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Ask HN: What happened to Larry Page?
I'm genuinely curious as to what happened to Larry Page.

For context, I work in robotics and have been for ~10 years now. Back in 2013-2015 I accidentally stumbled upon a lecture that Larry gave at Stanford on YouTube and my life changed completely. I dedicated every day since then to work towards building intelligent, autonomous robots and if there's one person that I attribute whatever modicum of success I have today, it is Larry Page.

Coming from a fairly conservative background, I would spend hours tinkering with electronics, programming in weird languages just so that I could imbue some amount of intelligence into robots. Watching Google Zeitgeist talks/interviews with Larry was my main source of motivation.

Throughout all these years I had a meta-goal, of somehow thanking Larry in person. I keep reading stories about how he's retreated to an island in NZ with his family, but I cannot help but think that the current generation of AI is exactly what he was dreaming about and trying to convey and steer Google towards.

I refuse to believe that he's reclusing in some island in NZ and even if he is I'm pretty sure he isn't just watching from the sidelines.

What really happened to him? I'd appreciate any insights, not the standard oh, he's a billionaire and decided to hand over the reigns to a corporate CEO-type and just retreated. I do not believe that Larry Page simply retreated into some bat cave in one of the most exciting eras in modern technological history.

-bansheeps

PS: In the off-chance that Larry sees this/lurks on HN, thank you. You've genuinely changed the trajectory of my life and I cannot thank you enough.
I think this apple in general. It astounds me that after so many years there is still no option in OSX to disable automatic connection to specific bluetooth devices.

There are many, many threads on various forumns on the web, going back years, looking for a resolution to this, and the fix from apples end would appear to be trivial.
It basically just works, but if you want slightly better drivers you can follow:

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=9405

I found it necessary to add an oplmode to get MIDI working, as described at:

https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Sound

I’ve got some nostalgia hits like Encarta 94 and Castle of the Winds up and running. You can see more at WinWorld:

https://winworldpc.com/home

I jumped through the same hoops on my Steam Deck (although you can use DOSBox-X there which is slightly more capable) but the iPad has become by far my favourite DOS gaming experience. With Stage Manager, you can have Norton Commander in iDOS running side by side with Midnight Commander in iSH, on a tablet with all day battery life. Anything for a weird life.
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My guess it was the asymmetry that was the attraction of the DSL. If everyone has equal access to bandwidth the message is harder to control.
Ok, removal request then.
This is literally what we're talking about though -- Elastic Search claims they did predict it, and this outcome now was their hoped for plan all along. So I wasn't sure what you were trying to say, if you don't believe they didn't predict it...

I guess you're actually saying that despite their claims otherwise, you don't believe they did predict it?
Some mix of topic clustering + trending-ness (these being both well-studied topics that one should be able to easily find papers + working examples for) should do the trick.

More specifically: first topic-model, then aggregate the trending score over those buckets. Then sit down and enjoy your news + coffee.

I'd be curious as to which Arabic-language newspapers you think are especially worth reading, BTW.
> It underscores the need for a multifaceted approach involving financial institutions, technology companies, law enforcement agencies, and policymakers to develop comprehensive strategies for preventing, detecting, and responding to such incidents. A balance between technological innovation and security will be crucial in maintaining the integrity of our financial systems and the trust of the public they serve.

This "article" is just a few Tiktok/Reels with the most mindless GPT essay I've read in months.
do you hire remotely from africa
If it’s possible that some healthy ketogenic diets don't carry the risks mentioned in those 2 papers then by definition there’s an over generalization implicit in the research results.

If there are issues between different ketogenic diets let’s try to figure out what those are without dropping the baby with the bath water.
The problem is, writing software is REALLY time consuming.

It takes months of full time effort to built something that resembles a working application.
You are overstating enforcement of corporate laws vs. a government censoring an entire nation. Similarly banning X in the US would not be censorship if the company flouted and refused to obey US laws.

He is spending many people's money, not just his own. He's human, he can be both a tech legend and a polarizing, drama-magnet of a human being, I just lament him leaning into the latter when the benefit is winning a pissing match.
well, the format maybe, but I have to check if my ZIP library supports that, too...
> Would my next startup benefit if I used it?

Who do you want to hire?

For all of MacOS' brilliant strategy, the idea of an Xserve Sysadmin exists solely in fiction these days. Linux is comparatively a blowout success, and a lot of people know it as a result. According to StackOverflow's survey[0], Lisp's popularity among professional developers is lower than the interest in ObjectiveC. It's not the Linux of languages, because Linux is a fundamentally popular.

