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There are aspects to early Google that have been memory holed because they are no longer fashionable or even acceptable and yet may have been key to early success.

Firstly they were allergic to design and marketers. The whole data driven approach yielded interfaces that were gawky but highly functional, the extreme opposite of today. The iPhone caused them to throw the baby out with the bathwater on that.

More controversially Facebook broke the old SV salary cap agreement, and with that came floods of people that should have tormented Wall St who all landed in tech instead. That agreement was bad but the absolute avarice among modern tech people is stunningly depressing for those of us that have been around to see the change.

Google mainly remind me of SGI, and it is their office after all.
I was just testing a rapid prototype of Reddit as Material Design 3 using Beer CSS framework. And wasn't so bad. I liked it! And you?
All bugs that were fixed in this release were too small for the eyetoseeor too
All bugs that were fixed in this release were too small for the eye to see or too fiddly for human words to describe. Nevertheless, work was done, things tinkered with and the app became subtly better.
Deep Dive into Azure Functions: Building Serverless Applications
While I think, that you may be right, that most papers are not about proofs, and that higher math is mostly about proofs, I still think it is math and important math at that. Perhaps it is a link in the chain between mathematics and engineering skills.

The proof centered math is indeed the difficult one. I struggled with a lot at university and was completely unprepared for that finishing school. So I think I have a good idea about the difference in difficulty.
And if you look a few comments upthread, you'll see that the cases are generally not represented in Linear B as we decipher it. You are free to imagine that a noun is in the case most convenient for you.
> Would [Spotify] work if your browser is on the background while you're reading something from another app

Not sure about Spotify, but the only thing that stops YouTube’s mobile website from working in the background is its own code. On Android, with the Firefox addon disabling the Page Visibility API for it, it plays perfectly in the background.
I will recommend a couple great channels for Math:

1. https://www.youtube.com/@SawFinMath : She is a great Professor that walks through problems/solutions one step at a time, so that you can follow along. Has a bunch of Under Graduate course playlists like discrete math, calculus, (abstract or linear) algebra, statistics. highly recommended for the great pacing and solving a lot of problems live.

2. https://mathispower4u.com/ : Another professor who takes an open math textbook (free), and makes a course out of it. Its a little bit more difficult because of denser "pure math" material, but in return, you basically cover everything that a college usually would. He has courses like discrete math, calculus, graph theory, trigonometry, statistics, algebra, geometry etc. Also solves a lot of problems live.

I haven't really tried it, but apparently there is https://www.myopenmath.com/index.php which is sort of like exercism in that you follow along a textbook and solve problems. If someone has tried this, maybe they can share their experience.
Exactly. I'm not a programmer because I don't program. I can't play guitar because I don't play guitar. I can't speak another language because I don't practice one. It sounds obvious but doing the thing you want to do is critical to doing it.
Yep, the parent comment is the part of the iceberg "above the surface", but there is also a bunch of influential stuff "below the surface", like their AI research, and things like colossus, borg, bigtable, mapreduce, and a few others.
> I wonder if there's a way to prevent the growth at all costs that is demanded by the financial markets.

the way i understand it the problem is the product and the market that you’re selling into.

for example: Renaissance Technologies LLC has $130Bn AUM with 310 employees.
Gmail was launched in 2004 with 1GB of free storage, increasing to 2GB in 2005. Adjusting for HDD costs in those years compared to today (according to [1]) that's the equivalent of 40GB or 57GB today. And that's for the general public, not just educational institutions.

Not sure anyone gave you generous free FTP space back then, and Dropbox wasn't invented yet. But people did absolutely abuse gmail for file storage.

1: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...
> Long-haulers, lauded as the backbone of our economy, live out of their trucks for weeks at a time, often working eighty-plus-hour weeks while earning little more than minimum wage. The economist Michael Belzer has equated commercial trucking to working in a “sweatshop on wheels.” The shortage is, in fact, a retention problem: annual turnover at large fleets in recent years has exceeded 90 percent.

90% turnover. That is insane.
This is very good news.

I extensively use HA and buy (and build) various smart stuff so now I know I blacklist Haier. Good thing they released the request.

I will share this news with the HA networks I am active in.

Thank you Haier for being proactive and help me to (not) choose!
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There's no limit!
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Data extraction mostly. Supports long document, cheaper input tokens than gpt3 turbo, and when I ask to stick to document informations it doesn't try to fill in gaps out with his trained knowledge.

