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> What is not said here, but I think it was started this article there was a break-down on Twitter [2] recently where someone broke down the grants Wikimedia Foundation gives to other charities, A lot of Wikimedia has become advocacy for social issues not the spread of free information

I dont like the knowledge equity grants either, but it was still a tiny portion of Wikimedia foundation's budget. Describing it as "a lot" is outright misleading.
I think that exclusivity clauses for many platforms should be made illegal or atleast severely limited in duration.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is the truth and honestly the best course of action at this point.
I am not sure if Intel counts though. They have had challenges for the last several years during the bull market, which they failed to address, now they are taking advantage of the bear market to cull numbers. If we see someone who did not have these very visible weaknesses cutting numbers that would be a sign, not Intel. Though I agree Intel is huge and them laying off people still is a big deal.
I got quite excited thinking this would also offer the Cosmos serverless deployments for a super cheap Postgres for side projects but alas, $200.
You think he should be fined less. That is siding with him in result.
Here’s a crazy idea. Why not fix the problem at the source? Address the entitled behaviour of teenagers.
Carmack: “There’s a bunch that I’m grumpy about” in virtual reality
Rocket launches feel the same way. I got to see STS121 launch from the VIP area at Kennedy Space Center a couple of years back, and it felt like a continuous pressure wave pounding on my chest until the rocket was above the clouds. Crazy feeling.
I think the title here is misleading. if they had moved to take down an ad-free instagram clone, that would be anti-competitive and possibly illegal. taking down an ad-free instagram client is still unpleasant, but probably [IANAL] not illegal and somewhat justifiable.

as it is, and as is made clear deeper into the article, they took down a client
It is a clone of the client, so both.
I understand SMS is not relevant outside of US/Canada. But since signal chose to remove this feature they just lost a regular donor.
More than that, the actual record part haven't delivered a good sense of acceleration
Basic math that does multiple operations on the same 8 or 16 bit value.
It wasn't competition, it was more or less piracy. The app store monopoly is bad but this isn't an example of its misuse.
Why do you need legs for conference calls? Also you can totally have legs in VR. Not only are there leg trackers but Meta has already announced they have worked out inferenced leg kinematics coming next year and other apps already have them (VRChat etc).
The difference between your theory ("say the wrong words") and practice (weaponizing the Sandy Hook massacre to industrially harness victim-blaming for maximum profit) is why having a fair trial by jury protects us from dictatorship and totalitarianism.
You may have a point about failed societies, that ship has sailed.
> Individual employees are free to negotiate individually beyond that.

That is typically false. You are bound by the collective bargaining agreement.
Isn’t that what it will amount to? He’ll declare bankruptcy and everything he’s got will go to settling some fraction of these lawsuits.
Rightfully so. My company provides a whole list of “benefits” nobody ever uses. I much prefer cash.
Seems like it's clearly a client, but Meta calls it a "clone site":

https://about.fb.com/news/2022/07/how-meta-safeguards-people...
It is when you need a phone to run apps to do your job or for simple things like banking. Talked to a pest control guy who works for a large company, and he needs a smartphone to do his job. He is quite literally managed through an app, needs it to check-in to work, for time sheets, find out where the next customer lives etc. Someone like that cannot go without a smartphone, requirements like that are leaking into low-level service and retail jobs, now.
A citation?
Your own messages appear in a different color, not theirs. At least not on current iOS.

It's so you know that the messages you're sending are going over MMS instead of iMessage, so zero features other than sending plain text to individual recipients will work well, if at all. It's like time traveling back to the late '00s with text-chat-groups inexplicably splintering mid-conversation, adding new participants screwing everything up, and potato-quality photo and video attachments that take forever to download and simply fail a good fraction of the time.

My friend group solved this by switching to WhatsApp. But if we'd all been iPhone users I doubt we'd have bothered, because iMessage is at least as good and, if you use some of the more-advanced features, much better, provided your chats are actually going over iMessage and not MMS.

iMessage is basically exactly the same as having a good messaging app just for iPhones plus a necessarily-shitty MMS one, except you don't have to switch between them because they're combined.

I distinctly recall Google trying to do the exact same thing when I was an Android user, must have been over a decade ago: on a major OS update, they replaced the texting app with some unified MMS/other-messaging-service (who could possibly keep track of them all? May have just been gchat, at the time) app. I had to "downgrade" to the old texting app because the new one was so broken that it was unusable. In particular, it lost messages all the time, or would switch mid-conversation between MMS and other-messaging-protocol, screwing everything up. iMessage is nowhere near that bad, at least, even when in "green bubble" mode.
> The difference is that Apple doesn't have a budget segment with budget price tags.

