skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it changes the relationship in a very important way. It makes Google the point of contact and the supplier of the page a mere 'information provider' rather than that Google is a source of traffic and the website a property with traffic of its own.
Those are good points. What I was trying to put across by invoking "market dynamics" was that the state of the current market as it exists is driving bloat rather than the capriciousness of individual administrators. You're right that the market is not in an unrestrained state.
I believe the article is primarily talking about carbon release as a result of microbial action, I don't think it focuses on a particular form.
HN itself? Nope. Many publisher sites do benefit however. Especially local news sites that likely can't attract the best tech talent and/or contract out pages to be shoveled out by contractors.

Re: Abuse of AMP. AMP places sane restrictions on pages https://www.ampproject.org/docs/reference/spec#html-tags including hard limits on CSS size, etc... Google enforces these restrictions for pages served through their servers.

This is a much much needed effort to take the publishers toys away given they've proven they cannot be trusted with the full feature set of the web without adult supervision.
Inferring lifetimes from the implementation of a function won't happen for the same reason that inferring types won't happen: it is really nice for the signature of a function to not automatically be changed if the body is changed, instead programmers should be told when they might be breaking their users.

However, the compiler could (and did, I believe) run inference and suggest a fix that the programmer can explicitly include.
I think you have it backwards. Users want to buy a new phone every 2 years. A 5s still works fine, but most people don't want a 5s.
Yeah, I'm also seeing a lot of AMP links accidentally shared on Twitter too. I just want a global 'don't ever show me AMP pages' setting, as well as to be able to turn it off in Google search results.
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Yes. I actually subscribe to the idea that local maxima at a lower level if sentience is much more common.

We'd probably still be a dinosaur-populated planet if not for a random asteroid.
I must say, the headline gives great ideas for a Dilbert comic strip.
False. Shrinkflation is counted in CPI calculations.
At the time of writing, this post title is clickbaity and presumes guilt without any actual evidence. This is not what I want to see on hacker news.
Cooking food can create carcinogens. A couple of years ago there was much fuss about a Swedish study about carcinogens in crisps (potato chips) – that's potato fried in vegetable oils, no meat involved.[1] (The fuss was mostly caused by not understanding the quantities involved.)

You can keep all of that aforementioned "meat" afaic.

[1] more on that for example here: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/acrylamide.html
I think it's foolish to assume that some novel and highly processed food item is going to be safer than something which we've been eating for thousands of generations. Basing the conclusion of safety based on a piecemeal analysis of the components hand-waves away the entire complexity of digestion and metabolization.
I understand you don't want to keep 100 billion options around, that makes perfect sense.

But haven't you seen the level of vitriol that comes up every time AMP is discussed? This isn't a minor thing, a lot of people REALLY dislike it. I have SERIOUSLY considered switching to a different search engine entirely because of this.

The fact that there is now a link to get to the normal page after I've already gotten to the AMP page is not a solution to the issue. As an end-user that feels like I'm complaining that her website is too hard to read because of the noisy background and you're telling me I could just use print preview where the background doesn't show and read it that way.

This feature has significantly change the way I use Google for the worse, and in the time since it was first launched it really hasn't gotten any better for me. It's so bad my OS vendor is starting to incorporate workarounds directly into their code.

If I Google something how do I open five tabs to go look at? I have to ignore every AMP result because I can't open them in a tab. So would Google deems to be the "best" content is now unavailable to me.

I don't have a choice to simply turn it off.

Not everyone will. If you read the comments here there are people who do like it.

But there are clearly a lot of us who HATE it with a passion because it's made your website so much harder to use.

PLEASE give me an option to turn it off.
This penalizes data-heavy websites, though, no? For example, I can see how a photojournalism piece with lots of photos would be ranked to hell, whereas a content-free text piece would be ranked very highly.
Not to be pedantic, but you should switch Chrome too. Firefox 57 is pretty amazing (currently in nightly).
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God I hope not, I'm only 28 and if this is a sign of things to come I'm not sure how I'll cope...
No, they are not, they are part of one evaluation. You only make one decision: to eat or not eat. When deciding whether it is 'A-OK' to choose the eat decision, both the moral and nutritional aspects are relevant. Either can justify it.

Danihan's criticism is wrong and projecting onto an imaginary strawman because he pretends that the only reason anyone could ever care about vat meat or fake meat is for the possible health benefits and accuses them of hypocrisy for endorsing processed foods in one case but not in hypothetical others - which is bizarre because that reason is literally not even in the laundry list of reasons in OP or other coverage (suggesting he didn't even read OP). Read through the article again, health is never mentioned, all the reasons are moral, environmental, or economic. I am perfectly willing to say that maybe vat meat or fake meat are not exactly as healthy as eating some tomatoes or something, but you know what, I really don't give a shit about minor issues or cherrypicked chemistry as I am far more concerned about whether it will soon be possible for me to continue eating tasty meat (possibly even for less cost) without killing hundreds of animals a year.
> you think Trump would have let Manning go for example? I'm not sure that even Hillary would have.

