skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This week, we got to know how Meta, Amazon, Google and other marketing businesses performed in the first quarter.

I wanted to share my analysis of what changed in marketing and advertising in Q1 2023. I tracked the recent changes to marketing, social media and Advertising platforms every week since the start of the year. You can read my data analysis above.

And here is a breakdown based on the official information we got this week from these platforms:

* Meta’s CFO pointed out that Reels Ads are not at the same level as other formats. The platform is still finding ways to deliver better results from reels for the advertisers.
* Snapchat’s revenue goals were accomplished as forecasted but the growth remains slow from past two quarters. This time, Snap said changes to Ad platform & formats caused disruption in revenue generation.
* What I found: Another report suggested that Political Ad spend on snapchat is very much on the rise, political organizations are focused on changing the young Gen-Z behavior.
* Amazon was king of Ad growth in Q4 2022 and this year. The growth is the same, Amazon’s Ad business is growing amazing and the reason is the local Ad targeting at Amazon is great for their vendors.
* But Microsoft is catching up to amazon and the revenue from Search & Ad business increased 3.4% for them. And the numbers are forecasted to increase even more, with Bing AI Ads.
* Rather than People calling Google out for AI, their business grew when we compare their growth to last Q1 2022. But Youtube Ads and few other businesses saw a slight revenue decrease compared to Q4 2022. But Google Search business grew besides the callouts regarding people using google less.
* Mark pointed that plans for metaverse are coming back and their focus on AR products will reflect in next quarters.
Usage of AI to recommend people's content on meta platforms will increase from now on. With the aim to increase user engagement.

These were quick insights from latest reports released by these platforms regarding their business state. To find more deep analysis on how the marketing practices and consumers have changed. You can read my analysis.

I hope this helps you!
I hate to break it to you, but "clothing and shoe donation" bins in mall parking lots are generally commercial enterprises, rather than non-profits or charities, and I suppose people get good feels from dropping off there while they're shopping, but the community would be better served if you gave direct to a charity such as St. Vincent de Paul Society Thrift Stores.

As for scrap batteries being tossed into a bin at a mall, I'm not seeing that end well. It is more or less trivial to look up recycle facilities in your area and take stuff to the appropriate drop-off. Personally, I take eWaste into Best Buy or Staples, and my own city government runs a large recycling center that will take almost anything.

https://earth911.com/
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. The likelihood and prevalence of deeply low level monitoring is orders of magnitude less than the likelihood of using modern apps and saas where is virtually guaranteed. It's an additive game and you can dramatically reduce invasions, even if you can't eliminate them.
It looks like a lot of failed kickstarters. I.e. extremely ambitious, small team, too little funding, and unlikely to succeed. I think Kickstarter won't even let you make these anymore and apparently GoFundMe didn't want it either.

Crowdfunding doesn't really make sense for nascent projects with high risk. If the value to a consumer is $10, and there is a 10% chance of success, the EV is only $1. Honestly VC is better for that, but you have to actually sell ownership and upside instead of charging for probably-nothing. I don't really think a VC will touch this though.

The best bet is probably to reduce scope and get a day job.
Before digital payments or online banking, it was common for an average Joe to keep much of what would otherwise go into a checking account in physical cash. In modern amounts maybe $5k at the high end or $500-2k on average. It didn’t seem to prevent the system from functioning; I certainly can’t seem to draw a direct conclusion between shifting to a cashless economy and the living standards of an average personal directly improving as a result of lower cost of capital, unless they had assets that would benefit from easy/low-rate credit access like a house.

If the Fed keeps trying to fix failed banks through indirect money printing (covering uninsured deposits by overpaying for treasuries/MBS) they could lose control of inflation and be unable to further raise rates. That seems like a worse outcome for the average person than a slightly higher cost of capital from banks having to compete with narrow banking. And the Fed should hope for narrow banking at that point because it would be the easiest to manage compared to the other options like physical cash, crypto, and other currencies.
Evidence for an alcohol “harm paradox” in people with internalizing disorders
Ironically in my area at least (NC) this is handled better in my parent's rural area than it is in the [small] city where I live with city garbage and recycling pick up. In their county (which is all rural) each community has a small facility that collects garbage and recycling, and each facility has collection bins for electronics, batteries, florescent bulbs, etc. I just googled to see what I'm supposed to do with these items, and apparently the city holds a "hazardous waste day" once a year which is usually a madhouse... so I'm guessing that 75+% of that stuff ends up in the normal garbage.
Of course it all boils down to personal preferences, and YMMV, but I can say I've truly been enjoying the atmosphere and friendships at counter.social since leaving the other big platform.
> Take the perspective of one of these things. You think 100 times faster than a person. That means that if it takes 30 seconds for a user to respond or to give you your next instruction, you are waiting 3000 seconds in your loop. For 50 minutes.

