skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As few as 20 per cent of Canadians remain mostly working from home: latest data
Painful suggestion: I reframe the savagery as a free consultation by folks with poor people skills. Often one or two of the reviews gives you actionable results. I view this exercise as something you akin to learning how to be a sales person: a very unpleasant experience at first but eventually you develop a new muscle/superpower. Being coachable can take you pretty far.
Eric leaving. Larry and Sergey stepping back. And the hiring of Ruth Porat as CFO.

My money is on Ruth being the biggest change to Google.
Are you that engineer that fixed that AS400? Back in the early 2010s, there were like 5 people across, the whole UK who could work on those mainframes.
They mentioned they had a script which terminated all connections to the old database then changed the password.

But on the app side you typically don't cache DNS, that creates other problems like stale DNS.
Go to skid row in LA. Going on 50 years or more.
> “Most drivers are trained in driving [internal combustion] vehicles and they’re applying the habitual amount of pressure on the driving pedal but the behavior is very different, particularly in low-speed zones,” said Lu.

This is the main point. It takes a while to unlearn the habit of just flooring the pedal and trusting the slow response time of the ICE to smooth it out. Even a basic EV will haul ass immediately and with no noise.

Combine that with Tesla's (and others) 1-pedal driving where lifting off the pedal will essentially brake, you've got a bunch of learning to do.
I guess we can read into this way too much and become too philosophical.

Technology might make your life easier, but that doesn't mean it makes anyone else's easier.

Technology might help you send a missile into another country, but that doesn't make their lives easier.

Technology is a tool that we use to do what we want to do easier, better however you put it, but it doesn't necessarily make our lives easier. It makes a particular job or task easier.

Even writing this down I am getting too philosophical and disagreeing with myself.

I guess it could make your life easier day to day, but that doesn't mean it makes anyone else easier.
And if you must, cut deep and cut only once. Trickling out monthly layoffs is far more demoralizing and instills a culture of fear and uncertainty.
We know OpenAI and Azure was struggling to get enough GPU. That was implied not just by their words but also by action. And considering these two companies are most aggressive and making most money out of this AI. If GPUs are available they would have been able to buy it.
Another type of repetition in pop music that may not be surfaced with this analysis is the structural variation in the lyrics. Maybe it's because pop songs that are entirely 1-3 syllable lines personally irk me.
I have lived there for many years; had a business, lived in various areas, North to South, and studied Thai there. Though this is anecdotal I have experience with Thais and Farang there. One thing that is glaringly missing from your remarks is the extreme tolerance of Thai people. Yes it is a military dictatorship and there is massive corruption throughout it's public systems but one hardly feels there effect in day to day life. Face and keeping the staus quo are of upmost importance. If there is trouble and people are arrested it is usually because they have majorly screwed up, upset the wrong person or failed to bribe there way out. Bribes are fines in effect or ways to ease the passage of "problems" You can easily make reference to laws and rules in other countries that have equally bad problems.
I originally upvoted the commend you replied to, as it seemed to make a good point, but after reading your reply I had to take the upvote down and give it to you. Just wanted to share.
>Interesting that free speech prohibitions regarding the Spain monarchy has just led to nobody mentioning the Spanish monarchy, in my world anyway

If I were receiving a stupendous public stipend for doing nothing, people not talking about me ever would be an amazing added bonus.
DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub delivery workers on new minimum pay
A lot of people find this stuff hard to wrap their head around. But it's pretty easy if you take a step back.

So if you read this with surprise or disgust - consider what ideas, events or people your own democratic state considers illegal to "defame, insult, or threaten", and then consider that many in Thailand may feel as strongly about their monarchy as you do about that.

You may still be disgusted - as you value your thing more highly - but hopefully you will be less surprised about the world.
My trip to Thailand was memorable for 3 reasons:

1/ They spent a lot of money to build Buddhist temples and grand structures. They are obsessed with it and believe it is a form of saving karma for the next life. It reminds me of the Pharaohs.

2/ They royals are literally gods and beyond reproach. We got a Thai native assigned to our group just to make sure we would not misbehave or something and our guide told us one of the most severe crimes that no one can bail us out from would be lese majeste. Stuff like don't point at the king picture and laugh or step on anything with his picture, including the money.

3/ Plenty of tourist traps, ranging from honey farms to homeopathic "institute". And lots of good street food.
What benefit comes from this?
Why do we have all these layers of middle management, if not to promote the first guy up into them and hopefully out of the way?
yeah, eric stepped down in 2011 and larry took over as CEO and from the inside it felt fine for a while. but larry definitely got disinterested after a few years and the company felt rudderless by like the end of 2014.
Author admits she used ChatGPT to write parts of prize-winning novel
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Thanks for the terminology here! I was diagnosed as Asperger’s over 20 years ago, but in a sealed part of my medical record so I didn’t get booted out of the military. Went on to complete 22 years.

