skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alphabet passed Microsoft in revenue and profit since Satya started:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/stock-comparison?s=revenu...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/stock-comparison?s=net-in...
Sports-related message boards are another example of "old internet". These boards were usually set up in the 2000s and managed to survive the social media era due to the common culture shared by its users that kept them from moving to Twitter or FB groups. That led to a dilution of community on those larger social media groups, because with each viral post, they'd attract a huge number of new users who would change the culture, but dint of their size relative to the original tribe.

Paradoxically, this also kept the messageboard membership small, as users had to set up an account to post. It wasn't like FB, Twitter or Reddit where one account gives you a passport to post and comment nearly everywhere.

I've posted more about old message boards and culture on my personal website [0]:

[0] https://fuzzcrush.xyz/blog/dead-forums-extinct-communities-a...
"Potentially" is doing a lot of work there. If the lawyers get involved, marcyb5st is going to have to explain themselves and their comment, but their lawyer is going to ask about what material information is in the comment. The social media policy requires the disclaimer, btw.

Current Googler, opinions are my own.
Google's share price has tripled in the 7 years since Sundar became CEO. The company is worth over a trillion dollars. This is apparently considered badly run in your world?
I'm on Android but in Europe. Was just curious how it tries to determine this as I turned off automatic location uploading to google.
> no reason to rewrite SQLite in [Rust]

I would like them to try, though, because I suspect, barring a Bellard Event, no-one will be able to get close to SQLite's functionality[1], reliability, etc., in a new Rust implementation within 5 years (possibly even 10 years.)

[1] including being able to load extensions, integrate into basically everything as library, etc.
It’s perfectly valid for someone to just release tarballs of their source code releases. You don’t need a bunch of infrastructure to share software.
Oh, I didn't mean to say no one is working on the Matrix ecosystem. The reason Matrix is where it is today is thanks to you guys. But I don't think you can say you have as many resources and as many people working on it as Telegram, and you're solving a problem 10x more difficult than what Telegram does.
A possible factor, but a drop in the bucket. Gilder's book highlights structural factors, ex-economics that will deflate the ALPHA bubble.
Andy Jassy: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/597/520/371
The content of that "Core Concepts" page sounds a lot like https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa
I hope the consumers know that. It would be a real shame if they accidentally clicked Apple's happy-path IAP and paid twice as much for their YouTube Premium subscription.
I feel uncomfortable just by looking at its keyboard
Ohhhhhh I see, thank you. Logged a bug on GitHub that hopefully makes it clear that the experience is confusing.
This is very believable, it is called disruption and is standard in software. Old companies (or projects) will have the legacy of older technology. That 100k LOC ... is a liability too. You have to get your head around it. Many heads. And to change it, you have to work on ... "it". Not what you dream it to be.
They should just adhere to their own stated TOS.
I've always much preferred Zandronum over Zdaemon because it's open source and it has much more advanced mod capabilities (with much more Zdoom/Gzdoom mod support than Zdaemon), supporting mods adding game modes like the PVE Invasion mode.
There was many years before people started trying to replace Webpack.
NY Supreme Court reinstates all fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay
Yes, Toyota actually saw it coming and stockpiled a ton of semiconductors, which allowed them to manufacture normally way past others.
IAM rollout was a chore (and introduced a whole layer of abstraction that users who didn't need fine-grained resource management now needed to be aware of / care about) and workspaces interacted with the existing billing infra in a messy fashion, if memory serves. On the plus side, that was years ago and AFAICT Cloud learned the relevant lessons from those stumbles.
Yes, that’s my point. The all-knowing oracle could also just tell you whether or not your program halts.
It can work offline (on the frontend) so you can just wget & archive the latest working version and host it on your own domain.

