skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kinda doubt YT will be anything if it needs to build and maintain its own infrastructure, run its own datacenters, have its own fiber links, etc. Their cost structure assumes that they get all of those things from Google at a fraction of the cost they'd pay if they had to roll their own or host their stuff in the public cloud.

Android could be something, maybe, but if you remove Google's services and AI on the backend it's just a third rate iOS rip-off.

Content ads likewise rely on low cost networks, infrastructure, and having everyone's profiles available to them for ads targeting. Remove access to profile and make them fend for themselves, and it's an open question whether they'll survive.

I do agree with your last point though: having all these things as a single monolith presents an insurmountable obstacle for other companies to enter the corresponding markets.
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My guy you read way too much into a comment about a manager who was not trying to nurture the career path their subordinate was aspiring for. That's part of being a manager. A manager who doesn't go to bat for people like that is a shit manager. Your response is really bizarre, like you were personally attacked.
Why is the running time of the attacked python process exponential? I would expect quadratic.
Growth = new skills

New skills = more money

More money = better life
Fair enough. As long as you don't try to gloss over that the left capable of violence just fine by itself, and that self-appointed "antifascists" need to be stopped, too. And bring up all the left terrorists of past decades, too. Red Brigades (very much antifa and all) alone killed about as many people as everything you list here. Although I do not think I've heard of "many" Q-Anon related murders, and as far as I recall nobody got killed at the pizzas place.

I do find it interesting that any time antifa gangsters go on a rampage it's always because there are some "armed agitators", and basically they asked for it, and it's no big deal anyway, but one right-wing nutjob does something and it's always a part of some "vast right-wing conspiracy". These double standards are rather tiresome, especially if you manage to still remember that left-wing governments are way ahead of rightwingers in body count.
The site actually does have a page about dual flush toilets.

https://toilet-guru.com/dual-flush.php
Even if it works in production, I would expect that means it will have missing or incomplete features.
Variable expenses on a car you already own are nowhere near $0.50/mile. (The GSA/IRS figure includes apportioned fixed costs, which do not fully apply here, IMO.)
> create an environment where working on true “moonshot” tech was not so risky.

I think its not the risk that prevents moonshots, but the consolidation in the industry and the moats that are built around the bigs.

The network effect in social media and tech platforms works both to provide more value to users but also to stifle innovation - Amazon's customer is no longer the customer, its the merchant selling on their platform. Google and Facebook's customer is ad buyers. Think about how many new useful features could be built using the networks that are not ad-friendly. I find that Facebook and Twitter to be more like the preventer of socialization, rather than the enabler. They prefer you engage with products, videos and ads than each other, and when engaging with each other not in meaningful ways. The biggest roadblock to innovation that makes an improvement to people's every day lives is that if its not on one of the platforms or ecosystems that already exist it matters little
The broader theory of Peter Thiel is that most of these advancements have been done in the rather unregulated ‘world of bits’, while areas related to physics, chemistry etc. have seen less advancement.

Playing Go against an AI opponent while in a 1970s, crumbling, subway system would make for a good analogy.
I can’t imagine a train leaving every 10 minutes could ever be cost effective. There just aren’t that many people who want to do that trip (8 hours?) when you could do it in 2 hours by plane.
This is turning into a "I'm self taught and I can code juste as well as the next CS graduate" debate.

I totally agree with that proposition. The degree is not a sine qua none condition of competence.

My point was that success stories about kids making a lot of cash on a self taught developer skillset are pure and simple lies. They hide the truth to those who really want to get into the IT industry and make a living with it. That truth is : work your engineering skills if you want to build cools things.

I said make a living. Not get crazy rich. Engineers don't get crazy rich. Salesmen (and salewomen) do.

People that did not have the ressources or desire to go to uni would get a lot more encouragement and from real developer tales : stories about smart engineering, beautiful UIs, dedication to a craft and passion, or even sly hacking.

Instead they read stories about skilled salesmen. The stories are not even that good. Glengary glen ross and the wolf of wall street are much better.
So did you pay your sources for the information or if not what was their reason for taking the risk?
Kind of surprising that most of the comments here are taking the bait and think this is actually about anti-trust. This is 100% political, with us just having the “social media summit” that only included extremists, and the election coming up.

This is a direct threat aimed at social media companies telling them they better not censor extremist content that is in favor of the current administration, no matter how vile it is, or else the investigations will go deeper and the consequences will be worse.
As they say, cash is king
Sure, but Google also acquired Android, Apple acquired Siri, and Microsoft purchased DOS. They were still developed for years under their new companies. At some point, it does become their own project.
These are standard in all the new constructions I see in Arizona.
I'm shocked! No one asked the question "why is this better" when schools lined up to buy millions of iPads.
I certainly do not intend to deliver anything that works before asking for compensation, I intend to show something that works and then negotiate how much it is worth.
Don’t be so sure about that 36-48 number. In upstate NY I felt a bite on my leg; checked the spot and found nothing there. But I ended up with the ring around that exact spot all the same...
"parents" in french means parents, but can also mean relatives.
And China should defend New York from the US.

