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Ask HN: Why Google shut down business.site website feature?
Hi HN,

I was wondering why Google shut down the business.website feature it helped me to bring a handful of orders for my local bakery.

Any clue or insight why Google did this?
That's kind of the point - the US and Russia were doing the same thing. In 1961 in tge US, mobs repeatedly formed with implicit police backing and beat the hell out of white and black passengers for daring to sit next to each other, for risking their lives to affirm the idea that blacks were not less than whites. In the face of things like that, a lot of US criticism fell flat.
Corporations are mostly just job programs. Most companies do not actually need anywhere near the number of people they have employed to function.

The reasons why small teams work is because the number of communication channels go down, and you spend less time simply talking about the work and actually doing the work.
For me it was the developer experience and credibility. I run a small project (~4k arr) and I don't mind paying fees since it was so easy to set up. Also, the investment required to learn these things. I don't want to spend a lot of time configuring everything, I just want a simple page and that's it.
This can quickly evoke Godwin's law by stating jews living in europe (and the US) were boring ordinary individuals, until they weren't. Likewise, currently in Europe there's been an anti-muslim (boring, ordinary individuals) sentiment, where if certain people / factions gain enough power, they will be targeted - insofar as they aren't already.
When kids are asked to memorize the multiplication table, they are actually supposed to memorize it.
Most animals are bad at learning stochastic or even unreliable patterns, even when doing important things like threat assessment
Privacy is not about secrets.

Privacy is the right to sovereignty over one's personal/intimate sphere - whether it's insight to information about oneself or physical contact. The right to consent, for instance, would be a component of the right to privacy.

It's about power. And by extension it's about the power balance between the people and any intruder of their private sphere, whether it's a friend, a stranger, the public, the state, the law and so on.

In other words, the less privacy there is the less effective power both the individual as well as the entire people have.

That's why it's a basic human right.
But I've heard this said about mathematicians (and mathematically-oriented people):

First they translate what you say into their internal language. And then they reply to that.
The whole section on managers rubbed me the wrong way. Team leads aren't managers and thus aren't responsible for onboarding, not communicating up the chain about perfomance, but is Responsible for performance of individuals on the team. And the phrasing about managers mostly care about happiness and team leads don't, makes me think this place might be very toxic to work for. Reeks of "brilliant jerk" acceptance and accountability without authority.

It also feels rich to have a 47 person company tell you they've figured out the secret sauce of people management and team formation.
It's not polite yo say so, but perhaps it's worth considering that a for-profit Healthcare system is not necessarily aligned with a "optimal outcomes" system.

In other words you can have a system which prioritizes profit, or you can have a system that prioritizes care. But you can't prioritize both.
Well, it's not exactly profits that are a problem here. The author points out that these hospitals are subject to regulation and that the regulation does not actually condition funding on spare capacity. That's just going to lead to broken results; doesn't matter whether it's for profit or not. A completely publicly funded healthcare system without spare capacity requirements would falter in the same way.
You're the one with the money, they're the one who want repaying. It really turns the tables about who wants to call who.
The german way: do what you want during class, 90% of your score is from a final written exam, no multiple choice.

(Of course the people that brought us the Scantron think that's too much work, but the reality is a normal institute can grade 500 exams in a weekend)
Numeronymize
Reformist Candidate Wins Iran's Presidential Election
https://archive.is/Dxm6h
Curious, why the flag?
You don’t have to trust me. I’m just stating my first hand experiences. If you find me someone untrustworthy then feel free to stick with your own biases.
Meta-adaptations and “kink-shaming” about math … I don’t know if I walked into some parody of the Silicon Valley show or if this is some kind of weird AI bot, either way I guess this is the shape of things to come …
These hospitals are actually subject to regulation, though, and the regulation does not actually condition funding on spare capacity. That's just going to lead to broken results. A completely publicly funded healthcare system without spare capacity requirements would falter in the same way.
You put that close to Discord's office, a bunch of bats fly out from the windows...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.17711 - link to the paper
The multiplication table doesn't have patterns, or it only has a few. You really do need to remember all of the 100 results. I know what 7*8 is, and I know the rules for exponents, so I can compute 7e10*8e11. But I can't "deduce" what 7*8 is by any rule, it's just a fact I remember. I have certainly not added 7 to itself 8 times in decades.
Nice. Google scientists come up with ground breaking idea, then Google's PM bungles the chance to bring it to the market and productize it and someone like OpenAI or Anthropic will swoop in to reap the rewards. And the cycle repeats.

