skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is a business - they are neither a kindly old wizard doing things for the good of the people, nor are they a game show wheel, randomly picking a product to kill today.

You can pretty accurately model what they will and won't do with this one unusual insight that they're a business.

For instance: are they going to kill Chrome? No, Chrome has given them market dominance as well as a seat at the table to define web standards, improving and shaping the web platform both to be a more appealing product to developers and users, so that they can make more money when they stick ads on it, and to more easily support sticking ads on it. Or, briefly, Chrome - though it's not a paid product per se - makes them huge amounts of money.

What about (from that website) Google Currents? It's the rebranded, corporate-only version of Google+. Its biggest user was almost certainly Google itself, and it was a venue for employee activism and therefore was a threat to corporate profit. Briefly, though it was a paid product, they had few paying users and it cost them money.

A sibling comment mentions the end of legacy free G Suite (formerly GAFYD) accounts for very small users. This was, by definition, a thing that didn't make them money and a thing that was hardly an on-ramp for subscriptions that did make them money. Again, you could predict this.

So what abut Chrome OS Flex? It remains to be seen - it's not as clearly worthwhile as Chrome or even Chrome OS itself. But Google does absolutely make money on Chrome OS Enterprise, which this product is clearly linked with. It's nowhere in the same boat as things they provided out of the kindness of their corporate-personhood heart like legacy free G Suite or Google Reader.

It might end up being a failed experiment, certainly. But "It's a Google product" is a weak signal about whether it's going to get killed, and there are many stronger signals. Let me know when they kill Ads and Cloud.
You can demonstrate without keeping people up all night for weeks.

If that is the only type of demonstration that gets your point across, ok, but I seriously doubt that is the case.
Seems unlikely to me that starship will get to orbit this year. They haven't received FAA approval to test launch to orbit from Boca Chia. SpaceX's tests usually fail multiple times before they succeed, so the clock hasn't even started. The interval at which they can run tests logistically is at minimum a few months. As well, we also know that the raptor engine production line is running much too slow. [1] Starship required 34 raptors for every test, so you can do simple math at how quickly they will be able to do tests based on how quickly they can build the engines. There's never been an engine production line which could build much more than one engine per week.

It also seems likely that SpaceX will have to fundraise at least once at their current burn before Starship gets to orbit, so that could be a down round.

[1] https://spaceexplored.com/2021/11/29/spacex-raptor-crisis/
I initially started with Google Adsense, but has later moved to Freestar. They basically connect you with 10+ ad networks (including Google Adsense) and then all the networks will compete for your ad space each time an ad is shown. In my experience the revenue is a lot better.
> Starship is advertised as being capable of 100t to mars transfer.

Only with a yet undeveloped in-orbit refueling. Starship can get a lot of mass to LEO or is can get much less mass to a higher orbit or Mars transfer.

The only way it can get a lot of mass out of LEO is for a second Starship loaded with fuel to refill its tanks. This capability is likely still a ways off, SpaceX need to get Starship flying and landing reliably before they attempt a large scale in-orbit fuel transfer.
I hope nothing changes for the service. I've been a happy customer for more than a decade.
The article claims that bitcoin transactions are reversible, which they are not. He substitues the feds seizing the private keys and making new transactions as reversals.
And they answer the phone.

I've called their support line many times to report business-impacting issues, and they always answer within seconds (literally), provide competent support, follow-up, and genuinely care. Linode support may be better than Amex Platinum Card support. :-)
> Almost all of the cables can be removed by lifting a little black lever, and are equally as easy to replace.

I’m guessing that’s not commonly seen in electronic devices made today.
Its a transition between distinct operational phases of a dynamic system, iirc these can be described with a (my terminology may be a bit off here) topological phase diagram

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/dynamical-systems-neuroscienc...
The two founders are two of the smartest people I know. I think Magniv will be a game-changer for data science teams
I guess things are different since the 1980s when writing C code to implement "listening" on a port using the listen() call made this obvious.
Back in the day aristocrats paid people to keep their coats on the shelf. It wasn't like they couldn't do it themselves. It was expected from aristocrats to support such jobs so that the lower classes can have some employment.
How to Learn a Language Online
May I suggest a term?

