skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it makes you feel better about your negative anecdotes I've had the same general experience. I've seen a lot of Business School -> Consulting -> Executive track guys come through various companies in my career and they've without exception been disasters.

There are a couple of general patterns I've seen with them. One is that they tend to be short timers. They are going to put together a 3 to 5 year growth plan with the full knowledge that they won't be here in 3 to 5 years. I've worked on more than a few of these were we present several different models with varying assumptions to a new exec and they then take those models and change them to use incredibly unrealistic assumptions to drive growth numbers that have no basis in reality or any chance of being achieved. This might be fine if the board then tied their options or bonuses to the model, but often they get tied to EBITDA or some similar metric instead.

The problem with using EBITDA is that there are a few ways to grow EBITDA. One, and the one you're going for with these big growth models, is top line revenue growth. The other is by cutting costs. Often cutting costs is much easier. Especially if you're only concerned with short term EBITDA growth, but it can also mean sacrificing long term growth. But these guys don't really care because they won't be there long term.
Assuming that it isn't aliens, isn't really a mistake. It's playing the extremely excellent odds that it isn't a thing that that it's exceedingly unlikely to be.

Could it be aliens? Technically, I guess. Just like it could technically be craft sent by advanced beings living in the center of a hollow Earth.

It makes sense to start with hypotheses that are actually likely, or at least not terribly unlikely, before going on flights of fancy.
> Those CSX rail workers just didn't work hard enough, and poor struggling management can't afford to give them paid sick leave because they're just so lazy and they work too slowly to be able to take the time off.

The above should be obvious as cruel sarcasm, but based on how people talk (and vote), it seems that some people genuinely believe such things.
You only need 2 Google employees to criticize Sundar for "Google employees call the response a dumpster fire" to be plausibly true. When things like this come out in the media, I generally assume n < 10.

That said, you can add me as an Xoogler who thinks that Sundar is phenomenally bad at managing the company.
You say all of that as if it's a good thing.

Objectively, Google is doing just fine as far as I know. So my personal subjective experience is just that: anecdotal.

However, over the last 6 years I have found myself abandoning Google's products en masse, with the most notable being search.

Where Google really shined in its application of ML IMO was eliminating spam. Since then they have tried to use ML to solve all sorts of problems and it has only served to make their products worse.

I switched away from search because, at some point, it started trying to infer some sort of meaning from my keywords when all I want are 1:1 keyword matches ranked by relevance, with exclusion and grouping operators. I started using DuckDuckGo not because of privacy concerns (ok maybe a little bit because of privacy concerns), but because I started to find that it was giving me more relevant results.

I use GMail for work and it's fine, but even that widely popular product doesn't seem any better than the alternatives these days. I still have an ancient Yahoo mail account from the 90s and I use Tutanota for other personal email addresses. Granted, I'm not an email power user so I don't really use tags or other advanced features. Maybe GMail really shines there. But for a simple email client with good spam filtering, GMail is no better than alternatives these days IMO.

Google docs and sheets are OK. I'm not sure how those are leveraging ML but it's the same deal as with GMail. I've used Office365, G-Suite and Libre Office running locally and as for features the only difference in functionality that I can observe is cloud vs local; if that's not a factor then they are all interchangeable.

So I don't see how being "AI First" has improved the end user experience. I liked their products much better 10 years ago.
The UK is quite a conservative state and has had several goes at this already, at least one of which fell apart as unworkable.
World is too small for this mindset anymore. Isolationism is no longer possible.
Teams on macOS is probably the "thing" I hate the most. That fucking invisible window is a nightmare.
Also it lets the sheep charge their phones.
>The reason people are so upset isn't necessarily because of the environmental impact, it's because the people who work on these trains have been warning things like this could happen for years, and when they tried to strike over it, the federal government stepped in and crushed them into submission. There was a car on that train that was on fire for at least 20 miles before the derailment. If I can get pulled over for having a busted tail light, a train full of toxic chemicals should get stopped for being on fire.

This feels like a motte and bailey. A quick skim of the comments in this thread that people are equally worried about the health impacts from the accident specifically, as about the general plight of railway workers and/or the state of safety on railways. The NPR article also largely talks about health impacts from the specific accident rather than systemic safety issues. I'm not saying that people aren't outraged about the systemic safety issues on railways, but it's pretty clear that the main thing on people's mind is the immediate environmental impacts.
These boxes generally utilize stock Cortex A53/A55 which are quite good IMO.
It's not for people like us who even know what a CSV is, it's for people who have some scripting/programming knowledge, but mainly live in Excel all day.
I like the bit about

Let's look at how the first one of these, “pay attention to weak signals”,
interacts with a single example, the “WTF WTF WTF” a new person gives off
when the join the company.

and kinda wonder if a company that prioritized not getting this reaction from new hires might find it is the most impactful thing they can do in terms of culture.
Sorry meant the writer of the book.
Sounds like they aren't the only ones engaged in a culture war.
Is this one a West Coast Canadian term of a certain era?