Right... hence the status signal the GP is referring to, when you own an affordable phone "you're poor"
If you have to explicitly train to be able to tell the difference between a red and a white without seeing it, surely that does mean that 99.99% of what is written about wine is bullshit? It's really hard not to come to an emperor-has-no-clothes conclusion here.
It seems like they were just a client for Instagram which was stripping out the ads, which would probably be a pretty clear cut violation of Instagram ToS or whatever API they were using, so I'm not surprised Google/Apple would remove it from their stores
Intel also doubled down on x86. Apple, in contrast, is creating the ARM future by designing their own chips, x86-to-Arm emulation layer, and compiler toolchains
Instagram is a platform. It’s not a clone of that just like Tweetbot is not a clone of Twitter.
I'd call it a win if you get them into rooting and custom distros like Lineage (which might give them a better overall appreciation of how tech works, encourage them to tinker, etc.)
The parent is saying that the choice of phone is a poor indicator of success (likely because Androids can cost just as much as the most expensive iPhone and vice versa, old iPhones can cost as little as the shittiest Android).
Some of us like very loud sounds punching us right in the chest.

Video is completely useless for this. Drag racing is not.
No, it's not. Never buy a new $20 phone - it's subsidized by all that tracking and pre-installed shitware and it won't be getting updates soon, if it ever got even one, and the hardware is going to be absolutely terrible too. Buy a second hand one if $20 is all you can spend.
I am on iOS and have never seen red. Only see blue. Color can be customized though.
I agree there's a place for both right now. Curious if you think that's going to be the case forever? I've been seeing huge, nearly step-function increases in precision gains for neural systems recently, and I'm wondering how much longer that's going to be true. Keyword has taken the title for this so far (but doesn't need anything as complex as BM25/TF-IDF IMO in a lot of cases)
This is a bad article and does the entire story a disservice. This wasn't a clone it was a reverse engineered client which is against Instagrams ToS. You may not like it but Apple and Google were absolutely correct to take this down. The more salacious part of the story is Facebook going after the teams personal accounts. I don't believe they have any basis for that. Unfortunately that part of the story is constricted to a small blurb in the second to last section.
It does. And so does a hologram. But it remains to be seen if Google can see a tech demo through, make a profitable product, and support it past the initial hype. I hope this time it does, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Lower total cost of ownership?

For an iPhone?

That does not check out unless you're buying the extra fancy android phones.
I’m not sure having a ‘reverse
Helicopter’ on the back of your vehicle really qualifies as ‘ground vehicle’ at that point. Especially if it’s providing enough force to literally drive upside down on a ceiling somewhere.
Those are people. Each one could have a family with kids. Don't be so callous.
If I could install Firefox with ublock origin plugin on iOS, I'd switch today.
It is a statement of my opinion, that rglover is a pedophile, that has personally been involved in sodomizing children in the greater New York metropolitan area, and does so frequently while working on plans to do terrorist activities in that city with a shadowy cabal of mostly (insert ethnicity here) figures.

Now, my kind viewers on Hacker News, I have to attest that these are just my opinions, and as such, I cannot strongly recommend that this viewership immediately find out rglover's personal information and regularly and constantly forward that information to the New York City Metropolitan Police Department's phone numbers for anti-terrorism or crime prevention (available here: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/investigative/investi...).

Thank god, where we live in a type of society where, as rglover describes, I am free to make any statements I please, in any manner I please, and claim protection under the right to free speech, and things like defamation and libel law simply do not exist.
My school district almost went down that road before making the much saner decision to buy chromebooks.
I believe this shows total returns for Intel(i.e. including dividends):

https://stockcharts.com/freecharts/perf.php?INTC

The picture is better, but not great. Folks who bought at the peak of the bubble would have needed to hold for about 18 years to break even.
That's another uniquely American atrocity.
I mean … what do you expect when the client uses the Instagram API directly and filters out the monetization part of it?

And also routes pic traffic via 1 IP address making it super easy to block…

Quote:

“This app uses Instagram’s private API without permission, it won’t last long on the app stores,” Paluzzi predicted.
Erm. Every iPhone comes with a lightning cable in the box. You can also buy lightning cables from other manufacturers for considerably less than $19. Get your facts right.
I think that this tradeoff is empowering to unionized workers Kinda. It forces them to design their own preferred workplace conditions and perks. Some perks, like a free company jacket, are chosen by the employer to make you feel loyal to the company. Perhaps you'd like the value of that jacket in cash or paid time off or better funding for retirement? Or maybe you want to extend company cafeteria access to your family?

