skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company with the best track record of maintaining backwards compatibility in the entire tech industry owns Github. I'm not worried about that.
That’s what kills me about this. They’re like, the kings of data - they’ve got (arguably) the best web scraper, as well as tons and tons of compute and consumer data. And some company famous for making a DOTA bot beat them to the punch by a huge margin? That’s pretty pathetic IMHO.
It's naive to think not having equity (if it's even true?) means there's no monetary incentive, which you then build the rest of your reply on.
> Personally, I'd say that at least Google's Android department is currently headless and has no idea what the users want.

The clock change, while minor, really put the nail in the coffin for me. I have very little optimism for Android. Luckily, it still allows me to use an app to revert the clock display to an readable clock display. I don't particularly want to switch to iOS and I am happy about GrapheneOS, but it's still going to suffer from bad decisions coming from Android.
Intriguing!

I noticed one thing in the handbook:

> Care must be taken if you assign a given key to the null value: some platforms remove keys assigned to null from tables making them invisible to the in and not in operators.

It is really important to specify the exact behaviour and make sure all platforms behave the same way. You can't write portable programs if the behaviour differs from platform to platform.
If I can't afford a license, I don't have backwards compatibility, TYVM
A computer hardware fashion company.
Of course isn't a repeat, it's just another flavour with similar consequences: bailouts, money printing, rampant inflation, credit crunch, and so on. No matter the language acrobatics and fancy terms used to describe it.
> True but I meant GoogleCode as an analogy to VSCode i.e. a Google text editor / IDE. It’s very telling that Google has never entered that market

Google did at least one attempt of creating an IDE (I can not judge from the outside, though, how serious this attempt was): Google Collide

YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gq12bLbm54 (jump to 1:45 to see it in action).

Well, Google open-sourced it in 2012 (i.e. shot it down): https://www.wired.com/2012/07/google-open-sources/

A fork of Google Collide on GitHub (its last commit was from end of 2018, though): https://github.com/WeTheInternet/collide
Ballmer at least brought us Bing and sticked to it. So he wasn't that bad except missing trillion dollar opportunity called non-Apple mobile operating system that turned out to be Android not Windows Phone.
> Imagine a programming language with the syntax of python

I am not sure when the python syntax become such a beacon of quality, but that makes me genuinely sad; Especially with looking at all the other syntax (swift, kotlin, F#/ocaml, rust) out there.
It's very difficult to put a direct comparison, because the government usually does not build skyscrapers, and the private sector almost never builds public transit. But you see dramatic shortfalls in US cost and rate on the construction of major transit infrastructure compared to peer nations:

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/22534714/rail-roads-infrast...

As I detail in a cousin comment, privatizing the construction process itself does not help (and might make matters worse), but it surprised both the author (of TFA) and me to see that the US is competitive when the whole project is privatized — possibly implying that the government is making mistakes in administration particularly.
Did you suddenly become defensive?
PBS has some great stuff, but people don't watch it. Their news program is actually good - if you're someone in the US that likes an evening news program but gets exhausted by local stations that don't actually do news beyond warm fuzzies and outright terror, and major outlets that do some news then flog it for 48 hours until their opinions are indistinguishable from their reporting, it's worth checking out.
That is something different, since Algeria could not change anything in the game at Gijon. That what makes it disgraceful.

In Barbados 4–2 Grenada, both teams still had the opportunity to act, albeit in unforseen and seemingly strange ways.
I've not seen Game of Thrones, but I am aware of a meme about Daenerys Targaryen surprising viewers by doing in the finale exactly and specifically what she said she was going to do throughout the show.

So anyway, Sam Altman is working on creating and aligning this super-duper artificial intelligence that, if it works out, makes all of human labour and economic value to date pale in comparison.
I think it's fair to go back to anything since that list of "Search, Mail, Maps, Android" but I think you're comparing the Pixel to VSCode in the wrong way. Being less succesful but in a bigger pool of total users shouldn't win marks here.

