skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, this is more of a story of SBF and other crypto elites making a lot of donations to wealthy politicians, media companies, etc. who were hesitant to investigate them.

Bloomberg apparently was presented evidence of the FTX fraud many months before its downfall which it didn't cover because it was bad for business. [1]

This was also what happened in the Madoff case where outside investigators discovered the fraud and sent their pile of evidence to the Feds, who sat on it for years as the fraud expanded. [2]

I bet we'll eventually see messages from SBF & Co. talking about Madoff specifically as a model for the scheme.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXzvVRw_Qgw

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Markopolos#Madoff_invest...
A120 was never considered important to google innovation strategy.

In fact what did it accomplish for the business. Google would have a better roi giving the money to Google Ventures or a16z. Or starting a private equity like firm adding notable startups to the alphabet portfolio.

A120 was a sinking ship for a while
> They just hired loads of people to do jobs that they now realise don’t need to be done.

I'm not sure you got the point.

It's sop to start and stop projects, hire and fire people, invest and cut, etc.

But this event is a concerted effort to fire a massive amount of people without criteria or rationale that's immediately evident.

FANGs just woke up one day and decided that they would decimate their companies.
Not until hardware became fast enough and compilers performant enough to support this, and not until everyone had to learn their lessons with approaches like the JVM.
Compete and NonCompete
> The thrust of their point is that the time spent engaging isn’t worth it for the person debating

Yes, and this is my main point of disagreement with them. My point is that there is plenty of value if you want there to be.
> And wouldn’t it be normal to have basic telemetry, enough to know how many active users you have?

I don't think this is normal. It may be common, but I don't think it is normal. I find this deeply creepy for an OS vendor to think it's okay to push an update that collects data passively from machines. This isn't even collecting telemetry on active users. This is collecting telemetry on installed software.

I get that the Overton window in this shifted a long time ago, and in the tech community I'm in the minority, and especially on hacker news where so many people work for tech companies that track their users every way they can, but I am saying I find it deeply concerning that this sort of thing is a "run of the mill" telemetry update.
My circle is 99.2% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
Open Matrix Language

https://www.openmatrix.org/
In our case (news related app) there's simply no demand for it that we've seen. Our users seem to value push notifications more. I think apps that are more about calendaring or lists of things probably have more of a reason to use home widgets.
Do not disable updates. When (not if) it gets compromised your machine will become a launch pad to damage other machines on the internet.

If you really disagree move to Linux, you'll still have updates but you decide when to apply them.
>The ministry issued the directions under the IT Rules, 2021 that gives the ministry the authority to take down posts that it deems undermines the sovereignty and integrity of India, and has “potential to adversely impact India’s friendly relations with foreign countries as also public order within the country,” Gupta said. Both YouTube and Twitter complied with the directions, he said.
Still waiting on iOS Safari push notifications to actually work...
Also the Common Lisp OS Mezzano[0] runs like that. It runs Doom and Quake by means of lowering C to LLVM-IR which is then lowered to a subset of CL which is then compiled by the trusted native Mezzano compiler.

[0] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/
I used Octave both times I took Andrew Ng’s Stanford Machine Learning class.

Initially I hated the language but grew to like it.

Octave is an amazing open source/free software project.
This isn’t googles first layoff. This is their first mass layoff
Lucky for those investors the FTC’s investigation shows the funds/VCs handling their investments were negligent and breached their fiduciary duty by not conducting any due diligence. Time for those investors to sue the VCs/funds.
The rise of 'one-and-done' parenting
Short term possibly foolish investors are about the next quarter. Long term investors consider far more than just the next, easily manipulable quarter.
I once bought a George Foreman grill and put sand in it.
Good points.

Software obviously doesn't inherit the physical aspects involved with aerospace experimentation (e.g. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works). The limiting factor is typically only employee focus/time.
We are self deceivers. The question becomes, is this useful?
Hey Bart! Remember Windows Vista widgets? They’re back, in iOS form!
I really like to debate issues. This leads to many problems on the modern internet.

I won’t go into all of them, but the biggest by far is when the real world and online world collide, and you encounter stakeholders not willing to work on a good-faith basis.

I live in a small town of around 6,000 people in NJ. Very rural, you have to drive 30+ minutes to get most anywhere. Yet our bucolic town is a hot bed of intrigue because a small but very vocal group of people have come to dominate online conversations. The local Facebook pages have become toxic. A regular stream of lies, false accusations, made up “threats” to the community, false narratives on school referendums, etc are propagated online in an effort to change the actual fiber of our towns.

Attempts to engage in good faith leads to the predictable results - name calling, doxxing, character assassination, fake posters. It escalates into stalking, obscene graffiti spray painted on driveways, etc. Facebook is far and away the biggest problem here.