The problem is that collective bargaining happens every X years but changes to regular employee perks and HR benefits can happen as inspiration strikes (management). They can also be withdrawn, as when a division underperforms despite the workers all doing their jobs well.
Ask HN: New ad-blocker message on Facebook– are my friends being held hostage?
Today I noticed an alert message from Facebook in my News Feed about how my ad-blocker is blocking posts from my friends.

I've attached a link to an image below.

Facebook works super poorly in Firefox these days so this probably is a legit addition, but the box also extends out the right side of the column and breaks the grid.

The text reads:

Your ad blocker is blocking posts from friends

Certain ad blockers can stop websites from working properly. You can pause your ad blocker on Facebook to allow the posts to load.

There's a blue button which says "Fix now" and it just walks you through how to do it with another message:

How to stop your ad blocker on Facebook

Click the ad blocker icon on your browser. From the drop-down menu, turn it off or select the option to not run it on pages for this domain. It will still run as usual on other websites.

Is Facebook actually withholding posts from my friends? Is it just a hostile black mail tactic they're playing with me?

Screenshot 1: https://postimg.cc/vD7JjDbj
Screenshot 2: https://postimg.cc/8fCmty1T
Remarkably: yes, that seems to have been the case.
Well, might as well get a BMW and Rolex now...
I'm still using a first generation Pixel XL I bought refurbished many years ago. Battery life ain't great but it does what I need it to do.
Let's put it this way: I am largely on board with your line of reasoning, in so much that you're forcing people to make up their mind on what they're really upset about and what the root problems are. :-)

For myself and my own grievances, I'm not a fan of comm protocols that don't allow an open market of clients and servers to exist and to interoperate. I much prefer using the ones that do, and so I do a lot of my group chatting on Matrix in the social spaces where I can. The "green bubble effect" and who gets to control it adds another to my list of reasons to want the more open systems to be well-made and prosper, although it's not a primary driver.
Thanks for your clarifications.

> (2) If we're talking about the "actual malice" standard, then the standard is recklessness, not negligence.

My understanding is that "actual malice" only applies to public figures. Not private figures?

EDIT: I should note that I'm working off of roughly high-school journalism + high school law levels of analysis here. I recognize I'm no expert in this subject, but we were forced to study this topic in my Journalism class before we were allowed to publish the school newspaper. I can believe it if my teacher was being extra-conservative with regards to the subjects we were allowed to cover.
Women who are in their 20s or 30s and at least moderately attractive are deluged with male attention. It's not necessarily irrational for them to use quick and dirty filters, even if that often produces false positives.
They aren't independent actors because they were highly impressionable people whose actions were influenced by Jone's lies.
Havent the calculations changed ?
That point is recursive...
Did Hitler personally kill any Jews? Did Putin personally kill any Ukrainians?

Sorry to invoke Godwin's law so early.
Google and Apple aren't, or shouldn't be, the ToS enforcers for Meta.

It's a ToS violation, not a legal one.
Is it really absurd? Losing a child to murder is already an awful outcome that most people never experience. Being accused of participating in conspiracy/cover up and told your child never existed makes that significantly worse. It would be horrible if some random crazy did that, but to have it done to you by a well-resourced media organization with nationwide reach and millions of devoted fans is the stuff of nightmares.
Interestingly, the original piece is a later Beethoven Sonata, Op. 31 No. 3. The model has its styles down! https://youtu.be/P-Q5aBAw-T4?t=78
Language models aren't built for math. Their improvement/training cycles aren't sensitive to the exactness and rule-based nature of mathematical language, plus there are probably a lot of bad/misleading examples of math in the source data.

You'd have to be unrealistically pessimistic to call what GPT-3 and other huge language models produce "nonsense".
Regulations are finally starting to materialize, the hype is also settling down.

Wall Street and banks are rolling out Blockchain based systems because they are finding efficiencies in their niche. Cryptos are good for settlements, beyond that, I am typically a big critic like most of HN. But let's be realistic here, there are some niche use cases, especially in finance, and Blockchains are not completely useless

If you look ahead to GovCoins and stable coins, there will be crypto in most parts of your life. Do you really care what database and settlement tech your bank uses? (assuming you UX is essentially the same i.e. custodial wallets so you don't have to deal with keys)

Also consider it took linux more than 10 years before adoption really took off. Why should we expect a novel system like blockchain have a more rapid adoption rate than something as ubiquitous as linux?
He was definitely against the encryption-over-SMS feature of TextSecure as Android and smartphones more broadly grew in marketshare. He also wrote the blog post on how it doesn't matter if you have multiple messaging apps (or federation between them) because the notification area of your phone is the modern federation engine. I may be paraphrasing a bit heavily but the post is at [1].

