skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That or the flat organizational structure is dysfunctional and leads to constant restarts / vision changes. I don't know if they are too capitalist or too communist. Or both.
They could spin it off and then set up the same kind of pay-for-default-search deal that Mozilla has. This might put just enough distance between the two orgs to satisfy the DOJ without actually changing much.
If the work you're doing isn't valuable then eventually economic reality will hit, the money will run out and the businesses from China that are actually disciplined and productive will take your market share.
Also note that on Zig master, initializing `GeneralPurposeAllocator` like this is deprecated -- it'll be removed after the next release. Instead, you should do this:

var gpa: std.mem.GeneralPurposeAllocator(.{}) = .init;
It would be a shame if the DOJ forced this. Google has the resources to continue to pressure Apple to allow non-nerfed Chrome on iOS.

That said, this might be my favorite of the DOJ remedies I've heard because it would probably do the least harm.
Mercedes' upcoming electric CLA has a ton of neat EV tech and options
It's much easier to lay a cable on the bottom of the sea. There's nothing interfering there, you don't have to dig, you don't have to put up poles. If you give it some thought, you'll realize how much easier it is to have an undersea cable.
> After having formulated an idea, do you put it on your intellectual bench and re-examine it, purposefully, analytically?

Can you show conclusively that LLMs can't do this or don't already do this to some degree?
What about X (the everything app)?

Could happen under Trump...
This is completely false. Unity is popular with AAA, as is Unreal Engine. Both are less popular than having an in-house engine.

Source: I work in the games industry.
Is Meta or Microsoft buying Chrome a good outcome?
This is the issue of any Alexa/voice assistant. Ive had enough errors to make even bothering to use them pointless. And it's made worse by the fact that identical voice commands can be interpreted differently at a later date.
Somewhere in a possible future, Trump hands Chrome to Elon and he makes X Browser.

If this comes true, I take full responsibility for causing it.
Unlikely companies do anything with the applicants they get for these jobs other than log them in a database. Of the many reasons companies post jobs they don't intend to fill, careful A/B testing seems one of the least plausible. No place I ever worked did this to determine lowest possible salary, nor did they worry about getting too few applicants unless the number approached zero.

More likely reasons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_job

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240315-ghost-jobs-dig...
Ben is correct in saying that we need to focus on building, but I believe it's also important to emphasize that we should build in the Western Hemisphere, rather than just in the United States. The U.S. will not always be able to protect the entire world as it has over the past 60 to 100 years. We need to bring some manufacturing closer to home.

There will always be tensions with Taiwan. However, it's a challenging situation due to its dominance of semiconductors. The U.S. needs to bring manufacturing to areas it can protect, and that would be in the Western Hemisphere—specifically, South America, Central America, and North America.
Yeah, probably not worth the money
> Chrome can’t exist as a standalone business without being even more consumer hostile

Why not? Chrome's team isn't as prone to distracting itself as Mozilla. But there is still a lot of ancillary nonsense they get up to that wouldn't be necessary if it weren't in Google. Starting, for example, with not giving a fuck about how their product impacts ad sales.
I run https://msgdrop.io which is a commercial alternative with a great API and handy features.
Doesn't the AMA administer the MCAT and facilitate the applications for not just medical schools but also residencies for Dermatology? I think excluding that while including that they're not literally the organization that does accreditation and licensing is misleading.

They're one of the largest lobbying groups in America with disastrous consequences. They have a consistent history of empty promises, including their rhetoric on expansion which hasn't been successful despite the years they've had and the political leverage during the national health emergency.
https://www.zippia.com/advice/largest-lobbyist-groups/

Here's a differing opinion from yours where "The American Medical Association (AMA) bears substantial responsibility for the policies that led to physician shortages". https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/15/ama-scope...

I hear about how wealthy and powerful the medical community is yet they shift the blame at every opportunity. I hope medical schools require students have a spine too.
We had this for ~20 years. It wasn't mind-boggling complex. On the contrary, it was much simpler: you didn't have to "log in" to a piece of software that ran on a computer you owned under a user account you already logged into.
Outside the techies and gamers circles, for the general public - it was fairly unknown.
Today it’s known primarily due to its high stock valuation.
Thus, don’t project your own bubble on everyone out there.
Increasing the dimension causes a lot more computation, this is one of the main reason. You can see evidence of this in the multi head where the dim is reduced via a linear projection.

h_i = attention(W_i^Q Q^T @ W_i^K K) W_i^v V

h = W_o @ concat(h_1...h_8)
Dang it, I think we missed a chance for it to be bought by the Onion
> Also, the article specifically mentions Chrome, NOT Chromium (which again, is open), so what incentive would Google have to maintaining the project without their own version of it? Would they be bared from starting a new one?

I wonder similarly if they are only selling the brand and the existing installation base. I do not see what is stopping them from just creating a chrome clone called Manganese and continuing.

