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> But once you achieve market dominance, your priorities have to shift.

This is true, but I think you're mischaracterizing the required shift, and assuming this requirement is what's causing Google's problems today.

A company does eventually need to make a shift from "fast and experimental" to "responsible and steady". However this shift is entirely orthogonal from "focus on the users" becoming "focus on the bottom line and year over year growth".

Just because they're following the same path as other large tech companies have, doesn't mean this is inevitable. Instead it means they failed to learn the proper lessons. As a sibling comment points out, there was the attitude "but Google is special so that won't happen", when instead it should have been "to keep Google special, we need to work really hard on preventing that from happening".
Like sports I'm here for the drama. It's a distraction to follow. If it doesn't interest you just ignore.
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Red pill: Most very successful people are like this.
> it'd be really nice if bookmarks could appear in a side-pane instead of a popup window

Ctrl+B on linux/windows or I guess Command+B does exactly this.

> and allow the user to sort by chronological order

This is possible in the main bookmarks window. There is a sort by last modified option which should do the trick. It would indeed be nice to have this option in the sidebar.

The other features you mention are more appropriate for an extension.

Edit: I just found out that you can open the bookmarks window in a tab by visiting chrome://browser/content/places/places.xhtml
A better way to describe it, IMO:

SDR goes from 1-100. HDR goes from 0.01 to 100. Twice as many orders of magnitude difference from bottom to top. So if you peg the top to max brightness in both cases, the HDR looks brighter because the contrast is bigger.

(Note that this is an analogy. In other words, it's wrong, but a way of looking at it)
I apologize, the comment's irony overwhelmed my snark containment system.
We don't moderate HN according to that. I wrote extensively about this yesterday if anyone wants a verbose explanation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38372059

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38372393

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38372125
That is part of effective leadership, strategy, and management.

I didn't say anything about higher order values. Getting people to want what you want, and do what you want is a skill.

Hitler was an extraordinary leader. That doesn't imply anything about higher values.
> The source is available, you can make your own changes, you can distribute them or even start a business but that's not enough for most people/companies.

You really can't in the original sense, though. A person using Facebook, Spotify, or YouTube can't make any modifications to those products whatsoever despite a lot of the code being "open source". It was never about taking somebody else's code and making a business.

More disappointing, users often don't even have direct access to their own data on those services.
I am barely understanding, so a stupid question:

Does this also mean that it would be possible to train on parallel GPU-poor setup instead of needing lots of GPU memory / bandwidth on one computer?
These stories makes me wonder why no standard for keeping customer data has been developed. I mean a company needs my data when I buy something from them and then again when they have to pay taxex. Do they need to have my full info with name, email and phone number? I could send them the same info again if I want to buy something again .. they could keep some hash or unique id used to check that it's really me.

Why is this so hard?
Learning Rust can be challenging, especially if you're accustomed to Python or Kotlin. The Rust compiler is strict, which can be demanding for programmers. However, the effort can be rewarding due to Rust's advantages. Expect a slower pace of progress, as tasks that are straightforward in Python or Kotlin may require more time in Rust. The difficulty level is higher, but with motivation, it's certainly achievable.
Thanks. Good to know. Will plan accordingly.
Vindicated. I've never had such pushback on something that seemed so obvious.
Leadership making climate change a priority and not making excuses for why it isn't.
Did Firefox update at the end of the desktop browsing session instead of the beginning yet? If not, no, it's still not a good time to switch (back) to Firefox.
Well they're getting that kick now.
I'm a full-stack developer that started my work on Bend using Rocket and then migrated to Axum. Would be very happy to contribute/be a part of a community initiative like the one you describe
A bit odd that they might not be aware of that. Any ideas from this project you see that might benefit Haystack?
The public benefit is not the same.

National defense protects everyone equally.

Welfare only protects those that receive it. Welfare is not a public good by definition. It is both rivalous and excludable.

Governments should not take from some to give to others. They should only ever take from all to give to all.
Quite so. And my point is not that people should somehow give Google a pass; it is that in their focus on maligning our motives, people not only fail to level serious criticisms of the consequences of our actions, but make it less likely anyone will be willing to listen to those criticisms.

Privacy advocates say Manifest v3 is an attempt to wipe out ad blockers. Google claims it's about security. But which side is right is not only unprovable, it's irrelevant; what matters is what the actual consequences will be.

If you don't like what Google is doing, by all means speak up. But please, stop claiming you know why some team is advocating for some position, and focus on the effects that position would have in practice.

Google's size and power mean that causing harm is exceptionally easy. We need to listen to cautionary voices. Having a mob of posters yelling about how evil we are even at the times we were trying our best makes that more challenging.
I use my laptop for encoding video all the time.

