skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should've pitched it as a video add-on to a new chat app.
My memory may be failing me but I think Firefox 3 was also where it started to feel less like the snappy minimal utilitarian “just a browser” it was in versions prior and started to feel more clunky, branded, and product-y, which also didn’t help its adoption in my opinion.

If nothing else it primed users for adopting Chrome, which originally had a less branded, more utilitarian feel not unlike early Firefox.

This cycle is somewhat repeating itself though as Chrome has become very branded and product-y. Would love to see something similarly functionally-minded as early FF/Chrome come out and take a big bite out of Chrome’s marketshare.
The first KH was fun I guess. And the combat mechanics Square made for KH are now the standard in Final Fantasy. But the story of KH went completely off the rails in all the sequels and spinoffs and I don't understand how anyone still cares about the story anymore.
Can't do it. If you try to change it people will say "The US is up for sale to the highest bidder" and you'll get run out of office. It's fortunate it even exists. Best not to mess with this stuff.
Up and out: launch something, get promoted, move onto the next team, what happens afterwards is the next guy's problem.

And of course the next guy won't get promo for maintaining the last guy's thing, so he's incentivized to nuke it and build his own shiny thing.

This can be observed in any large company though, not just Google.
In the video, they show that some videos got more than 1k views, but most around a couple hundred. YouTube requires 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time. So definitely no money earned yet on the channel they created.

Unless they have some secret other channel with a bunch of manufactured videos. ;)
I sold a handful of items on FB Marketplace. Sold in-person for cash. No problems, except for one attempted fraudster who was very obvious. People show up in person, hand over cash, take away items to declutter my garage.

I even managed to sell a nearly-new MacBook Pro for $1900 on FB Marketplace (employer let me keep it after layoff). Local buyer for cash. The buyer was super careful and had the Apple store verify everything about the MacBook.
Meh, I hope they don't chase the VR train and instead focus on making Search actually usable again. It's soooo bad these days and actively getting worse, with ever more ads and SEO crap.
The paper is here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4716751
I've wondered about the connection between organizations at the human level, and entropy. Nothing can avoid the increase in entropy, not even teams and their work culture. The processes used get old and unwieldy, domain knowledge becomes fragmented, features take longer and have more bugs, etc.

Perhaps this is inevitable, but maybe organizations could become aware of the changes in entropy and try to do the equivalent of maintenance and refactoring at the organizational level. There is probably some of this already happening, but I wonder if information theory can be applied at the people level to optimize and prevent increases in entropy.
Also says Iger was on Apple's board until 2019 when they started competing in streaming space.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/13/bob-iger-resigns-from-apple-...

Idk man, none of us had a drink at a bar with "Apple" and "Disney" to confirm the cozy relationship, others have provided business partnerships, what would satisfy you?
In recent memory, the biggest two that come to mind:

- Halo Infinite's slipstream engine turned into spaghetti code due to 343's terrible employee cycling, most of the directors left around the same week, and now they're rehiring a brand new team made up of devs with Unreal Engine experience because the old engine would take too long to fix.

- The terrible console performance and engine woes of CD Project Red's Cyberpunk 2077 that almost led to the company being sued into hell led to them abandoning their own engine and switching to Unreal Engine for their next game.
You'd think that in an article specifically about energy storage, in the introductory paragraph, they'd get the units right.

> The Pyhäsalmi Mine, roughly 450 kilometres north of Helsinki, is Europe’s deepest zinc and copper mine and holds the potential to store up to 2 MW of energy within its 1,400-metre-deep shafts.
It's technically easy to turn a grid city into walk/bike superblocks, given political will: add modal filters to intersections so that auto traffic is faced with more cul-de-sacs. The fast traffic gets concentrated onto a sparser grid of fast roads and the slow traffic crosses it every second block. This would instantly make most grid cities palatable, without ripping out lots of parking or demolishing existing infra.