The end result is many of the saner people have exited all the local Facebook groups. For me it’s sad that I am now less connected with what’s going on. But it is worth it for getting rid of the drama and stress.

Neighbors IRL can disagree (even radically) and still be neighbors. Neighbors on the Internet rapidly devolves into the unhinged and depraved and frankly immoral people (from a golden rule perspective) dominating every conversation.

Moderation would seem to be the answer, but hasn’t worked.
This is just The Register’s style. Sometimes I appreciate the snark, but other times (like this) it’s laid on so thick it’s hard to understand what is actually being reported on.
Career Cushioning
Octave seems great since it’s open and let’s you run Matlab scripts.

A bit offf topic, but is Matlab relevant still? I’ve heard it’s still in use a lot, but what’s the benefit of going with a walled off proprietary $$$ tool when you can use something like this? Python and R also seem like they’re growing so much and are very open.

I just remember taking a class on Matlab and being pretty disappointed in it with how closed it felt. Will totally check out octave tho!
By your logic, everybody should make as many babies as possible. I know there are people that claim to believe that.
Curious, what’s concerning? Links à la IETF RFC 5988 are pretty vanilla web stuff.
I wouldn't write them down so easily.

Even though they are not providing machine learning models, Google is still the biggest provider of high quality AI research papers in the world.

As AI models are improving, at some point they will turn into business advantages, it's just not yet big enough business for Google to make a big difference compared to ads.
> Interaction is mostly with total strangers

My online social interaction is mostly with people I've talked to daily for years, sometimes decades. Most of them I've had close personal talks with. While I haven't met most of them face to face, they're certainly not strangers.

> almost always in text form (no subtext, no facial expression, no body language)

While most of my online social interactions is via text, some is via speech. TeamSpeak was common before but more niche, Discord is making it very convenient so more general these days. That said, I'd say you can express a lot through text, but it's a different art perhaps.

I sorta grew up on newsgroups and IRC. While it's nice meeting people in person, I can certainly fill most of my social quota via Discord or similar these days.

Thinking more about it, I think the key difference is that what I enjoy is the content of the talk, not how it's performed (ie body language etc).
Part of it might be that in a world of react native and other such technologies, apps simply aren’t able to provide them, or it’s too technically challenging to. There are some fairly significant restrictions that are hard for a non-native app to comply with.

And it turns out nobody really cares. Everyone’s used to opening the app when they need anything. And I say this with 5 widgets covering my only Home Screen - not bashing them in any way.
I really enjoyed how widgets were handled on a separate page previously. Back then I had lots of more widgets available but the whole re-working of the widget system has been a bit of a letdown for Apple itself too, or so I would think...
Just run old windows versions with your old office in a virtual machine. Its simple to set up and with a modestly decent system there's no performance lags, mine is 10+ years old. I keep them like that and have virtual machines for individual software packages I don't want being impacted by changes. You can also easily clone or move the entire OS and system among computers and have backups.
If "examples of abstract art" would suffice, my GPU can now spit those out pretty quick :^)
Reporting the important things:

> [...] followed by instructions on how to download and install the update, which Microsoft said has been scanned to ensure it's not infected by malware.

>

> "Microsoft scanned this file for viruses by using the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help prevent any unauthorized changes to it," the Windows giant said on the update notice page.
Yeah. The Register loves using somewhat weird slangy terms which is at least a bit confusing in this case. Also, maybe wait until Microsoft gets back to you before running the story--assuming they didn't provide a reasonable window to respond--given there's a lot of supposition here.
fwiw, Obie, the Dachshund in the first slide, was 77 lbs and lost 50 lbs and is now a healthy dog. So there's hope for your fat website :-)

https://www.thedodo.com/dog-drops-50-pounds-now-models-87229...
Provenly Unprovable (2006)
> Outlook 2010 does not support the modern authentication and encryption that Exchange Online, and Outlook.com require.

Really? Then explain me why is it important? Why does it require this specific solution, and why other solutions like say using say POP over SSL are absolutely impossible? And if it's so absolutely required, and other solutions are absolutely impossible, why couldn't it be added?

I mean, Google of all people managed to write a plugin that acts as a middleware between Outlook and gmail.com and solves all this, and unlike Microsoft they didn't have the benefit of having access to Outlook sourcecode or APIs, so clearly, something is off.

To me, this means 1) the lack of "modern" auth and encryption is at best an excuse since 2) there's a proof of concept (from a competitor!) that 3) reliably works as a plugin which is using architectural choices ALREADY BAKED IN outlook.

Maybe Microsoft didn't have the money (nah) human resources (possible) or lost the source code (but didn't it get posted during a hack?) of Office 2010 to tweak it and add the feature.

However, since it came right after the end of the official support period, I seriously doubt it.

