skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be a method to avoid trigger an overenthusiastic WAF, but these are all SQL tokens and keywords. It seems far more likely that they've blocked them in a desperate effort to catch injection attacks.

There might not be an actual attack vector, they might block these words in all inputs. It just smells like incompetence.
I think the link to patents implies a response to the copycat part. Though, while they certainly do more than just copy, it does seem to be more prevalent there despite the absolute number of patents issued.
That's something like 10-15 billion worth of Nvidia gear.
Not unprecedented Zuckvestment. Meta spent $36 Billion on the Metaverse,

This year will be great for Nvidia and their 90% market share in data center AI.
> And then all the other psychos, like you, come to the retelling of the story to fantasize about doing it too.

Well, isn't that special?

I guess you were one of the folks that got goatsed. Not my fault.
This is so incorrect it's laughable. If you look at the data, public opinion in america has changed almost exactly in step with new generations emerging and old generations dying. People almost never change their opinion on political issues, they just die.
Brand Mascots [pdf]
The Curiosity rover might be doing ok, but the many places that have my social security number are not. I care more about the latter than the former.
There are a LOT of assumptions in that question.

That there's something wrong with Google that needs fixing. that its founders are,or feel, responsible for fixing it. That they are allowed or capable of fixing it. That they can or should be bothered. That a large company of 175k people can be "magical". That any two hacker news folks will agree on what "magical" is or feels like :-)
Indeed.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/10/politicians-fr...

I'm not sure why they didn't link it considering it's their own reporting…
Your question implies that you think Page and/or Brin think the company is moving in the wrong direction AND Sundar Pichai is not the right leader.

Together, Page and Brin own about 14% of the publicly-listed shares and control 56% of the stockholder voting power through super-voting stock.

If anything they are supporters (and more likely, originators) of some of the changes that have been occurring over the last couple of years, including layoffs and other things people describe as “decline”.
Because they don't know how to. They hired Eric Schmidt for a reason, and then stopped worrying about business things. It's about time they stepped back up, but are they even able to?
Facebook knows they are dying and need to get a hardware thing going.
I think this might be the most notable thing about Elon Musk. He's made it, but he hasn't turned to politics or investing or behind the scenes activities. He seems very drawn to a crazy lifestyle.
To scope the temporaries?
There is an entire universe to fill, overpopulation is just as worthy of worrying about as is running out of numbers.
That's not the same as being able to write a data structure that takes any type.
That’s part of the point I’m making though.

Why pay a subscription to Amazon for Alexa when Siri offers all this for free?

I can understand if someone pays a one time payment to get an Alexa smart speaker for convenience. But a monthly subscription? Doesn’t make sense when Siri is free
Generally (assuming a healthy weight) women float and men sink, due to women having a few percentage points more body fat. I imagine children sink as well as men though.
c) It doesn't matter whether it runs unmodified AOSP if supply chain attacks are a thing at both a hardware and firmware level.

https://www.hackster.io/news/researchers-spot-silicon-level-...

People like to worry about big organizations, govs and corporations, but these threats are implemented by single human beings and can be exploited by single human beings who know of them.
It is. The apps are not rewritten, usually just optimized. Usually they are too large when that scale is reached (Shopify, github)
This. The founders are not hungry, and "running the world's largest advertising firm" is a far, far cry from the "don't be evil" and "make all the world's information free" ethos that they espoused in their 20s. I honestly wonder what Sergey and Larry think of what their creation has become.
Credible advice.

Altough I never quite understand the mechanical "kcal" focused approach. We're not machines. It's not just calories – altough in the end, it is – it's also how they make you feel.

It's easier to eat a full plate of seafood, rice and vegetables than eat only 1/5 of a fast food burger.

About exercise: You're also not only burning 600kcal swimming, you're also getting hungry – a lot!

Every successful diet adheres to that, but none mentions it explicitly.
You're right, we need truly integrated housing. It does work. My ~$2.5M home is an 1/8 mile from subsidized housing. Outside of boomers on nextdoor who think every package delivery person is casing their home, it works completely fine.
This is beautiful - thank you for posting this. I was jettisoned back to my past immediately. I instantly recognize familiar filenames browsing the site.