These things don't have a "perspective". They simply guess based on a lot of statistics from a large language data source what they should say next. They are not going to strategize, when they start improving their code they are not going to have an overall objective in mind, and the more they use their own output for training the more likely that things will go off the rails.

They will be useful, as we've already seen, but if you're looking to create real AI this is not the path to take. We'd be better off resurrecting semantic nets, working on building a database of concepts gleaned from parsing text from the internet into it's underlying concepts, and working on figuring out volition.
How GoPro lost the drone opportunity will always amaze me.

Especially given the potential military applications and contracts they could had signed.

Is there any serious competitor to DJI these days?
Your viewpoint is fascinating. So the inventor of backpropagation, Turing award winner, Google researcher, mentor to the CTO of OpenAI, doesn’t have any special insights about AI and the tech industry that’s forming around it? He might as well be some guy off the street?

Who, in your opinion, _does_ have enough context to be worth our attention?

Because if you’re waiting for Sam Altman or the entire OpenAI team to say “guys, I think we made a mistake here” we’re going to be knee-deep in paperclips.
It helps to read TFA on occasions. Hinton founded the AI company acquired by Google
with 2 of his students. One of them is now in charge at OpenAI.

Hinton has had a significant part to play in the current state of the art.
Weird, sxiv works fine over remote X11 for me.
> I'm 21 now but I wish I had known about this when I was younger and getting into programming, I would have been all over this.

Unfortunately Heathkit didn't really make kits from 1992 until recently (I think the past year or two, though the Wikipedia article[0] is vague on when it resumed), aside from a brief, failed attempt in 2012.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathkit
I wonder if the compute power/GPUs for crypto mining are being converted to be compute for LLMs/GenAI/AI. I wonder because I wonder what percent of crypto compute resources that are under the custodianship of "bad actors" -- just trying to think of how bad actors get these AI "powers" at the scary scale that can disrupt society.
if the competition can use langchain & openai api to replicate what your doing (custom model or not) you still don't have a moat.
>Fewer than 1% of Twitter users are subscribed to Twitter Blue

A 1% conversion rate is pretty much what I would expect from an online business.
> All that's needed for good indoor air quality (IAQ) is an ERV/HRV which exhausts stale indoor air and brings in fresh outdoor air (through a filter)

The recommendations you mention are together features of the Passive House[1] building standard that seeks low energy use as well. If you build a building to a high standard, it will have a tighter envelope to retain heat/cool and protect against water intrusion. If the envelope is tight, you must actively manage airflow through an ERV/HRV. The consequence is that these buildings are supplied with continuous fresh air, and their ERV can be set up to dynamically react to air quality and other issue to ramp up the transfer.[2]

There's a subculture of builders pursuing these qualities in their building, represented for example by groups like "Building Science and Beer" in Austin[3], and Matt Risinger's Build Show[4].

[1] https://www.treehugger.com/what-is-a-passive-house-principle...

[2] https://www.broan-nutone.com/en-us/ai-series

[3] https://www.instagram.com/bs_and_beer_atx/

[4] https://www.youtube.com/@buildshow/videos
As a huge fan of GNU and the idea of Free Software;

It might be time to lead with Libre? This rather unfortunate ambiguity causes SO many problems.
I fully understand and agree that the assumption of perfect/symmetrical information in an economic system doesn't exist, but it's a lot better than what you seem to suggest, and recently (the past 30 years) has only gotten better.
> glowing traits

