skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Powering all the accessories a police vehicle needs is a real problem.
If they've left it even slightly hackable the aftermarket will make them the star of the show.
> And if so, in what world do they see themselves this ever being available to the public? There is literally zero percent chance AGI will ever be given to the public. The CIA/FBI will stash it in a black box and use it to continue exploiting the world with a few “here and there” releases for society.

If the board actually believes in it's own mission (which is up to debate) then they'd have a hard time arguing for anything else than a open/FOSS release of the mode straight up, because otherwise yeah, that would likely happen.
Even in my “I quit Google” post I was careful to make it impossible for an outsider to determine who I was complaining about, even scrubbing my team info from LinkedIn.

But I think 18 years at Google means the author has plenty of “fuck you” money.
All media is owned by cronies for parties. It's how Indian politics works.

For example, in Punjab the main Punjabi news channel (PTC) is owned by the Badal family - who used to control Punjab as leaders of SAD until 2018 when they lost elections to the INC and then the AAP in 2022.

The main Tamil language news media company Sun Group is owned by the grand-nephew of the founder of the ruling DMK.

The 2 main Telegu language media companies - ETV and Sakshi TV - are owned by businessmen related to the leaders of the BRS and YSRCP respectively.

The BJP will end up losing power at some point, but Indian media is already owned by political dynasties and that will never change.
None of this surprises me as an outsider. Google has been in obvious, uncontrolled freefall for several years now. Search barely works anymore, they squandered a massive lead in AI, they are losing in cloud services, Android is so awful it kills me when I have to use it for more than a few minutes. I can't think of any good new projects or services that were created under Sundar's tenure (maybe Colab was cool when it came out, but it hasn't improved at all in years and is now badly lagging). And their propensity to kill services without a thought has made it so that any new service they introduce is met with eye rolls from people who have been burned way too many times.

The solution seems clear to me: they should acquire a really well run, innovative smaller company and then replace all the top executives with the new team. Sundar should be removed immediately before he destroys even more value. And then they need to do relentless cleaning up, quickly getting rid of unproductive middle managers like the person described in this post. That should give a burst of energy to demoralized devs.

Then they need to desperately work to fix search so that it doesn't suck so much that you need to add "reddit" to every query to not get 100% blog spam. And they need to get their act together and start very rapidly releasing impressive AI tools that aren't worse than stuff from companies that are 1/100th of the size. No matter what they do, I can't help but think their sustainable earnings trajectory is headed downwards for the next few years (they can continue to push short term earnings in various ways but that will run out of steam soon enough); the question is whether they can stop the decline.
Rising numbers of people found long after death in England and Wales – study
The tab selector view has a menu with -> close all, does this work for you?
Sarcasm aside, this is mostly about their custom ML denoiser for the video:

>Using an onboard 5nm AI chip, the Ace and Ace Pro cameras use a custom-trained AI neural network to denoise the footage for a clearer image in real time, Insta360 claims.

ML denoisers are pretty useful in high-quality photography if done right. Photographers were initially skeptical at large, but quickly accepted it, as products from Topaz, DxO, and alike were giving excellent results. You are extremely unlikely to stumble upon any invented detail in a denoiser like this.
The most recent journalists killed in Lebanon was an aerial strike that looks very targeted.[1] Much like a prior incident from October 13th.[2]

There was also a specific aerial bombing of a journalist's two story home that looks very targeted.[3]

Counting just face to face killings seems flawed. It really appears like they have some flow of intelligence to act on in many ways.

[1]
https://news.sky.com/video/israeli-airstrike-on-south-lebano...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/reuters-videograph...

[3] https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-strike-kills-family-repo...
If I wanted to gain access to places in 2023 without too much trouble, I'd don a hard-hat, reflective vest, and a clipboard. However, what is the equivalent attire for 1880's London? 500's Mesoamerica? 300's Rome? Please answer fast as my rift is opening.
I came here to make exactly this proposal.

Free Software is supposed to create a gift economy. People create and release their work in good faith, others copy and improve, and contribute back to the community. Gift economies work if most continue to gift their work to society in good faith.

If some actors decide to largely take and but rarely give out of self-interest, or worse use their gifts to cement their economic position, then the gift economy turns into an exploitation economy. The way to fix such an economy is to intentionally exclude those who are exploitative.

Free Software failed to create a gift economy. I am all for abandoning it in favor of the Guarded Free Software economy as you propose.
I have a plan for planetary defense: https://snafuhall.com/p/earthwrap.html

Not a great plan, perhaps, but certainly worthy of billions in research grants.
This is such a bad saying. I guess all the people who switched this year should have waited until now, because now is a better time to switch?
I believer that commenter was mostly focused on the positives of getting people outside and touching grass.

