skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is acting rationally. The products produced by these massively compensated employees in their 10s of thousands have failed to meaningfully add value beyond Search. Other Bets, X, Brain, DeepMind, etc, etc. All have failed over the last 20 years. Just good money after bad. So, the rational thing to do is cut costs and harvest profits.

How many product managers, marketers, TPMs, DEI personnel, and layers and layers of directors and VPs does Google need to keep Search cranking? Answer: far, far fewer.
India and China are awful examples for your case, they aren't homogenous and have quotas for minorities that make affirmative action look like a joke. America is much more laissez faire about racial equality (which is a bad thing imo)
A little bit of calculus in my life

A little trigonometry by my side

A little Fibonacci's all I need

A little inequality's what I see

A little bit of lambda in the sun

A little bit binary all night long

A little probability, here I am

A little √2 makes me your man
VSCode builtin terminal is very nice

VSCode build/task system is very nice

VSCode builtin debugger is very nice

VSCode remote editing is very nice

There are reasons to like sublime text, but let's not ignore the strengths of VSCode, on top of being open source..
If I understanding you correctly you are saying that Meta's reputation is on public trial, which I think is accurate.
> All security is a trade off.

Irrelevant to the problem of "I want to just disable phone prompt of 2FA without everything else included with Advanced Protection" - there's no intrinsic "security tradeoff" here, just bad and overly restricting design decisions by Google.
I had a scan through it recently. A lot of its clauses apply to 'free men', not just barons and aristocrats. It places a lot of limits on arbitrary punishments and other actions by the state, as well as limiting debt collectors.

E.g. Manga Carta Article 39: "No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him except upon the lawful judgement of his peers or the law of the land."

By medieval standards, not bad.
> The attack vector that I'm thinking of here is your phone being stolen

This is exactly why I'm a big fan of larger, heavier devices, such as my rack-mounted desktop PC, being their own 2FA device. It's pretty hard to steal my 4U desktop that is bolted down, there's no reason why it should depend on anything else for 2FA.

Similarly, laptops should be their own 2FA device and not depend on a phone, since people are generally more careful to not take laptops into high-crime areas.
That's the whole point. Chaz uploaded the file to his own s3 bucket. He is one of thousands (millions?) of people who could have done the same thing with their own s3 bucket. He was the first.
Not sure how orion is related. You can still use kagi search (or neeva) with any browser ...

I've rage quite Orion a couple times. But I keep going back. Some of the features are great. I use multiple browsers anyway so I'm ok with using Orion for the bulk of my browsing, then using other browsers each for certain sites or for certain uses. I'd love to work for them but I don't see a viable business model.

My SO uses multiple browsers as well although I can't make head nor tail what their "strategy" is for choosing. I doubt that having to switch up browsers is acceptable for the public at large.

I imagine there's a /reason/ you were using kagi, and that reason is probably privacy related? Why then would you use neeva as an alternative? Started by ad execs. There is zero chance neeva has your privacy in mind, no matter what they say about it. They are focused on pushing consumer products. This requires user profiles.
>we should be getting a slice of total business unit revenue

Start a company then.

Or go back in time 40 years.

It used to be very common for companies to give a portion of the yearly profits to the employees. It was called "profit sharing."

Somehow that perk evaporated in the tech industry.
I just don't see how not having/watching TV in 2023 is a special thing to be discussed here anymore.
Google changing Chrome's lock icon because it is misleading
browsing.
I seriously doubt there's a $120k countryside house within 500 miles of me.
Register a Yubikey in addition to all the services supporting WebAuthN and put it in the tamper-evident envelope?

> Is there a "KeePassX" of the passkey world?

Both 1Password and Bitwarden have announced support as soon as OS support will become available, the latter being open source.
I'm sorry, hope you'll land somewhere good.
I would trust the storage strategy a lot more if countries were not increasing the fossil fuel capacity and were not increasing subsidies to fossil fuels. I would like to see a similar law as the recent one for EV, where construction of new fossil fuel plants should be banned by 2035. If they did that and invested in their vision of green hydrogen, grid balancing, and other storage solution, then that would at least convince me that they themselves believed in it.

Sadly everything I hear tells me the opposite. Last winter during the Swedish election, those working on the green steel project was asked if and when they thought green hydrogen would start showing up in the energy grid in order to solve the current energy crisis. Their estimated was that we would see the first storage solutions first in 40-60 years from now. Green steel is just about to break even (assuming they get enough subsidies), and they are still very much in the initial phases of testing the technology at larger scale than inside a lab. They also explained in details why current gas power plants and natural gas infrastructure will not be suitable for switching to hydrogen.

The official strategy of the German green party, which is also the same strategy that the Swedish green party has, is to increase the use of fossil fuel energy capacity and subsidies to that industry. During a political debate over an oil fueled power plant in south of Sweden, the green party representative argued in keeping it while the opposition wanted to replace it with a nuclear plant.

