skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should note that XPath is really the key here: it’s an elegant language to get and transform tree-structured and sequential data, so it could be well-used in a Pythonic template pipeline.

XSLT is a functional programming language that leans heavily on XPath to support transformation of tree-based structures. XQuery is another in the same vein. But you can accomplish the same things using an imperative language like Python, calling into XPath for data.
"last-Gen Qualcomm speeds" that's a pretty low bar...
Why do you spin it so negatively?

If it’s going to be utilized almost exclusively by those who wouldn’t pay anyway, then as a business there is no loss of revenue by providing an open-source version.

And although this company may not want to or be able to afford to spend much making it easy, I’ve used one piece of software that the business goes to great lengths to make easy to self-host.
The market for talent is quite competitive. Companies need to pay market rates and have a staff that's large enough to compete. In a market where capital is cheap they will bid up rates and hire more people. If you don't do this you give your competitors a chance to beat you. Companies might be able to slow it down a little bit, but not entirely. Similarly in a market where capital is expensive they need to reduce the spend and team size.

Google is a public company. If part of the team is costing them more than the value they create for shareholders, there will be immense pressure to down size. This is actually healthy in a way since talent frees up for other companies. The bigger problem is that in the USA healthcare is tied to employment. That's messed up
Law in the sense that there is legal precedence from court cases, yes. Law in the sense that there are literal statutes saying so, no. Sadly, both matter.
The SoC features private L2 memory, with 128KB allocated to each core, while a total of 2MB L3 cache is shared among all four cores. The SoC operates in excess of 2GHz, according to Intel. Another important thing to remember is that the Pro 550 is built by Intel Foundry Services on the Intel 4 process (aka 7nm in traditional process node parlance).
Fair, it’s close or higher than YouTube revenues right? I’ve always mentally included it as part of “Search”.
> Self hosting is not an option for me

I've had great success with Migadu[0] and I have several custom domains hooked up. If Migadu shuts down, I still have the custom domain and I just respawn a new server.

[0] https://www.migadu.com/
It needs to be wrapped in processes of making product, not as a approximate product like they are currently do. Many good old AI algorithms are about heuristic e.g. Minimax in a 2 player board game. The approximation (heuristic) is wrapped with the rule of game, thus the product, the rules are rigid.
I'd say good for him.
Sadly, not very feasible because of the hydrogen atoms floating around in the empty space, about 1 per cubic meter.

At speeds about 0.5C a collision with such an atom produces X-rays, and harder gamma rays at higher speeds. They are pretty hard to insulate against, and are actively harmful. For a spaceship of a considerable size, enough collisions would occur to be dangerous. The paper: https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=...
I guess it depends somewhat on how you imagine up something and write it. I was working on some drag and drop UI that had multiple sortable lists and an action area. Figuring the server side and UI at the same time didn't work out. I reversed and implemented the UI with its required state, and then it was easy to transform that state to what the server side required, and vice versa.

Complexity is tricky. Are three simple things more complex than one thing thats harder to understand?
If the security bug is bad enough... vendors do, sometimes, give into providing an update for an obsolete platform.

See also Microsoft, which patched the security bug used by WannaCry over 4 years after Windows XP end of life.
So good of them to protect the users from being able to jailbreak their own devices easily.
The Firefox I've been running on my Mac for 15 years at this point must be a figment of my imagination.

Of course I would love to see Gecko running on iOS. I just don't like the possibility of Google's browser dominance become even stronger either. It's a hard one.
I pay Google $6/month/user for email, docs/sheets, video conferencing, and some online space, and I still think I pay too much because many of my users only need email for internal messages. $12/month/user for a random side feature is absolutely absurd.

I'm against any and all per-user fees because it's death by a thousand cuts and I refuse to allow that to happen. I will take the time to setup an open-source thing that does the same thing, even if the hourly rate of my setup ends up costing like five years of service JUST BECAUSE I'm that against per-user fees.
What you describe is kind of what I suspected, in terms of that specific job requiring you to be that available, which is why the question was genuine. I also work remotely, and have at times travelled simultaneously, but never in the same way, unless it's the constraint I'm accepting because I actually don't have the vacation time. As in, if I'm in vacation, laptop stays at home, otherwise I'm just trying to do both and sometimes that's a fair compromise.

Even day to day living stationary, I have a hard time accepting that not being able to escape is a requirement, but I'm not really responsible for any critical systems, and am not paid like that either.
In fact, these devices are already out there. Specifically your smartphone (most likely) already encrypts data at rest and your laptop possibly does too.