It wont gain more features but it is an alternative.
> while Photopea is free-of-charge, it's not completely open source

Quite the understatement. Photopea isn't open source at all.
He's done a fantastic job. Meanwhile the GIMP still doesn't have a "Save As..." menu item, you have to go through extra steps using "Export". Just a symptom of the attitude the UI projects.
> since we don’t know Σ(n) we can’t know the exact value of Ω.

Hmmm. Just because you don't know the individual terms of the sequence, it doesn't follow that you don't know their infinite sum. Here's a trivial example: take the sum `(-1)^n Σ(floor(n/2))`. The infinite sum is obviously 0, yet we can't calculate each of the terms, nor many of the partial sums.
https://archive.ph/Du5aK
It protects mostly against death and only partly against severe disease.

And only for a few months after the shot too, really.
I was born and raised in Endicott. My only cool visit was going into the quiet room in the IBM Glendale facility. It was covered with that angled studio foam. It was disconcertingly quiet. That sense of "oh this is a big room - I can tell by the echo" starts reporting strange readings.
Linux TUN Network Driver May See a “1000x Speedup” with New, One-Line Patch
If you hire people that can't 80/20 their way to learning a new framework or language within a few weeks, what are you going to do with those folks when you need to adopt some new framework or language? Replace them? Halt development for a few months?
I don't know if that is what happens (and in my experience it does not - the receiving app takes its authentication from the source-of-cast).

Regardless, if it ever comes to that, we should ask for more as customers. It doesn't and shouldn't make sense if a paid / pro user had to watch an ad before casting (a fully supported functionality) to a new / unknown device. Corporations are fully allowed and equipped to make money, but the benefit of doubt in unexpected / grey situations should largely be with the user. The alternative allows any entrenched party to arm-twist users for even more money, and while market forces cause an eventual course correction, the interstitial generation has to suffer along the way.
Photo is great but Designer still lacks fundamental features that users have been asking for many years. I haven't used Publisher.
Ensure that engineering works on features that are what customers want. This includes negotiating on refactoring work, and de-risking over-engineering on low priority aspects of the features.
Link to ruling, pdf:

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet...
Maybe crime is at historic lows because it's not being reported because people there think it's hopeless to report it. Maybe they've lost faith in their system. Maybe crime rates are higher in right leaning areas because it's reported and criminals are prosecuted for their crimes.

All speculation, but worth considering nonetheless?
L&T is the fourth Thor movie. Definitely the worst according to Lucas logic.
Well, that changed over a decade ago
It's in Google Play Services under "Personal Safety". I wish there was an option for it to make noise despite the vibrate only setting as well.
I agree that you can't maintain the same velocity you started with as the company grows, but there are definitely ways to keep as much of it as you can. Some companies slow down a lot more than others.

In my experience, it ultimately comes down to SDLC. Teams need to be able to work (mostly) independently of each other. This means being strict about using API boundaries rather than sharing database tables between multiple apps, and avoiding breaking API changes that force you to deploy software written by multiple teams in lockstep. That is the real reason microservices are valuable: they decouple teams.
Tech stocks are broadly down 1-2% after hours because of MSFT and GOOG earnings.
You're right, the correct comparison for COVID is actually measles. And it's more evasive than that - the vaccine and acquired immunity does not hold nearly as well.

Measles was controlled by mass vaccination that provides for years of neutralizing antibody response combined with merciless quarantine on outbreaks.

COVID vaccine of today does not achieve that. It's still much better than nothing, but insufficient to control it.
> In warehouse and construction work, if someone shows up at 7:30 AM on a Monday morning, odds are quite good that the foreman will have something for them to do. Maybe not that day, but maybe tomorrow, or maybe someone on the list above them won't show up that week and they'll get called.

That's hard to do when there are so many strings attached to employing someone. It's a double edged sword which makes the decision to hire someone a lot bigger." Yeah, I have stuff I need help with right now" is not enough.
I've tried Photopea a million times, but the interface always messes up somehow. I just tried it, and sure enough, a huge grey box is stuck on the right side of the screen and can't be removed.
Yeah, that's high on the list of things that harmed the platform.