What percentage of the smartphone market do you think uses the Pixel vs what percentage of the developer market uses VSCode, and what is the trend in that number?

A sibling comment to your seems dead but mentioned Google Photos, which is much more recent than I remembered (2015 apparently) and I think a pretty fair competitor in that market with iCloud Photos, Lightroom, and such.
Which would only come into play if a religion collects revenue.
While Washington forgets, much of the world remembers
I built a free monitoring service some years ago if anyone doesn't want to be the victim of this...

https://ismycertexpired.com/check?domain=objects.githubuserc...
> Consume as much renewable cheap energy as possible ..

I agree that this is true. However you may have missed the nuance of my argument. Apologies if I wasn’t clearer. Let me explain:

Not all elecricity is the same. For most industries or residential uses, electricity only has value if there is demand for it in real-time. Energy storage technologies are neither mature nor economically viable, with the exception of Hydro dams which depend on supporting geography.

Bitcoin creates a market for this intermittent excess electricity in real time. There is no other market demand for intermittent electricity and therefore no market price.

Were it not for Bitcoin mining the variability of wind and solar would make their energy available when not needed by the grid and the excess load would simply be shed. As a result the cost of these renewables would be higher since they would no longer be subsidized by mining.

Miners are unique in that the capital cost of a miner is dwarfed by the energy cost. So turning off a miner when demand (and therefore price) of electricity is high makes perfect sense economically.

No other industry has a similar use case for stranded or highly variable electricity.
Money was given to the top because the top controls the systems that allow the bottom to make money. Give to to the bottom they spend it, create nothing and now we all have nothing.

>The pandemic could have been the perfect opportunity for a soft debt jubilee to rebalance the system.

I don’t agree with either stimmy or the lockdown business handouts but I find it ridiculous people are using a world tragedy as some sort of crowbar to bring about their idea of some sort of require rebalancing. Not sure how those people even think how that could possibly play out beyond 3 months.

Starting to suspect some people feel the pandemic was the best thing to ever happen to them and are now upset it didn’t go further.
I wonder how many HN conversations would be cut short if we simply accepted that analogies are imperfect yet useful. They provide a very limited amount of insight into any topic—so yes, let’s use them, and let’s stop arguing about whether an analogy is the “right analogy”. A analogy will have some element of truth that transfers from one situation to another, and in a good analogy, it will be easy for readers to discover that element of truth.

You’ll find ways in which the analogy is “wrong”, but that’s just noise.
I just don't think this is true. I just think Google has become actually bad at search, and there is no malice.

The problem with SEO spam was always there (remember expert sex change?) but they beat it before... but now it became bad again.

But they have monopoly anyway (bing is even worse for actually searching, ddg is just bing, brave search sucks) so they don't really care. What are you gonna do, use Ask.com?
Generally I think you'll find it easier to pay rent if you provide accurate reasons for slow sql queries.
Re Glass-Steagall and 2008 crisis, Robert Reich and Elizabeth Warren disagree with you [https://robertreich.org/post/124114229225]. According to you, which legislation prevented the conflict-of-interest in banks writing trillions in subprime mortgages decades prior to 1999? or securities firms selling CDOs backed by subprime MBS? IIUC, the issue in 2008 was never "preventing mortgage CDOs" outright, but preventing the inflated valuations on junk tranches of subprime, i.e. mortgage lenders allowing securities sellers to intentionally create and sell junk with their assets.

(and I clearly didn't say Glass-Steagall would have done anything for SVB or Signature; I was saying banks like Chase's selective edit of the chain of events around 2008 was a whitewash because it omitted mention of key events.)
There might be some incentive still. It doesn't have to be an all or nothing story. The fact that he has 0 equity by itself makes the SBF comparison ridiculous (which is what the parent poster was connecting to). It is clear there is not the same level of monetary incentive.
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"Eschewing any ownership interest would help him stay aligned with the original mission."