Nice one, if intentional
Because people are still HODLing their dIaMoNd HaNdS.
Hilarious anyone even cared enough to bother making something as dumb as this site.
That's kind of a nonsensical suggestion. You can't define this in a way significantly different than it already is that makes sense across devices. You can use metrics like "% of performance vs flagship product," which a lot of people have used to point out that lately the xx80-class-turned-xx70-class cards of today are looking more like xx60 Ti-class cards of yesterday in relative performance, but performance isn't always that simple and there's no way any company will conform to it. Even if they use it, there's no incentive not to break from it the same way they do now.
Never Connect to RDP Servers over Untrusted Networks
This is dumb because step (3) is already the state of the world. Banks are essentially extensions of the government. It's a public-private partnership. Yes, the government absolutely wants to cut off some entities from the banking system (terrorists, criminal cartels, etc). This is "censorship" only in some extremely naive and reductive sense.
Sure, such a website could exist, but it wouldn't be very fun to read or maintain. Seems like they created this site in a desire to partake in schadenfreude, not as an intellectual exercise.
You can still do digital painting while you are in a plane or taking a trip, just because AI advances in this space has made a lot of strides doesn't mean you necessarily have to give up on doing something.
But they weren't really tracking changes in Twitter over time in any meaningful or informative way. The were just regurgitating a variety of anti-Elon headlines.
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I worked at Griffin for a short period of time while we were still selling this. I was in tech support, and I didn't even know about the battery.
>>with things like cognitive architecture etc.

That part is doing a LOT of very heavy lifting in a story that otherwise hangs together.

The problem is that we are nowhere near such a thing. These LLM and generative systems produce very impressive results. So does a mirror and a camera (to those who have never seen one). What we have is enormous vector engines that can transform one output into another that is most statistically likely to occur in the new context. These clusters of vector elements may even appear to some to sort of map onto something that resembles computing a concept (squinting in a fog at night). But the types of errors, hallucinations, confabulations, etc. consistently produced by these tools show that there is actually nothing even resembling conceptual reasoning at work.

Moreover, there is no real idea of how to even abstract a meaningful concept from a massive pile of vectors. The closest may be from the old Expert Systems heritage, e.g., Douglas Lenat's CYC team has been working on an ontological framework for reasoning since 1984, and while they may produce some useful results, have seen no breakthroughs in a machine actually understanding or wielding concepts; stuff can rattle through the inference engine and produce some useful output, but...

Without the essential element of the ability for a computing system to successfully abstract concepts, verify their relation to reality, and then wield them in the context of the data, the entire scenario forever fails to start.
Is there a way to ask for a reasonably-priced custom made keyboard?

I have a key layout in mind, and I just want a ready product, not to fiddle with hardware and firmware myself.

The order lot is very tiny of maybe 4-5 pcs.

The layout is quite simple QWERTY, based on Omnikey Ultra T.
Photopea is pretty darn good. Especially if you are or have been a Photoshop user.
This is exactly it.

We already have foreign state actors & profit maximizing corporate actors working against the average western citizens interest.

They're already doing their level best to exploit those foolish and credulous to be easy marks. This is already taking our societies to a place where life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are no longer in mosts grasp.

So yeah, generative A.I. will allow a deluge of content that means a significantly greater percent of the population get entangled in the web of propaganda. In the same way that recommended feeds with targeted adverts & content has already been doing.

A pause in A.I. research might stop us being turned into paper clips. But without a fundamental restructuring of how our big tech companies are funded the societies we know are still utterly doomed. Either the user or the state is going to need to pay. Our current system where tech companies fund themselves by selling their users minds to those who would exploit them will take us somewhere very dark with the technology that's already out there.
Heard a friend say, if your grandparents know what your job means, you're probably in the wrong industry. The world is always coming up with new types of jobs. If old ones die, new ones will be created.
> There's so much missing stuff. No symlinks, no hard links, no xattr. I worry about what the user experience is going to be

Personally, I've never met a "normal" user who cares about any of those. You can try vscode.dev => explorer => "Open Folder" to see what the experience is like for yourself. I'd be interested to hear of the pain points, though I moved on from the project a while back.
Even though I don't deny there's clearly a tradition of depicting feminine characters at various levels of sexualisation, c'mon, this mascot is in full-body armour/exoskeleton and a dress over it (or maybe it's an android in a dress)!

Look, this child mermaid on the Photoshop splash screen[1] has no clothes beneath the waist. Is it NSFW too?

[1]: https://www.deviantart.com/mostafaabeelfattah/art/Adobe-Phot...
Well, you do have to actively use the torch, so it is a bit more labor intensive, but you definitely don't have to sit there with a torch for 20-30 minutes.

