skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google would still be making a ton of money even with a CEO that did nothing.

For a $226M compensation, we should be able to demand a bit more don't you think?
It’s why the symbolism of caged birds is a recurrent literary device for a long as the history of literature.
You're correct about the internet stucked the past, but for a lot of places in the world even with a lot of money you won't get fast speeds! My hometown is only getting 100/25Mbits max after the previous max 30/5Mbits 2 years ago!

It's not like we don't have the money, I bought a 10900k and 2080 super for my brother back then, it's just that the speed is unavailable. A "git gud" simply don't do that justice.
In the name of making the world safe for kids, we're going to have nowhere they're allowed to be, and nothing they're allowed to do, outside of the prison like complexes of the State Indoctrination Centers.

Is it possible that society's smothering "overprotective" attitude might be having some of the negative mental health impact?
Is this just a London thing or can you actually get alternatives as easily in other parts of the country?
> The B2B user base I worked with for example hated material design back then.

I'm yet to meet a non-designer who actually likes material design.
>Google Home is as stupid or worse

Now that "modern AI" is mainstream culture, the (lack of) capability of Google Home is astounding. It's 50/50 whether it can get even basic commands correct.
yes, CEO fucked up, should he now fuck up more by not firing them?

you come home from the grocery store, you bought frozen goods. you are unpacking, and think you're done, so you sit down in your couch to relax, a couple of minutes later you realize you forgot to put the frozen stuff in the freezer, do you just go "oh well i dun fucked up, nothing to be done here, i'd best just admit defeat and let my wife fire me from grocery duty"
So he could perform so poorly he gets $0 in incentives, collects his $2,000,000 salary, gets fired, and still make in one year more than the average US household will in the next ~25 years.
No, I^n is also uncountable. In fact, the usual proof for the uncountability of R is really proof of the uncountability of I, and then the natural injection into R is used to extend it to R.
On the contrary I have the feeling dual boot is a thing of the late 90's-early 2000's when processors didn't come equiped with virtualization extensions and virtualization was slow as hell.

Having to reboot is so inconvenient, sooner or later ina dual boot setup you leave your non-preferred env colecting dusts and cobwebs.
Somebody not eating animal products for ethical reasons will not buy anything from Nestle given a choice, for very same reasons. And yes, we who avoid Nestle pay more for alternatives, but if you know their business practices there's no moral choice.
That was a good read - liked the balance, and agree with his description of the ideal product, which is very close to mine. I don't need a desktop product, as long as it can run on premises and in the environment's native browser and meets the user's expectations in terms of the UI.

I'd add the option of commercial hosting and support to that list, which led me to Budibase - great product, although in the end I was left feeling "no code - but so many clicks!", although I have not gone back to look at v2. https://budibase.com/

The author might care to take a look at Saltcorn, which is in the "Goldilocks" zone for me - enough of everything, not too much of anything. I should write that up myself. https://saltcorn.com/

(edited to add line re. web vs. native)
The day I see one the day I’m done with Apple. So I hope I don’t.
Probably. Last time I check UDF is a format supported by the 3 major OSes out of the box.
Tastes fine, can share a meal with people who are vegetarian, enviromental concerns, novelty.
You can buy RX 6600, which is roughly 2x faster than 1060 and has 8 gigs of VRAM for 200 dollars[1]. If we take inflation into account, 1060 did cost around 300$ in today's money. So basically you are getting 30% more ram and 2x performance for 30% less money. In other words you are getting performance 20% better than GTX 1080 for 4x less money(launch price of 1080 was $600). And it uses less energy too, so TCO difference is even higher. And I'm not even talking about expanded feature set.

[1] https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-radeon-rx-6600-gv-r66eagle-8...
You don’t have the full picture. You’re missing a lot of data

> And the rank-and-file Googlers will defend this because they think they caught God by the ankles with their 150k/year salary

That’s closer to their intern salaries. Total comp is more like double or more

Much of the rank and file’s total compensation is also in stock

Add to that if you wanted to, you can do the minimum and just coast.

No one is going to unionize and it’s not for the reasons you’ve cited. Maybe you shouldn’t comment on something you know barely anything about?
People report their phones as stolen? Car? Sure. Gun? Of course. If I lose my phone, I'm annoyed, and if its insured, I'm cashing in on the policy. Otherwise I'm going about my day. All assuming Findmyphone fails, in the event its off or out of service area.
One AI assisting me instructing another AI
Guys like that will just go and manage their money when they leave. Investments in various things, no real need to do much.
Just speculating: if we believe that the workers together are stronger than as individuals, they could force even more concessions.

They could negotiate higher salaries, more transparency around compensation, more benefits, longer parental leave, bigger budget for travel or education, longer paid vacation, some guarantees and rules for layoffs, etc.