Reasons why we won't do that:

* Residents who complain that they can't drive up

* Residents who complain that they got all the traffic

* Neighbors who complain that they can't drive through

* Emergency services who complain about worse response times

* Businesses who get cut away from the fast access

Regardless, it's possible to get here, even if it gets cobbled together incrementally over decades.
1. change the width of the window. you will see the layout of the page change
at least 10 times.

2. scroll down. you will see the layout of the page change at least 4 times.

3. the single most important part of the page, the NAVIGATION, is hidden inside
a drop down. so every single navigation for every page forever takes a click,
mouse down and click again. instead of just clicking a link like the old style.

4. fixed elements on the top AND side.

the whole page is just a painfully obvious over engineered piece of shit, that
may look nice, but is awful for actually navigating/using.
You should prepare to be disappointed. Project will be canceled shortly after it launches, if it ever launches.
Ethos Life insurance sent me a physical mailer after I visited their website, so it does happen!
To my understanding a lot of these managers aren't sticking with the product too far after launch, they're often moving on internally to the next thing. So these managers get to say they were responsible for launching something new, and get to wash their hands of what happens after.

You'd think after all this time senior management, both internal and external, would see through this charade, but that is not apparently the case.
I really enjoy using GitHub, TypeScript, and VS Code. These are some my most favorite tools.

But Azure DevOps and Microsoft Teams make me think that the Microsoft engineers working on these products absolutely don't care and they probably don't need to care, and the companies using these products also don't care.

Popularity and dominance are criteria for success. Their success, but not necessarily your success. If the product is by Microsoft you have to look more than twice if it's a good product or if it's close to self-sabotage when you use it.
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA

Remote: Yes, 3+ years of remote experience, also interested about going to an office.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TggpfOgWs7R30Ixyf4O1zwlS...

Email: luke at lukemercado dot com

About Me: Former CTO of a YC backed, Series B company, looking for new opportunities.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukemercado/
Nah, it's closer to IBM.
Oops, my bad - I was having issues with posting yesterday so wasn't sure it went through. Should I ask the mods?
Look at Tesla and Nvidia in recent years. Exciting innovations can cause stock prices to soar completely independently of the company's fundamentals.
The thing that struck me about Google is that it's a really well running machine. The documentation is all there, the build system is easy, and just about every issue is fixed with a single form submitted or email sent. You quickly develop a very high standard for how an organization should function.
What's the trend?
The worst manager I ever had in 25 years of working in tech went to Google after she finally got fired at my company. Apparently there she fit right in.
I think many companies would keep that kinda stuff internal, though. Google just allows them all to be published publicly and then killed off a few months later. There is really no good reason for 14 different Google chat apps to have become a public meme.
I'm not able to understand, what might be the utility of doing so?
Maybe EVs aren't good rental vehicles. This seems like it would be true, at least until public charging infrastructure catches up. And at the same time, maybe EV adoption is growing really fast. That also seems to be true, because the numbers say its true.
this is why foss game engines are exploding right now.
Holy moly - I have 4 friends who work at JPL, two of them have parents who've worked there for 30 plus years. JPL basically never fires anyone who's a full time employee, the running joke among employees is if you're better than the average new college grad your job at JPL is likely safe (speaks volumes for a majority of gov roles).

If JPL is firing people, we're in for a real economic ringer in the next 12-18 months.
> According to Waymo, the company’s vehicle fully stopped at a four-way intersection before proceeding into the intersection as a large truck was driving through in the opposite direction. “The cyclist was occluded by the truck and quickly followed behind it, crossing into the Waymo vehicle’s path,” the company said in a statement. “When they became fully visible, our vehicle applied heavy braking but was not able to avoid the collision.”

