skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google would have a better roi giving the money to Google Ventures or a16z.

Is there any evidence that Google is better at managing money than its investors, say Warren Buffett? If not, they should raise their dividends instead.
Google Slashes Most Jobs at Area 120 Incubator as Part of Cuts
If you're thinking of focusing issues, IIRC there is evidence that not getting exposed to enough UV light (read: sun light) during years our eyes develops may play a big part in that.

No idea if that would imply this is needed as an adult though. And that is assuming I don't misremember in the first place.
Wikipedia allows "fair use" as justification for including non-freely licensed works (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Poles_(Jackson_Pollo... for Blue Poles specifically) while Wikimedia Commons does not.
It is hard to believe the claim in the video that ‘5 crypto ladies’ at Bloomberg passed on this enormous story absent evidence from the speaker.

Regarding Madoff, there were indeed investigations after some of the complaints. Notably, these situations differ in that Madoff was a respected figure within the regulatory apparatus (but it’s hard to imagine that SBF holds sway over the editorial process at Bloomberg). It is true that the investigations into Madoff were ineffectual, at least according to reports I have seen
That shouldn't be an issue because to start a backup, the computer must be "trusted" which requires you to enter your pin.
Similarly as a developer (and maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a while since I've looked at making a widget), you are incapable of adding interaction.

I think taps are supported, I don't even know if you can scroll in a widget?
I tend to think the opposite - companies buying potential competition (like the way FB bought Whatsapp or Instagram) serves the public a lot less than letting these companies grow on their own.
SOX is, IMHO, one of the most reasonable regulations people came up with in the last decades. There seems to be quite some push back against some of the SOX rules, especially when it comes to internal controls, and especially coming from the start-up community.
This is probably not quite the right time of year for this post. I see:

Fillable Forms is closed for the year

November 17 was the last day to access accounts, make changes, print or resubmit a rejected return. After November 17, 2022, you will not have access to your Free File Fillable Forms account and your 2021 federal tax return.

I would suspect that it will open in this next month or so. Does anybody use free file (https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...)? If so, what do they think of it? Why is it better than just sending postal mail (which one has always been able to file for free)? From a security point of view, is it better to send postal mail or have to worry about hackers and filing over the net?

Also, note that there is open source software that might work for some people (depends on state and forms needed)? I found:

https://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/

Is there other opensource software?
Maybe, I am more impressed with FAIR and Deep Mind. Yes I know Deep Mind is part of Alphabet... that being said TensorFlow and Attention is All you Need were amazing.
I use it when I’m given a model by a scientist they wrote in matlab and I need to port it somewhere else to integrate with an actual system. Octave is great for testing to make sure port matches etc. I also use Octave to learn how matlab algos work because octave is open source and reimplements most if matlab a standard library
In-house incubators are pretty much normal these days (see ambidextrous organization). Even smaller companies like JetBrains are running them for ages. Nobody wants to miss the next big thing but you need to shield your existing business from anything that might disrupt it, so you make your incubator organizationally separate.
Off topic, how do you find copilot? Is it using Plaid for account sync? Anything particularly good/bad?
Article 5(3) of EU Directive 2002/58/EC:

"3. Member States shall ensure that the storing of information, or the gaining of access to information already stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned has given his or her consent, having been provided with clear and comprehensive information, in accordance with [the GDPR], inter alia, about the purposes of the processing. This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide the service."
Open source maintainers: What they need and how to support them
isn’t it enough that the VCs lost money and credibility

do we need the heavy arm of the law in everything?
What a fun tool to play around with
Do you know what supplements have this as a side effect?
Vaccine Safety: 57% Want Congress to Investigate CDC
I used to use it a lot, but the python libraries are much further ahead at this point. For my uses (essentially image processing and statistics) Octave is always playing catchup with Matlab but python is mostly at par or ahead of Matlab. With the exception of the parallel stuff... but that wasn't anything Octave had either. Eventually when I need performance again I'll see about figuring out how to migrate parts to Julia. One thing I like about the python things is there are some hints of IDL in there (I'm a masochist and liked IDL... Matlab frustrates me at times). Matlab was great for slapping quick UIs together and making little tools, but Jupyter works well enough for that.

The 0 indexing in python does really and truly suck sometimes though.
Medical Board Takes Action Against Misinformation Doc
>Turns out, it’s just sleepwalking

The piece explicitly states that it is not sleepwalking:

>Not all nocturnal behaviors are RBD. Sleepwalking and sleep talking, which occur more often during childhood and adolescence, take place during non-REM sleep. This difference is clearly distinguishable in a sleep laboratory, where clinicians can monitor stages of sleep to see when a person moves.
> like FTX was on paper

FTX was high-growth in practice too. FTX was a phenomenal business. It wasn’t like most crypto projects that are scams; their business and profits were genuinely massive.

