skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sundar is good at keeping things running as-is.

He was elevated to CEO of Google to keep things running as-is while the founders moved their exciting ventures up to Alphabet. When those other bets were abandoned, Sundar was left as the top engaged executive, but he's still only a caretaker when the company needs an actual leader with vision to navigate their competition.

So, no. He has not been a good CEO. He was a good middle-manager and a decent CEO at best, but he's not been what the company needed, and he's definitely not what they need today.
I was likely one of them and I can confirm we were very shifty looking.

Mostly because we couldn't believe laundering money was this easy and surely the police will jump out at any moment (they never did)
Why Python interpreter can't figure it out like "oh this class only stores data, so it must be a data class". No need for decorators etc.

What would be the consequences of non-data class that only contains data to treat is as a data class? Likely none.
And if it is ever aliens please for the love of humanity please do not shoot at them. They might return fire assuming they even see us as a threat.
I thought you were right at first, but with commercial VPNs constantly be advertised as a way to get around content restrictions, I wouldn't be surprised if more people understood a VPN than a torrent these days. Assuming they're willing to pay that is.
Navy-blue Armani suit, garish yellow Bitcoin necktie, and a Thiel Foundation lapel pin. Beware of geeks bearing libertarian currencies.
Whatever happened to move fast and break things? Who cares if it wasn't perfect in the first iteration. It was a shot across ChatGPTs bow, and pleased the shareholders.
Everything is your fault when you're the CEO
I had to go anyway :)
Given the current political climate, I would say it's less likely to be because of some start up and more likely to be part of the wider GOP effort to claim the world is full of predators who are trying to corrupt your child's innocence and groom them into sexual beings before their time. They're using the same augument to ban drag and any books the governor's team hasn't preapproved in Florida. We're entering satanic panic 2.
> The West has resources and well-oiled propaganda machinery in place to control the dissent

Can you elaborate on this? Resources I agree with - but that boils down to controlling dissent by just removing a source of it which is not the same as controlling dissent by cracking down
Talking to you, Tom DeLonge!
Oops, yeah; I know Agda needs special handling for codata (co-patterns, sharp/flat, etc.)

Ironically, I'm more familiar with using codata in Coq; even though it's notoriously under-supported (breaking subject-reduction, no alternative to cofix, etc.)
What problems does haskell create
How do Monad transformers solve it @jeremyjh
As an BEV owner, there is no way in hell I would let incompetent utility company purposefully damage my battery, because they were too greedy to build their own storage.
Another instance of the digital ID meme. Obscenity and "Think of the children" is a tried and true strategy.

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_INSIGHT_REPORT_Digital%20I...
I assume this "AI" is nothing like the neural networks that have made such great strides recently. A lot of pre-programmed boolean logic.
I've never seen a need to use rust, and regularly work on small projects in C. As far as I can tell, there isn't really a compelling reason to switch.
Google search has gotten so degraded in the past few years that people want something to beat them.
Clown town?
Sounds about right. I know someone who's company hired VP that was ex-McKinsey, and then they hired a bunch of ex-McKinsey staff.

* offshore more dev internally
* about 12 months in, lots of things breaking, so move from offshore to outsource
* they try to have offshore hand off to outsource, offshore just stop working/caring
* with everything in the dump, they move to a different org or leave the company

It was worse than if they were just consultants, as now the people left to clean up the mess still cross paths with those that caused the problem.
Absolutely correct. That is why it is extremely important to be extra skeptical now since now anything from text, images, videos, etc on the internet can be AI generated.

It is only going to get worse from here. Take everything on the internet with a grain of salt.
Macs also don't typically have disks that fast, so unless it's transferring out of memory, which won't saturate 30Gbps for long, that also seems to not be that useful.

Latency feels like it would be a better trade-off here, I wonder what they're doing to reduce host to container latency.
Where did you get that from? cURL was started in 1996, which was around the nadir of the first wave of major memory exploit techniques. Lots of people in the security industry made their name with stack and heap exploit techniques that are now considered staid.
i hate being the source person but that's a pretty grand hyperbolic statement lacking details... mind expanding beyond just an opinion?
If you want this to get shot down, just hire some people with a fake French accents to make commercials praising the good people of Arkansas for being more progressively European.

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20230207-france-to-introduce-ne...
Pretty poor article. In summary:

"the universe is big -> it's unlikely aliens can visit -> so it's not aliens".

Thanks for that, that's ground-breaking.
Sounds like something someone who can see thinks up for the blind. If you do any study at all on the blind you will discover that a lot of gadgets that seem like they would be great are not very helpful. None of the things you bring up are issues most blind people worry about.

