skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New businesses are constrained in the kinds of products they can make.
If you're a VC backed startup you typically have to produce results (=sales or other proof of product-market-fit) within 3-4 years, and work on a product that propell the company to a billion-dollar valuation in 15 years. Meanwhile if you bootstrap you either need very low costs or very fast time-to-market (or a very deep checkbook). And I guess if you can prove very low risk (like opening another McDonalds) you can get a bank loan, but that's a difficult route to take for product development.

Existing companies don't have these restrictions. They can finance projects that take 10 years to pay off, projects that require high volumes to be profitable (no startup could have made the iPhone at that price point), or projects that have a 3x ROI at significant investment.

In return, big companies have cultural problems that can make these things difficult. But it's valuable to have both innovation in big companies and in small flexible companies.
Ahhhh yes, The this was a great business if only they hadn't thrown all the money out the window argument. If a business is throwing money out the window then it doesn't matter how good the rest of the business is. The company is a bad business.

FTX was high growth but apparently 0 profit which does not make a business good. Claims that, if only they hadn't been crooks and/or incompetent, this would have been great doesn't change the fact that they were, in fact, either highly incompetent or crooks.
It does use Plaid, which unfortunately means they are at the mercy of them when things break... and things break a fair amount. I went over a month not being able to sync one of my accounts once. But it was all plaid.

Outside of that, I really like the app. I wish there was an iPad app, I think they should have done that before a Mac app. But the Mac app is nice.

It does what I need for it to, support is responsive but when its a syncing issue they are limited in what they can actually do.

Also if you use an Apple Card it isnt real time syncing like Mint you have to import it after the month is over... which doesnt really help with budgeting.
I used it instead of matlab when working on power systems calculations, it worked pretty well!
Web pages are programmable - way more so than desktop or mobile apps.

You can open up the DevTools and start poking around - including running your own JS against the page DOM using the console.

You can write bookmarklets, or user scripts, or even fill browser extensions that run your own custom scripts.

You can even run a headless browser to automate this stuff further - a trick I use a bunch with my shot-scraper CLI tool, see https://simonwillison.net/2022/Mar/14/scraping-web-pages-sho... and https://til.simonwillison.net/shot-scraper/scraping-flourish
Or just do both at the same time if possible. When I started my daytime job eight years ago, I managed to negotiate a four-day-week. Since then I used the fifth day to do freelancing in projects I find interesting and over the years I've shifted to use it mostly to do voluntary IT work for a local non-profit.
> Google is still the biggest provider of high quality AI research papers in the world.

AI Research papers usually don't contribute to the bottom line.... you need execution chops there.
> Plus, we have a lot of processing power on the client side, which should be utilised.

It would be one thing if this was a matter of consent. It isn't. It uses your resources without your permission. Leaving JS on is not permission to consume as much CPU as you want (otherwise, every website would also run a crypto miner).

> If a site uses it badly, just don't go to that site.

This sort of blitheness is very surprising to me. What if we're talking about a passport site, or an unemployment benefits site, and so on? Why is the onus on the user and not the developer?
Here's another take on "creating a person solely to do some work": I believe it can be done in a humane way. Say, generate (or use a mind scan of) a programmer who loves their craft (as in, used to dream "if I only didn't have to go to work, I'd use all the time for my hobby projects").

Solution: put them in a simulated environment running at a higher than normal rate. Then, from their standpoint, it would be e.g. two 8-hour workdays per week, with the remaining 5 spent on (simulated) sailing/hiking/DIY/having fun with virtual concubines, you name it. These conditions could be legally mandated.
> Initially I hated the language but grew to like it.

Ye in the end I started to like it too. I mean, as long as you don't try to do string manipulations and mainly do numerical stuff it is a very nice language all the quirks be damned.
This isn't just recognition of disease though. Its a prediction that you might get that disease in future.