Hypothetically, if they'd wanted to go a totally different direction, the could have courted game developers willing to create games for them that would have been offerable at a pure-subscription rate. But they chased AAA games and hit a major market issue: there was no way AAA publishers were going to under-cut their per-unit sales in other channels by offering with-subscription access to their product and trusting Google would pay them enough to make that worth their while.
I will be completely honest, Next.js is amazing and with each version it is getting better. This turbopack thing, I think they made mistake and it is distraction. This is not a problem anyone had, at least that I know. Vite is amazing and they should've built on work of others.

This is one of the Rust things, we just have to build everything from scratch :).
Good. The Covid justice reckoning being unwound as expected.
I love their write-ups, but I hadn't seen that one before. Crazy story!

It's easy to imagine how scared/shocked Gruseus must've been by a new-to-him pilot trying to abort that late... glad he trusted him in the moment.
Open the website without an adblocker and you'll see how. There's huge banner ads on the side.
I think GCP, YouTube and Google maps are pretty good products. To answer your question. I don’t think it’s that easy to create a product that people love.
>vast amount of contributors over decades

Designed by by committee, through and through. The older I get the more it seem obvious not to do it, but other people keep jumping on to them.

USB, Bluetooth groups are responsible for some of the dumbest tech decisions in 20 years.
Further:

- headcount from 150k to 186.5k (!)

- EMEA + APAC largely driving slowdown in growth as both regions were -2%, USA + Americas are still at +12%

Feel like this might be a pattern this quarter - declining margins + growth as companies over-extended themselves last year not foreseeing just how bad things are outside of the USA + Americas
UK’s oldest human DNA obtained, revealing two distinct Palaeolithic populations
If only there was another way to clean clothes.

I am under the understanding that most dry cleaners (certainly every one I've used) are retail front ends that send the clothes to a central place for the actual cleaning. My dry cleaner hasn't closed, but I switched to their pick-up/drop-off service as soon as they offered it (2-3 years ago at least) and haven't been to the retail location since. So the retail front ends might be closing, but it's not like you won't be able to get things dry cleaned if you need it.
Charles Gaines' Moving Chains
Probably not. Programming and AI are like two different sides of the problem-solving spectrum. With AI (specifically ML models) you're basically plugging in a pair of high-precision smart-dice into a variety of parameters. If you use the right data and adjust the right settings you can get good results, but they're not consistent or guaranteed to be correct. They're best-guess estimates that need to be culled by a human or a discriminator model. In either case, there isn't an effective way to sort through the "noise" since everything is noise.

IANAMLE (I Am Not A Machine Learning Expert) but the software we're building today will still be relevant in 10 years. It's hard to say where ML will be in 10 years, but I doubt it will replace most programming jobs.
How does it compare to bun. That is what got me excited after a very long time.
No, this is the other side of that hill.

Toyota saw the shortage coming. Now we're seeing a glut that will take a decade to work itself out and result in another shortage.
My mother was a systems analyst in the 1960s. She got a contract as part of a team installing a brand-new IBM/360 at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, her job was to write administration software.

She told me it was a top-of-the-line model with 64K of RAM. At some point, it had a malfunction and they had to replace one of its memory "boards," which were lattices with ferromagnetic cores suspended on filaments. She brought the defective board home for me to play with.

Although I went on to write software on punch cards, and built a PC in the 1980s, I think the moment that I held core memory in my hands was the closest I've really gotten to "the metal" in my life.
Look at photopea.com/ads.txt. He's allowed most of adtech to sell his traffic.
Not sure if Adobe has any other reason to acquire Photopea other than to kill it so that there's no more "free" Photoshop alternatives.
How does "knowledge, creative expression and so much more to the masses" differ from "dopamine delivery machine"? Is it actually worthwhile for everyone to have deep knowledge of X if they're not actually going to use that knowledge?

