skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google OpEx for 2022 was ~$180B [1].

IIUC, salaries are ~$20B - total R&D spending is ~$31B [2]. However, at least some software developer expenses are counted in Costs of Revenue [3].

Unless my numbers are wrong - it appears cutting OpEx by 20% would be hard to achieve by cutting headcount.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/oper...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/507858/alphabet-google-r...

[3] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001652044/000165204...
"open for work" - the emoji/wording might be not so clear ... noted
"Fat Shaming" is being mean to someone and humiliating them with the intention of harming them or for entertainment.

Raising their insurance rates to correlate with their free-will choices is another matter.

Am I being "speeder shamed" if my insurance company raises my rates for getting speeding tickets?
Their aim is not to hire every good candidate. Maybe they are fine with just 10% of the candidates if they could be top choice of good enough chunk of candidates.
The mutants will find the other planets more hospitable.
I read article about how some young people are using tiktok to search for stuff instead of google. If they want to check out a restaurant or an event they would see if someone made a tiktok of it.
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That makes sense. So as a system we need to be spending more money on TAs, but not to raise their hourly pay, per se, mostly just to hire more TAs.

You are also correct that the author is a former lecturer. Too bad it's too late for me to edit the comment.
YC can afford to take risks and fund people on first impressions, that's their whole thing if you think about it.
I used to join entrepreneurship groups, but 5 years later they're still sharing motivational posters on Facebook. I did find a good group by joining accelerators and pitching classes.

I'm in a very good group with some of the best engineers I've met in the field. But it comes at a cost of having to hold an engineering job.

Back when I was freelancing, I'd hang around people who were actually making good money off it. But after no longer freelancing, that group also mysteriously died down.

If you want to meet people who are committed, you have to commit to something.
You may find land that is cheap, but you will only be able to build a single house on it. This incentivizes building large.

Your chance of finding a sub-dividable lot in a suburban area is essentially 0.
> thats why its hard to get into medical school, as it should be

We literally have a shortage of doctors and this is your attitude? Someone who wants to make money is an equally good or better doctor than the person who wants to help people. Medicine is scientific: you either do the operation successfully or you don't. You diagnose the patient successfully or you don't. A person's motivations for becoming a doctor doesn't play a factor in their skill.

We don't ask McDonald's workers why they want to work at McDonald's, why do we need to do it for doctors?

> Are you one of those people that assumes if you simply mentioned race in your argument, you win by default? Pathetic.

Do you deny that terms like "well rounded" and "holistic" are used to discriminate against Asians? Or should I point you to SFFA vs. Harvard, which showed that your coveted "well-rounded" personality traits can be and are used as tools of discrimination? I'll remind you that Harvard intentionally reduced the personality scores of Asians to make them seem less "well-rounded".

Med school admissions would be fairer without requiring such things as "well rounded" candidates. Personality scores are subjective and subject to bias and foul play, MCAT scores are not.
> people already use what would otherwise be unacceptable slurs with their closest friends

I suspect this happens everywhere. For a hilarious send up of this, see "Gran Torino".
But wouldn't donating to Paypal charity be paying with it? Thus something not allowed?
As my dad liked to say:

Q: "What are the people like around here?"
A: "What were the people like where you came from?"
Newest nonsense from google, two Google Meet apps

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/08/05/googles-merging-of-video-c...
I think in general smaller companies have to prioritize on-campus recruiting, but if you sent in your resume and you had some random no-name school (or a school that specialized in some completely unrelated industries), I doubt that would disadvantage you beyond the fact that it doesn't necessarily communicate much information to hiring staff who aren't familiar with it.
Is it really bait and switch if the company has a contributor/committer license agreement in place?

Having that license made it clear the company want to reserve the right to change the license, including going to closed source if they decide to.

Plus, you made it sounds like an open source project has a moral obligation to the companies that uses it for free. That seems backwards.
That probably varies. I'm not actually even slightly familiar with the design of these chips. At one extreme, I know you can have a software defined radio (possibly with limited range) and do everything in software. But in practice there will be dedicated hardware for at some things, like acquisition hardware that tries to lock onto a specific satellites prng encoding.

I'm not sure if the position calculations themselves usually use specialized hardware, but I would expect that processing of most data frames is handled by a small embedded processor, simply for flexibility. If the position calculations are done in software, then updating to use this data is probably possible in some designs with just a firmware update. Even if the position calculations are done in hardware, I'd bet the parameters are passed in from the software on the embedded processor, so it sounds like the conversion to the traditional parameter could allow that to be reused, as long as the design does not try to reuse these parameters in other ways which could cause trouble. If it does then the new limited Ephemeris data cannot be used, but the parity data might still be usable to improve time to first fix.