> Apart from being hazardous to dreamers and their partners, RBD may foreshadow neurodegenerative disease, primarily synucleinopathies—conditions in which the protein α-synuclein (or alpha-synuclein) forms toxic clumps in the brain.
Three billion objects, 10TB+ of data – yup, its the largest survey of our galaxy
I think that it's mostly reasonable too, but there's a balance in regulation pushing the bad behavior to less regulated places and stifling what you're trying to encourage.

One example of this in the Bay Area was the Ghost Ship Fire [1] where they were forced to live off the grid because of over regulation, and then dying in a fire that some of that regulation was trying to prevent.

It's a classic problem. Laws have enforcement costs and knock-on effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ship_warehouse_fire
I really think things started heading south when Sundar became CEO and proceeded to exchange much of the leadership.

He took over a company that was at the top of its game and fucking ran it into the ground in 4-5 years. He’ll be remembered as the worst tech CEO of a major company for years to come.

I couldn’t believe how quickly and radically Google changed and after a while, many of us cut our loses and left. This layoff got rid of many other long-timers for what seems to be no good reason.

We can only hope that all the solid engineers gravitate toward a company where the leadership is not completely incompetent.
Thanks, clarified.
Much to my regret, I've never experienced 300 baud terminals (too young for this) I've just heard about how great their hardware was. I'm a huge admirer of terminals and especially obscure stuff like sixel and regis.

Right now, we seem to be in a vi revival period, and we've new hardware (eink) that bring back old problems (latency + screen update speed) vi was made to tackle, along with new ones (2 refresh modes, one of which can leave ghosting) that should be easy to fix.

So I can't help but notice how vim on eink just needs this one little extra thing to give a great experience on modern hardware
> I don’t know why you think working the hours you’ve been hired to do is being a “Prima Donna”. And I don’t see how getting paid a large salary, having better work-life balance and being hirable are negative things.

You want to do an average work working average hours, you get paid an average salary. That would be about $70k/year.

I'm super happy that FAANG started to cut the fat. The sanity is returning to the market.
It also shows compassion at a difficult time and something you're unlikely to forget.

Prior to the need you might be already planning the next job move. Now you might be planning the next decade at the same employer because of how they treated you.
1. How to get a leveraged loan

2. How leveraged lending protocols manage risk and liquidations

3. Risk vs reward
Reverse proxying a sub-domain via Apache
dümlaut
> How did VCs give billions in funding to someone without insisting on an adult in the room?

Don't know how the whole VC thing works but I suspect that the people who took the decision weren't risking their own money, and they probably won't face many consequences.
Does anyone know of any reliable VSCode extension for Kotlin (Android or server side)?
Eagerly awaiting a retort to this point:)
I can think of a list of works from Alphabet but can't think of much from FAIR (other than OPT).

I will be happy to read something nice from FAIR as well, so please elaborate.
That's not what I said. I even called nuclear dangerous, so how did you conclude that I invalidated concerns besides NIMBYism?

Every option has downsides. Every proposal faces opposition. Every project is decided individually.

The nuclear advocates don't need a special extra requirement to convince everyone in the world to choose nuclear. They're going to go through the same process as everyone else every time.

I said something neutral about nuclear and you invented a personal attack on yourself and reprimanded me for it. Good luck with that attitude, I guess?
Google doesn’t need an innovation strategy. They innovate lots, constantly.

Google needs a strategy strategy. They have corporate ADHD and shiny object syndrome at a massive scale.

IMO they are perpetually confused because of the fundamental conflict between a culture of brilliant creative people and the core corporate mission to make ads more pervasive in our lives.
Rebuilding in Rust
Here in India, Sequoia has backed multiple startups that had glaring lapses in corporate governance (Zilingo and most recently, GoMechanic)

This is another symptom of zero interest rate policies. It encourages bad behavior up and down the pecking order.