It would be an interesting experiment though to see if the google version will regain the same market share or if chrome will maintain its current market share under the new stewardship.
Deprecating it if your site had much traffic was like pulling teeth! I worked at a company that had IT professionals as its main demographic in 2011 and it was a constant struggle. Lots of corporations were locked into IE6 because they had developed internal applications that relied on ActiveX controls or other non-standard APIs. IE7 was still pretty terrible, and it took even longer to drop support.

CSS was pretty bad but at least well-documented; debugging JS was a whole other hell. There was no such thing as dev tooling, and you got a small alert in the status bar when the page had errors, which opened a pop up that gave you the line number and very little other information. Supposedly you could connect it to VisualStudio and get a full debugging experience, but I never had the luxury. Lots of guessing and checking. Firebug was a huge deal when it launched.
Amazon's Training video for busting unions
Maybe in the future you can stop spreading fud about how everything only works in the most consumer hostile browser on the market.
No boggling required. If you want to sync your browser state or settings across computers, make a Chrome account. If you don’t, don’t. If you want to use Google, make a Google account.

This is how it should work anyway.
> Having it owned by a non-profit foundation would make a huge amount of sense,...

OpenAI joined the chat...
The Next Level of Efficiency Becomes Reality
They're allowing monthly payments for the first time, which are slightly more expensive than paying yearly like every company on the planet does. Way less of a deal than the title makes it sound.
Firefox makes hundred of millions of dollars in revenue per year. If you assume the same revenue per user and apply it to Chrome's market size (about 30x that of firefox) then you have a top 20(?) tech company in revenue terms.

They will have more money than they know what to do with. But yes, going closed source does seem more likely.
Most people engage with web content on relatively low powered machines. If you tune them to be tolerable on a 4 year old mid-range android device, there isn't much cost incurred on a threadripper.
Interesting how the narrative being pushed by companies spending a lot of money on AI always seems to be gravitate to around 20% of time saved. I've not seen anywhere how this figure of 20% is determined.

It seems to be a number that the masses are willing to just accept without any reasoning.

If they said 30% people might start to ask how, if they said 5% people might just shrug and think it's not significant.
ByteDance has lots of extra cash. I hope DOJ is prepared to stop this from completely backfiring on the public.
With the B100 somehow announced to have lower scalar FP64 throughput than the H100 (did they remove the DP tensor cores ?), one will have to rely on Ozaki schemes (dgemm with int8 tensor cores) and lots of the recent body of work on mixed-precision linear algebra show there's a lot of computing power to be harnessed from Tensor Cores. One of the problems of HPC now is a level of ossification of some codebases (or the lack of availability of porting/coding/optimizing people). You shouldn't have to rewrite everything every 5 years but the hardware constructors go where they go and we still haven't found the right level of abstraction to avoid big porting efforts.
Why would you want all this stuff synced? The only thing I want out of that is passwords, but 1Password works just fine for that. In fact, I don't trust a browser to store my passwords securely.
Xenon Design Rationale: Why it is a better alternative to XML, JSON and YAML
Nah, MS doesn't own search, ads, email and half the rest of the internet.
I think this would be a very unfair action to perform so late in the administration.

Simply because the other two dominant personal computer OS vendors, Microsoft and Apple, will be allowed to maintain their browsers. The less entrenched company and younger company is getting singled out?

If they had more time to build cases against the more entrenched Apple and MS, maybe I'd give them some benefit of the doubt. But we can't assume the next administration's antitrust policy will be consistent or even sensible.
> I don't see how that equates to a monopoly

The monopoly is in ads. Google uses its control of Chrome to act uncompetitively in advertising.
Anti-viral defense system in bacteria aborts infection by altering mRNA
It took hold because it was a part of almost every popular piece of software installer back in the day, and enabled by default
Ask HN: How do you differentiate you SaaS?
I am curious to understand how do you differentiate you SaaS? There are hundreds of ways to do same thing yet a fraction of people always succeed. For example, CRM, Content Marketing, Sales, Writing code, observability etc.

How do you differentiate in the market? What are ways to convince people to buy your software.
It's a tool for catching emails sent from a local app under development. The developer sending those mails already has local access to the machine.

If someone runs it exposed to the public internet... Oh wow, that could be interesting.
They'll do what their benefactor (Goog) wants whether they own chrome or not.
I'm all for competition and increasing consumer choices, but the government is really not making a case that this is supposed to help consumers.

The only reason I still use Chrome is because I already use other Google products and they integrate well together. There are many other better options out there otherwise, and they are all free. Breaking out Chrome from Google will not in any way benefit me as a consumer.

> The agency and the states have settled on recommending that Google be required to license the results and data from its popular search engine

> They are also prepared to seek a requirement that Google share more information with advertisers and give them more control over where their ads appear.

