The Daily Index — Thursday, May 2, 2024 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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SOFTWARE FRICTION

Friction is everywhere in software development. Two setbacks are more than twice as bad as one setback. Addressing friction can also create other sources of friction. Friction is inevitable and impossible to fully remove, but there are things that can be done to reduce it, and plans can be made more resilient to it. Things that can reduce friction include smaller scopes and shorter iterations, more autonomy, better planning, automation, and using checklists and runbooks.

hillelwayne.com · 11 min

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GOOGLE LAYS OFF HUNDREDS OF 'CORE' EMPLOYEES, MOVES SOME POSITIONS TO INDIA AND MEXICO

Google has laid off at least 200 employees from its Core teams. The reorganization will involve moving some roles to India and Mexico. The Core unit is responsible for building the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products and for protecting users' online safety. The Core layoffs also include the governance and protected data group, which will be at the center of regulatory challenges facing the company. Affected employees have access to outplacement services and will be able to apply for open roles within Google.

cnbc.com · 6 min

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MAGIC MACHINES

Programmers tend to assign more trust to computers run by anyone but themselves. It's a lack of confidence in their own abilities that leads programmers to think that the people operating their cloud computers are smarter or better than they are. There are no magic machines and no magic operators: all systems have the same kind of potentially faulty bits and brains. It's all just computers and people.

world.hey.com · 3 min

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ANTHROPIC RELEASES CLAUDE AI CHATBOT IOS APP

Anthropic has launched an iOS mobile app for its Claude 3 AI language models and introduced a new subscription tier designed for group collaboration.

arstechnica.com · 1 min

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GOOGLE PULLS RISC-V SUPPORT FROM GENERIC ANDROID KERNEL

Google says due to the rapid rate of iteration, the company is not yet ready to provide a single supported image for all vendors.

theregister.com · 3 min

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CHROME'S NEW BUILT-IN AI IS THE BIGGEST UPDATE TO THE BROWSER IN OVER 15 YEARS

Gemini can now be accessed in the Chrome desktop browser by typing @gemini into the address bar.

inverse.com · 3 min

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THE FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM PROJECT

Fermat's Last Theorem is the claim that some abstract equations have no solutions in positive integers.

leanprover-community.github.io · 7 min

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PLEASE DON'T SHARE OUR LINKS ON MASTODON: HERE'S WHY!

Mastodon is a federated platform, so requests to generate link previews are initiated across many connected instances, increasing the load on the website's server in a big way.

news.itsfoss.com · 6 min

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GOOGLE PAID APPLE $20 BILLION IN 2022 TO BE DEFAULT SAFARI SEARCH ENGINE

Court documents that Google provided in its antitrust dispute with the US Department of Justice show that the company was paying Apple 36% of the total revenue it earned from searches conducted on Safari.

macrumors.com · 2 min