skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the Google in-house incubator responsible for products such as Checks, Tables, Stack and ThreadBite

Never heard of them. Looked at them each now - nope, no bells ringing.

Separately, isn't an inhouse incubator a clear sign of a conglomerate that has gotten too big and slow? Makes me think of old telecom companies and their love of inhouse incubators, so that they can show they also do that innovative dotcom thing.

Innovation needs to happen from within, at every level.
big hug
ff 50, linux, works.
Even though it's obvious from the examples, SSG=Static Site Generator, for those who are unfamiliar with the acronym.
FYI browsers have built in functions for decoding base64, btoa() and atob(). Although I can never remember which is which.
At its essence, a slowdown in manufacturing means a slowdown in revenue, which means less money to pay employees. The software side is being funded in large part by the hardware side if you look at Apple's finances as a whole. When revenue isn't what you'd forecasted, that's not the time to increase hiring.

Obviously it can be more complex/flexible than that with regards to a cash pile, being able to borrow money, etc., but it still generally holds. It would be unusual for any long-established business to be ramping up hiring at the same time that supply constraints are diminishing revenue.
Ask HN: What Happened to iOS Widgets?
There seems to be a fairly low uptake in developers creating widgets for iOS since the update that let us place widgets on our home screens. Is anybody in the know regarding why are developers not jumping to develop them?
It's not that the industry is slow. It's just hard to push PWAs forward when Apple is actively hostile toward web apps.
I see you specify a fixed context width/height. That's fine — who can guess what size the user's browser window will be....

I think in that scenario though you ought to create your own "off-screen canvas" to render your sprites/drawing/text to. Then when you have completed the render/loop, draw from your offscreen canvas's context to the browser canvas's context.

As another replied, you can probably change the scaling attribute (turn off imageSmoothingQuality) to get what you want.
FTX stole investors' funds. That's a far greater concern than unregistered securities.
Something that helps, in my experience, is what Colin Percival teaches: use the phrasing of "coordinated disclosure" , rather than "responsible disclosure".

This helps company staff understand that the disclosure and the bug are both happening, and the company can choose to coordinate or not, and there's no need to debate what's responsible or not.

Send a link that explains your position, and how the company can respond. Here's mine and feel free to use it...

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/coordinated-disclosur...
I made some similar concepts using generated content via Link header stylesheets over a decade ago at https://code.eligrey.com/css/link-header

For example, this CSS[1] resulted in a professional-looking 'blog post' layout complete with a header, subtitle, metadata, and footer when paired with a plaintext file.

I've also used this functionality to directly add titles to non-HTML content such as images[2]. Unfortunately no extant browser engines support this anymore.

1. https://code.eligrey.com/css/link-header/lorem-ipsum-2.css

2. https://eligrey.com/blog/title-image-files-in-opera/ (contains dead link to demo)
> Even worse is the "horse-trading" sort of compromise [. It] again results in an "agreement" of sorts, but instead
of just one outstanding unaddressed issue, this sort of compromise
results in two,...
Why we have a debt ceiling, and why this trip to the brink may be different
Nice work. Next up: multiplayer!
It’s a classic and a great paper - but it’s written for an obvious that couldn’t care less about morality or ethics. So it’s sad.
There seems to be quite a bit of behavioral and evolutionary psychology that claims all actions are initiated by emotions. So the emotional payoff is the real driver, even when people pretend to be above the non-virtuous fray (which is itself a status signaling mechanism with an emotionally validating payoff)
The web was an app delivery platform 20 years ago, at least that’s what the folks at Sun and Adobe tried to tell us. But then everyone pitched a collective fit and rejected injection of a runtime container into the browser. Now we have the current situation of an inferior technology and architecture being used as an app delivery platform. If one views a web browser as a proper platform for hosting applications I’d argue WASM and even the aforementioned tech (applets/flash) are superior.
The former usually follows the latter
> make: ** No rule to make target `believe'. Stop.
> people are developing information sites as "apps"

This statement nails the problem that all of us suffer from. It’s like people have to add “feature” to make their site compelling because the information on it is not good enough.
Whoo that got dark fast. We take it back, a little light here is okay. ;)

There is some suffering in the world right now. And it’s bad in places, there is no question. I don’t know exactly what suffering you’re thinking of or referring to, but if it were true that most people didn’t care at all about humanity being destroyed, then most people wouldn’t even be alive. The thing about humans is that we’re hard-wired to want to live, and because of that we have hope even when suffering is high.