I don't work with Lisp because the code all blends into each other after a while, and I'm a full-blown Scheme apologist. But look - real-world problems demand real-world solutions, ones that you can reliably scale to 20 or 200 developers. Lisp is a pet language, and you have to live in a world that treats projects like cattle. The real question is mostly how far your personal dedication will go towards making it work.

[0] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular...
Speaking as a dev with over 12 years of experience in both dev and ops, that has implemented and maintained multiple multi-tenant systems with different levels of multi-tenant isolation (infra, db, schema, table, shared tables).

I dot see the value proposition here.
Let's take couple of examples

If I need to have my totally separate infra for each tenant I'm going to go for terraform

If I need separate database on the same db infra, I'm Goin to either have a db initialization script that creates a usable db or clones a template database already present

So why do I need your sdk? To avoid a call to postgres to execute a script or a terraform script?

How does that work with the need for prefilled data?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I do not understand this service.
Biopsy's have their own risks.
Because the UK is very peculiar?
Are they really asleep at the switch? A little bit, I guess. An afterhours deposit probably shouldn't count as day 1 on a standard hold.

But deposits don't clear instantly, and banks routinely allow customers to access deposits or parts of deposits before they clear. Kiting checks is likely to result in serious consequences, and KYC means the bank has strong identification of their customers.

There's a good chance of criminal prosecution and an even higher chance of getting kicked out of banking. A negative chexsystems report makes it really hard to engage with the banking system, which makes life a whole lot more expensive.

But --- how much cash are people even getting out of this? Since the bank holiday is noted, I assume just ATM limits, which are usually around or under $1000/day (although I see an article that says $3000/day from chase operated ATMs).

That's enough to get in serious trouble, but not enough to start a new life. Doesn't seem worth it.

Most banks are set to 'fail open' during maintenance as well. If their systems are offline, you may be able to make repeated withdrawals from ATMs to go beyond your daily limit, and beyond your balance. This isn't being asleep at the wheel either; it's prioritizing availability over accuracy. In a high trust society, most account holders won't intentionally seek this out, and the few exceptions can expect major consequences.
It's called financial fraud and it can result in jail time.
this is a zero sum fallacy. social choice is not zero sum. voters who use intermediate scores donate more utility to society than they give up by not being strategically normalized, leading to an increase in net utility. with enough honest voters, even the "naive suckers" are better off than they would have been under a normalized approval-style ballot.
https://www.rangevoting.org/ShExpRes

also see the "no math skills" argument.

https://www.rangevoting.org/RVstrat6
More often, it's punishing good actors before the fact. High risk transactions are blocked until approval. Possibly stolen credit cards are flagged.

If someone wanted to transfer lots of little money to one account, that account would likely be frozen. This also screws over event management companies, but such is the law of finance.

I'm not sure what it's like in places like the US and Singapore, but where corruption and crime is high, the bureaucracy is tighter. Companies that have certain licenses need to set aside a lot of money, they're already rich.

I mean if someone really wanted to be evil, they could leak credit cards, but there's contingencies like 2FA, and weird transactions get blocked. If an airline wanted to be evil, it's a lot harder to stop them.
I was (still am) very overweight - initial weight aroud 154kg and I’m medium height (180cm)
yep.

https://www.rangevoting.org/RVstrat6
How will the circuit determine that you are actually you? How will it make a query to the police database to look for warrants?
Does a full quarter of the US smoke? That’s way outside my experience…
I’m taking supplements.
I am sure many of these children got expose to language outside of the home; Youtube.
I think just about everyone has a similar anecdote.

I was stuck on particularly tricky part of a musical piece I was learning - hours and hours of practice and I just couldn't get it down. Went to bed, woke up and was able to nail it within the hour.

Sleep is underrated.
> One simple argument is that language is NOT a magical reasoning substance in itself, but a communication medium.

I'm wildly impressed by how many people think language is thinking. My best guess is they're conflating inner speech with thinking. But if you can't figure out that the words you vocalize aren't an isomorphic representation of the things you try to convey, well... It's hard for me to believe you've spent enough time thinking about what it means to think. Miscommunication is quite common and so there's sufficient feedback to learn this without being explicitly taught. Then again, there are people in the world that I fear...
This looks promising!

For anyone trying it out, it seems like the UX is a lot different when you're logged in. From what I could tell, the basic idea is you can create a new "course" based on a description of what you'd like to learn, then Coursely builds a custom playlist and course tracker for you.

A few feature requests & thoughts...

It would be super useful if I could give Coursely an existing video or playlist and then have it build out additional topics and videos into the generated course. The ability to add videos into lessons would also be useful (or maybe I missed in the UI?).