Train platforms are designed with bumps on the edge to the blind can feel where to go. (if your local trains station doesn't have this fire management and get it fixed).

The blind mostly are not going on narrow hiking paths. There are plenty of places to hike that are not narrow, dangerous or whatever. Even when they do, the cane works much better because they can feel exactly where the obsticals are, instead of having to figure it out from your sound thing.

I don't know what you are proposing to do about snarling dogs. Does this include a gun attachment to shoot them or something?
It does seem to be starting in the conservative states probably because they would be most open to it. It's also being proposed in the UK. You could be right. Either way this should be stopped because when it reaches critical mass then it's just a matter of time before it becomes federal law. Should that come to pass I would hope they lean towards empowering parents by using the RTA header vs. some 3rd party site that would initially used to protect children and then more controls get added quarterly to protect the next thing and then the entire internet goes the way of Twitter.
People are getting caught up in short-termism instead of long-term visions. It's happening everywhere in society.
Says /u/ramshanker
> We learned nothing

The following came to light as a result of Musk's release of the Twitter files:

Covid-19 Drugmakers Pressured Twitter to Censor Activists Pushing for Generic Vaccine -https://theintercept.com/2023/01/16/twitter-covid-vaccine-ph...

Twitter executives have claimed for years that the company makes concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed covert propaganda campaigns on its platform. Behind the scenes, however, the social networking giant provided direct approval and internal protection to the U.S. military’s network of social media accounts and online personas, whitelisting a batch of accounts at the request of the government. The Pentagon has used this network, which includes U.S. government-generated news portals and memes, in an effort to shape opinion in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, and beyond. -https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-...

Tangential, but it's educational to compare the NY Times headline for that story with the Intercept one:

Twitter Is Said to Have Struggled Over Revealing U.S. Influence Campaign -https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/technology/twitter-milita...

Twitter Aided the Pentagon in Its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign -https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-...
It’s because the top /giphy for dumpster fire is hilarious. An actual dumpster, on fire, floating around during a flood.
Even if someone were to believe you that unions are inherently prone to crime and corruption in a way unique to any other organization, here in the states they have a tiny fraction of the influence they had 100 years ago. You're talking about the unions ties to the mob like we're all living in 1930s Chicago or something.
So employees of seed startups should have higher equity if they work in the office even once, since apparently walking through the doors of a leased cube farm leads to much better results for the management class.

From my perspective, as a not-seed investor, my expected rate of return (salary) remains exactly the same if I work from home or at the office.

Seed investors have stacked the terms so early employees get as little of the exit as possible, even in the rare instance where there is a profitable exit, why do I care about higher revenue growth?
Thanks for the links. I wonder what percentage of the energy expenditure is the initial training vs. operating the service?
I feel like there is no vision for the future of Android there except chasing the iPhone. In the early part of the last decade, Android had its own identity which was part of the reason I used it. When it lost that, I moved to iPhone.
Could you explain what you mean by Google being a “BD play”? I’m not familiar with that term.
> The biggest factor for deciding if Haskell is a good fit for the problem is probably ecosystem support

And hiring right, or being prepared to train/let new hires climb up a steeper learning curve than hiring someone with Python experience for a Ruby app say.

Rust has reached that critical mass I think, got past the chicken/egg issue of experienced people to hire & companies interested in hiring them (to work on a rust codebase). Against the odds I think, there are plenty of languages you hear about similarly up and coming that haven't (D, Zig) or have only in a niche (F#, Swift, Kotlin - the last two I include mainly because I'm thinking Go could so easily have gone the same way, just been the one Google pushed for K8s plugins and GAE applications, not used generally as it is despite being a general-purpose language).
Nothing weird about it. It's called first mover's advantage. Wanna make electric cars, you have to beat Tesla. No matter how nice your car is. If your range is worse. Booo. If your self driving is equivalent or worse, Boo. Whatever Tesla has done, you must be better at. You need better design, cheaper price, better range, better reliability else no one would notice you.
Adtech is their main business. The quality of search suggests that it became less important to them.
Network effects are big at this point. Nim doesn't have a userbase or ecosystem like Rust.
Narcissists are incapable of picking #1. Between these 2 choices they are only able to pick #2.

Nepotism and "failing upwards" are so widespread that a reasonable person could easily pick #2 even when it is not anywhere near the right answer.
Good sex ed. isn't just the mechanics of the body. It's also healthy habits, dangers, and pornography education as well. The problem is, when people hear sex ed. they immediately think of 7th grade and the basketball coach awkwardly holding a banana talking to the class before getting a stick of deodorant.
My daughter has a girlfriend who was watching hardcore porn at age 7 or 8 and telling my daughter all about it. That is not healthy for that kid. They are going to get the wrong impression of how to interact with boys and it is pretty clear something is off with that kid now.