Is this a nice acknowledgement that the capitalist drive for profit can produce bad outcomes, which Altman wanted to avoid?
New dark pattern: Google spam links with [SOLVED] at the start of the title
I just googled an error I'm having with an ESP32 and the top link had [SOLVED] at the start so I clicked it, brainlessly assuming a forum would be at the other end.

It wasn't until I read all the way through a useless tutorial that didn't offer anything useful and hit back that I made the connection of why I had chosen the link.

Basically Google is actively hostile to showing you what you're looking for, now.
Yes, but what about VB6 itself?

"Where can I install/buy Visual Basic 6?" https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/49c35ab...
They recently killed off their AR/XR teams which were really good tbh, made me sad...
You're either completely misunderstanding all of the figures you're reading, or you're arguing in bad faith. This has already been explained to you by others, this is my last message to you.

Either food inflation or general inflation, the UK has similar rates to the rest of Europe.

The Tories are not in charge of deciding the inflation rate in the UK, it's from the Office for National Statistics and all the financial lenders would be very quick to voice their disagreement if they thought otherwise. Suggesting that the values coming from the UK are fake is an extraordinary claim which you have no evidence of.

Germany has a general inflation rate of 8.7%, this is below the EU average. They are not driving it up.

Groceries were rationed because UK supermarkets refused to buy them at spot-prices. The UK had a shortage of peppers while Sweden etc had peppers at 10€/kg.
I guess they fired him because he was an idiot.
> I don’t think it’s an easy job even keeping the Google ship sailing

Not sure I agree. It's easy to be captain of a ship when you're on a familiar route and there aren't any icebergs to dodge. Just let the crew get on with doing what they always do.

It's only when you have to dodge icebergs that you need to start making difficult decisions under pressure and coordinating subordinates.
> Banks are different. A random drop in their stock price will lead to a perceptions failure that trigger run conditions. This is how Signature and Credit Suisse were, at least proximately, done in.

You have the cause & effect wrong, the stocks tanks because the bank is failing. Tons of banks that are not publicly traded fail too.
It can answer questions that have never been asked before. Search can't.
Docker, Inc. is in a tricky position. They've raised a lot of capital, and continue to raise capital. According to Wikipedia, they took $105 million from Bain Capital in November of last year. So Docker, Inc has Mirantis on one side, and a whole bunch of VC on the other side.

I'm sure that Docker Hub is expensive to run, and the core Docker app isn't free to maintain either.

This TOS change was a fiasco, and absolutely didn't succeed in doing anything other than losing a lot of community goodwill. But I do understand why they're trying to squeeze some money out of Docker Hub. I'd be surprised if it's even break-even for them right now, and VC funds aren't exactly known for their acts of charity.
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You can not be the main player and betray the trust of your users (free or not).

It's easy to forget the value of being an important part of a community that makes decisions on millions of $$$ in software spending, but be sure that there are plenty of companies who would love to take your place.

Reverting this incredibly dumb decision is the right course of action but there is a long way ahead to restore trust.
Azure had several global outages because of issues with certificates. One outage was caused by an incorrect date computation: the certificates last for one year, and this was computed with: "new DateTime(now.Year+1,now.Month,now.Day)".

If you do that on Feb 29th of a leap year, it'll throw an exception because the next year doesn't have a Feb 29th! Oops.

They "fixed" it and promptly had another related outage the very next day.
Because A) of all the permutations of follow up decisions that could have been made, this falls on the "good choice" side, and B) this isn't "pat on the back" situation, this is a save face situation.
If they’d kept the psychotic “Sydney” version these numbers would be even higher. I promise you they had the end game right there.
I've now laid out the plan in better detail here https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/120wkz4/lets_j...
It is my understanding the the GEOS system was developed on a more powerful machine than the C64/Atari computers it was used on. This let then have the entire code in memory and then processed for common functions. They could not do this on the the 64K-8 bit computers at the time.
I like swift and rust quite actually. Might make a shark VM from scratch in swift for the heck of it. :)
Yes yes fellow consumers. We should remove consumer protections and lower corporation taxes! Then I’m sure the companies will treat us better!
More like, in the same way that Burisma should take Hunter Biden’s advisement on the oil and gas industry.