In fact their own laptops do, and often get left on trains.

This is yet another authoritarian power grab.
"but Google has long been known as the FAANG to go to if you want to chill, coast, and ves"

Is that a fact or just your perception?
Is maximizing shareholder value really law now ? Just trying to understand if CEOs are legally responsible to return maximum share of profits to shareholders.

Well... that's a slightly complicated question. It's definitely not quite as simple as "companies must maximize profit to the exclusion of all other concerns". But while directors and executives are given wide latitude to run the company according to their judgment, they don't have carte blanche to do "whatever they want" either.

More to the point, while a company as a whole can do more than simply "maximize profit to the exclusion of all else", the caveat seems to be that they can do so if the owners (eg the shareholders) agree.

From the SCOTUS decision in the Hobby Lobby case:

While it is certainly true that a central objective of for-profit corporations is to make money, modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so. For-profit corporations, with ownership approval, support a wide variety of charitable causes, and it is not at all uncommon for such corporations to further humanitarian and other altruistic objectives. Many examples come readily to mind. So long as its owners agree, a for-profit corporation may take costly pollution-control and energy-conservation measures that go beyond what the law requires. A for-profit corporation that operates facilities in other countries may exceed the requirements of local law regarding working conditions and benefits. If for-profit corporations may pursue such worthy objectives, there is no apparent reason why they may not further religious objectives as well.

The question I see then, is how much influence a single shareholder can truly yield based on this principle. That is, of course, assuming they don't single-handedly hold a controlling share of the company to the point that they can simply replace the board with whoever they want and enforce any arbitrary edict. Given a publicly traded company, it seems clear that some shareholders are going to want the "maximize my stock value at any expense" while others are going to go for more of a "do the humanitarian thing and treat (employees|the environment|whatever) well" or such-like.

See:

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3943559

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/12/01/dodge-v-ford-what...

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/13-354.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20130603013056/https://www.brook...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_primacy
I see. Well, I didn't proceed past that email exchange, so I don't know what would have come next. What does your process consist of if there is no interview? It can't be just the homework, I hope.
You work for google because you make insane money and have cachet you can take anywhere and get hired instantly. Hell, you can pull in 10 million funding for your startup idea if you like. Or just retire, get a boat, go sailing.

Of course all of this had to go bad. Come on now. Stop whining already.

I work in the IT sewer fighting rats. I will always have work. I'm filthy and I smell bad, but I'm doing fine, and no, I don't sit around wringing my hands and thinking, but what will become of our beloved and sacred google? I could not possibly give a shit about google. But maybe someday I'll get a fucking boat.
I worked at Google for 7 years, admittedly a decade ago. We didn't grind leetcode, We didn't jump through mindless hoops, and we had almost 0 bureaucracy. So for at least that letter in the acronym it was nothing like you describe.
They pay a ton, the perks are great, and the expectations are really not that high. Lots of people want to work there!
I've raised this with them previously but they were adamant their wording was correct. I have details of my conversations with them within my repo [1] where I store examples of licensing confusion.

[1] https://github.com/ssddanbrown/Open-Source-Confusers#calcom
>Before getting into that it’s worth noting that all publicly listed companies operate under a fiduciary duty to maximise profits for their shareholders.

Not in that context. They have a duty to their shareholders, not absolute maximum profits. Plenty of further unethical methods that could be used if that was the goal.

Iron law of organizations states that any org over time will put the perpetuation of the org first, not the orgs mission that it was founded with. Those with that vision leave for better places, leaving voids filled by those whom cannot genuinely replace it. Purpose is lost, things slow down, and every solution is a myriad of bandaids and placebos to keep it afloat. A cow to milk. This was obvious when all these projects were born to fail and hiring practices started filtering hiring for binary search trees.

Same story across the board. They've lived past their expiration date, and rely upon the law and vertical integration to prevent anyone else from competing.
There are a couple of operating systems which indeed use standard C; Linux is rather an exception in this respect.
My two cents; by picking a CEO who only knew Google, an environment full of self delusion that Google itself was responsible for Google’s success.

A general social trend to value tech in our lives seems lost on the genius CEOs. They really seem to think billions care they specifically exist, when really if they did not someone else would have been CEO. Some other company that came before Google would be Google big if not Google quality in search (which has gone to shit under the management of their current genius CEO).

Hubris, lack of social awareness, lack of career experience outside the Google RDF created a hyper-normalized world view.

