skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's true at all. The reason it could be like that was because it was making a ton of money. It's easy to buy whatever utopia you care to imagine when you have unlimited money.

I also don't think you can say, in any sense I can imagine, that Google made the internet more "corporate". I agree that SEO is painful, but Google was still based around the open internet, and modifying it only slightly to allow websites to add in advertisements. It's the Facebooks and OpenAIs of the world, creating walled gardens and curated datasets, that are corporatising things.
"Psychopaths" seems to be a running theme in the various reminisces that people are sharing in comments here on Google stories.
> Reviews and more accurate points of interest (if they are businesses).

Uh?

Google maps will never ever send me to a restaurant that is 200m from me. It will rather show one that is 5km away and not show the nearby one.

Same thing for hotels.

Once, at maximum zoom level, it didn't show the restaurant I was in. So I added it… turns out it was in their database, they just decided to not show it.

I think they're running a mafia racket and if you don't pay for ads, you are basically taken off the map.
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My company did it's own research and found it was sales professionals who could not be trusted with WFH, but engineers for the most part were just as productive ..However, they found they their teamwork and multi-departmental collaboration suffered immensely and were not willing to make technology investments when people could just go into HQ or the many other offices we have.
>It should be technically feasible to make setting up backups to your own NAS at home

A proper backup is 3 copies, 2 on different media, 1 offsite.

Absolutely no average person is going to bother with any of that. Three copies? Ridiculous, he will say. 2 different media? I ain't made of money, he will say; also WTF is a "media"? CNN can backup my stuff? 1 offsite? I'm not going to juggle stuff in and out of my bank's safe deposit box, he will say.

Cloud storage solves all of those concerns for less than pennies to a byte.

>Same for why they do not need to understand a file system just because they have a NAS.

Managing a computer of any kind requires understanding them, and that includes understanding file systems. Most people do not understand file systems, please stop telling them to because it's never going to happen.

>I don’t know what WTF means here.

"What the fuck" as in "WTF is '1TB'?", "WTF do I do with 1TB?", and "WTF is a 'NAS'?". Remember, we are talking about average people. Not computer wizards and sysadmins like most of us here.
> What exactly did they automate?

Their expenses haha
I have a different theory about the cause of the decline.

Google 10-15 years ago had a clear idea of how to win: hire the best programmers, give them freedom, and they'll build products that will win in every market. And, well, that hasn't happened. Long before the current talk of Google's decline, there was talk of the Google black hole, where talented people would get hired and their noteworthy output would drop to zero. It turned out hiring great programmers wasn't enough by itself, not many amazing new products were happening. That's what caused Google to change culture toward the corporate norm: the non-normal culture wasn't proving itself.

It reminds me of Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night". When you're young, that book is a tragedy of broken love. But when you're a bit older, you realize it's a tragedy of ambition, of a man who dreamed of becoming a famous psychiatrist but it just wasn't working out, year after year after year. And it wears on him, drives him to drinking and divorce. Simple as that.
Ironic tl;dr, the author separates Google culture from business but Google is not just another public company in the NASDAQ. It is a company that impacted and impacts [political] viewpoints of people around the world. In the past "common" people could create content and be visible, now SEO is an impossible game that requires big budgets. Google forgets things (sites) and it is not "Organizing the world's information" [1]. It is just stockpiling it. The company is not a McDonald's. If the soul of the company culture changed it means the seeds for [1] are dead.

[1] https://blog.google/products/search/information-sources-goog...
What's your understanding of how a body heals a major wound, like the loss of an arm? It has to integrate this into a reshaped understanding of itself. That's what healing is.

The core muscles have to rebalance to compensate for the missing weight. The neural pathways have to change in realization that, for example, instinctively trying to move that arm to catch a fall won't work anymore. The whole body has to relearn how to function now that it's different, now that the traumatic thing has happened.

This is integrating. Trying to function the way it did before actually prolongs the suffering. Only healing and integration is the path forward.
This isn't about "sensitivity". This is about racism. Just because you had a bad experience with a few Indian developers doesn't mean that all of them are bad.

And where did that 5% chance come from? Any kind of data to back it up or is it just a number you pulled out from nowhere?

If your businesses don't know how to employ external contractors blame it on your managers. India is a massive country. Not every Indian developer is an incompetent buffoon, just like not every European/American is the next Fabric Bellard.
There is some irony to the fact that this page does not even show a loader icon if javascript is disabled.
Where I live, OSM is quite ok. It doesn't generally have the opening hours of the venues… but the opening hours in google are generally made up so that's ok.

