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I've had a similar feeling about how our society deals with people who don't fit in in this way (non-productive), and it's a fun thing to play around with in your head because in a loose way it undercuts a key selling point of organizing your society capitalistically like ours: during the cold war, it was like "yeah well you Soviets just give every lazy bastard some meaningless quasi-task in a widget factory or in some faceless ministry and go around telling the rest of the world there's no unemployment and you're building Utopia. We in the West, otoh, have purpose and let our people put themselves to better use!"

So your observation reminded me that our society has plenty of people on a similar sort of hidden dole: vast corporate structures with uncountable layers of non-productive paper pushers, with a very small proportion of employees setting the vision and another small bunch generating most of the value. A social welfare program by any other name ...

So like do large human groups just inevitably have some subset that doesn't quite fit (in terms of work and productivity) but who need taking care of so we semi-deny their existence ("no slackers here!") while we semi-throw'em a bone ("here's a paycheck, go look at Facebook for a few hours and fiddle with PowerPoint while I harass my secretary")?
Do you think mojave dark mode changes the colors of inputs on web browsers??
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Going off on a bit of a tangent, but some time ago I bought a sharpening stone for $30. It takes about 10 minutes start to finish from dull blade to sharp blade, which is a lot more convenient than going to the knife sharpener or mailing your knives. I also use it to sharpen my hair clipper blades once a year.
They flipped it at least as early as 15 years ago in 2004 with with gmail, their acquisition of google maps, and in 2006 with their acquisition of youtube.

Actually I think you're basically right.
I'm pretty sure it will still act consistently. Under the same compiled binary (which a hermetic environment enforces), the undefined behavior will be consistent from run to run, since the same optimizations will be used.

That's not true in a theoretical sense (undefined behavior allows me to rewrite signed overflow to "return 7 with some probability, and `rm ~/` otherwise"), but for any modern compiler, I'd assume that the optimizations chosen where signed overflow is undefined don't involve randomness.
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Honestly as a Googler I neither saw nor needed the vision of Larry, Sergey, Eric, Sundar, or anyone else except maybe Urs, Jeff, and Sanjay. I mean I worked on the C++ toolchain. Making a bitchin' compiler is its own reward. I guess things are different on product teams?
It's a continuum. Better targeted ads are worth more than less-well-targeted ads. They do the best they can, and they keep trying to get better. Their targeting may be lousy, but it's still good enough for them to get paid.
I used to work in the Pentagon. Having done projects with military, and then moved to contracts filled with former NSA, I discovered something that was blatantly obvious:. The NSA has a uniquely and horrific cultural arrogance. The organization breeds and selects the amoral tendencies. I can't begin to tell you how horrible it was working with some of them. Just nasty people, period.
As much as people love to exaggerate issues with Apple's products, Apple itself isn't particularly great when it comes to acknowledging hardware issues.
Of course PG&E is not the victim, they should have suffered the consequences of their negligence long ago. Consequences which they are finally facing today after the political protection they've been offered for decades is no longer viable - aka easily hidden in exchange for backroom deals with the state.

No company could have survived the 1500 safety lapses PG&E made without significant changes via legitimately confronting the liability normal private companies face without massive intervention by government (aka the securitization of liabilities which get pushed onto California consumers which is why they pay the highest rates in the country).

There are countless examples where PG&E was given a free pass by the local governments in the name of keeping the status quo, including executives/board smartly making politically-friendly climate policy compromises to keep on their good side in exchange for protection from any real liability.

When you get compromises from private entities in exchange for free-passes for prior negligence you only get bigger and bigger failures... which is exactly what happened. In the past the smaller compromises were easier to hide, but they consistently were getting worse (this isn't even the first bankruptcy). PG&E has never been held fully accountable as any non-well politically connected company would.

Finally, the gov "keeping the power on" excuse still had plenty of options that don't include avoiding massive restructuring or total bankruptcy/destruction of the negligent parties. Better, more responsible, companies should have took over long ago. But that doesn't happen in state heavy economic systems where political favours are preferred over markets as it is in California, just like it doesn't happen in other more obvious negligent countries like Russia and China. When politically connected companies always survive regardless of behaviour then consumers and the public always lose. Period.
> A flat earth makes sense if you only spent 5 minutes thinking about it and have no background in or exposure to basic science.