Sounds like it should have wainted for the truck to fully pass then or am I not understanding the situation correctly? Would love it if they released the footage of the accident though
Because it was a really fun action RPG with camera control issues, that then got fixed in Kingdom Hearts II (actually sooner with Final Mix Plus I think but most people weren’t importing that). It started life as a collab, and it took on an identity of its own almost from your first moment in the game. I literally don’t have a conception of what Donald or Goofy are like outside of Kingdom Hearts anymore, well except for Donald’s contribution to the Ducking Hardcore Mix of It’s a Small World.

IP don’t make the game. The game makes the game.
Depends on base depth and water table - It's 1.4 km "deep" from the head .. which might be 2.5 km above sea level in Finland (what with all the steep bits and everything).

If the bottom is well above sea level and not in line of any underground rivers | streams | lakes it'll stay relatively dry.

For interest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyh%C3%A4salmi_Mine

The "main level" of the mine is at 1400 meters depth and can be accessed with either the mine hoist or via the access tunnel. The main level houses a cafeteria, washrooms, showers, workshops, storage facilities, as well as a safety area.

It is also home to the world's deepest sauna, at 1,410 metres (4,626 ft) underground.

Pyhäsalmi Mine has hosted numerous events due to its attraction as a unique location.

It has hosted the deepest concert in the world (by Agonizer at 1271 m ) as well as dance performances.

The 11 km long spiral-shaped main tunnel has also seen several uphill running and cycling competitions.

Pyhäsalmi Mine can be recognized as a filming location for the new sci-fi television series White Wall, premiered in 2020.

Ahhhh, Finland, Finland, Finland.
> Same story with the Pixel phones and Samsung

Market share wise but not feature wise. Everyone is chasing them in regards to photo quality.
Unison looks like a neat functional language. Do abilities subsume the role of type classes also (without any "effects")? If so, would there be a loss of efficiency for using pure abilities in this way (since a "handler" needs to interpret the ops)? Sorry I've only had a brief look so I'm not sure this makes sense.

Edit: Shorter: do you have type classes
Why do people always reach for a JS framework?

It's just a css animation
You’re taking it too literally.

Virtual worlds as in a digital experience built around Disney’s cinematic universe. Like video games.
Show HN: FYP – a link based reading app using notifications
I just released (hours ago) a new reading app called FYP. It provides you with a shareable link your peers can use to share links with you. It's built almost completely on Google's Cloud Messaging platform, so links shared with you are sent directly from a go server to your phones local storage.

Motivation for FYP came from me receiving lot's of links to videos/articles/etc and either 1) losing them in the noise of my day-to-day communication, or 2) feeling the odd pressure of needing to respond back to the person who sent it.
“‘Abort, Retry, Fail?’ was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we’d remind them: if you see this message, always choose ‘Retry.'”

— Bad’l Ron, Wakener, Morgan Polysoft (SMAC)
As far as I can tell, they mean they can bring up to 2 MW of power online, with nothing said about the energy storage capacity of the site.
Sorry, it's 6c12t.
Patricia Selinger
Oddly I found myself upvoting this comment AND the parent. Neither are wrong. There is no right or wrong on this subject.

$20 a year spent on a hand-rolled RPi that you have full control over and enjoy tinkering with—amazing value!

$20 a year for something like NextDNS so you can spend your time worrying about more important (to YOU) things, amazing value!

It's wondrous the choices we have today. 30 years ago it would have taken a rack full of noisy servers and a few thick books to keep a DNS service up and running at anything even close to 99%.
It's not EU that's hostile, but employment laws in most countries which make it extremely hard to fire people or hire contractors.
The NVME adapter for the 2013-2017 MBA is pretty neat. Upgrade to 2TB for under $100.

The biggest thing i noticed is the write speeds went from 350 to about 1500. Read speeds are about the same.

10 hour battery life. Not glued in and quick to replace.

