skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to throw confusion into the mix, PCI (payment card industry) governs credit/debit card standards, including security in the US.
> You hardly ever see all the rules thrown out in favor of a new system. It takes more buy in than you will ever get.

Probably for the same reason that it's rare to see entire codebases scrapped and rebuilt from scratch (and that when you do, it's often the case that you end up with something that isn't an improvement). The judgment behind it has a lot in common with "look at all this terrible complicated code, this could be way simpler, let's just rewrite it." Which also sometimes is hard to get buy-in on, and thank goodness the industry has learned some Chesteron's Fence lessons.

The tax code (like other forms of regulation) does stuff, it's a tool for policy as well as revenue, it creates and reshapes incentives. Criticisms of specific things it does or how it does them make sense. Vague criticisms like "cruft" or "complicated" should be for people who don't have a technical or systems mindset.

And that's before we get to other points. Like the facts that for most people with some W2 income and a few investments, taxes aren't complicated, the system for filing them is, and the reasons for this are some specialized interests combined with partisans who suppose an advantage to making filing aggravating. And where taxes do require professional involvement, that has as much to do with the complexity inherent in situational judgments as proliferation of rules.
Not emulated as such, but I seem to remember certain old computers having problems with compact flash adapters replacing the hard drive because they were too fast.
Yeah this is the double standard here. Whenever US haters on HN compare the US to Europe they only compares it to France, Germany, Sweden, etc. to prove that the EU is a better place to live, but forget that the EU also has Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, etc.
It was a reasonable question. I think you should answer it rather than counter-interrogate.

Also, you started out mentioning 'teen and pre-teen children', then narrowed it to 'children age 9-14'. Most people assume 'teen' to cover anyone up to the age of 18, at which point they're no longer legally a child.
So hard to watch, Google failing with ~70B in revenue in a SINGLE QUARTER, with 30% of margin. But...enough is enough, we had to give a signal and teach them a lesson.
isn't cloud profiting an one off event when they axed whole bunch of legacy good will products?
Do buybacks equal RSUs? If not they’re either distributors of cash or they’re issuing stock.
Fair enough. I'm remembering back to the original proposal from the Chrome team who were going to truncate all subdomains for this reason. But I think they backtracked some on that.
Hi, KeePassium author here.

You can also directly verify these claims using the App Privacy Report. It's a system feature that shows which domains an app contacted over the last 7 days (and how often). And it works for all apps.

Unfortunately, there is no way to _enforce_ the offline behavior of an iOS app, but being able to monitor it is already something.
Vultr not there? Off to a rough start.
That's not going to matter when we are talking about billions of dollars of service and app revenue from customers and the chance to lock developers into the Apple ecosystem as hard as they've locked consumers in.
> but when I was studying, I bought used IKEA furniture, moved it around several times to different apartments, and then sold it again when I moved from that city.

I think this is kind of like how some people complain that Apple USB cables are pieces of crap that are always fraying and breaking after 6 months, while other people use them for years with zero issue.

It really depends on how you use it, how you assemble it, how you disassemble it, is it constantly swaying/weakening a little or is it securely mounted to a wall, do you constantly slam the cubby door or drawer shut or are you gentle? I think the assumption should be that it won't last a move, but that you can get lucky through a combination of chance and care.
> Multi-generation starships don't violate any laws of physics.

That's true - but they do violate what we know about psychology. You're signing on your progeny to be imprisoned on a ship from birth to death, when you yourself never had to endure that. Think about the sentiment behind the "Okay, Boomer..." memes and magnify that generational hatred several-fold. Someone is going to sabotage the ship and its crew long before they ever reach their destination. That's just how people work. Remember, we're not rational.
But how do you simplify it? You get rid of things. The complexity comes from these different carved out exceptions. This will ultimately hurt some tax payers and they will fight it.
Cloud made money.
How much do the ads pay? I thought $0.001 per page view would be considered amazing?
The Wall Street Journal is just another Murdock rag, but for wealthy people. In my cynical opinion.
Thank god, I have had to withdraw cash from ATM machines every time I'm shopping groceries at Albert Hein, Jumbo etc, which is a pain when staying for longer periods of time in NL with only a VISA card.
I have been using CodeWhisperer for about 6 months now (internally).

I think it's just a little late. 2 years ago it would have been amazing. 6 months ago it was decent.

But now that people have experienced GPT 4, it seems downright quaint.
This is not always true and depends on the structure and terms of the bond. For example in the credit suisse takeover several classes of bond were wiped out while some classes of shares were not.
Most of it really doesn't like being disassembled and reassembled, so moving home every year or so would do that to the lifespan
LLMs are the next ad frontier, and revenues will hit all-time-highs when the ball gets rolling.