Not that I particularly want to jump to the defense of people that believe in a flat earth, but they are not people that "only spent 5 minutes thinking about it". A lot of time has been spent trying to back up their beliefs and to form a coherent theory. They're wrong, of course, for many reasons, but it's incorrect and dismissive to call them intellectually lazy.

The core of flat earth and similar beliefs is often a legitimate reaction against the large established systems in society that, from their perspective, appear to be failing in obvious ways while lying to them regularly that everything is fine. The are recognizing a problem, and attempt to apply something resembling science to try and find answers.

I recommend hbomberguy's recent investigation into recent flat earth belief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gFsOoKAHZg
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Funny why?
Bing was released in 2009, so if this was in 2006 it must have been one of Bing's predecessors.
Rent aside, the other big factors would be health insurance, car related costs, and food.

Going to a large city overseas, you won’t even need a car. Food will be a lot cheaper, and going to the doctor will be affordable.
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If that is the case there are many options available to you that do not require pinsentry. This argument makes no sense in the context of this discussion.
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> awesome task-runner

I do this too. I have been trying to find examples of people doing something similar on the web but had no luck. I've replaced so many 5-line shell scripts in my user /bin by just having a single makefile in the root of my home directory and having aliases to the various commands defined in the makefile. I even have a rule that shows a rofi menu that allows me to run the rules easily although it's a bit hackish at the moment. Maybe the way to go would be pulling out the parts of Make that are good for a task runner into a separate application and add some nice extensions like .ONESHELL being implicit.
It’s important to point out that just because someone says they want something, it doesn’t mean they want to pay for it.
So what we have learned is that manipulation works.
Why is this a dark pattern? There could be a lot of people who sometimes sign in and sometimes stay logged out, the privacy checkup is useful for them, even you might have some settings from past you might want to see. This is not a dark pattern, HN became hysterical.
Honestly this is only true when I'm in my basement cave. When I'm in the normal world with sunlight I need the standard brightness and white backgrounds.
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> Their search engine is really hard to replace, not just because of the quality, but also because of how ubiquitous it is.

For the web, yes. I'd argue it's not threatened by other search engines, though it is threatened by other players and indexes:

- Apps. Google can't crawl apps, and people are getting used to the idea of finding information in separate indexes as opposed to a single universal one. Each app today has it's own search box, so if I'm looking for somewhere to eat I go to Yelp. A product? Amazon. If I'm looking for someone I open Facebook. If I'm looking for flights I open Kayak, Priceline or Expedia, etc).

> YouTube is the second largest search engine on the planet and has the largest mindshare of any website on the internet.

I agree that YouTube is very strong.

> Android is "the" platform pretty much everyone accesses the internet.

I disagree here. People largely access the internet (as in, data from the internet) through apps, like I mentioned before (Yelp, Facebook, Amazon, Kayak, Expedia...). [1]. Moreover, in terms of OSes, you still iOS and Windows are still holding steadily to a decent chunk of important markets.

> Cloud could do better (it's 3rd distant in the race against MSFT and AMZN), but nevertheless a huge opportunity.

I do agree here.

> Buffet and Munger were correct when they commented about Google saying they'd never seen a wider moat in their entire career.

+1 on some things, but not so much on others IMO. At this point most tech companies have comparable moats. Amazon, Facebook, Apple-- also huge moats.

And that's the thing-- competing against "just another search company" they're definitely in no threat, but they're competing against companies about as moated as they are. Amazon beat them to the punch with voice assistants. Apple Music is taking market share like Google Music couldn't. ChromeOS still can't seem to crack the dominance Microsoft Windows has on laptops. They're a lot stronger than most people think, but their competition is too.