Of course not, I'm just trying to dispel the myth that the world is in black and white. You can't just hold the 'other' party accountable. We need to look in the mirror.
Wow if you are called to serve that'd make you quite unattractive to employers, and would limit your movements e.g. working abroad?
I don't get what the caption means by "clear the blurriness". The way I did it is that once I had crossed my eyes to see approximately 3 dots, I started moving my eyes up and down across the image (about 2 seconds to go from one end to the other) while still maintaining the same amount of cross-eyed-ness. After ten or so movements the 3D effect emerged. Once the effect emerged my eyes instinctively crossed themselves as necessary to make it sharper, so I didn't have to try very hard to maintain it.

It may help to move your head up and down instead of your eyes so that the parallax effect of floating above the field of horizontal furrows is strengthened.
This is cool, well done for a school project and also a really nice thing to do for one's roommates!
> There most likely exists a funding and expense problem in poor immigrant communities that makes it unfeasible to offer bicycles

The funding for the wealthy and poor communities all comes from the same city treasury.

> Requiring a credit card with a sufficient amount of credit limit fixes this issue.

So much for opportunity, democracy, and equality under the law. Only the few who qualify get the real benefits of citizenship. Billy Bragg once sang (referring to Ronald Reagan's "Morning in America"):

It's morning in America
And you can be your best
If you have a major credit card
And can pass a urine test
I think because of it's lack of anonymity and how that helped with the recent hansa / alphabay takedowns, we're going to see a big boost in use of dash/zcash/monero/anonymous-crypto-coin-du-jour once the next round of markets rise up. I'm very curious to see the regulatory response to those style of coins, as until recently they've kinda been in the shadows.
Wow. I was just playing with Strava last night and didn't realize I could build point A to point B routes because the interface is so impenetrable. (tip: search for address, then zoom the map WAY in manually, because it doesn't bother finding the address for you, click on the map to produce a dot, search for 2nd address, zoom WAY in and click to place your second dot, god help you if you don't actually know how to find the places on the map with your own two eyes).

Then it automatically built a route on some of the most heavily-traveled and bike-unfriendly roads in the area. (SF Peninsula locals: Marsh Road, Middlefield bike slaughter through Palo Alto). At least it only had a few turns. Google Maps did far, far better.
Doesn't reprocessing produce a lot of high level waste as a byproduct, thereby worsening the waste problem?

And I understand the Japanese had an experimental breeder reactor for a long time and never achieved actually producing any commercially viable electricity. They did get lots of plutonium, though, which may be turned into bombs any moment.
Inside Blue Apron's IPO: Communication lapse chased away investors
I sometimes wonder why it's so easy to forget about luck when we are successful. The mind can create an illusion, an alternative world where luck is less relevant.
But on the same subject all pages would be data heavy. Only where a data heavy page would compete with a similar page that was lightweight would the one be ranked above the other.

But your average news page would weigh in roughly the same no matter what the source was. Assuming you'd strip out all the cruft.

For reference, I optimized my website a while ago and ended up with the average page being < 15K.

https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-fastest-blog-in-the-world

Try it, on any connection in normal use today it should load faster than you can blink.

Add a few pictures and it would still work quite comfortably.
This is BS.

Go to 10 physicists and say, "Is c the speed of light?" Odds are that most will say, "Yes." And while some may suggest more exact terminology, not one will fail to understand what you meant.

Furthermore at the subatomic level, light always goes at c. Even if you're in water. It has no other actual speed. Thanks to interactions between light and a medium it looks like photons go slower through the medium. But that's no different than the fact that current traveling through metal acts approximately like it is being carried by electrons of some other mass and velocity. (Or even, in some cases, like the absence of an election. This fact is critical to the operation of a transistor.) But "acts approximately like" and "is" are two different things.
Where can I find usage numbers of purescript and scalajs?
Probably the best deep dive I've read on the cost of higher ed was published a few years ago by Robert Hiltonsmith. This addresses US universities and colleges as opposed to UK, so the issues may not be one to one and the data is a little dated (published in 2015). Still, a worthwhile read.

http://www.demos.org/publication/pulling-higher-ed-ladder-my...
> As far as my understanding goes, space is very unevenly distributed, with lots of debris and asteroids in dense (well, humpf) parts of space, but the vast majority of it is just... empty

Even the "asteroid belt" is really empty. It's not like you see in science fiction movies where asteroids are hitting into one another continually.
Apple are sharing the canonical URL provided in the page source. That's actually recommended behaviour in the AMP spec. So if anyone is breaking anything, the only option would be that Google's AMP is 'breaking the web' in their standard.

