skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> WhatsApp didn't have advertising,

Is there a reason to integrating ads into WhatsApp would require more than another 50 people? Twitter ads are certainly do not appear very complicated. The most complicated thing about Twitter is scale, which is why the comparison is made with WhatsApp.

> recommendations,

Does Twitter have recommendations? From what I understand, the front page was actively curated - that is, a human chose stories to put there. I guess you could count the god-awful default feed ordering as "recommendations", but there is nothing advanced about it.

> bots

If WhatsApp doesn't have bots, it's the only social media/chat app I've ever heard of that doesn't. What is needed for this other an an API?

> had to provide tooling for governments, regulators, content moderators etc.

I'm sure at least some of this exists for WhatsApp. Nevertheless, how many additional employees does this have take?

I am not sure why there is so pushback against the idea most companies are overstaffed. For the most part, yes, everyone has "work" to do. But most of the work is fundamentally unproductive. It's this way throughout the economy, but a few tech companies probably do represent extreme cases. I think the best argument for their case is that most of them are very profitable anyway (not Twitter, somehow), and they might as well throw money at thousands of people to do stuff in case one of them accidentally does something that ends up being wildly profitable. I am fairly neutral on the whole thing; I strongly dislike Elon, but I also think Twitter was horrifically mismanaged. While I doubt Twitter will come out better than it is, the idea that firing most of such a large organization would necessarily result in the immediate collapse of a mature product does not say much about the people that were fired.

I'm more sympathetic to the idea that it would get even worse over time, but I don't think there's anything necessary about this. You could focus on resolving longstanding issues while pausing most new work and probably come out perfectly fine.
I told my team to pause our $750K/month Twitter ads budget
Climate model complexity and future approaches
Title was “Are GCMs obsolete?” which is a bit jargon (GCM is general circulation model, used for climate modelling) and a bit clickbait - as with any headline question, can basically be answered “no”.

But I think the article is quite good - short overview of numerical modelling of the climate and discussion of future directions, both towards throwing more compute (ever higher resolution) at the problem, and improving models (emulators) at higher levels of abstraction to explore more scenarios, sensitivities, specific questions.
cool thing but why is it asking for microphone + camera access? apologies if I missed some key information about it!
"At some point you’ll notice that often some New Technology is nothing more than (over)simplified version of something you already know under a different name."

Gold.
Once you take into account duty, VAT, packaging, transport and supermarket markup a £5 bottle of wine leaves maybe 25p for the wine producer. That's why the quality/price relationship is so non-linear at the bottom end. 20% more on the bottle price is 400% more to the producer.

https://www.decanter.com/learn/tax-wine-much-pay-uk-ask-deca...
Levine himself says that SBF wasn't calling FTX or Alameda ponzi schemes, but rather was saying that some of the coins traded on FTX were ponzis, and that he left that interview feeling impressed with SBF's savvy.

Specifically, Levine's words:

People on Twitter now are like “he admitted that FTX is a Ponzi!” but of course that’s not true. He conceded a certain validity to my claim that some crypto businesses — not his — are Ponzis. He is just in the business of trading their tokens.

In fact, I came away from that conversation bullish on FTX and Bankman-Fried.

Reference: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-10/ftx-is... (paywalled)
Outdoor rugs dubai use in patios and gardens are made of the finest quality and last for a long time. They are comfortable and warm and look great with many colors and patterns.
Quite likely - see this discussion on whether to reify an explicit torsor concept in the design of Haskell's time libraries: https://old.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/j9hfnd/torsors_in_...
why is the page requesting microphone?
I'll add one: when usage scales beyond anticipated levels. then that code that is "good enough" will no longer be, and serious intervention may be required - by senior engineers with history.
I personally haven’t used a printer for anything other than legal documents in the last 5 years or so. I don’t own either. If anything, having to print something lowers my productivity.
I use pdf’s and read long documents in my tablet.
25%-40% of Crypto hedge funds have exposure to FTX or FTT
Ya I am not refuting we are not giving them money, what I want is proof of your orig statement...

I'm out, stop using a throwaway account. It makes you look very suspect.

And, stop being a douche and using words like echo chamber. Makes you look like just another insane person online. Just be a human and be kind.
Beautiful! And then in golang. Thank you for open sourcing the core part.
I assume the reason for statements like that goes something like:

1. A single person can run a mastodon instance in their spare time. Spinning up some containers for the app, a background worker and a database is quite simple.