In my mind, if the web page tries to exploit knowledge of the search engine's algorithm, that's "gaming". This is done by the web page, without the deliberate co-operation of the search engine.

If the search engine is the one doing the funny business, to increase their own profit, to me that's beyond "gaming". That's... "corruption" might be the right word.
Thanks man!! Now back to building..
One dying company absorbing another dying company.

Linode has really gone down the tubes. Just try to find out what the prices are for their services. Or how to actually use any of the services they provide besides a VM instance. Can you find the magical documentation site without Google? I couldn't. And pricing for some services requires you to sign up for an account and attempt to deploy the service, or you have to go through a "professional services" team for a "quote".

DigitalOcean and AWS don't have a problem directing users toward product information or docs, and they provide a simple web UI to use all their services. But Linode can't seem to grasp it, after years of trying to roll out a new web UI. Rather than provide you simple managed services wrapped around specific technology, they provide "scripts" you can execute as a single VM boots up. They can't even show you how to create a VPC without burying it 4 levels deep in a drop-down menu of a specific linode created in a specific region.

I got so fed up with it that I moved my one remaining linode off to DO. Not only do they have more services in more regions, but I can actually find the information I need to make changes.
I think you'd have a very different perspective if I were to sit outside your house with a horn blasting for a few weeks straight.
Ask HN: Is most advice only helpful for a while until too many people follow it?
I'm particularly interested in whether this is true for most marketing advice.
Yeah I've flicked it on a couple times but rarely notice much change, though honestly it's not a search engine feature I've come to desire, as even if you get a widget the majority of the time it may parse incorrect data or not even show what you wanted (which happens a lot with google's widgets IIRC).
* https://librivox.org/
See also https://www.wonderdraft.net/
LocalStorage serves important use-cases - you mentioned a few - but I‘be seen it used a bunch in web apps, where the user is already logged in, to persist setting. It was easier than adding an API to store a user‘s UI settings/state.
Stacking combining diacritics[1] is also fun, to make extremely tall text.

Also fun is enumerating all the characters in the Private Character section[2] to see what UI symbols are able to be inserted into unintended places.

[1] https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0300.pdf

[2] http://www.unicode.org/faq/private_use.html https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UE000.pdf
Another reason why is the Google founders have sailed into the sunset. The founder ethos is gone when they founders are no longer there.
I think this is Akamai figuring out they need to address the self-serve market.

Akamai has 6x the edge network footprint of Cloudflare and has all the cool trendy stuff like edge workers, they just suck at selling to the developer.
iirc birds are really sensitive to some types of gases.

Is it possible that a flock of birds flew into a pocket of such gas? Maybe methane escaping the earth?
Ping me at tom @ our domain (or see my profile), or come to our slack: https://www.svix.com/slack/

We would be happy to help you set it up!
I started with a lot less ads, but have since then put more on. I don't like it either, but people really don't mind it that much it seems. I also have an option where people can pay to remove the ads. Basically no one uses it.
Ecological consequences of human depopulation of rural areas (2020) [pdf]
They should be able to demonstrate and make noise, but there is a limit to things.

I cannot have a festival out on my lawn for similar reasons...
I also wanted to mention Fiio. I've got the lower-end M3K myself, but it does run Rockbox for what I consider to be the classic MP3 player experience.
I'd be interested in the steps you took. Third-party Apps on iOS can't change the Safari or system-wide options for search engines as far as I'm aware. Installing a third-party App just gives you a wrapper around Safari for browsing while you use that App only. If you swipe down on your home screen to use the system search, or open Safari itself, nothing has changed. I can ask you to install our App or another search provider's App, but it doesn't change your iPhone's search engine or add it to Safari.
I mean on the small ROM of MCUs you don't usually want to keep the device tree around, so it's just sensible that it gets turned into macros and is not accessible at run time.

