Thank you I no longer need to be a pure pessimist anymore. I also think though that there will still be a time where they need to get more $$ and will raise prices or introduce ads at lower price tiers. However I would happily pay to not have ads.
Trying to not be a pure Google hater here but I can expect a lot of their products will become shittier (in terms of U X) in the next few years. It’s what happens to every web property after they have their insane period of growth. Now in order to continue growing without naturally adding users, they will have to get more $$$ per user. In order to do that, they will need better/more ads. In order to do that the UI/search experience will need to prioritize ads rather than an end user experience. It is not even limited to web properties. Every company lures users in with something really great at the beginning in order to capture the market, and then once the market is captured gradually raise prices to monetize users. Think uber with ridiculously cheap prices at the beginning to get users onto their platforms. In Google’s case ad-free great UIs are the “currency”. Now we’re going to have to sift through more and more garbage to get what we need, and it’s probably going to get worse.
For me I had a single mixed managed/native DLL which made my life a lot easier when dealing with interop. The documentation for C++/CLI was really good IMO. I wasn’t marshaling particularly complex types though so had pretty simple pinning scenarios.
Yes that’s what I’m talking about when I said the committees were lied to. I’m sure they would’ve been interested to hear from someone working at the lower levels that the NSA director lied.
Honestly most former presidents do “good work” in this sense. The power is gone so now there’s less outside influence. This law seems arbitrary and has no purpose, there’s like 4-5 former presidents alive at a time? This “problem” is at the bottom of my list of problems that need solving.
HN loves Snowden so much it makes no sense to me. He could’ve gone to the Senate/House intelligence committees, and not been in trouble. Worst case nothing would’ve gotten done, but since they were lied to, I don’t think he would’ve been ignored.
Except you need to replace “annoys powerful people” with “storms the seat of our government with intent to overthrow a democratic election result” I’m fine with that being the line for companies to ban a political entity. Amazon and google aren’t randomly banning BLM for protesting in cities.
A mob storming the seat of government power is. I’m actually not sure how this could be presented more clearly. Should politicians have been killed for you to consider it a coup?
I don’t think this sort of regulation would happen unless they meet the criteria for a monopoly and I’m not a lawyer but I don’t think Amazon meets these criteria. It has competitors in every market it is currently in. Walmart, Target, and Etsy are all competing retailers online and physically. Azure competes with AWS. The process here on out to beat profitable and large competitors to wield monopoly power is incredibly difficult. I don’t see a problem if they enter new industries to find more opportunities for growth, companies do this all the time.
Honestly though why tf did these companies never try lowering spend incrementally to see if it made a difference? Is this why engineers are so valued because we understand the simple concept of AB testing?
My team has to support both windows and Linux builds of our product. WSL1 was a godsend for this - I no longer had to ssh into a VM and could build both the Linux and windows versions from the same source, which was amazing. I hit one issue with wsl2 and then I reverted because I learned that this scenario (different builds from same source) would always be slower on wsl2.
This is a commonly held misconception. Concurrency actually implies that computations can be reordered without changing the final outcome, and does not imply parallel execution. This is related to parallelism in that concurrent computations can be run in parallel for speed up.
I actually don’t really trust business hours on google anymore, I have to go to the restaurant directly or just call since I’ve been burned so many times looking forward to dumplings/teriyaki/pizza and then having the restaurant be closed.
I’m thinking this is related to the machine-learning coprocessor. They likely expose this to developers through their ML API and don’t want to have to support this for external customers if it changes. Still this is a great find!
It honestly has a negative connotation for me since it’s been so overused to almost be meaningless. It either means they have no business model or their business model is surveillance for profit. Big red flag.
Can anyone explain what the hashes and malware signatures are? I’ve always been interested in security but never had the time to actually go in depth in that area.
The posts about censorship on hn continue to baffle me. Any large media provider (YouTube, Netflix) is already censoring literally everything you see on their sites. There is simply too much content on their sites, that being truly unbiased (chronological order) would be unusable from the perspective of a single user. Given I don’t agree that a blanket ban on certain content (lies) is acceptable, I think what the issue is here is letting this content disseminate virally to millions. This absolutely can be controlled and maybe the ability of posts to go viral should be the middle ground between censorship and total free speech anarchy. I don’t think corporations will ever do this though because viral content is what makes money.
New orgs are forming at big companies all the time. In my time at Microsoft, I’ve seen the tooling go from horrible monorepos with perforce to really nice git repos in azure devops. I also don’t think “failing” is the right term for these megacorps. Slow maybe, but even that varies per team.
This was like maybe true 8 months ago, before Sweden had multiple waves. It’s been false for a while now and I don’t know why everyone keeps saying it. Another comment has the right data. Also if you’re insinuating that other maladies are getting reclassified as covid, you can look at excess deaths and see most countries had more people die in the past six months than usual, and seems to indicate we actually undercount covid deaths (this latter part is for the US)
I actually started using edge at work (I work at ms) and I don’t find bing to be too bad, most searches I go to google for I don’t find a good answer there either. Given they are sometimes very obscure c++ questions. For everyday use though I find them both to be very similar
So the Edge TPU has been out for a while now, can anyone point out a large enterprise customer that is using this for real for something new that we couldn’t do before? Or is the “edge” just made up by salespeople. Like there needs to be super low latency requirements before someone decides they can’t use an internet api right?
I feel that the article doesn’t go into specifics of how consensus is incentivized. It provides examples which sounded great but not how the system actually works. In short I was a little disappointed.
The usual, credit agencies ARE JUST AS BAD AS WE THOUGHT. They exchange all of our information with each other, and their security is so absolutely horrible that a 20 something hacker in Vietnam who just learned English could stay in their systems for years and build a business off of reading queries directly from these databases. It’s actually insane.
I honestly don’t think Apple should be investigated for antitrust and I don’t think they can be considered a monopoly. There are plenty of choices in the gaming space, and there are a lot of android competitors to the App Store. I really don’t think epic should have any standing here. They’re just mad about Apple’s 30% cut. Apple charges a premium to people to be in their ecosystem and they do it anyway. This isn’t a monopoly by any definition. I do think removing Sign In with Apple is a bad look, but Epic is in over their head here, they really shouldn’t be suing Apple.
I’m definitely more likely to trust open source. Generally the more eyes on it the better, I still think even one vulnerability could potentially be catastrophic though.
That microsoft link looks really interesting, I don’t understand automated theorem proving and crypto enough to see how it would work even with untrusted hardware (although it does say it can be run on any third party system)
Lol honestly I don’t trust anyone who says their system is secure. The idea that some random company that built an android or iOS app with an aws backend magically has no vulnerabilities is laughable, especially after they had hard coded credentials in their repo. The more the ceo says it the more he loses credibility. I might trust a big 5 company to implement this, might. But generally until our systems are secure by default I don’t think anyone could do this right, and there are so many resources going into hacking it it will take a lot of guarantees for me to start to feel better. Mail in voting is simpler and much less vulnerable to scalable hacking.