There's a distinct effect to knowledge inflation, and knowledge and skills are not the same though related. A lot of people who are, to use a loaded term, " Too Big for their Britches", but also a lot of people who how immense access to know their lot in life isn't good but without the skills or opportunities to actually make use of that.
I agree it was over the top and expect international audiences to hate it. It is saturated with Kiwi humor, thanks to Taika. As a Kiwi I got the jokes but found there was too much of it for a Marvel movie.
Hmm, are you on an old version of FF? I just tried it in 106.0.1 on Ubuntu and it worked fine (even with uBlock and some other adblockers).
> Just because you don't know the individual terms of the sequence, it doesn't follow that you don't know their infinite sum

Yes, this is not true in general. But I think it's true for the specific definition of Ω we use in the post.
My grandpa got an Arch Linux which I update every once in a while via SSH. Since most of his use cases revolve around a browser (news, weather, ebay, e-mail, banking) it doesn't really matter which OS is running below the browser as long as it is stable and performant.

His last OS before Arch Linux was Windows Vista which didn't match those requirements.
What is forgotten sometimes is that there was (for men) a severe prejudice about working with a keyboard. The image pre-1985 or so was that keyboards were almost exclusively associated with typing pools. Those typing pools were were as far as I know 100% female.

To be honest, this prejudice still exists. I heard a C-suite exec mocking "those guys with the ticky-tacky machines".
I've seen this appear a couple of different places, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence to support it.

Indeed, even in this linked article, it attributes the decline, at least in part, to government response (learning from home), rather than to COVID-19.
I think many of us really wanted it to succeed and tried to love it. Unfortunately, it just isn’t what most people want.
Too many times in my career have I seen an employer lose an employee, who has a ton of institutional knowledge and performs adequately or even excellently, only to replace them them with someone that ends up costing much more money, and then takes a lot of time to get up to speed (which also slows the folks who help get them up to speed).

It is like they haven't taken the time to even make a rudimentary calculation on the costs involved in keeping the employee versus replacing them.
I don't think they've ever released how profitable YouTube is? Only revenues. I've always assumed it's unprofitable given what must be ridiculous operational costs.
On that note Andrew started a side project recently using Zig, and has already written a bunch of useful notes from the user's POV. I'm certain he'll make that public soon enough.
you weren't kidding; that autograph is pretty tacky. the ego and marketing that goes into JS tooling is nauseating.
So I went looking at Wikipedia's summary of New Testament papyri. The earliest were dated AD 100-200 (2 papyri), then 150-250 (one), then 200-225 (two). Yes, they're fragments. But they're consistent with what we have later for the same material. So, "hundreds of years later" is overstating the reality.

As for the rest of your complaint: Luke is demonstrably a good historian. He is also very careful. (One thing I notice that amuses me: In Acts, sometimes Luke is traveling with Paul. When he is, the level of detail goes up. Not "Then Paul departed from X, and went to Y", but "Then we got on a ship, and sailed to A. On the next day we sailed to off of B. Then we passed on side C of island D..." Luke knows what he knows, and he's not filling in detail when he doesn't know it.)

I'm not going to defend Joseph Smith or the Book of Mormon at all. I also don't know why you brought them up.
Happy to see the new features.

Our sloppy container spec bit us today though. We had

FROM: python:3-slim

with a bunch of pip requirements following. Some of those were not 3.11 ready, eg scipy==1.8.0, and our build broke. Our answer was to not be sloppy and pin until everything catches up, eg

FROM: python:3.10.8-slim

and we're good. Hope someone sees this that needs reminding.
Emad Mostaque, CEO of Stability AI (behind Stable Diffusion) has said they are training language models that they plan on releasing. IIRC, though, even using all the most up-to-date techniques like 1-byte parameter quantization and Chinchilla scaling learnings, it will still probably be on the order of magnitude of 64GB or something, so not quite usable for most people locally yet, unless you happen to have a very beefy multi-GPU machine at home.
In Canada, we have mandatory Amber Alert notifications that affect all modern cell phones. It is loud so you aren't likely to miss it. These alerts cannot be muted, and require the user to acknowledge receipt or another alert will come shortly thereafter. This helps to catch people during alert time in case their phones are not on, or they're in the shower, or whatever.

