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Why, exactly?

The worst case is that Google is transforming itself from a web search engine to an app store, with AMP "sites" being the apps, and google.com search results being a directory of apps you can "buy" (i.e. read and pay with your attention, instead of cash).

This is certainly not a good direction for "the web", but it's not an illogical path to go down. People seem fine with publishing apps and being beholden to someone's walled garden. Apple does this quite well; people seem to prefer apps to opening a browser and visiting some URL. (As an example of how crazy things have gotten... I wanted to post to Instagram from my computer once, but there is actually no way to do it. You have to transfer your photo to your phone, obtain their app through a walled-garden app store, and THEN upload the photo via the app. What?)

I'll also point out that Google is not really the arbiter of what is and is not the web. Yeah, it's a pretty good search engine. It's the one I open by default. But they have less and less leverage over you every day. In Windows 10, I have a search bar in my taskbar. It does not use Google. I cannot change it to Google. If my interface to the web is a Windows machine, I have to go out of my way to use Google. (I just disabled Cortana completely because I don't use it... but I will still hit the Windows key, type something like "cmd" with the intent to run cmd.exe, typo it, and end up on a Bing page with random search results. Man Google is so evil for doing that to me... wait...)

Whether or not making news articles with ads proprietary (AMP) is good for the world really depends on who you are. If you are writing articles that are funded with ad views, and your readers decide "this loads too slowly, so I've lost interest" or "I know how I can make it faster, install an ad-blocker!", then AMP is great for you. If you are the average HN reader and think "my websites are never slow and ads are evil", then you will think the opposite. Depending on how you look at it, you can easily see working on AMP as changing the world by making independent journalism profitable and easy to read. Or you can see it as throwing away the open web, which is the paragon of all that is right in the world.

Anyway, what I'm saying is that it's not black & white. It's a change, for sure. Some changes are good. Some changes are bad. What you think should dictate whether or not you choose to work on it, because there is no path towards the world being great that everyone agrees on. If there was, we'd all be working on that. Instead, there is disagreement and people have chosen sides. You are on one side, but not everyone agrees with you; hence, there is another side.
I've never seen a performance improvement plan (PIP) that was anything more than a paperwork drill to comply with HR requirements before firing someone.
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Well I wouldn't call an excavator automation exactly. But at the same time, you think ten guys digging a ditch at least some of them aren't made redundant when you get an excavator? You don't need ten excavators, and maybe you don't need 1 excavator driver and 9 ditch diggers...

I mean I think you're engaging in selective reasoning.
It's no substitution for actual data, but there is a basic logic to it. If you're bleeding now it's more important to stanch the wound than it is to worry about avoiding future wounds (they're also not mutually exclusive conditions).
>also the execs that quit are simultaneously useless and easily replaced MBA types.

The Chief Accounting Officer (second one in less than a year) is a "useless MBA type"?

Meanwhile, company burns billions. Paging "Shit HN says".
50 > years of pollution that will maybe take millenia to clean up by themselves?
"about 20 percent of all retail space in Manhattan is currently vacant… compared with roughly 7 percent in 2016"
Worried about the next big recession and whether or not you'll end up in a shanty town.
I'm a strong believer in the primacy of politics over companies.

So if society decides to solve a problem, "it costs some money" is simply no argument against it.

Companies are free to operate in some failed state if they wish not to contribute to society.
To reiterate the above post, that's not something an individual can do. Building an ocean skimmer is
Lots of people started microcomputer companies at about the same time as Gates. Evidently, not attending Lakeside was not a barrier.

Gary Kildall wrote CP/M in 1974, a year before Gates formed Microsoft.
However, the manufacturing capability in Asia has caught up in the last couple of decades. This means companies can provide more shareholder value by moving manufacturing overseas where costs are lower.
Yes, it's very plausable, but I wonder why I haven't heard about more email scams being attributed to Gmail's UI?
Is there any particular reason you think this should be the goal of society?
>Just because one party shows disinformation

I don't think you know what disinformation is. You really believe one party is deliberately misleading, while the other is not?
Sorry to hijack this thread, but I noticed in your presentation (can't find it now) you could test out pathfinder with --features=pathfinder on Firefox Nightly. Any way to tell if this really enables pathfinder? I ask because I can't tell a difference on Windows or Mac (which may mean it's working as intended).

https://github.com/pcwalton/pathfinder
With that world view, why make demands, though? Seems like it's just attracting unnecessary scrutiny from the "panopticon police state" without accomplishing anything.
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> Being able to clean up environmental messes is more important than preventing them in the future, and they are not mutually exclusive.