On that note, there is certainly a balance that can exist between enjoying the outdoors and minimizing damage. This is also true for more aggressive activities, like off-roading, dirt bikes, and even gentler activities that impact the land like primitive camping.

The UK is quite tight on space, but in the US it can all responsibly coexist.
Very interesting if this is true, considering how pg has shown huge support for sama during this drama!
> What tests are you talking about that should be done BEFORE conception!?

DNA test that detects errors (invalid sequences) known to cause serious illnesses. I think everyone who is considering to have children, should take such a test because he or she can be a carrier of invalid DNA which can be inherited and ruin life for a child. People should behave responsibly.
They could've focused on rowing. Coached the next generation. Instead they're doing this. A huge shame.
Sure. But people in this thread aren't complaining that Google's profitable. They're complaining about the culture. Long term, such a poisonous culture is not a sustainable path to growth or retained profitability. And it's even less sustainable when the company is dependent on an undiversified revenue stream, since they need to be innovating to mitigate that risk, and a poisonous culture is toxic to innovation.

But yes, Google is a money printer, and it's printing at a higher speed than it was ten years ago. But in that same ten years, Microsoft has grown at a faster rate and even displaced Google in some areas, like developer tooling and AI. In fact, Google has lost its ability to innovate to such an extent that a startup was able to beat them to market by productizing research that originated from Google! And now Microsoft basically owns that startup. That's an embarrassing failure of leadership.
Yeah. The observability of the builds system are bad for all of then in all languages.

This GnTools looks really handy.

Let me ask. For the BUSY. Have you coded the lexer/parser from scratch ?
That's the beauty of mega coporations. 99% of employees can be genuinely trying to improve the lives of others and it still does evil as a whole.
True. I shouldn't say that the paper is worthless. But between a piece of paper and materiel, there are very few cases were a country would choose the former.
>It's definitely not too late to heal Google.

Yes, it is. This was inevitable. It's due to 3 factors:

* Becoming publicly traded

* Size

* Scale of public and private use of products

You cannot have a "don't be evil" company when these 3 are like they are for Google and there is no going back.
I agreed with this for a long time, but in the past 4ish years I no longer agree. On Windows I regularly run into frustrating issues with audio, drivers, printers, random odd errors.

On linux (currently PoP OS, first on a System76, now a Dell) I have not been running into issues. The biggest issue I ran into was strange Wifi connection issues, which System76 had me submit logs for and identified it as a failed Wifi card. But my audio, drivers, printer, scanner and day to day tasks just work.

Yes there are features that are missing on one platform or another. But day to day is now much more pleasant for me on desktop linux as I run into far less frustrating issues.
I think “rediscovering” the old ways of operating is a charitable interpretation that makes it sound like these patterns are somehow better. Silos and fiefdoms don’t benefit the company, they benefit the professional managers that are using them to grow their careers.

I subscribe to the interpretation that sufficiently successful companies inevitably attract ladder climbers whose goals are personal advancement at all costs, which may or may not align with the company goals/mission.

Once enough of these people capture positions of power in the organization, the whole thing tips into a political morass. Unless you’ve got diligent leadership at the top rooting these people out (and how do you think most folks ended up at the top?) you get this cultural death spiral.

This is also why “founder led” companies are more dynamic. Founders by definition aren’t ladder climbers, otherwise they would have joined BigCo instead of founding a business.
And her summary is literally a list of corporate buzzwords
Analytics are good, just be aware of the trap of goodhart's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
That's not the same. Most in game music changes volume during gameplay.
U.S. Syphilis Cases in Newborns: A 10-Times Increase over a Decade
no but the people like the developers, clients, government etc. have also the right to exercise their revolt against decisions they don't like as well. don't you think?

like, you get me, the board of directors is not the only actual power within a company, and that was proven by the whole scandal of Sam being discarded/fired that was made by the developers themselves. they also have the right to exercise their right to just not work at this company without the leader they may had liked.
> The oft-mocked "don't be evil" truly was the guiding principle of the company at the time

It is oft-mocked precisely because it "was".
I think the post is spot on, but I don't agree with naming names especially when the other person doesn't get an opportunity to tell their side of the story. What if Ian's manager posted her own nasty missive criticizing him as an employee? Such things can damage someone's future career without any fair process to sort out the facts. I wouldn't at all be surprised that such manager exists and is not being held accountable internally, but it would be unfair to make conclusions based on unsubstantiated accusations,
Deregulation lowered ticket prices.

Flying economy is miserable because people are looking for the cheapest possible tickets so airlines have to squeeze everything they can.
I would respectfully disagree with most of what you said.

Security and privacy are not the same thing. In some cases, privacy is also a security concern (e.g. criticising the state in repressive regimes) but mostly absolute privacy is not required, only partial privacy. In most cases, a lack of privacy does not massively weaken security.