Politics is about trust. We don't need nuclear, but we can't continue to increase use of fossil fuels. We can also not continue with the geopolitical situation with Russia. Even with all the sanctions, Europe is still indirectly dependent of the massive exports that Russia do in regard to the global fossil fuel market. The economy of Europe need to decouple itself from fossil fuels, which can only occur if our dependency on fossil fuel decrease. The past strategy of using natural gas was a bad plan that failed, and we need to accept and go past that conclusion.

To make matters worse, the hydro power energy in Europe is both maxed out and in dire need of modernization, with research saying we need to reduce capacity in order to avoid ecological collapse and extinction of several species. This will worsen the already strained storage problem.
> Does this mean Google will be releasing OSS LLMs? They could justify it as "commoditizing your competitors business".

That’s what this piece argues for. I predict it will not be reflected in Google’s strategy in the next, say, six months, or morw to the point until and unless the apparent “Stable Diffusion” moment in LLMs becomes harder to ignore, such as via sustained publicity on concrete commercially significant non-demonstration/non-research use.
At least for AI there are obvious user stories like fixing auto awesome which is currently quite the travesty, or auto summarizing Gmail or rewriting/rewording in docs/Gmail better than the gunk that exists today.
How is this different from any other public company, where employees are not the majority shareholders? Like, what is special about Page and Brin?
> first off-the-shelf devices for high-quality, real-time music applications

No love for Fairlight?
What is tv? Is youtube tv? Is tiktok tv? Is netflix tv? Does it matter if the screen is 6" or 60"? Does it matter if the content is 5mins or 50mins?
I'm really happy with the way val town responded to the security issues I raised! Big congrats to them for shipping this change – it sounds tricky on both the product and the tech side of things.
I think it's less useful to compare marijuana to something that can literally be classified as a poison (albeit a legal and socially acceptable one) and more useful to determine the boundaries of "when is it safe to use this substance?"

We're coming out of the era of "marijuana bad. marijuana addictive. gateway drug. gives you cancer. makes you kill your parents." etc etc and moving into actually trying to figure out general guidelines for when it's good/bad. I don't think trying to determine these boundaries is fear or misinformation necessarily. I think it certainly can be weaponized in either direction, but for people looking to determine if it's right for them, this is useful information.

And you're saying overconsumption is bad...can you define this? Just in this thread, there was someone who started their journey with it on a 15mg edible. That's insanely high for a beginner but maybe they read somewhere it was fine, or they had a psychonaut friend misguide them, or they just jumped right in with no frame of reference at all. The point is, if people are doing shit like that, it makes sense for there to be more of a general awareness of "here are the bad things that can happen."
I'm actually happy that what you've done is more viable than ever for the people interested in that. Theoretically, it enables a bit more demand spread, and people who would otherwise go suburban if they don't care to be around many other people can now just go rural.

My family has a pretty rustic piece of land quite a ways out of the city, and it's nice to go out there for a bit of quiet time when I get the chance; tranquil. I'd love it if there were more viable ways to get out there though, and better connection possibilities, the latter of which I'm optimistic for in the near future.
> [Pichai]'s salary and bonuses are controlled by the board

That is true of any CEO pay, though.
You can see someone's username and if they're in any other discords with you. I've occasionally found people from one community in another, or vice versa - Not always to my or their happiness.

I maintain a few distinct Discord accounts for this reason.
How can we account for inflation when we say market cap increased by $xB? How can we differentiate an actual increase in value as opposed to currency debasement?
Aside from the PFA situation, it's possible to turn your tap water in to selzer water (probably generating less waste and saving money) with a SodaStream or similar.
Ask HN: Are there any willing HN mentors/tutors for various subjects available?
Any HNers who are either active/willing/interested/havent-thought-about-it-yet mentors or tutors in your area of SME?

-

Maybe this could be a new HN thing ; "Tutor HN: Offering X" & "Tutor HN: Seeking X" etc...

As an example, I am a socially-kinetic learner - its hard for me to learn things solo.

Just thought I'd ask, shoulda/coulda/woulda HN allow for either offers or requests of HNers in tutoring?

Thoughts? Or other suggestions?
honestly that is something I value as well, but I think that's when a lot of bias can come into play. Perhaps that bias is desired for culture fitting, but you still have to be careful if protected-class stuff comes up and you want to reject the person.

fwiw, when I interview candidates in a technical interview, I still attempt at some small talk to get a sense of "can I have a normal conversation with this person"

(appreciate the sensible responses btw!)
If you like capitalism so much, then an artist having their income more clearly directly proportional to their output than some ceo definitely deserves a greater % of the profit.

Also, minimizing the effort it takes to become a pop artist and being prude is such a cliche.
Tbh to me in 2023 watching actual broadcast tv is more special than not.
I disagree about putting all these things together.