I disagree with the first clause of this point. I think it's better to prevent environmental messes to begin with. Don't get me wrong, I'm not denigrating cleaning up messes, that's important too. We'd be fucked it we couldn't clean up after ourselves. But from my perspective, a moderate amount of effort in the present can spare having to spend a greater amount of effort in the future.

That said, I'm glad work is being done to clean plastics from the ocean, hope it continues, and hope it is successful.
With a few exceptions you can’t be fired for striking in the United States.
>The measure of an engine is the power it's generating

If the engine in my car generates a massive amount of power but also generates so much smoke I can't drive it's still a shitty engine. The measure of all these things is actually much simpler, does it achieve the goals we'd like it to? If corporations are socially created (they are) and society values them not just in terms of shareholder returns but in returns to employees and corporations are failing to give returns to employees then corporations at failing at their goal.
That's only true for publicly traded companies. Most manufacturing companies are private simply because year over year growth is not feasible.
This is a very interesting article. I came to a similiar conclusion after trying to repopulate my gut after cipro.

Probiotics were making me sicker so I tried single strains trying to find the right one. Months of this I decided to stop everything and in short order things started to improve.

Most strains in the gut are not available in probiotic form and food is the best/only way to repopulate those strains (aside from fme).
If your goal is to not have a mess, you can get there by cleaning up all your messes. You can't get there by not adding to the existing mess.
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It's 5 year mission...

<checks size of Pacific ocean>

It's 50 year mission...
It's not though. The ocean is big, it is violent. This won't work.

https://www.kcet.org/redefine/6-reasons-that-floating-ocean-...
My wife has been giving me probiotics for years, and I assume it helps, but starting fiber abotu a year ago made a big difference for me. Psyllium husk FTW!
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After swimming (or attempting to swim, in those cases like Bacolod Philippines where the ocean was completely choked with floating trash) in the waters off various Pacific nations, I doubt that the nations who could possibly institute such a tax are the same as those who are causing this problem.
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I don’t know if too little aggravation is worse than too much. Admittedly I’m thinking of the edge case of legitimately harassing or abusive behavior, where your very understanding of reality is questioned with the explicit purpose to make you too insecure to engage in conversation with any confidence. I’m unsure what too little aggravation looks like, since even echo chambers result in self-aggravation to some extent?
Pretty interesting that Google is protested that much, while there are no actions of any comparable size against Zalando. Zalando also is a "big tech firm", and it already has and continues to change Berlin in exactly the way it is claimed of Google, on a much larger scale than Google will in the foreseeable future (since they already have their German HQ in Hamburg).
I don’t understand this argument. Murderers will find ways to murder people. If that’s their goal, then that’s their goal. So why is Didi related at all to the bad behavior of a few outliers?

You’re far more likely to die on the highway or being robbed.
There's no shame in wanting to differ from the status quo maintained since time immemorial, but don't pressure others into it.

Valid?
Agree. He can do whatever he wants in private, but before doing something stupid like this in public, he should think about the 100s of 1000s of people who bet their 401k money on Tesla stock. Public behavior matters for public company CEOs.
A plant based media storage ledger, with redundancy. I smell a crypto startup.
I watched the podcast.. I found it pretty normal. He doesn't come across as unstable. They are basically discussing technology and related things at an intellectual and philosophical level (one could say geeky). Elon states that he's not a business magnate, or whatever wikipedia says he is, and that he's an engineer. His day to day is solving engineering problems. His tweets are a distraction, probably regrettable and play out of his limbic system.. the adage that you should not tweet/email/post when drunk, high etc... we see that play out everywhere. My take on why he got involved in the submarine thing was because it could be viewed as a hard engineering problem that they could help solve... even though the situation didn't necessitate new equipment per se. He's got a team of crack engineers and wants to use them to solve problems... much like Tony Stark. He wants to fix LA traffic which is unfixable unless you dig tunnels. Basically a bunch of smart engineers solving problems outside of the box.
But this is the opposite of force.
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Can u justify your first scentence? In my head (did not study Econ) x is all the actual economic value in a country and it’s divided by the money supply. You increase the money supply in a fixed moment (print money) that ratio changes and stuff is worth less or costs more (inflation). So yea please explain how simply printing money doesn’t cause inflation
There is a phrase from Yaron Minsky about OCaml, “make illegal states unrepresentable”, which summarize this.

It's more about programming declaratively, functional, as well as strong types which allow you to be very expressive. My experience with F# is similar, if you can get you code compiled, it almost always just works as you expect. But this doesn't mean that you can avoid writing tests though.

This is a good read about it, https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/designing-with-type... by Scott Wlaschin.
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A smoking engine has a cost, it's just not an immediate dollar amount. The cost is impact to surrounding environment, and public health.