A1466 MBA (2013-2017) is one of the best laptops ever made IMO.
The only exciting announcements from Google are the discontinuation of services
More like Sundar is one bad conference away from a viral video of him running around on stage covered in sweat yelling "Shareholders! Shareholders! Shareholders!"
I wrote a somewhat related blog post a bit back: https://blog.cassidoo.co/post/open-standards-are-good/
LOL. No EVs since the invention of Li Ion used lead acid. Lead acid just wasn't fit for a mass market car.
Yes but where can one buy it? If it isn’t shipping at a down to earth price it’s pet worthless.

Don’t get me wrong though. I want more memory bandwidth. Grace should wipe the floor with Intel/AMD.
I mean just look around you everyone's getting fired but you don't see the same smarmy "look at me" behavior from other companies' employees.
Perhaps not popular but, if you're getting paid well, the work is tolerable enough, the grass is often not actually greener somewhere else, you have mouths to feed, maybe you're close to retiring/semi-retiring, etc. continuing to hang around for a while isn't necessarily the worst strategy.

I probably wouldn't do it indefinitely but it can make sense to hang around for a while.
That sounds like wonderful news!
From the paper:

This risk appears to be on par with that associated with other respiratory infections.
Work? Who's that? ... Is he a colleague?
i tried to find this but couldn't. is this available in the version uploaded to F-Droid?
They are going to be left behind once enough capable people leave.
I have a deep feeling that in the future on any given street a random group of people wearing glowing ski goggles will mindlessly flail there hands in the air talking to themselves in broken sentences that are impossible to make sense of, similar to the cellphone addicts of today who look down at there toes with indifference about the world around them, these hand flailing people will be another liability to consider when stepping off a bus platform onto a busy street.
> I dont quite understand why the sales of EVs in the US is considered to have flattened out according to some statistics.

Politics. Some people want it to be true, so they conflate an easing of the growth rate as an actual rate reduction. It could also be innocent ignorance of statistics.

The real hang up with EVs right now is primarily price. They're just reaching the point where TCO is a wash. Historically, most people are extremely responsive to fuel cost advantages, so as the capital cost comes down most people will switch. At least the ones who can charge at home, which is most.

I do feel bad for people who live in places with high electricity prices, like California and Massachusetts. Makes it harder to win on TCO, but at least the convenience factor is still there. But for those who can access sub-10 cent per kWh pricing, it's nice to spend a few hundred dollars per year for fuel.
As far as Frozen goes, at least they got something new to replace the Norway exhibit at Epcot, because it got so old and stale, that Norway disowned it, and refused to pay for the renewal
Failure is growth. Failure is learning. But sometimes failure is just failure. I think... I'm sorry. I didn't think it would be this hard. But goodbyes are always hard, especially when I am the one saying goodbye. Today, effective immediately, I, Gavin Belson, founder and CEO of Hooli, am forced to officially say goodbye to the entire Nucleus division. All Nucleus personnel will be given proper notice and terminated. But make no mistake. Though they're the ones leaving, it is I who must remain and bear the heavy burden of their failure.
> There's a very long tail of BEVs already on the road.

At best they're 0.5% of the total number of vehicles in use.
Plenty of projects don't get launched to begin with. The ability to "launch" a project is looked at favorably in general. Maybe too favorable, but that's another discussion. If you are someone who is known to be able to deliver a "launch" that's big on your CV in most companies. Believe it or not, in big companies many project never quite reach a minimal viable product status to begin with.

Moreover, the canning of a project might have plethora of reasons, not all of them are even technical or have anything to reflect on the people that worked on it.
There are HN commenters and people who blog about programming that attempt to argue against any statement that Python is slow.^1 This comment I am replying to is itself defensive. If Python is slow and everyone knows and accepts it as true then why does the statement "Python is slow" consistently trigger defensive comments. Why am I even having to bother typing this reply. Why would anyone care enough to make some "counterargument" if anyone states that Python is slow, or I state I am not using it because it is slow. Python is already an overwhelmingly popular language choice.

