skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Websearch is sputtering sure but that's normal after a challenge like chatgpt.

How would the existence of LLMs make "classic" web search worse? SEO spam and content farms cluttering the first results page has been going on for longer too.

> Services like Gmail/gsuite are awesome for productivity and while they lag in shiny features, the teams are adding features quickly enough.

Google Docs has some of the most cursed UI that I've used in the past 20 years (and I work with Jira). I'm forced to use it at work so I stick with it.

FWIW, 90% of my gripes would go away if it just supported a "markdown mode" instead of WYSIWYG, and I don't understand what's so hard about that for somebody of Google's caliber.

> It's cute to think you have any real privacy while carrying a cellphone.

The alternative is... giving up on the idea? Just storing anything centrally because end-to-end/client-side encryption/local processing is a lost cause?

> Drive and storage just work.

That's what Google does really well indeed: Things close to infrastructure with as little product/UI aspects as possible. Getting rid of hard links in Drive was a great move too. No complaints there. Voice is another thing in that category: It's a hard infrastructure problem, and Google nailed it. The same goes for the versioning/conflict resolution backend of GSuite: A marvel of engineering.

The hardest part is not accidentally cancelling things that work and that solve problems for actual users in favor of yet another instant messenger.

> Google contributes more to open source than anybody and especially Apple and Microsoft. Chromium and Android alone blow everyone else out of the water.

Quantitatively, sure, maybe. Qualitatively, having unleashed Protobuf onto the world alone undoes a significant amount of goodwill in my view.
I'm not thrilled about https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/localllm/blob/main/ll... calling their Python package "llm" and installing "llm" as a CLI command, when my similar https://llm.datasette.io/ project has that namespace reserved on PyPI already: https://pypi.org/project/llm/
Being obtuse is when you don't accept currently popular bounds of abstractions are God given axioms.
> pretty much every country follows the US in terms of not building housing.

If nowhere builds enough, maybe it's not a practical solution?

Also interesting to observe that the places that build by far the most, that is, the places which are most densely inhabited, are also the most expensive (NYC, SF).

I know the counterargument that even NYC simply hasn't built enough. Need to build more, a lot more. But I have to ask, if the #1 densest place in the US isn't dense enough to be cheap (instead of the most expensive), maybe density just can't make it cheap in practice?

Maybe it takes a place like (Isaac Asimov's) Trantor, with buildings miles and miles dense to achieve cheap housing in a dense place? Will there ever be such a place on Earth? (Do we want to live in such a place on Earth?)
I believe a big part of the Musks twitter acquisition was to transition into payments, like WeChat in China.

How do you guys think that will play out?
Yeah wasn’t clear that I meant the store.

Epic isn’t going anywhere
BMR declines with age.
They're getting rid of basic html gmail, so screw them.
We've kind of got that already. It's not world class but it is quite nice. We do have world-class competition at Stowe and Killington though so not sure how well we could compete.

I really do think that the bigger issue is the housing. That and NIMBYism. We have the Wildflower Inn nearby that I used to vacation at with my family when I was a kid. It was run by a family for 40 years before it was sold a few years ago to a guy who had fallen in love with the area. I've ridden the lift with him a few times and chatted about all the problems he had trying to get approval for his development ideas.

The original owners did some beef farming on the land around the Inn. The new owner wanted to take the old barns and pastures and build a bunch of vacation cabins and camping spots with shared public spaces. The area was set back and not visible from the road. It would have been visible from the mountain biking trails but that's it. He got so much push back from the town and locals that he canceled the project.

Of course, he could just subdivide into the minimum rural 3 acre lots and the town could do nothing about it and then we'd have 40 individual driveways and large houses obstructing the view instead.
> HN is a shadow of that lost world.

Should we...have a flame war just for old times' sake? Kidding aside, I grew up on BBSes, so small online places is my comfort zone too.

If its any consolation, IMHO the internet has started its next seismic shift: final destruction of the world wide web's rotting corpse. There's no telling where we all end up next. Small communities could make a comeback if we really want them. Exciting times!
NFTs are doing just fine
DUBIOUS, MY ... ah, thank you.
I would not assume it's true; it's typical technique for responding to this kind of criticism - don't address the concerns, express complete rejection of them by claiming it's positive (layoffs are positive, if you only look at them from a certain angle), and most importantly demonstrate the conversation can't move forward - there's such a chasm between you and them that it's hopeless. It's a propaganda technique. It works - look at Ian Hickson, who resigned in despair.

It fits the contemporary fad of contempt for anyone less powerful than you, including employees, courts (for some), etc.
After reading James Nestor's Breath, I went through the Oxygen Advantage certification for fun. Lots of studies that show that the 4/6 or 5/5 cadence (ten second round trip, leading to six breaths a minute) strongly improves heart rate variability and engages the parasympathetic nervous system.