We limit alcohol, driving, tobacco, voting for minors because we judge them not smart enough to make good decisions. Why do you feel we should not exclude hardcore porn?
I don't even understand the concept of "passion". There is nothing I enjoy doing, nothing I look forward to. I work because it's everyone's responsibility to pay their own way. I'm just counting sleeps until the one I don't wake up from.
Where did you get 40%? The proportion of scheduled castes is somewhere in the mid-20s, you only get into the mid- to high-30s if you include "Other Backwards Castes," who aren't Dalits but are able to make a general case that they were low on the status hierarchy historically. But, cynically, that whole framework is mostly just a way for the numerically large smallholder classes to create reservations, that were originally meant to correct for untouchability, for themselves through a sort of caste-based patronage politics.

There are also lower and higher castes among Indian Muslims and Christians as well. It's a indigenous form of social stratification, more analogous to how we think of ethnicity or race, that's independent of peoples' confessional identity.
Move fast and break things don't apply if your "break things" cooks the golden goose
There would need to be an unpatched vulnerability in your player that the file exploited. Only virus I ever got was from an mp3 file that exploited the vulnerable version of winamp that I was using because I hated the newer version.
It might, I'm not sure. It depends on many factors: how much cloud discount are they getting, for example? And do you count the cost of training all previous models before chatGPT, or just the cost of training chatGPT itself?

But you might be right, chatGPT is insanely popular right now.
You should read “The Dark Forest”…
> Spend the friction tokens where it matters most.

That's a great quote that I shall use in the future.
Echolocation probably helps with that. You don't get the high-frequency components like vision can give you but you get enough of the low-frequency components of the space around you to develop a spatial sense, I would think.
Insanely misleading title. The author is basically showing off their A100 GPUs. The ChatGPT part is just clickbait, the only relevance ia that ChatGPT supposedly is also using A100s (definitely not only eight of them though).
I don’t think any Google shareholders are happy with the stock price after their announcement.
Any alien race with technology to reach Sol will also have superior technology to defend themselves. Only start worrying when the “balloon” shot down the F-18s and F35s that were scrambled to shoot it down.
Google Prepared Transformer => GPT, that has a nice marketing ring and clearly claims the invention/innovation. Google took their eye off the ball and fumbled. A "goto market" division could have helped the inventors/innovators.
SST makes it easy to build modern full-stack applications on AWS
While this may have been a fair representation of feminist academia 30+ years ago, these days it has long been fringe. And certainly irrelevant to this specific issue that we are currently discussing.
I tested 1 million rows * 12 columns. It works fine with pure client's web-workers and indexedDB. For larger datasets(like CSV file > 150MB), especially for the "mega automation" feature, It turns to be slow and sometimes lead crash in browsers.

For now, I have some temporally solutions, setting a sample size is the easiest.

Another way is put some heavy computation tasks to scaleable OLAP services, like a clickhouse clusters.

I will continue to research more ways to make the client handle as much data as possible and fast enough so more people can deploy it by their own with few costs.
> I would love to see a statistic where China has more military casualties than let's say the USA, in total numbers and in % of population I think the USA will exceed China, not least because the USA has been at war ever since I'm alive, China, well not so much.

LOLNO.

This is very well documented, and even if you ignore all the Chinese civil wars, most of which had more casualties than regular wars. Heck, one of their civil wars had almost as many casualties as WW1.

The US has been in a lot of wars but their military casualties are very low overall. They generally beat the other guys up very badly but they're quite careful to not lose people, in comparison with other countries.
That's what I thought until I read the entire post and got to the part about duplicate polyfills due to the whole dependency mess. At that point I would give up on maintaining such a project.
> currently it's not quite clear what's the best way to integrate dependent types with systems programming.

Dependent types dispense with the phase separation between compile-time and run-time code, which is inherent to system languages. So you can easily have dependent types in a systems language as part of compile-time evaluation, but not really as a general feature. It would work quite similar to the "program extraction" feature in current dependent-language implementations, which does enable improved type checking because you can express arbitrary proofs and check them reliably as part of compilation.
It's quite a leap to assume that the parent had in mind exactly two scenarios and wasn't mentioning specifics from their life experience.
not a threat? after our raptors have just shot down four of them? get real!
AI is the new "Big Data", though maybe it has one or two practical use cases for larger companies.
Is it the most trivial? C++ doesn't support it, and it has type inference using `auto`.