Paraphrasing PG, who wrote somewhere, I forget where, don’t underestimate the power of money to motivate. We’re not picking good companies, just playing simple arithmetic games with fiat money.
Introducing Cerulean (2020)
>incident is in a large part why they don't put airstairs on planes any more.

They don't do it because it's completely inefficient to carry this weight and waste this space from economic point of view. It's way better to carry few more paying passengers instead.

They still carry things like this on private jets, i.e. Golfstream.
Yep. The article is just flat wrong here. Companies have wide discretion on how they are run.

Investors who want to change that have to get enough members on the board or attempt some variety of takeover or buy out.
> No, allowing Apple to lockout all competitors to their browsers (and letting them keep gatekeeping even skins on top of their browsers) is command economy.

That's a fundamental misunderstanding of the term.
Silent upgrade and so silent downgrade instead of fail to send? Risky.
Maps, android and its ecosystem (play store, etc.), cloud, nest, gmail & google docs. All those have a significant market.
737 Max had two losses in the first two years of operation. That's maybe a decade of commercial flights (at least suspected of) intentionally downed by an authorized pilot according to this list [1].

If you consider that the number of 737 Maxes in service was not that large, it's pretty clear that MCAS was more dangerous than pilot suicide.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_pilot
Certainly is public opinion.

I remember people trying to make the claim that Google paying smart people to not work was a good strategy because it prevented those workers from creating start-ups that would compete with Google.

The Blind app is an interesting place.
> How to Prioritize Tasks?

I use a priority quadrant[0]

[0] https://appfluence.com/productivity/why-you-should-manage-ta...
One can quibble about whether it is on purpose, but Google has done this with their web properties and Firefox, too.
Query builders are a slight annoyance at worst, while ORMs can easily screw up the foundation of your system. You get extra compile-time checks with a query builder if you're using TS (a big piece of bloat on its own) instead of JS, which can be nice, but that's also what tests are for.
US is the only place on Earth where I found out that a sale tax is added to price tags in grocery store at the moment of check-out. I remember my astonishment the first time I faced that abomination. How's that even possible, what is the reason behind it?
Because gas stoves are popular and with that a reason for people to avoid buying houses in gas-free neighbourhoods. People care far more about what heat source they use to cook their food than what is used to heat their house and water. Since the penultimate goal is to get rid of domestic use of natural gas or at least price it out of reach of most people such gas-free neighbourhoods are deemed to be essential to reach this goal. When gas is still available people will want to use it to cook and heat their houses. Banning gas stoves removes the main reason for shunning gas-free neighbourhoods.
when you sign up, it isnt $7 vs $6.93...rather, it is shown as 0 (by not including it.) It doesnt even show up on the cost when you sign up. Suggesting this is a ACT/365 issue is really a slight of hand to ignore the bigger issue.

Also, the calendar can be calculated for the entire year (or the next 100 years for that matter.) It makes no sense that you can sign a 2yr contract and be locked in yet they cant present a table of actual charges for each month for the next 2yrs when you're signing up. Mortgage paymnets also vary by days due to interest accruals, yet they have developed the "sophistication" (read: regulation) to create a chart of what each month's charge will be for the next 30yrs. Not to mention, you could also calculate the yearly regulatory fee and just amortize it on a 30/365 basis if you so desired. There are 10 ways to slice this cake, this isnt rocket science, this is straight up customer abuse and the FTC is just as guilty for ignoring it.

Imagine any other industry that could get away with this. Imagine you sign up for a $13.99/mo Netflix plan and you mysteriously got charged an additional $3 or $5 "because we cant calculate days per month in advance, because reasons."

Or imagine you buy a burger at McDonalds but get charged a different amount once you pay and commit to purchasing the burger "because we cant calculate in advance whether you get 30 fries or 33."
I wonder when something similar will appear for e-commerce.

It seems to me that the process of dealing with customer complaints is pretty well tested and routine at this point. Apologize, either eat the loss (if the problem is serious or not worth the hassle) or spin some BS story (if it's not), then politely ask the customer to rescind their negative review on the e-commerce platform - and if the customer is not cooperating with that last step (which is the most important one for the vendor), continue through pressure, begging and offering freebies.

I feel the whole dance could be outsourced to a professional "customer complaints service", and improved effectiveness would let even more bad sellers thrive with near-perfect review scores for even longer.
Rete.js – JavaScript framework for visual programming
civil law, you've heard that you can sue anybody for anything? You can...