OP had a cool idea -- wish it hit the 5/5 cadence.
Odd, it appears that germany has no issue manufacturing cars with components sourced from an enemy country. Why does germany have such fascination with all things russian? Is it because after ww2 a lot have been fathered by russian soldiers or a secret desire to mimic russia’s behaviour? Either way kudos to the US for doing what’s right, as usual.
Asciinema 3.0 will be rewritten in Rust
For me besides those 3 it's also "what happens if unison fails to attract the funding it needs and shuts down next month, do I get fucked by the proprietary solution that was made a critical part of my own business?"
Housing Affordability and Supply Restrictions
Seems like a very narrow segment of people who:

- want to run custom JS from one tab in another often

- Wouldn't write their own extension to do it

But credit for OSSing your own tools :)
> I wonder why everyone skirts around the obvious here: the NIF's task is weapons research, and for that, fusion reactions which last nanoseconds might be enough, but there is no way this method can be scaled up so it's actually a cost-effective way of producing electricity...

I think you answer your own question.

NIF does a lot more than weapons. Ignition is also a different problem than sustaining a fusion reaction, but both are important aspects of the fusion energy generation problem. You can think of this like the difference between static friction and kinetic friction. You would never try to generate power by performing tons and tons of ignitions. You generate power by doing the ignition and then sustaining the reaction. There's even people working on setups just like this. You can see how ITER works here[0]. You can modify this procedure to have laser based ignition (or some other form) and then feed this into the toroidal reactor. There's a bunch of ideas out there but I think this is the most straightforward.

As to a more systematic approach to answering "why" and why this type of language is pervasive regardless of the domain, is because a lot of people have a difficult time differentiating TRLs[1]. Or maybe even more bluntly, research from products. I think it won't be hard to find high rated HN comments on research works that come out of universities who's critique is that the process is expensive and doesn't beat current industrial processes, but this is a grave misunderstanding of how technological progress happens. It's overly dismissive. Technology often progresses by iterative discontinuous S-curves, which at a zoomed out level looks more smooth. So new technology often starts off way worse but the key part of this is the theoretical maximum. A good example of this might be in batteries or solar panels. People are highly dismissive of any technology that is yet to become a product (TRL 6-7-ish). Which it is good to not jump to assertions that a low TRL result means new products, but it's the same type of error, just in the other direction. Either way, critical context is being ignored.

I think if we more appropriately contextualized technological development then we wouldn't have these issues. I don't like them either tbh. I'd rather be honest. But truth has bounded simplicity and lies don't. Since a lot of people ignore nuance it creates an incentive system to exaggerate or leave out important details. Frustrating, but understandable. Hopefully understanding can help us to disrupt this systematic incentive system and instead promote more nuanced and honest discussions. But I think we need to recognize expertise does not transfer between domains well and discourage claims and comments that lack nuance. But nuanced and accurate comments require more words, so we might just be fucked and this is just a pipedream. Some people think we can't rely on humans being nuanced and intelligent creatures but I'm not convinced and more convinced these are just products of environmental pressures. I guess we'll see.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tH4obUsY64

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/space-communications-...
>It's cute to think you have any real privacy while carrying a cellphone.

Trivializing privacy isn't the same thing as identifying good privacy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
> you don’t see Google exfiltrate data

When Google sucks up your personal data or compound some profile on you against your will, it’s “ok”. When other people do it, it’s “hacking”.
My grief was, of course, more meta - I’m merely criticizing her criticizing people who criticized her - so don’t criticize me about it.

My real beef was about how things went down. She sold her apartment, checked into the brutal reality of bay area housing in 2012, and then wrote a bunch about how terrible it all was because prices went up and rentals were hyper competitive.

To be fair, it was all terrible, but it was hard to have sympathy for a former homeowner selling in a booming market.
You can communicate, even in difficult situations, sincerely, genuinely, and truthfully, while providing good leadership. That is a manager's job description, effectively.
There isn't enough mention of AirBnB in this discussion.

There are areas where a lot of housing is being built but most of it is is siphoned off the local-resident market by investors who convert them into AirBnB rentals. So now all this housing stock exists, but only to serve tourists, and the locals can neither rent nor buy a place to live.
Are gmail and gsuite really adding features?

I've used Google Slides for over a decade and I don't see any real improvement; Google Drawings is just pathetic. Basically "Powerpoint from 2001, but with doc sharing".
You can change the resolution though? If you go to Displays on your mac you can change the resolution of the AVP mirroring. I find it works much better at "1080p" than the default since it makes small text much more readable.
This is a red flag that you are trying to use non standard CSS or you are trying to use things that are so bleeding edge that you are requiring even evergreen browsers to have been restarted and updated very recently. Set your target to any CSS that has been around for about a year or so and is based on standards and you shouldn't need to be writing anything different for specific browsers.