My son, however, has severe ASD and will likely need a caretaker for life.

The difference in the spectrum is astonishing.
That was moving and lovely. Your father was a fortunate man.
Even in the early days, I don't believe Google was all that fast about launching new products? The "fail fast" stuff was about people working on blue-sky ideas that failed to get traction before they were launched, or maybe just launched in Google Labs [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Labs
Just keep pressing forward button (skips 5 sec each) to avoid the ad part, back button if too much.

Not only ads, do this for long videos to skip boring parts, this gives snapshots of content without missing much, can always go back, 5 sec at a time.
I know my perspective is really skewed, but don't filezilla and the like make ~FTP easy enough? Or failing that, even Windows must have the hooks to (implement an add-on to) mount SFTP and treat it like a thumb drive? Why is it harder to use FTP/SFTP than a fancy web frontend?
Do you agree with their statement on technology as a tool as opposed to something that makes our lives easier then?
Well, that explains why the username looks like something either auto-generated or made up on the spot in under 10 seconds.
It's a gov website. What are they going to do, sue themselves?
Reminds me of the recent blog post by Sir Adrian Cockcroft.

Signs that it’s time to leave a company…
https://adrianco.medium.com/signs-that-its-time-to-leave-a-c...
you're making very good and clear points, but it's still not clear whether Zuck is referring to the budget spent or the street value received
Could be. Patrick was just so perfect as a Google CFO. Only-at-Google. His backpack full of hundreds (supposedly).

But Ruth: she could be anywhere in the corporate world.
> I wrote an Azure wrapper that helps my team debug kuberntes issues in real time using AI , it also analyzes deployments and makes recommendations and this has caught the attention of teams that are now using my tool to debugg their workloads.

Can you elaborate on this? Very interested.
No elevator would be a no-no here. What if you were in a wheelchair?
Some U.S. cities are banning gas-powered leaf blowers
>Personally, I always advise people to choose Thailand if they are looking for travel to a place that ticks most boxes relevant for a vacation.

Personally, I always advise people to refuse to give their money to states that imprison people for insulting public officials.
I hung out with people who got various powder packages in the mail at that time. It was interesting, but already I knew it wasn't my scene. Still I learned a lot of names and watched the use on occasion. Looking at it now I'm glad it was then and I didn't have to worry about the various opioids getting mixed in. I don't think I thought enough about the consequences even though I worried about my friends dealing with various manners of contamination.
Bing Search shows few, if any, signs of market share increase from AI features
I use email, SMS, phone and WhatsApp. WhatsApp has least amount of spam because it is costlier to get a new account (need a new phone no.), easy to block (centralized accounts and reporting) and easiest to manage (better interface). Only things with lesser spam are employee only corporate channels.
I’m not able to read the cited reference at that link, so I’ll try to take the statement at face value.

I could name or describe a number of systems right now that have outcomes that we could all agree are contrary or misaligned with their purpose, so unless the author is equivocating things like “purpose”, or “system”, I don’t think your premise is well founded, nor do I think your conclusion has merit.
Wish Kagi just focused on Search. I don't see how building both a search engine and a browser is possible with a startup team. I tried Orion a lot of times but there's still too many bugs for me to switch over from Arc.
You could get a PhD in physics, and if you time it right, you will die right after graduation, the moment when all of your classmates realize they're staring down 40 years of software engineering. The tombstone could read, "I figured it out."
Some feedback about the pitch – I see bookmarking as one relatively small slice of "productivity" as a software category. I wasn't sure what to expect when I clicked on the link titled "Lightweight Productivity Tool", but expected something closer to, I guess Notion, or a few other similar tools I've seen around here recently – i.e. an integrated, straightforward tool, that covers much of what "productivity" could mean.

As for the product, I'll admit I've not actually installed or tried it, but based on the page... I've tried many "organise X into folders" sorts of products in the past to try to get my life in order, and none of them ever stick. Even when I take the time to organise a whole aspect of my life, I either come back and realise I organised it in the wrong way for how I need to access it, or I just search and skip the organised hierarchy.

How does Zlinky change this? From looking at the page, I'm not sure it does. A folder-based bookmarking service is handy, but all the major browsers can sync this sort of stuff I think. Can Zlinky cause a step-change in how much value I get out of my bookmarks? If so, how? I'm not bookmarking a whole lot because I find search more effective than bookmarks, do I need to be bookmarking more?