What's your justification for saying I shouldn't, precisely?

What's next -- I shouldn't use it to compile software either?
I'm not into watching streaming services or TV for that matter, but that would be news to me. Does YT now produce own exclusive content? I think they don't 1. to keep content producers running their stuff on YT rather than acting as competitor 2. to avoid yet another reason for antitrust action (ie. the bad looks of extending their monopoly)
I think the conclusion is really interesting. Maybe this was just well written, but I was thinking "What should the CEO of Google be pursuing as a strategy", and then he drops the mission statement. I don't know if the mission statement is the best articulation of the goal. But it's a clear goal. And it's a goal that Google aren't pursuing. It's an interesting goal in the context of large language models. Now, more than ever, having a accessible and organised store of credible information would be incredibly valuable to me. I was literally saying this to someone earlier today - the web today sucks. I google something, I click the first link it's popup hell. I click through all the links on the first page, half of them are the same information re-garbled for Google. Boy, what I wouldn't pay to Google the web from 2010. Just let me tick a box that says "Classic web" that excludes anything published in the last 15 years. Well this post turned into a rant...
He was CEO of Y combinator, of which this forum is sponsored and maintained by.

He’s the CEO of OpenAI, which is responsible for the most-discussed advancement in technology for the past year. So it’s not that unusual for this to be discussed on a technology-focused forum.

He’s also the centre of a massive firestorm, where extremely atypical corporate behaviour was very recently taking place. Again, highly relevant topic for a forum that deals with startups.

In short, it’s news, and specifically news of interest to people on this site. No need for cults or obsession.
There actually is if you click "delete browsing data on quit"

You can toggle "open tabs" to close all your tabs
malicious and/or willfully ignorant rumor -- supports linux is only prevented by manipulative and secretly negotiated boot locking from Redmond and friends
This is cool. We should require anyone with patents on IP to open source the trade secrets that go along with them when they come off of patent.
Dang that's good to know. No worries if not, but would you mind giving a broad breakdown between the two?
If you want a flavor of what living in small tribes is like, look at the NextDoor for small town USA. People leave these tiny communities for many reasons, but one downside is the toxicity of the town gossips always in your business.

IMO a major solution is learning pods, funded by school vouchers. The monopoly factory schools pushed by the government manufacture misery and a hatred of learning. Let 100,000 flowers bloom of experimental schools, and the same cohort of 8 to 20 children growing together. If there’s a bullying or other issue, switch pods. Go to the r/teachers subreddit if you want to see some real truth about what is wrong with kids these days.
I didn't see them mention rank&file careerism culture.

Are they attributing the root cause to leadership, and believe the old culture is merely dormant, or could be inspired in people who never saw it, and who weren't hired for it?
“Tesla Roadster is now open source” does not appear to be the title of that page. I also couldn’t find any open source licenses or info about how to make a Tesla Roadster.
Takeaway: Combines 30 meter accuracy of B61-12 with 340 kiloton yield of B61-7. Like other B61s, can be carried at supersonic speed externally, under the wing of a fighter.
Why would anyone care about safe agi? its vaporware.
yea exactly "chatgpt replaced my podcasts" is kind of silly. People don't listen to joe rogan experience to learn facts about how particular jiu jitsu choke works.
I don't know what kind of podcasts op replaced with chatgpt but i call BS .
I was actually just thinking that I really miss the days when it was sports teams and athletes that people obnoxiously worshipped. Need to go back to Patriots fans being the most annoying people around.
In VSCode (which uses PyRight/PyLance) and Python 3.10:

JSONObject = None | str | int | bool | list["JSONObject"] | dict[str, "JSONObject"]
# this type checks
a: JSONObject = {"a": [1, 2, "7", True, {"false": None}]}
# this doesn't type check
b: JSONObject = {"a": [1, 2, "7", True, {"false": object()}]}
> Long term, such a poisonous culture is not a sustainable path to growth or retained profitability.

Are you sure? This feels a little bit like when I read the American capitalism is going to collapse because there are a lot of homeless people. Just because something has the effect of making some people miserable doesn't mean that it's unstable or doomed to fail. IBM, GE, Boeing, or any number of other "dinosaur" companies haven't gone anywhere. And Microsoft itself shows that even a conservative culture can manage to adapt to changing circumstances when it's necessary.
> For no other topic have I seen so many flagged stories, and all of them are the ones that paint Sam in a negative light

This isn't evaluating products for use with pluses and minuses.

Attacks on reputation need to be very, very well substantiated or they are libel (business libel in this case). It's also morally wrong, it leads to the worst kinds of resentful discussions, and frankly, this is not really the place for that if indeed you want justice.