[1]: Fun fact, people browse the web a lot while using Facebook. This is somewhat tangential to my main point so putting it down here, but Facebook is actually a major web browser:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/facebook-is-now-a-major-mo...
You are saying Pinchai is a bad CEO but he was picked because he is talented enough to handle the exploding time bomb created by the previous "good" CEOs?
Are you not afraid to speak what you think? Google likely knows who you are... or is your comment already filtered?
Read “Bullshit Jobs” for an anthropologist‘s view of this.
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Recombinant genetic engineering was invented almost 5 decades ago, and only recently has it been used on a human embryo. I think humanity has been remarkably patient pursuing this technology.

It has a bad rap today, but centuries from now how many people will carry genetic modifications/enhancements from their descendants? How will these people look back and judge the scientist today? Might they view scientist like He Jiankui (the chinese scientist responsible for the first genetically engineered embryo brought to term) as the Copernicus(es) of our time?
I'm not a Googler but read that Pichai oversaw the growth of Chrome browser from minor player to the dominant position it has today. And he also oversaw Android's growth after Andy Rubin's departure [1].

While he may not have written code that's two world-leading consumer adoption stories. So many great engineers build products that never achieve great adoption. So aren't Pichai's accomplishments worthy of CEO-level promotion?

Recruiting a world-class team, motivating them to achieve such domination, managing their egos amid a huge company full of talented people, executing across the behemoth that is Google... all these are vital skills and as a company grows maybe more of what you need from a CEO than one who is the most talented engineer. (I may be wrong; just a thought).

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-sundar-pichai-rose-to-be...
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Even on the "shortcomings" he'd be FAR better than Larry could ever hope to be, and Larry wasn't the worst CEO in the world. It's funny how the two very different companies go through the same tribulations, but it's true: Sundar is Google's Ballmer IMO, albeit a more polished version. Larry is Google's Gates, but less ruthless.

Compare this to the current Google which is basically run by an ex-McKinsey type of person who has no idea about the technical side of things and will sell his mom for a buck (as evidenced by Dragonfly). Of all the possible choices they have somehow converged on the worst one. I'd argue Urs, even with his shortcomings, could make Google a far stronger company in the mid- to long term. Urs has as good a bullshit filter and ethics as I've ever seen in an SVP, and he's not "slimy". Again, Sundar was a crap choice. I mean, it didn't even have to be an engineer. Nikesh Arora (sales) was pretty outstanding as well. Clearly CEO material, clearly one of the very best in his field, he had the internal respect. We will never know for sure, but he probably was angling for the CEO spot as well. And he'd be a better choice as a strong business leader. He left in 2014, shortly before Sundar took over.
Yep. A lot of the cost is hidden in their bandwidth costs, it's extremely overpriced.
I'll refer back to this post next time someone repeats the canard the apple hardware was perfect until Jobs died.

Also the 2008 era white plastic MacBooks whose shells cracked and flaked off into sharp edges.
Companies do this frequently. It's the annual "Cisco is laying off 7400 employees" or "E-bay is laying off 5000 employees" or "Microsoft is laying off 13,000 employees", where each time the number is suspiciously close to 10% of the company. Commenters on HN usually assume this means that X is in trouble, but really it's a way to get rid of the bottom 10% of the company while passing the cost on to the state's unemployment insurance fund.
Shouldn't the developers be falling over themselves to fix all those flaky unit tests? I can't believe Google just lets them keep running unfixed. In my code, I don't check anything in unless all unit tests pass (without flaking).
I'm pretty sure you mean he wrote the book size overviews for the first 10 versions of (mac)OS( X) and he did it for Ars Technica.
Same here. However, I have no illusions about stopping any of this. The global panopticon is just too useful for authoritarians.

So my solution is to avoid attracting any attention in meatspace. Not doing anything that could generate troublesome records. Such as leaving DNA around. I mean, I certainly leave DNA around, when I go out for stuff. But there's nothing involved that I need to hide.

I also make no effort to hide anything that I do online as my meatspace persona. Because that would attract attention. I do use a VPN service, but that's not at all unusual where I live. And I do torrent some, even when I'm not really after anything. Just as cover.