A welcome / instructions video is probably needed to help guide users through the UI. But overall, I really like the concept of what you're building.
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The Graphistry visual graph AI platform is used by investigation teams around the world - cyber, misinfo, fraud, supply chain, clickstreams, etc. We have been 2-3Xing revenue annually, and while originally funded by Nvidia and Bloomberg, are now fully growing on revenue. We need our first marketer, which is a big ownership opportunity. Seperately, as our DC gov side is especially growing, also on-site data scientists & data eng for cleared mission work at public trust / secret / top secret.

Louie.AI is our expansion to making investigations even easier via generative AI UX and real-time AI KG (eg, real-time graph RAG). We are already launching with banks, govs, tech co's, etc. Complimenting Louie.AI's current self-hosted version, we are looking for a fullstack engineer to help drive our SaaS launch's multitenancy scaling work. The growth marketing is about the launch of louie.ai as an easier entrypoint into graph for key domains.

We have options both contractor, contract-to-hire, and full time:

- The DC data roles are onsite reporting to leadership at a top enforcement agency, where we are expanding from 1 person to 3. One data engineering & analytics, the other data science & analytics, with emphasis on LLM (llama 3.1 400b), graph, and GPUs for crime analytics. Very mission oriented.

- The growth marketing is global remote, US timezone preferred, with overlap with a team 70% in the Americas (US, Canada, South America) and 30% elsewhere (Norway, ...). Marketing benefits for understanding technical markets (cyber, ...), category creation, and hands-on.

- The fullstack role is also global remote, with US time zones preferred. Initially to tackle vertically & horizontally scaling the SaaS: typed python, redis, docker, react, vector databases, GPU infra, open telemetry, etc. Later, optionally continuing on to ECS/k8s, similar to the rest of our gpu infra, or push more on pure fullstack side. Fullstack is interesting here as it's similar to notebook-as-a-service and orchestration on the backend, and a highly immersive & interactive analytics environment on the frontend, with GPU & AI services all around.

See careers page and send an email based on what is there - we are actively growing to meet customer need, so it is an exciting time!
ClickHouse | Senior Software Engineer - Data / Machine Learning / Statistics | Remote (US / EU)

ClickHouse is a popular, Open-Source OLAP Database. We are ClickHouse Inc, the company behind the database aiming to build the best in class real time data warehouse.

I am hiring for a Senior Software Engineer to work on our AutoScaling recommendation pipeline, used to do vertical and horizontal scaling database clusters for ClickHouse Cloud.

We are looking for people who have production experience in building data products - think time-series forecasting, anomaly detection using heuristics, stats or ML models. The ability to dig deep into metrics quality, statistics explainable algorithms for Auto-Scaling are crucial. Things like simulations, back-testing etc are useful to know.

If you happen to be have Data Engineering or Data Infrastructure experience as well, that's cherry on top.

You'll be working across the stack - the Infrastructure, Kubernetes Operators and innards, Data Pipelines, but most critically, the Recommendation Pipeline. If you're into Databases, we also work closely with the Core database team to support the Auto-Scaling needs.

Stack: Go for the Cloud Systems, Python for the Recommendation Services.

Apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/clickhouse/jobs/5140132004
Social networks can't be forced to filter content for kids, says judge
i spent exactly 5 seconds searching merely to disprove your 50ng/ml.

>Although it is not known what the safe upper value for 25(OH)D is for avoiding hypercalcemia, most studies in children and adults have suggested that the blood levels need to be *above 150 ng/ml* before there is any concern. Therefore, an UL of 100 ng/ml provides a safety margin in reducing risk of hypercalcemia [0].

well, that reinforces what i said. weird, that. also:

>But in 2011, the respected Endocrine Society issued a report urging a much, much higher minimum blood level of vitamin D. At that time, their experts concluded: "Based on all the evidence, at a minimum, we recommend vitamin D levels of 30 ng/mL, and because of the vagaries of some of the assays, to guarantee sufficiency, we recommend between 40 and 60 ng/mL for both children and adults."

so your information is at least 13 years out of date (and science marches on, as i mentioned, my ~100ng/ml is from Q1 of this year.) Technically, the research i heard and read hedged saying 80-100ng/ml "is probably the best range" - specifically to avoid hypercalcemia which occurs as noted above when the concentration is over 150ng/ml. Basically, if you tell people *only* that vitamin D is good and they should dose themselves, you get people taking 50,000IU/day for months, without Vitamin K and/or proper monitoring.

There's a reason that the "general" recommendation is 600-800IU/day for children and adults, it's because "vitamin D is good so more vitamin D is better" and while technically true there's that hypercalcemia risk "gotcha."