You put your money with the bank, but only out of necessity, and usually it works out, and they have you by the balls the whole time
I hope the team can figure out how to monetize their stuff and keep rolling forward - their tech is amazing!
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China also did a lot of its QE with chinese characteristics. If i remember correctly north to a trillion $ in 2022.
They didn't know their place, and still don't -- clearly. Dockerhub has very little to offer (basically hanging on by a thread) and doesn't deliver enough value to justify an expense for what was always claimed to be a free service. If you give something away for free, it better be just a starting point, for you to figure out how you're going to add enough value to justify people paying you. And then -- make your case and tell them why.

Docker didn't do any of this. They literally tried to take a free product and just start charging for it. It feels the same as a restaurant who gave free toothpicks away suddenly want to start charging for them. This speaks to how out of touch their senior leadership is, and the only possible thing they can do to recover is to part ways with the leaders who made that terrible business decision.

I've been in meetings like this before -- some analyst runs a SQL query and makes the case for charging for something that has always been free, and hamstrung leadership goes along with it because it sounds like such an easy way to "unlock value". What they really mean, is, easy way to make money off unsuspecting people via something that should probably be illegal, and would be in a different context (i.e. bait and switch).
We have been conditioned to think it's acceptable, because it's now normal, to live in a society where we're constantly deceived and lied to. Everything is marketing, PR, spin.

From all the corporations that control so much of our lives, the government, science, medicine, religion. Every major institution in our society. Every message has to be carefully parsed and squinted at, one always has to deduce what might have been the (truthful, real, honest) conversation behind closed doors that produced what we're hearing or reading.

From every message it is possible to know only one thing: what the author wants us to think. What is real is almost always another story.

That is tiresome.

Related clip from Crazy People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzyNPoI17rE
> 'Juice' was our wet little term for constant & bountiful user feedback. A juicy game element will bounce & wiggle & squirt & make a little noise when you touch it. A juicy game feels alive & responds to everything you do - tons of cascading action & response for minimal user input. It makes the player feel powerful & in control of the world, & it coaches them through the rules of the game by constantly letting them know on a per-interaction basis how they are doing.

I feel like really high-quality software systems have this same feel, they allow a developer to dive in and splash around and get tons of salient feedback.
You can eat a balanced diet just off of canned food and rice. The fact that people expect to be able to eat fresh bell peppers in the middle of winter is the issue.

Eating seasonal and preserved foods is how we survived before the age of refrigeration and global logistics chains and maybe we should reconsider what is normal.
It's amazing how that is still a difficult concept for people here in 2023.
Those seem underwhelming positives in the face of the obvious negatives.
Short of suicide, is there a way to reduce the footprint caused by food consumption lower than from a vegan diet? It seems to me that eating meet always will consume more land and other resources, no?
"Simplifiers" do not simplify: they organize.
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This was about public images for free docker organizations (teams), used by many open source projects for branding / naming consistency.

I maintain one of the projects which moved to ghcr.io and have no interest in moving back, only further away. They have shown their hand and can no longer be trusted as good stewards or ecosystem participants imo
I don't think of retro-computing as an activity limited solely to the hardware and software that existed at a given time, that's far too restrictive for me.

6502 is an architecture, not a specific machine, nor even the set of machines that supported that architecture in the past. The architecture is and remains interesting on its own! (6502 assembly remains a really good intro to assembly, for instance, even for people that have never even seen a C64.)