For the record, I am passionate about privacy. I intensely dislike surveillance capitalism and think that the state should not be able to conduct mass surveillance. Warrants for targeted surveillance should be controlled by the courts.

However, this has to be balanced against real money laundering and other criminal enablement concerns (such as ransomware and other crimes enabled by untraceable payments). Money laundering is simply how organised crime take the proceeds of their activity and legitimise it. It is extremely naive to frame attempts to detect and control this as an attack on privacy, even if this is an undesirable effect of it.

My point is that absolutism in privacy is as bad as absolutism tends to be anywhere else it appears. The real world needs balance. We definitely need privacy, but not absolute privacy at the cost of everything else.

Update: I would just like to respond to your point that these controls have not stopped terrorism or money laundering, and that they will always find a way. I don't disagree with that, but having no control at all over this would enable them to a far greater extent and lower their costs substantially.
This will be decided in a court of law.

If Elon is wrong, it will cost him dearly. If he is right, the consequences for Media Matters, their inner and outer circles should be severe enough to fit the crime.

It's that simple. We'll see.

I have a feeling that Media Matters might be in serious trouble. I would be surprised if Elon has any interest in a settlement out of court. If he is right, he is going for what he called the "thermonuclear option", which means he will take this up the legal system as far and wide as he is able to.

Maybe this is what this country needs in order to eradicate the violent practice of attempting to utterly destroy people and companies not aligned with a specific political narrative.

How is this behavior good for society in the long run? It isn't.

I mean, today, we live in a society where you have to be careful what you say because you never know if a nut-job with a million followers on TikTok is going to latch-on and enlist a massive mob to destroy you, your career and your family.

Again, in what universe is that good for society?

I don't know where the lawsuit is going to go. If Media Matters is found to be guilty, I hope the courts make a brutal example of them and everyone who participated in the many destruction campaigns they have engaged in over the years. It's about time.
You are probably right; I just don't really see what's to be gained by going public with it considering the complaints are pretty inside-baseball and not that interesting to outsiders (I mean, hard to imagine someone thinking "I'm not going to deal with Google because so-and-so's subordinates say they don't understand her strategy").
Well-said. I think this is all pretty well encapsulated in the truth that "we tend to become what we hate", or "if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
I think the parent comment’s point is that the board is not one, since the board was defeated (by the employee dragon).
Apologies this is very off topic, but I don't know anyone from Germany that I can ask and you opened the door a tiny bit by mentioning the holocaust :-)

I've been trying to really understand the situation and how Hitler was able to rise to power. The horrendous conditions placed on Germany after WWI and the Weimar Republic for example have really enlightened me.

Have you read any of the big books on the subject that you could recommend? I'm reading Ian Kershaw's two-part series on Hitler, and William Shirer's "Collapse of the Third Republic" and "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". Have you read any of those, or do you have books you would recommend?
I would bet that the average tech-savvy outsider has a higher opinion of Sundar than the average Googler does.
This isn’t really accurate in my experience. I’ve been using it on several projects large and small for some time now and can only recall one time autofix introduced an issue of any sort and that was many versions ago. It will also handle cascading fixes just fine.
Actually, Windows 11 Home does require one. And I don't mean "You can just be offline" or "Just click use Domain Account", but actually "Without Internet and a Microsoft Account, you cannot continue".

Maybe someone found a script/custom installation image, but the previous posters point about it being required stands for that one SKU at least. (I hope that there's a EU version that one can acquire in the future that gets around that, but I don't know if the Account requirement falls under the current legislation.)
Stupid noob question: would I be able to control this from a DAW like Reaper?
I'm a little bit confused, are you saying that the IRS would have some sort of beef with employees of Microsoft serving on the board of a 501(c)(3)?
Tesla Roadster is now open source
the more outwardly successful someone is by modern standards (ceo, celebrities, other powerful people) the more likely it is they are ethically compromised in some way

you don't reach the top without screwing over a lot of people along the way
I listen to podcasts; they’re fun! But I am comfortable operating with incomplete information, and thus know how to treat a low quality source. I also chat with LLMs to better understand topics, and am better off than the folks here who can’t do that as a result.

The main thing I’m getting from this discussion is that a lot more very smart people seem to have deluded themselves into thinking knowledge is objective or “locked in” than I had initially realized. The desire for certainty is an extremely human thing, but it’s a dead end, intellectually.
Python is always the second-best language for the job. Which makes it a great language to know.
Regular, reasonable person here.

> Your body is your mind and your mind is your body. Full stop.

This is completely unwarranted judging from the rest of your post ("in the very infancy", "nearly completely unknown", "mostly in the dark", "haven't the foggiest idea"; although I appreciate the frankness).

If people made bold statements like "There is no such thing as X" in any other field at a similar stage of development, their claims would be rightly dismissed as pseudoscience. ("There is no such thing as a graviton. Full stop.")