What they did was take consumer funds and loan them out without real collateral. That’s bad and dumb and illegal, but doesn’t change the fact that the growth and economics of FTX were real.
Ok, so I happen to be Austrian. A 105 years ago, Austria was a big, multiethnic empire. Still, being Austrian was a nationality, embracing what are now several countries and nations. (This is the nationality my grandparents were born into.) Back in the day, I probably would have identified as a German-Austrian. However, there are at least 3 major countries with a major population of mostly German ancestry. 32 years ago, there had been 4. But I do not identify as German. ("German" ethnicity is a construct, as well. In this particular case, according to a once famous Austrian saying, it's a mix of those left behind during the great migration.) Instead, I do identify as part of a community inhabiting a certain political territory. This territory has lost considerable parts, entire countries and nations, but it also has received regions and ethnicities from what had been the Hungarian part of the Habsburg empire. It even isn't the same political entity it had been not that long ago. Over the last century, it had been an empire, a small republic, part of the third Reich, and then a newly reconstructed republic. It had been located at the very outskirts of the Western hemisphere and is now right in the middle of a greater Europe. Still, there is identity, but this identity is undeniably fluid. – It's hard to not to observe some fluidity in the concept of nationality.
HiFive Pro P550 dev board coming this summer with Intel RISC-V chip
As much as I agree with the general sentiment that we don't pay enough attention to the amount of exploitation going on during the production of electronics, doesn't the high price of eInk displays have more to do with one company hoarding all the relevant patents and scaring off the competition?
> I have not talked to anyone before (...) who claimed that the operational story of microservices was "basic" or "trivial".

You somehow failed to read what I actually said, and proceeded to go off on a non-sequitur.

I repeat what I said: it is trivial to launch and shutdown multiple services in a local software dev environment. It's trivial with Docker, it's trivial with minikube, it's trivial with microk8s, etc. It is a solved problem. Why is anyone trying to pretend that this is impossible?

Enough excuses and scapegoats.

> Except I never said anything like that.

Except you did. You tried to claim that the small teams you were involved failed to setup working software environment because reasons, and that was the reason why you also failed. Bad form. You own your work.

> I'm not going to join an organisation and tell them "you're all doing it wrong!" in my first week.

Bullshit. It makes zero sense to forego setting up a working dev environment as the very first onboarding task, and excuses like "being able to debug would make team members pissed" is absurd. Either you can do your job or you can't, and throwing your team members under the bus like this is bad form.
Sundar Pichai is just a bean counter. His innovations are a botched attempt to enter China, throttling promotions in engineering, low balling non FAANG experienced devs when hiring, lay offs, lowering benefits and plastering ads on anything and everything.
I really want the Stacks app for IOS.. I have this problem. I have so many scanned PDFs that need organizing...
That's incorrect. I just tested and there's definitely a touchid/faceid prompt when you try to download a new app. Also, apps that you already downloaded/purchased require no identification at all.
Think about how humans treat less-intelligent sentient beings (even less intelligent humans to some extent), and what might happen if AI systems out-evolve us without proper guard-rails
I used Octave when my educational license for Matlab expired. We need OSS competitors to keep Matlab in check, already at $1k/year https://www.mathworks.com/pricing-licensing.html
I’m so glad someone else pointed this particular case out! When I was a first year university student but still claimed as a dependent on my parents taxes, the accountant who prepared the returns wasn’t even aware that it needed to be reported, so they had to redo it. Later when I was doing taxes for myself via TaxAct, there was no way (that I could see) to accurately report that income. It also stumbled on HSA contribution limits. Both issues were easily resolved with the free fillable forms (which come with detailed, if overwhelming, instructions)
It dominates among engineers too, mainly because of Simulink and the toolboxes it offers.
An app that makes a great use of the widgets in iOS is Blinq, a digital business card app [0].

I find it super handy to be able to access the contact QR code without fiddling with lock screens and finding the app.

[0] https://blinq.me/
More than anything, it’s surprising how well this company has maintained an illusion of competence and prestige. The general population really believes in the eliteness of their engineers. But when the rubber hits the road, the products leave much to be desired

Edit:

A hypothesis I have:

Part of the success of search is in the belief of the elite ness of their engineers. “They are the smartest so why ever try another search product”. The aura of the company is part of the brand/product. It’s brilliant marketing
What if the primary reason is not about your own visibility, but what you can learn from other commentators. Not accusing you of egomania, but expecting your voice to matter in such forums might unnecessarily feed your ego.
"Google is still the biggest provider of high quality AI research papers in the world."