It was popular in Vancouver in the oughts but I've been met with blank stares elsewhere on the continent, especially East Coast younger millennials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B9mQQnZg_8 nice analysis
Tell that to Ukraine.
I agree, but not with the conclusion. I don't think a Nadella is what they need. He's far too much of a stabilizer, which makes sense for Microsoft given their incredibly rocky years. This archetype is also what Pichai is trying to fill and why Google isn't working out.

When you step back for a moment, it's utterly bizarre Tim Cook was able to pivot Apple towards being this privacy-focused company who is now able to eat Google's ad lunch from right under them. Tim Cook, the very same guy people called just a boring distributions-focused leader, yet he has a more forward-thinking vision than Pichai. Pichai, the man who once led a team to create Chrome.

It's outright absurd how much one has stalled in comparison.
It's funny yet sad at how differently HN reacts to a company making its employees go into the office than this. Maybe that's how we should frame it - "railroads force employees back into office, even when sick" might garner some more sympathy.
While goats will eat just about anything, I think they were referencing their compulsive need to climb everything in their pen.
hahaha, just like the work done in large organizations. Something is done, without knowing the larger goals.
In theory, I don't see government ownership of society-critical industries with no opportunity for competition to be crazy. Tell me how you'd spin up a competing national rail line network.
Or... parent better? Kids are going to see messed up stuff. Teach them why it's wrong, and that coming to you about it is good. That they should respect women, and other human beings in general, and that porn is almost as fantastical as Star Wars. And restrict their internet yourself if it's that big of a deal.

I'm sick of people sucking at their responsibilities so much that they think the government doing it for them is a great option. It's lazy.
and what does that have to do with the crash?
There were more factors to this derailment than the ones you mention. In recent years train companies have forced longer trains than ever to be driven by a single worker, the sort of thing that would make it hard to notice a train car is on fire. They've also forced train car inspections, the sort of thing that might catch a faulty bearing, to be done faster than ever, in the push for endlessly increasing profits.

The workers were raising these and other complaints last year, and our national leaders told them to take a hike, preventing them from striking.
I was curious about that stat on crime rates in Moscow vs Brooklyn but I can’t find any evidence that it is true.

In 2022 there were 138 homicides in Brooklyn which comes out to 4.98 homicides per 100k residents. In comparison in Moscow Oblast there were 6.9 homicides per 100k residents (in 2017, which is the latest year I can find information for this stat).

So at least by homicides, Moscow seems more dangerous.
Get rid of postinstall message (core-JS, 2019)
Some important points about large language models verses self-driving cars:

1. The former is entirely in software and has the favorable economics that brings with it

2. Language models don't need to be that good to provide value, whereas self-driving cars basically need to be solved before they become significantly useful

3. There's a cottage industry of secondary startups being built around using language models for various applications, whereas no such thing exists for self-driving (probably because of 2)
Maybe in your district this is true (and some districts are more homogenous than others, for sure), but I'll challenge you to really take a look at the candidates of your next primary election. You'll probably find find meaningful differences between their political philosophies, even if class isn't among them. As an example, though, AOC and Joe Crowley are different in many meaningful ways. As are Connor Lamb and John Fetterman. These are cases where I think people of the political insider class were defeated by challengers that people didn't think fit the proper mold.
WTF is wrong with the people on this site?
This is going to end up like Macross plus
That would not be a comprehensive comparison, but:

- OCaml is definitely tailored for more "high-level" tasks, such as writing a programming language or a theorem prover (there are many of them in the OCaml world, and even Rust was initially written in OCaml, as you've mentioned). OCaml has a GC, which might be a problem under certain circumstances.

- Rust has a far better ecosystem despite being a younger language. You can just compare the number of packages on crates.io and OPAM.

- OCaml _sometimes_ has some more fancy type features, such as functors (modules parameterized by other modules), first-class modules, GADTs (Generalized Algebraic Data Types), algebraic effects, and the list could go on. It doesn't have type classes or an ownership system though.

- OCaml is more ML-like, while Rust quite often feels C-like. For example, you have automatically curried functions in OCaml and the omnipresent HM type inference.

- OCaml has a powerful optimizer called Flambda [1], which is designed to optimize FP-style programs.

Having written some code both in OCaml and Rust, I can say they are in a lot of aspects quite similar though. They both take a more practical POV on programming than Haskell, which affects language design quite evidently.