Deep Mind people invent transformers and then they watch people laugh at Bard or what it's called nowadays because product and engineering lost the plot. Kodak is paging you some message from the grave, read it Google.
Windows is BSD clean since Vista, when the networking stack was rewriten.
Ah, facts and accurate terminology are pesky. I wonder if the author of the article:

- Is a doctor
- With a PhD ontop of the medical degree
- Who works in an ER setting
- and is able to specifically know and understand what the word pandemic means

... In the context of a blog post about ER throughput.

Let me just check for a second and, oh look at that: the author is all of those four points.

COVID infected huge numbers of people, and variants of it continue to reinfect. Long term problems exist in a significant number of people - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2

COVID has not magically vanished:
https://www.idsociety.org/covid-19-real-time-learning-networ...

It is very much still a pandemic, if for some reason you do not believe that.

Otherwise I have to assume you are rejecting the entire article because you do agree it's still a pandemic, but for some reason can't picture why long term effects of COVID may have a relationship to hospital presentations and complexity of cases.
Guess what, your home address is in many public registers as well. It's an e-mail address, publically addressable, even guessable, not the contents of their mailbox.
A better argument is "I choose to sacrifice my privacy for the convenience" which I honestly think is a fine attitude.

And by "convenience" it doesn't have to be something substantial. Sometimes, it's just that "I'm too busy with my life already so I choose to not think about the privacy implication and wish the odds are in my favor".
Language models have been able to reject prompts for years.
Elon has his own "Musk Files" that involve the CIA too,

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dgyujd/comment/l8...
The article is about nudges. In that context, the more you align the users with the owners of the co-op, the fewer nudges move the product away from the users. Depending on opportunities to change the structure, this effect can be very strong. For example in a utility co-op, a structure already in use in some places, the owners are literally the users and they wouldn’t raise rates on themselves. Note that isn’t employee owned. If you had an employee owned manufacturing facility, they’re less likely to pollute local waterways as they’d be polluting themselves.

The status quo alternative is elite ownership of the utilities and manufacturing facilities, where those individuals receive a large share of the profits which they can use to insulate themselves from environmental pollution or cost of living concerns.

The fact that co-ops aren’t absolutely perfect in all cases is not strictly a knock against them. The status quo is particularly troubled.
That would be good, but how about the same requirement before running for state office?
It was called "From the Killing Fields".
Kasparov might have had a chance — if Russia wasn’t the way it is.
Higher education is destroyed by standardized testing. If you force every square peg to fill a round hole, there are going to be some people that go to absurd lengths to get a passing or perfect grade. It's been like this for a while now.

AI cheating is really the tip of the iceberg, here. High school and college educations heavily rely on cookie-cutter assessment programs that aren't just unreliable but also easily cheated on. The cynic in me says that it's the College Board's fault for doubling-down on bubbling tests and SAT scores when today's graduates all cheat their way through them anyways.
Maybe survey engineers with a first order derivative question and a PDE question n years after graduation with credential?

CAS and automated tests wins again.

A robosurgeon tech that knows to stop and read the docs and write test assertions may have more total impact.
Ok? But how much value did the spreadsheet give the modern economy? Almost every person learns how to use word processors and spreadsheets in any school that has any semblance of modernity, and it’s required in every job that has even marginal knowledge work.

I’d also note we are only a few years into practical generative AI models and less than that in terms of how to integrate and use them. So… hard to tell what the end is going to be like at this point isn’t it? In 20 years of improvement and refinement, will it rival IC cars ? Who knows. But who cares. It’s still amazing.
Oops, he did it again. Congrats Raph, and thanks - your work and your writing have been an inspiration to me for my entire career (~25 years).
> boring ordinary individuals

"Ah yes, we can see that boring Johnny goes to Starbucks every Tuesday at 9am, nobody will believe the crime we're about to pin on them! Thanks to 1984 Incorporated for giving us all their data about him to make it look like the perfect crime."
I’m pretty sure mathematics is slightly more general of a subject than chess…
nonsense to me

if you want to contact somebody just make the move, ask in a comment
When people would rather use crypto than their national currency, that is an indictment of the currency, not an endorsement of crypto.
> Arguments would be better if by "argument" we mean some effort, no matter how difficult, to communicate how you arrived at the beliefs you have, rather than a "well" crafted linear rational argument.

Strong point, have you. How did you arrive at the belief that an argument strengthened by such effort, would be better?
I just asked ChatGPT that and it seemed to come up with a good answer.
The individualism of the West is largely a myth, excepting perhaps early pioneer days.

The West's social organization is just tribal vs national.

For instance, all of U.S. politics fits neatly into just two political parties.