But all of this relies on the SOC supporting upgradable firmware for the embedded processor, that the SOC maker actually develop and provide that new firmware, and that the device manufacturer decides to incorporate that firmware update into a device update.
It works fine for read-heavy apps (ie: most apps) and, with things like Litestream, is especially attractive in distributed and edge settings, where you can stream out read replicas to a bunch of regions and direct writes to a single central region.

That might sound confining, but it's what people already do with Postgres: read replicas, single write master.

And the benefits aren't academic: having your database in-process not only simplifies your database code (because N+1 queries are no longer perf emergencies), but can also drastically speed up response times, because you're not dealing with compounding intra-DC latency responding to an HTTP request that incurs multiple database queries.

And, finally: SQLite wants a single writer per database. But there's no rule that says your entire app has to land in a single .db file. That's what you'd naturally do in a Postgres app, but it's not necessarily the natural answer for a SQLite-backed app, where it's pretty trivial to pull from multiple databases with a single SQL statement.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's still pretty niche-y as an alternative to standard n-tier app databases. You'd use it deliberately; it's unlikely to be a full-stack default. But people have definitely been sleeping on SQLite, and I think what you're seeing is some of those people beginning to wake up.
It's almost too easy now to point out problems at megacorps, but I'm thinking that probably Google won't be able to fix their problems and still follow the profit model they've chosen. These are the issues I see, please let us know if there are fixes now:

* Keywords missing from results, no way to set verbatim as default outside of Chrome
* SEO results aren't filtered out, no easy way to report results as spam without a Google account
* Results differ by user, huge consequences for society around the big lie and deep fakes
* Google took first order ad market revenue, Facebook took second order, we subsist on third order scraps (the 1% remaining)
* Any of us could change the world with $1 million, Google has $1 trillion, so maybe the world was denied a million innovations (see opportunity cost, guns vs butter)
* Even at its height, Google search couldn't provide something akin to SQL queries for manually refining results
* Alphabet exists in the face of antitrust laws
* Google and the other tech companies perpetuate Fizz Buzz interviewing instead of hiring by credentials and experience, feeding elitist dogma
* After all these years and countless billions of dollars, still no micropayments, crowdfunding or UBI model, especially for open source/invention/automation
* Google knows how we think, Amazon knows what we want, Facebook knows who we have a crush on

As long as FAANG companies vacuum up nearly all available capital, I don't see a way out of this mess. I wanted a gift economy by now, instead we got whatever all this is, with less than 10 years now until AI surpasses humans at any task and 20 years until AGI surpasses humans at all tasks.

Is this alarmist? Is 5G disrupting weather prediction alarmist? Is 10,000 Starlink satellites disrupting astronomy because they couldn't be bothered to spray on a $20 antireflective coating because they wanted us to see them as an advertisement (see McDonalds sign on the moon) alarmist? Is PFAS in all rainwater alarmist? Don't look up, etc, etc.

I miss the old Google so much.
Not AlphaFold's Fault
Whoever owns road may consider "traffic calming" changes to make travel much slower there. Or lots of gravel discourages some drivers.
Well said. I imagine a group like Lower Carbon Capital (https://lowercarboncapital.com/) would be better suited to provide expertise.
Is BtrFS without RAID safe?

According to them (https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status) only RAID56 is unstable.
I'd love that if it came with a corresponding decrease in appetite, but alas.
The difference is basically a spectrum from pure engineering to pure science. At first, pure science is really volatile, where as pure engineering can be a simple matter of talent and funding. Execution risk is much lower on the engineering side. There are many climate related issues that are bound by engineering.
I was pointing out thr current absurd social media trends when people talk about being overweight negatively in any context. This context would be an egregious offense too, regardless of your common sense.

I guess you haven't run into that yet.
How many of the idea-only founders were female?
> Clearly, you chose Akka because it was valuable enough to allow you to bring your company to that scale.

If that selection was made when it was being given away for free, it's rather hard to make the determination.

> If half of your company is based around gluing together a bunch of things that can only run because of Akka, it is fair that you pay half of your revenue to the people who actually make your company work.

And half to Linux, and half to GNU, and half to Apple, and half to your compiler of choice? There are a lot of critical pieces of infrastructure; I'm not really sure that this line of reasoning holds up very well. Unless of course, you think this one library is so magical that it deserves more money than all the other critical components.
Otter has had some issues in the past around their practices. It’s used a lot by reporters.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/16/my-journey-down-the...
Seems strange that we'd optimize for making modifications easier, when such modifications are much fewer and farther between than the everyday living that fills the time between, during which people value a solid wall with no gaps or seams.