Seriously this made my day. I had completely forgotten about this (it was a big part of my life...)
Pelles C for Windows actually supports all (perhaps missing one or two) C23 features, even `#embed`.
clears throat A _beautiful_ mess
https://www.calculator.net/tdee-calculator.html Let’s you choose between two named formulae that you can further research.
Some now even go so far as to claim theyre aliens… or more specifically reptilians
Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39071181

The pun aside, we should really continue the discussion about what they call mechanomorphism. It will soon enough be ever so relevant also for marketing, for better or worse;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38455273
The loss of not making contact with friendly aliens is probably not very high. Attracting aliens whose presence would have negative impact for us would be catastrophic. The aliens would not even have to be that aggressive - there's plenty of different ways that civilizations can harm each other, even if it might not be intentional.
Forces the use of a semicolon:

SWAP(…);
Sure. The phrase generation is deterministic, so if you give it the same starting entropy, you would get the same phrase (assuming the same algorithm is used).

It could happen by chance, but it probably means someone fucked up seeding the RNG.
>Do you want to go back to work to make the worlds most profitable ad tech company "cool" again?

Elon Musk fits that to a T: he was the richest dude on the planet by far, with not just one but three wildly successful companies under his belt as either founder or at least very significant investor (I'm not interested in the usual "Musk didn't found Tesla" debate), more women, wives, affairs and kids than most people will ever have had, being wildly beloved by progressives for kicking the legacy car industry so hard in their butts that they haven't recovered to this date, and being beloved by the "fiscal conservative" crowd as well for pulverizing the Boeing/ULA monopoly on spaceflight.

Normal wealthy people would be perfectly content at that point - they'd live out their days on some yacht with a better wine chamber than many 5-star restaurants, do a bit of gambling here, a bit of charity fundraising there, that kind of stuff. But not Elon Musk, he goes and blows dozens of billions of dollars of his own and Saudi oil sheikh money to buy Twitter, a failing social media platform. Just WTF?
The safe way to do this is to check a password against a list of common passwords, as Jeff Atwood suggests [0] rather than against your other passwords. As other replies point out, you shouldn’t be able to compare your passwords’ plaintext to each other like you’re proposing[1].

[0]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-god-login/

[1]: I suppose you could salt and hash the user’s password against every other user’s password and their salt, but if you chose an appropriate password hash function and parameters, that would take infeasibly long.

Edit: I missed that you essentially suggested this already. Sorry about that. However, I think the way Atwood explains it is useful.
My personal take is that 3+1 is not privileged; but that the physics that takes place in the other combinations is either so uninteresting it doesn't meaningfully interact, or that the number of Feynman paths through the non-3+1 cases all (mostly?) cancel out.
The title is misleading, people are on the street against the afd in general.
They represent the global anti-democracy movement and got a number of votes in some regions that woke up people assuming that they aren't a real threat.

The "deportation" thing is part of it, but not that central IMO.
They had an actual nazi conference with afd higher ups attending, discussing these topics. It was the catalyst that stirred action.
The median is 8mbps in Australia, not 2mbps[0].

0. https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/australia
Unhelpful without giving a location. In Denver (a supposedly bike friendly city) I would never let my children ride to school. Not due to crime, but thanks to unruly motorists who are driving commercial sized pickup trucks and SUVs like they're sportscars.
Musk has said he has a goal of going to Mars and getting humanity off fossil fuels. Maybe that’s true, maybe not, but he has a mission.

Page and Brin wanted to organize the world’s info. I think they accomplished that and I suspect the googleplex can answer all their questions.
There’s a pretty good observation in the book “Iron John” that’s about how you have to take your freedom from your parents (in the myth, it’s something you steal) - if it’s given, there’s always the shadow of it being taken away again. If it’s something you’ve taken, it’s yours now.

Testing “seatbelts” doesn’t really take any freedom/adulthood for yourself.

Spending your earned money on something your parents don’t approve of, does.
I think their goal is to slowly migrate their entire stack to something China has full control of, independent of outside influence. That's why it started as a smart underlying layer approach to run Android (something the above article seems to have completely misunderstood) and is now having the Android compatibility layer moved out in this upcoming release. Much easier than trying to replace the world in one shot. From that perspective, it doesn't much matter what a phone with software from the West can do - this is the only phone China has full self reliance and control on.
Memory allocation, interoperability with existing libraries. Would require a huge new API and tricky design choices.
For all the shady stuff Google is doing it might not be a bad thing that it is slowly dying! Seems like a natural progression of things!
> Back in school, I had to remember a few radicals to use them as needed. √13 was one of them. I have forgotten them by now. We also had to learn the algorithm to compute any √ as needed

That’s very interesting. In Poland we also had problems of this type, but we were taught to solve them by simply bringing everything under the square root and comparing the numbers. Definitely resulted in much bigger numbers but meant less memorization x)
It's interesting to me that everyone talks so much about the recent layoffs as the problem. They've been awful, don't get me wrong, but they shouldn't have destroyed the company like this.

