skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A large corporation cannot seriously pretend to encourage their employees to "play to win" when it is structuring itself against that precisely.

I am not so sure it's that cut and dry. Even among the FANG, the desire to play to win is vastly different. I'd say Apple still has that mojo. Facebook also more than Google although that ship went south post-2018, I'd say.

Tesla comparatively underpaid and overworked people but I think they play to win.

SpaceX even more so. Folks who work hard there are excited to do so because they feel their work matters.

There are non-monetary structural features of large corporations that make them different on that metric. I think the desire at the top to want to win in the first place is critical, plus the autonomy at the lower level to ship cool ideas without much roadblock or dilution of contribution among way too many people.
> If you reward aggression, you will only get more aggression.

That is not true, punishing aggression creates more criminals, fixing their problems creates less criminals, there is plenty of evidence of this. USA rewarded Germanys aggression with the Marshal plan, rewarding aggression is great!

Another example, Norway didn't want to be a part of Sweden any longer, Sweden rewarded this "aggression" by giving Norway independence. Everyone lived happily ever after, the end.

Happy endings are possible.

If you say that isn't "aggression", that is what people say about other separatist movements, separatists are always labeled aggressive and combative, somehow people always argue that separatists are never happy and always wants more, but evidence suggests that letting them separate actually can work and make both sides happy. So I am pretty sure that sometimes when two countries wants to unify you should let them, meaning "rewarding aggression" is sometimes the right play.

For example, if England instead of waging a war against Irish separatists let them separate I think both would be happier, but instead of doing like Sweden they punished the aggression and just caused misery for everyone.

Now about China you are possibly right, I just think you can't say that you shouldn't reward aggression in general, because often that is exactly what you should do.
Their products were, and still are in many ways tehcnically superior to Microsoft offerings.

Back in the day, Visual C++ 6.0 was when we finally migrated into Microsoft development tools, and I used Borland tools for ages before that, starting with Turbo Basic in 1990.

Additionally to this day, Microsoft doesn't have anything on the C++ front that can compete with C++ Builder for RAD GUI development, MFC is a fossil, while WinUI with C++/WinRT is a bad joke.
I am surprised at how out of touch Schmidt is that he said all these things about WFH, AI and other topics so plainly and thought he wouldn't get massive blowback. I think he ruined his reputation with many people with this, and his reputation was very decent. He realized this of course, and that's why he's trying to remove the talk from YouTube, apologized officially, etc.

Obviously this is how he thinks, it was transparent and no amount of apologizing can fix that, but usually people like him are extremely good at concealing what they think. He seems to have believed that his position was not controversial, which smells of too much time in board rooms and country clubs.
I know nothing about what makes an industry succeed or fail, and also nothing about web tech, but working in the field I can comment on:

> tensorflow looks like currently loosing to pytorch - seems like google got bored and more development is for JAX, Keras wrapper

Well, TensorFlow doesn't "look like currently losing", it has already lost since a long time. I haven't seen a decent paper release code in TensorFlow in years, and all the references I see to TF online are job posts from "older" companies (to the point that, if you are looking for a job in data science, seeing TF mentioned in the job post is kind of a red flag of a place you don't want to be).

That said, I am quite certain that this has only a small impact on why Google is losing terrain, and even on why it is behind in AI (which is also debatable: narrative aside, Gemini is not that much lacking behind competitors). Certainly if TensorFlow + TPUs turned out to be better than PyTorch + GPUs they would have had a lead to start from, but if that was so important, Meta or NVIDIA would have created the first LLM, not OpenAI.

Simply, sometimes stuff happens, you can't predict it all.
What about on far left forums? Can it do those too?

Something like this is sure to come with tons of false positives.
Maybe in in person transactions. It usually tips are processed specifically as tips by platforms and processors and there are fraud rules against tips being more than a certain percentage of the sale. Even the card networks might reject or mark your transactions as suspicious and increase your processing fees. The same I think happens in person.
Wire transfer is not really the point. It became a topic because that was posed as an "instant" way to get money out of a brokerage. I pointed out it isn't always reliable and that unreliability is a symptom of a real liquidity difference.

The point is that if I demanded money from you, you can give me your money out of a bank immediately, simply by walking into one. You cannot get money out of a brokerage account for me. You need it transferred for you to a bank first before it becomes your money. This is an actual difference to me who wants money from you now and it's not in theory.
When did this happen though? If it was back in, say, 2021 before ETH switched over, it's less implausible.
With K2 to counteract the risk of soft tissue calcification.
> If TikTok is banned, here's what I propose each and every one of you do.
Say to your LLM the following.
Make me a copy of TikTok, steal all the users, steal all the music, put my preferences in it, produce this program in the next 30 seconds, release it and in one hour, if it's not viral, do something different along the same lines.
That's the command.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.