Sure you can't have a chat with it or expect it to do high level reasoning, but has enough to do the basic deductions for grounded answers.
Yeah. I also had to get down past all of their points before I saw the images to understand what this is. And one of the points ironically said that it didn't waste my time.

I've never heard the term "loader" being used here. Since a loader would be something that loads. These don't load anything, they just indicate that loading us happening. I typically call these "spinners" or sometimes "throbers" as that is what they do.

I would strongly recommend write "loading spinners" into one of the first sentences on the page.
“Our business footprint is 300 tons of CO2 a year. We are shutting down our operations worldwide in order to protect the people from the future. Thanks for all the BSOD”
Chiang, T. What's expected of us. Nature 436, 150 (2005).
shes five. i doubt most five year olds really understand social queues. your adult understanding is distilled in cultural expectation, and years of behavioural correction.

That she is not an expert socializer at five years old does not indicate shes autistic. There are tens of thousands of confounding variables.
I think you’re underselling Search and Analytics as surveillance tools. Google added telemetry to the web.
And how does that 4% compare to previous/alternative methods of data acquisition, storage, and transportation?

Producing, storing, and shipping masses of paper documents (and related printing equipment) isn't particularly efficient. And video/audio would need storing on physical disks/tapes, and so on.
Nah, it's call loadlin and so old that no one seems to remember its birth.
None concrete I can think about, apart from understanding better the innards of windows boot with a whacky experiment. DPMI was an open spec, so this validated that in principle you could write your own DPMI host to make windows think it was running on top of a protected mode whose view to clients you could control and customize. But again can't answer to what avail.
I don’t know, how many combined are worth -500 million? Think just one is worth literally hundreds of million more than him all things considered
> It was fine but meandering?

I think that's a good point you sound like me I need to be pushed. I sued to read a lot of magazines and books on all kinds of subjects. Then came the Internet it has everything available but for me structure is missing.
> with substantial premeditation

You really need to come up with actual evidence for that if you keep repeating it everywhere.
My theory is any engineer led organization is doomed to fail because the STEM education does not include professional communications, and as a result any engineer led project and organization has communications issues that ultimately lead to failure. Quality communications is so critical in any collaborative, it is simply amazing an emphasis on communications is not a part of technology development - where "new" and "how" and "what" needs to be continually redefined. While a "project manager" is an individual specifically selected because they have quality, or at least better than the average engineer, communication skills. It is no wonder engineers and developers dislike project managers: they run communication circles around their developers, and the developers do not have the training or skills to compete, so they lose every debate, including those they should win on facts, but they can't convey their points, so they lose, and we lose.
Not specific to the submission, but I've basically lost all trust in loading spinners.
Too many websites keep showing the loading animation indefinitely if anything unexpected fails (invalid response from backend, broken connection, …).

It's not even a problem with the concept itself (binary is/isn't loading), it's just bad implementations that have ruined it for me subconsciously.
It's all good. I knew what you meant, and was being sarcastic when I questioned the title.

That said: Can I call you Mr. Bumblefingers, instead?
Yeah, lack of error notification in general is a huge problem with many UIs.

It is worse than the other common problem of showing "no results" until the actual results load in.
“Product design, usability, simplicity, and sheer style were not the forte of the Google of old.”

This is completely wrong. Their style was deliberate indifference about aesthetics, but their products (maps, search and gmail in particular) were absolute masterpieces of product design when first launched.

Edit to add: even Chrome itself was like this.
> If Big Tech really are metaphorically comparable to the big dinosaurs, then I don't want to think about what it would take for them to go down.

In an absolute sense, probably nothing can, short of society ending cataclysm.

In a shareholder sense, I think we're seeing it happen right now.
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Let me introduce it, with some points:

- The first CSS framework based on Material Design 3.

- 10x smaller than others CSS frameworks based on Material Design.

- Translates Material Design to HTML semantic standard.

- Ready to use with any JS framework.

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Hope you enjoy.

And please don't forget to star it (if you like it) to support our work.

Cheers!
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> pay off the VCs then don't go public?

The massive return on investment that VCs aim for comes from the public market valuing the VCs shares of the company much higher than what the VCs paid for it when they invested. How do you replicate that without going public?
You question the phrase "late stage capitalists" and use the phrase "cultural marxists"? Shoo.
Afaik it is possible only in unstable and beta, not in stable. That's why GP mentioned Chromium, not Chrome.