The layoffs and reduction in perks were sorely needed in Big Tech given all the fat that has been milking it for years.

The CEO pay is definitely egregious and should be called out (and those at other companies should also be called out).
I grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan (worse actually, Rockford Mi, the wolverine HQ) and only moved away from the state at age 23 for work. (I grew up on well water in Kent county.) I was diagnosed with leukemia at 29, no family history, and it’s very likely it was due to PFAS exposure. My treatment cost my insurance > $1M and 9 months on long term disability. If I wasn’t a software engineer, I’d be dead most likely.

I have no recourse, obviously.

I don’t think it’s a minor issue.
You know call me whimsical. I also dont care about land ownership if I can live rent free without risk of eviction or uncertainties and in the kind of house that I am comfortable with. Ok rent free is wishful - atleast no more rent than all mortgage+property tax / life of mortgage.
It smells like Medium.
How long does it take for a nuclear plant to get approved and come online?
Interesting, I haven't really thought much about the details of such construction.

Though in principle, it's still the same. Long age and randomness of the universe have allowed it to perform a quite exhaustive brute-force search of all possible configurations of atoms, eventually stumbling upon a self-replicating configuration from which we have evolved, but humans could theoretically find one from scratch too, it would just take too much time, like reversing a cryptographic hash.
And it's not even an interesting statement

I don't have a TV. I mean I still watch YouTube and movies and stuff. Just on different form factor.
Translating, I that's only the experience for "non logged in users". Mastodon isn't meant to handle load from the the anonymous public, it's meant for a federation of servers.
Two quick notes:

1. Looks like you posted this comment pretty close to when this was posted on HN. It's possible the server was more loaded, as I tried it myself and it wasn't very laggy (though there was a delay, it wasn't nearly the one second you experienced).

2. I copied the example code and ran it locally, and the latency is no worse than, say, an electron app. Better than most of them, to be honest.

Likely this was related to server load or network latency or both, because the core functionality seems pretty lag-free.
Sql is accidentally general purpose. Recursive queries, a feature present in all implementations since the 90s, put it just over the line of turing completeness.
I think this won't work out: AI is so popular now because it's a destination. It's been rebranded as a cool thing to play with, that anyone can immediately see the potential in. That all collapses when it's integrated into Word or other "productivity" tools and it just becomes another annoying feature that gives you some irrelevant suggestions.

OpenAI has no moat, but at least they have first mover advantage on a cool product, and may be able to get some chumps (microsoft) to think this will translate into a lasting feature inside of office or bing.
There’s a lot controversy because the “diversity” that actually occurs in the workplace is different from the diversity of organizational theory.

For example, a company that employs you graduates of elite schools might be racially diverse, but if many of the employees graduated from 10 colleges and all live in San Francisco, their world views could be quite similar.

“Diversity” can also be a political signal word. Progressives love diversity for reasons unrelated to management theory.

In fact “diversity” can used to enforce rigid ideological orthodoxies.

I’m sure that’s not what organizational scientists want, but it’s often what results.
I worked in Algo trading at a bank. Banks do not pay SWEs that work in algo trading well. I left finance to work in tech and got a 50% bump right off the bat. And I was well paid on my team- the h1s and kids out of school were not breaking 100k. I know the guy sitting in my old seat and 10 years later he is maybe getting that 50% more while I have 4xed. He works 50-60 hour weeks like I did as well and I rarely go past 45.

And this was ten years ago when this stuff was the hot thing. This myth that big banks pay anyone in tech well needs to be dispelled. I worked at a few as well and they were all the same.
The point of cloud scaling is that it’s dynamic. I don’t have to worry about an upfront cost for server hardware because I just rent as needed. If traffic drops, I decommission instances and vice versa.

After a certain point, my traffic is always high enough that I can justify the upfront server cost. That’s “sufficient scale” as mentioned in the post.
I wonder if an outdated chip architecture with just a lot of (64GB?) GDDR4 or something would work? Recycle all the previous generation cards to super high VRAM units
Reminds me of something i read once about WW2 Germany and schizophrenics [1]. The rates were just as high post Nazi germany.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2800142/
Google doesn't even respect it's shareholders, only the people who get awarded shares. Most of the share buybacks go to preventing the newly minted shares from dropping the stock price.

Apple does actually respect it's shareholders...probably because it's hard to hoodwink Berkshire Hathaway.

https://www.epsilontheory.com/stock-buybacks-and-the-monetiz...
You could also rent further away and save more for a house, get roommates, or beg your parents for a downpayment.
Pollution needs to be stopped at the source. I worry that this will be used by marking assholes, the same ones that invented the so called 'recycling' logo on plastic packaging, to keep on filling the planet with waste as usual. Hey look we don't need to ban anything, make lifestyle changes or assume chemicals are unsafe until proven otherwise because look there is this magic machine that can 'annihilate' our waste.