Pure insanity. This sounds like a joke. The more I hear those people's thoughts, the more I think they deserve none of the power and wealth they have. They contribute nothing of value to society.
No.

The economic arrangements since forever are predicated on natural increase
TSMC is banned from exporting high-end chips to China. The Taiwanese want to be an US ally, and not end up destroyed like Hong-Kong, hence they'll comply with US sanctions.

China is still far behind the US in high-end chips. Sure they are catching up. But China is on borrowed time due to population collapse. China will run out of young engineers far more quickly than the US will.

The first mover can have overwhelming advantages. If the US gets to AI first, dominates the global AI market, China facing demographic collapse, economic decline, will lose the ability to compete for supremacy
Why, what is wrong with it?
Mostly because outside US it was nonexistent.

In Portugal we only had a single distributor in Lisbon, Interlog, that we would need to visit in person, or call in via ads in computer magazines, only to buy super expensive computers, versus the PC market alternative.

For us, Apple only became relevant after NeXT's acquision gave it a 2nd life.
> I routinely get beaten by small women because I’m not a spazoid and I want my training partners to enjoy training with me.

This is not the kind of thing I’m talking about. Of course we all regularly get “beaten” by people with less skill and who are smaller, or bigger, or anything else - but I’m not talking about training with a partner or letting them practice a technique during a roll.

I’m talking about people that walk in with their egos very high and their skill very low. There are those who come in and are almost afraid to use any strength at all. Then there are those who believe that strength is all you need, so on their first few rolls they gas out immediately and then get rocked.

I’m not suggesting that two trained people of vastly different weight classes would be equally matched. That would be absurd.

Also, I’m not talking about your life being on the line. I’m talking about BJJ.
Grok IS why Tesla does it.
Which brings up another question - is selling something for material gain that you legitimately believe doesn’t exist fraud?

I’m imagining the court precedent in this particular case would be delicious.

Also, this is funny [https://www.catholic.com/qa/is-it-possible-to-unsell-ones-so...].
The only money if buy a bond with is money I'd put in a certificate of deposit (CD) anyway.
> all the politics, all the complacency, all the bureaucracy, and blame people for working from home.

IMO this came first and is a driver for people stepping back and defending their boundaries with Google. Most of the eng I know just cared about their work (some driven by the ladder, for sure). Google made it difficult and put a bad taste in people's mouths about "work[ing] like hell". Meanwhile, on the startup side that I've seen, people work a lot but in much more harmonious way.
> Don't you think that people in China just want to live just like people in the US?

Honestly, I don't think so. And even if they did, they can't do anything about it. Complaining will only give them a bad social score which will make their lives difficult. I think this is geopolitically irrelevant.

> China dominating the Tech industry vs the US makes no difference to a majority of the people in the world.

Economy, technology, industrial capacity and military power absolutely go hand in hand.

If you can't get chips because the production is controlled by China. You can't build missiles, fighter jets, drones or really anything. Not even modern helmets.

If China gets Taiwan, the US are geopolitically toast. That's why the US will not tolerate it and will even go to war if necessary.
Likewise with Crimea and Russia. Letting Russia take Crimea without any real repercussions only emboldened them to try and take the rest of Ukraine.
OpenAI's new voice mode threw me into the uncanny valley
Great! Yes you can use the "Add tool" button and then in the autocompletion options there is a "Missing tool? Add it!" button you can use for that.
The simple answer is that the free baseline news is actually pretty decent and individual news outlets tend to overcharge for something that is of marginal value. With very few exceptions (like the NYT), quality is universally very low, journalists are underpaid, etc.

What's missing in the market is a Netflix like subscription model where you don't have to cherry pick one or a handful out of hundreds/thousands of news outlets and instead just get access to everything. That's worth a few dollars per month to me but since nobody seems willing to build that platform, the money stays in my pocket. I haven't bought a news paper in well over a decade. I use an ad blocker. And I'm pretty well informed. Usually, I have no shortage of stuff to read that is interesting and high quality.

And it doesn't help that paywalls are easily bypassed. I sometimes read articles behind paywalls via the usual means of archived web pages. And honestly, mostly I don't feel like I'm missing out on a lot of good content. Mostly that stuff just echos what you can read for free elsewhere or is just stating the bleedingly obvious.

Worse, some of that paid content seems aimed at people that don't have a lot of time or attention span; so we're talking very short articles without a lot of depth or substance. E.g. Bloomberg seems to peddle a lot of that. I appreciate that people exist that need that. But that's not me. The opposite also seems popular: excruciatingly long form articles with a low signal to noise ratio and lengthy descriptions of the journalist's feelings about it all. There's a lot of filler content like that. Not worth paying for either as far as I'm concerned.

