skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Take Jeanine Banks, for example, who manages the department that somewhat arbitrarily contains (among other things) Flutter, Dart, Go, and Firebase. Her department nominally has a strategy, but I couldn't leak it if I wanted to; I literally could never figure out what any part of it meant, even after years of hearing her describe it. Her understanding of what her teams are doing is minimal at best; she frequently makes requests that are completely incoherent and inapplicable. She treats engineers as commodities in a way that is dehumanising, reassigning people against their will in ways that have no relationship to their skill set. She is completely unable to receive constructive feedback (as in, she literally doesn't even acknowledge it). I hear other teams (who have leaders more politically savvy than I) have learned how to "handle" her to keep her off their backs, feeding her just the right information at the right time.

What a shellacking. I never heard of her, so did a quick search, she's on X/Twitter https://twitter.com/femtechie ; and yes, her Linkedin vanity url is, get this:
https://linkedin.com/in/winner
Is there currently companies where you can do this?
Did you ever figure out that riddle about the father and son in a car accident and the doctor who couldn't operate?
Ah, thank you for that. I feel a bit dumb now, but that would have been a good inline explanation.
you can still install .xpi files on desktop
MongoDB and HashiCorp did that... and guess what? These kinds of licenses aren't open source.
> And why is he so formidable?

Commenting on an article that portrayed him as such?

> His name is Sam Altman.

Unsure what your point is; sama is his hn username.
glibc can be shared by 20 c executables.

rust stdlib will be bundled with those 20 rust executables, they blow up quickly.

mcu does not use stdlib of rust, it uses no-std, c++ has its own nonstdlib as well, on mcu they're similar.
I think it goes back to org structure ossification, but also keep in mind that in a sufficiently large company, every department is a thorn in someone else's backside. A world where the people you dislike regularly get the boot is also a world where you have to constantly justify your own existence, where you have aggressive stack ranks, and so forth.

It's a bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of a deal.
> I know a lot of outsiders believe that, but to have someone who spent 2-decades at Google saying it publicly is rough.

Not really. Leave the job and berate the leadership next day is a thing nowadays. These template of criticism just assumes Google or any other company changed had simple choice to stay same whereas people and world at large has changed drastically over same period.

And I am not even saying that Google has not gone worse which most likely it is. But to assume to some kind of visionary leadership would have been be great for employees and users is like saying we can all live happily and peacefully on earth. Sounds excellent but not really happening.
Only speaking to the thread here, I really wish people would stop acting like memory / thread safety and correctness are the same thing.
But you really can't just "go to the mall next door", since your faithful customers cannot follow you and your entire merchandise has to be remade from scratch.

For that reason, no real mall-owner ever can even dream of extracting 30% from every sale. Why can Apple/Google/Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo get away with it? Because they don't suffer competitive pressure in the same amount. Most of them are effective monopolies in their segments, thanks to network effects, so they can get away with the worst type of feudal rent-extraction.
Poem author here.

I publish to github too! It's nice to let people download my stuff and tinker though, straight from the website itself :) They can also tinker there and then in the browser.

I'm not trying to convince you either way – it's clear we have a different set of values.
We also have a number of pre-positioned ships, forward-deployed supply ships just chilling in the Pacific, waiting for something to pop off.
The world with humans in it?
You're right, I was cavalier in my treatment of Boomers in my comment. I accept your criticism in that regard. Not all Boomers deserve blame. However, there was an embrace of laissez-faire economic philosophy that coincided with their "assuming the mantle". Many of them bought into Milton Friedman (Chicago school) economics and have refused to acknowledge what a massive mistake it was.
> I don't know how big offroading is in the UK but here in the US offroading is really big

I'd be willing to bet that in the US it's a very very small percentage of people who own SUVs that do any kind of offroading.
A license like that makes it no longer FOSS. The AGPLv3 will accomplish the same goal while still being FOSS.
Probably language that suggests if amazon would like to do that they would need to split the entire company into a million pieces to each be under the revenue limit.

In practice though amazon engineers would reverse engineer any tool they cant legally use and need.
Google has the margins to take risks. If you don't disrupt yourself somebody else will.
This is why all these organisations which are promoting non-free licenses as "open source" when they mean source available is completely silly.

Either they are BSD/GPL and accept competition or they do not, and they are not open source.

The only update that I agree with is the AGPL because of the nature that software is being closed back up and not shared for studying purposes.
This shows more what's wrong with corporate law than with the idea behind this license.
Fixed now. Thanks!

Btw HN didn't strip them -the submitted URL was https://ln.hixie.ch/. No doubt this was the top post at the time.