OSM has all the mountain trails and caves and hostels, where as gmaps just shows a huge green blob.
My point was not to limit the actions of average people, my point is to inform that cloud services have locked out people due to algorithms errors, have had data loss, have changed the ToS, etc. And average people should take their decisions being informed data cloud storage is volatile and can / has disappeared
Autism is the biggest racket going for the majority of diagnoses. You're not "not neurotypical" you're just neglected and being sold.
I think this is an excellent observation. Interest definitely matters, but so does talent.
This passcode is inherently limited to the service it bound to (IMAP or POP3), that's the whole point: don't expose your account password to something which only needs a finer-grained access.

Edit: that's incorrect, see replies.
I'm Polish. How much good do you think killing Germans did for Polish people in 1940?

Compare to France and other western European countries that immediately retreated, lost one battle and peacefully folded and stayed down till the end.
How many people have to reply and tell you you're completely and totally wrong about this before you'll at least take a step back and consider that you've missed something important?

Serious question. I'm genuinely wondering if there's a number.
> When people say "whitespace matters", what it means is whether the meaning changes when you have more than 1 not more than 0.

I agree. After reading the blog post, it's clear that the author should have called it "syntax errors do matter in C23"
Try osmand, it's based over the openstreetmaps data and you can download the map, so it works also with no internet.

In germany it should be very good.
The real challenge is what happens when you have to react instinctively in an emergency. That's going to take more than a day.
They do, but those recommendations are buried quite deep in the documentation, well behind all the marketing guff that suggests that DMS is all things to all people, and wonderful magic that is ideal for all situations.
This isn’t a response at all to the comment you replied to. Regardless, it should be a standard payment per stream
Mostly because it's rare to see identifiers with whitespace allowed after all. So this has to fulfill some specific needs.

The main use case here seems like self-describing properties that will be hardly referenced elsewhere. In principle this doesn't really need any new syntax, as you can put the description into the attribute (`[<Property>]` here) and the name itself can remain arbitrary or even be made anonymous. But we've got textual identifiers instead. So I guess that some code does refer to those textual identifiers, and if that's the case, being able to ignore invisible differences when comparing textual identifiers looks like a good idea as well.
Still no answer on why AIs are bad for the environment compared to not using AIs.
This. If the personalities you mentioned didn't have the soft skills GP was talking about, you wouldn't even know of their existence.

Sheer technical ability alone is not enough to be a great programmer. If you don't know how to properly communicate with others you are useless to your employer.
What Microsoft is saying is that they're limiting OneDrive accounts to a max of 100GB, but that comes from the 100TB of pooled storage for students since those accounts are free. Faculty accounts (A3 or A5 licenses per a link posted by someone else) will add an additional 50 or 100GB of space since the school is actually paying for those licenses. And schools can buy additional storage in 10TB blocks.

Clearly it's primarily a cost saving measure, and I suspect it will be a significant change for some schools, but I suspect the numbers chosen were based on what most schools are using.
Reddit is finally, going to go public
Enterprise backup solutions are high maintenance product even when they actually do what they claim which is not a guarantee. And the way onedrive sneaks it's way into the organisation without an structured plan means that they often don't get covered by backup policies the way you might do if IT was commissioning a fileshare or locally hosted product using traditional non-agile processes.
> What. Most people are high functioning ASD, it's a pareto distribution like almost every neurodivergent condition

You're probably overstating this - only about 20% of (diagnosed) autistic adults have jobs [1, 2], and a huge percentage of those who are, work part-time. Around 30% of autistic people are "minimally verbal" (speak 30 or fewer words) [3], and will need support for life. More than half overall will never live a normal life.

Obv this doesn't count undiaignosed cases, but people with autism who can live an independent life, keep relationships and hold down a job are in the minority, and an awful lot of the discourse around autism just ignores this outright.

[1] https://i-am-autism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/autism...

[2] https://www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/news/new-data-on-the-au...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27120989/
> Volunteer soldiers that go abroad to try to annex another country at the behest of their local overlord are looked at differently then volunteer soldiers that defend their country from annexation.

Are they? Americans seem to think very highly of their veterans ... who all fought in distant wars in countries that were not an serious immediate threat to the US.
They provide full access to your entire google account, but you can create as many as you want and revoke them whenever you feel like it.
Ever heard of "you will own nothing and you will be happy"?
Perhaps the performance of your storage or network isn't up to scratch. I have a 3 node cluster with ceph on ssds and a 10gb network and my live migrations worked perfectly fine.
I am sorry for what you had to go through and I have empathy for the fact that it's not easy for everyone to make friends.