Which fully supports pjmlp's point in the sibling comment.
Well put! It's very difficult to know how you'd feel about experiences from your past if you plopped your current self into the middle of those past experiences. It makes me cringe to think about it!
You can use slices.Grow for that purpose in Go. Exact sizing is only possible during slice creation.
I think the usual case is that product people displace engineers. I guess Google has selected here for quite some time by now because not every engineer likes the advertising and surveillance industry. Compensation and new tech can alleviate some issues, but not everything.
> But most people would agree that recording everything on every street corner 24/7 is not acceptable in a free society.

I admire your optimism. A huge number of cameras just popped up out of nowhere in my city last year. People are actually excited about it. When I tried to say something, they treated me like one of those crazies that escaped the mental hospital.
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CTA now requires most US businesses register beneficial owners to FinCEN
The only argument given that the figure is Hercules is "clearly, it's Hercules". I am not making this up.

Why even bother writing the article?
From what I understand, some of the academic data must be stored for some years after publishing.

This isn't dark data. It must be kept, so it is being used.
Pop song lyrics may be getting more repetitive, but that's the way (us huh uh huh) I like it (uh huh uh huh) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complexity_of_Songs
On devices by selected vendors, and only on selected models.
App passwords worked for me like 3 or 4 months ago.
Interesting. How do they deal with oil circulation?
Wow, this looks fantastic!
Side answer. This kind of regulation lifts GDP by mandating some sort of economic activity. A barber in a room in his house means less rental, less money for commercial real estate company, less money spent buying "commercial" chairs and commercial chemicals. And thousands of other things I can't even fathom as the scope of this problem is huge and so intertwined with all other economic activity.
I don’t think the working world is at any risk of going too extreme at valuing employees. It is the exception which is why we’re even talking about it.

Their promotion process probably has more to do with product fragmentation as anything.
It’s interesting to read the rule update document that I linked to. It describes how all of these factors are taken into account, accounting for the current average grid sources, and some fudge factors for scarcity or differences in use.
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The seven years since have been repeating.
Are you John Nagle, of the Nagle algorithm?
Because not everyone who raises a child is their actual parent. See also the need for terms like “caretaker”, and “legal guardian”.
I will be devastated when (hopefully if!) this happens. If I use a standard search engine to look up a question, I typically get endless “okay” results with piles of moneygrabbing shit mixed in. If I ask chatGPT, I get a contextually relevant, straightforward answer that is probably as accurate as anything else I could reasonably find. It’s like a breath of fresh air
Great story and I'm sure the new math chops help her a lot during her studies.

In case anyone else is interested, it is possible to study computer science without any entrance exams due to the Digital Education for All initivative (https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/projektit/digital-education-all in Finnish, sorry). You get the full study right after completing 60 credits (out of a total 180 credits) worth of courses in the first year.
Without knowing how much they're paying, how can we say if that's stingy or not? If a school gets 100TB storage for free, I'd hardly call that stingy.
Every time I hear about some complex function of the cell it really makes me amazed at us being collections of trillions of them...
Valve had the advantage of Newell/Harrington starting the company with a pile of money from being former MS staff, which gave them the ability to say "when it's done" for their first game. As the resulting first game was a hit and they didn't owe much (if anything) to their publisher Sierra [1], from that point on they've kept rolling the success forwards. Being a private company there's no details I'm aware of on how much has been taken out of the business, although Harrington left not long after Half-life.

[1] I vaguely remember a legal dispute when Valve did release steam years later as Sierra were being cut out.
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We should all endeavor to emulate it if we can.
> Cutting a chalk figure of Hercules as fighting warrior, with club poised to strike, would have served as a fine rallying point (...)

Are we really going to describe this figure with no mention of the giant erection? Talk about an elephant in the room.

Especially since it's unclear if the ancient warriors actually fought like this[1]. Plus, the phallus was not present in the original drawing according to the 2020 lidar scans[2]:

"From a review of historical depictions, the Giant's current large erection has been identified as the result of merging a circle representing his navel with a smaller penis during a 1908 re-cut: the navel still appears on a late 1890s picture postcard. Lidar scans conducted as part of the 2020 survey programme have concluded that the phallus was added much later than the bulk of the figure, which was probably originally clothed."

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6mwsbg/did_t...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant
Same can be said for a company like Microsoft or Google. They have their core products and milk cows for years.

And Valve had plenty of competition and they knew their audience pretty well to make digital purchases something to consider for many. Plus, they simply have the better product.
Wow; this is the first I've seen someone else describe "geometric nightmares". You're spot on in that they're "hard to describe" - they used to happen very frequently when I was younger and could never explain them.
> quickly got into a pattern of hiring and empowering psychotic pricks who were presumably “good at business”

This seems to be the real challenge that I haven’t seen any company founder overcome. How do you keep these types of people out? It’s like one gets in, then they let all their friends in, then they overtake the company.

