skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tax-cuts-for-the-rich aspect of this is bad PR, but removing the 45% rate probably only costs the public purse about £2bn a year; the real problem is energy subsidy expected to cost £60bn over the next six months.
How much more can the poor guy be exploited by his family? For some reason, the articles that have explained what’s been going on with Willis leave out the role his wife has played in what’s gone on with him. Sending out a guy who people claim doesn’t know where he is half of the time, to make straight-to-video release after release seems questionable.
> Now even if they wanted to, they can't try to get gas from Russia.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Nord Stream is the largest pipeline, but by no means the only one. Despite the fact that Nord Stream has been shut down for over a month, Germany continued and still continues to buy Russian gas.

> The US on the other hand benefits both by wrecking Germany's industry and opening up a market for their LNG.

Again, you have no idea what you're talking about. The US is a beneficiary of German industry, it has no financial motive to wreck their industry, let alone the geopolitical implications of wrecking the industry of their key ally. And the US has already been selling gas to Europe literally as fast as it can. There's no new market to open up, the status quo continues.

And the last half of your points appear to be completely irrelevant? None of the sabotage here will have any noticeable effect on the war in Ukraine, let alone have the effect of extending it, which is what you appear to be suggesting.
> What else could they do?

Not invade?
> It's sad to me how successful people have been sanitizing the internet.

Sometimes they win, sometimes their effort backfires like that elderly lady with a cliffside beach house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
This is exactly what is happening here. Every discussion around the so called bitcoin climate issues always boils down to. We don't think it's worth while energy usage.

Ironically the fact that Bitcoin uses energy is exactly why these attacks will fail.

There is no way you are going to convince grid providers to stop serving Bitcoin miners. When miners contribute huge financial intensives to not only pay for grid improvements but for the roll out of greener energy.

Green advocates cant foot the bill for cleaner energy. But Bitcoin can.
Boston Dynamics was never integrated into Google, so I guess relatively easy to split of.

Motorola is interesting, but considering it was less than a year in Google and more focussed on hardware development probably also not fully integrated and one could argue whether Google acquired it only for the patents they kept when selling to Lenovo.

John Hanke in contrast built Maps and related things after being acquired and only after a few years moved to build Niantic, where at least Ingress was developed fully inside Google (but apparently not fully in Google stack, but so that they could transition to Google Cloud)

But yeah, good examples!
"But where status quo is also an expression of power, there can also be an onus to justify its existence."

That's literally every law.

"Which is all to say, the onus isn’t on anyone to unjustify something that’s wrong"

The onus would be to show that "something" is wrong for that logic to even apply. As you said "you’re making the claim, you defend it.". Society already decided that it was wrong and formed a law, so now it's time to hear why it shouldn't be (I'm interested in research on either side).
Bill Gates' recent book "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" is a pretty comprehensive look at the landscape of how to change course on climate. I liked it. It's fairly optimistic overall, but it'll definitely take LOTS of large solutions, not just one giant investment even if we had $100 trillion to dump into a single solution. There's no single solution that will solve it, but there are lots of smaller ones that will make a big difference if we move forward on all of them in parallel.
Fortunately you can copy the binary from an older version of Windows.

At least you could thank Microsoft for being backwards-compatible.

I've done this with calc.exe since ~Vista.

the Notepad team

That's probably part of the problem --- Notepad is something that could be written by a single person in less than a day (it's not more than a wrapper around a Win32 multiline editbox.) Yet give a whole team of multiple people the task of "modernising" it, and work will magically appear to fill the available resources.
Disclaimer: I work at Google. Opinions are my own, etc etc. I have 0 to do with the Photos team.

Google Photos is an amazing product, it has an amazing offering and works extremely well. It's also extremely popular and integral to the Android ecosystem. I'd absolutely bet of it not being shutdown in the next 5 years, yes.
directly training a NeRF on a single image is a terribly unconstrained problem that would lead to a volume that looks bad when the viewpoint changes. the gist of render + use diffusion model to refine is a great idea though and core to our method! the details of how to use the diffusion model for this refinement was the challenge, but once we figured that out it... just worked :)
You’re charging the customer for this?

How do they control the rate of api calls?
Exactly, and of course Kyiv/Bucha was close to the early fighting - Russia made a thunder run directly to it from the nearby border. Russia started their invasion a 2 hr drive from Kyiv, with no resistance they could have occupied it in hours. Instead they managed to create a military traffic jam the entire length of the highway trying to force the issue.