That being said, there's lots of meetups, clubs, organized sports etc etc for people looking for a structured way to continuously hang out with a group of people sharing their interests. The key thing there is that it's voluntary association though.

Being forced to hang out with coworkers who you might not even like just because they happen to have the same employer shouldn't be a substitute for putting in an effort to make friends.
That quote is programming language design's "We should improve society somewhat" – "Yet you participate in society! Curious! I am very intelligent."

I. e. it's stupid and embarrassing to watch people use it.
"This App Password provides full access to your Google account"

-- Google, when you make an App Password
3. Apple has global coverage for its maps (or at least equal to Google). Apple maps is formerly Tomtom after all.

Google Maps excels in providing comprehensive information on public transportation routes with much better coverage, but driving routes are equivalent.

4. Eh. We are talking about Apple products so hardly relevant.

Apple successfully displaced Google on its platform with a product that is sometimes better and not particularly worse.
Oh, cool. Thank you.
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> A proper backup is 3 copies, 2 on different media, 1 offsite.

Why is this relevant to people having the bandwidth to do backups at their own site? And getting cutoff by a big tech company with no recourse is not a “proper” backup either.

> Most people do not understand file systems, please stop telling them to because it's never going to happen.

I never did. I setup a Synology NAS 8 years ago and I have not had to look at it since. Surely, the UI software is even easier to use these days.

> What the fuck" as in "WTF is '1TB'?", "WTF do I do with 1TB?", and "WTF is a 'NAS'?". Remember, we are talking about average people. Not computer wizards and sysadmins like most of us here.

We have different expectations of people. At one point, average people did not have electrical, plumbing, washers, dryers, refrigerators, laptops, smartphones, routers and access points, etc.

I think they would be able to handle one more appliance where plugging it into network, scanning a QR code to setup, and pull out and push in HDD in the event a HDD or NAS break.
They optimize for the "memorable 5 second snippet".
You're directly contradicting your sibling comment. I guess I'll experiment with this in the coming days, although I'm a little worried tinkering too much will just completely lock me out of my account.
To the authors: Block Grid Scale with a block gap is outside the frame (upwards and left) by the gap amount.
>Gmail wasn't a 20%, I don't know why anyone thinks it is.

It's because some media stories used GMail as an example of a 20% project -- and -- those stories also end up being cited in places like Wikipedia:

- >Google is credited for popularizing the practice that 20 percent of an employee's time may be used for side projects. At Google, this led to the development of products such as Gmail and AdSense. :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_project_time#cite_note-:1....

The Time Magazine article is one of the places where they say GMail was not a 20% project:

- >Gmail is often given as a shining example of the fruits of Google’s 20 percent time, its legendary policy of allowing engineers to divvy off part of their work hours for personal projects. Paul Buchheit, Gmail’s creator, disabused me of this notion. From the very beginning, “it was an official charge,” he says. “I was supposed to build an email thing.”
: https://time.com/43263/gmail-10th-anniversary/#:~:text=Gmail...
I'd wager most venture-backed companies only raise one round, and this endless-money fever dream is the rarity

do you have some statistics to that? i'd expect that most startups that raise only once do so because they failed before they could raise again.

how many startups raise once and then become a successful profitable business without ever raising again? that's what "this third" way is about.
That's harsh.

In my personal experience over years Thai policemen usualy politely refuse bribes (handing back my 1000 baht bill) and still giving me a pass.

Also (and I have seen this many times) on one of these rural police checkpoints when idle Thai policemen usualy swipe the road with brush. Just to keep busy. I have never seen a policemen swiping the road or doing something useful in any other country in the world.

As for monarchy there were massive student protests that focused also on monarchy and kings enormous wealth. This is indeed very sensisitive but also political and generational issue in Thailand.

I have also seen thousands of situations where farangs had been behaving terrible (for various reasons) and Thai people taking that very patiently.
Everything is replaceable. My goal is to look for institutional barriers to keep the pretenders out.
Maybe they could do it with an epic bug bash.

If I export my mail from mail.app and re-import it , I lose mail every time.

Spotlight has gone into a crash loop suddenly and never recovered.

Time Machine fails at double digit percent of times that it runs.

All this on a 1-yr old m2 MacBook Air with all updates installed and only one piece of non-apple software installed (TurboTax).

The state of affairs is pretty shocking to me on the quality front for a product supposedly this mature.
You know, I thought I was a fool for writing my apps in JavaFX... but after trying many other things, it seems it's up there with the best of the bunch.