Note that in my example the type information flows from the variable to picking which generic method that is called, which is reversed information flow of what I would call the most trivial case - when the variable gets its type from the method that was called. (This is trivial: let x = 1i32;)
If you aren't going to learn to write Haskell in the spirit of Haskell why learn it at all? Learning a language also involves learning the communities norms and accepted practices.
The Apple of heat pumps.
We live in a country where everything important is owned and controlled by billionaires or hedge funds who also control the government via bribery. Events like this make me think that it's much, much crazier to trust the government to keep us safe.
Perhaps, but even in genetics, there is no free lunch - all that hardware you CRISPR into the larva inside the bean will need energy and material to be constructed and operated. Those resources will come at the expense of something else. It might damage another vital system, or just compete with everything else for fixed metabolic output.

Ultimately, it may turn out that natural selection will remove your "upgrades" simply because metabolic load makes the organism statistically less likely to survive long enough to procreate. Turns out - it's something I hear is particularly apparent in bacteria and viruses - natural selection likes simplicity too :).

Takeaway being, it's easy to splice in arbitrary genes these days - but it's hard to make it an actual improvement.
Even the human vision system is hallucinating all the time. The difference is that when we're awake we have another filter that separates the unreal hallucinations from the ones that are much more likely to match reality.

I experienced this very memorably coming back from vacation where there were little lizards seen while walking to and from the beach. When I got back home to my cold climate, I 100% saw a lizard skit across the sidewalk--it was a leaf.
I'm not advocating NATO boots on the ground.
It is the Ukrainians that are dying in the trenches. Zelensky has been quite clear: just give us the tools we'll do the fighting.
I don't think you understand how powerless the UAW is now. Car companies don't need to stay in Detroit.
I don't defend them pushing for payment but did you not also have the options of A: waiting 24hrs then downloading it. B: registering an account to get 20 downloads per day ?
M3gan 2: airborne

this movie writes itself!
That’s really nice. One of my favourite uses for returning closures is to separate a function into ‘configuration’ and ‘execution’ stages. It becomes extremely useful when you have a ton of parameters but only a few change between typical invocations.
I've assumed Telegram is Russian honeypot-ware for years and years.
Off the top of my head, python classes which shouldn't/can't be dataclasses:

The entire modules typing, os, sys, struct, inspect, json.

Anything which is a metaclass or relies on metaclass behavior (you have to be careful combining dataclass with other metaclasses, it's possible but with footguns akimbo).

Datetime actually should be a dataclass, but that api is so crufty and unintuitive that it's never gonna happen, and trying to shoehorn it to a dataclass would break oodles of libraries and applications.

threading: Thread, Lock, Rlock anything whichs uses locks

Numpy.ndarry, pandas.Series, pandas.Dataframe, torch.Tensor. Numerous scikit-learn models.

Probably the vast majority of c extensions.

pydantic.BaseModel, fastapi.FastAPI, fastapi.APIRouter (same with flask/django), celery.Task.

I could go on but I think I've made my point. There are plenty of non-dataclass use cases out there.
Stadia! Oh wait..
Dogbert: "We've analyzed your problem and determined that you spend too much money on consultants"

PHB: "But you're a consultancy"

Dogbert: "Ironic, isn't it?"
It was So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Modern Magic – in defense of shamanism, rune casting, and believing in gods
"Think of the children" has been one of the primary justifications for gun control as of late, with firearm injuries being one of the top causes of death among people under 20.
Daniel Kish: How I use sonar to navigate the world
I'm not so sure. Control theory has been using tensors to flow sensor signals into actuator signals since before tensorflow existed.
I'd like it to be aliens, but knowing that about myself, I'm going to need rock-solid proof.
> Why do you feel we should not exclude hardcore porn?

I don’t think kids should watch porn. I do think banning it will be as successful as we’ve been with alcohol, with the same blowback that comes from surrounding something in mystery and black markets.
Orange -> down, left, up, right, down, left

Green -> down, left

Orange -> up, right, down, left

Green -> up
I forget which episode it was, but there was an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation where a primitive people fired on the Enterprise. It barely registered on their instruments and certainly did nothing to the shields.

I suspect we would be playing the role of the primitive people. Our civilization(s) have had many set-backs.
You can call it "upper middle class" all you want, but to the vast majority of the population those folks would simply be "rich".

I'm not as concerned as you with the various strata of richness and the mobility between them.

I'm much more concerned with the social mobility of people living in poverty, which is pretty bad in the US compared to Europe. [0]

Key factor in that? Unions.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index
Did they control for industry? When looking at something like revenue you so much of your outcomes at early stages are functions of externalities as much as they are from how you organize and operate. Did they control for business model? This sample just seems super unrepresentative and cherry picked for an outcome.