One thing to perhaps consider is that those of us lucky enough to not live in suffering have the opportunity to help others and to reduce suffering. It is going to take some people caring about humanity, and caring about the planet, in order to improve on the very situation you’re talking about. Parent was pretty clear we’re talking about a symptom of a larger problem, and I guess if we were all face to face philosophizing over beers, you might even agree they were talking in large part about the same problem you’re talking about - us not taking care of each other. If nobody cared about this, then how is it going to get any better?? What can you and I do to make it better?
For that matter, you might only be simulating consciousness. How could you prove otherwise? I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt though, and treat you as if you were really conscious.
>Unless I’m missing something, it amounts to making a slave race out of someone’s mind scan

People most of the time have scope insensitivity, while sometimes it hits home

There is always death at a relatively soon point in the real world. The scan slave can be tortured with the worst methods you can think of for hundreds of thousands of relative millennia at will, and it will have happened countless times for different copies

You can always hang yourself if existence is pain in the real world, and if not... it will end up soon enough anyway. There is no such relief in the story
> Wasn't it kind of obvious that a virtualized hardware layer is to be preferred over heterogeneous hardware?

We've been trying for decades, and it only kind of caught on with Java, so no it's not really obvious that it's preferable.
Well basic auth decommissioning was a shitshow for end business users.

Our IT teams sure handled it gracefully for internal app we manage, but what about legacy production software from third parties vendors? IT is now facing enraged users on one front and shitty vendors on another.

What to conclude? Stop trusting Microsoft for mail delivery and run your own mail stack (or pay someone to manage it on your own term).

(Also get rid of shitty vendors but that is far easier said that done quickly because of Microsoft policy change)
Or just glue them shut.

I guess now you have to keep track of the glue.
But are you familiar with Gettier problems[1] and justified true beliefs?

1 https://iep.utm.edu/gettier/
Area120, even with the previous cuts, was full of talented people with a background in building businesses and VC investments. It was a pretty unceremonious end to what was originally considered an important part of Google's innovation strategy.

Separately it'll probably get less coverage than things like the incubator shutting down, but I suspect more external impact will be felt as a result of them firing the head of Open Source who's been there for 19 years. :/ Tech press hasn't picked that up yet though.
Also check out the weird machine for an ARM PL080 DMA engine.

https://github.com/jowinter/dmacu
> IIRC, Freetaxusa will walk you through the state taxes and if you look through the UI, you can see the MI forms that it filled out. At that point, you could copy their forms to your own and mail them in yourself, but I've always paid the $15 to have them file it because I feel they've earned it.

My problem has never been with the filling out the forms—my situation isn't complicated enough for that to be difficult, especially compared with the federal forms; it's with the filing. I just get so annoyed at the refusal of these agencies (like MI's, at least back when I incurred taxes there) to accept something that is surely more convenient for them and for me both, namely for me to file electronically. What do they gain by requiring me to print out and mail them a paper document that they then have to open and scan?
Well, how much good has it done to be zealous about those things when someone offers an opinion to the contrary?

Ever managed to actually convert anyone back to sanity?
Microsoft Word is the standard for many, many businesses. For example, book publishers use Word documents for editing.
Phyphox might be the one, I think that has some AR functionality though I forgot for what. Thanks for the hint!
> a term I borrowed from life-guarding where someone randomly pretends to drown to see if/how fast the guard will catch it and assess the skills of their response

They have a similar concept in cybersecurity.

The Red Team

> a group that plays the role of an enemy or competitor to provide security feedback from that perspective. Red teams are used in many fields, especially in cybersecurity, airport security, law enforcement, the military and intelligence agencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_team
There's plenty of evidence against Abrahamic religions core sources. The followers simply ignore it.
You mean getting political conections like SBF by bein a big donor? Your argument seems a tad flawed...
Usually people in the US are pretty good about distinguishing between sinister wasps and friendly honeybees

In Japan they have the same casual name, though, which I find almost as disturbing as the occasional thumb-sized giant wasps in Tokyo
Lol this is probably the quickest arrest of a financial fraudster ever
Sounds like messengers with one to many communication feature (e.g. Telegram) fit this requirement at least partially.

It might be not as interactive as mostly of websites, but it allows you to get data through API or develop own client.
Hahaha, which name do you go by in Heise forums? I wonder if I remember you too.
This is the way. You don't even have to argue, it's usually enough to confidently note that you disagree with the points being made. In a group setting, that's all it takes to prevent a false impression of consensus from emerging. In private settings, it can plant that seed of doubt.

Very rarely will anyone push you to justify your disagreement, and you absolutely don't need to engage if they do. In a friendly context you can say it's not worth arguing about, in a more adversarial context you can let the other person know you have no obligation to engage.