I believe the same cost also applies to companies. There can be (and almost always is) an environmental, societal, etc cost.
>such huge investments rarely recover if at all

Citation needed.
Most of the large businesses you see in the world today have, over their lifetime, raised much more than that in investments.
I'll contribute this from Redfin's Engineering practice, July 13, 2018:

"Google Doesn’t Have the Guts to Make Page Speed Actually Matter"
https://redfin.engineering/google-doesnt-have-the-guts-to-ma...

Google did just add a "Mobile Speed Score" to each URL in Adwords with a 1-10 scale of unknown composition/weighting that media folks and marketing managers can see, but developers can't really dig into (other than using...Google's Lighthouse for correlations). https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-introduces-the-mo...

Oh, yeah, it also upsells AMP. Even if you're opposed to or otherwise not going to adopt it as an engineering team, they're clearly going after the non-technical stakeholders to make it happen.
People can already spoof email addresses pretty easily though.
> "Facing competition" as in they are now taking in only 90% of the revenue as opposed to 100%? That's just healthy

90% of what though? The big publishers are moving away from Steam presumably because the terms are crap and indies now have many more options.

> Discord is irrelevant to Valve's business, that's not where the money comes from. Valve is a store front, no indie can afford to just self-publish on PC without being on Steam. Factorio and Rimworld got popular through Steam.

Discord announced a storefront last month, they're absolutely a competitor. The obvious counterpoint to indies needing to be on Steam is League of Legends, though I'll also point out that I bought Rimworld well before it was on steam. Most indie circles talk about the tradeoff today for steam being pretty bad - you give 30% for almost nothing, and still have to do a ton of marketing because market saturation means just being on steam isn't enough. If you're already doing the marketing yourself, the storefront is much less of a factor.
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Interesting! Well I haven't really thought about its implications commercially, what would the benefits for be really? I was considering it more from the research perspective, but i'll give the commercial applicability some thought.
Oh hey. I think we should collaborate somehow. I'm building https://sketch.sh/ml which does the same thing (execute OCaml locally in-browser)
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It’s also an effective way to do object selection under a mouse click. Assign each object a unique color and draw them to an off-screen buffer with a 1x1 viewport. Read back the viewport to the CPU. It’s great because since it reuses the same code, data and hardware that draws the visible screen, you know that it is pixel-accurate and reasonably fast.

Long ago I used this in a protein visualization where you could select individual atoms (with 100s of thousands on the screen). I definitely would not want to promise a ray-sphere test that guarantees pixel-perfect consistency with the render forever.
Assuming the students have been appropriately educated, wouldn't they just laugh at the speakers talking about lizard people? Why would they need to be protected from that kind of nonsense?
The chief accounting officer has nothing to do with that. That'd be the CFO+COO (which Tesla doesn't have)+CEO. CAO is a common position when you have a sprawling, complex supply chain and contractor structure (which Tesla does have).
This project is not capable of collecting usable plastic. It is too degraded, too small. Everyone thinks there are big islands of garbage, but in fact it is distributed in small (often microscopic) particles throughout the first 100 meters of water.

This project is 100% BS. I do quantitative work in ocean conservation, and I can tell you everyone just considers Boyan a scam artist.
Want to really "solve" plastics? Warm up the crispr kits and build bacteria capable of digesting the offending plastic. There is plenty of usable emery in there for the taking. The fisher community will want your blood for destroying all the fishing nets, followed by the plastics industry as a whole. But the ocean would be cleaner.
There's also quite a difference between programming for Android and programming for a Pi. To your point, there are a lot of cheaper projectors out there that make the particular projector used in the linked post unnecessary. But straight Android isn't going to be the same thing, especially if you can't (or don't) root the device.
If by "limit" JavaScript you mean "no custom JavaScript can be written, nor other JavaScript used other than what AMP gives you (except for AMP-supported analytics packages)", you'd be right.
Day trading is one thing (which IMO is absurd, if it's defined by not keeping positions overnight). However, if you compare two people picking stocks, one a professional trader and one a guy in his underwear at home or in a coffeeshop on his phone, the former has mostly massive advantages. But he's missing one: the guy in his underwear can afford time-wise to wait a longer timeframe. If I buy a stock I think is a value buy and it crashes, I can hold it as long as I need. The big bank trader has quarterly profits to worry about or his bonus is his jeopardy, if not his job. He has a pool of money he needs to grow and he's under tight scrutiny.

I don't recommend anyone do this, but I've achieved 27% returns trading in my retirement account (the past 12 months as of today). I don't trade random stocks, I don't buy and sell often, and I'm a news junkie so I'm constantly reading the news. If I screw up on a buy, then it turns into a 'buy and hold.'