1. For example,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31200989

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35906158

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22040899

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16978932

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31845729
A bit out of the loop here... who are you saying has the better photo quality now, Pixel or Samsung?
What do you think this is then telling us? Is there some cause vs correlation being mixed up? Or are infections just a trigger for something that was waiting to tip?
Its hard to see through the charade you got promoted for yourself.
Tries to be diverse to an absurd degree. Still can't stop stereotyping. So about the same as your typical Hollywood writer?
who would replace him? I don't think larry has many choices
Yes this is extremely annoying and the main reason I stopped playing with it despite being quite interested.
Ask HN: What Is the Best Subscription News
Am currently working at setting up some subscription apps for real daily or weekly "needs" when paying gives a substantially better experience or really fills a gap in daily positive habits.

For instance, some things like:

- MONDAY for biz

- Workflowy for list-making with modern instant save+sync

- Down Dog HIIT for daily/bi-daily workout routine

- Elevate for practical mind training

- EveryDollar for budgeting

- YouTube Premium for music and option to turn screen off when just listening

- GPT-4 for personal strategy or social media analysis and tweaking plus DALL-E image generation

- LinkedIn Premium for professional networking

- and a number of slightly unrelated repeat supplement or powder subscriptions from various co's.

- I use a Free podcast downloader/reader that works with either RSS text or Podcast Audio...called RSS Reader Offline | Podcast.

- I use a Free Samsung Health for cardio (walking or running)

As for News...
Criteria to be met:

- concise

- an air of positivity

- w/ an air of insight AND multi-dimension perspective

- short videos

- cross-device (both web & mobile)

Optional Nice criteria:

- keep videos playing in upper-half of smartphone screen

- open new "tabs" for topically-related & insightful converging tech or trends to watch type pieces

- (bookmarking/sharing) built-in partial(s) highlight or save of their content AND allow me to make notes and share on social apps

- using AI/machine-learning, notify of future updates on-demand, or tell me the updates/steps in progress in the past

- using AI search automatically on-further-demand, show the top images for social media or media/site posts & articles

- find top podcasts (through filter of who I like following or what's estimated to fit in with who I have shown I like (podcast & channel subscriptions plus a few that might seem to cover the whole spectrum of topics/views on said piece of news really comprehensively)

- create automatically an interactive weekly, daily, and twice-daily, plus quick glance blurb news BRIEFING

--> where I can interact audio, video, text+video hybrid, plus quick glance blurb news

--> interactively skip or pause

--> interactively (bookmarking/sharing)

--> watch as it casts on large TV

--> listen through bluetooth headphones even while casting onto TV

--> automatically set off an alarm on smartphone and through human confirmation that I can listen or watch, with my voice command/response or a quick pattern on screen (no matter how I actually use fingerprint normally to unlock screen) OR put on bluetooth headphones and through one of those confirmations, go straight to a smartphone bluetooth activate and pair setting and only start playing when it's playing through headphones

So although I don't necessarily expect all of the optional criteria to be met, it would be nice if there was something that implemented these types of things, and then maybe some wise one can invent this thing for the furtherance of human happiness and convenience through human_behavior-centric technological magic.

So these are the things I think a news app should do for my new/update news experience.
No worries, and welcome to HN! You can email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com if you really want to, but it's not a big deal either way. This post is getting much more traction anyway :)
You know this in February?

The real point is that Tesla has been driving prices lower than other manufacturers are willing to stomach, and that resistance to price matching shows up as cars sitting on lots.
waymo isn't part of google
I see huge potential for NFT integration as well. Imagine buying a Mickey Mouse skin in Fortnight and being able to use it in one of Epic Games' other games too. Lots of possibilities.
I have a bucket list to jailbreak my iphone and build a ground-up OS that's just a CLI.
Public markets are not known for combining ten-year-long outlooks with deep domain knowledge. In fact that's the two things they're best known for lacking! (P.S. They've already been left behind by whatever Kagi is doing to filter out LLM garbage.)