I see that more like the same money grab that 1Password did: stop selling regular licenses (here office 2010), move to a subscription model (here office 365), introducing incompatible features as needed to "encourage" the migration (here "modern" auth) , and if customers still don't get the memo, just plainly break the product with some technobabble for plausible deniability (here "encryption" - works as well on the average techie as "think about the children!" works on the average voter)
Which ones dominate the financial system?
Hahahahaha!

That response made me laugh out loud. Thanks for starting my day off well. :)
IMHO push notifications (which appear when you need them or when they are most relevant) are almost always better for UX than widgets (which take up space at all times).
> they over hired during the pandemic thinking the growth would not stop.

I have to call bullshit on this scapegoat.

We're seeing FANGs killing projects that started way before the pandemic, without providing any clear rationale.

At most there's this vague excuse that the company decided to scale down investments, but internally we're seeing entire teams being written down and everyone fired without any notice, from managers to engineers.
One solution I’ve seen is to allow customer to choose the cloud and region so the managed service is as close as possible to the customer’s existing infrastructure.
Yep, Developing the iPhone as definitely a mistake
I think you’re maybe wishcasting. The state and federal governments are spending billions to keep Diablo Canyon open after a rush of blood to the head thinking they could close it.
"Russia's unprovoked invasion"

As if countries go to war over Nothing. Absolute Drivel.
Nobody wants to use a site that does not have a big audience.

All the ones I have seen are not even 1/10 of Twitter size so your potential reach is tiny.

Not to mention mastodon is too complicated to sign up for.
The GNU universe is wide and deep, and although each program is developed independently by different people with different backgrounds, the name still stands for something special.
For me, it's a quality attribute, among others; I'm less hesitant to install and try GNU applications than other, more free-floating ones.
And I have never been really disappointed.

Furthermore, the software philosophical aspect should not be underestimated. The more you realize what software can do and what powerful influence it has on our society in many ways, the value of a GNU Public License has increased for me.
Features are also for some sneaky bonus profits.

I can't see why else I need Candy Crush and TikTok on my Start menu in a fresh install.
Ah, but in that case would they mind it being harsh, brutal, and short? Given the configuration of their mind's hardware

On a side note, I get the impression most people just don't have a gut instinct for just how awful natural life is like for the most part
For 1, I think the obvious answer was that the Fed, thanks to ZIRP, created an environment where investors were clamoring for investment opportunities. This gave high-growth companes, like FTX was on paper, a lot of leverage with the terms of investment.
I am all for "a deep and intuitive understanding" of whatever I do" but it tends to be a bit extreme to the point where I don't do anything because I feel it won't perfect the first time, and it never is.
The author cherry picks a couple of positive examples while ignoring all of the negative consequences of making believe. Believing things are true when they aren't has also been the cause of war, genocide, human sacrifice, and oppression.

It is also possible to have the positives (community, sense of connection) without any unjustified beliefs.
There's a fare amount happening in the custom scene for widgets (like there is for KWGT on Android). Checkout the scriptable app!
Here's an archived/unpaywalled version: https://archive.is/R4sLu
As a user of them, it remains disappointing that you can’t really interact with them. I use a few (shopping list, world clock, random photos), but if there was more possible interaction than just ‘open the app’, there might be more creative use cases.
If the CFTC does this, I hope they limit it to investments / valuations of $1B or more, as seed-stage companies shouldn't have to pay for an audit, etc.

This is what happened with Sarbanes Oxley where they overregulated the IPO process and caused the companies to stay private (and uninspected) for longer as well as removing the post-IPO growth upside from retail investors [1].

This is not to mention the recent SPAC craze being a way to get around this as well, which ended up with the median SPAC losing 70% of its value, while the S&P lost roughly 1/4 of that over the same period. [2]

There's a sweet spot for this kind of regulation, and overly "get tough" never works more than sensible restrictions where the risk is highest.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act#Cri...

[2] https://www.fa-mag.com/news/spac-euphoria-turns-into-painful...
It seems to be more relevant in some electrical engineering subfields.
> Renewables are fairly predictable, so they can be counted on. The production is variable, but not unreliable or unpredictable. It's an important distinction, and it gives more time for the grid to coordinate with Demand Response (or peaker plants) to match load and production.

Was Germany's months-long period of low wind in 2022 predictable in this sense? Was Germany supposed to stop using electricity for months as Demand Reduction? I buy that you can maybe store enough power for overnight demand if solar generates enough during the day (at some potentially large cost), but wind can just stop blowing for weeks. Storage cannot solve that without outrageous cost, or blackouts.
It’s the Code Karle one. The presenter has a thick Indian accent but is still understandable, which I’d probably say was the main negative.
Depends on whgat they are - e.g. I want the magnifying glass as a widget - or the current weather forecast - These are not notifications
French rocket scientists get toilet breaks and healthcare, as well as other advantages of living in a country with some semblance of safety net. Just comparing raw salaries is misleading.
Depenfs on the olace of birth, and especially in the case of Yugoslavia, his ancestry. The latter fought a couple a very nasty wars trying figure that one out.