See how stupid it sounds when the situation is reversed.
From talking to Lyft drivers, you can specify where your last ride takes you. I’ve heard of people doing that from Sacremento to SF and back.

Now can you do that from Dayton to Chicago? I’d be interested to know. You could potentially piece a trip back together with a mix of rides and deadheads.
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That, or we've already seen where this road leads: our best and brightest talent being used to make rich people richer. Nobody with a high-paying job in finance is losing that job.
What would you say to yourself if you were in 2050?
ever try to setup superset?
> this kind of composable parallelism are Go and Erlang, ... which therefore optimize for I/O throughput rather than CPU throughput

Parallelism is always for CPU throughput, precisely why you don't run any more OS threads than the number of cores.

Concurrency primitives (whether in Go, Erlang or any other programming language) are meant for I/O-bound tasks. Let's not conflate concurrency primitives enabling I/O-bound tasks and parallelism primitives enabling CPU-bound tasks.
I'm the opposite. If my living and food expenses are covered, I'll prefer full autonomy over no or minimal autonomy. You can only spend so many years doing things you're asked to do which you don't really want to do before the value added by the extra money is outweighed by the value lost from life in general becoming more depressing and less inspiring.
Is it generally true that people of extreme intelligence have richer lives in terms of emotional and spiritual development?

This is definitely not the case in my circle, where the MENSA candidates tend to sound a little bit like the Throw away comment, and if they don't have outright disdain for typical human connections and spiritual pursuits, they definitely don't spend the average amount of time on emotional or spiritual development.
I think that the author is mistaken or careless when making that particular statement.
What do you mean? Why don't you enlighten the rest of us about what makes a self-taught special?
Do people use Cilk heavily in the high-performance computing world? They did not when I was part of it. I think OpenMP (https://www.openmp.org/) is what more people would reach for. It started as a way to parallelize loops, but has had a task framework for a long time which I believe also allows composeable parallelism.

OpenMP, however, depends on not just compiler extensions, but pragmas, so it tends to not find traction outside of the HPC world.
Regulation can be freeing, especially anti-trust when it prevents incumbents from getting so large they take over. Things like privacy regulations are somewhat stifling, but over time they can become a lot more easily abstracted. There's no reason all the tooling around data pipelines we have right now can't take into account GDPR out of the box and with a simple API.
This is a reductive generalization, sort of like assuming people at Bell Labs were working on telephone equipment, or people at Xerox PARC were working on copiers. How a company makes its money isn't what determines the biggest impact of its research. In the end, it may be some other research area that they never figure out how to make money on at all.

Google famously has lots of "moonshots" and publishes lots of research and open source code. It's too soon to say what's going to turn out to be a real advance versus an "illusion".
The Github they link to says it's under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
The #1 issue with big tech is that the major players are under-utilizing their talent base. It's never been easier to start a software company (idea, laptop, Stripe Atlas, AWS/Azure/GCP.. GO!), and yet the over-all number of new business in America is declining.

The threat of anti-trust, and perhaps trust busting, will spur competition and innovation. The US owes it to it's future citizens that STEM talent is not underutilized before it's too late, I support efforts to end this stagnation.
Plus it ends up making it really easy on the driver. Only one passenger to worry about vs driving around the city all day. All the longer Lyfts I've taken, the drivers seem to like them the most. I always feel bad too knowing they'd have to potentially drive back without a fare but I've never had one complain about it.
> Some would say that Google, in all its free lunch glory, doesn't respect its employees that well consider they've had employees go on strike due to their policies.

The protests were mostly against sexual abusers/harassers and the arbitration policies. Are you implying that most other tech companies haven't had any executive-level sexual harassers? That most other tech companies don't have forced-arbitration policies?

How many other companies openly allow their employees to organize protests through company emails and forums? Not many. The open culture is what allows people to protest.

Disclaimer: I work at Google.
I never would have thought of this, but it would likely work!
mhm i don't think so.

But it wont't be possible to run it on a cheap shared Host since the usually don't support running arbitrary binaries. I think they are aiming towards a more professional/corporate customer base. But since nextcloud is still a thing its not a big loss for the average nerd.
> it goes without saying that these companies and individuals are almost definitely solving for minimal tax rather than maximal "stability"

Why does it go without saying? Indian courts can take 10+ years to resolve simple disputes; Mauritian courts are much faster.