2. Modern devops tooling makes it fairly trivial to spin up 10k instances of a container instead of 1, by just altering a number in a k8s manifest somewhere.

3. Ergo, a single person equipped with modern tooling (and sufficient funding) could spin up any number of mastodon instances.

4. Twitter is just a big mastodon instance.

5. Now that keeping everything up is sorted, add another 99 devs for feature development and you are done.

Now this is obviously faulty logic because points 3 and 4 are very false, but they look reasonable enough at first glance.
>Was Musk right? All signs so far are pointing to, yes.

Huh? He's been in charge for, like, two weeks. Did you think it could implode the instant the engineers received pink slips? Let's give it a year before we say he was right.
Definitely as close as 20 years away.

The only problem is that fusion has been 'only 20 years away' since the 1950s.
Understanding Rust Thread Safety
I don't think Twitter is automatically doomed, but I think there are more things to consider than just Musk's "track record of successes". And one of the important things is that he doesn't look like he actually understands Twitter. He keeps calling it a "software and servers company", keeps talking about "hardcore coding", alienating and angering users and advertisers... People would be be more confident in his abilities if he actually looked humble enough to recognize the parts where his expertise is lacking.
I blind-tasted wine competitively at an international level and it is pretty commonplace to identify region/sub-region/year/grape across 10 wines blind with ~80% accuracy. In fact, many tastings go further than this and you identify chateau/year from 10 wines from the same region - i.e. the Oxbridge teams mentioned there also do a blind tasting competition specifically on left bank Bordeaux. It's relatively straightforward to train yourself to do this. Note that the physical properties of the wine play heavily into this too (colour, reflection in light, viscosity are proxies for alcohol, age, grape, treatment). Additionally, having the requisite knowledge of "this wine would never be served this old, this wasn't a good year in this region because of x weather, this region only grows x,y,z" means you can deduce a lot from quite little information.

I do think people overfit on the colour piece though; you could definitely find some reds and whites which, if tasted without seeing the colour and at the same temperature, would be challenging to tell apart, more-so than differentiating between country/grape/region. I'm not sure what this really proves, apart from being counterintuitive.

That said, there is a lot of bullshit in market of people who buy and sell expensive wine (more so than the professional tasters and vineyards, who are usually genuine enthusiasts). Lots of cheaper wines may be more enjoyable, and wine flavour profiles are often full of weird signalling about what constitutes quality, i.e. "tasting note x is considered desirable/refined/distinguished, ergo it tastes better", which is nonsense and snobbery. Without any bias you might think expensive and old bordeaux tastes like an old boot, but if you've been trained that those specific flavour profiles are distinguished and desirable ('hints of leather and earth').
4) who'd that sucker be? How much hubris would it take to sell investors on the idea of salvaging a failing company that "the guy who killed the internal combustion engine" and "the guy who made rockets land on their tail" couldn't make profitable? If it comes to selling off a failure, Musk's reputation will be quite a dealbreaker. The days of whatever happens, if all else fails we can still sell to Yahoo are long gone. Perhaps China might be interested, for obvious reasons, but surely not after Twitter has gone down fighting, fading away into irrelevancy in the process.
The same way money is often repaid: take it from future income.

The Democratic committees raised $853M in the 2022 election cycle, compared to $805M for the Republicans. If they had to deduct $50M next cycle to account for the illegitimate funds, it wouldn’t ruin them.
Instagram had 13 at acquisition, presumably content moderation was outsourced but they definitely had to deal with it and bots by that point.

>provide tooling for governments

What tooling do they provide for governments?
That's the lovely thing about the oh-so-fungible thing called "money", and white-collar crime. The stolen car is a recognizable and emotive thing, with an identity all its own.