I agree that they have at least one of the top AI research groups among the corporate players. But is that going to translate into business advantage?

IBM Research was (and is still to some extent) pretty solid, but did that actually translate into business advantage? The "Watson" that competed on Jeopardy was impressive for its time. But we can look back on how the attempt to commercialize that flopped pretty hard.

Note: I'm not saying Google has IBM levels of sclerosis, at least not yet.

But there's no ironclad law that a solid research division will always turn into something profitable.
upvoting for the audio. the incredibly relaxed audio presentation gives this theory a casual and jovial nature which feels wildly different than most blog posts (which I tend to read in a lecturing-professor tone).
Good. Wish something like that existed for Kotlin.
And no, being locked into Intellij ecosystem is not the same.
Google is likely not better at managing their money than investors. But once you issue dividends there is an expectation the dividend amount remains. Google did do share buybacks which is generally a more efficient way to return money back to shareholders.

Alternatively if google is viewed as a growth tech stock. I think people would trust google to make investments into growth tech startups. Google ventures performance is pretty decent.
I am fairly certain that I have read that these types of optimizations (only change dirty characters) already exist in certain terminals. I wonder if the issue would be more how to get such an optimization to the display.

Although perhaps it automatically does a comparison between current and previous frame to do its own dirty-pixel optimization.
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You can't scroll in them. You can't even intercept the tap event, you just add intents to views and iOS will open those intents.

The reason for this is supposedly battery life. For the bigger widgets on an iPhone that feels a little over the top, but the widgets system underpins the lock screen widgets which are now possibly always on, and the watchOS "complications"/widgets, which can also be always on. Because of that I can understand it.
> Just run old windows versions with your old office in a virtual machine

I don't like VMs. I prefer technical solutions like Wine.

And if I go this way, I might as well give the boot to Windows to run Wine on Linux: all I really need is AHK, Office, Edge, and a good Terminal. From my last Linux experiences, I already know Office works great on Wine. Edge is wonderful too, first class citizen on Ubuntu (oh firefox snap, please die already lol)

I'd have to check how well AHK, then mintty or Windows Terminal runs on Wine (Linux terminals offer an abysmal user experience), but I'm ready to do that if that's what it takes to keep Office 2010 running baremetal.

I've been using Office 2007 then 2010 since uni (and back then they were already getting long in the teeth and Office 365 was already being pushed) and ... I don't ever plan to stop as I like many small details, like how Word starts faster than the new notepad.
> dispute the bill
The two iOS widgets that I find the most usable and also provide quite a lot of utility are the MyRadar (weather) and Kasa (smart home) widgets.

I can get most weather information I need from the MyRadar widget; rarely do I need to open the app. If I do, it’s mostly to check weather in other areas like my parent’s home during hurricane season.

Likewise with the Kasa widget. The only time I open the app these days is to setup a new device or an automation/scene.

Useful widgets exist, but I imagine their use cases are fairly limited to mostly trivial things. For more complex applications, it probably simply isn’t worth the dev time to create and maintain a widget.
Most people using Twitter aren't professionals whose primary interest is capturing as many eyeballs as possible - and almost none of the pros are actually reaching a significant fraction of Twitter, anyway. The fact that people are leaving Twitter for Mastodon proves other motivations can be just as effective as "reach."

Also, "too complicated" is a reach on a site full of people who deal with the arcane bullshit of programming all day. It isn't that difficult. At a minimum, pick an instance and fill out a form on their website (eg: https://mastodon.social/) and bookmark each one. Or get any third-party client. Plenty of "non-technical" people have figured it out.
I saw a headline recently that suicides in girls have doubled since the smartphone was invented, so maybe?

On the other hand, correlation is not necessarily causation.
> But there is nothing stopping someone else from making your phone think it’s a trusted computer.

That's non-trivial because the computer that you've trusted identifies itself to the iphone cryptographically.
My favorite story by qntm is "There Is No Antimemetics Division"[1]. It's disturbing in a cosmic sort of way.

1. https://books.google.com/books/about/There_Is_No_Antimemetic...
It might be just my impression, but it seems WASM itself has not moved forward in the last 2 years.
Calendar widget scrolls just fine
This is great. Reading the source reminds me of reading the game programming (in C) books I read as a kid. Thanks!
It can also be a symptom of withdrawal from alcohol and other drugs.
The plasma being warm is perfectly fine from the point of the weapon, as the weapon is moving and the plasma is not.
1. They have limited interactivity, hence cool features are hard or impossible.
2. Many, many people just don't care about them or the limited screen real estate they provide and prefer to use a full screen app.