In the end, I don't see why unions (IF done right) could only work for the lower class.

I know that the TikTok videos of FAANG companies make it all seem like there is no more place to grow, but that's just smoke and mirrors. I think anti union efforts in FAANG companies also play to the employees ego and make them believe that they can negotiate better on their own than together.
Can you please share from your experience what a "good writer" costs per hour?
Being able to implement a lot of business logic in SQL and pl/pgsql is another of the reasons I started developing Omnigres [1]. My initial motivation was to have something almost self-contained, just one thing to deploy infrastructure-wise.

But the more time I spend on it, the more I appreciate how having a single place for all the concerns significantly contributes to simplicity.

Surely there are some hurdles to overcome. Some are more technical in nature. Some are more on the side of tooling inadequacy/outdatedness. I am trying to contribute to both with the project.

[1] https://omnigr.es/
“Shit people who actually drink green tea don’t care about”
https://archive.is/rp9lO
people are entitled to have their contracts honored. If you dont want to produce 100x value for the big bad company, then you must be free to not. I believe you do have that freedom. So go do something else? tend to your own crops, make your own software.

you are entitled to freedom, which everyone should have, but not other peoples enterprises
It seems like on PC one would want to use Opus instead of the older MP3 or Ogg Vorbis. It has a number of performance-related improvements in addition to better audio per bitrate, although the higher-quality codec out of its two internal modes is still conceptually similar to MP3 & Co. so I figure it wouldn't necessarily solve all performance issues either.
Surely you’d just need to turn driver signing off
Ask HN: What is the best 4k projector?
Some people prefer the taste of the 'fake' versions.
It's not cheaper here. The moment it is I'll switch to oat milk. I think it tastes better.
So you don't Believe In Science, friend? ;)

Objective observation is really hard, but amenable to systems and rules that help get closer to this ideal. I'm convinced it's possible to do far better than existing news organisations do just through approaching it with an engineering mindset.
My five year old Telegram account has received exactly zero spam messages in my entire time there. Being a country that actually punishes companies for selling your phone number and personal information without your consent makes everything more pleasant.
> That’s the potential of no-code: making it easier for people to do more with computers without needing to know how to program.

This is the critical argument against no-code, the one argument omitted from the article: No-code doesn't make programming go away. Any time you have graphical flowchart symbols or whatever specific enough for a computer to execute, you have something isomorphic to a computer programming language. Except it's more difficult to change, maintain, move around, read or edit with different tools, version control, etc. No-code is programming, with extra hassle. And the hardness doesn't go away -- in fact, businesses that adopt no-code tools so their marketers or managers can create automation tasks, tend to throw those tasks over the wall to the software engineers once their original authors find that programming is hard and they have much better things to do with their time than debug flowcharts.
Ah the same old argument Hayek dismantled over 70 years ago.
One could argue he's ruined that too because of all the scam ads they push on a daily basis.
Where have you seen ads in the settings app? I must be immune to this stuff. I do not notice ads period.
As I mentioned in a recent comment:

The balance between privacy and the authority is just that. We outsourced the rule of law to the state in order to have a fair and just society. Ipso facto the government should be fair and just to have the right to invade some amount of privacy in order to keep a society free, fair and just.

That’s why the judicial branch exist: to see if what the government (or anyone) did was playing by the rules.
Which brings us back to politics being a danger to a society if people vote in unjust or unfair people.
There is so much misinformation on hacker news any time a topic is related to traditional finance , crypto or blockchain.

Dark Pools (ATS) are very much like exchanges except the quotes are not public. All ATS operators are required to record every trade to the consolidated tape in which everyone in this thread has access to if they want to pay for it.
I'm taking the VEG 1 supplements (https://www.vegansociety.com/shop/veg-1-supplements) as I believe they essentially cover everything I need to worry about on that front (I hope it does).
Let's be honest, the trust from these demographics towards Google wasn't great even prior and hadn't been for a while.
Fukushima had three meltdowns (reactors 1-3), and a hydrogen gas explosion that damaged the spent fuel pool of reactor 4. Together with Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, this corresponds to roughly 1% of all commissioned reactors suffering catastrophic failure with significant radiation release.
You raise an important point in discussing the role of corporations in the development and deployment of AI. Indeed, many of the concerns surrounding AI are not necessarily new but rather stem from existing corporate practices. Automating these practices through AI might exacerbate existing issues and create new challenges.

Consumer protection is a crucial aspect of addressing these concerns. Regulating AI should involve regulating corporations' use of AI to prevent harmful practices, promote transparency, and ensure ethical applications. This would require a balance between fostering innovation and imposing necessary restrictions to safeguard consumers and society as a whole.