There are already strong calls to reduce interest rates. Imo, most people crying out for lower interest rates are likely swimming naked and just want the tide to come back in.
Chinese Chipmaker Loongson Enters GPU Biz with New iGPUs
Cool! I’ll give it a shot, I really am trying to find one that isn’t horrible. Plaid isn’t a downside to me, and it looks like they support direct sync with CapitalOne bypassing Plaid. If you want to shoot your referral code to me over at eliz at bassh dot net I’ll plop it in :).
> scan my computer to collect data for them?

Given how little control you have over it, is it your computer?
If you don't know you're trying to solve for X you will get the XY problem though - that's ignorance or lack of education.

The last 3 letters is a perfect example. If you've only been exposed to 3 letter extensions and think that extension == 3 letters because you've never seen anything else it might not occur to you to ask how to get a file's extension.

If you don't know the thing after the . is called an extension and you're looking at an ls of a directory where every file has 3 character extensions it won't occur to you to ask how to get the extension of a file.

Yelling at a person who doesn't ask how to solve X when they don't even know that they should have asked X isn't helpful to anyone.
Yes, i think we take it for granted by now but its obviously an invented layer and a-priory it might not have been even clear if such an architecture is workable at this scale.

The emerging picture is of a (still) wide open canvas where cryptography along with patterns like ocap models play the role of ink for drawing boundaries.

What is still unclear if all pre-existing social arrangements can be re-expressed on this new canvas and where the feedback loops between power centers and the technically skilled people will lead us.

So far the track record is not good. There are various initiatives for moral manifestos concerning digital tech here and there, but they dont seem to make much of a difference
>and there are already so many people grandstanding to each other all the time that it's just more noise on the noise pile.

This is true to an extent. If you're in a 500 comment thread, and the point you want to make has already been made by a few other people, there's little point in dogpiling in yourself. However, this isn't always true. If you're adding new information/perspectives, I don't see how that's "just more noise on the noise pile".
The idea that these are the most valuable employees is just a weird cult. Ya, so valuable that led the company into a situation where they have to make mass layoffs, wouldn’t want to lose any of these geniuses. It’s just a walled garden of MBAs and their family and friends.
My husband was right about DVDs
this is what I do with visual studio for unreal engine as well. I only use it to compile and edit my code with helix
Russia went to war to re-annex a territory that it owned until the end of the Soviet era. Putin has been clear about his ambition to recapture the former states of the USSR.

Conquest is literally the most common reason for wars historically, and Ukraine (with its enormous agricultural significance) is a valuable prize.

If you see any other provocation for the war, please share reliable evidence of it.
For any substantial changes, it's probably easier to just rewrite the firmware from scratch.

Nearly every chip that supports Bluetooth has demo code available to make a Bluetooth HID device. All you'd need to do is run that and fix up the button mappings.
Formerly "Credit Karma Tax".

"The Department of Justice announced today that it is requiring Intuit Inc. and Credit Karma Inc. (Credit Karma) to divest Credit Karma’s tax business, Credit Karma Tax, to Square Inc. in order for Intuit, the creator of TurboTax, to proceed with its $7.1 billion acquisition of Credit Karma."

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-d...
Grizzly bears test positive for bird flu in Montana, officials say
I mean, that is generally what happens when you chargeback with any service, really. They have no obligation to accept your business and by charging back you have shown that, t least for that card (but in many places, the entire account) will result in increased fees and handling which is certainly something a business can reduce if they want to by refusing your business.

Generally speaking, expect to not be able to use the card if not the whole account when you charge back. It's intended to be a last resort option.
You just ask the target to install teamviewer or anydesk…

These are probably support staffers working from personal computers at home using some sort of remote desktop software, hard to enforce any security policies.
I can get product market fit right now giving out cash on a street corner. It doesn't mean anything, and that obviously can't be what PMF means.