I don't think you can fix 2. by fixing 1. - that is a common topic of discussion that I believe to be pointless, seeing as I very seldom (if ever) used them in Android as well.

I have about half of my iPad's home screen taken up with weather and calendar widgets, and that is about the most extensive use I make of them. On the iPhone I only use a few on the lock screen (for similar purposes).
I was going to reply with similar. I have a secondary Android device (largely for Tachiyomi, but I'm thinking of migrating to Android full-time) and I put a Todoist widget on my home screen. I also put an iOS Todoist widget on my home screen, and the difference is night and day. The iOS one has very specific pre-set sizes it can be and has no interactivity.

The Android one I can: Check tasks I've done, scroll the list of tasks, select individual tasks, change the view (which opens a selection dialog), open the configured view in Todoist, and add a new task to the configured view (which opens a small UI over my home screen).

The iOS one allows you to long press to change some settings, select individual tasks (which opens Todoist completely), open the configured view in Todoist, and add a new task to the configured view (which opens Todoist completely). It also has __very__ limited options for where you can put it on top of the already-limited sizing options. I can either put it at the very top of the screen, the middle of the screen (2 rows of apps above, 2 rows below), of the very bottom of the screen. While the Android one can be resized to basically whatever and put anywhere. You can also only see 3 total tasks in the widget since you can't change the size, the text size, and you can't scroll. I might as well just click the app because it offers __very__ little that just tapping the app doesn't, or notifications don't.

No wonder not many widgets are being adopted for iOS. They're extremely limited. And that's all on top of the point another comment was making about people making websites into apps with React Native or a wrapper which makes it really hard to create widgets, especially with things like heavy memory/CPU time limitations placed on widgets in iOS making it hard to be able to boot up the app and get enough data to create a widget with inside those limitations. Let alone making the iOS-specific APIs and whatnot available to your app.
A lot of Python docs are in fact pretty well designed to resemble a book without completely breaking the fluidity of the web page. They use serif fonts, apply font weights and colors subtly. In fact I think they strike the right balance between just being a regular webpage and completely succumbing to the constraints of the book as media.

https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.2.x/
You're describing the initial motivation for the vi user interface. (It targeted ~300 baud terminals.)
>"A good leader knows when they’re facing a tough problem that they don’t have all the answers for and they need help solving it. Reaching out for that help rather than trying to muddle through on your own could be the difference between success and a disaster."

There is no reason why he would have ever needed to "muddle through" on his own. The article states Google acquired DeepMind an AI research lab in 2014 as well as the fact that Google has its own Advanced Technology Review Council. This is in addition to the insane hiring spree that the company went on in recent years where presumably they did or should have been hiring even more AI competencies. Given these things, having to call in the founders who stepped away from the company 3 years ago kind of make this CEO look incompetent.
Use that second monitor on the right I would guess?
This is reassuring. At the end of the day, google is a business. While innovation is key to their brand, they are not a nonprofit (like Apache) or an educational institution. The entire tightening of belts may be symbolic to investors across most companies, it would be jarring if the layoff were even across all businesses units.
It is not just the cities which are dirty in India
This headline reminds me of this article from 2 months back: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/23/google-has-avoided-mass-layo...
So the performance win appears to be from relying on sandboxing to safely run everything in ring zero so they can bypass the overhead of system calls. Which is actually pretty cool, and depending on the workload could actually reasonably lead to performance being better than user space.
https://archive.is/Se3z4
You are right Python, R and Julia are good enough for Data Science and Ml. But the Matlab ecosystem is deeply intertwined for a variety of fields, including ones that don't require coders.

Take a look at this for example https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/49683-l...
It has some add-ons (tool-boxes) that aren't as complete or don't exist in the open source world and would be a big lift to reimplements. If you are just writing all your own code there isn't any advantage over python, Julia, etc.
Google builds well polished products that work well. The issue is that their product strategy is bad due to the company’s culture. For example stadia as a technology and product usage wise was great. However the product placement, market growth strategy, and pricing strategy was crap.
Microservices for their own sake seems to be a mistake. The big win of microservices seems to be when your dev team is big enough that coordinating everything within a monolith becomes cumbersome. It's more about organizational structure than anything else.

Examples:
Team a needs version 6 of a dependency
Team b is using version 5, and there's serious compatibility issues
Team c is writing something in Rust which makes sense for them, but not teams a and b.
OP listed FTX US in the category of “in the US”.
Where I'm from (Atlanta), the ground-dwelling type eat meat.
It is both the time and the taxes that are a burden. And there's always gonna be some people out there keeping track of all the dumb shit we are being taxed for but not changing it, just like today.
Link to the VSCode extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sswg.swi...
Starting a New Instagram Account in 2023?