Who needs messy user tracking when users will voluntarily feed you their deepest secrets? Why fight ad blockers, and waste resources on ad placement research, click-through rate optimization and all that noise, when you can just slip subtle ads into conversations with humans?

Ad revenue isn't going anywhere but up. This is just a minor blip in the grand scheme of things.
What legacy cloud products did they kill off? AFAIK the only thing they did was change BigQuery costing and maybe change amortisation schedules.
- The Hungry Brain: https://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Brain-Outsmarting-Instincts-Ov...

- Burn: https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Research-Really-Calories-Healthy...
The market is acting very rationally. If you print trillions of dollars out of thin air every year, there is more money and more demand. So everything else goes up in price.

Everything still costs the same relative to the amount of US dollars that exist. Wages just aren't keeping up with printing press.
Colorado becomes first to pass ‘right to repair’ for farmers
Microsoft has made some Windows-based optimizations to things like memory management. But, as far as I know, they've been upstreaming those optimizations back to the Chromium codebase. There are some things that aren't upstreamed like Startup Boost and Game Mode (or whatever they're called) where Edge runs as a minimal background process on login to reduce startup lag when first opening Edge or reduces resource usage when Windows detects that you're playing a game, respectively.
> Whereas prior, methods (e.g. PCA) could only model linear relationships,

Prior methods also allowed modelling of non-linear relationships, eg. Random Forests.
I'm not sure it'll work that way.

There's a lot of people who want the government to stay out of medicare ...

People might feel like not-heres-ville shouldn't get government funding for whatever project but when it comes to any less funding for heres-ville there will be complaints. Its basically reverse NIMBY. You think Iowans want the government to do less weather prediction or crop testing?
would it work for EU phone numbers?
There is no "responsible" population growth. Unbounded indefinite growth of any species on Earth is incompatible with a stable biosphere.
The most profitable money machine in history might be the iPhone.
25% margin.
Yeah, they had to do layoffs.

revenue only grew 3%. while they had increased costs via massive hiring during the pandemic.

certainly, they need to cut back on other bets and personnel and salaries.
I'm saying this with extreme snark, but wait until smart homes become more commonplace and you won't be able to walk past your thermostat without Amazon pitching you new filters every six weeks over the smart speakers. Yes, there's many if's there, but the point is mostly profit motive usually trumps good taste.

Re: Windows, if we're not paying for it anymore are we still the customer? Even if that's a yes, it represents a cost for msft, so they seem to be looking to extract any amount of value out of it that they can. I doubt I'll use it past Win10, the downsides just keep piling up.
Can the method of Grobner bases also be used to solve systems of polynomial inequalities?
Yeah, not sure what label we’d give to a system like this but it works. I basically do the same, but with Raindrop (the bookmark manager). I’ve tried many tools and systems, but what works (for me) is basically a personal data lake where semi-structured/incompletely-labeled stuff can be archived.

For todos and calendars, I’ve found less is more to be particularly true. I don’t see how anyone gets solid ROI for non-collaborative personal projects by using feature-filled systems. I’m quite busy, and the minimal cognitive load of pen and paper is difficult to surpass.
I haven't got yet to use it myself but this might be useful for this?

https://github.com/juanignaciomolina/GPTyped

Really cool project! I want to make something similar I think if time and skills allow me to
How would you simplify it? The complexity tends to come from rules that create opportunities not to pay taxes. I think any simplification will hurt some tax payers who will fight it out of their own self interest.
A couple of them got together to make three US Supreme Court appointments recently.
Compared to replacing electronics or making a dent in food waste, I wonder how a few pieces of particleboard furniture every few years stack up.
There are multiple of those. The IRS even provides such itself: https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

FreeFileUSA lets you e-file your federal taxes for free even.

The problem is that most people don't know about such things and don't feel comfortable filling in the needed data anyway.

Plus most states have the same requirements and make filing even harder.
Before the arrival of European settlers in North America, it is estimated that there were approximately 30 to 60 million bison (also known as buffalo) roaming the continent.

We are currently consuming upto three times as many cows each year as there were wild buffalos.

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-current-mass-extinction-is-...

- Cows (cattle): In 2021, the United States had approximately 94.4 million head of cattle, including those raised for beef and dairy production.

- Beef: In 2021, the United States imported approximately 3.1 billion pounds of beef and veal, that's apx. 6 mil. cows.

- Pigs (hogs): In 2020, the United States produced around 129 million hogs.

- Pork: In 2021, the United States imported approximately 1.0 billion pounds of pork.

- Chickens (broilers): In 2020, the United States produced about 9.1 billion broiler chickens for meat.

- Poultry: In 2021, the United States imported around 913 million pounds of poultry meat, including broiler meat and turkey meat.

- Turkeys: In 2020, the United States produced approximately 229 million turkeys.

Fish, shellfish, ducks, sheep, goats, or dairy products not included.

Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
I've pushed a fix up to github.

Sorry about the issue. I'm split between both the Raku and Perl tracks, and don't currently have much time for keeping up on maintenance for either unfortunately.

Please post issues on the Exercism forum if you encounter anything else. I only learned of this issue because someone else spotted this post and reported it there.
What's Google Cloud's crown jewel? GKE?
Today, sure. It's famous.

But as https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1464518031000160... points out, the analysis technique that makes it possible to deduce the structure from the image was first developed 2 years earlier in a paper by Crick, Cochran and Vand. Note the lead author. In 1953, Francis Crick was one of a handful of people on the planet who would have made the connection. In fact he was able to make it from James Watson's description of the photograph! Rosalind Franklin can be pardoned for having failed to make the connection.
By "super competitive market" he means between AWS, Azure and GCP.
I think you are supporting his point.
Poor people don't even have banks. Why do you think all those check cashing places are everywhere?

Thinking they have savings is just the chef's kiss of out of touch.
Still concrete will still last longer than most other materials.

The biggest issue with modern concrete construction is the usage of reenforced concrete using iron or steel rebar which tends to corrode quickly. Reenforced concrete seems to have a half life of ~50 years.
This the new Doom DLC?
The "non-voting shares" thing is just SUPER bananas to me. Like, you could hold a billion dollars of META shares and have no vote. In what sense is that "ownership?" Why do people go along with it?

>So if I don't get dividends, can't vote, and am not entitled to a share of the company's assets, what is the actual value in owning stock?

EXACTLY.
This is a worrying article because they had already seemed to previously squeeze all the quality they could have of their products.

In the past most of their table tops were solids, with only the cheapest ones being hollow. As they phased out those original tops and replaced them with identically priced updates, the vast majority become cardboard honeycomb filled.

When you're selling $200 cardboard filled table tops, I'm not sure how much more blood you can squeeze from the stone.
Thats not the Chinese Room argument. The argument says just because a system processes X doesn't imply it has consciousness of X.
See xterm manpage, "printerCommand" or urxvt manpage, "print-pipe". They may be triggered remotely by the media copy commands. Good news is, this is supposed to be disabled per default.
OK, does it usually mean some leading or lagging indicator that the company isn't doing well?
> There probably is some legitimate engineering in embedded or development that requires an authentic scientific and engineering background, but considering the majority of code written is CRUD stuff...that ain't it.

I suppose the OS, database, networking and infrastructure to run those CRUD apps as well as the languages and runtimes magically appeared out of nowhere.
The government wouldn't have to buy the rest of Intuit. They could just buy the parts necessary for filing US federal income tax returns. Intuit can't actually say no if the government is willing to use the eminent domain power. Yes, just compensation would constitutionally have to be paid, but it would be just compensation for what the government purchased, not for all of Intuit. If somehow this isn't upheld in court (though I think it would be), they could pre-arrange one or more buyers for the rest of Intuit and use the money to be paid by the other buyers for those divisions to fund what would initially be a purchase of all of Intuit.

To save even more money, I wonder if they could even take a page from real estate law where easements for public benefit are sometimes purchased either through the free market or via eminent domain. Under this theory, they wouldn't even have to purchase full ownership of whatever's necessary for US filing purposes, they'd just need to purchase an easement transferring to the federal government Intuit's right to charge US citizens and resident noncitizens for US federal income tax filings via TurboTax, as well as the right to deny these groups TurboTax's US federal income tax filing services. And then the federal government would decline to exercise these two transferred rights.

But yeah, I have no idea if the easement idea would hold up in court, and in any case I doubt the government would be politically willing to use eminent domain against Intuit despite indisputably having the right to do it.
Pixel never felt competitive. The camera is good but unless you live only in Google land for everything, it is hard to see it becoming a profitable product.
If growth rates continue for 5 years, Cloud will print ~$10B per quarter in profits in 2028 - that's about 50% of search currently...

That would make Cloud by itself one of the 50 biggest companies in the world in terms of profits...

Companies are valued at profits for 10+ years. So Cloud continuing its promising growth trajectory is a very good thing for investors.

Obviously growth rates are unlikely to stay as high as they are for 5+ years - but the outlook for Cloud & Google - is still very promising.
These are usually gated areas where it's mostly huge model homes and they since few live there, outsiders would be be obvious.
Wild guess: Sabine is not a fan.
Your chances of a rescue mission is much greater on the moon if we have multiple space stations with shuttles flying to the moon, and multiple moon bases in close enough proximity where one base can help out another if some crises were to occur.