So the issue isn't that you haven't spelled out your argument in proper detail, but that you're just incorrect.
You can actually dynamically generate struct types at runtime with the `reflect` package.[1] That might work for you. Not that I'm saying this is an ideal solution, I'm just giving you another option to evaluate. :-) (I suspect I'd sooner choose "serialize to a string" if I were in your shoes.)

[1] - https://golang.org/pkg/reflect/#StructOf
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As another anecdote - I agree. I recently tried it as well, and almost gagged at the taste. Not because it was disgusting (I finished it), but because I was so taken aback at the taste (kind of similar to when someone puts water in your Sprite can).

It's decent, but its nothing like real meat.
> I think the strategy of trying to maintain a monopoly to starve others out is daring.

The irony is that they are not. They are subsidizing far less than any other competitor. Show me one competitor with lower losses as a percent of gross bookings.
I recently read D.O.D.O., and I'm convinced that it's in the same literary world as Anathem and Seveneves. I won't say more, but do read D.O.D.O., if you've otherwise liked Stephenson's work.
OK, Google asked Apple for input on amp. When will Google ask the EFF?
Our latest numbers show that the average speed improvement of the AMP cache is roughly 75%. I'm a bit shocked by that myself. But that is where it stands.

Getting similar performance out of on-origin serving is a priority for us, but we aren't there yet. One challenge is to give it the same scale as the AMP cache.
> to still end up mediocre.

It's not the end my friend.
Same! I decided on a major Fall of 2000, just months after the tech bubble burst. But, I ended up in Tech and Silicon Valley anyways.
> This isn't how it works, because the expected value, in monetary terms, is negative...

I once heard a statistics professor explaining he played the lottery. His reason? It was fun. Period. He said one may spend $10 on a movie ticket and be entertained for a few hours, but one would end up $10 poorer with 100% certainty. On the other hand when he spent $10 on a lottery ticket he was entertained for days just thinking of the possibility of winning, and he might end up a lot richer, but it was not a necessary condition for him to enjoy the fun it provides.
Agree! I work in K-12 and we've seen the same exact thing over the past few years. The emphasis on top-down control and quality measures have done a ton of good for consultants, advisors, data analysts, and IT depts - and a ton of nothing for students.

My favorite part of this whole debacle is seeing districts and schools using administrative bloat to their advantage when creatively reporting "Student:Staff" ratios.
I don't know how feasible it is, but there was an episode of "Better Call Saul" where Jimmy McGill rigged a ball-and-air bingo machine used to run games in a senior home.
My entire life is luck. Sometimes I have a moment of appreciation where I realize it fully and laugh to myself maniacally wondering when and how the streak will end. I've never attributed much of my success to anything but right place right time. Honestly most people could do my job if they tried, I just happened to meet the right people. I got into my career accidentally. Accidentally met my fiancee. Accidentally met all of my best friends, just on the bus, or at a park or something. Sometimes I think about if I just tweaked any one of those happenstances how it would all fall apart. The thought tickles me greatly.

For example, I heard about crypto because some guy in WoW wanted to buy my character off of me painlessly. He told me to register on btc-e, then I got a bunch of BTC and that was it. 5 years later I hear about crypto again, remembered those coins, and boom, life changed. All because I was in some virtual world at 3am on a Thursday trying to sell off my WoW character for beer money for the next day.
I don't know the answer to your question but two years is the length you have to stay so that you don't have to pay back the relocation bonus. It would not surprise me that many people leave at 2 years.
It seems fairly irrelevant, and not so informative. How does your quotation relate to the original commenters statement?
No, thanks. I prefer to know what site I'm actually visiting.
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Turbo prop aircraft are generally above 200 hp and therefore are considered high-performance aircraft by the FAA. High performance aircraft generally are much more difficult for takeoff and landing because they fly so much faster which makes them unsuitable for a new pilot to learn on.
This looks more like a case of Google hate more than a MIT license violation. I've looked at the repos and as others mention, the project is not a fork but a wrapper and they share no code. Others have also mentioned that the author of the issue has made clear his dislike for Google. Combined with the throwaway account posting to HN 30 mins after, this smells fishy.
Methane does break down much faster than CO2, but over the time scales being discussed here it's MUCH more powerful. From memory so probably somewhat off it's >80x more potent a greenhouse gas over a decade, dropping to only 20x more potent when measured over a century.