Lastly, I've worked closely with traders in the past, in a tech capacity. I assure you, they're not all the sophisticated quant geniuses with carefully placed bets that the HN crowd seems to imagine.

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Nice tutorial. Three.js is a really slick library.
Video on local news:
https://abc7news.com/technology/first-of-its-kind-ocean-clea...

Saturday it launches from Alameda. It will pass under the Bay Bridge at 1pm and then pass infront of the SF water front. Finally, at 2pm it will pass under the Golden Gate to leave out to sea.

If anyone has a drone it'd be so cool if they could take a video of it sailing out.
At first glance, AMP will make life easier for Google's search robots, but the standard would also seem to benefit a competitor like Duck, Duck, Go by standardizing code organization, making it easier to find the true 'intention' of a website's pages. Is AMP contrived to benefit Google? For sure, but not sure it's a terrible idea.
Haters gonna hate? I don’t get it. What’s wrong with preventing and cleaning? We’re enough people and there should be enough money around. Let’s just try
If this effort continues, eventually the only reasonable sink for this material will be to melt everything into slugs that may be dropped to the bottom.
No, the goal of society should be to maximize wealth, which can then be distributed as we see fit.

If companies had to maximize employment they would need to automate fewer things, which would lower productivity and result in less wealth being produced. The entire society would end up being poorer.

This happened in the Communist bloc within living memory and we don't need to make the same mistake again. It's not a coincidence that the countries with the best quality of life are the ones that allow corporations to pursue wealth creation over other goals and then redistribute the wealth through taxation and social benefits. If you want to redistribute wealth it's good to actually have some wealth.
I think this actually overlaps almost identically with the philosophy of Aubrey DeGrey and the longevity/SENS movement.

Human activity is our planet's metabolism, and pollution is our accumulated cellular damage (age). To grow old, we must figure out how to repair damage, as it is impossible to entirely prevent aging, it is a natural and unavoidable consequence of our metabolism. So, we must learn to repair it.
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Yes, the reason for my comment was to provoke more thought/discussion on that point. I don't understand the original claim that you've quoted.
If you can't generate your own innovation and revenue you have to steal it from somewhere. It'll be interesting to see how much longer the EU consumer can stay relevant before they fade into a tertiary market
Do you have another link? Because the article you linked says almost the exact opposite of what you said.
I have responded to your email, although it's borderline creepy, and telling someone you've internet-stalked them is probably not the best approach.

It doesn't bother me if you sound, or are, defensive--people are naturally invested in their work, their image, their "self". Won't change my opinion(s), it takes two people to have a flame war, and I'd ignore anything war-like because I have actual stuff to do.
Really? I'd rather maximize quality of life.
Oh that’s very true. But it does give you time to get another job without having to say that you got fired.
So we're not yet at a point where we can show that a quantum computer can do anything at all faster than a classical computer - and this guy already plans his datacenter for the upcoming quantum AWS.

I'd say he's confusing step 20 with step 2 or something...
I want to speak specifically to two paragraphs from the article, taken together.

Disturbingly, most of the controversies involve people whose views are to the right of center.

...

Nor did Buckley think that all ideas deserve a forum. He did not host defenders of astrology, the Ku Klux Klan, Nazism or Soviet-style Communism.

Does anyone of any note to the left of center advocate for Soviet-style Communism?

If the worst views he can conjure from the left are a right-wing scare story and astrology, whereas the worst on the right are murderous ideologies, then I think the first paragraph kinda explains itself.
Side note: Muckrack has the very best daily news wrap up email, worth subscribing to, for a journalistic and funny take on what's going on.
They're supposed to display in punycode characters outside of your locale.

Maybe whitelisting specific characters instead of only locale would be best.

Your color idea is neat but look at it from the perspective of people that actually use idn domains and don't speak english. What if раураӏ.com was раураӏ.fans-ùøê.com where ùøê was part of the same charset as ӏ and the user speaks both locale. Even if you color it,it would be difficult to train users to pick up on that.
That's not really what he's saying. What he's saying is that just being angry and flailing around about it solves nothing. What will actually solve this crisis is if Google starts listening to the residents of the neighborhood, and if the residents of the neighborhood can take what Google's representatives are saying in good faith, and finally they can both find a way to live in harmony.

Google not providing any information or responding to anyones' criticisms helps about as much as #FuckOffGoogle does.
Ask HN: Have there been any dictators who do community good?
Dictators seem to always do bad and selfish things.

Have there been any who impose a regime of doing good things for the community?