It sounds like the end goal of this is to enrich other companies, not customers. And if the DOJ has their way, they want to crack open Google's vault of customer data and propagate it across the internet.

Not only does this sound extremely bad for consumers, the DOJ is trying to completely change Google's business model and dictate how they are supposed to make money. Regardless of how you feel about Google, this seems like a far overreach from the DOJ on finding and fixing market manipulation.
I think it's a combination of both. There was absolutely a period where Chrome was faster, and Chrome still has a better security design. But Google also pushed Chrome incredibly hard, including bundling it with other software as a checked-by-default box, and used all the tactics to get it made the default browser and make it hard to switch, and advertised it on Google services for free, and made some features of Google products require it.
Related (? old.reddit is dead) Amazon training videos coach Whole Foods staff on how to discourage unions (12 points, 6 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18086658
mesg(1) and write(1) no longer provided by Debian util-linux
Not "anatomically": only from the results.

I have skimmed through another relevant piece today: it seems we are not proceeding with adequate pace with the interpretation of the internals, with the gained "transparency" of the architecture...
> I suggest a more effective job hunting strategy

What specifically do you suggest?
> What is there to sell exactly?

widevine and all the other DRMy bits.

Or, better yet, deprecate and disable all the DRMy bits. (One can wish)
Call me crazy -- I like it's whimsical nature
Company trained GPT-4 rival with 2k GPUs –spent $3M compared to OpenAI's $80M
IMHO Microsoft yes, Meta no.

Microsoft wouldn't have a the kind of vertically integrated monopoly where they control both the internet properties and the browser used to access them.
Again, no idea how Google's supposed monopoly of web browsers is worse for the consumer than Apple's actual monopoly on iPhone browsers (they're all Safari under the hood) and on App stores.
My ideal outcome would be something like:

1) Chrome is spun out as a standalone entity. Google would originally have full ownership but be forced to sell down over time.

2) Google buys the Chrome traffic at a fair price

3) Apple sells their traffic to someone else, potentially an AI search player (Meta??)

4) MSFT makes a new browser in response to Chrome going closed source
So you're saying they intend to call these applicants for future roles?

Why not just post the role in the future when its ready and get applicants that way?
I don't like it either, but it doesn't seem unprecedented. Companies sell units to each other (complete with staff) all the time.

I'm pretty sure everyone who worked at Universal Studios still worked there after Comcast bought them. I don't recall any staff being included when Google sold Domains to Squarespace, but they very well could have been.

Hell, if you've ever temped in tech, sometimes you wake up and find out you work for a different agency. "Yesterday you worked at Magnit. Today you work at TechPro."

Or it could be something in between - the buyer offers you a new contract and the seller says you'll be laid off if you don't take it.
> Everything is finite including bugs.

Everything dies including (probably) the universe, and shortly before that, our software. So you're right, the number of bugs in a specific application is ultimately finite. But most of even the oldest software still in use is still getting regular revisions, and if app code is still being written, it's safe to assume bugs are still being created by the fallible minds that conceived it. So practically speaking, for an application still in-development, the number of bugs, number of features, number of lines of code, etc. are dynamic, not finite, and mostly ever-increasing.
Previously (8 points, 3 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42148158
One difference between lite and the full version is CNAME cloaking protection. The enforcement of Manifest V3 in Chrome opens up a gap in the ecosystem where analytics and advertising providers will increasingly use CNAME cloaking, since it can't be blocked from the world's most popular browser. And this is the world in which using Firefox with its support for Manifest V2 suddenly becomes quite a bit more attractive.
I think, if you are under the impression that Portrait of a Lady on Fire is even...gestured at in any way in your examples - then we are in different places (I recommend you start an ssri).

I urge you to compare this to the translation[1] of the shooting script of Portrait of a Lady on fire:

1. STUDIO PARIS-INT-DAY
A blank page. A feminine hand draws a black line, the first
stroke of a drawing. Another blank page. And a new female
hand, which starts a new line. This action is repeated
several times, coinciding with the credits.

WOMAN'S VOICE
First my contours. My silhouette.

The silhouette takes shape as we move from frame to frame and
the sketch of the figure comes to life under the strokes of a
pencil.

A large room pierced with skylights. An artist's studio. It’s
Paris in 1780. Eight young girls between 13 and 18 years old
are sitting on stools that are nearly obscured by the
fullness of their dresses. They are bent over their drawing
boards, which serve them as support. The faces of the young
girls are focused. Their eyes oscillate between their drawing
and the horizon.

[1] https://www.tumblr.com/mlleclaudine/634613427269173248/engli...
This doesn't seem helpful...
Yet, Microsoft owning Chrome feels better. They are less incentivized to bake in features related to advertising.
Interesting idea. I'm not against forcing Google to choose either all the user platforms they run or Adsense. If they sold off Google Drive, Suite, YouTube, Google Play, etc they might improve faster. At the very least it would drive more alternatives. That seems so unlikely though.

