skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's even worse than this. Google's entire business was based on the browser search model. You want to know something, you opened your browser, then 100% of the time went to "google.com", searched, scroll,scroll,scroll,click and get a reward with your answer while seeing ads. Which pretty much describes a dopamine feedback loop.

The problem isn't that they don't have a ChatGPT ready (they do -- and it's probably better, I'm certain) .. but rather that, by even doing so (providing a chatgpt based search) they undermine their entire business foundation.
Because now if you want to know something, you simply chat, and instantly presents a dialog with your answer. And with seemingly unlimited capabilities to write follow-up questions just like you would to a normal person.

How are you going to sell ads to that? Imagine talking to a chat bot that tries to sell you a new refrigerator when you're asking about something else, awkward? That's not going to happen.

That's why it's worse than a strategic mistake, it's an extensional threat-- they are damned to undermine the entire foundation in any direction they take.
A better version of it, yes.
I meant digitally. I assumed they did some kind of 3D MRI type scan. If you do that, you can easily pull off upper AND lower layers.

I'm not sure how an x-ray can make paint #1 appear but paint #2 invisible - so I guess I'm missing something.
Thanks, I'll remember the distinction :).
is using bitcoin to transfer some of l your wealth out of country to avoid currency controls fraud? I don't think so but IANAL

I read that crypto is also being used for rapid cross country remittances, which may be totally legal.

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Don't think I'm a crypto fan. The value is all based purely on shared beliefs. At least government fiat is backed by the taxing authority (while undermined by the printing authority)
is the thing in your back pocket a banana?
It’s easy to say that but there’s lots of large, old, dysfunctional dinosaurs shipping oil, cars, or life insurance policies day in and day out.

Meanwhile there’s plenty of small, nimble, managed-by-best-practices would be disruptors not shipping much of anything.
I can kind of see that, but he's just one person and he bought the books he learned from.

I presume OpenAI doesn't pay a fraction of the book's cost up to the writer every time it spits out content based on the book (it -at most- paid for the book once and ingested all its content to be used forever).
This is what I think will happen but not sure what that will look like. I think it gets much easier if it can detect a site is on Shopify and use the unified Shopify api for purchases. Interesting new world.
I read in an Atlantic piece that there was a "sex recession" [1] - many sociological studies show that people are having less sex than decades prior. It's counter-intuitive, but the data in the article meets my anecdotal observation (and I don't even live in the US). Assuming both articles are somewhat accurate the correlation would pull in opposite directions.

[1] Why Are Young People Having Less Sex (The Atlantic, December 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex...)
That seems like the call of the board, no? Certainly, CEOs at any substantial level are accountable to a group of people. Everyone answers to someone.
Kenneth Lay died after being convicted but before being sentenced, so afaik his family still has the money.
Keep in mind that it be be true that CI/CD engines are an awful idea (for some people and orgs) while at the same time that CI/CD engines are needed (for some people and orgs). Not everyone can spin up Jenkins on a cheap VM, write scripts to do a build, and most importantly maintain it for years.

You can't hire people with experience on your homegrown scripts. You can hire people that have experience with a commercial CI/CD engine. Having worked on projects that used homegrown scripts, I can attest to it ending poorly and blowing just as badly as a CI/CD engine can end things poorly.
> But the situation is nothing like the situation with IE.

Google isn't trying to kill the web and grow desktop App development, so yes it's different. And also people weren't complaining about Internet Explorer while it was innovative and competing against Netscape Navigator with annual releases. It was after 5 years of stagnation, not supporting new W3C standards, and unfixed bugs.

Google learned from Microsoft's mistakes. They participated in standards, they update often, and resolve bugs quickly. Everything Microsoft didn't do.

They also implement new features outside of standards but just as temporary experiments mind you. If developers happen to adopt them and implement them on their sites, well Google's hands are tied and y'all might as well make them standards (e.g. SPDY, QUIC).

Or, because the control the standards process they can propose a change to a private list, push it to WHATWG and get representatives from Apple and Firefox to pull it into the "living" standard without any public discourse or feedback (e.g. removing alert();).

This isn't to say everything they're doing is bad, but that doesn't mean they aren't working in their own self interest.
Both men and women can be vaccinated against HPV, but that's still not popular enough.
False attribution/misclassification hurt folks. There has to be a human in the loop at some point, whether to adjudicate or to remediate.
Wallets do not have to have 2fa. A currency could force them to have it.

Interestingly enough, one of crypto's biggest critics, Elizabeth Warren, has also been after Wells Fargo for Zelle scams.
I’m not sure Siri ever got as good as the original Siri app that Apple bought. Maybe the custom triggers are an advancement but it has spent most of its life chasing the original Siri.
While most emmer varieties have indeed more gluten than the hexaploid wheat, the varieties described in the article quoted by you have, as written in the article, between 30% and 40% more gluten.