I haven't had to target a specific browser for any CSS in years. I honestly don't know what people are trying to do that would require this now days. Grids, flexbox, animations, transitions no issues and don't even need browser prefixes. The only thing that I can think of that still requires a browser prefix in safari is -webkit-backdrop-filter. Maybe I'm just not doing super out there stuff I guess.
This is reality setting in. The stations were an attempt to keep using fossil fuels long term (reforming methane into hydrogen). The PR is dying in the face of the global EV ramp.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-production-na...

> Natural gas reforming is an advanced and mature production process that builds upon the existing natural gas pipeline delivery infrastructure. Today, 95% of the hydrogen produced in the United States is made by natural gas reforming in large central plants. This is an important technology pathway for near-term hydrogen production.

TLDR EVs won.
We would, but Google. What a hell of a justification.
Morale from the initial and continued layoffs have utterly pulled the rug out from underneath the culture at Google. Any productivity savings they think they earned has afaict, but dwarfed by large margin in reduced productivity as people scramble to try and perform for whatever algorithm is being used to remove people.

Leadership all the way to the top is completely inept.
I don't think it scales linearly anywhere. A significant part of the workforce is just there to provide services to the workforce itself. You have full-time engineers just maintaining tools for performance management, or for booking conference rooms, or requesting new laptops, you have legal teams for basically every country you operate in, etc. And then once these bureaucracies grow large enough, you hire people whose job is just to help others navigate the internal processes...

I mean, LinkedIn has what, 20,000 employees? If you had spherical developers in a vacuum, I doubt you'd need more than 40-50 to maintain their products, but there's more to running a tech company.
They are creating a context for why, (in a fututistic society with computers) that access to the internet and digital archives is largely only done by one group of people (Ita) because no one else has the experience or tool to sift through 100's of years of algorithmically produced junk.
ooh, thats a great source - now that I've updated my calculator, your numbers match mine - I went with local prices for propane and DOE prices for propane.
You seem to be under the impression that Google search got bad by accident? They killed it on purpose. They killed image search on purpose too.

Google does not accidentally do things with their core products, they choose and then execute negative user experience for their own benefits.
Eh, that's kinda normal. Just because the queen shows up to get photographed cutting a ribbon at a new university building, doesn't mean anyone imagines she laid any bricks or tiled any bathrooms.

The photo you linked to is only confusing because he's not wearing a suit. Chuck that guy in a suit, have him look on politely as someone in a high-vis vest or a lab coat points at something, and this photo would be one among thousands.
Why now? If it's no different, why is it now a concern when it hasn't been?
It’s more than that: most of the Taiwanese companies are owned/controlled by mainlanders who still have a lot more economic power than native Taiwanese, even if the latter has more political power these days.
Tell that to my 3d printer
More proof that physicists are smarter than mathematicians!
I’m not the one out there trying to personify a friendship into two giant corporations. It’s a popular perception, but I just don’t see a lot of convincing evidence.
I thought exactly the same - it actually drives me nuts that Python packages have this confusing dual-name nature. You were there first!
Yep, it's pretty common. Sometimes people don't feel acute pain at all, but a kind of soreness you feel from overworking your core muscles. That's why they go to get a massage to help them feel better.

We were taught several tests to do in this case, and immediately refer the patient to the ER if they are positive. From the memory, soreness/pain on the right side of the abdomen if the left side is pressured, and soreness/pain increasing when the pressure is removed. And some cases can apparently be palpitated directly, but I forgot what exactly it should feel like.
Try buying some ads through Google ads and you might lose some of your optimism.

I want to run ads and I am unable to. Chrome never finishes loading ads.google.com so I switched to Firefox. It loads successfully on Firefox but I cannot get it to actually run an ad.
And that's worse than poor people not being able to eat how? It's the same excuse trotted out time and again, but the only beneficiaries that actually exist are people anyway, so it makes no sense (unless you think rich people are more deserving than poor people.)
>and that it's not price gouging just because they're selling it for more money.

We're not talking a few cents or dollars more. We're talking about more than 5x more the price of what they actually should cost.

You can call it whatever you want, but Adafruit prices are ridiculous. I gave one example of many. Go ahead and throw your money away if you really want to, I don't care.

You absolutely are doing mental gymnastics to try to justify 5x price difference, when they get the LEDs from China. It's the same stuff.

Nothing you can do can explain this, so just give up. I'm done with this, you're wasting my time with your tl;dr;s
Why would that shift it from 'for the benefit of Google' to 'for the benefit of whoever makes the decision'?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071008102334.h...