We do strip some query strings, but only for larger/known sites.
When I was an intern at Google circa 2010, there was a guest lecture from a business professor who described exactly this process. At the end of it, he made a comment like, "Of course none of this will happen to Google. You're too innovative." But literally every single prediction of his came true, and I witnessed some of them happening in front of my own eyes even in just the months that I was there (and certainly in the years that followed, though I was no longer with the company).
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Because the laptop can also be a desktop when hooked up to a big screen and accessories. But a desktop wont ever be a laptop.
Is there any major news reporting on the Annie Altman stuff? That looks like front page material to me.
I mean the lane change and using navigation is a pretty big jump from the Hyundai system which is dumb.

Hyundai would not be able to attempt to drive me home. While, you can get into a Tesla, enter an address and hope for the best.

Calling it autopilot is for sure part of the problem. The average individual is dumb and won’t ever open a manual or read any prompts. But then again they are there for legal reasons.
Yes Google is still less diversified than its peers. Cloud and YouTube (edit: and Pixel phones?) are profitable afaik. The overall tech market has matured is what I meant; it's no longer time to loss-lead everything.
> we've got safety at no cost

No one ever said that safety was zero-cost. The article mentions bounds checks, but gives no measurements. Have they ever measured? Most data I've seen is that bounds checks cost less than 1% in real-world code. I will boldly assert that there has never been a product that couldn't be shipped because that 1% caused them to miss a performance goal. We could get into the weeds and go off on a tangent about linear algebra kernels and loop transformations being slower / more difficult with bounds checks, but that is an absolute niche case that can be solved with different techniques like loop versioning and static assertions.
Yup. Changed from https://ln.hixie.ch/. Thanks!
Tip: Almost none of the scrapers and bots run WebAssembly :)
The most baffling thing I saw at this recent Los Angeles Auto Show – and, really, at any auto show I’ve ever been to – is the Aitekx Robotruck on display right in the middle of the show, in the large area between the main halls often reserved for startups and other low-volume companies. It was baffling because the quality of the Robotruck – which absolutely looked like a bootleg Tesla Cybertruck – was, to put it generously, abysmal. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen toddler-crafted gingerbread houses that looked more carefully constructed. I already wrote something about how miserable this thing looked, but that doesn’t really answer the bigger question: why? We talked to the people behind the baffling truck to try to find out. It was more awkward than you can possibly imagine.
What was the username?
My point is that several of us got cars before grocery delivery services were widespread and common.

If you have a sunken investment, then it makes sense to use your already-depreciated car for grocery... But otherwise, assuming you have access to affordable delivery service, you might as well save yourself the effort and cost, and only use a car for the other needs in your life.

YMMV of course, you could go for a smaller and cheaper to run car, but if you have a family you'd probably need 4 comfortable seats...
Speaking as a gay furry (hacker?), this is almost certainly what they mean when they say "IRL catgirls."
A totally uncritical media, owned by crony businessmen who supports him, just amplifies his party's message and creates the impression that he delivers. Imagine if 95% of the viewership is for some version of fox news. His dramatic failures (like the botched up demonitization) are silently forgotten. Combine this with a huge social media propaganda machinery that circulates fake news, most Indians are forced to live in an alternate reality.
I’m not OP, but:

1. Food intake varies for me, but generally I don’t eat until noon, or sometimes even until 6pm. I generally don’t force this; I’m hungry right now, I’ll often eat right now.
2. (1) has been the case for years, both when exercising regularly and when not. Right now I happen to be exercising regularly. On Saturday I woke up feeling good, so I drank some water and got on the rowing machine to do a half marathon. That was with no food since the evening before, and no water during — it took 1:45, which is a moderate pace for me. After that I still wasn’t very hungry.
I think you meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Yong ?
Yeah, I definetly wouldn't want to have been on the early Android team.

Imagine you work your ass of to build the Android 1.0 device to compete with the Blackberry and then when you're close to launching the iPhone drops and your leadership says we gotta throw everything in the trash and start over from the touchscreen perspective.

Mind you, the iPhone employees didn't have it much better either, with most of them working 16h days and sleeping in hotels next to the office to save time, while having their marriages ruined according to some of them.

The early Android vs iPhone development war was basically a Hail Mary gold rush from both companies trying to capture as much marketshare as quickly as possible.
The end user experience is way better on Windows than Linux. And I say that as someone who uses Linux (Ubuntu Gnome) daily. You really have to appreciate the freedom of choice that FOSS brings you to appreciate Linux. If you don't care, as most people do, you're probably better off with Windows.

Ofcourse you can counter my reasoning by listing a lot of problems with Windows. And I can assure you that most people don't care about the stuff you (as a Linux user) would care about.

Windows just works. It has Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint. It's familiar. Instructions for any kind of software contain Windows instructions. Friends and family can help you if you have problems. Etc.