Nowhere in this article an emmer with twice more gluten is mentioned.
Mirroring the code to github (or somewhere else) would solve that problem just as well.

Not dogfooding your own product seems like a huge red flag to me.
This is never going to happen if you want to work for any larger company. And even if got it in writing (which you will not), they are unlikely to honour it because couple employees somehow got it in writing -- you will be coerced to change it or fired or "managed out".
Didn't HPV vaccines cut HPV prevalence by an order of magnitude, at this point in everyone under 30 years old?
Yes, you can run standard desktop Firefox extensions on FF for Android. There was a whitelist of extensions Mozilla allowed you to install though, I'm not sure if that still exists on the most recent versions.
How is Google sleeping on AI? By all accounts, they have had a better LLM than ChatGPT (Lamda), years in advance of ChatGPT.

Google is hampered in that they have a lot to risk. They're a big lawsuit target that can't go around wildly violating copyright and subjecting the world to dangerously, convincingly confident BS.

But make no mistake - they are world leaders in AI, they have their best engineers working on it, they beat everyone to the punch with a high performing LLM amongst a mountain of other AI advances, and they recognize the threat to their business model. You're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
IRS Tells Millions to Wait Before Filing Taxes
I have worked for one of the world's most important alcohol distributors, and have been in contact with high execs in the org. They are concerned that young people are not drinking as much as before, not the other way around.
I don't just mean encryption--I mean end-to-end encryption.

That means you can't throw hardware at it. You're limited to the hardware end users are using. Every client needs to be able to meet the needs of every other client, when each could be on a flaky cellular connection, or on a Raspberry Pi, or on a high-end PC with dedicated bandwidth. And how much CPU / memory / bandwidth / latency you have will often change during the call.

You can't just have the client send out the best video / audio it can and transcode it to meet other clients' capabilities server-side because of the end-to-end encryption. Getting it to work as seamlessly as Zoom does is an accomplishment.
I agree eating right and exercise makes a huge difference and is working well enough right now by taking meds every other day and making sure that on those days I follow a good eating and exercise routine because it will help carry over the habit to the next day--not always, but most days.

My problem taking a smaller dose is that it puts me to sleep. I sometimes split my original dose to use as a sleep aid because I get great sleep on it. Falling asleep on adderall was not fun to tell my doc or the pharmacist when I first started on adderall. I was recommended for more screening. It still makes me tired for 10-15mins as the first dose kicks in.

Lighthearted is a good word to describe the differences I feel as well. Though I am quite hyperactive, maybe they are related--bouncy and lighthearted off and matching the calm of the Vulcans on them.
I'd say more importantly, a mocked-up software demo is not fraud. If I show you some new ux element or layout or workflow, who cares what's behind it?

The fraud comes when it's something like theranos that lies about the existence of a technology their product depends on. If their blood test tech was proven and rock solid and they mocked up a UI for it, that would be fine, as there is no magic that needs to come true for it to work.

That's why tech has a big element of "fake it till you make it". Say, Airbnb or uber were obviously doable software-wise, and so if you have an idea like that there's little harm in presenting the software as being as far along as you can, so you can get the signups you need to scale. That's ok in my books (it's obviously still fraud to trick investors, but confidence in low-risk software that's not finished is not really an issue).

The problem occurs when people don't understand the distinction between software tech debt and fundamental tech or research risk, and treat them the same. This is what the author of the article appears to do
I thought this might be the trick that would get pulled. House price inflation is a completely inappropriate measure. House prices are not kept stupidly high by the 1% or capital class but by the 50.1% that vote against allowing any kind of building anywhere near an existing house, not near an existing house or that, heav'n forfend, might endanger the habitat of the lesser spotted newt.
When you look at wages + benefits, the increase is more or less proportional.
Seems like a great grift gig to me. Low pressure, possible chance of high reward.
simple: more layoffs
Voice assistants probably don’t make them money but damn if I don’t use google assistant every day when I drive.
With every pint he becomes more convincing too.
Firefox is the best Android browser, for the sole reason of being able to use uBlock Origin with it.
You really don't understand what a capitalist is, do you? Fortunately, I have enlisted ChatGPT to help you!

p0pcult:
Explain what Karl Marx would tell a five year old a capitalist is

ChatGPT:
Karl Marx would tell a five year old that a capitalist is someone who owns a business and makes money by hiring people to work for them and selling the things they make for a profit. The capitalist gets rich, while the workers who make the things only get paid for their time and effort. This is what Karl Marx calls "exploitation."

p0pcult:
What is a capitalist?