Screenshots as an addition is an interesting take on this. The two are not something I'd inherently put together, and I'm interested in the motivation for this. I do use a screenshot sharing tool, taking multiple screenshots a day, and I do use the history on this (a few times a year), but again, organising them isn't something I've needed except in the rare cases of, say, creating marketing images for a product, in which case I've been using a shared workflow with other team members involved.

I'm interested to hear more about the problems this is solving. It sounds like you're quite evangelical about it which suggests I'm either missing some sort of realisation, or that I'm not the target user – either way I'm sure there's something I could learn here.
The author spends a lot of time on how large software has gotten, even going as far as comparing the size of their image sharing tool to another.

More lines of code don't necessarily correlate to less secure - in fact, the author's tool makes a big security mistake, it doesn't strip EXIF.
I totally agree with you that Wave was great.

But, regardless of the reason for its failure, it was ultimately a failure, as much as I liked it.
Ben was also a co-creator of the once ubiquitous Subversion source control software.
> Nobody raises venture capital to build a "minimally profitable and very stable" business.

You're not understanding the article. The point is to implicitly want to run a lifestyle business from the onset, it's just that you don't tell the investors that explicitly. So you do set out to raise (one round of) VC just to have a cash cushion and then continue on as if you're bootstrapoed. From the VCs' perspective, you've failed, while from the founder's perspective, you've succeeded. See the top comment from the user cj for clarification. In other words, it's a "hack" around the traditional thinking of VCs.
Curious how this works out financially though. Following the crowd got people into faang with 500k incomes. Working on something obscure I haven’t seen payoff the same.
Other than people who worked there, and miss the old days … who cares?

Google has transitioned into a mature tech company, which basically means they’re just an investment vehicle now managing assets. They’ll buy the innovation they need, but otherwise management’s job is to predictably manage share prices and profit.

The nostalgia is nice for people who worked there, but the maturity of the business being presented as decline rather than natural transition is weird.

It’s time for smaller, scrappier tech companies to be the place where the innovation happens.

It feels like people complaining about gentrification of happening neighbourhoods. The yuppies or shareholders move in, and the neighbourhood transitions, meanwhile smaller, harder to get to, edgier places are taking their place
Yes, 100% better.

If I add the time I spend on NH over the week, some weeks it can probably reach 3-5 hours. That's 3-5 hours reading about something, checking comments, sometimes replying. But there is no substantial, measurable gain that would justify spending this much time.

If instead I spend the same amount of time reading a book, meditating, socialising, working, or even staring through the window - all of these would be time better spent, in my assessment.
> Early employees would often encourage each other to "fail fast" as a means to innovation, but that's no longer easy in an environment where failure implies a layoff.

Something that is amazing that often leadership fails to realize is the above. During my last days at X (formerly known as Twitter :P), everyone was just risk averse because it automatically meant a middle of the night firing. So much engineering time was wasted on non productive stuff, that could otherwise be spent on generating more profits for the company. Somehow management wanted you to constantly work towards making more money, while also punishing you for executing on ideas because it was taking you longer than 2 weeks to build and therefore were not working on something that made money immediately.

Edit: it’s not just innovation that takes a hit, it creates a lot of behaviors that are counterproductive for the company. People hoard information to make themselves irreplaceable, a very small percentage of psychopaths actively sabotage others, people steal ideas and have multiple competing groups work on the same thing, people refrain from raising issues that later create bigger problems, people only work on shiny new things that have the leadership’s blessing while dumping their unstable tech debt on others etc.
Open source is very hard for a bunch of reasons:

* Code at Google3 is one giant monolith that has dependencies on things that aren’t open sourced. Even if they could be, they don’t make sense outside of Google

* most services internally run on internal services like Borg and GFS rather than GCP for historical reasons. That maybe has changed now but I suspect a lot of stuff depends on internal infra not available on GCP

* A product can often have data dependencies. Just being able to spin up a separate copy may not mean much in terms of keeping a product alive past Google’s interest if the data is locked away behind Google’s private data stores. Then you want Google to start adding easy export options so that data can be exfiltrated from Google’s onto 3p versions of the product which is a legal, business, PR and technical risk

* Google has invested some amount of money and resources into a product. If a competitor takes that concept and is successful it’s embarrassing to execs at Google who missed the opportunity. Google Wave was dropped even though in many ways it’s a precursor to slack (it was open sourced though and went nowhere).

It’s a nice wish but I can’t imagine any realistic scenario where any business would go down this road until their shown a successful roadmap by a more enterprising business first.
such as?

Do you mean the clusterfuck that is matching carefully your compiler, ID, hardware, instruction set architecture, incompatible dependency versions, installers, package managers, etc.?