Given that FreeRTOS does not deal with hardware at all, I don't see how it is a comparison.
I think this is the sentiment that they are fighting back on and calling toxic. I tend to agree. I don't want to argue and don't think it is a very good path to learning or improvement. A better alternative IMHO is conversation or joint exploration.

I think the biggest challenge is the format of internet dialog is conducive to argument that it leads people to forget or skip other modes of conversation.

If I asked for help with a problem and someone tried to argue with me, I would think they are toxic and look for help elsewhere. I didn't ask for help because I was looking for a fight.

The Socratic method and debate is good if you want to find the errors in your thinking. But I'm not trying to philosophically debug my thought processes and world view. I just want to fix a damn program.
He knows, deep down, that he is a fraud. He used a mechanism built into the browser instead of building some big-brain distributed system with Kubernetes and stuff. Just like a fraud would do.
> Why spend billions of dollars on armies ...

The vast majority of AI research (over all time) has not been seriously intended or expected to arrive at a general intelligence.

Sure there are some true believers there in some sort of handwavy construction argument ("and then a miracle occurs") and there have been serious research attempts to understand intelligence, of limited scope an resources. But to be clear, whether this wave or previous ones, the money washes in and the army of PhD's happens when there is a sniff of practical, usable algorithmic results from machine learning. It's not the same thing.

Parallel application of even relatively stupid algorithms targeted at the right tasks will rapidly outproduce any reasonable number of organic intelligences of the type you describe :)
ProtonMail Is Inherently Insecure, Your Emails Are Likely Compromised (2021)
Linode's blog post: https://www.linode.com/blog/linode/linode-and-akamai/
Sure, but it seems good enough for practical purposes. I mean, in her case it would even have been enough to just mail them a $40 Android phone with location services turned on.
Yes it does, here is the Google IO talk

https://youtu.be/pRlh8LX4kQI
`innerText` doesn't include the RTL marker, probably due to the fact that it is supposed to reflect the "rendered" appearance of the element (i.e. deleting certain invisible characters). However, `textContent` shows the RTL marker as expected.

I'm on the side of this being an unintentional effect.
That was an excellent listen, thank you for recommending it.
Or running it in a VM?
Yeah I don't understand how people don't understand this. If I were to go outside your house and lay on my horn for a few days I'd expect to get arrested.

Free speech has nothing to do with it.
>The only way they would interact with gravity would be through the shape of spacetime itself, which for some reason is a fascinating to me.

Photons are massless particles, but alas, they still gravitate because it's mass-energy that gravitates, not rest mass.
Thanks! Our keyboard shortcuts are pretty extensive too [1]. Let us know if there's a shortcut missing that you'd like to see!

Beyond price, there are a handful of examples [2], but I'll focus on two big things that set Shortwave apart:

(1) An opinionated triage flow. Bundles group together related senders to make your inbox more scannable, while our triage actions (Pin / Snooze / Done) and drag 'n drop allow you to treat your inbox like the to-do list that it is. [3] We lean into the fact that inbox zero is not a realistic goal for many email users.

(2) Team features. We bring Slack-like channels into your email inbox and give you the notification controls to make that possible. [4] Shortwave eliminates the boundary between your team and the rest of the world. And things like emoji reactions, mentions, and a chat-like interface make it feel unlike any email client you've used before.