If it's not profitable, it's not PMF.
The issue is that he's not going to be comparing his current circumstances to a frog, but to other humans ofc, by which metric he's probably very badly off. I doubt our stereotypical homeless person is going to find their life very fulfilling even if it is longer than a frog's.

I mean, just think how you would react if you found yourself in dire straits and someone told you "hey don't worry, at least you are not at risk of being eaten by a bird" That would be a ridiculous argument no?
THe BaR wAS HiGHeR WhEN i jOiNeD.

Just kidding(a little bit). So many smart people at google though in general the average caliber IME was always really high compared to other places.
If you max out the configuration of an M2 Pro mini with upgraded

12-core M2 Pro processor
19-core GPU
16-core Neural Engine
32GB memory
8TB storage
10Gb ethernet
4 Thunderbolt ports

it costs $4,099, which is exactly the same price as a base configured Ultra Mac Studio with

20-core M1 Ultra processor
48-core GPU
32-core Neural Engine
64GB memory
1TB storage
10Gb ethernet
6 Thunderbolt ports

or two base configured Max Mac Studios with

10-core M1 Max processor
24-core GPU
16-core Neural Engine
32GB memory
512TB storage
10Gb ethernet
4 Thunderbolt ports

So, clearly, Apple doesn't want to sell maxed out M2 Pro minis with 8TB SSD because an M1 Ultra Studio will likely beat the M2 Pro, or at least match it with more resources, and two M1 Max Studios will wipe the floor with both the M1 Ultra Studio and M2 Pro mini.
For 2, it’s (still) not clear who the chief regulator for crypto should be. The SEC has tried at times to assert authority there with pushback all around.

The current legislative push is to make the CFTC the regulator. The CFTC both by mission and culture is more hands off. It’s also much smaller in size than the SEC so focuses on cases where the law is more obviously being broken (eg boiler rooms selling leveraged gold contracts as physical gold to senior homes).

Crypto is a cutting edge area where the laws and regulators have not kept up and where until recently most of the participants liked it that way.
Developers rarely use XCode out of choice, at least from the iOS devs I know.

It also opens up the potential for development on non-Apple equipment if the CI can handle builds.
see also: why role playing games are an important form of play for adults.

There are so many amazing Tabletop Role Playing Games (TTRPGs) these days. They span every genre: sci-fi, horror, fantasy, bronze age, lovecraftian horror in the 20s, pretending to be babies pretending to be jumping over lava... you name it, there's probably a game out there in a genre and play-style that you would enjoy.

If you're interested in something like this, but don't know where to start, or don't think D&D is the right thing for you, feel free to message me. I love helping folks find the right game for their kind of play.
This reminds me of black mirror. The cloned human consciousness trapped in simulations
back in the day when sharks were not equipped with laser ranging devices.
It's insane that people allow corporations to babysit their personal devices like this. Fuck Microsoft.
Are you equally as mad that there are people who walk away with 5 years in prison after performing 8-9 figures worth of unnecessary lab tests in order to bill Medicare? Or physicians who get millions in kickbacks to prescribe expensive compounded drugs that might not even work? Holmes is a drop in the bucket of overall healthcare fraud (this kind of crime has a lot of recidivists) and is probably one of the less egregious cases.
Retired naval aviator Ward Carroll interviewed Royce Williams and got a firsthand account of the engagement.

https://youtu.be/7tqHWH1bYb0
I have an "old" computer that is beefy enough to play games but doesn't meet the arbitrary requirements for Windows 11. I'm not brave enough to try a non-windows gaming machine again.
> But I’m clearly in the minority here

I've actually suspected for a while that it's not such a minority on HN, based on the discussions that happen every time clean meat tech posts get shared.

Unfortunately I've only worked with one other vegan "in the wild" so if this is true, I wonder if HN skews more "vegan" because people more likely to post on HN are overall more contemplative.

That, or we're just a very vocal minority (which I suppose is more likely than 30% of HN commenters being vegan or vegan-sympathetic).
>>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?