The potential for AI systems to outperform CEOs and other decision-makers raises questions about the future of corporate management. While there is a possibility that AI could be employed to optimize decision-making and increase efficiency, it is important to recognize the limits of AI in understanding human values, ethics, and emotions. Striking the right balance between utilizing AI capabilities and retaining human oversight will be essential to navigate the future of corporate governance.

Moreover, the involvement of policymakers and regulators is crucial in addressing these challenges. As AI continues to advance and integrate into various aspects of society, it becomes more important to have comprehensive regulations that ensure the responsible development and use of AI technologies.
Virtualisation is really laggy if you have no GPU acceleration, there are ways to get it working but they either need two GPUs or are still slower than native
Even more straightforward option - get rid of the debt ceiling by requiring the federal government to run a balanced budget. States are required to run a balanced sheet (with a few caveats), the feds should have to follow the same rules.
Agreed, but to me "native" includes the environment's native browser.
Great idea, SQL is an undervalued skill

Feedback:

I did this exercise:

https://lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com/challenge-page/case

The specification says:

> Clownfish are between 3-7 inches in length, weigh around half a pound, and live in the coral reef.

around half a pound is meaningless, the spec should be exact.

It was annoying having to scroll from the input at the bottom of the page to the specification at the top of the page to refer to it.

The test cases are insufficient. I only wrote this:

> select
*,
CASE WHEN species_name = "clownfish" AND length NOT BETWEEN 3 AND 7 AND weight != .5 AND habitat_type != "coral reef" THEN "imposter"
ELSE "not imposter" END imposter_status from marine_life;

And passed the check at the end.

I didn't like that it kept track of the number of syntax errors and how long it took me to finish, that doesn't seem conducive to learning/practicing.

There seemed to be a lot of preamble to get to the challenge page. It seems like those should be linked directly from the homepage.

The format button didn't work on my code above.

Syntax highlighting seems broken for some functions, like IIF.

It would be nice if multiple SQL dialects were supported, forcing SQLite makes this more of an exercise in 'translate the dialect you know into SQLite'.

I didn't love the challenge I did overall, it was a single CASE statement, which seems to be testing logic more than any SQL knowledge. Maybe because it's a warmup?
What about almond milk?
You can get them everywhere. All the mainstream supermarkets sell them. In London you might well have a choice between 10 different plant based milks.
You have accurately described the concept of corporate personhood, which is a legal abstraction that allows corporations to be treated as individual entities under the law. This concept enables corporations to exercise certain rights and protections, such as entering into contracts, owning property, and in some cases, exercising free speech rights as demonstrated in the Citizens United case.

Indeed, corporations are a convenient way for people to work together and pursue common goals, such as conducting business. However, the concept of corporate personhood has also been a topic of debate, as some argue that it allows corporations to wield excessive influence over the political process and avoid accountability for certain actions.

It is important to recognize that corporations, as legal entities, cannot vote or be jailed, as you mentioned. When a corporation is found to have committed unlawful acts, the individuals responsible can be held accountable and face legal consequences.

As AI and other emerging technologies continue to develop and integrate into our society, it will be crucial to examine the implications of corporate personhood and consider the potential need for additional regulations to ensure ethical practices and accountability. Balancing the rights and responsibilities of corporations and individuals is key to maintaining a fair and just society.
He has been CEO since 2015. Would it be a stretch to blame him for the current company culture of nurturing new products left and right just to kill them off after 3-5 years?
Good point. Once in a while, I want to know who a celebrity is dating, or where they currently live. So I ask Google. The sheer number of celebrity news websites that are lower than ChatGPT 3 (!) boggles the mind. Utter drivel on these websites, but they must be making some money (adverts), else they could not pay for bandwidth / hosting costs.
Please provide your source on Coinbase being a market maker. Do you have any information here because it's clearly wrong.

Please check before making these claims.
Good that Bard is aware of latest version of software (eg. NextJS). Helps when APIs of a software evolves quickly.

This alone will help Google destroy the competition.
Good for you that you're from Denmark. It seems like an amazing country that I would love to visit and spend some time or even live in, but I'm afraid I couldn't fall in love with the language.

Unions can ensure that the employees get a fair share of the revenue in proportion to the upper mgmt. They also can remove artificial promotion hurdles, that at Google happens according to destructive internal dynamics.

Such dynamics result in deprecating useful and loved products and instead promoting parasitic internal interest groups that can stranglehold growth and innovation in the company.

Ultimately, unions give the employees a voice in shaping the company. Now they can walk out, write posts on internal mailing lists, but at the end of the day they're still in a dictatorship, and they have to accept the decisions of the higher ups, and they won't be asked about their opinion.
It has some big and pretty frequent wins in that department compared to any other culture or industry.
If anything the issue is that Google remains vastly overbloated. The large tech companies have been hoarding very skilled people and letting their abilities atrophy, trapped by high pay. It’s bad for Silicon Valley, bad for the individuals, and bad for progress.
> And getting caught flat-footed against Microsoft (and Adobe, but but not as loudly)

Where does Adobe fit into this, are they even competitors?
Bold to assume anybody needs $226m a year to live.
The bar is astronomically low
http://archive.today/NiCE8
Oh come on, you can always find someone who will do it. Try to think of a company that does something odious that somehow can't find candidates to be CEO.