Vs. the vague and amorphous "money", which so easily flows from being bits in a computer here, to marks on a sheet of paper there, to bits in some other computer... The emotions of the neutral human observer don't stick to it nearly so tightly. And a huge number of politicians, business exec's, lawyers, and other "friends" of white collar crime are naturally quite resistant to the "you should give it back" notions of the little people...
Prison is not just about the person. Action of that person needs to be taken care of. But I also think that prison is not about punishment. So prison will not work for this person. He should be taken care of by some other institution.
I feel like lisp refutes this article, in that most of the “proposed solution” already exists and already failed in actual practice.
Usually a triage system. A low-power voice detection might run on the unit itself, capable of detecting speech but not recognizing it. Another NN might be running on the device itself that can only categorize the activation words. Finally they wake the network interface and send all the data off to Amazon for a datacentre to run the inference.
JSX isn’t a separate language though. It’s recursively inline html/js.
also: regulatory changes. if you can't function within the law, that's tantamount to a critical bug.
That actually could be fun. That's the pressure coming from whomever manages the project that turns it into a nightmare. Allow me however long I need to refactor someone else's mess and I'm having a field day.
Right, if you're already deep in the hole and all-in on a conspiracy theory, there are endless ways you can explain away holes in the theory and turn conjecture or coincidence into hard evidence. Even the lack of evidence can be evidence to people taken in by conspiracy theories.

Same as how China secretly paid the liberals to create the global warming hoax, that's another one along the same lines as the Russia collusion one that some people actually believe.
> If, however, a and b are dates, these operations are nonsensical

If you encode dates as number of days since some fixed date, they can be seen as numbers on a timeline, so the start date and the length (in days) of a "date interval" could be useful information. If you mean that subtracting two dates represented as strings of "YYYY-MM-DD" form is nonsensical... well, duh.

> for date range comparisons it is much more understandable to use start-of-day on a and end-of-day on b

I personally agree with this, but then again, "more understandable" is a subjective notion. I don't see how it make open intervals for dates nonsensical in itself.

"You're arriving on 15th and going home 23rd" implies that you're there 23-15=8 full days (unless we count the arrival/departure half-days as full days, in which case the arithmetic itself breaks down, so it doesn't matter which intervals we use mathematically) - that's an open interval.
The issue is that iCloud knows that I'm the same Apple user coming to get my files from iCloud as accessed the App Store!!! With my Apple account!

Wait ... I'm also not sure what the issue is.

Fundamentally this is only a problem because Apple is too big and controls the App Store, iCloud and all the rest of your device. This is a reasonable artifact of an unreasonable situation.

I also think Apple is too big but I'm more concerned about Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Banks, Ad Tech, Growing Fascism, ... Big Apple is a worry way down on my list.
Towards End-to-End Encryption for Direct Messages in the Fediverse
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> the so-called US Justice system assassinated Aaron Swartz

Swartz had a history of suicidal ideation and eventually killed himself.

We can’t know why. While the trial must have been stressful, by the time of his death he would’ve known that he’s facing a couple of months at most.

One thing we can be sure of though, only a severely ill person would kill themselves over the possibility of spending a few months in jail.
Hi, I'm still working on and experimenting with that but ,initially, my plan is to focus on the candidates side for now and make it as useful as possible for them which will eventually lead to building a good user base / traction enough to attract companies to post their payments-related and fin-tech jobs on the site. but again, still figuring this out and experimenting with it
Frog: OCR Tool for Linux
I've heard it from ex googlers themselves when I worked in SV. We recruited two of them, they hadn't worked on anything even remotely important/interesting at google for months, that was in 2015
I suppose there could be a function that takes mic input. Then you could turn it into disco lighting.
Well, even if it's a binary choice ... Facebook is the weird bit to pick.
It seems quite a few of these decisions are starting to get made. Entirely predictable given what we have seen for the past 3 weeks. All signs point to the idea that this is only the beginning. Brands already were extremely on the fence when it came to advertising on Twitter.
I've been thinking that I would be willing to actually pay somebody commission to buy me the best, well researched, widget from vague description. Surely it has to be more efficient to have product research as one's job than to have to do it once every couple years and then choose something you're not very satisfied with afterwards anyway. But there are multiple levels of perverse incentives that I just have no clue how they could be solved.
It's kind of ironic that your comment, which is complaining about US-centrism, is itself fatally US-centric. If you considered the broader world and historical context you'd see that "football" is an overloaded term that refers to very different things in different times and places.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football

"Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used."

Why call it soccer? Maybe it's because the English, who invented it, called it that in 1895.