A portfolio of stocks and bonds held in a Mauritian entity costs a few tens of U.S. dollars of extra accounting costs to do taxes on a year; a portfolio in India held by a foreigner can easily cost hundreds of dollars for an American investor to comply with.
yeah I was hoping for more feedback on Superset and with Druid as well. They look great but there's very little buzz about them.
Anyone notice that the Justice Department under an administration who supposedly doesn’t believe in regulation all of the sudden is interested in regulating companies run by the “liberal elite”? Does it not worry anyone that an administration that’s not exactly friendly to the states where these companies are located are now all of the sudden cracking down on only certain big businesses?

Every time I post about the government is rarely the answer I get push back. Be careful what you ask for...
This doesn't make any sense. When I reserve a rental car at Signature or any other FBO, I may or may not give my tail number, but I'm pretty sure that no one has ever checked. I could have arrived in the front door and rented the car. (No one does this, because the cars are more expensive rented this way than from a typical rental desk as the FBO takes a cut and sometimes the airport adds a cut as well.)

This sounds like Hertz just blew it or Signature didn't want to rent a car one-way to this guy and fobbed it off on Hertz.

[0] - FBO -> Fixed Base Operator, basically a service station for private aircraft (whether charters or not; most are not).
What's the alternative? Increase government R&D spend to the same levels as FAANG companies? But will they have enough infrastructure to support that? For example, Tensorflow runs on Google's global datacenter infrastructure - this is the only way these latest monster transformer models can be trained, using thousands of GPUs or TPUs.
Web search has become a commoditized service over the last few years. I've used DuckDuckGo exclusively for over a year now and it's actually really good, and I've switched over to iCloud for email. Even Apple maps is pretty decent nowadays. There's really nothing I need from Google anymore. Their moat is shrinking rapidly.
>> Nope. Not spending my weekend fooling around to impress some potential employer. I'm going to spend it with my kids, riding my bike, and enjoying life.

Okay, it is time for some harsh love. You won't like it, and I'll get downvotes, but whatever. It needs to be said.

My parents are both doctors, and they are in their 60s now. And you know what? They still work their asses off, on many evenings and weekends, trying to stay up-to-date with new developments in their respective fields. My dad just got back from an ophthalmology conference in Europe. My mom is a guest speaker at a pathology conference and she has been preparing furiously. And it has been like this _all my life_.

So yeah, I detest this sense of entitlement that programmers have, where they want to a) get paid a lot and b) have lots of free time on the side. How about this instead: if you want to have a high salary, then it is reasonable for people to expect you to make certain sacrifices, such as work on your own projects on the side experimenting with new technologies and ideas. Don't like it? Well, it may be time to pick another profession...
It is risky. Why work at a unproven startup doing something really hard for $150k and equity of questionable value when you can work at a FANG for $350k/year doing less work?
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It is SEO spam, and TripleByte does seem to use a lot of "growth hacks" or something, because I see their ads on pretty much any platform that I see ads for (like on mobile apps, where I don't have any easy-to-use ad blockers), and they're mentioned on HN at a surprisingly high rate.

But (I think?) I've seen people here genuinely recommend them, and I also don't think YC would work with and promote a company they didn't like or trust. Companies' marketing and sales teams can sometimes have a very different vibe and sense of ethics compared to the rest of the company.
As far as I can tell Gauss didn’t ever make a picture like that ...?
>Wouldn't this leave us with Qualcomm once again the only manafacturer of cellular modems for everyone else?

Does it matter?

1. Intel aren't selling their modem to anyone else anyway.

2. MediaTek Still supplies Discrete Modem.

3. Apple, Huawei, Samsung are already 50%+ of the market.

With Xiaomi, BBK ( Vivo OnePlus Oppo ) going to have their own / shared Modem solution in a few years time. Which combined to ~20% market. There isn't that much of a market left for players other than Qualcomm and Mediatek.
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It wasn't a joke and it was Pizza Hut, not Coke.
It wasn't shut down, a deal was settled between the FTC and Google. You can mince words and call it a political conspiracy, but saying it was shut down is misleading when Google changed how it handles mobile patents to appease the FTC:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/01/googl...
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Thiel's IMHO bizarre politics aside, I really agree with him on this particular subject.

I have believed for quite some time that we entered a kind of minor dark age around the early-mid 1970s. Virtually everything we're doing now from spacecraft to AI to the Internet was invented before 1970. For some reason around that time we largely stopped making major advancements. There are a few exceptions (CRISPR/CAS9, graphene, Li-Ion batteries) but nothing since then compares to the insane rate of progress experienced in the 50s and 60s. We went from horse drawn carts to moon rockets and supersonic aircraft in 50 years with a great deal of the progress happening between 1940 and 1970. That's 30 years of a rate of innovation orders of magnitude beyond anything in human history.