ChatGPT:
Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production, such as factories and businesses, are owned and controlled by private individuals for the purpose of generating profits. In a capitalist system, goods and services are produced and distributed in a market economy, and prices are determined by supply and demand. The goal of a capitalist is to accumulate wealth and capital through ownership and investment in businesses. [Emphasis mine]

Capitalists acquire wealth, passively, by owning things.
I’ve been a manager for decades and this is the way to handle it sometimes. Life is full of things that suck but you have to do them anyway, like paying taxes or cleaning your bathroom. Why should we try to pretend that work, of all places, is exempt from that?

Wrapping it in pink wrapping paper fools no one but kills personal credibility, which is the most important asset a manager has.

Top management often does not give a shit if people are happy about the thing (who is happy about layoffs?), just that it gets done satisfactorily. So yeah, sometimes I tell my team “this sucks but just get it done and then we can get back to the interesting work.”
Dokku is in use in production by a large number of companies. Those companies might setup Dokku on a single, large host - perhaps collocated somewhere - and not want to have downtime for their product(s). Others host a swarm of Dokku installations and also want to avoid downtime during deployments.

I suspect that "most users" will actually bounce if a site is down for more than a few seconds, or at least become frustrated with the availability of the site they are accessing.

Aside, I'd rather not field support requests from folks about how one of the main features Dokku promotes doesn't work when they configure it one way or another.
I still dream of a world where FogBugz & Kiln gained the respect they deserved.

Mercurial was pretty damn nice.
And knowledge is power, comrades!
I'll pass on all the class warfare melodrama, but it does seem a bit strange to be blasting tens of thousands of employees you paid through the nose to identify, recruit, and retain during a period of time when the biggest actors in tech are facing a level of competitive pressure that they haven't in a long time.

Maybe some cuts were needed to reassure the Street and support the stock price, and maybe that's easier to do with some air cover about interest rates and shit, but everyone remembers what happened the last time even one of the big actors broke ranks and started doubling people's salaries: Google has had a little problem called "Facebook" ever since. I'm not sure I'd be keen to repeat the experiment with OpenAI/ChatGPT and ByteDance/TikTok running around. FANG has had a good run but they're not invincible.

So I don't think they're going to be able to meaningfully depress big tech compensation for very long. But who knows, I've been wrong before.
Given how ChatGPT was trained to avoid talking about anything remotely related to sex at all costs, it's gonna be awkward.
It's not that Zoom has done terrible for a while, in fact the opposite is true. Yuan is the founder, and the company went from nothing to being pretty huge under his leadership. On the other hand, he signed off on hiring a lot of people because the company grew really fast during the pandemic — too many, as it turns out. What do you make of that? Should the CEO be considered a failure because too many people were hired, or a success because the company's revenue grew by like 1000% in the last three years? Both are really responses to the pandemic, and it may be that neither are really his fault, even if they are on his plate to deal with.
A test that generates evidence or demonstrates a known truth, which Bard also apparently can't do, and which the marketing team didn't do before making this ad.
Why though?

I mean, i could understand if you were working on some sort of research prototype that might fail, or otherwise something new and unique, but just porting an existing browser engine hardly seems to be instrinsically exciting in and of itself, so what would the motivation be?
We made a tool for teachers to reduce students cheating on PDF Quizzes
Generally US is concerned with lack of preservatives and EU is concerned with use of fake preservatives
Per this thread, this seems preferable to letting managers spend all their time building empires.

Also, if you're working for any large company, you are a cog in the machine.
> In my own experience, Alexa and Google's query pucks were improving for a short time, and then got considerably worse, losing features every month until they basically stopped understanding or responding to anything but the simplest requests.

Yes!! I thought it was just me and my Australian accent.

And the commands are super limited. I wonder to what extent that's also because third-party companies aren't integrating properly? Eg, my Roborock has clearly labeled rooms, but I can't say "hey Google, start vacuuming the kitchen". Is that Google's fault, or Roborock's?

Also, I can't seem to chain commands, eg "hey Google, set the lights to red and 10% brightness". I have to say them separately. That seems like a Google thing to me.
Patients needing home IV nutrition fear dangerous shortages
Her music is incredibly beautiful especially "Chants for the Feast of Saint Ursula"
I did something similar using git hooks (for Heroku-like deployments) and curl for health-checking the app [0]. In my case, instead of using replicas, I created multiple services in the docker-compose.yaml file. The services are the same but with different names (e.g: app1 and app2). Then, during deployment I can update only app1, run the health checks, then update app2 if everything is ok.

[0]: https://ricardoanderegg.com/posts/git-push-deployments-docke...
Didn't know that Posthog is based on CH these days. Interesting!
It depends on the site.

If there are a lot of users and you need to deploy an update during the middle of the day, even a little downtime could be disruptive.

If you have a global audience then maybe there's no safe "after hours" time to deploy.