(I've been on the outside looking in so I have a slightly different perspective on the last 10+ years of GOOG compared to many people.)

No, I think you're right in talking more about the "professional managers". The only way for a company to break this fast is if it was already hollow. Don't blame the (still awful) layoffs. Blame the rotten management layers that led up to... everything.
The HN posters who went along with all this and helped to enforce the damaging policies weren't at all shy about posting message after message two years ago about why their tyranny was a good thing. Now few to none of them will even acknowledge their mistakes and the harm they caused. Look for this post to be flagged just like all the similar posts have been. The only pandemic related posts that get any traction now are the few about Long Covid that appear to give some small justification for the enormous harm inflicted by the policies these people supported and loudly advocated for.
It isn't code to run 120V receptacles off of a 240V circuit. That's a recipe for a fire that your insurer will not cover. You can do a shared neutral to two 120V loads in limited circumstances.
Yeah, the architecture point comes up in lost of rust in core type discussions, but I think when it comes to the BSD's it's actually a critical argument. I'm not particularly excited by limping along unusual architectures that most of the contributors can't perform reproductions on, but the BSD's are a bastion in this space and something probably has to be. Addressing this issue in both Rust and LLVM would be valuable at large.
I assume people who have been there for a few years have seen Google in its successful "no longer a startup" phase and can reasonably compare it to the current iteration.
IBM's first 100 years (2011)
> He's made it, but he hasn't turned to politics or investing or behind the scenes activities.

Of course he has turned to politics, just not in the conventional way - he's not a native US citizen, so he can't do a Trump and run for President. Instead he's messing around with Twitter by allowing the far-right to run completely rampant on it.
I've never really liked taste of alcohol containing drinks bar some light beer or few drops of some vine. Hence I've never drank alone. I would drink and get moderately (sometimes more) drunk at parties that were / are happening quite often. In the beginning being drunk with pals and gals brought me into elevated set of mind and I liked it. Also it was easy way to sex when very young. Pass some years that type of high had worn off and it has became utterly boring. So I just stopped. Sure I would take a symbolic drink under some circumstances (2-3 times a year) but that's about it.

So no, I do not have any underlying mental / health issues. Just do not give a fuck about drinking. It did not impede my social life either. I still meet with friends just as before.
Right—and maybe those places ought to install OpenBSD.
https://www.openbsd.org/

Rust is not immune to security vulnerabilities. And at the end of the day, social engineering will steal more data than "hacking the mainframe". Why break in when you can just ask to be let in?

OpenBSD has a great security track record because they resist excessive change and prefer simplicity. For those who want to add Rust to the core of FreeBSD my primary question: is it really necessary? Or is it just because a bunch of Rustaceans want to?
> I think this might be the most notable thing about Elon Musk. He's made it, but he hasn't turned to politics

It appears to me that he has absolutely turned to politics, if you look at his tweets, they are almost entirely political these days.

He wanted to buy Twitter purely for political reasons, and said as much.
What's RNG
There are not that many farmers, though, and tractors are relatively slow. If you consider that, the impact of those protests was quite high.
I mean. They had massive success. Today, they will tell you how hard they work aligning stakeholders on their Q1 goals to unify systems and clear tech debt. That's what winning gets you when you rest. You lose a step.

But they still keep winning. I doubt there are more than a handful of engineers there who are any good in a sense of achieving objectives. Perhaps fewer than in 2005 even. But the product suite is great: search ads, contextual ads, targeted ads, own platform.
At work, we were discussing how to serialize some structured data as an HTTP request header value. I reflexively said "ascii subset of JSON without newlines," but that was rejected for some reasons (maybe too much punctuation, verbose for Chinese...). Someone came up with pipe-separated fields, but then that was rejected too. The reason was something like "some customers used to have proxies that would reject any headers that include a pipe character."

My point is that voodoo programming isn't always due to lack of due diligence. It's due to knowing that something went wrong with something in the past, but for which there is no evidence, and about which you would be able to do nothing.

My preference is to deploy it anyway, see if it breaks, and if necessary work it out with the customer after the fact. That's unpopular for good and obvious reasons, so no pipe characters.
I can't tell you what it is but I have such a hard time reading content on Martin Fowlers site.

I might be he tries so hard to make things his own. Is there anything he does not have an opinion about ?
I don't know much about Brin, but from what I know about Page his management is probably a big aspect of Alphabets problems. The idea that the company should be all engineers, all the time, and nobody can tell them no or delegate a task to them probably doesn't create the most coherent and stable product development environment.
So how would you have conveyed the intent of, "I don't think you're being fair to this woman, nor do I think you're attempting to engage with the problem you've described in a productive way."?