The big problem is tipping points. There are a lot of things where an initial big hit can be something you don't recover from, no matter how light the impact might seem when measured over years.
Obligatory:

> Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:

> First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

> Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

> The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/ironlaw.htm
I have no known risk, but I could see taking it, just to check.
When I started mine in Australia (around 03 I think) the teachers selling the course said "don't worry, more work is outsourced to Australia than outsourced from Australia". He was completely wrong, but fortunately there were enough jobs for that to not matter.
> Engineering blogs commonly say what they did to take pride in their work

Yep, engineering blogs are also marketing, aimed right at HN readers. Attracting good engineering talent isn't easy, so companies have to do marketing on that front as well.

But, as usual, people being marketed to (in this case, HN readers) don't realize they are being marketed to.
What's your contact info?
> Its pretty easy to see that any form of mitigation is irrelevant until it becomes a real problem because getting large groups to agree on things isn't a scientific thing but a problem for society. Usually that only occurs when its pretty apparent that they have to do something to mitigate it.

Many countries have agreed climate change is a serious problem and have acted on it, and for a long time. The U.S. is a major exception. It's doable; the Republican Party in the U.S. is the problem.
Yes. I have a friend at Amazon who just finished his fifth year and he confirmed he's already an in the upper quartile of longevity. He estimated a median 'lifespan' of 18 months for Seattle-based devs; it was admittedly a back-of-the-envelope calculation but their turnover is definitely sky-high.
Octember 27th.
The relocation benefits have to be paid back (prorated) until two years, so it sounds plausible enough. For what it's worth (not much without numbers on growth and turnover), I've been with them for about 2.5 years and am around the 60th percentile for tenure among Seattle-based employees.
In what way is AMP a good idea for fucking Reddit? A social platform.
This post feels overly agressive and hyperbolic. There's no need to insult their job or bring out the accusations about the reasoning behind AMP.
Mediocre is relative. Having the ability to browse the internet and post on a forum such as HN means you're already exposed to a lot more tech than 50% of the world's population.
DuckDuckGo feels useless for almost every programming related search queries
I sometimes ask Google Cloud clients who post this type of stuff, what's your motivation? The one consistent theme is that telling the world that you're doing cool stuff with cool tech raises your organization's profile and helps in recruitment.

From my experience working with NY Times they are certainly a top-notch engineering organization. They should be free to advertise that.

I don't know if these engineers are being forced to release these types of blogs, but the far more likely (and respectful to said engineers) scenario is that they just want to talk about their work. This isn't the first time NY Times has done this [0][1].

(Work at Google Cloud on same team as boulos and worked with NY Times on some of their migration pieces like BigQuery)

[0] https://thenewstack.io/caching-hadoop-new-york-times-embrace...

[1] https://open.nytimes.com/faster-simpler-workflow-analytical-...
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Could you change the title to something more neutral? E.g. "Gemstash project owner accuses Google intern of violating their MIT license"?

From the discussion on the Github issues page it's starting to look like a mistake (last two posts): https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-gemserve...
> If Google really wanted to improve the quality of the web they had excellent tools to achieve that: the weighing of the various elements that go into the ranking algo

Doesn't Google already do this [1]? There are unintended consequences to increasing speed's weight in search rankings. Principally, it disadvantages smaller players. (Also, the New York Times would consistently rank under Buzzfeed.)

> you are now a very willing pawn in the endgame for the domination of the world wide web

Most people get news from the walled gardens of Facebook and Twitter [2]. The minority of us sharing links to newspaper articles probably also have direct relationships with publishers. For example, I read the New York Times, Washington Post, Economist, Bloomberg and other papers directly on their sites because I subscribe to their newsletters.

> maybe you should be [concerned]

Maybe, but I don't think so. The things I read about in the newspapers AMP gives me faster access to yield better (i.e. more serious and more actionable upon) avenues for my attention. In every context where AMP is a worry journalism's decline seems more important.

[1] https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-i...

[2] http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/07/new-pew-data-more-americans...
A little over 500 sign ups. Not a lot, but enough to validate that people like what I'm doing.

Marketing is like pulling teeth for me. I need to get better at it.
I have explored undebt and it has some very useful examples. But generally they seem to be low hanging fruit. I really would love to see more specific implementations and use cases
> Buckminster Fuller's models?

What now!?
Receivers can tell the process ID of the sender, so they can do security checks.

How do they implement this securely? I can't immediately think of a POSIX-y way for Process A to prove its pid to Process B without involving the kernel.
Anyone else think that the EU is going to file an antitrust suit against Google over AMP? Seems possible given their lack of hesitance in the past.
Hopefully it'll fix some of the issues with getting redirected on desktops when people share links here/on reddit