Take a note from the people who deprogram extremists or cult members. You won't get far if you argue with the person all the time, nor if you pretend they're right. You confidently tell them they're wrong on this one, make it clear this doesn't affect your opinion of them as a human being, and change the topic to something friendly. They have enough self-doubt to do the rest for you.
On one hand it's basically admitting that regular development teams and managers don't have the freedom or latitude to build experimental stuff. On the other, at somewhere like an aerospace company, experimental projects are just too big and complex to do without an incubator like skunk workshop so it can be a good thing.
> Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently political tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically moral dimension.

Admittedly, this is true for other types of innovation as well. For example the invention of the decentralized Internet and its basic properties. Have the Internet not been decentralized, it would not have allowed folks in countries without infrastructure and money to build their own networks which are on par with the developed countries' ones. Also, free and open source software in general.

There isn't anything cryptographic in that and yet it was a big power re-arranger in a way.
There's a Bannerlord modder that managed to connect ChatGPT/GPT-3 into the RPG game for NPC dialogues.

Quite amazing

https://youtu.be/akceKOLtytw
https://youtu.be/L_qauw4QM3Q
>I really understand moderation is a hard problem but deleting entire comment sections and putting threads into contest mode if the left-leaning political opinion is in danger is painful to watch since the essence of democracy suffers: pluralistic (but respectful) discussions and arguments.

If there is a better term for this someone let me know, otherwise I'm going to coin this kind of moderation "bush sculpture" moderation. That's how subreddit moderation works.

If a person saw a bush sculpture for the first time ever they would probably think how it's really curious the bush has this well defined shape, and happily conclude that the bush is just like that. "Pretty cool how there is a bush with the shape of a dog's face" they'll think.

In the same way, visiting a subreddit you would think that that's just the community and content. But once you see how moderation works you realize that in reality, the community is pulling to all sorts of places at the same time, and by pruning the content here and there with the shears of moderation, using the chainsaw that is automod and by motivating growth with precision via shadowbanning and choosing what becomes popular, you can perfectly shape a subreddit into the content you want.
What nationality is someone born in Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia?
That only works if you are in a position that isn't negatively impacted (yet) by the permeation of specific ideas.

The conversation has, unsurprisingly, shifted slightly as inflation puts more people from your position into a position where not caring could eventually be life altering.

It's quite concerning to say the least.
The Moral Authority of ChatGPT
I keep looking at projects to turn old kindle units into extra screens or just using them as more generic devices, but I'd like something in the 10-to-14 inch range, preferably closer to the top end of that than the bottom. There are screens if that sort of size available, but there are issues there (expense of the screen itself, needing to make a case, the projects being pi based (those being silly expensive ATM) or requiring more electronics jiggery-pokery than I'd have time for (but would enjoy tinkering with & leaning if I could find the time!).
> There is no scanning involved

How do you think that a windows update checks for out of date office packages in a way that you would not define as scanning?

Also, please don't do ad hominem. I have no motivation outside of the personal one not wanting to be worried that every piece of tech I own is phoning home what I do.
I wonder if it also “accidentally” detects alternatives to Office (eg LibreOffice or similar).

I’m sure whatever their intention is, it does not come from the desire of making less money.
is there any way to stop updates? They keep rebooting my machine every few weeks and it’s extremely disruptive to me
Comments are cheaper than therapy I suppose, but also less effective given the apparent level of projection.
It works better the through the browser. I use it when someone sends a file that just has to be opened in office.
> $100-250k Iranian kamikaze drone

They actually cost $25k apiece. Cheapest Soviet era SAM costs ~$500,000. Any Western counterpart to them costs $1m and above.

Things are how they are now, you can overwhelm your foe entirely by raining cheap Iranian drones on them. And getting your enemy destroy them with SAMs looks much more devastating to your enemy than you actually hitting your targets...
I'd like to know which of the Area 120 projects did make it. I have been looking forward to Tables either becoming a Workspace product or getting rolled into Sheets (or AppSheet, worst case). It had just the right set of functions to replace some other tools for our team.
So.. same as before? :)
Why Germany is struggling to stomach the idea of sending tanks to Ukraine
> Employees get really good at spotting the tests.

Then surely either the test isn't good enough, or the problem is solved?
$1T and Counting – Jack Bogle’s Legacy to Investors
Machine Learning Q and AI – A human vs. ChatGPT explaining ML concepts
What do you mean by core sources? Are you able to provide examples?
If being able to spot the tests doesn't confer ability to spot real phishers, then the tests aren't very good.
Home address establishes transparency and that the applicant is a real person (usually). I agree it doesn't matter for hiring purposes beyond that, but I've found home address to be a good indicator of a non-generated resume.
I mean, of course red meat doesn't impact glycemic control. There's zero sugar in meat..?