I am not certain of the cause. It's tempting to blame proximate things like the rise of neoliberalism, de-funding of basic research, or bureaucratization of science, but I wonder if the cause wasn't something deeper. It really seems to me that everything went off the rails around 1973. Take this graph for example:

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/thp_201...

Right around 1973 is when the decline of the US middle class really started. The effect just didn't become really acute until after the 2008 super-recession.

Here's a few of the ideas I've brainstormed:

* Did the collapse of Bretton Woods (a.k.a. the Nixon Shock) break something about the fundamental incentive structure of the economy?

* Was the generation that grew up on television less able to think innovatively? Did they start taking power around the early-mid 70s?

* Did we get scared? Was the rate of progress during those years so fast that it caused some kind of deep subconscious "future shock" backlash that manifested in things like the luddite wing of the green movement or the rise of fundamentalist religion?

* Energy got much more expensive after the oil shocks of the 70s and after US production of the really cheap easy oil peaked. Maybe rising energy costs cut margin from the economy?

I'm open to suggestions. I really think "what happened in 1973?" is a historical mystery.
I'm referring to the inability to choose a password without some esoteric email-like rule-set.
> create an environment where working on true “moonshot” tech was not so risky.

this obsession with moonshot ideas is just as damaging as these big companies turning customers into statistics and sucking up talent and feigning innovation. long-term technological development simply does not occur in the united states. EVERYTHING is under accelerated schedules and thus entirely short-term. i do not know of a single entity other than possibly universities, although even they are suspect, in the united states that focuses on long-term research and development goals. there are many long-term investigations that are waiting to be undertaken that are not moonshot ideas. the united states has a real danger of falling behind due to this hyper-focus on short-term results.
This certainly looks like it's because they didn't bend the knee.
It seems like it's more like C#'s PLINQ and TPL merged into a single abstraction.
> This particular municipality is often described as a food desert. A significant proportion of the population buys its food at gas stations and quickie marts where healthy fresh food isn’t usually on offer.

I’m flabbergasted by this comment. How can people accept living like this?
It would be hilarious if the settlement forced facebook to spin whatsapp out. 19bil for nothing
Warren and Sanders are proposing breaking up these organizations (Google, Amazon, and FB) - but I believe they are pulling out of the Gilded Age playbook that won't necessarily transfer to today's age. How do you break up virtual assets and realistically stifle their power?

I don't believe the same old anti-trust is the most effective method for dealing with these and future monopolies. Instead, a more tiered social responsibility program may be the ideal solution to continue and incentivize innovation while allowing society to reap the benefits of organizations that reach network monopolies.

If you're interested in exploring this line of thought I've published a brief article about it: https://bit.ly/2Yc57iS
> Citation needed.

https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/inflight/eco...

"Complimentary house beer and wines, soft drinks, juices, tea and freshly brewed illy coffee"

That's in economy.

> It doesn't exist on US planes, because it's an Asian custom. It's a hot, wet towel that they hand out to everyone before every meal so you can wipe your hands.

Yes, hot wet towels. You get them before meals on US carriers as well. Here's a video of them being handed out in economy on a domestic US flight.

https://youtu.be/KzUyCxFLQP8?t=85

Believe me now?
>There's no reason all the tooling around data pipelines we have right now can't take into account GDPR out of the box and with a simple API.

Actually, I can think of lots of reasons. It's certainly possible but it won't ever be simple and well-generalized.
Union?

If you’re one of the best, why would you want to be equalized with your peers?

No way I would want this. Why is it my problem that some introverted programmer can’t get themselves together enough to throw together a portfolio, some OSS contributions and ask for what they’re worth?
This is so scary because of the highly politicized nature of Trump's DOJ. This feels like it's all about settling political scores that the right wing has against Google and Facebook's functions as gate keepers against fake news. In fact Steve Bannon announced this attack on tech shortly after the election. It is scary because they're now using the power of the federal government against their political enemies, where does that end? And they see an opening for their nakedly political attack because there is a lot of truth to the anticompetitive market, and liberals like Elizabeth Warren have floated similar ideas.
Sure, there are absolutely varying degrees of screw up. You can make the same argument for anything. But for any position there is usually a general rule, and any number of exceptions.

The point here is that the general rule for human error should tend toward compassion, because the vast majority of mistakes people make are not that serious. In my world at least it seems that we prefer to tend toward punishment instead.
Bite with red ring surrounding bite site? Get treatment at once.
Feigenbaum barely ever showed up in the physics building at Rockefeller while I was there. He had an office. I saw his retreating back once, but he chose not to engage with the community there, despite it being full of people who wandered as widely as he did.