Date: October 8, 2007
Source: Duke University Medical Center
Summary: Long denigrated as vestigial or useless, the appendix now appears to have a reason to be - as a "safe house" for the beneficial bacteria living in the human gut. The gut is populated with different microbes that help the digestive system break down the foods we eat. In return, the gut provides nourishment and safety to the bacteria. Parker now believes that the immune system cells found in the appendix are there to protect, rather than harm, the good bacteria.
What petty ad hominem? Your language is clearly emotional. "painfully obvious over engineered piece of shit" is not a reason-based, technical argument, it's an expression of anger. As far as I see, nothing you've brought up here actually demonstrates that the site is unusable. Vertical space isn't tight, the site reflows to take account of that. The three-panel layout has been around forever, it's so common because it's an efficient way of organizing site-wide and page-wide navigation. Clearly the site is usable, it seems as if you're just nitpicking details you personally don't like and overreacting to them.

I don't know what to tell you. I don't see the problems you see. You want me to make a "compelling argument" about what amounts to a disagreement on subjective matters, when you're just having an extended temper tantrum and calling everything shit.

Go touch grass. I'm out.
That was true many years ago (that ILM used UE for the LED wall) but they switched out UE for a dedicated software tool by the second season of Mandalorian, called Helios.

Details here and elsewhere:
https://www.engadget.com/the-mandalorian-season-two-stagecra...
Dwarf elephants have appeared separately in multiple places and times when full-sized elephants got stranded somewhere and their habitat / food supply was restricted. There were dwarf mammoths in the California channel islands until pretty recently (a mammoth presumably swam from the mainland when the sea level was lower and they were one big island).
What product does Uber or Lyft or DoorDash or Instacart have?

People take Waymo on a daily basis without incident. Just because it may not be available to you doesn't mean it's not real. It is heads and shoulders above anyone else in the industry.
No, no. You stuff it. It's the filet mignon of sausage casing.
Correct. Details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39296621
Google X starting 2010. I saw self-driving cars (large spinning cameras) in the lot of Crittenden within a year of joining. So maybe it was 2009, but it was definitely before X existed.
In a couple years they won’t make any software for those chips either
I have found the free version of ChatGPT does as good if not better than Grammarly. I honestly not sure if there is much of a future for this product over next year or two.
I was looking at Hyundai’s Ioniq 6, but at $38k you get less HP and meaningful/comfort features than my 2015 v6 accord that I bought in 2018 for $19k (now worth $18k).

I only drive like 3-6k miles/yr anyways.

tbf the car market seems to have out stripped baseline inflation in general though.
G Suite (now Workspace) absolutely is, a ton:

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/

This lists literally every new feature it gets. Browse to your heart's content.

Here's everything specific to Slides:

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%...

I think Sheets has seen the most improvements since that's what power business users need, followed by Docs.
This is just so totally absurd that I’m surprised nobody has pushed back hard on this claim:

“The Verge reported that CEO Sundar Pichai defended the layoffs and claimed that workers sometimes reach out to express gratitude for the cuts. “And I just want to clarify that, through these changes, people feel it on the ground and sometimes people write back and say, ‘Thank you for simplifying.’ Sometimes we have a complicated, duplicative structure,”

That sounds like a massive hyperbolic exaggeration at best and pure fabrication at worst.

If true though it’s a massive indictment on the leadership that shows how inept they are at even having a semblance of knowing what their people do and taking care of them.
Andreas Kling of Serenity OS -- https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling

Andrew Kelley of Zig -- https://www.twitch.tv/andrewrok

Really enjoy watching both of them work, and they're both so... calm, cool, and collected in their focus on the technology they're working on as opposed to 'content creation.'
2023's biggest breakthroughs in computer science [video]
* with additional fluff content because Google mandated it to show up in search results.

Seriously, the reason why all recipe sites online suddenly became autobiographies was a policy change by google prioritizing such.
Disney investing $1.5 billion in Epic signals that Disney thinks it can repair the Epic-Apple relationship.
Did you perhaps reply to the wrong comment? I completely agree.
Why Delta Once Bought an Oil Refinery
>Google Cloud remains the easiest to use among the big 3 by a wide margin

After trying all of them, I found that Google is last in the "easiest to use" category. Just not a good experience for me, and I have 30yoe. YMMV. AWS has been extremely easy, everything just makes sense, is well documented, and there's an API for everything. It's miles ahead of Google as a cloud platform to build on.
Wow AI has really gotten realistic hasn't it
That's the theory used as intellectual cover by people pursuing money at all costs, but it wasn't the theory until the 1980s afaik. Lots of people have other interests, including consumers, employees (as you mentioned), and actually almost all human beings have other motives.