And, ironically, the idea of individualism itself is a prominent membership hook for one of the two binary tribes.
> You don't need to convince your opponent, but by steel manning his arguments and addressing them, you have a greater chance of convincing the audience.

I try to ask myself: "would I make this argument privately?" If not, I probably won't reply publicly. (I often fail to make the right choice, however.)
Another way to deal with this is to comment on their smartphone perhaps saying something like "Oh is that the new iPhone? Can I have a look" then ask them to unlock it. If they do so turn the phone away from them and start clicking on random apps or the settings and take a photos of the screen.
Privacy is not related to genocide.
Yes, and therefore no.

Coding wasn't for me.

So I let it go and my life got better.

The caveat: it was mostly age that made it turn out that way. More or less more than three decades of experience as an adult. My adult experience includes adult lows. My experience includes adult highs. [0]

They come. They go. Such is my experience.

But the-world-is-as-it-is acceptance lessens lows that stick. It would have been better if things were otherwise. They aren't. Wishing they had been won't change that.

And more importantly my life's long term highs are long term highs. They are sticky and persist despite lows.

Good luck.

[0] Another caveat, coding isn't the only thing or the most significant professional pursuit I let go of because it wasn't for me.
> Startups ship more per person than big companies – everyone knows this.

Startups can quickly change alignment to make the company work. They can throw more spaghetti at the wall to see when it's done.

> But how do you retain that advantage as you scale?

Once the company figures out what works, you'll want to put people and processes in place to keep it working. That means bureaucracy. That slows change. Intentionally.

In big commercial kitchens no one throws spaghetti at the wall. That's waste.
> for many/most - the harm is also [abstract]

Tell them that persecutions have historically been more effective in places where institutionalized profiling was in place.
That was already quoted in the article you didn't read
Tokenization as the main problem is a red herring. It's possible to get rid of the tokens entirely and train on byte sequences, it won't make a difference to why generative AI can't count or do basic arithmetic.
This all just reads like conspiracy theorists finding patterns in the clouds. The fact that the source is an LLM makes it even more silly.
I would strongly suggest not doing this, because nobody will believe you when you claim the data is fake after they try to use it against you.
If you have nothing to hide, here is simple and quick to do list:

1. Post all your personal information online is a public place on the internet. This should include all your personal records, your bank accounts, your drivers license, job history. Also include a list of all websites you have visited, the user names and passwords for all online accounts.

2. List the same information for your spouse or partner, children and parents.

3. Take your car keys, house keys, credit cards and such object and leave them in a public place with a note showing where someone can find the information you posted in item #1 and #2.

Congratulations! You have provided conclusive proof that those of us you who protect our privacy are completely silly people. You have won the argument and demonstrated that without a doubt you "have nothing to hide".

Please get back to us in a couple of months and let us know how it is going so we foolish people can join you.
[edit: people and join you => people can join you.
I find this article very weird.

It doesn't really explain anything besides talking about tokenization on random levels.

You need a certain amount of data to even understand that once upon a time might be a higher level concept.
US residents...

If you, as a US citizen, settle abroad, be prepared to run into a wall with Fahrenheits. People in the rest of the world don't have the intuitive grasp whether 50 degrees Fahrenheit is warm or cold.
Governments will always seek more surveillance of citizens - it's like crack to them. If we don't push back and work hard to protect our freedoms and privacy then we will end up in something like Orwell's 1984.

See what's happening in China. The surveillance and oppression are particularly severe in the Xinjiang region, where authorities have implemented a multi-layered system of monitoring and control. This includes facial recognition cameras, mobile police checkpoints, and the collection of biometric data. See also [1]

We must demand transparency and accountability from those in power, whilst supporting organizations that work to protect our privacy.

Similarly, private sector business will always seek more of our personal data in order to make more money, and the tech industry is enabling more intrusive government surveillance.

It requires activism to protect our freedom.

[1] https://theconversation.com/digital-surveillance-is-omnipres...
I easily broke copilot by asking it to make lists of radioactive isotopes in order of half lives. It can put the U.S. states in alphabetical or reverse alphabetical order but for any other order I would bet against it. If I ask it what the probability is that it can correctly complete a sorting task, however, it insists that it is almost certain to get it right.

I had a good conversation with it about the theory of partial orderings, it even corrected my mistakes. I asked it to make a textbook problem determining if a graph was cyclic or not and it made a straight and beautiful example where the partial ordering was realized with a total ordering and everything was written out in a straight order that was easy to follow.