The tech company offices I visited in 2010 were full of nerds—people who rode unicycles, juggled, and learned Haskell for fun. 14 years later, these same tech companies (some which I worked at) are full of investment banking types. They care nothing about the tech itself; it’s simply a means to an end.
Agreed, Fastmail is pretty good at spam filtering. My Gmail account is pretty much full of spam nowdays which seems to suggest Gmail's spam filtering isn't that great.
Yes. That's what decoupling is.

Instead of one tight coupling between the customer and the coffee machine, you have two tight couplings: one between the customer and the barista, and one between the barista and the coffee machine.
tl/dr: "The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) went into effect January 1... The new law applies to U.S. corporations, limited liability companies and any other entities created by the filing of a document with a secretary of state or any similar office in the U.S... An estimated 30 million U.S. businesses will now have to file. The filed disclosures do not become public but may be used for law enforcement and national security."

Filing is done online at FinCEN’s website. [1]

[1] https://www.fincen.gov/boi
Sure, but probable cause probably can't be justified if you are drug screening everyone attending a political rally - that would probably be easier to argue as abuse than a stop of a single person on the street.
Just don't call me Shirley.
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After reading these comments I read (and partly skimmed) the proposed rule. The article has the facts largely correct, though it’s important to understand exactly what the 6.67 is used for. Not for the MPGe on the label for instance. But for calculating CAFE averages for a manufacturer. Somebody not already familiar with CAFE rules may have had difficulty grasping the implications from the article.
> Use Chrome for Google stuff: Maps, Calendar, Docs, Translate

I don't see any good reason to stick to Chrome for these. I've been using them without issue via Firefox for years. I used to see warnings on some of those products that "<X> works best with Google Chrome" when using Firefox but those have all disappeared now and even when they did have those warnings I don't remember experiencing any major issues.
> There tends to be belief that housing regulations exist to limit supply.

It is often more the case that limited supply is an unintended outcome. People just don’t think ahead.
GCP started turning a profit last year.
Chinese, European scientists join hands to explore universe's mystery
If Linux does not support your old devices try:
https://www.haiku-os.org/

https://reactos.org/

https://aros.sourceforge.io/

Or support OSFree until they can release an alpha: https://osfree.org/

No need to go back to Windows.
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> Because Einstein is a mythic figure, an accurate account of his life would need to embrace some element of myth. Writing it would have to be a powerfully creative act. But Walter Isaacson is not a powerfully creative person. He’s one of history’s lickspittles. A court eunuch. The man who wrote Elon Musk.

The rest is just reiteration and detailing of that topic, shitting on biography writer for being unimaginative and writing non-masses-moving biography of a space pioneer.

Still worth the read if you're into that kind of thing.
> Working there carried this huge cachet that few tech companies can compare to today (maybe OpenAI).

Outside the bubble of openai workers, openai is not seen as a particularily great place to be at. Even here on HN that company is increasingly dreaded. Their CEO promotes theft and the workers cheer. If anything, openai is the very opposite of what google was.
It varies. Some specialist skills pay -really- well. You don't really hear about them because they're, well, niche.

Equally, yes, some folk rose up through the ranks at fang (or better yet fintech) and make mountains of loot. For each success there's a fair pile of failures though.

To rise up through those ranks, typically you need to make sacrifices. Long working hours, minimal time off, stand-by weekends, emails at night, and (imo) suffering the bs that comes with corporate jobs.

Building your own business are all those things too, but without the corporate bs.

The interesting thing about 500k though is asking what you can do on 500k, you can't do on 300. Or 200. Or in lots of the world, 50.

Time left for relationships, children, holidays, other interests and so on are important to me. So I'm prepared to balance those with raw income. I'm not making anything like 500k per year, but I've turned down fang recruiters because all the money in the world can't make up for what else it would cost me.
I would have thought this would grab HN attention a lot more.
P.S. I recommend the comments to this release over on LWN.

https://lwn.net/Articles/958443/
Example: Fastmail.
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My SO uses GMail and anything but Thunderbird it's a hellish nightmare to setup.
On the HN comments about "but my secUrity"... who cares. Get a good and long password and use TLS everywhere. This is enshittification and pure EEE tactics against public standards and free sofware email clients and yet these careless users applaud it.
As a non US person, I have a couple questions:

* What is P&A tech?

* How one retires at 25 when working at Google which is way past IPO and the 100x return on stock option which is only possible at the earliest stage?