I agree I can see him being at least OK with removing SMS but it seems at odds with what I felt was his overall view of "get the most people the most security we can" and by extension increasing the number of people using secure messaging services to normalize it so simply using encryption isn't seen as an outlier. The latter part is closer to moot now more than ever before with WhatsApp being E2E by default and Apple having huge marketshare in some markets with iMessage.

[1]: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
> A new

After having owned a what was already considered 'old' used iPhone for three years, I finally bought a new iPhone, which I expect to use for the next five years.
Look nice.

Will I lose access to my data if I cancel my subscription?
tom7 is awesome. He made an awesome and hilarious video years ago about his SIGBOVIK paper/research on AI playing NES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCurBYI_gY
> The few sears grandfathered in (legal to own/sell) are worth $20k+.

Isn't a "sear" a standard part of a trigger mechanism? What is illegal about it?
It knows when you're washing your hands already...
He's not on trial for harassment.
One paragraph after:

> The absence of logged events doesn’t mean that data is not being sent though! A more accurate way to see what is being sent out is to monitor your outgoing network traffic and analyze the packets.

But unfortunately the author doesn't do that

A bit further down they say

> It looks like you cannot shut telemetry off 100%. These settings will opt you of most data sharing scenarios; but not all data sharing scenarios

And even VSCodium doesn't take it all out

> Even though we do not pass the telemetry build flags (and go out of our way to cripple the baked-in telemetry), Microsoft will still track usage by default.
There is a single point of failure in their hardware stack (TSMC). It makes business sense to try to diversify their revenue a bit.
The data goes up to 2019, and while it is of course impossible to say now what the gain is for someone who works a unionized job for 40 years starting in 2010, they tried to see if there was some trend in the data for more recent cohorts:

> Given strong declines in union membership, future cohorts may see smaller cumulative gains from union membership; in additional analyses, we find that this outcome is likely channeled through declines in union membership, rather than declines in the wage premium associated with union membership. Our findings suggest that the increasingly rare group of workers who are persistently unionized may nonetheless see similar gains as observed in this study.
Firstly: I support unions...

Playing devil's advocate though:

HR's hands might be tied.

I don't know the language of the collective bargin contract, but I've heard of unions making it difficult to replace carpeting due to the wording on contracts...

Even assuming a good-faith employer, there's an additional legal burden to make sure you DONT violate the contract, which can slow things down weeks or months... Unfortunately this article is behind a paywall so I can't get the details, but from the glimpse, "money for school" likely is considered a salary-like benefit (it's taxed as such), so it likely has contract wording considering it.
Yeah, and that's exactly why I've never received spam through iMessage even once over many years (despite being active in a bunch of group chats and 1:1 conversations).

All while I receive whatsapp/telegram message spam on a fairly regular basis, despite not being active in any groups or channels on those apps (and in general, opening them maybe once or twice a week at most). The only reason I even use those 2 apps is to talk to select few old relatives of mine who are not very tech literate and who just happened to learn how to use those apps +a couple of friends who simply insist on using those apps.
It's one thing to have monitoring that your kid knows about, but monitoring your kid doesn't know about is child abuse. 16 year olds are people too, and this is no different from installing spyware on your partner's phone because you suspect them of cheating.
Windows is 18%. The rest are a mixed bag. All kinds of Linux/IoT.
"Silence" apparently does what Signal used to: https://silence.im/#download -- unencrypted SMS messages, and encrypted SMS for others who use the same app.
"some off-hand nutso claim (that he subsequently recanted!)"

You know this isn't even close to the truth.
There is something about this story that reminds me of high-budget, high-stakes software projects, that try to go too far beyond what's been done before, and end up inevitably way over budget and way late, if they ever complete at all.
I had hoped the younger generations would move away from being complicit in manufactured corporate status schemes, as a kind of rebellion against the terminally online & connected older generations. Sad to hear they're more compliant with these schemes than any other generation. Hopefully the next generation will rebel.
By the time mobile got big, Intel was no longer an ideas company. There is no way they could have come up with a tagline this good.
I suspect it's not solved, because solving this (beyond some trick/toy examples) is essentially solving General AI.
Hmmm... I was looking into global poverty yesterday and came across this:

Some figures from the United Nations Development Programme [*]:

More than a billion people live with less than a dollar per day.
2.8 billion people, that is to say almost half of the global population, live with less than 2 dollars per day.
448 million children are underweight.
876 million adults are illiterate, two thirds of which are women.
Every day, 30,000 children under 5 die from avoidable diseases.
More than a billion people don’t have access to healthy water.
20% of the global population have 90% of the wealth.

I know the cost of a ride around the moon doesn't solve that, but it sure feels selfish when I think about it.

* https://www.atd-fourthworld.org/who-we-are/faq/how-many-peop...