(Windows is the only OS that can handle different fractional scaling factors properly for multiple displays. Fractional scaling on Linux is a joke, and macOS doesn't care about low DPI screens at all so everything looks terrible.)
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> or even start a business

Only if you’re not in the SaaS space. If you are, then open-sourcing your tech is a risky strategy because then if you have any success, you start to compete with bigger players who take what you’ve invested & then it’s a game of $ which is harder to compete with.
I think yes, numpy uses fortran.
Stadia. Bought studios, games, pumped up hiring, custom controller - Promising 60fps 4k game streamed in real time.

Wrapped it up all in just three years. Discontinued.
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Looks like the price for Europe is always 349 Euros VAT included, whatever your local VAT is (it goes from 16% to 27%).

Rest of the world is always $299, no VAT applied.

Shipping is always free.
"We have tons of libraries around, what kind of developed society would ignore such an important place?"

Libraries in much of the developed world are seeing decline. The problems of American libraries are often reported on HN. As an OpenStreetMap editor working across small-town Europe, the library is one of those pieces of community infrastructure I go look for first, but I have seen firsthand how they have been shut down, or opening hours may have been slashed to e.g. just a couple of hours on two days of the week. In cities library locations get merged when budgets are an issue, and while occasional big new central library projects are approved, they are a different kind of facility than the library of yore.
I left in 2021, only 3 years tenure. The company was extremely chaotic. We had multiple calls to walkout, unionization, Sundar locking down communication in the wake of people fighting on memegen. We had company wide drama all the time. I had a list of every major dramatic happening and it grew to like 5-6 things in a year. I showed my manager and we laughed about how crazy it was.

I left and from what I hear it just got worse. Thomas Kurian gave ex-AWS people control of GCP. GCP is learning to execute like AWS but now it is becoming like AWS.
The thing is, YouTube ads are the worst way for creators to monetise on the platform. They pay terribly compared to things like sponsorships, Patreon, merch sales, etc.

Unfortunately for YouTube, most creators hence wouldn't really be affected if just about everyone used Adblock, since the money made is often 'beer money' if you've got less than 100,000 subs.

And with anti adblock techniques almost always being trivial to work around, it kinda leaves them in a tough position. No one really likes the ads (except maybe for YouTube themselves) and very few people really depend on them (except YouTube itself).
Thanks! tldraw is of course minified/etc because it's part of a bigger ecosystem (eg: React, and more).

The fact that stuff has to be minified is evil.

Sometimes it's a good idea to minify.

It's still evil
> what's the alternative? A cutthroat corporate environment

Sure. Isn't that how the financial industry operates? (Or maybe that's more of an illusion, and people in finance just tell themselves they're in a cut-throat environment, even though in reality they'll never leave it. Whereas if it were really a cut-throat environment you'd expect to see more churn as the weak employees fail out of the industry.)

> And then, over time, they rediscovered the reasons why old companies always end up operating in a particular way.

This may be true in tech companies, but I'm not sure it generalizes to other industries.

I wonder to what degree these organizational behaviors are emergent from the personality types within the industry. If you put a bunch of conflict-averse personalities in an organization, and then hire more aggressive personalities to manage them, perhaps that organization will inevitably develop into something resembling IBM.
I've talked to OpenAI recruiters. I personally don't like Sama from what I've heard/read, but I would still consider working there due to Ilya and Karpathy.

However, I absolutely would have been livid at the board and wanted Sama to come back if I was an employee, simply because I would have joined being aligned with the 'commercialize and make money' side, and not the other.

So I think a lot of OpenAI employees probably don't care if Sama is CEO vs someone else, as long as they get to ship and get paid. The board firing sam wasn't just a 'let's get a new CEO' it was a pivot from 'ship and make $$$'.
‘Shareholders’ can’t do anything. Different classes of shares confer different voting rights, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin still own shares controlling over 50% of shareholder votes.
The issue is who decides the obvious good and obvious harm? As soon as you’ve made such a powerful authority it becomes a target for regulatory capture since the incentives if you pull this off are sky high.
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It occurs to me I haven't actually seen an Apple product outside of protective cases in years. They've added a lot of silver to the mix. I was thinking mostly of those white monitors everybody goes for in their minimalist-aesthetic offices.
Thank you! Given I made it, it's hard for me to perceive how it really looks to someone else. Yours is good too!

Thank you for the congrats!

Indeed, I have no idea why some topics gain so much interest vs others.
It's true that there's a lot of specialization required and other reasons why capital doesn't always scale. That's basically what limits everything concentrating to just one guy.
> I don't get how effectiveness is a prerequisite. Be altruist, or not

It's not. What I meant by my comment was that pretty much everyone who engages in altruistic behavior wants that behavior to be as effective as possible. The EA movement did not invent or discover this, it's always been the case.