Nowadays, Kyiv is a 8 or 9 hr drive from the major fights, like going from New York City past Philadelphia past Baltimore past DC past Richmond and all the way to Raleigh, NC.
He's also saying that XBox Cloud and Luna have no future; not sure this will age well.
*for you.
There's an internal google plus instance whose culture is kind of like a mix of Facebook and Twitter, and an internal meme site. Occasionally, some real work (setting up collaborations with colleagues) happens on the social network.
The relevant "refresh rate" is how long it takes the content of the next page to show up, as I flip the page. That is not slow.
Chrome browser (also ChromeOS)
Timeless YouTube
I take it that Tu Lan finally took down that old, weatherbeaten copy of Herb Caen’s positive review of the restaurant from 1977 when they went through the redesign? Most young people no longer have any idea who Herb Caen was, and his relevance has been lost in the sands of time. Still, he makes for interesting reading when it comes to the history of the city, a city that really no longer exists.
Performance should be part of the requirements!
But the kids, they like it.
Aka "software is slow because they didn't anticipate my use-case". This person has 44k files in a scanned directory. Someone at MS was careless in configuring the scan. This would have been caught if their test harness had more files on it.

FWIW I think software is slow these days because everything seems to want/need the network to function. Software is bloated for a different reason, namely the existence of a healthy, free, high quality sea of dependencies, from which we freely use.
In all seriousness, it did seem like Ruth Porat (the CFO) was the real brains of the operation. Sundar is the fall guy.
Nobody is blaming the quote, a quote is ink on paper. People are blaming the programmers and management who cite the quote in their reasoning.
The base problem is that people have expected pensions to pay out like they always did in the past, before the ZIRP era. When real interest rates were positive (like they were for most of history until circa 2010-present), it was very easy to pay out the expected results by just buy and hold treasuries or gilts. When central bankers decided to cure the last recession by artificially holding real interest rates at negative levels for over a decade, pensions had to move out on the risk curve. This led to the everything bubble we have today, with the market overvalued somewhere around 100-300% compared to its historic norms. Once inflation came back, the central bankers ZIRP plans were cancelled, bonds and stocks start crashing and pension accounting no longer balances.
The discovery features resemble "social network-isms" but have a lot of utility. Also, GitHub is obviously not only about business, and the symbiosis of what it offers for businesses as well as open source users is important to its identity in my opinion.

That all having been said, I do not disagree that in most cases, the "social coding" thing is a misnomer. GitHub's main contribution, in my opinion, was actually just putting source control and source code at the forefront of the project forge concept. Sourceforge felt like a nice website for projects to organize, but code storage felt at best like an afterthought. GitHub's forks and pull requests are what really make it shine, and the rest is mostly either bonus or noise.
Do you know how long an account is “new” for?
Somewhat relevant: https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/
St(r)eam.
That's really on the app. Google provides a flag to the app if they detect tampering, the app chooses to limit functionality.
> LOL, what are people supposed to do with their game metadata now that Stadia is being shut down? Look at it in a hex editor?

Take your full price refund and rebuy the game at half price.

If you don't have the hardware for it, it's much cheaper now than it was three years ago, or you could use geforce now.
It is risk free, held to maturity. 50 year bond market prices however, vary strongly in response to interest rate changes. Since these bonds are issued by the bank of England and since interest rates are set by the bank of England this is a crisis entirely & predictably created by the bank of England.
Also very slick UI
> Furthermore, doing it in a way that takes the blame off the German government is beneficial to the German government.

No, the German government knows it needs to weather the winter, and have been relying (and continue to rely upon) Russian gas to fill their reserves. Their goal was to have their gas reserves filled to 95% capacity by November, and they appear to have been at around 75% before Russia started playing games with Nord Stream 1 last month. Of all the states most negatively impacted by this, Germany is probably #1 (yes, even more than Russia).
By the Transitive Property of the Monkey's Paw, I think you'd be in an endless loop of punching yourself in the face as the quickest and easiest way to release it.
> You have to be spectacularly bad at programming to make something so basic so slow in 2022 on a very high-end gaming computer.

I don't understand why desktop app user interfaces aren't blazingly fast and 240fps.

That being said, I think current iOS and macOS can run their UIs at 120fps (and Apple devices still seem to have decent battery life.)
It's kind of an internal meme: he says "we have to be thoughtful about this" or "we have to approach this thoughtfully." Almost every tough question from inside Google is met with an answer that contains the word "thoughtful."

It seems to mean "there is no easy win for me in this situation, so I am passing the buck to (presumably) a committee of other people who will think about it instead, or perhaps a power-hungry VP who has a vested interest in making it happen."
> it's surprising that a person would share this publicly at this point in the company's history.

This is the part that tells me that maybe you are a bit out of touch with the general public.

Go to any college campus or talk to any student in a good CS program in the US. Meta is going to be on the list of some of the most sought after companies to get an internship or a fresh grad offer at. People post glowing humblebrag posts on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/TikTok/LinkedIn/etc. when they get a job offer from Meta, for their friends and followers to see. I see it on my own feeds not that rarely, and often from people I went to college with a while ago.