[1] https://www.shortwave.com/docs/references/shortcuts/

[2] https://www.shortwave.com/features/

[3] https://www.shortwave.com/docs/guides/101/

[4] https://www.shortwave.com/docs/guides/team/
Again, going back to the discussions over on RWT: some of the less robust forms of ECC that DRAM manufacturers typically implement can end up amplifying the problem by turning double bit flips into silent multi bit flips which makes the memory controller's job much harder. DRAM manufacturing process tech is not optimized for logic like CPUs are, and those limitations really do constrain how much logic (or "how good") the ECC implemented on DRAM chips is. I trust CPU manufacturers to get memory controllers right more than I trust DRAM manufactures to get ECC right for one simple reason: row hammer.
That’s a very cool book and a nice gift idea.
That's reasonable. Substitute "corruption" wherever I used "gaming" when referring to maximizing profits at the expense of serving useful search results.
But the transactions were final, just as it would be if your employee stole the day's cash and escaped somewhere you couldn't find them. Reversible would mean you could press a few buttons on the cash register and poof, the money's back in it and not the pocket of the thief.

Tracking down said thief and taking the bag of money back in this metaphor constitutes a new transaction. As is subpoenaing Dropbox and gaining access to the poorly encrypted list of private keys from these Bitfinex rapper/hackers.
Desperation-Induced Focus
The trades did clear on the exchange, and withdrawals were forthcoming until December 2018 when Gerlad disappeared. Gerald didn't steal all the crypto, he just stole some of it, but because he stole crypto instead of cash, when the price spiked, his debts increased much faster than he could pay them.
I'm all for demonstrating, but if you're outside people's houses it's more than demonstrating I think.

I don't have the right to go lay on my horn outside your house, and for good reason.
I tried DO after using Linode for a few years, and DO felt more polished and streamlined. DO's docs are great, too. But I honestly have no complaints with Linode. Note that I'm just running Nginx on a $5/mo VPS.
So to put things simply, this comes from a view of a neuron (or network of neurons) as a dynamical system with various states. These states are constantly in flux and we can describe the states as patterns that are seen from plotting the pieces of the instantaneous state of the system in question. These patterns will repeat and change over time based on inputs and such, hence the term "phase change"

At least that's my current understanding of the matter, coming from the mouth of an undergrad late in a biochem degree with a focus on neuro
It did at some point but people were nerfing it so Apple got angry and ditched it
You can mitigate this risk in the same ways that are already available to you with your current email provider, for example using PGP in your email client. But that requires configuring with everyone you communicate with.

ProtonMail tries to solve this problem but it has its drawbacks. If your email is end-to-end encrypted then you can't do server side search, to search through your email it has to be done on the client.

ProtonMail's help page on how to search when all your email is encrypted:
https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/search/

FastMail's blog post about why they don't do end-to-end encryption:
https://fastmail.blog/advanced/why-we-dont-offer-pgp/
> What's your answer to this?

My product does important things that ABC doesn't. Just that my product overlaps with the main 80% of the product.

> is it really a clone, or is it a clone-if-you-ignore-the-various-details?

It is the latter -- clone-if-you-ignore-the-various-details. But, people I talked to (people I consider important for my startup) are so enamored with ABC their eyes glaze over when I mention the differences, as though they feel they're insignificant differences.

> do you regularly integrate direct client feedback

I do this but not the charities, mixtape, etc. You could say my logo is actually cuter.

> Hang in there, define your goals, it really sounds to me like you are already done being awesome and are poking at legendary

Your comment made me cry a little and made me believe. Thank you.

I get the idea that you have a lot to say about aspects of business differentiation, useful to someone like me for sure. I hope you get a chance to elaborate either here or in a blog someday.
> But I for one think an app that doesn't constantly send my every move to the server is actually a breath of fresh air.

I strongly agree. For me as a user, use of localStorage (and its ability to run 100% offline and even be loaded from a local path) makes Wordle particularly charming and usable.

It's also the ultimate in zero-trust architecture because there is no back end.
> personalization just isn't that great

Data analytics truly feels like a bubble.

Netflix has achieved the dream of movie studios going back more than a century now. They have the talent, the money, and more than two decades of data. Netflix knows what you watch, when you stop watching, how often you watch, which movie covers work best.