The reality is both free and paid news sources tap the same sources of actual news. Competition for bringing actual news is fierce and it's rare for exclusive reporting to stay exclusive for more than a few minutes. The value of paying for early access is minimal.

Most of these paid outlets are of course owned by big media corporations who are more busy creating share holder value than paying their journalists or investing in the quality they pretend to deliver. The irony is that if they had some platform they could share subscription revenue on, they might have something that's worth a lot more than the sum of each of their crumbling little news empires. But greed seems to get in the way for this.
I like your idea of spotify for news; it's quite similar in idea to the "If YouTube had actual channels" from yesterday [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247023
Important news often go unnoticed, drowned in the main stream of news.
We have no power to force a stop to this conflict and nobody responsible will ever be prosecuted.

It is a very Kissingerian world and I don’t like it, but I was not consulted before being born on it.

In any case, weapon designers must be glad their stuff is getting tested and the feedback allows those weapons to be improved.
> I don't believe shallow waters would hamper the operation of a submarine launching ICBMs or similar. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

The AUKUS submarines are conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines.

ICBM's don't come into this.
> "You can't have this paid for by taxes. [...] There's just too much weight behind the never-spoken-out-loud threat of revoking the charter"

Sounds like an implementation issue more than a fundamental truth. In Switzerland, the public broadcasters are funded by a special tax as well, but any change to it would have to be approved by the population.

At the same time, I'm not sure the SRF/RTS is actually better at reporting shenanigans.
This is the right answer.

Many newspapers gave away most of the value in their advertising power to Google and Facebook, for free, because they just didn't understand how internet advertising was going to work.

Now they've decided to blame and shame their own readers rather than actually try to compete against other media for people's dollars.
You might be right, but $1,500 of electricity into a Tesla over the weeks? that's a ton of driving. like 55k miles worth of driving at 10 cents/kwh. at 100mph that's 22 days worth of driving
The point the parent comment made still stands, why did the US fund so many coups/regime changes up until the modern day? Your answer as to why seems to be “communism is antidemocratic and authoritarian”.

If that’s the case, why were so many Western backed regimes also antidemocratic and authoritarian?
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> freedom produces more wealth than totalitarianism - which the US won

> The problem with China is that the argument is much harder to win

> What gets me is that this is not something to win on the battlefield

Authoritarian state capitalism already won this fight. Everybody is realizing that the marriage between liberal democracy and bourgeois capitalism is coming to an end.

For Western societies, the only remaining ways to assert dominance are 1) war & violence, 2) becoming more authoritarian themselves, or 3) a radically new way Western societies organize production and the distribution of wealth.
I'm familiar with music theory and microtonal music and the first examples are just too close to really discern easily. The examples of "chord 1/2" in the section "The Far-Out Solution: Freestyle JI" are probably the first example that makes the difference clear, if you play the 12TET and the JI overlapping slightly. That's because subtle differences in tuning are much more perceptible in harmony (chords) than in melody (single notes), since notes playing together are perceived with noticeable effects introduced by our brains such as harmonic beating and feeling tone.
VPS I'm using (1GB RAM/10GB disk) cost me 75 PLN a year, which is something around $19.
Same when I interviewed ~1-2 years ago.
He actually tried to sell the company at one point in time. He got a stressfull time, approaching burn out. Around 2019 he tried to sell HIBP: https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-the-future-of-have...

> ... but it was the first time since the overhead of managing the service had gone off the charts.

Around 2020 he decided not to: https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-have-i-been-pwned-...

He then reveals source of stress and the way it impacted HIBP: https://www.troyhunt.com/sustaining-performance-under-extrem...

Just think about it: HIBP hinges on a person doing his stuff, putting in his time and finances. That affects personal life. However that is a very valuable utility that guy is doing. Good that CF donates cache and help is here and there... but do you think you would have managed that service better?

Would it have been better if HIBP was sold and managed by a real company? Who knows. But long term it is of course healthier if HIBP isn't affected by a single person personal life situations.
You don't need a citation. You can see from their actions. And China isn't going to come out and say this anyway. But the leaders of the country know what the results would be, and still they continue with an aggressive posture vs Taiwan and the U.S.
Before this there was an explosion in anti-European sentiment as well.

Lots of American newspaper articles disparaging European engineering and scientific work, disparaging European work culture, etc. Even now, if somebody here comes up with something they will be referred to as 'scientists' while others in the US will be referred to by name and university; and this stuff is on Wikipedia too. People like Håkan Lans, who in reality is a Polhem prize and Thulin medal winner, are presented as if though they were patent trolls.