Your claim is not a finding of your field of expertise, or any other branch of science. It's metaphysical belief. You're entitled to it. It's a widely shared belief. It might be a belief with a lot going for it. Metaphysical claims are fun! They can be discussed! But I wish people wouldn't confuse them with scientific knowledge.
What an effort from the police to catch her.

I get it murder is fucked but 22kh of recording and undercover?

I thought they would do that only to 'higher' people
It's not like this is the first:

One developer (Woz) vs One businessman (Jobs) -> Jobs wins
I just upgraded my top-spec Intel MBA from 2020 to an M3 Pro MBP.

Adjusted for inflation, the M3 was about 20% more expensive for close to infinitely more performance.

I could see holding on to this M3 Pro as my daily driver for 5-10 years assuming I don't drop it too many times.

I'll probably replace my wife's MBA from 2018 next month for whatever the bottom spec MBA is now.
I like the old times when you could assume everyone around you is smarter than you, so collaboration and communication were never an issue. They never rely on "experts" in other teams to collaborate, they quickly and easily pick up how other systems work in depth themselves. Smart people just shine and work together to create amazing stuff.

Nowadays, you need to explain to people why unit test is needed, why you can't use production as the first place to try a risky experiment, and rely on 20 experts, one in each tiny service, to figure out and to deliver a tiny feature with bloated timeline and messy quality.
There are alternatives readily available.

https://electrek.co/2023/02/06/police-chief-explains-tesla-m...

https://electrek.co/2023/05/09/tesla-model-y-police-dept-go-...

https://www.fremontpolice.gov/community/hybrid-and-electric-...

https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/1490/a-close-look-at-tesla...

https://www.government-fleet.com/10182136/indiana-pd-upfits-...

Tangentially, this class of vehicle is best suited for replacement by EVs; you want to direct unit flow to the highest utilization use cases to destroy fossil fuel demand and consumption.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/gasoline-superusers-only-... ("Gasoline superusers: Only 10% of US drivers burn almost a third of the gas")

https://coltura.org/gasoline-superusers-2-report/

https://ibb.co/Vq928g5
Snippets that stood out to me:

Google's culture eroded. Decisions went from being made for the benefit of users, to the benefit of Google, to the benefit of whoever was making the decision

The effects of layoffs are insidious… people can no longer trust that their company has their back, and they dramatically dial back any risk-taking. Responsibilities are guarded jealously. Knowledge is hoarded, because making oneself irreplaceable is the only lever one has to protect oneself from future layoffs. I see all of this at Google now
netplan(.io) is an abstraction layer on top of either NetworkManager (GUI installs) or systemd-networkd (servers/non-GUI) and is not really needed except as a convenience for Canonical's own designs for automated mass deployments especially linked to cloud-init. Under the hood it just converts its YAML configuration files into the syntax for the underlying actual network management tool.

For NetworkManager it'll write the config file to /run/NetworkManager/system-connections/ and for networkd to /run/systemd/network/ on EVERY boot since /run/ is a tmpfs (file-system in RAM).

For almost all servers, and most workstations, netplan is an unnecessary indirection since most hosts (including containers) have pretty static network configurations that only require writing once (to /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ or /etc/systemd/network/ ).

nmcli is the NetworkManager command-line tool. There is also nmtui for a text user interface. These are terminal alternatives to the GUI applets such as nm-applet (network-manager-gnome) or plasma-nm for KDE.

networkctl is the CLI interface to systemd-networkd. There is no widely used GUI interface to it (yet).
I know but that was quite a while ago. And it illustrates exactly what I mean.
They had 4-5 years lead on Chrome and they still fucked it up. They lost the browser war way before Google got so many dominant web properties.
When Chrome got out, Youtube wasn't nearly as big and important, Google Docs was still pretty basic, slow and missing a lot of functionality.
Nobody would have switched to Chrome just to use the Google stuff; but people did switch to chrome because it was better. That's it.
I was a Mac only person at the time of Firefox release and it wasn't that much better than Internet Explorer for Mac. But Safari was pretty good, in fact at that time Apple was actually making Safari for Windows as well. I preferred it to Firefox, like most people I knew who tried both...
Then Chrome forked the Safari open-source code base and improved it.

Firefox lost because it was technically not as good and because of poor leadership. I believe they waste too much ressource on political bullshit, non-working consensus and whatnot.

But most of the defenders are ideological zealots. Which is why I got downvoted because they cannot handle the truth.

Nobody needed to sabotage Firefox, it wasn't very good in the first place.
Sounds a bit like what UIO tries to do in Linux? https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/driver-api/uio-howto.h...
What is laughable about that list?

It doesn't really speak to or against your point. You're not going to justify an entire national security system on a subset of one of its many functions.
You don’t need to amend your taxes to sell a fully depreciated asset.