"The term soccer comes from Oxford "-er" slang, which was prevalent at the University of Oxford in England from about 1875, and is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. The slang also gave rise to rugger for rugby football, fiver and tenner for a five-pound and ten-pound note, and the now-archaic footer for association football.[12] The word soccer (which arrived at its final form in 1895) was first recorded in 1889 in the earlier form of socca.[13]"

So, you see, when the Aussies call their thing "football" it's an interesting cultural quirk but when Americans do the same it's because they are big dumb. And how ignorant and culturally domineering of them to call a sport by the name that the inventors of that sport coined for it. Man, these Americans!
Are you referring to this one? https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g295424-d39249...
MMAesawy gave the correct answer. It makes it clear what Alexa is really costing Amazon in an format that's easy to interpret. This is how most companies handle "internal purchases" from another business unit that also sells that product externally.

Consider it this way: if Alexa doesn't buy that capacity, someone else could, so it's important to capture this opportunity cost.

It's not perfect, however. I've seen examples where the repairs division of a company had to buy parts from its distribution branch at retail price. All well and good, so far. Except they then had to mark-up that part's price in the repair cost. Combine that with the fact distribution would give discounted rates to other repair companies to secure business and what you have is a repair division that's being outbid on price by competitors using the same parts!
>Ads isn't just serving, but targeting.

Anyone who has used Twitter, have you seen any evidence they do this beyond extremely basic geographical targeting.

Like people keep listing off all this stuff when we’ve all used the site and can see if it does have a team working on it then they’re not doing it to the levels of their competitors.
Sorry, why wouldn't closing over a variable by value count as a closure? In fact in many functional languages you can't tell the difference.
The public dismissal of the evidence these researchers presented in the last few weeks was surprising. It isn't truly important whether the App Store is an integral component of iOS, which it practically is until Apple becomes compliant with the provisions of the Digital Markets Act, it merely compounds their legal issues due to ignoring user intent when iOS analytics are disabled.

The main issue here is that Apple has been collecting personal data for years through its own apps without informed consent, which is in breach of GDPR. You need to ask for express consent to collect personal data in the form of non-essential user analytics, having a privacy policy and a toggle in settings to opt out of data collection is not enough, and it does not matter if the data collection is done by a website, app or an operating system.

It was particularly frustrating to see people argue that it's just an older version of iOS, when the reality is that one needs to hack an iPhone to see how this data is being syphoned off, and that jailbreaks for new iOS versions can be prohibitively expensive to achieve. Despite that, researchers pointed out that they see similar encrypted packets being sent with a recent iOS version.

I think it's worrying that consumers can't inspect the traffic of a device they own, and this is also an area that should be regulated so that our rights are respected.
I suppose that's just karma for the 'Britain got our kids hooked on Opium' in the 1820s-1830s.

What goes around comes around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
Those at VP and above levels should subject themselves to the same sort of monitoring as delivery workers so as to lead by example.
M7.0 earthquake SW of Solomon islands
And a (not so) promotional video from lenses and cameras manufacturer SIGMA, who make 100% of its products in Aizu, Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdF3RG0DDYw
I'm pretty sure they've been working on this, hence hardware locked, for 10 or more years.

Not saying I agree with the choice as I'd prefer better quality images, but I understand their reasoning (if it really is as I said)
https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/banking/2022/10/09/...

"Lenders that also include Bank of America, Barclays and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group committed to provide $13 billion of debt financing for the deal. Their losses would amount to $500 million or more if the debt were to be sold now, according to Bloomberg calculations."
This exact quote (with the "Huh? Right? Manifesto?" bit) as well as mindcrime's reply is from the 1995 movie "Hackers" [0] which, while full of hollywood absurdity, has a touch of more "real" references like the quoted manifesto that give it a nice charm.

"Yeah. RISC is good."

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/
I love linear git! Branches are very confusing for a nonempty set of people. For us, it is always clearer to work with explicit files in the main branch. You are implementing a new feature? Nice: just create a new file on the main branch and keep updating it until you add it to the tests, and later you call it from the main program. This system may break down on large teams, but when you are just a handful of grug-brained developers, it's perfectly appropriate.
He definitely added an extra zero by mistake. Honestly sounds a little high still.
> If anything, he repeatedly succeeded in building world class software and hardware teams for Tesla, SpaceX, and a few other companies

The point is that Twitter doesn't really needed someone to build a world class software and hardware team. The technical challenges in reliability and speed seemed pretty much solved or on track to be solved already. The problem of Twitter was that they never knew how to properly manage the community and make the company profitable.

Twitter doesn't have a tech problem, it has a community problem.
Retribution for the Opium Wars. Karma.
Per link upthread: Bank of America, Barclays and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, apparently. I've also heard Morgan Stanley mentioned.