Of course, not everyone values the same things to the same degree, and a homeowner could cut a 4x8 piece of drywall into smaller pieces and have more easily removable panels like you're imagining.
People believe what they're predisposed to believe ideologically.

I sympathize with [entity] -> Despite evidence, I cannot admit it was entity.

I dislike [entity] -> despite lack of evidence, the plausibility allows me to attribute it to [entity].
This fault condition -— a 30 second message where the client regularly needs to wait for a complete retransmit due to temporally-local interference —- seems like the perfect case for fountain codes.
This is insightful, thanks. Do you have any tips for getting in touch with people in companies who can actually buy from me? I find that I have far less work than I would like just letting clients come to me. Appreciate it.
Is there a problem with the package format itself though? There are lots of serious problems tied to distribution rather than package format which would make the experience way easier especially for beginners and people used to other package managers...

lacking binary wheels on PyPI, problems with shipping project with dependencies, confusion about there being multiple "package managers" (pip, pip-tools, poetry, pipenv, conda) and multiple formats of dependency lists (setup.py, setup.cfg, requirements.txt, pyproject.toml, ...), sys.path associated confusion (global packages, user-level packages, and anything specified in PYTHONPATH, ...)
It’s too bad they didn’t lookup what BSL is, but it’s the Boost license and a super liberal(explicitly keeping source attritubtion) vs whatever this is.
Older people tend to be nice, as decades of experience teaches them that being obnoxious doesn't work.
I used to work as a framer during the summer when I was going to college.

What you're glossing over here is that about 10-15% of the timber you buy to frame a site-built house is wasted (ad-hoc cuts, bracing, jigs, etc.) and thrown into a dumpster.

If a house is pre-planned, you can use a machine that cuts each board to length, and join the ends of each board using basic joinery processes that aren't practical when building a site-built home. You can pre-fabricate things like trusses and wall segments so you (or your workers) aren't driving 100k fasteners to fabricate something a robot could build in 1/10th the time.
That's not the only way monopolies can form, but it's the easiest one for sure.

My counterpoint is that without strong independent institutions preventing them, the companies themselves will enforce the monopoly using private security or police forces. If the government is too weak, the company will buy it. If there is no government, the company will form it's own government.

Like company towns- that's the natural end state of an unregulated market. The biggest company in the area can just buy everything and make their own laws.
Many Java haters have little idea that Java itself and JavaEE were heavily influenced by Sun working alongside NeXT in such attempts.

https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Objects_Everywhe...
The author seems to be using "Sociopath" in the Gervais Principle sense, not as a general slur. Always worth a read:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Azure Data Explorer Supports Native Ingestion from Amazon S3
How would you show the content and layout of an email with cryptographic signing?

You could sign the screenshot with a timestamp (out of my league though to get that right) from an untamperable source to show it hasn't been tampered with. Did you mean that?
AFAIK, FAT32 is Patent Free, even the Long File Name Patent has expired. The only patent left are on exFAT.
Although the standard description is "two-party", it's almost always really "all-party".
I have a terrible admission to make: one of the reason I like Python is its huge standard library, and I like that because I just ... despise looking for libraries, trying to install them, evaluating their fitness, and so on.

I view dependencies outside of the standard library as a kind of technical debt, not because I suffer from Not Invented Here and want to code it myself, no, I look and think, "Why isn't this in the standard library with a working set of idioms around it?"

I haven't developed anything with more than five digits of code to it, which is fine for me, but part of it is just ... avoidance of having to screw with libraries. Ran into a pip issue I won't go into (it requires a lot of justification to see how I got there) and just ... slumped over.

This has been a bad spot in Python for a long, long time. While people are busy cramming their favorite feature from their last language into Python, this sort of thing has languished.

Sadly, I have nothing to offer but encouragement, I don't know the complexities of packaging, it seems like a huge topic that perhaps nobody really dreamed Python would have to seriously deal with twenty years ago.
Google Introduces Pay-as-You-Go Pricing for Apigee API Management
you've almost certainly used software that uses sqlite today, possibly even right now https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
Yes, but power in ETH PoS comes from the validation/staking. It's value comes from the validators consensus, no? Which you cant do without money. Or am I wrong? I'm trying to decide if I should get on board or not. If this isnt true, what is the point of staking?
You can buy many, many generators above 22kw. Probably not many gasoline engines but tons of diesel and propane/natural gas fueled gensets.
Cake or Death?

Hmmm.... does the death come with chocolate on the side?