Anything potentially troublesome, I do via nested VPN chains and Tor. Mirimir just uses nested VPN chains. But then Mirimir just writes about stuff, so hey.
Edit - This is a conspiracy theory but it doesn’t mean it’s totally crazy - there is a good chance this “dead” CEO is still alive.

Very shortly before his death he got his affairs in order and flew to India. Then it’s reported he died along with a death certificate from India. Now they can’t find $200mil in crypto and are not reporting the cold storage addresses.

Would not surprise me if there has been massive fraud here, whether the CEO is alive or not. Everything is too convenient.

If you want to read posts from many sad and pissed off people, their subreddit is full of them https://www.reddit.com/r/QuadrigaCX
Imo, there are other companies that operate like this but don’t lose customer trust in the process.

I might be biased but I think Amazon is like this.
Why is somebody posting articles behind paywalls?

And then:
"We do not accept cancellations by mail, email, or by any other means. "

Really?
Was he being sexist? Or was his detractors being ableist? I can't be sure whether Heinz lives on the autistic spectrum, but so many gifted intellectuals do, and have real struggles with reading other people (let alone the crowd). It's ironic when loudmouths come out of the woodwork and call a socially-awkward ASD as 'tone-deaf', or just go ahead and use 'autistic' in the pejorative, often by 'well-intentioned' people fighting for some other brand of identity politics. It's hard to gauge whether the vitriol would be tempered if they knew they might be driving someone of great sensitivity to suicide, or if there truly is blood-lust driving this kind of collective outrage. In hindsight, it's pretty obvious he should not have been the public face of his own enterprise, but I hope one day we all learn to cut people a little slack.
Low cost eVTOL flight? It has high external costs of noise pollution. Also the eVTOL is nessesarily a complicated machine. The cost of that complexity is high.

By talking sailplanes, I didn't mean unpowered flight. Of course you need power, to counteract drag . I was primarily referring to a form-factor (clean, efficient and and silent like a sailplane) and to a mode of takeoff and landing (convert speed to altitude with a wing, instead of eVTOL).
On one hand you need a tribal one of us and it's highly social within that group.
Well, it is a conspiracy theory, but not all conspiracy theories are wrong...
Well strictly speaking it is a conspiracy theory but not an unreasonable one.
I’m of two minds on this. On the one hand, catching the golden state killer is awesome.

On the other, DNA matching is a stochastic process. False positive matches are possible, and likely if used to identify suspects at scale with no other evidence or links to the crime.

We’re probably still in the infancy of DNA-based law, I suspect.
How many times do you run the tests? I've had tests that only fail about 1/200 times or less.
Hey, that's just like fake video.

So you could fake everything. Video surveillance, DNA samples, testimony from dishonest informers and investigators, etc. This is just a tweak to parallel construction. And outright framing.
Not at Google, but making reliable tests was one thing I really struggled with professionally. There are many, many possible causes of non-determinism. Even something as simple as using multiple threads means that you suddenly realize that you must decide how long you're willing to wait for the other thread to complete. (You always kind of did, but when all the logic was on one thread, the waiting was not as obvious and errors were less likely to cause hangups.)

Unfortunately, under high load, I found that threads can be starved of CPU for seconds at a time. The CI machine was flooring it trying to build the software and run the tests. Setting the timeout high enough that there were no random failures caused by CPU starvation meant that build failures would take a very long time, delaying feedback for errors. That was nearly as bad as the flakiness.

I mostly fixed the flakiness by making the number of threads configurable and only running one thread in the testing environment, but I think a better way would be to reduce the number of parallel jobs to keep the test machines' CPU utilization rate at something more reasonable. Then, you can set timeouts that reflect real performance expectations for your software.
It did not work for me...paywall is still there :-(
It may be fun to point out that the complier could technically launch a game of Tetris or rm -rf /, but is that what any mainstream compiler does? I guess the behavior could be inconsistent, but who'd design a compiler like that? Seems like it'll roll over or it won't (ie. stay stuck at INT_MAX). Good unit tests would catch this if you changed compiler, but really you should handle it explicitly (look before you leap).
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Cold storage addresses.. you mean the morgue?
Also a relatively major sub-plot in Deadwood.
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