correct.

Alas, I don't remember what specific thing they were discussing.