MFA namely, it requires an interactive process. Other auth standards do not support a challenge-response exchange.

Not to mention increasing encryption standards like TLS1.2 that are not included in that client.

>>Google of all people managed to write a plugin that acts as a middleware between Outlook and gmail.com

Ok and... MS is perfectly cable of doing the same but why? Outside of the problems with traffic and auth, old software has a HUGE security risk, personally I think it should be built into office that once EOL date is reached it simply bricks...

People running old software are a risk to EVERYONE online, as these systems are normally the ones turned into botnets, and other control centers for ransomware.
It is cannibalizing their existing offerings. I am already using ChatGPT instead of Google for some things.

And it's not the Kodak days, Googlers fully understand that they need to disrupt themselves. And to tell you the truth many engineers there are more excited than afraid that things are happening, I think they will have the opportunity to get much more creative than before.
Google has solid to excellent engineering depending on where you are. The problem is and always has been that the leadership hires mid HR and business talent. It’s hard to watch smart people with 40 years of experience having to jump to the tune of some MBA bro with a massive ego whose only qualification was going to the right school and a massive ego.

Google’s problem was never a lack of ability to build and run impressive engineering artifacts. It was always that the business and product side of things was run very poorly.
I’m using a handful of widgets on my Android phone (two calendars, two to-do lists, a digital clock, and weather). I looked through the list of widgets, and there aren’t many things worth adding. There are lots of things I doubt anyone uses, a lot of search bars (and those give off an early-Android vibe, with Google search being everywhere), and many apps offering shortcuts to specific screen inside the apps. There are also some things like a view into a Gmail inbox, which I can just do with one click, or for which I can get notifications on new e-mails. Android widgets can do anything AFAIK, so I would also suppose the app developers on Android (and presumably also on iOS) don’t have any ideas for worthwhile widgets.
If only the people in charge viewed soldiers as humans
Read vitaliks article, not sure how to feel about it yet.
>A bit offf topic, but is Matlab relevant still?

Yes, in traditional industries. Robotics, automotive, industrial automation, and aerospace are using it.

From my experience in automotive, Matlab alone is not the sole selling point, but the proprietary tooling around Matlab for modelling, hardware-in-the-loop simulation and online calibration for various ECUs is unbeatable and saves the OEMs and manufacturers weeks or months of labor and debugging various platforms. And since it's the industry standard all automotive companies use it to collaborate on projects.

There's also the important fact that many users of these tools are not programmers. They could be mathematicians, physicists, chemists, designers, process engineers, test engineers, test drivers, test pilots, etc. and the GUI block-diagram based visual programing paradigm of Matlab tooling allows them to quickly understand, collaborate and iterate on various control schemes that learning how to code. If you're a test pilot or a process engineer, it's much easier to look at a Simulink block diagram and quickly understand the process going on, than to start reading python code.

There are no open source tools that can do all these things and nor is there a market for them as these companies don't mind sticking with Mathworks & Co. and paying them juicy license fees in exchange for getting the user-friendly tools they want that enables them to get the job done.

The network effect is also too strong to disrupt. Every company in the Michigan area serving the auto industry is running Matlab and so is every company in Stuttgart and Bavaria as most big OEMs have international offices in all these regions which must collaborate together. I assume it's similar in aerospace with the likes of Lockheed, Airbus, Rolls-Royce and many other of their suppliers are also deeply entrenched in the Mathworks ecosystem.

Basically entire industries, that don't get much air-time on the start-up focuesd HN, have standardized on Matlab. In a way, it's similar to the semiconductor industry that standardized exclusively on the tools from Synopys, Mentor Graphics and Cadence. Or how how the CAD industry is run by Autodesk, Siemens and Dassault. None of these players will be disrupted by open source alternatives any time soon. Or ever.
Did this remind anyone else of Phoenix for the TI-83 calculators?

https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/148/14876.htm...