I put my plastic packaging in a recycling bin that is picked up by the municipality. Everything seems to come in plastic packaging but I try to avoid it where possible. I grow my own vegetables. They like to tell me I'm doing the right thing but I know it all ends up in some poorer country. The consumer doesn't really have any sway at the bottom of the cliff. Ban at the source.
You can be as angry as you want, but anger isn't going to do anything.

They can "fuck around and find out" all they want because they know that they are so powerful they will never have to find out.

They know they'll never have to face a tech union or deal with laborers sitting at the big boys negotiating table.
What did Tim actually accomplish though? He’s there to essentially “keep” what Apple already established under Steve Jobs. Nadella made some big decisions to completely remake Microsoft.

By the way, return (not including dividends) is about the same between AAPL and MSFT since Nadella took over on February 2014 which is simply amazing if you think about the differences between the two companies.
I wish we had modal editing that was not Vi bindings.
I have no TV in my living room now, just a projector that lives in the closet. It puts some friction between me and sitting on the couch to watch something. It just takes a few minutes to set it up, but it's enough to keep it to occasions when I really do want to watch something that way or have people over.
VSCode isn't open source. It's just built on open source. Compare it to Google Chrome being built on open source Chromium.
I’m 65 with more than $5M saved and I can’t figure out how to spend it
I think you're replying to the author of the linked article, and the comment appears to be a gentle rewording of the intro paragraph.
> Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race

I'm amazed that a book with this title was published. Some people disagree with the cynical 'everything western is evil' narrative for entirely plausible reasons. This title doesn't indicate an openness or curiosity from the author, and it does so on the basis of dismissing an entire ethnic group. The fact that the conversation has moved this way bodes ill for us all.
The concept of a moat for facebook (via network effects) and google (via scale, habits and learning effects) has worked well when it comes to printing cash.

Moats don't last forever, doesn't mean they aren't real.

The guy writing the post was writing about AI research at google. Not generally at Google, or for search.
Oh. I just stopped watching TV as soon as I left home, because I didn't like the constant obnoxious advertising. This was before Netflix really took off, and I find that I can enjoy that content in short bursts, but eventually my body has just got to move, and off it goes again.

It's really weird visiting relatives houses now, where the norm is to have the TV on all the time. Like... how do you have a conversation over the noise?
SelfControl, LeechBlock, and uBlock Origin because they are effective tools that help reduce distractions and improve productivity, as supported by various studies published in peer-reviewed journals. These tools have been found to improve academic performance, increase the ability to focus and resist temptation, reduce website clutter, and improve website usability.
Just for another perspective; it reads like they are a teenager who feels competent and is frustrated by restrictions. I recall that being an axe to grind when I was 15-16.
Neither of them have to be CEO. So Page and Brin can reward the CEO for being ruthless in a down market and also have Sundar be the scapegoat for them. The “cake” is their stock going up. “Eating it too” is the CEO scapegoat.
You measure it as beta against something broad like the total market or the S&P500.
This situation doesn't seem different from any other board of directors. Who cares about Page and Brin?
For clarification: MongoDB is still Free as in beer, but not free as in Libre. IOW, Anyone can use MongoDB without paying money, but they cannot offer it to others as-a-service without providing the entire stack of hosting software back to the community. And of course AWS won't do that. So therefore the license is not 'free' to AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.
Yup, but that’s the job. I have an organizational mandate to change deployment stacks every 18 months.
Profits go up.
Sh*t goes down.
It might just be me, but aren’t they all filthy rich, excessively profiting from their workers, handing them selves extreme wealth, while cutting their workers off from this wealth.

This is exploitation. The owning class for the owning class. The rich benefit and the workers are left exploited. Larry, Sergey, Pichai, they are all participating and benefiting at the cost of the workers. Any in-fighting and rivalry is at best a spectacle. At the end of the day, they all go home to the wealth, earned by their workers but enjoyed by the owners, and the owners alone, whether you call them bosses or shareholders, they are all simply exploiters.
It’s astonishing how often english people foster the illusion that their culture escapes the scrutiny of outsiders. They seem to forget that its vehicle - the english language - is spoken universally around the world; so whenever english people speak, their potential audience is anybody else. Foreigners typically stay silent and don’t bother to engage, because british influence is negligible compared to america’s cultural imperialism; nevertheless, it’s not difficult to acquire an insight. Social media and the protracted brexit campaign made this easier than ever, because it encouraged the public to assert publicly and loudly their deepest convictions. It irreversibly undermined the artificial image of exceptionalism cultivated by the uk government in foreign relations. The reality of the English culture is neither private, nor a mistery to outsiders.
He was promised this pay in his contract just like the employees contract where they signed it.
Don't. Just do not write this comment.