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> The Facebook parent plans to use the funds to help finance capital expenditures, repurchase outstanding shares of its common stock, and for acquisitions or investments, according to the report.

Still not clear why they need a bond issuance to accomplish any of these vs. using their massive cash-on-hand warchest. My guess is some kind of interest arbitrage.
They’re making up for the fact that the history of every transaction input is public, something no other payment system even attempts to do.
We'll see, I guess. This feels like an attempt to apply lessons of what happened yesterday to today. It feels like assuming success only has one mold. And it resists acknowledging how much people hate the thing we have, how many people consider it toxic and damaging.

I think people just need to be lead to greener pastures. Right now the alpha geeks aren't cooler & better, don't have great & obvious advantages for being out on the frontier trying cool shit. The Tim O'Reilly "Follow The Alpha Geeks" advice is rarely wrong, in my view, for the alpha geeks mostly want to expand capabilities & power & enable, in ways most consumer efforts are too bounded & limited to go for, but we keep forgetting this wisdom's words anyways.

Once the alpha geeks are unqualifiedly better than the mundane normy-nets, the tables will start to turn. I think the geeks are doing the good work, are putting in the right effort.

Dogfood your way to success. Do what empassions & excites you. Don't worry about l-users. Focus on being really good & powerful. You'll be out competed if you do what sigmoid10 says & compete to be the lowest common denominator of social networking, and your product will suck as bad as everything else we have.

Truly good works market themselves. Places where genuine authentic people (and creative fun bots) mix & share themselves in are what we are searching for, is the authenticity that the engagement-loop corporate networks break & burry. There's different races here. I do think the broader we are searching for better more open pattern en mass to replace the walled garden networks (a challenge many distributeers reject), but the path to victory is assymetric competition, is tapping into different sources of value & raising it up in different ways.

Do you believe in humanity? Or do you think synthetic gloss shit forever & ever will always win?
The jury is out on the efficacy of the feedback loop.
What? You mean Prince Harry jetting over to the world climate conference and telling us peasants to keep down the heating during winter ... or else ... is a hypocrite? No way!
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Sibling comment is correct to prompt you to at least try an LLM first. It's unfortunately the equivalent of lmgtfy.com but it's true.
Too late. Not to be a downer but this ship has sailed. No matter the cost governments and big business will unite in using mass surveillance to monitor and control the population. In a sense its a new feudal system enforced with complete surveillance.
This is one of the selling points for crypto. As a consumer, digitization of the money is about the only service most consumers care about (or accruing interest). Banking seems to me a very outdated and nearly obsoleted technology.
Tree trimmers will make far less money with the glut of unemployed software developers entering the field. They're already proficient at inverting (binary) trees, trimming them is child's play.

More seriously, if a huge chunk of white-collar professionals are made redundant, why would they have the cash to pay a tree trimmer?
I'm not terribly worried about Al Qaeda or DPRK having any sort of capability to develop planetkilling AI, now or in the future. Nukes and Rockets? Sure. Anyone can build a centrifuge, and anyone can build a cylinder with explosives on it.

But intelligent killer robots? Please.
Ironically over regulation is causing much of the inequality, not the other way around.
Yeah, this bit:

> "Apple iOS devices are affected by PRISM. Even using the software tools we recommend here, your privacy may be compromised by iOS itself. The operating system of any device can unfortunately lever out any privacy protection that a program tries to offer you."

...made me conclude that these people are idiots. You don't need to activate iCloud on an iPhone and you can use standard stuff like IMAP and WebDAV to sync contacts and calendars etc. There's also a huge list of telemetry controls you can shut off in the OS.

Not to mention they have the best physical and OS security of any mobile device.

Suggesting that a small homebrew Android ROM, maintained by anonymous individuals, which hasn't seen any security updates in almost a year, is comparable in terms of end-user privacy is ludicrous.
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Yes this is something we need to work on: Some way to detect stack overflow or prevent it from happening in C. And obviously you need to understand the resource consumption of your algorithm, but this also applied to other stack allocations and recursion etc. And with memory over-commitment you also do not have control over malloc anymore. You simply get a fault once you access the memory...

Your second point I do not understand: How is it the fault of the C language, if it is poorly implemented? And yes, if you use a poor implementation, you may need to avoid VLA. I am not blaming programmers who do this. My point is that it not inherently a bad language feature and with a good implementation it may also be better than the alternatives depending on the situation.
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Note that “mission” in the parent comment likely refers the practice of certain Christian sects that send out evangelists to proselytize in another geographic area. It probably is not referring to CIA operations.

(Posting this because there is a dead peer comment that seems to have misunderstood).
Here in Taiwan we keep getting these massive blobs of crap floating over the Taiwan Strait from our kindly neighbor. Two weeks ago it was a bunch of dust and sand, week before that it was just straight up smog. Sinuses have been going crazy. Couple days ago my friend joked that maybe we should get Geiger counters but then we thought about it a bit more and got kinda depressed at the possibilities there.

Makes me think of Neal Stephenson's latest novel in which same kindly neighbor started treating climate affecting events in other nations to be all but acts of war. We're choking on the PRC's industry over here. Wish the windmills we're building here would instead act as massive fans to push it all back...
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People have always had the ability to just choose pleasure over physical, financial, or mental health. It's why going to the bar at 10AM and alcoholism are millennia old, why prostitution is one of the oldest jobs in capitalist societies, etc.

We just have a tremendous amount of variety and options now.
I had the chance to speak to some Nostr devs this weekend. My impression (like other mentions below) is that it seems less like a social network than it does a messaging protocol.

As with all tech protocols, there's potential for more sophisticated things to be built on top of them, but I didn't get a clear sense that Nostr people are interested or serious about product engineering to make this a "Twitter killer" or some other popular buzzword.