Google kills all their other projects often enough that I don't think they are contributing to many spaces anymore so giving the technical assets to other companies would be interesting.
There's been a recent explosion in mesh sizes because of Nanite as well. A lot of devs who don't understand optimization will pull in a 1+ GB movie-quality mesh and just slap Nanite on it, even though they'll never need that level of fidelity.
Interestingly if I recall correctly a lot of the original talent for Chrome/Chromium originally worked at Mozilla and were poached by Google. [1]

[1] https://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/09/google-chrome.html...
You can look up details of the lawsuit, but the idea is that Google paying Apple to be the default search engine prevents other search engines from competing with Google search. The default search selection has been shown to be quite important. Anti-trust law is built around the idea of maintaining competition - “monopolies” aren’t inherently illegal.
Native apps have always been better than browser/cloud based solutions. The only people who prefer the cloud are lazy developers, tech companies who want to sell software as a subscription, and corporate IT who finds it easier than dealing with native software on the computers.

The end user is always served better by native apps.
ByteDance's Valuation Hits $300B
> Only software engineers pretend best practices exist outside of any useful context.

I am not seeing this issue with programmers in general or with my coworkers, with the exception of those who in general have a hard time collaborating with others.

So my question was/is if you discount the above exception are people seeing a problem with programmers/coworkers not taking context in to account? I have not noticed a wide spread issue and I am interested in how prevalent you, and others, perceive the issue to be.
Yeah, the ice gun and blob baddie would have blown my mind even if they were 5 years late or whatever. I'd still love to play with them.
> That did not help, did it?

I'm sorry, but this is the type of claim of someone who gets news from the Joe Rogan podcast.

Ukraine managed to defend its capital from annexation, liberated thousands of miles of territory, and managed to improve its protection of civilians thanks to air defense systems, has lower casualty rates than Russia, and now is starting to create a buffer zone into Russian territory.

How isn't this a sign that it didn't help?

Now... could, and should, Ukraine receive way more help, on time to help them even more? Of course. The drip feed has been one of the worse strategic decisions in this conflict, almost like there's no strategy in place.

But Ukraine needs to develop its deterrence.
Why import at all? The US has more forested area than Canada does.
I find Safari to be a fantastic product overall both on desktop and mobile but I have stuck to Chrome to keep my options open in future in case I want to use non-Apple hardware
That’s all accurate and I was assuming you were referring to passive income exactly as you have clarified.

That doesn’t change any of my observations as your comments imply unearned income deserves higher taxation than current is applied, which is what I object to.
There was an article from Android Authority today that said it's being rebased on Android.
> They are also prepared to seek a requirement that Google share more information with advertisers and give them more control over where their ads appear.

Seems like the DOJ is angling that Chrome should be spun off as an advertising platform of some kind.

Seems so, so much worse.
Apple Intelligence on M1 chips happened because of a key 2017 decision
A customer of mine runs a service that sends email notifications and OTP codes. We use Mailcatcher to look at the emails without having to wait for them to get to our real inboxes. Furthermore it catches all the emails, even the ones sent to somebody@example.com so we can have totally fake email addresses in our dev databases.
Trump Tags Brendan Carr to Dismantle What's Left of Consumer Protection at FCC
Because you need to pay something like 1,000 engineers - and not just any engineers, but engineers used to Alphabet's SF Bay Area salaries and equity packages.

This quickly adds up to billions of dollars. You have the option to massively downsize, likely sacrificing product quality; or to sell something very valuable to a business-mined buyer. And there's really nothing a browser vendor can sell that isn't bad news for the users.

About the best option would be for Chrome to be spun off and then for Google to keep paying them for being the default search engine.
Documind ripped our open source tool and swapped the license
Saw a ShowHN post [0] today about an open source document extractor tool. I thought the workflow sounded pretty similar to our library, and only to realize it's a direct rip of Zerox [1].

Looking through the code:

1. They removed the MIT License and added AGPL.

2. It's not a fork, they purposefully copied the code and did a find/replace to swap out Zerox for their name.

3. There is no attribution or mention of the original library.

4. They are trying to market this as a competitive product.

If you inspect the source code, it's a verbatim copy. They literally just renamed the `ZeroxOutput` to `DocumindOutput` [2][3]. I recognize that plenty of people are using Zerox within commercial products, but to copy to copy the code and pitch it as your own open source product is pretty fraudulent. Especially slapping a copyleft license on it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42171311

[1] https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox

[2] https://github.com/DocumindHQ/documind/blob/main/core/src/types.ts#L25

[3] https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox/blob/main/node-zerox/src/types.ts#L35
Umm… the one good thing about the author - the author is soon to be 40+.