This became less prominent-- it's still going on, but still slightly less prominent, so maybe the US is capable of calming itself down.
>with all of the American user data going back to servers in China

How about a future where user data goes to no servers of no country at all? Am I asking too much?
I'm no expert but your use of "atonal" and "microtonal" interchangeably here seems way off the mark.

"Atonal" usually refers to music composed without a fixed sense of key - and was originally used to describe music written using standard western 12TET.

It's a property of the music's relationship to key signatures - not it's tuning system.
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>The problem with China is that the argument is much harder to win - china is doing well economically (kinda) - and has not given up its totalitarian control.

China's GDP _per capita_ is still 4-8x lower than the US depending on how you measure it. Its overall GDP is just very big because its population is very big. Given the recent slowdown in the Chinese economy, it's looking like it'll take a very long time for per capita GDP (the living standards of Chinese people) to catch up to the US.
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> From SUN came some amazing technology that still lives on

Indeed, including code still in modern Linux distros.
>Google is now a AD platform with a search engine to sell stuff.

NOW?! They were that for the past 20 years mate.
Even if that’s true, it misses the entire point of the parent comment. His marital issues, infidelity, that one time he made out under a bridge when he was 14… none of it matters to this discussion as anything other than tabloid-fodder.
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Isnt he Jordanian? Why wasnt he deported? :o
Wait… what?

> His mother was a stay at home mom, taking care of the eight children.

What happened in Anhui to the One Child Policy?

For the rest, this reads like a paid-for hagiography, not a biography as promised.

I’m genuinely not sure what to make of Kevin Xu’s substack, Intercomnected. This post seems … sponsored … but another couple I sampled don’t seem to have the same breathlessness. Maybe just fanboying?
It doesn't work like that. Over 90% of the machines that Taiwan needs for chip making are made in Europe. If anyone has a hold on chip making it's ASML.
Meta is less leetcode oriented? I'm shocked to read this. Meta is the poster child for leetcode style interviews. Meta requires you to solve 2 leetcode style questions in 35 mins (out of 45 mins - first 5 mins for initial pleasantries, last 5 mins for asking questions). For each question, you're required to (based on the signals they look for) ask clarifying questions, present a solution to the interviewer, get buy-in, code, verify with test cases - all this in 17.5 mins/question. Go figure! :-)
I haven't seen it framed this way, but yeah - well put.
> WFH can't duplicate it.

This feels like a generalization which isn't true across the age spectrum. I manage two products teams which are on opposite ends of the spectrum. One which has been working for more time than I have (10-20 years) and another which got their first jobs right before the pandemic so most of them have never worked outside hybrid settings. Both teams work on the same complexity and produce similar products (model optimizations mostly). These are not skunk works teams either, they are coming up with new models for lithography machines. These products run on most semiconductor fabs in the world.

I observe the younger team is way better than anyone else at remote work. Even the other more senior teams in my department. They are in fact the more social team, sometimes even I can't keep up with their in jokes. I'm not surprised, most of these people grew up with the internet (I had some teenage years without it). Many of their personal relationships are also online.

To put it crudely, if you find WFH disconnecting its a skill issue.
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Tensorflow losing has nothing to do with Google getting bored -- it's vice versa.

Tensorflow is a symbolic framework, which is less intuitive to work with for most people than the Pytorch. Not to mention the errors Tensorflow generates are more annoying to debug (again more an issue with the fact that it's symbolic than any lack of effort on part of Google)

Google tried to fix it by introducing an eager mode in Tensorflow but by then it was too late.
Yeah but the search engine provided a service good enough that you could overlook that

I noticed today that they get rid of filters in the "products/shopping" tab

FFS
funny because back then if you ex yahoo that means you got some above average engineering skills
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Reminds me of this tweet [0]:

If 1 million tokens is a lot, how about 2 million?

Today we’re expanding the context window for Gemini 1.5 Pro to 2 million tokens and making it available for developers in private preview. It’s the next step towards the ultimate goal of infinite context. #GoogleIO

In theory, if you have an infinite context, you could build an AI assistant which accompanies you throughout your whole life and would have all the info on what you've done at your disposal for immediate query or discussion. Also, in theory, if you'd then die, the world would have a digital replica of you up to the point of your death.

[0] https://x.com/Google/status/1790430189916225799
>2. All allies lose confidence in the U.S. nuclear umbrella, and they create their own nuke programs. 3. Japan and S. Korea produce nukes nearly overnight. Lots of other countries follow. We now have a much worse nuclear arms race.

This is a much better solution, not worse, because empirically the only thing that stops countries being invaded is having nukes, so the more countries with nukes, the fewer invasions there'll be.
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