If you go on a carnivore diet you will be non-type-2-diabetic within a week. Just talk to a doctor first if you take any medication or insulin.
Conceiving two children while you're facing a possibly very long time in prison seems like an incredibly selfish thing to do. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
The post here is by qntm, a guest blogger, not the author of Accelerando (Charles Stross, the blog host).
Reminds me of Singularity OS[1], where all programs were verified bytecode, allowing them to share address space with all the benefits that has.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_%28operating_syste...
You should write about this. Clearly you've thought about this a fair bit.

> This aesthetic is the norm for the tiny (but rapidly growing) sliver of humanity who, like the author, favors their constructed Internet identities instead of the less-mutable shared reality that we all inhabit together.

This isn't a jab at you; I don't know you at all and don't judge. But what you said would explain why it seems that the overused of furries and anime avatars is overrepresented in the LGBT community.

Side note - yesterday I got my account banned for pointing out something along these lines. Dang sucks.
And vice versa, right? That's the problem and source of conflict between nuclear and solar/wind advocates.
Go pastafarians
Interesting Postgres Features that you can use (which you may not know about)
That's a false equivalence between proof and disproof. If someone says they know there is a teapot in orbit around Proxima Centauri and I disagree with them, neither of us can prove or disprove the other. That doesn't mean we both have an equal claim to being right. Who is the arrogant one in this case?
Nah, the name for India comes from the Indus (ancient word for river), while indigenous comes from Latin for born in the country.

The Indians and West Indies thing is just about some sea travellers being dumb and thinking they'd reached India.
I don’t think huge companies should be creating brand new products. They should fund and acquire new businesses that are independently run. If you are just tweaking or improving existing products, or maybe copying a competitor’s offering, it’s possible. But trying to innovate inside of something like Google is just too hard to justify the expense. $5 million to a startup would be much better spent which is a drop in the bucket for Google employees’ salaries and benefits. Could $5 million even fund 5 people there?
Most of the value gained was from all these stock splits. I wonder why MSFT hasn’t had one in 20 years?

https://getsplithistory.com/MSFT
Open science depends on open tools! Octave is such a good resource for otherwise walled off code (that doesn't use newer matlab features). But I'm curious where octave is popular. Does anyone pick it over julia or python when starting a new project/research?

I also wish the state of science/engineering software shook out differently. There's plenty of money to pay Mathworks. Is there some kind of license like pay us if you're doing commercial work or publishing research on grants worth over $XXX, otherwise consider it open source?
For me, the gay community. Which is actually filled with a bunch of people rejected by their religious community.
My circle is 98.0% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
This problem is almost certainly Mailchimp-specific. The talent was decimated after the owners sold it to Intuit.
I agree. There could have been more widgets
Preparation, in absence of treatment, is still extremely valuable.

Financials, lifestyle and logistics, helpers for the family, your loved ones mentally and emotionally steeling themselves.

Every responsible adult does this, by the way; the rest leave a mess for their family to handle when they pass away (old age, accident, etc.).

But great preparation requires knowing what’s coming or likely to come, as we generally have limited time and resources.
Well IRS Free File isn’t one single service. It’s a coalition of private tax prep services that have agreed with the IRS to provide their software for free to taxpayers meeting certain constraints. The insight into how your liabilities stack up certainly varies by product (I found TaxAct did this quite well, but I’ve stopped using them and started filing out the forms directly since I no longer qualify for the free file program).
How do you get through the Darién Gap? Just hack your own road?
There's a lot of finger pointing here. Luckily there's a lot of blame to go around. Let's start with the two obvious questions:

1. How did VCs give billions in funding to someone without insisting on an adult in the room? I mean having a respected CFO to report on the company's finances. Additionally, there should be regular board meetings and an audit committee who reviews such documents; and

2. Why was the SEC so toothless here? For anything connected to the US financial system or operating within US jurisdiction, the SEC should, at the very minimum, be ensuring compliance with custodial assets.
> Those uncomfortable running an update that's gathering and transmitting unknown system info to Microsoft aren't out of luck

This level of telemetry and inspection is beyond abhorrent: it underscores MS believes you are the product, you don't own or control your hardware, you will be forced towards buying more products, and you will be forced to deliver your most private thoughts and your attention on a plate for upload and mining.

Therefore anyone caring about privacy, including what files are on their machine, will not run Windows, period.
> Plus, we have a lot of processing power on the client side, which should be utilised.

That does not mean it should be utilised by you. Have some humility as a developer.
You're absolutely right, I don't remind them enough how good of a job they did with my siblings and I.
Sometimes I wonder if people, including MS, realize how valuable Excel is...