If I wrote a script that made up a bunch of "is this graph cyclic?" problems that are well randomized I am sure there is some size where it just falls down the same way it falls down with sorting.

The obvious answer is that the LLM should pick an algorithm or write some code to do the thing which ordinary algorithms can do such as arithmetic, sorting, SAT solving, etc.

There's the deeper issue that it doesn't know what it doesn't know. It can't sort a list of radioactive isotopes any more than it can help you make an atom bomb. In the second case it will say that it won't help you, in the first case it will try to help you anyway when it really should be saying "I can't do that, Dave" because it just can't.
Now ask it to convert the computation into a logical calculus so that it can be verified with a theorem prover like Coq, Lean, or Isabelle.
I've used Perl extensively for a few years professionally. For prototyping, say text-processing stuff, I reach out for awk/sh, which are usually sufficient.

If I need more than a prototype, I reach out for Go. I have two major complains with Perl:

- it's more difficult to deploy (Go can be cross-compiled to a single binary which can then be scp(1)'d around, solid stdlib, no need to deal with dependencies on the remote, or modules split in multiple files);

- lack of static typing. You can get away with writing additional tests, but at the end of the day, that's just more work.

So despite being quite confortable with a fair subset of Perl, I (genuinely) can't think of a reason as to why I'd want to use it.
the future will be some hub and spokes model to address your concern where core infra is on shore but less critical teams and back office is distributed. Btw this has been already been happening but might go from 30% penetration to 80% penetration
Wisconsin has Kwik Trip locations, quick trip is a different store.
That is often my reluctance to use it, especially when talking to folks prone to confirmation bias. I'm not sure there is a way to convince people who only accept evidence that fits their existing worldview. It took me years and a lot of reading to finally seriously entertain the idea that the religion I was raised in could be false. Once I really opened up and stepped back it unraveled pretty quickly.

Yet being that open can be very socially costly, as it was for me. If I'd heard steel man arguments from opponents while still closed to inconvenient truths, then I'd just have accept them without critical thought. And any attacks on that steel man would have been dismissed with whatever was convenient. It devolves into Rube Goldberg levels of mental hoop jumping to stay in that mindset. Though if the alternative is strained relationships or losing ones church community then it becomes second nature, even unconscious.
Gary Kasparov was actually involved in Russian politics, maybe he would have had some small chance of a career if Putin hadn't quickly quashed him.
How about doing a pass where you categorize as in for sure, out for sure, and idunno. There may not be too many of those idunno‘s, so may be possible to enlist help.

That said your approach seems to have worked well. Kudos!
This is a common anti-privacy talking point, it meaning criminal behaviour will stay hidden. That's the cost of having that right. Like hearing someone say something you don't like - free speech. People believing something you don't - freedom of religion.

Anyway, rich people are failing more and more to hide their wealth and avoid taxes; their lives are private, their businesses are not, not when they are beholden to the laws, rights, and duties of the country they live or do business in. Secret government agencies are not secret in a democratic country - since if they were, you wouldn't know about them.

You're conflating privacy with secrecy and / or hiding shady things; those are different things. It took whistleblowers like Snowden and Assange to uncover these things. That said, that's an interesting case to look at; it uncovered immoral government activity on the one hand, but especially with the Assange cases, because they were not careful with people's privacy, it also uncovered the identity of agents (= violated their privacy), which cost them their life.
And this is why input assessment¹ is crucial...

(Idea assessment in general. Handled ideas in thought processes are still input.)
Knowing how little I know about your problem and constraints, I'd use SQLite for everything. Then if a specific part seems columnar, do some experiments in DuckDB and see what speedups or space savings you get and then use both.

Sounds like you are more than one, so have some folks do some 4 hour spikes on DuckDB where you think it might be useful.

I'd use Rust as the top level, embedding SQLite, DuckDB and Lua. In my application I used SQLite with FTS and then many SQLite databases not more than 2GB in size with rows containing binary blobs that didn't uncompress to more than 20 megs each.
Hey everyone,
I used to spend 10s if not 100s of hours researching competitors, trying to make sure I know all of them and then figuring out what products they have, pricing, marketing and so on.

I spoke to a bunch of people and realised that I wasn't alone. Part of it is wanting to get ideas for features but it's also wanting to know how to grow the business.

I've noticed I tend to watch movies based on how feel so I tried to mimic this behavior with Mood2Movie.

I tried to mimic the research flow I use and built tools to run these reports so everyone has access to them and can save a lot of time.

If you're also spending a lot of time researching or maybe you haven't done enough competitor research, give us a try, and hopefully you'll get a lot of insights!

Hope you enjoy using it!