Now note that Google has a mostly positive reputation in society at large.
The GP would be better if they included their ChatGPT prompt.
Pichai has absolutely deserved the money. He invested so much efford to destory Google!
To help determine what to say and think in discussions like this one. Also to stop AI firms claiming to be unbiased.
There's no doubt there are more vegans and vegan alternatives, but this does not seem like an unbiased news source to paint an accurate picture of what's actually going on. There are lots of factors at play, including the economy, energy prices and general price increases on food, or really almost everything.
So he got the stick, where is the carrot?
> we should be able to demand a bit more

Are you a major shareholder?
That is just mortality risk. There are other myriad other risks in life that I would not classify as being a "lesser" risk, such as the risk of having to live your whole life being abused by a spouse.
What “government” app do you install?
It’s a lot less shitty than everything else we’ve tried, it’s not like we know of a better way to run an economy…
I would however say that the justification for using /usr/bin is to simplify the possibility of having most of the system on a separate partition.
Merged mounts and namespaces à la Plan9 would be an elegant alternative
Very creative game. Pretty basic sql but that’s probably good anything heavier would be enraging. really wonderful production putting it all together. I enjoyed it.

FWI On iOS you must refresh, or click the show/ hide the answer input section whenever the keyboard disappears. This usually happens if you use a suggestion rather than typing it out.
Meal planning is something that reportedly works well. There were a bunch of listener-submitted uses on the hard fork podcast lately, but i can't remember the others.

I use a language learning app that has short passages written at various levels of difficulty, but they don't have any discussion questions, so I just threw the text into ChatGPT and had it write some, and they came out great.

You might also peruse the chatgpt subreddit, although there are a lot of people just trying to troll or hack it, there are also some interesting use cases popping up.

Honestly this reminds me of the conversation around home computers from several decades ago. Human creativity is wild but takes a beat.
Palantir to help Ukraine prosecute alleged Russian war crimes
The employees were paid for their work. It's a business not a charity.
He wasn’t the CEO when The YouTube acquisition happened in 2006.
That doesn’t work if you have one GPU (unless you shut down the Linux desktop which defeats the point)
I do not understand that logic. How does being mad about it imply posting on social media?

If anything, it is easy to see an incentive not to post negative things online, as you can see on LinkedIn everyday.
Elon chimed in on Twitter:

3 months ago, we started building a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount.

Wasn’t ready in time & we wrongly thought, based on static fire data, that Fondag would make it through 1 launch.

Looks like we can be ready to launch again in 1 to 2 months.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1649523985837686784?s=20
Arent most peoples at this point?
We don't celebrate CEOs when they are on hiring sprees – and we really, really shouldn't. I understand that people are emotional over job security. The downside weighs more heavily, as per usual. Alas.
Code Coverage vs. Test Coverage: What’s Better for Software Development?
I think one of the best treatments for tinnitus is, not experimental drugs, nor surgeries, but a book: Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. Stoicism.

I have tinnitus. It's particularly bad in one ear at the moment. It's not ideal. Not pleasant. But I get over it, and I continue living my life. What's strange is, practically every time I've seen someone bring up their experience with tinnitus, it's accompanied with a deluge of whining and commiserating. It's weird because there are far more grave medical conditions that I don't think have even a fraction of the commiserating and depressiveness that tinnitus sufferers have.

So, as a tinnitus "sufferer", that's my personal recommendation: Stoicism. Deal with it and move on.
Funny how everyone here assumes they could do a better job than Sundar.
Star Trek Starship Enterprise Studio Model – Air and Space Museum
They are making tons of money. That’s what counts. Same for Ballmer at MS. Maybe they lost their magic but they were printing money.
I know very few people (vegan or otherwise) who actually like vegan cheese. Most prefer to skip cheese if they’re eating vegan.
It sounds like they knew this older version was more likely to fail, so they just launched it to clear out the backlog. Sure they got data, but they might just confirm suspected problems. See launch pad damage for an example of a known weakness.

All that tumbling? The flight was lost so why wait? I think they really really wanted stage separation to happen and "kept trying".
Sorry, who are you quoting?
If it were simply a correction for the recent hiring spree, then people with 10+ years of tenure on production-critical teams would not have been let go.
yep, and the text is too slow. Maybe give an option to show all the text at once.

Otherwise i really like the game and the concept, so it's just a minor complaint :)