Those people are either Czech, Slovak, Serb, Slovenes, Croat... Rather easy to answer.
The way people end up on this list is super opaque, but it's certainly not used to catch wanted criminals.

In fact, the US doesn't have super reliable systems to stop fugitives at airports except on entry.
I have also noticed that about the JS ecosystem, I would also like to add emojis as an example of something I see as abused in that ecosystem. There seems to be a lot of form-over-function going on over there, I wonder what characteristic of JavaScript developers inclines them to build their apps in that way.
Or, use a different browser just to view this page.
Browsers add support for new JS features every year. You can use them or not, I don’t care what you do. Every web stack I’ve worked on in the last 7 years has a compile step, too, so you’re either ignorant or being intentionally obtuse. Either way it’s not like anyone should listen to you.

So what’s your point, other than communicating how upset you are over a programming language? That we should be writing websites like it’s 1999?
The right question to ask an interviewer
The really frustrating thing with this trend is that the colorful terminal apps don't bother checking if their stdout is a pipe.

Inevitably, they get run in CI, and then my web browser window / text editor is full of control characters and other bullshit.
> over the competent and block their potential

“I’m competent but I can’t reach my potential because others are blocking me.”
Microsoft to Stop Selling Windows 10 Licenses at the End of the Month
Obnoxiously loud car? A traffic camera might be listening
A mobile app could easily facilitate that by storing a "passphrase prefix" (or suffix, etc) using biometrics/device key and requiring users to enter the remainder if you don't trust the device to store the entire thing.
I am curious, what apps are you using that you wish had widgets but don't?

Personally I find that the apps I want widgets for, have them. Personal Finance (Copilot), Food Tracking (LifeSum), Task Tracking (Things and TickTick), plus the built in ones cover all my use cases.

I also just went and looked to see what other apps I have installed that have one and I see other ones like Twitch, Youtube, Ritual, Reddit, Mela.

I think most apps just don't need widgets, really just things that I want to have a quick glance to and the vast majority of my apps don't fall in that category.

Edit: To clarify, I have yet to go looking for a widget for a specific app had not find one that does what I want.
Things change alot when your main objective is not about convincing other people they are wrong, but just appreciating the ability to participate in a conversation. We all want to influence other people's ideas, but their are severe limits to that. Sometimes simply adding your voice to the conversation is enough of a statement in that it lets everyone know that not everyone agrees, and that there are reasonable alternate takes.
I don't use iOS and didn't know they were now available, but Android's approximately 'always' had them, and how many users do you see using them?

I have a feeling they used to be more popular, maybe around 4.0 when people seemed more into arguing about iOS vs Android like it mattered what other people used, but I don't use any or see people use any now. (Although installing Lineage on my new-to-me phone it came with a clock widget by default, which I might keep.)

So I would guess the developers of major apps have metrics on how few use them on their Android version, and don't see the point/it's lower priority than whatever else they're doing.
I missed the bit where belief in "anybody" was justified by the facts regarding "Jones" getting the job. Given that all sorts of smart people have looked at this before, I'll plead to being dumb and hopefully someone will help me understand.

[For me] All that seems to reinforce the need for the 'correspondence' variety of truth. Smith is free to believe all sorts of non-sense, and this in fact happens in real life all the time. People around us have all sorts of funny theories about the world and reality. We all have them. That sort of 'knowledge' -- actionable and informative theories about the world regardless of completeness or factuality -- serves its purpose in every day life. The degree to which it is false and contextually relevant determines the probability of a collision between actual reality and one's theories about reality modulo 'chance' events. This is basically how human society operates and has operated for ever. We have (hopefully) learning agents navigating a partially error tolerant environment. "Live and learn". So this is a practical sort of knowledge that can be well served by a pragmatic take on truth.

The only question really is more fundamental and this asks if philosophy is itself a sort of mental appendix, a part that really serves no purpose :_, for every day conduct of life. To wit, this 'unassailable' sort of knowledge, who needs it? And if we can't answer that, why ask the question?
Sadly yes, it dominates MRI Physics, and still has a substantial footprint in neuroimaging.
> FTX is an offshore company,

FTX.US is not
You can almost certainly get anyone put on this list by simply creating an email account like firstname.lastname@protonmail.com and sending out a few threatening emails to the right places.
Just trying to briefly qualify my viewpoint with my experience of apple. But your right, anyones opinion here as a consumer is equally valid.
Most meats have a low or 0 GI/GL [1] but meat also spike glucagon at the same time so it's less of an issue than say sugar or carbohydrates that spike insulin and not glucagon equally.

[1] - https://glycemic-index.net/glycemic-index-of-meats/