I cannot really feel the same level of excitement about a job like that to share it with others in a similar way. But you finding it "surprising that a person would share [that they got a job at Meta] publicly at this point in the company's history", as if it was something they would be ashamed about and attempt hiding, is somewhat telling.
Does this exist for Android TVs, I'd love to get rid of the garbage on them.
"aesthetically beautiful"

Jesus these people are sick
I'm typing through a dual ps/2 mouse and keyboard to USB adaptor. Mouse side is empty and keyboard side has a gc56mf to ps/2 adaptor on it. Because my keyboard is from the 80s.
Yeah. Amazon didn't start the answers section like this. Once Amazon started emailing random purchasers to answer questions about the item they purchased, the quality of the answers went way down.
As someone who went to college for 3D animation in +*1997*+ AND DESIGNED the datacenter for luca' presidio complex..

where-by learning that Pixar was developed by steve jobs when lucas didnt think there was a future for computer animation... and so steve bought the death star from lucas...

That became pixar...

AI is going to fucking kill it - what will happen in the next decade will be ANYONE uploading a script to an AI to make a full length movie...

AND their will be editing tools as well that are AI driven...

Like mentioned by William Gibson

*The future is here, its just not evenly distributed yet*
Your first sentence is pretty exaggerated (and borders on ad hominem). Regardless, even if I agree with your second sentence, I can still rationally disagree that it has no effect worth considering, either economically, morally, or even just personally. They aren't mutually exclusive, logically.
Ralph Griswold and Gary Kildall should be on this list. Complete legends.
Having grown up in a sci-fi family and married into a Polish one, it's been an experience relearning how to pronounce "Stanislaw Lem"...
Never understood why it wasn't 'Stadia powered by Google Cloud' and I never saw any Stadia marketing or cross promotion, nothing on YouTube, YouTube TV, Gmail, etc...

YouTubetv will literally show me tens of ad slots per day with no ads (just a moment of zen and a jingle) when they could have been pushing Stadia.
How is Stadia any different from something like Mixer which Microsoft shut down at a record pace since its release?
Jupiter photo made of 600k images
I assumed it was meant in a "mushroom clouds are pretty" sort of way.
That sounds a lot like borrowing money.
Yep core async will work as is just use <!! and friends.
You put up the stink of your life or you quit. Anything less and you are a coward and shouldn't work in the industry.
Meta buys firefox.. metafox!
Armed soldiers accompanying pollsters from door to door are perhaps the platonic form of free and fair elections.
Linux on an SSD is fast. Android is fast. I don't see much slowness. Windows has a bit here and there but in general things are pretty snappy, it's not like the tail end of the HDD era where stuff really was slow.
There are scummy services that simulate interactions with spam email addresses so Gmail sees the activity and thinks these are legitimate senders.

Not going to mention or link to them, but I was shocked to see one actually show up on Product Hunt a while ago. I'd thought PH was better than that.
The are lending money, by buying British bonds. The bonds are risk-free but only when held to maturity. (The market price for bonds before that time will vary dramatically with interest rates, but the value at maturity is perfectly stable as is the coupon stream.)
Programming is 10-20% of the job, sure it's fundamental but even if an AI could generate optimal code solutions for most use cases it'd still never replace us...

...probably.
Personally I think this is for the best. Maybe tech and laws can catch up some day but until then it is better to have "bullshit" restrictions than have real people get hurt and at scale too.
> why an app needs to do this in the first place

This is – besides all those programming related oddities – a question of holistic UX: if collecting the list takes that long, make the list on-demand, hide it behind a button or documents icon – and already your app is responsive for the majority of use cases and users.
You mean, allowed to decrypt unless following the discussed mitigations? I suspect you don't regularly use the client, which is fine, but these warnings and notifications are very annoying and essentially impossible to ignore. You are highly incentivised to resolve them. Obviously, I agree the exploit is bad. I just think the millions of users would appreciate practical discussion of the very practical mitigations instead of all the unnecessary doomsaying happening surrounding this.
Ask HN: Is AWS re:Invent worth paying your own way to go
My employer isn’t able to pay for me to attend the AWS re:Invent conference in person. However, I’m considering paying my own way there. It’s a bit expensive to attend in person, but I was curious if folks who have attended have found value. I see it as a potential good way to gain some knowledge and network with individuals doing work similar to me.

I’ve been doing cloud-native development for the past 3-4 years now primarily using serverless technologies like Lambda, DybamoDB, step functions, S3 etc to build mission-critical applications. I’m always interested in learning new things and networking. AWS, cloud computing, and serverless computing are areas I am passionate about.
Then there's mojibake.