In this case, the board made a decision that broke the reliance of all OpenAI stakeholders on Altman's leadership, with no evidence and little explanation. If OpenAI was transitioned properly and with due care to another CEO, it would have been business as usual.
My Book Earned Out in Two Years and Nothing Happened
What's wrong with Rickover as a role model? If he'd been able to do for the civilian nuclear power sector what he did for the Navy, a lot of things would be a lot better now.
Which companies today are the Google of 20 years ago?
If you get cited in someone else's anti-trust Apple deactivate developer account
Yup, agreed. My view is that the people on the inside often can't see the forest for the trees. They look at their immediate team/group, love the autonomy/transparency/"don't be evil"-mandate/etc. that they have and follow, and look around and see some of that in other groups, and think, "wow, this company is great, doesn't care about all that big-bad-company stuff".

But people outside can look at a company that gets most of its revenue from advertising on the web, see that they're also building a web browser, and be rightly concerned about what is inevitably going to happen there. Even if the browser team initially has a mandate to do what's best for the user, and to not care about what's best for that company, there's no way that will be a sustainable long-term strategy.

(And a cynical person might believe that the browser team was told this specifically so they'd be excited about the project, and of course management knows that when you're bootstrapping a new project/product, you need to get users fast, and the best way to get users is to do what's best for the user... at least for now.)

It is absolutely unsurprising to me that this browser team couldn't see any of this at the time. And now we have people on the Chrome team earnestly pushing things like Web Environment Integrity, and somehow telling people that this is what users want and need, and that this is good for the web. I don't know if they are brainwashed, or are just very good liars. Again: completely unsurprising result.
"...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..."

You know, I remember a time I said, management just think of engineers as a resource and refer to us as such. But when the word "dehumanising" is used it strikes me a lot clearer. When this disconnected occurs between different layers of the same corporation people just become a resource, they are no longer humans , they are a means to an end, and that end doesn't even serve the purpose of the company but the merits of that individual. I really wish developers had a way to empower themselves out of this hellscape.
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The limitation of spam filters is false positives. For most people it's probably not a big deal to have one or two messages land in the spam filter .. then someone follows up and says "Hey did you get that legit email I tried to send you? I haven't heard back." But for certain business accounts, the amount of spam + false positives can get to unmanageable levels, where important emails are flagged as spam and left undiscovered because sifting through the spam folder regularly is as time consuming and annoying as if the spam just went straight to inbox.
It's doubtful.
Elon Musk and Tesla ignored Autopilot's fatal flaws, judge says evidence shows
Possibly the least surprising news of all time
I have come to the opinion that being an executive at any sufficiently large company revolves around building a cult of personality. Any contribution they make would be nearly impossible to compare against what a possible replacement candidate would make. This might be a fair or unfair characterization -- it might even be both! Building a personal brand by being a cheerleader for your company/organization, maintaining the image that you have everything figured out and everything is under control, while taking credit for building the world class team underneath you is essential.
Interesting but this paper is very poorly named.
"Then Google had layoffs. The layoffs were an unforced error driven by a short-sighted drive to ensure the stock price would keep growing quarter-to-quarter"

Seems like they fired the Google Adsense support team. I have been using Google Adsense for many years, and since last year there is no way of contacting any support, there IS NO WAY, I have lost over 10k in revenue because of it, and was only able to get my problem fixed after 2 months by joining a third party publisher network.

Keep in mind that Adsense is one of Google's main sources income, and that they take a 32% cut as an intermediary (So they have ample money to pay for a 5 star support)!
Empowering Software Maintainers with GitHub Bounties
501c3's also have governing internal rules, and the threat of penalties and loss of status imposed by the IRS gives them additional incentive to safeguard against even the appearance of conflict being manifested into how they operate (whether that's avoiding conflicted board members or assuring that they recuse where a conflict is relevant.)

If OpenAI didn't have adequate safeguards, either through negligence or becauase it was in fact being run deliberately as a fraudulent charity, that's a particular failure of OpenAI, not a “well, 501c3’s inherently don't have safeguard” thing.
Paul's wife has a huge financial stake in OpenAI, so I suspect massive success there has softened his opinion.
If this is true, interesting, as PG was several times profits over ethics (e.G. see the AirBnB discussion on HN he participated in).
They aren't there to strike anything. That would be disastrous for US forces.

They are there to posture and prop up USA's image as the sole superpower, and to keep the security competition from deflating. Without this military show, people in East Asia would wake up one day and ask, wait, why do we care so much about what distant Washington thinks? Because the economic & cultural game has already been lost.
When I do code reviews I always try to find something to comment on, even if it is just a optional suggestion or question.