Seriously, more dictatorial states with nuclear weapons in the middle east aren't going to lead to more happiness, fairness, or understanding... any more than arming crips and bloods in South Central. Unless you believe that earlier nuclear annihilation is preferable for humanity, it is objectively bad.

One might as well argue that importing cocaine to create the crack epidemic and fund the Contras was morally neutral.
I maybe overstating it, but another contributing factor to its growing popularity may be the documentation. It is really nice and well presented. Reminds me of how the rust book also welcomed you to explore the language.
How Tardigrades Bear Dehydration
My guess is that about 50% are repeat founders and a majority of the rest are FAANG, Ivy League, or Stanford alums.

(This is a genuine guess, not a knock on YC)
But it is also subtle life advice.

Set yourself up so you can leave and you’ll have a much better time at work.
Does anyone know of a good app for voice journaling?

I use Otter for that purpose exclusively, and between this news and their recent UI changes to make the record/stop button tiny on their iOS app I'd like to seek an alternative.

I use DayOne for written journals and know it offers voice capabilities, but the limits are pretty short. I'd like something more akin to Otter.
Sony has a direct sell waitlist for the PS5 on the Playstation website. I signed up for it back in June. I received an email in August saying I had a 5 hour window to purchase it the next day.
Thank you for sharing your experience.

I was wondering if it would work for saas businesses, as the article talks mostly about e-commerce and hospitality.
The premise of the story is nonsense. If you are selling someone a coffee then some doodle is going to please some, however, the important interactions are in customer service and YOU DO NOT WANT ANY HAND WRITTEN NOTES.

I automate customer service emails, starting with the stats to see what the problems are. If all the time is taken up on mysteriously cancelled orders that are not communicated, I slice that off from 'manual intervention' to a well written, considerate and concise email that pulls through pertinent customer order details.

It will take me hours to develop, test and deploy that template, however, once done, it will be well received by the customer. There is a 'from the customer service team' rather than a fake name. The customer service team doesn't even have to press a button for this one to go out, it will be automated.

In time I will go for the other time taking parts of customer service, the goal really being to eliminate as much as possible. What remains can then be given the personal touch, with hand written notes and calls, if need be.

Once this is achieved, customer service can be pro-active rather than reactive.

Getting to this stage takes work. Initially it can be one calamity after another with a random roster of temporary staff of a low literacy level, possibly outsourced having to write what are essentially hand written notes. None of those notes are any good. It is at the txt spk level of communication.
The more uncomfortable truth is that I'd rather be able to record on a separate device because I will get in trouble for it if it comes to light. It is legal in my region, but people will be (very rightfully) creeped out by it and are unlikely to ever buy my short term memory sob story.

OP mentioned multitasking so maybe they had a similar version of this problem. People aren't going to be happily recorded just for the purpose of someone wanting to preserve their own energy during meetings.
> I think you'd get the same answer about many other aspects of data, code, system history, etc at any other 10+ yr old tech giant.

Processes to access personal data vary wildly among tech companies. At Apple, when a machine learning engineer wants to store and use data on the server side, they need to go through layers of approval from lawyers. Even when approved, it often comes with serious constraints about what can be done with the data. Meta is a lot more lax.
Uh, something is broken because I was given all the satire headlines before the HN headlines.

Also I didn't see any credit given to the Babylon Bee where all the headlines are from, although maybe it just wasn't prominent credit.
I've known people who got into Google who shouldn't be there. They don't have good DS&A knowledge enough to pass the interviews, but they passed anyway (hint: diversity and inclusion). They also said that they frequently do nothing all day, just collect paycheck.

Downvotes incoming. Bring it on.
Yeah, in the meantime I did find the word "sublicense" in section "2. Grant of Copyright License" of the original text. Fair enough.
Oh my sweet summer children. Feels like the author has perhaps never worked on a complex, big product or with any capable engineering management.

The worst and biggest messes in software engineering that I've seen have been situations where there was not enough engineering management. And those situations were fixed by... introducing proper engineering (and product!) management.

That being said, it is perhaps possible to survive with less engineering management in a situation where everyone is behaving and performing at senior or above level. However, realistically, that is very rarely the case.
I don't know anyone that's not from academia that's successfully applied and gotten a seed fund grant as a startup (1-3 people trying to get their first funding).

And articles I've read say a minimum of 80 hours of effort for the application.

I've looked at it and it seems very bureaucratic. I believe there is an entire cottage industry around writing applications.
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I’ve been dreaming about this for 15+ years and for me an important ideological aspect is decentralization.
The amount of Bad Things tm that happened related to energy is immense.

Power to the people ;)