The WSJ article reminds me of the story of characterset conversions resulting in postal mail being addressed with gibberish, by a French sender to a Russian address ... which the post office managed to translate and deliver accurately.

And after some searching, I found the story: <https://unicodebook.readthedocs.io/definitions.html#mojibake>

By way of an earlier HN comment: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28286021>

From "Life Before Unicode": <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28285693>
So what we need is an AI that completely understands the problem space and can tell us what to code.
> and the fear that the bad press will scare away advertisers

Why don't such sites have a similar fear that the measures that they consider to apply to appease the press will scare away users/visitors?
> They weren't building the first space telescope or particle accelerator in the world either. I'm not quite sure what the thinking behind pulling that one out like a trump card was.

I thought it is obvious but... the fact new CPU generation is every few years and bigger space telescope every 30 years ? Why you claim it is because of tech based on no source whatsoever while in almost every case the reason for delays in just about any project is either mismanagement or engineering not being able to fulfill what sales signed on?

"Hurr durr big computers are hard" is not an argument. It's not even a "single machine" (which would be much more complex to realize), it's a bunch of networked nodes as most (all?) modern supercomputers are, which reduces the scale immensely, as once you get the single server it's just a question of interconnectivity (which Intel will buy from switch vendor most likely) and plumbing.

> And believing silicon technology process shrinks and new processor designs that take advantage of it is nothing much new betrays an unfortunate misunderstanding of these technologies. Smaller and faster to you looks like your phone or PC get a little cheaper and faster every few years. The technology that enables that is staggering. These push the limits of materials science and chemistry and a bunch of fields of physics relating to electronics and photonics. Designing the chip requires again pushing boundaries in hard problems in computer science and mathematics to model and compile and optimize and verify the logic.

They are nonetheless iterative. And Intel is still using essentially same process node as generation before, and same as their consumer chips. Intel wasn't inventing new material or new way to make chips for those, they planned to use same chips that will eventually land in servers. If anything it looks like Intel found a clever way to fund their new architecture...

The project already changed direction twice (from 180 petaFLOP in 2018 to 1 exaFLOP in 2021 to now 2 exaFLOP) which leads me to believe that's mostly a project management issue. CPUs the supercomputer was supposed to be built are already in sale as the last iteration was upgraded to "new" 2022 generation.
I'm always happy when someone like him gets recognition when he's still alive. Like Mark Twain or Johannes Brahms.

Another column by him: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HERB-CAEN-Twas-the-Day-A...
Wait till you see AliExpress reviews. Often it's, I received the package, yay it arrived (photo of package). I haven't opened the box or turned it on yet. 5 stars.
To be fair, just getting your order from Ali is a momentous achievement :P
Because they believe that tax cuts will ultimately stimulate the economy at a time when people are experiencing increased cost of living.

If that is correct then they should hold on through market wobbles and some heat in the media as economic growth will ultimately pay for it.

Im not defending the specific implementation and timing, but the theory is sound.
Seems like you're moving the goalposts...

Webassembly is clearly an improvement over the old plugins. For one thing it's a full virtual machine and was designed with sandboxing in mind.
News: we would have to fire every single reader of any economy textbook. This is the definition of risk free/baseline.

We have seriously degraded the world stability the last 2 years.

Edit: see sibling comment for clarification.
Going by the current inflation and unemployment trends, the economy won't stabilize for a year at the very least. We have a very difficult situation. Inflation is high, unemployment is low. In 2008, we had low inflation and high unemployment, but not this time. So, with the tightening of interest rates, unemployment has to go high. With unemployment increasing, prices of goods will fall due to decrease in demand. At that time, hopefully inflation will go on a downward trend.

The expected inflation in US is around 2-3% and until we see inflation heading towards those numbers it's hard to say economy is stabilizing.

For comparison, the expected inflation in India is around 8-10% and that's why you don't see the pinch in the Indian economy right now even with the tightening of rates.

I am no predictor of the future, but more likely the US interest rates will hit the range of 10% before we start seeing any easing in inflation. Once we see unemployment numbers going up consistently for a couple of quarters that will be the sign of economic stabilization I think.
1% for Open Source
In fairness, the set of lunatics currently in charge are anything but banal. Banal and insipid would be lovely. Banal and insipid wouldn't e.g. blow up our relationship with Europe, or attempt to out-Thatcher Thatcher. I'd love banal and insipid right now...
I'm not dead-set on big bucks like I see on levels (though I wouldn't turn them down). I'd just like to have the same confidence in my skillset/field that you seem to. Most of my beginning experience in the programming field has been webdev and mobile which seems like a fad-juggling act more than a 'be good at your thing and lean on it' act. I assume you mostly write C/C++?
If Meta vanished tomorrow, would it actually have a negative effect on our lives?