There is absolutely scope for people to do fun things with 6502 that could never run on a C64 or an Apple II. The vast majority of 6502 code today runs in emulation, so there's really no reason to artificially gimp it to ape the limitations of any given machine. (Unless emulating that specific machine of course!)
Socialism is literally looting people who have stuff and handing it out to others. I didn't have money nor beer and they were supposedly socialists, so I gave accordingly to my ability and took according to my needs.

I guess Socialism is always nicer when you see yourself on the receiving end. We are both in the top 1% of the world, so we'd be giving away pretty much all we have.
Should have happened sooner. Even the basics google search and google image search are trash compared to Yandex, god damn Yandex of all things outperforms them.

Google has rested on past success to long and rotted good products to dysfunction
I'm wondering why this wasn't on the first page 7h ago? At the moment I see the post just fine on the first page.
My formative experience of their backwards compatibility was being unable to open old word docs in newer versions of word. Open office could. Go figure.

As for how long their tech lasts, I used XNA for a game jam in 2012, and had an alright experience. I could no longer download and use XNA by the time the 2013 game jam came around.
If it was criminal, Musk could've sued, so I am confident it isn't.

As for disgust, YMMV. Lotta people pretty disgusted with Musk, rightly or wrongly I don't care, for what he did to Twitter.
Or possibly cheating the Balance of Performance in Le Mans

https://www.foxsports.com.au/motorsport/le-mans-a-question-o...
> But I would argue whatever you gain back from lowered hosting expenses probably aren't worth the extra development time & costs that come with lower level languages, but yes that depends on what you are writing.

I mean... I've used both python and go. And in my opinion, python doesn't really have much higher developer velocity.

I'd never do web dev in C++, but Rust seems like a mixed bag. It is a bit notorious for having a steep learning curve. But once people are productive, it's arguably a higher level language than python.
I can't see the first case ever happening. You'd need a whooooole lot of trust in AI systems to have it write all the code.

As for the latter...I'd say GPT has increased my productivity and therefore allowed me to focus on the more interesting aspects of my work, rather than writing annoying boilerplate code and doing boring tasks where I don't learn anything. I almost never write my own boilerplate anymore.

More productivity doesn't necesarily mean more work. It does mean more focus on interesting work.
Does Chipotle have better returns than the VC Industry?
It said to email support@openai.com
So what you refer to as the bust is when it reverts from boom to the mean, and your evidence is that this has happened...once?

This isn't really a chart showing a cycle, at least not a multi-year cycle. You have 40 years of between 4 and 5, then a 5 year bubble and a retrenchment that bottoms out at about 5 before rising again.

There's no consistent cycle, though. If, for example, every 20 years you had it cross 5 and go to 6 then go back to 4 for a few years before repeating, that would be a cycle.
Hypothetically, if he doesn't end up making as much money as he would have if he'd taken equity, does that mean his secret plan failed, or that he's got an even more secret plan going on in the background?
>Decoupling the monetary incentives is a very good thing here.

Didn't seem to help.
not a windows user, just did a quick check, yes edge can be installed all other OSes, and bing+chatgpt works there too, nice.
They used to have blog search and it was crushing when they dropped it. I'm sure usage was low, but the few visits blogs got from that mode presumably dropped off the earth after that. Surely identifying personal blogs and the UX cost (tucked away in the Tools menu) couldn't have been too costly.
Is there a typo in the doc? Or is “hability” a real/madeup word?
> but are there some actual use cases where this commonly matters?

> Or have I just misunderstood this completely and python actually is unusably slow for common things?

I don't know what you mean by common, but common sense tells me "common" things shouldn't be slow.

Python was a glue language, ok for small scripts. And it's good at what was designed to do. Trying to use Python for everything is like trying to use Javascript for everything: a bad judgment. And JS is way faster than Python.

Python is Visual Basic rehashed, the greatest thing for a zillion wannabe programmers because they are too lazy to learn something else.