So far, WebGPU was the first and only time that I was able run Stable Diffusion on my own hardware.

https://websd.mlc.ai/
You find that SE Asian countries aren't as free as the USA, EU, Canada, etc. At least for free speech. When asked about their opinion on the Monarchy the Thai people just smile and say nothing.
Wouldn't there be a natural tradeoff between how contagious it is and how deadly it is, though??

A virus that quickly kills all the hosts would probably not spread very far.

I feel like if there could exist one in nature, no species would last very long.
patrick "sorry I missed the last tgif I was running a marathon in paris with my daughter" pichette.

and I don't say that disparagingly. that was endearing.

(i'm probably getting some details of that wrong, it was ... dear lord, a long time ago)
One of my biggest concerns when saving lots of things to an app like this and spending time curating bookmarks and other content is what happens if the app one day disappears. Is there a data export mechanism built in or other considerations for these sorts of events?
The mistake Google has done here is that it deploys and launches and uses to garner attention projects under it's name.

There is little to no, this is an experimental project by x team. It is this is a Google product.

If everything is a product and you don't support most or expect most to die, then you damage the collective product that is the Google brand. And as a result how your employees feel and are treated about experimenting.
My trip to Germany was memorable for two reasons:

1/ The King of Thailand rents/bought(?) a hotel in the southern alpine part of Germany and spends a lot of time there [1]

2/ This caused some consternation in Germany because foreign heads of state are not to conduct business from Germany [2] and they had to figure out how to handle the king spending so much time there.

The whole thing is kinda fascinating really.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-luxury-hotel-thailand...

[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/thai-king-maha-va...
And butterchurn! Web-based.
Sounds like their internal interest rates have gone up?
Is any company still like this?

I was at Google in ‘06-07, and again ‘09-11, and already there were obvious differences. You just can’t scale “total internal transparency” when the company doubles in size every year.

And at some point you need just plain-old-“good” engineers to make the A/B tests happen and all the other stuff that doesn’t excite the PhDs. And at some point you need product people too, because you start to build products you’re not in the target audience for. And at some point your employees aren’t all going to be fabulously wealthy from an upcoming IPO, and so they’ll start playing political games for coveted titles and $1M+ comp so they too can have their house in Tahoe.

At some point the real world just gets in the way.
I have not found that to be the case, the books I have read have gone into deep foundational detail to build up knowledge. Perhaps you're referring to Vol 1 & 2 of "The Art Of Problem Solving"? I haven't read them but from what I know they are a distillation of core concepts for students looking to do competitive maths.

It's confusing because that title is also the name of the publisher / website of the series of the books I'm reading.
How to provide value if gpt-6 (or even gpt-5) can do your job better and faster than you?
I think what bugs me most is that I've yet to see convincing evidence that any of these surveillance systems even help prevent such things as child abuse and terrorism. There's even pretty good evidence that these systems enable those things. We like to think child abuse happens from strangers, but usually it happens from someone the child knows, and often a relative. How many parents monitor their child's every move? For short term rewards you have ensured that you fail as a parent: teaching your child to be dependent and ensuring they are unable navigate the dangers and complexities of the world without you. The road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions and I completely understand the desire, but sometimes the kid has to burn their hand on the stove (hopefully only a little).

In addition to this, it seems that when we do use these tools to go after people that we end up just going after the low hanging fruit. It's the same reason the drug war has been a failure. Instead of going after manufacturers and distributors we go after users. It's easier and we create incentivize structures and metrics that make these the best path to optimization. I am absolutely okay with introducing a little friction. I'm far less concerned with someone looking at child abuse as I am about the persons creating and distributing it. Both are bad but clearly one is much worse and should be prioritized. If the worse group isn't prioritized then it isn't security, it is theater.
Good. If it got bored, we would be in trouble.
I find the concept of "underlying knowledge graph" interesting. What does it mean?

I assume it means such a graph connects the topics together as "pre-requisites". To understand A you need to already understand B and C, and to understand B you need to understand D and ... etc.

But the thing about such a graph is that really it must be a tree, not just a directed graph. Why? Because there cannot be cycles in it. If to understand A you need to understand B, and to understand B you would need to understand A, you could never understand either of them. Right?
The point is that it's an extreme bullwhip effect. Yes, it's not a sustained 100% increase, but it's a 100% increase that year.
That's a change they made because the studio believed audiences were too stupid to understand the actual plot, which is that humans were used for their brains, as compute power.
So the real answer is to join the next Google.. :)

OpenAI?
As a Pakistani, I protest naming of this software (lol)

Quetta (/ˈkwɛtə/; Urdu: کوئٹہ, ko'eṭa, [ˈkweːʈə] ⓘ; Pashto: کوټه; Balochi: کویٹہ) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetta
What's Massive?