I am surprised California and other wobbly places don't use the same system, with the addition of quake and forest fire alerts. Everybody here knows the alert sound instinctively now, so even if you're in public and hear someone else's phone go off, we all know what it is.
It would be nice to see a focus on repairability, but I don't think that's ever going to happen. Even if we don't end up with complete parts serialization, where the manufacturers hold all the keys, the trend described in this article is unavoidable due to the complexity of systems that improve your quality of life when you're driving. IE: People want things like collision warning systems.

A big part of the issue is the manufacturers don't care if a repair procedure is too complex or if the equipment required is too expensive. That's a benefit to them because it means less independent repair shops and dealer networks will simply pass that cost on to the customer because customers have no alternatives.

My family has always purchased cars that are just off warranty, so about 5 years old, and driven them for 5-15 years. The less money we had, the longer we drove them. We've always done our own repairs. However, that's changing because there are some things we simply can't fix. My dad has never driven a vehicle that costed more than $100 per month and has always owned a vehicle that I'd consider reliable. Those days are gone.

I think something that could help would be if the right to repair movement pushed for some kind of limited repair or downgraded repair mode. For example, the article talks about the complexity of doing a wheel alignment due to calibrating lane drift sensors, etc. I think vehicle owners should be able to opt out of that and simply lose those features if they're not required for the car to function. IE: Get the wheel alignment, skip the convenience features.

Of course, we all know the opposite will happen. The vehicle industry will lobby the government to have those complex features become requirements "for safety" and the only option we'll get as consumers is to buy overly complex, overly expensive vehicles. I guess another option may be to rent or lease and never own anything which might be the ultimate goal of the industry regardless of complexity.
Github is wrong then. Check the blog for a more authoritative source.

https://blog.photopea.com/
At Apple, you could get shown the door if a cranky VP catches you opining on why revenue is down.

All I’m saying is: best to avoid any post that is related to company internals in any way. The “New York Times” rule and all that.
Blitz actually came first, so trpc is an alternative implementation of RPC.

Blitz auth was developed at the same time as next auth, and takes a more imperative approach which allows you to build more custom auth flows.
I use Photopea at work precisely because of this. I know how to use Photoshop, but I don't have a license for Photoshop as an engineer, but I do sometimes need it. Photopea fills that role perfectly and it's almost a perfect drop-in replacement.
I mean, warnings of seconds is the best we can do right now but the goal is prediction. it's not a lot but it's enough to stop surgeries and trains.
Ads, premium subscriptions to turn off the ads, and licensing to other sites that then host it under different names with more ads.
Another TikTok casualty...
Yeah, as someone who focuses primarily on back-end but occasionally finds the need to dive into front-end, esbuild has virtually eliminated the pain I had with front-end bundling/packaging when I was using Webpack. At least it has in my situation, which involves mostly standard needs and very little customization.
No. This is not discrimination. Discrimination is when others do it. /s

People, wake up. Censorship, erosion of rights goes both ways. It may not hit you today, it will hit you tomorrow.
PS performance has been getting worse over the years. I've been using it for almost 20 years and it really peaked with CS6.

The core engine might be fast for computational intensive stuff (eg: radial blur, liquify, etc) but the UI itself is tremendously clunky.

I used to love using PS (and the whole Adobe suite) but now I dread it.
Ubuntu 22.04 with everything default.

When I go to the "Files" app and open a PDF, it opens the PDF in my default web browser at photopea.com, i.e. it's not an "app on my machine" so it doesn't show up in the apt list. Photopea does show up us as one of the options when I click on "Show Applications."