[1] https://v2.ocaml.org/manual/flambda.html
Yes, I am aware of Dr. Loeb and I am a fan of his scientific work. However, his beliefs in aliens is disppointingly clouding his scientific judgement, and if you don't believe me, read one of his physics papers from a decade ago, and then read his popular science account of Oumuamua from 2021. A stark difference in scientific approach, very sad to see.
Airlines are regulated heavily and safe without nationalizing / seizing ownership.
Another option with the No pilot model is that there isn’t a need to have a large capability revealing fleet flying around all the time. Everything is done small s ale or in software until go time arrives.

This theory is in the latter part of Tyler Rogoway’s “The Alarming Case of the USAF’s Mysteriously Missing Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles”

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3889/the-alarming-case...
Thomas Kurian.
That's odd. It's definitely up on my end. Maybe something preventing the JS running?
I see a lot of these responses starting with "The reason." I don't see many people talking about institutional bias. I don't see a lot of people talking about this disaster getting no coverage while the media is stuck on shooting down balloons. I don't see many people talking about the fact that if this was anywhere close to wealthy people that it would have been headline news. I don't see many talking about the absolutely soulless response of everyone responsible. I don't see many talking about historical precedents that paint a clear picture of what is likely happening. I don't see many talking about how the best coverage of the event has been on Tiktok and that people on the ground might have something valuable to report.

This is NOT s trivial thing in any way. This is not a wait and see thing. This is a total disaster that will impact the health of people in the area for generations. And without any pushback the terrible people responsible well likely just get away with it.
There’s a list of people I won’t work with alright- a list of people who throw down sweeping ultimatums and try to control others behavior and speech through fear. No thank you.
You get this for free with FHE. In the event of a dispute, you can reveal the randomness and message that produce the public ciphertext given the user's public key.
How does GRAD change things for the better?
The US have approved modular nuclear. But might be too little too late for Europe. And it’s nimby approach to certain things. Especially protectionist France. Can’t imagine they’d ever give a nuclear contract to anyone other than EdF

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-approves-design-n...
That's an egregious error. Good catch!

At any rate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate is *also* a "Group 2B: possibly carcinogenic". (I'd assume it's just the functional group that's interesting here, and the whole class is carcinogenic).

- "Methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, technical-grade TMPTA, and isobutyl nitrite were classified as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” (Group 2B), based on “sufficient evidence” of carcinogenicity in experimental animals and no data or inadequate evidence in humans."

https://sci-hub.ru/10.1016/s1470-2045(18)30491-1 ("Carcinogenicity of isobutyl nitrite, β-picoline, and some acrylates." The Lancet Oncology 19.8 (2018): 1020-1022.")
D could have been that. Back when it was released, D was so far ahead of C++98. However, D decided to go with garbage collection which kept it from being a replacement for C++. In addition, the D garbage collector never received the massive investment that Java’s garbage collector has received.
I wager its a western thing as western civilizations were full of explorers who made big names for themselves by "contacting" alien civilizations and bringing back artifacts and stories. Then technology began shrinking the world, first eliminating the unknown here on the surface then further shrank in the emerging field of astronomy. With nothing left to explore and the realization that we're a small spec in a vast, cold universe, what's left? Alien invasion stories are just the other side of the great tales of discovery and conquest by the Magellan's and Columbus's of the universe.

And aliens are no different than other superstitions and monsters such the chupacabra or yeti. It's all cultural influence.
too easy and too fun.

Also, to anyone interested in this problem, look for the Worse is Better paper
Airbus Helicopters holds the record for the highest take from Mount Everest's summit, they didn't play around with anything less the highest point of earth.

But ok, a sidewinder shot from a Apache flying at the top of his ceiling should do the job as well. My personal pet theory so is, that some USAF pilot wants to become a fighter ace of aces for balloons and is using his political connections within the USAF and the Pentagon to lobby for enough balloon shoot downs to get there. Come thinking of it, maybe it is the USAF fighter pilot community launching those balloons themselves???
Google wasn't profitable. Like an ant eating the wrong sort of fungus, the advertising companies won and Google's zombified husk carries on.
Rust only half-asses this though. Lifetime annotations are part of the type of the function but can be elided if unambiguous. For beginners and generally people who read code that's confusing. I don't think there's anything to be gained by writing a few less characters and editors can easily add them as well.
For context, BBC is a propaganda/news platform operated by the same state that colonized India, looted an estimated $45T in wealth, committed genocide on its people, etc. BBC also has a consistent track record of blatant anti-India and anti-Hindu bais.

BBC is not above India's laws.
I'm pretty sure they were claiming that ethics go out the window when threatened, and it will probably lead to using AI in a problematic way because it's easy to see it as a quick win (via improved autonomy), and once it's out there it tends to stay in use. Not that autonomy leads to ethics taking a break.