I haven't made baba ganoush this way so take it with a grain of salt, but the way I've approached fruits with similar water content (i.e. squash or apples) is to bake for an amount of time (which is going to give you a more consistent cook all the way through than roasting anyway) and then finish with the butane torch, for a crispy roasted exterior. If you're using a toaster oven without covering, that will already give you some crispiness on the exterior, so you'll likely be able to get the exterior you want with under a minute of active torching.

The sources I can find seem to indicate that butane actually burns at a lower temperature than natural gas, but you make up for this by putting the flame directly on the food, so I'd guess that the food gets hotter (I wouldn't trust sources that say this confidently, as I can't think of a good way to experimentally verify this). It seems like this gives a higher temperature contrast which gives a higher texture contrast between the interior/exterior of the food. It's subjective whether that's a good thing but I personally think it's better.

> and the butane torch isnt gonna put in harmful chemicals more than my gas flame?

I don't know, and I would distrust most sources that claim to know. Natural gas is used for a lot of things besides cooking, so I'm not sure how much effort is put into the purity of the natural gas mixture, and that's putting aside all the piping between source and destination which could introduce all sorts of stuff from molds to plastics. I'm not aware of anyone making claims about the safety of natural gas flames and food. In contrast, butane torch fuels are often explicitly intended for culinary use, and advertising makes lots of claims such as "Near zero impurities" and "No residual oders"[1] (the misspelling is theirs). Without any credible independent verification, I personally don't think these claims are worth anything.

That said, natural gas is a much more complicated mix of stuff than butane, and the chemical reaction of combustion is much more complicated. Butane, in a perfect combustion, should produce CO2 and water, while natural gas, in a perfect combustion, will produce CO2, CO (carbon monoxide), water, NOx and SOx compounds (the latter mostly due to additives to give it an odor). Perfect combustion is a hypothetical reaction that doesn't exist in real life, however, so I can't say how well that hypothetical reaction translates to practical reality.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Culinary-Universal-Cocktails-Charcute...
I think they’d be the third largest behind tencent and Sony
Thanks to this article I learned about Nextcloud[0], which at first glance looks like a really nice self-hostable alternative to the Google Suite.

[0]https://nextcloud.com
Sounds like the digital equivalent of a dead mall
Genuine and serious praise for not insisting on sticking with an absurdly embarassing and arguably problematic name that would be likely to hamper adoption for quite some time, unlike a certain other free and open source painting program.
He partly answers this in the article: “because if I didn’t, someone else would”.

He states himself that it’s not a convincing argument to some.

But it surely carries some weight: in developing nuclear weapons many scientists made the same calculation even though the invention is a wicked one, in and of itself.
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Hi, I'm a software engineer with 4YOE a bit of time at FAANG and significant time working with early stage companies (predominantly in Fintech). I primarily work on back-end code but have recently started focusing on the JS ecosystem, specifically typescript - a majority of the past two years have been equally split between elixir and golang. At this point, I'm only open to positions offering $140k USD or greater comp - Also, if your company has an office in the NYC metro area or Austin area I'm more than ready to work in office!
Senior backend engineer that has been developing app/website back-ends for services for the last 10-12 years. I'm very productive with the Python / SQLAlchemy / FastAPI / Graphene stack. I'm also actively working with Rust and would like to get more exposure to that ecosystem.

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Wouldn't it be more viable to just curate multiple personal identities? It's not illegal and as long as they don't need your SSN they won't care.

I've thought about doing this to have a pen name with a pseudo anonymous identity but I also have burner emails to avoid spam.
people really get themselves so worked up and upset about things that they feel the need to go make something idiotic like this
There's also free as in Jazz, but we're digressing quite far from the topic here.
This is a new phenomenon, too. It was only a few years ago that there was a church-wide semiannual congregation (known as General Conference) where the leadership announced that it was bad to be referred to as "Mormon".

The reasoning is: Mormon is a character in their scripture (The Book of Mormon), but he is not the main figurehead for the church, so referring to them as though he is, is a misrepresentation.
I hadn't thought of tips with credit/debit cards or other electronic payments, so they go to the bar/restaurant that then (when the actual money arrives in the bank) gives them back to the waiter(s), it must be some serious complication in accounting.
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It's a polyglot conference, so any language you want to contribute with is welcome. Even if you're not attending the conference it should be a lot of fun. If you participate, I'll make sure you have access to get the finished shirt.