Haakon Erichsen
@haeric
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3D, WebGL, VR, Javascript, Python 🏳️🌈🇳🇴
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2009
@JezCorden The unwillingness to fix basic operating system annoyances, and the basic disrespect for consumer choice (e.g. the never-ending manipulative dialogs with “yes” and “ask me later”) has long been eroding basic customer confidence. @pavandavuluri
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How distillation will save Waymo and why HD maps and lidar are not a problem Waymo famously has HD 3D maps of areas it drives. Many people think Waymo ngmi because 3D mapping the world doesn't scale (very expensive to collect and maintain) Here is what they're missing: [1/N]
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no i love getting a link to instagram that opens in safari, then asks me to open the app, which takes me to the app store, and asks me to open the app, and then the app shows me a reel that is not the post from the link
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This is decel. It's similar to rejecting automation at the ports. This sort of attitude is why US industrial competitiveness has slid.
I fully agree with @Teamsters. Self-driving trucks should *always* be supervised by a qualified professional to keep our roads safe. It’s a necessary partnership for America’s highways and economy.
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Two conversations this weekend make me think that there's a vibe shift afoot in Silicon Valley around what one should work on and what is worthwhile. Culturally, it feels like the moment is ripe for new frameworks: • Davos expert morality is stale and discredited. • It's also
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the "grind era" bros bragging about sleeping 4 hours are literally making themselves retarded, sicker, and less productive you get more done in 4 hours after good sleep than in 16 hours of cognitively impaired "grinding" pure performative BS with self-harm undertones
A single night of 4–5 hrs sleep reduces cognition by 20–40%, drops glucose stability by 30–40%, increases accident risk by 400%, elevates inflammatory markers 50–100%, impairs memory consolidation by 40–60%. Most mental health problems are downstream this system level
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Crypto trading (aka gambling) for kids… great! What could go wrong? 🤦♂️
Introducing Binance Junior, a parent-controlled app and sub-account for kids and teens. Build family-focused crypto savings and prepare your child for a future empowered by crypto. Try it now 👉 https://t.co/q4Y50PvApy
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95% of sales volume was what
Breakdown of the Black Friday data tells us: -Consumer is weakening. -95% of sales volume was financed. -67% of that intends not to pay off within 30 days. -Roughly $1B was spent using BNPL models which are the worst debt. This points to a *really* unhealthy economy.
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The simplest way to see that Michael Saylor and Bitcoin maxis don’t actually believe in Bitcoin is this: If they truly believed in BTC, they wouldn’t be begging nation states, investment firms, and retail investors to pile in, even telling people to sell their kidneys to buy
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We're officially authorized to drive fully autonomously across more of the Golden State. Next stop: welcoming riders in San Diego in mid-2026! ☀️
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Something I think people continue to have poor intuition for: The space of intelligences is large and animal intelligence (the only kind we've ever known) is only a single point, arising from a very specific kind of optimization that is fundamentally distinct from that of our
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We could just stick all the nuclear waste ever in a parking lot in the desert and it would be fine. Long term storage is a boogyman parroted by fucking nerds who would be against nuke for any reason.
THAT’S IT? This is what 20 years’ worth of spent nuclear fuel looks like safely stored at the former Maine Yankee nuclear plant. The plant generated 119 billion kilowatt hours of reliable power from 1972-1996, which is enough to power half a million homes each year.
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The movement is so ungraceful it triggers extreme distrust in me. I wouldn’t have this in my house if you put a gun to my head.
Home humanoid robots are getting closer. Shenzhen MindOne Robotics is testing their robot brain on the Unitree G1, and it looks like the G1 has already learned to do human-like household chores. Watering plants, moving packages, cleaning mattresses, tidying up, etc. Honestly,
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I am unreasonably excited about self-driving. It will be the first technology in many decades to visibly terraform outdoor physical spaces and way of life. Less parked cars. Less parking lots. Much greater safety for people in and out of cars. Less noise pollution. More space
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Underrated data point from today that @Waymo has 2500 vehicles on the road, including 1000 in the Bay Area. Pretty amazing.
Waymo unveiled a breakdown of their driverless fleet size as part of today's freeway announcement👇 SF Bay Area and LA are where they have most cars deployed, with Phoenix coming in third. PHX was their first market (thx to friendly regulations) and also one where it has the
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I hate planning, I wish I could just walk in anywhere Planning only exists because there isn't infinite capacity I believe in abundance and energy being free So planning to me is a property of scarcity (and degrowth and in that respect communism)
@levelsio my wife and I are exactly like this, we've been nomading since 2018. I noticed people who doesn't travel often gets excited about planning and are not very opinionated on what they like, etc... when you travel a lot planing feels more like a chore
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Not a lot of people understand this... but you actually don’t have to have an opinion about everything. You don’t have to decide if something is good or bad. Marcus Aurelius says limiting the amount of opinions we have is one of the most powerful things we can do in life.
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Like most of you guys, I didn’t get into crypto to get rich I got into crypto because I believed in the vision of 500 different stablecoins issued by 500 different centralized institutions on 500 different blockchains
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You can tell Bitcoin is destined to fail by how obsessed its community is with the price rather than any real utility. It’s been over 16 years, and still, nobody uses it for anything meaningful. Bitcoin serves no practical purpose beyond speculative gambling. Compare that to
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When I first got into Bitcoin in 2010, I was its #1 fan. It was supposed to be decentralized, self-custodied, free from whales and manipulation, and beyond government control. Now, it’s a government-backed reserve asset. Self-custody has been replaced by ETFs, its price is
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