...but the thing that makes such a "tort" lawsuit matter is damages, what damage did I do to you that you are now suing me. Like, if you're a pedestrian and I hit you with my car, your lawsuit against me depends on showing a monetary value for how I damaged you, for example, days of lost work. If you weren't injured, and went on about your day, week, month and life, you weren't damaged and there's no grounds for the lawsuit, even though my gross negligence could have damaged you 9 times out of 10. (This is an example to make a different point, we are going to ignore "emotional distress", etc.)

if you're a shareholder and I am the CEO and I have the company pursue goals that don't maximize the value of your shares, that cost resources and don't have a chance of maximizing shareholder value, when I could have, I have monetarily damaged you.
I use and like CalendarBridge because it can also sync multiple calendars.

https://calendarbridge.com/
> Firmware upgrades should be deliberate, and done with caution (hopefully starting with a backup).

Many, many, devices don't allow firmware downgrades, on purpose.

On the extreme end, Microsoft spent a huge amount of development effort to forbid that on the hardware level. I con't find the Xbox 360 link right now, but here's a Nintendo Switch one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23534793
I was wondering what it meant. It's too bad English has a different pronunciation for "y", because the specified pronunciation Key-Seh-Lee means something totally different in Finnish (kiisseli, which is a type of dessert, a thick fruit soup that was a common tradition in my family).
I'm not sure something counts as an "ecosystem" if all the pieces that play in that system are produced by the same entity. Feels to me like marketing BS.
Exactly the reason I left ATT and moved to T-Mobile. My old device still works, no need to throw it away.
Never say always
Largely unrelated to most of this thread:

Does anyone know of a solution that allows people to book times, but only contiguous with other meetings?
When I was in college years ago, I knew a guy whose plan was to turn his Amazon internship into a FTE offer, work there a couple years, and then go to Google and quote "sit."

It worked. Not a bad plan in the early/mid 2010s ;)
It's a fact that it is the collective perception. Whether people actually get to chill is team dependent but from my understanding you can't really do 30 hour weeks at Facebook, Amazon or Netflix, but it's more possible at Google.
Get back at them with a nice google maps review. They deserve it. Could just include that into the price lol.
Apple Knowledge Navigator (1987)

https://youtu.be/umJsITGzXd0
What makes you think Xi isn't already calling?
It’s top secret, for some reason. What that could even be hiding I have no idea - if the goal is increasing investor confidence then you’d think they’d release at least some vague data
i agree. if i experience unexpected behavior i will often check windows update
Low trade-in value is a reason a lot of those devices end up as hand-me-downs; there's no liquid market so they're notionally worthless, but they still work so people are likely to pass them on rather than trade them in. (Indeed one could argue that Apple pays inflated trade-in values to get their old models out of circulation and sustain their premium positioning)
Google had that reputation when compared to Amazon and Facebook, but that is hardly a bad thing considering the culture at those companies (and it's not like they are doing too hot right now either despite all that stack ranking and overwork). There are plenty of large tech companies with real "retirement home" reputations – Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Oracle, VMware, Adobe, Intel, HP, Dell... There's no comparison between this tier and Google in terms of tech standard, productivity and really anything else.
The signal protocol keeps old versions from being used I think, so in like 9 months iirc your version won't be able to send/receive
The layoff didn't particularly target the rest-and-vesters, though. It frankly appears mostly random based on what I've seen.
I've been taking metformin for years alongside HMB (hydroxymethylbutyrate) naively thinking that it could prevent the muscle loss associated with it.
Obviously it is impossible to measure this sort of thing objectively, but if you know enough people that bounce around in FAANGs or check Blind, this is pretty widely the opinion.
> The bigger problem is that in the USA healthcare is tied to employment. That's messed up

True but COBRA coverage lets you pay to stay on your job-based health insurance (cheaper) for a limited time after your job ends (usually 18 months).

https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ebsa/about-ebsa/our-a...
Unless you, say, make an emergency landing somewhere like Denver or La Paz.
They already have silos so might not be so bad if a separate tools & infrw team can be formed/shared between the resultant companies.
The API (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/entities/Status/#id) explains that IDs are not numbers:

Description: ID of the status in the database.
Type: String (cast from an integer but not guaranteed to be a number)
Version history:

0.1.0 - added

In other words, even the Mastodon API docs claim the ID isn't guaranteed not to be a string.

I'm sure there are undocumented differences, but if you base your data model on the spec then there's no reason to even assume you can just use a number.