And no, I wouldn't say you've "offended me" per se, just that I find it disappointing you've chosen me, of the two people here, to reply to.
I think the tax rate is also benefit:

> Corporate tax: 0% on reinvested profits, 14-20% on distributed profits.
> you should definitely have right to give away binaries without asking Red Hat for permission.

You do, and you have to provide sources in that case.

But, Red Hat can choose to stop doing business with you if you give away binaries for reasons that they judge to be against their interest. They aren't forced to accept your money.
The comment for that particular problem also caught my eye. There's absolutely no need to remember radicals to solve it; just square both sides and compare.
>higher personal freedom

Strong disagree. Having spent good amounts of time in parts of the world where you can operate for months without getting in a car, it felt far more free. The barrier to entry in the US being owning a car, paying insurance and paying for a place to store it is the opposite of freedom.
Granngården is another.
Inspectors could have spotted quality issues but I'm not convinced inspections would have found the MCAS issue. Boeing hid the feature, literally renaming it to sound less important, under existing trim control. Boeing emails showed management placed huge pressure internally to ensure no additional pilot training would be mandated. If the company is so willing to hide, obfuscate and outright lie, would external inspectors have helped?
I started to think about the folding up thing. And I think it makes it worse. Considering things like long time reliability. There is fact that you somehow need to connect those panels electrically. Just considering various potential water ingress issues when driving in rain at high speed. Yes, you can make water-resistant connections, but them correctly operating over years...

And next is vibrations, from cross-winds, bumps in road or traveling over uneven surfaces. Adding up over longer periods.

Not to even mention possible wear and tear of spreading them possibly everyday or multiple times in a day... And for bonus, at least here there is periods where mud is relatively common so this will travel in mechanism making it harder to operate...

I would be worried about long term reliability and usability.
google dna is now cost cutting this is what u get when u have mackenzie peneterate u
> At that size there'll be governance and HR and investors and stakeholders and SEC and politics and competing priorities and layers of middle management etc. [...] But not all of which is necessarily nihilism and doom.

That actually does sound like it would doom a tech company, especially one competing in fast evolving web services. The competition is only a few clicks away in that market. Why wouldn't those strong headwinds spell doom?
Our signals are so weak that they will probably fade and get drowned out by the electromagnetic noise of interstellar space. We can communicate with our probes only because we use directional signals and we pretty much know what to look for on the receiving end. If aliens manage to pick those up, then their probes would already be like < 1ly away, and they would have noticed us long ago by different means.

The intentional signals are a different story though.
Envy is who has a problem with Inequality.
Charity is who has a problem with poverty.
Easiest way to reduce inequality is kneecap those at the top and share the lucre with your downtrodden political allies.
Easiest way to help poverty is teaching a man to fish after giving him a couple fish so he doesn't need to worry about starvation during class.
He’s not running for office but he sure does seem to waste a ton of time arguing politics on Twitter and getting into public battles with people.

I’d also argue he technically is investing, given all of the companies he’s starting, even OpenAI started from his investment. There’s Neuralink, Boring Company, and probably others. Though in Musk’s case it might be his autism/adhd.
For me a negative:

If I remember correctly, MSR worked on a practical implementation of Code-Contracts for C# which incorporated the (all-important) compile-time verification of method preconditions, postconditions, and class invariants (without the need for hand-written refinement-types, which is how we do things today): as I understand it, the
compile-time part of system could support any assertion represented as a pure-function - think of it as C#'s take on Ada's assertions, improved tenfold, and it even shipped for a now-unsupported older version of C# and .NET: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/debug-tra...

...and it was axed in .NET Core back in 2016 and hasn't been seen since: https://github.com/microsoft/CodeContracts/issues/409

Had Microsoft put more backing behind it, then C# could present itself as a language to supplant Ada in safety-critical applications, and replace C/C++ in other applications.

I have hope the feature will come back one-day - there are whole slews of bugs that can be eliminated (such as when passing EF entity types around with unintentionally null member-properties).
What are you looking for? DOE national labs and similar institutions may fit the bill.
Is that an ironic joke?

https://miloslav.website/blog/2020/10/26/firefox-privacy/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-go...
Yes, and even 1+1 gravity theories, like JT-gravity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackiw%E2%80%93Teitelboim_grav...).

But 2+1 Einstein's gravity is locally trivial (i.e. there are no local degrees of freedom) and is purely topological (i.e. holes and global structure of spacetime is what matters).