We could potentially build this sort of earth-moon infrastructure out over the next few decades.
That says they lobbied to prevent free filing. There is free filing, so I guess they weren’t effective And don’t have some stranglehold on tax law.
I don't intend to get an electric car until solid state batteries are available.
I second this. Ikea furniture is great until you have to move it. Nothing wears and tears faster.
There is not necessarily a dichotomy between good and bad employees, and I’m certainly not saying every engineer should be micromanaged, but IME certain engineers require it to be able to perform well.

I think it should be applied on a case by case basis when necessary, and I’ve seen effective managers do this in the past. Anyway, the type of employee who requires this treatment often is precisely the one that least enjoys it, which is my original point.
They sell many outdated models. I've experienced it enough times I rarely use Amazon anymore. The difference in the latest model and the outdated one can often be drastic like a major improvement. It's a sneaky system of dumping inferior products on consumers.

On some things however you can burn Amazon. I bought a commercial leg press last year that weighted over 500 lbs. Everyone else wanted to charge shipping of almost $200. Not Amazon. Free shipping and for the same price as everyone else. SOLD!
Look, Microsoft could cut out like 95% of the features and it'd be an amazing product.

Everybody I talk to agrees that they only use 5% of the features so nobody would miss them!
Money printing (aka QE) stopped 13 months ago and money shredding (aka QT) started 10 months ago.
and the rest of the hits by white performers were either "heavily inspired" or literal re-performed versions of black songs that wouldn't be played or broadcast by white-only radio stations and TV shows.
> Because they are not issues on a day to day basis when you use the language.

They still are. You just internalize them. Progammers are the world's greatest masochists with the world's biggest Stockholm syndromes, and we don't like to admit it.

For example, his pain points about syntax ambiguity are absolutely valid, and true. However, when you "use the language every day" you learn to avoid those constructs and extract them into separate functions for example because "that's how it's always done, and it's a nice little quirk of the language".
There's a big difference between showing something to a person and that thing being available in a library whey they can seek it out or encounter it at random. You seem to be implying that library curators are leading minors to shelves and telling them to look at something they otherwise wouldn't.
For someone else, eating meat or taking international holidays might strike them as a large-carbon-footprint way of living.
How similar/different is this compared to others in the same space? AWS, Microsoft, etc...
Stock buybacks are fantastic for employees as part of compensation is in stock.

But even if compensation were just in cash, buybacks are irrelevant for employees and have nothing to do with long term prospects.

Profit is always going to be returned to shareholders via dividends or buybacks (they're basically the same thing) or corporations wouldn't even exist in the first place. And profits being returned to shareholders are the sign of a healthy, profitable, sustainable corporation.
> Interestingly enough, it looks like everything except cloud grew at a rate less than inflation.

I mean, that's to be expected. Google did this sweeping cost cutting measure with the layoffs they did, rather than the usual “we don't see a future in this product and we're discontinuing it” that they are more famous for. They didn't even seem to try to target a specific performance bar—I think of this as trying to knock out walls which have lower measures of structural stresses in your house, you don't have the architectural plan so you just sledgehammer some walls that look like they're not holding much up.

The problem with these broad cost cutting measures, “everyone is losing 5%-10% of head count” etc. is that even if you do a really good job targeting, 80% of the people you cut were doing something (just, if you are well-targeted, not enough on average to justify their salary) and 20% of those were in fact “load bearing” in some sense (they actually were doing enough to justify their salary, often “and then some”)... your metric just did not apply very well to them. The rest of the building needs to carry the load that you just shed, average performance takes a staggering hit.

The bet is that the cut costs will save more than the performance drops, although they won't immediately due to expensive severances etc. ... Those numbers were carefully timed to be paid out in Q2 so expect those numbers to be worse and then if Pichai’s bet pays off they'll start recouping it in the second half of 2023, or else he'll feel the same pressures in late 2023 that he felt in late 2022, announce another round of layoffs... Things aren't that bad yet but I worry for my friends at Alphabet.
I'm vegan and have been suffering from chronic insomnia lately. I tried a (vegan) melatonin supplement and reliably got nightmares about the food industry. 0/10, would not recommend.

I spoke to my PCP about it yesterday and got a script for hydroxyzine pamoate. We shall see if it works.
Depends.

For Google historically the buybacks have exceeded SBC, but looks like in the recent quarter that was not the case.

Meta was famous for its buybacks being fully canceled out by SBC, though recently buybacks have started to exceed employee comp.

Which is why FCF is a poor metric to use for a company that has a large portion of SBC. Completely hides the actual economics of the business.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/shar...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/META/meta-platform...
They are certainly not cutting the CEO salary.
Considering what human congressmen pass, the AI will likely do a better job.
Because you can't get VC funding for your new venture if you don't have AI some where in your slide deck
Germany: Majority thinks 4-day work week is not a good idea
> and salaries

This is reckless.

Cutting the number of employees is fine, but reducing salaries leads to reduced quality of the employees, which is a stupid move.