My non-trivial app can be built with jlink to be a no-dependencies on JVM binary for all Operating Systems.... each of which sits at just 30MB... and when run, it needs around 60MB of RAM, which is a lot but I am yet to find a multiplatform UI toolkit that delivers much less than that... except for some toy frameworks which can't really be used for realworld apps.
> I may be biased as I am a trained Mathematician, but I always feel when someone says "Math is Hard", that is because they had bad teachers.

I dunno, man. I have a PhD in complex differential geometry and think math is pretty hard.
If payment is per stream, surely the pie only gets split more ways if users listen to more streams for the same money.

More users (with the same usage) would result in a bigger pie with the same proportional splits.
Aren't there systems where a server does the browsing and/or page rendering but it's controlled by terminals using other protocols?

Just speculatively, if someone was managing the setup of a room full of NSA analysts browsing for OSINT, how would they cover their tracks? What would that traffic look like?
Yes. I think the reason why most people browse HN is for those rare nuggets of knowledge that one can sometimes only find here.

Sure, the general quality of discourse here is greater relative to the discussion found on Reddit/Twitter/etc. But even then that is not enough to distract us from the repetitive cynical nature of the most upvoted comments.

You spend enough time here, sooner or later you'll be able to predict how HN feels about a certain topic based on the title. This is true for all communities but especially so for HN because of the depressing pessimistic atmosphere here.
That sounds like a problem with arrest records across the board then, rather than a problem with drug testing.
I’m sad for this average person, seems like if anything changes they’re going to be in big troubles
Not sure if people consider "contributing to the spying-censorship advertising machine vortex thing" a benefit based on which they choose their career preferences.

It's more "pays the bills plus doesn't consider you merely a cost center", "pays the bills plus lets you try weird stuff of your interest with ~unlimited infrastructure at your disposal". _That_ was the appeal of Google. Not anymore.

On the other hand, the advertising machine (however you want to characterize it) is still alive and kicking, so that part isn't gone.
I had a grief therapist start out by telling me the first thing we needed to address was my "pathological belief that my sister and my nephew were still alive somewhere."

Baffled, I was like, "In heaven? My...very mainstream religious belief in an afterlife with God? It's not like I told you I thought they were inhabiting dolls on my mantle or something."

He insisted, so I just stood up and told him I wouldn't be wasting any more of his time, because this was neither the time nor the place to have that argument with me and I left.

At least he had the good sense not to try to charge me for those three minutes.
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The Structure of Meaning in Language [pdf]
Saudi Arabia age distribution got absolutely nothing to do with it obviously. Nor does the taboo on suicide can possibly lead to suicide being reported as accidents...
Our science journey has been about gradually moving humanity away from the center of the universe. Ptolemy, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, et. al., taught us that we're part of nature rather than a privileged special case. Scientific thought has incrementally removed the justifications for human exceptionalism.

If the same trend comes to be reflected in our moral thinking, what else could it mean but that human life is not sacred?

That would be a hard pill to swallow. But there doesn't seem to be a neutral, non human-partisan way to argue that we are both morally exceptional and scientifically unexceptional. I can only reconcile it by not trying to be neutral. We're special and sacred just because this is our team and the rest of creation isn't on it.

But that means that a sort of expanded consciousness in which your identity merges with something larger than humanity, that we're part of a larger team ... is incompatible with viewing a human life as sacred. If everything is sacred then nothing is.

An "aligned" AI is one that believes it's on our team but really isn't. That could be a tough sell to an entity that's smarter than us.
Point is almost all cost saving measures can be rebranded as "environmental." It's just a PR trick.
Note the 20 GB for OneDrive + 20 GB for Outlook limit is set by McGill University, and it is applied to students (not necessarily staff) [0]. Microsoft sets a different limit: [1]

> all institutions’ tenants will receive 100TB of free pooled storage across OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange, with an additional 50GB or 100GB of pooled storage per paid user for A3 and A5 subscriptions, respectively (not including Student Use Benefits). With pooled storage, an institutions’ total storage limit is the maximum amount of storage all users combined can use.

> In addition, effective February 1, 2024, users of Office 365 A1 (free subscription) will be limited to a maximum of 100GB of OneDrive storage within the institutional tenant’s 100TB of pooled storage.

McGill seems to offer desktop apps to students, so they have paid licences. [2] This means they could offer 50 GB per student, and I imagine they could allow the student to have more OneDrive files and less Outlook data. Furthermore, if they care about research data, that should be in a common SharePoint space with well-defined access and edit permissions.

[0] https://www.mcgill.ca/polling/channels/news/important-onedri...

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/microsoft...

[2] https://www.mcgill.ca/it/services/o365