Even people whose altruistic behavior stops at dropping a few coins in the donation box at the supermarket wants those coins to be used in the most effective way.

The EA movement is something else entirely.
Jassy was at AWS and in a senior role essentially since its inception. Retail predates Jassy, but I give Jassy a lot more credit than presiding over a company that someone else built.
It's people having families that is the ultimate corrupt or. If worst comes to worst thy values come first on the chopping block..

One of the reasons old people can't look each other in the eye, is that they all have seen what they are willing to do to each other to get junior a good start in life.
Agpl has no clause for large companies, so it's different.

Also, may I ask what is your fundamental problem with such a license besides perhaps the name and purity? This license will only affect the insanely rich, and in a way that they will most likely not even feel.
$$$ vs. Safety -> $$$ wins.

Employees who have $$$ incentive threaten to quit if that is taken away. News at 8.
I was able to fire up Windows 3.11 briefly on a browser on my wrist watch. And that was my old watch -- I haven't even tried on the new one.
I loved old google they refused to share a business model. Google ~2006 I think is just past peaked google. I think they developed ads because it was the only model that fit their valuation.
looks like Meta has no problem paying. It's usable on Messenger/WhatsApp/Rayban Meta
"Of course none of this will happen to Google. You're too innovative."

I would have had a hard time hearing that as anything other than sarcasm.
It seems like GH admins are capable of looking at a user and making a judgement call (no repos, no activity, no SSH keys, and a few forks) to determine that the username is being squatted. And based on the article, the author was just name squatting. I don't think there's a distinction between "legitimate" or not - use it or lose it.
"I see you've been working for 18 years in a corporate environment, do you have startup experience?"
Also considering that since the acquisition, they won't do anything to dissuade name-squatting anymore, despite their terms of service still suggesting otherwise
It also doesn’t matter to you, unless you’re claiming you only ever discuss topics you’re extremely well versed in.
> Be the change you want to see.

I have done it at my job - by being the leader myself who will always prioritize a mix of business needs and engineering needs - with transparency and blamelessness. And then, to shame/call out other "leaders" throwing their people under the bus.

I encourage everyone else to do the same. This is the only way to maintain company culture in the direction of innovation.
These are called "open-channel SSDs", which seem to currently mainly be consigned to research purposes AFAICT. But some do exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Channel_SSD
For some people to be extremely rich, others have to be poor. If everybody had a billion it would be the same as if everyone had a dollar.

I think sociopaths should be called out as the dumb fucking sociopaths they are.
That was 5 years ago. What would you consider to be a long time ago?
C++ Eigen has become the defacto replacement for arrays for matrices and vectors. I am thinking this should make it more competitive w fortran in this domain.
At least one of the arguments against him, that he cared too much about openai to lead Microsoft effectively, probably helps him more than it hurts. Otherwise, idk how much of this was really about Sam altman as much as it was a staggeringly incompetent board that drove employees and investors to unify and protest en masse to save the organisation from itself. I guess there's a chance there's an AGI in the basement but if it was actually about safety they should fucking say what the hell they were freaking out about. But if they leave the only logical conclusion as this being a power struggle between someone who wants to move fast and make bank and a board that wants to kill the company for ego reasons - uhh yeah that's not a hard choice
Sure. It's an incentives problem. It's very difficult to align the incentives in any organizations with six levels of reporting chain so that people with the most day-to-day power over the direction of the firm (mid-level directors) are marching in the right direction.

I don't have a silver bullet for this, but I would say that, broadly speaking, managers that don't take feedback from below, as well as above, are probably doing a poor job.
unintentionally, sorry for that one.
The Chrome versions of the first few years were so nice to use. It was the _lightest_ major browser for a time. It's insane how it has drifted since then.
You can opt into installing extensions directly from XPI files, in developer versions; it's just not the default. You can also disable DRM.

I don't like that the web added DRM, but given its existence, if Firefox said "you can't watch Netflix / Prime Video / etc in Firefox", they'd lose even more market share than they already have.
"I feel modern "open source" is kind of a parody of the original intentions and it completely misses the forest for the trees."

Correct.
Honestly I don't understand enough to be that confident about it. Maybe I'm naive and too trusting, but personally I took the news org (youth-run or not) sharing it - who presumably do understand it - at face value. I think it's fair to say it's a relatively violent movement - the Wikipedia entry has a section on 'militancy' but not 'peaceful protests' or 'boycotts' for example - but it's not one thing, it's an idea or collection of ideas and there are various groups and factions, so I really don't know anywhere near enough about it - you'd have to take this video in the context of what else this particular guy's said about his own views, rather than what others have done to the same end - in the name of 'khalistan' - really.
Altman's pattern of self-dealing behavior, led to PG firing him from YC in 2019
It is only an oxymoron in the worst possible interpretation to the point of maliciousness.