The latter may also be true, but that wasn't what they were claiming.
"I think its really important for any developer, whether they are encased in the glories of the browser or otherwise, to understand how to add the Lua VM - to anything - and then use that as a means of productive application development."

I completely agree! I feel that I should add thoughts about this into the article.

A lot of people (justifiably) complain that C and C++ are not memory-safe and that it's hard to write readable and safe code in it. Lua allows you to hide the scary parts of C and C++ and write simpler and safer code by default.
Id be totally willing to see Jeff Dean promoted to CEO. Not that I think he'd do a great job, but it would be interesting to watch. He's been building a case for this for quite some time.
Whilst the article itself has some ok arguments for the hypothesis it puts forward, I can't help but point out that it's completely overshadowed by the dumpster fire of a presentation, with scroll event interception until I click on the cookie nagger, and a full screen low-resolution photo blocking the whole viewport that has to be scrolled out of the way to get to the actual article. Maybe om.co should get a new web designer? No, scratch that. I'm willing to bet that these particular design choices were not made by anyone with practical knowledge and experience of web design.
Regardless, they will just be a punching bag.
J. Posadas also made a strong case for this.
Man, Incubus was on some great soundtracks back then. Halo 2...
In The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations by Sidney Dekker, he quotes someone else saying something like:

> Everything that can go wrong will go right.

Murphy's Law then manifests from escaping disaster through repeated iterations of taking risks where most things play out well anyway.

I have to laugh at the "append z to the end" strat at Google, though. That's a good one.
> 'Cause baby, there ain't no mountain high enough

> Ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough

> To keep me from getting to you, baby

-- Goats
Stadia launched without the full backing of google. Google could have easily foresee the public reaction, and mitigated it with a different pricing model or some guarantee that game purchases will be refunded if stadia closes down within 3 years of purchase.
No one at any point thought that voice interaction would be dominant.
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> How do you know the crash was the result of missing regulations?

"“Would ECP brakes have reduced the severity of this accident? Yes,” Steven Ditmeyer, a former senior official at the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), told The Lever."

https://www.levernews.com/rail-companies-blocked-safety-rule...
It's a bit like God really. The burden of proof lies with the believers not the atheists.
I mean this as a genuine question-- what new successful projects have Amazon or Apple produced since 2015?

I'm not a defender of Google, but my sense has always been that tech generally slowed around that time. Would like to know if I'm missing something
> I think the argument is that OP wants the hammer factory to focus on making hammers.

I think the OP meant this and that it's not like other languages are anti-LGBTQ or something.
Cool, I'll add you to the list :)

> try to control others behavior

Ah yes, speech is what controls other's behavior, not violence!
Engineers ultimately decide our future. Stay informed!
Every Tesla vehicle sold up until 2016 had free supercharging for life (ask me how I know). They've floated the perk again for some Model 3 configurations upon the initial release.

One is required to have a valid credit card on their Tesla app (even if supercharging is free, idle fees are not) and it's tied to the VIN of the vehicle.
Why don't you put your interest and desires together and make something like that? I'm sure the people who are at least trying to do something would welcome the example.
> What good will come of this?

To our chagrin, this increasingly describes the tech industry in general.
You would have very fast landing pages, which you still do today. But the issue is SaaS apps are soul crushingly slow, but google does not care about that because google cannot login.
> has not made a significant effort to dominate in this field

It's almost like Google is not immune to the fate of being a massive company.

And just like prior large, market dominating firms (IBM / Microsoft / Intel), managed to miss a new trend (commodity PC hardware / web/mobile / contract fabbing) due to wildly profitable legacy revenue streams whose sheer size masked competitor acceleration.
> Yet everyone’s idea of safety still seems to be “just write bug-free C code, bro”.

Does it though? I think "the industry" has pretty much come around on C being unsafe, and generally not a great choice of language for new projects.

But the fact is that there's a lot of C code out there, and we can't just ditch or rewrite it all overnight. In an ideal world, we wouldn't be starting from here. But we are, and it's going to take time to get to where we need to be.

Heck, take a look at the recent story about "Considering C99 for curl": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33704054

From the linked article:

> The slowest of the “big compilers” to adopt C99 was the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler, which did not adopt it properly until 2015 and added more compliance in 2019. A large number of our users/developers are still stuck on older MSVC versions so not even all users of this compiler suite can build C99 programs even today, in late 2022.

What are the chances that the kinds of people who are still doing development on systems where the C compiler is from 2015 or earlier, or on a more niche system that Windows that lots of new safe languages haven't been ported to yet (and such ports aren't even on the radar), are going to able to start moving to developing in rust or whatever anytime soon?
Will anyone remember how Bard was released in 5 years, if it delivers on its promises? I doubt it, so the hand wringing over a stumble this early seems overblown.