And yet, it's hard to look at Netflix as anything more than a total failure of the promises of data analytics and personalization. Netflix should be putting out nothing but hits. A dozen Breaking Bads or Game of Thrones.

Yet they are not. In fact, they do not even have a single show that is to the level of Mad Men, Breaking Bad, or The Wire. HBO and AMC are running laps around Netflix. Meanwhile, Netflix is making live action Cowboy Bebop and cancelling it before people even know it existed. I'm really curious what the data said about funding that particular project. On one hand, you have the cult following of the anime that will absolutely tear a live action version to shreds. On the other hand, you have to convince the uninitiated into viewing a remake of 23 year old anime.

Then there is the personalization. The fact that there is a meme about spending more time browsing the Netflix catalog than watching content tells you everything you need to know about how little people trust Netflix recommendations. Their new "top 10" feature is just depressing most of the time. It looks like a list of ten random DVDs in the bargain bin near the Walmart checkout line. Oh, and, their top 10 feature is currently the biggest recommendation feature on their site. And it's not even personalized! If that's not a complete admission of defeat I don't know what is.
Is there any way of getting politics into HN/politics so as to raise the tech s/n ratio?
I had a sour taste from what I remember being misleading communication around very serious control plane hacks of linode.

A lot of bitcoin theft in 2012 (maybe by their own staff?)

2013 some kind of cold fusion / HTP hack

Another CF / HTP hack here.

2014 brought the MySQL server no password stuff.

2015 ish some kind of total root compromise?

You can get a feel for all this here including the denials / lack of notification.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845985

Maybe 2016 same issue?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-firm-linode-resets-user-...

Not a company I'd put much actual production onto. Imagine if AWS had a hacker running around with total root access, able to reset MFA tokens to their own etc with no notice to customers. I'm not even sure such root access exists on AWS.
Well, without knowing what the product is, the advice could be rather limited. You can offer better support or you can offer something that a big company cannot afford like data exportability. VC financed companies need to show exponential growth to justify their valuations while you maybe can afford to invest in your users that is not profitable but that might give you an advantage in the long term.
> Maybe they didnt hire you since you sound very eccentric (as in euphenism for strange) with those big words.

SRSLY? You are saying "big words," On HackerNews? This venue is the Home of The Big Word. I can't hold a candle to some of the eloquence that regularly appears here. I pretty much write in the vernacular.

BTW: I am "strange." You got it in one. I've become quite happy about that, and so has pretty much everyone I've worked with, over a long career, in many diverse teams.

But you ... might want to browse around my work ... just a bit ... before deciding you know about me. I make it very easy to check my work. Unlike most folks around these parts, I'm extremely open about who I am, and how to find out about me. Helps me to stay away from the Dark Side of The Force. I'm also not particularly interested in working for anyone else, ever again, so I'm not really about trying to be diplomatic. If some chap in a crown is running about, starkers, I'm likely to point it out.

It's kind of amazing that we regularly resort to sending up insults, hereabouts, without taking just a couple of minutes to see if they have a landing pad, first.
Quite a bit of overlap with Standard EBooks, but it looks like Global Grey has some in categories that SE typically shies away from, so that's a plus.
What you are talking about is ideal state. My experience is literally its always "here's the referal" if i talk about anything specific and the standard host of anti biotics and standard z pac style medicines dont clear it up. Always.

Now my view might be biased because i have been given Kaiser as my provider and i know they have incentives in their system that arent the norm. But its always a specialist referral. Ear problems that the anti biotic didnt solve? ENT referral! (the ENT laughed and said the general medicine doctor made the problem actively worse with the multiple types of anti biotics proscribed sense it was a fungal infection in the ears). Skin issue? Here's the dermatologist referral! Shortness of breath after working out? Here's the pulmonology referal if you want it. Your knee hurts? Here's the rheumatology referral.

I am legit curious what medical service the doctor would provide. You mention "multi-systemic disorders that most mid-level practitioners would never recognize" do you have an example of that?