Zero downtime deployments are fairly critical for a lot of Continuous Delivery / Deployment workflow, so more solutions the merrier as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, it's an "M0" role. Generally folks who transition from senior engineer into management become TLMs. Staff engineers transition to "M1" or a full-fledged manager.

TLMs still have individual contributor responsibilities. M1s don't. The reason for that is generally that (especially junior) ICs aren't likely to push back against poor technical decisions knowing that the person they're pushing back against is also in charge of their rating. This feels quite fair based on my experience and as such I'm quite skeptical about TLMs in general.
So? What's the functional difference between $6 billion and $1 billion (which is roughly what Google says his current net worth is). Unless your net worth is $500M or more, you're closer to being homeless than ever seeing that kind of wealth.
They are incompetent and do not care.

They couldn't even modify the ad to show correct information for lying's sake.
I'm not convinced such a tool has many uses, at least not for me. I almost always search to find a document containing some information. Interestingly, many people I know also often use search to find sites/locations they already know.
https://archive.ph/fB0PL
I have the idea before i have thought of the word i would use to express it. Sometimes, i don't even have word to express it, "you know what i mean?".

And like i said. Children will often act, then talk. Or seek their words for long period of time, and when you propose a word to help them vocalize, they can accept it or reject it.

I have another example. Do you ever have slip of the tongue? You're talking about "yoga", tell yourself while speaking "i really shouldn't say 'yoda' here", and say the word "yoda" anyway? This happened to me a lot when i was younger (my speed of thought is lower those days, i don't think i slipped this way in two or three years). I still think a bit faster than i speak tbh.
You are not suppose to spamming Rc<RefCell> :p

It's called Single Ownership.
Use Layered Tasks to Make Multitasking Work (2014)
Yes, still pathetically small. The DOT spent $375 billion on roads in 2022. Most of it went towards making roads more dangerous by increasing traffic volumes and speeds.
I've held a number of roles in tech from IC to sales to engineering management to product management and now back to IC. The problem with engineering management is that its difficult to quantify the things that make someone a good technical manager. I'm not even sure its always the same set of things in every organization. So its very easy for there to be many really bad EMs hiding in plain sight at places like Google and Meta. Its just really difficult to tease apart what an EM's contributions to team success actually are, and whether a team's failures and successes are even properly laid at their feet when there are so many confounding factors.

I went back to being an IC because its so much easier to take the blame and praise for my work when I'm just coding. I wouldn't mind doing sales again either. But I don't ever want to manage a large team again. There's just too much bullshit ... and I'm also old now (nearly 50) and I feel like a lot of new engineers don't understand what having a job means within an org. Yes, I know you want to work on interesting things all the time, but sometimes all you get to work on is unexciting stuff. Its a job.
This kind of thing is so far beyond anything I've learned about AI and machine learning. It blows my mind.
Do rockclimbing.
For ICs those are usually measured with product metrics, not butts in seats.
If your employer has a pet name for its employees (zoomies, tweeps...) and layoffs haven't happened yet, consider updating your resume.
Oh, you should have kids to solve your social problems then!
Oh man, that was in-house? Even worse!

I found the event I was invited to in 2007:

https://www.wired.com/2007/11/google-summons/

It did not seem like they knew what they were doing and everything was very rushed.
I think both you and the GP are missing the essence of what Elon is. He is neither an amazing operator and businessman, nor is he a slave driving demon. He does have a huge ego and need for attention, I'll give you that, but fundamentally he is someone who cares more about solving big problems than he does about money or people. The push to deify or villify him is all about satisfying ones own judgement, but personally I find those reductive opinions to be far less interesting than actually looking at the various things he's done and evaluating them on their own merits.
I hope someone has already written the eulogy for this service.

Their numbers also appear to be off. I compared my property to a house that has over 4x the amount of roof space for solar cells and their calculations only showed a 67% increase in the money recouped after 20 years.
> Burning those bridges carries a cost to your career.

I don't think this is borne out in practice. I've done very well and very poorly over the decades. It would have to be a very specific situation (lot of events unluckily coinciding) where coworkers/previous position could influence an interview process today.
From my reading, that's not where "modern living" comes from at all. For that, we should look to middle class folk living in the Netherlands, in roughly the late 1700s. They were (so I have read) the first to develop the modern concept of "home" with distinct rooms for different purposes, at least on a scale that be attained/reasonable aspired to by regular people. The account I read of this strongly suggested that this shift was not a copy of aristocracy/royalty, but rather a new conception rooted in the life and experience of a new mercantilist class.
Google engineers often spend years on less exciting and interesting projects that get canceled or don’t succeed. Plenty of people would enjoy working on this whether or not it launches, and it’s also a high-profile bet, so I’d say it’s in the very top tier of desirable projects.
Black mold contributing to colon growths? Now that's something I'd like to read more about! Do you have a link to a study?