If the code review system has a lot of approvals from me without comments in the code review system I suspect it will hurt the organization's perception of my work.
I'm not going to defend them over this but I'm 100% sure that they wanted to be as successful (or more) than Zuckerberg.
> the lithium battery allows officers to power the accessories without having the engine run as much, which reduces fuel consumption further and improves wear and maintenance costs.

IMHO, all gas-powered SUVs should be hybrids, especially since the EPA mandates stopping the engine while stationary. A hybrid would significantly reduce the pedal-to-wheels latency and keep the A/C running at stoplights.
It also doesn't square with the productivity gains of technology.

If one person can do the job that used to take ten, how on earth is a minor dip in work participation[1] going to 'cause collapse'?

[1] More than offset by 20th century developments like women entering the professional workforce.
I dislike the fact that he peddles the AGI angle too much. Literally, way above normal.

It would be nice to see him be down to Earth for a change and show some compassion but what do I know.. maybe those aren’t his strongest qualities.
The car would be authentic, built in 1967. What the person is asking is whether there's a technique to distinguish a car from 1967 from a sibling that was brought back from 2036.
> Careers and incomes are at stake. People will get hurt.

Google continues to print much more money than it burns. People get hurt by callous corporate decisions like layoffs. People don't get hurt by a company that has insane amounts of money taking risky projects, and if they fail, assigning those people to some other project. Given the size of Google and the fact that they hire generalists, being at risk of losing your project is very different than not being sure about the future of your job.
There was something called "YouTube Originals" that's been discontinued but I didn't consider that central to the point I was making.
I run mongodb for work and that requires openssl1.

On Ubuntu I just copy the libs over to /usr/lib

But that wouldn't be an option on an immutable system.

I will look into toolbox.

Edit: looks like tool box is exactly what I'm after!
It’s really funny to re read this with that perspective.

>My kid was really surprised to find out that Sam cofounded this company.

>Sam is going better than you. Do better.

Etc. I don’t know that you’re right, since these do sound like praise, but it’s kind of a funny game to change the tone and make them into catty insults.
> the vast increase in flying and flying for quick weekend trips.

Is this vast increase in absolute terms, or relative to the population? In 1978 the US population was 222.6 million, it was 331.9 million in 2021. That's a pretty significant increase, but has the number of people flying increased proportionally?

> Basic economy is a very popular product.

Only about a third of economy flyers choose the no-frills basic economy fare. I'm not sure that makes it "very popular". Airlines that cut basic economy to the level of only allowing a small personal item have reversed that decision and now allow full-size carry-ons.

Overall the effect of basic economy is to sell the seat at rock bottom price, then charge for additional services, bringing the total price back up to as much or more than a regular main cabin fare.
Oh that is still happening, I promise you. Though currently the most annoying fanbase is probably the Eagles right now.
ETW internals for security research and forensics
> The question I’m asking is how much faster we could have pulled forward widespread renewables deployment with an earlier commitment to the project.

I don't think you could have gotten much of a head start. Maybe 1-2 years. I don't see you getting an extra 10 out of it, even in the best possible circumstances. Half of what makes it possible now simply didn't exist. Changes in global logistics, materials science, manufacturing capacity, and a hundred other things.

If time travel were possible, and you could go back with all the knowledge and plans from today, even then 10 years is about all you could hope for. Some things can't be rushed. Sure, you've eliminated all the false paths, the bad decisions and backtracking, but booting up this part or that part of the supply chain is a slow process.
Not my project just saw and I thought HN would like.

"immediate payment upon the approval of a pull request" in particular has me interested.
A very interesting article

Very interesting they were working on Flutter

I have just spent 18 months with Dart, supporting Flutter development

I formed the view that Fludder (as I called it) was built by brilliant engineers who were directionless. As a replacement for Javascript it is an utter failure, sadly

Made this a very interesting read
This the main reason I don't trust people who are in the business of "selling". On one hand, it's nice being around those kinds of people. On the other hand, it's hard to take any of the nice things they say seriously. Most of them say nice things to be likeable, not because they actually mean or will do what they say. I've learned to pay close attention to what salesmen do, rather than what is said. The actual truth will be revealed by their actions.
You probably have items in your house made by people working for $100 a month - which is less than what slaves in mid 19th century's America earned. But this is not discrimination, this is different, right?
Volocopter brings urban air mobility to life
He doesn't mention it, but it is curious that Google has apparently also lost the lead in the AI race to OpenAI, after being unquestionably on top for many years. PaLM 2 was inferior to GPT-4, despite being younger, and Gemini is set to release a whole year later. What's going on?
I trust Greg, and Greg trusts Sam.