Anyhow, it's not my duty or job to convince you of anything.
These is non-sense. They do not do anything more or less than any company does, they do not have access to decrypted data (so they cannot share it and havent done so obviously), and I bet in most of the discussion here interpol is not in people's threat models.
Yep! And even if you did manage to have a decent job, the effort of keeping it led to extra long hours and stress. I was entering early career right after the dotcom bust and it was very rough going.
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Interested in working in edtech, digital learning or any kind of software enabling people to become better at something.
IBM lobbied Congress and got a law pass making that illegal just for programmers. That law is still on the books.

It's the first time I hear that, do you have a link?
It's sad that there's no support for lossy compressed images. People copypaste images a lot without intention to change them, and each time it's JPEG source the compression is lost but artifacts are preserved, and more artifacts are added upon repeated JPEG compression, which happens immediately with most target web apps. https://xkcd.com/1683/
Can you show me ANY actual practical use for cryptocrap outside of illegal transactions?

Like: "Company XYZ uses ABC to provide asset tracking, and it's now used by 99% of the DEF sector".

> The venn-diagram between cryptocurrency and ZKPs is not a circle, or really even close.

Then it should be treated as such, instead of trying to claim that it has practical applications.
Company Says It Uses Your Phones Mic to Serve Ads for Facebook, Google, etc.
Chiral topological light for detection of robust enantiosensitive observables
> Standardizing roles, skills and training makes the individual laborer interchangeable. Every employee can be assessed uniformly against a cohort, where the retention calculus is relative performance versus salary. This takes all uncertainty out of future restructuring decisions

When someone wonders why the company creates BS levels with arbitrary requirements that don't map to the way engineering works - it is because of this reason. They want an easy way to stack rank and restructure in perpetuity.

As an example, even though a lot of engineering work is collaborative aka work together else it won't happen, corporate decision-makers detest thinking about employees like this. They want to think that EVERY individual can be stacked against others at a similar role - and they can just pull the bottom x% for their margins and FCF. And that this will have ZERO impact on the production. They sincerely believe this and consultants make out like bandits peddling this exact model.

If this is still difficult to wrap your head around, imagine a basketball team where every player has a different role and they all work together to achieve the mission. Except the CEO has ordered the HR department to stack rank all the players based on points scored - which obviously is going to be different in different positions. It has also suddenly set up the team to not pass the ball even if passing the ball would yield a better outcome for the team.
They don't say why the hate Stripe, but presumably Stripe closed their account for fraud/spam/PBL reasons and took "their" money and won't give it to them. Whether or not this person/team succeeds, the real point is that spite is a powerful motivator. We all find motivation, in our own places, in our own ways, and spite is up there.
What are the most imp. questions in cyber SEC/war as related to geopolitics?
For context, this month, I'm interviewing a leading cybersecurity expert who has experience working in Israel, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Russia on some of the most critical events and missions. His experience ranges from investigating

1. money laundering through crypto

2. catching scammers

3. securing SCADA systems

4. securing android software

5. penetrating latest Apple devices

6. catching brand abusers by scanning world-wide forums

He is at the cusp of geopolitics, cyberwar, and technology.

The podcast interview has to span wide-ranging interesting topics for all areas in cybersecurity for young people starting their careers, general audience such as professionals, entrepreneurs and executives, and the high-tech experts who are already in the game. I want to make this intellectually invigorating discussion and surface key ideas that are worth discussing.

Your advice and potential questions will be valuable.
If you don't consume high amounts of thc on the regular and also pending the terpene mix of the plant you consume, you can definitely hallucinate off cannabis.

I ran a very vague "dab olympics" comp once at a festival. It was in the early days of dabbing becoming a thing. Someone gave us an ouce or so of the stuff and we did out doses about as thick as a piece of string and about an inch long. Turns out that's a monumental dose of thc.

The rules of the comp were, come have a dab then come back and tell us about your experience. Have another and do the same on day 2. We picked the winner off who enjoyed it the most/actually remembered to come back for a yarn ans so on. Gave away a 200 buck dab rig. Free entry.

The amount of folks who hadn't consumed cannabis before and came back with stories of the most visual hallucinations and body trip experiences was pretty surprising. Turns out we send a few folks who were regular lsd consumers off to the moon and back. Woops. No injuries, was a pretty fun weekend. Sample size of about 30 lol.
That’s the whole point, though. The need to make things interpretable from the center is what it means to “see like a state.” A society doesn’t need to be interpretable to exist. Large groups of people can relate to one another peerwise.
If sending logs down a river is a machine, couldn't that make almost anything a machine? The river itself, for instance.