There was an interesting discussion on how to limit spam in distributed networks, the primordial problem of any social web endeavor. The two poles seem to be relying on "financial incentives" vs "identity gatekeeping". For those that believe in the power of the free market to regulate tricky social problems, I think Nostr has a lot of promise.
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I wouldn't waste me breath. These claims tend to come from people who are, "I didn't get hired because I am a white male." I've been on tons of interviews and have gotten tons of rejection and never once has a company told me its because I didn't fit their demographic or was a white male. But these people will claim that. In reality, they just think they have sunshine coming out of their asses and need an excuse to justify their hurt ego.
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Some people just see a market to compete in and get rich. Whether or not it is a net benefit to society just doesn’t factor into their decisions. And the world is big enough that even if 99% of society won’t go through building that product, someone will.
My dad also posts on online forums, claiming to also be a former Mormon while still having unrelentlessly positive things to say about Mormons. He's very much still a Mormon, much like I would expect you to be. Have some integrity. The vast majority of ex-Mormons are definitely bitter, and would love to destroy the church, and for a multitude of entirely valid reasons. The exmormon subreddit, which is the most popular and active of all of the ex-religion subreddits, can fill you in on exactly why exmormons are so bitter about their former religion if you're curious.

And you're right. All humans do this to some degree. Mormons, with their sanctimonious belief that they are the only ones that can receive revelation from god, seem to do it far more than other groups. Something about believing in the Power of Discernment...if the Bishop thinks this guy is a great guy, then he obviously is a great guy!

And you're also right that the Mormon Mafia is a joke, but it is only a joke within the Mormon Mafia. For everyone else, it is a career nightmare. If you, god forbid, go to a bar with a couple colleagues after work, you can expect to never be treated the same ever again. You'll be passed up for promotion, denied positions of responsibility and trust, and constantly have your work called into question. Because you're not trustworthy anymore...you're an alcoholic. Wouldn't it be nice if we had less alcoholics on our team? Gee, where can we find fewer alcoholics? I know...BYU!

EDIT: I should add, out of an abundance of caution due to the upset Mormons that I have just offended, that there are plenty of Mormons that are not like this. I'd probably say most mormons are not like this. One of the managers I work with most is a mormon, and he knows that I'm exmormon, and we get along fine. He also has hired 14 non-mormon people, including two muslims, a lesbian, and his top performer is an ex-heroin addict, so I'm pretty damn sure he's open minded about other people and isn't just looking to pack his org with like-minded people. I would never propose a measure to discriminate against mormons, but I absolutely would try to mitigate their tendency towards nepotism. There are enough mormon nepotists out there that it has become a problem, and I'm just calling that out.
> It’s possible to have a UV system that does what you want without the downside, but it does cost.

The main downside is that you are introducing a chemistry experiment into your ventilation system.

If you want clean air, then (a) cycle in/outside air at ASHRAE-recommended volumes, and (b) use high-MERV/HEPA filters.

In wildfire zones and in wildfire season you can perhaps add charcoal filters—if your system is designed to handle the pressure/head loss—to get rid of the smoke-y smells.
Technically even that can be net(!)-positive but I doubt that most of the users of private jets are using them for helpful ends.
Or an example that time changes, the same way banking or agriculture or pretty much anything used to be some way until we discovered that this or that way resulted in more performance or ROI?

I don't deny your view, and I agree that it may be a little more meritocratic, but maybe not endeudamiento anymore.
Failing to mention Gothamchess is weird - he's a 10 times bigger pusher of chess than Ben Finegold.
Would people panic & withdraw their deposits if the bank had been more cautious? That's the main question. It can't really be proven either way, but it seems fairly plausible that a bank with much less risk would have far fewer panicked depositors.
I think we'll see a lot more of these AI lobotomies with the companies hiding behind "safety concerns" as a thinly veiled attempt to exert paternalistic control over what adults can do or even think in private.

It serves as a reminder that chatting with an AI hosted online is not a private conversation between you and some other "intelligence" but you and someone else's computer.
Huh, wonder why.

Oh yeah, the bipartisan bribes.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/visa-inc/summary?id=D000029...

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/mastercard-inc/summary?id=D...

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/jpmorgan-chase-co/summary?i...

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/bank-of-america/summary?id=...

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/citigroup-inc/summary?id=d0...

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/wells-fargo/summary?id=D000...
I'm in the US and haven't used facebook in 10 years, but thinking of getting back on. With the death of forums, self destructive nature of reddit, I keep finding myself turning to fakebook groups to keep up on relevant interests.
But they could still allow for narrow banks to exist which would intermediate these “nuisances” while passing through all deposits to Fed reserves.
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> There’s nothing like column view for windows.

Yes there is. Only it's called “Details” view (if I understood what you meant correctly.)

Press the [Alt] key to make Explorer’s menu appear, then View, then Details. IIRC. HTH!
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They definitely were making tons of profit per employee.

They've consistently been making $1.2-1.6M in revenue per employee, and their net profit margin has been 20-40%.

They just thought they could make more money.

[edit] I think Patrick McKenzie did a great job of explaining the post-COVID layoffs on Odd Lots a few months ago [1], as saying that companies hired to (a) keep the lights on with a ton of new users (b) tracking the growth trendline assuming things wouldn't return to normal and (c) they didn't see the ordinary 6% annual attrition baked into HR expectations due to employee uncertainty.

So from that perspective, a bond offering seems fine, IMO. Better than a dilutive secondary offering.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb7G7sY4p9o
This problem is summed up very simply.

Regulation generally emerges due to documented problems/incidents that have happened due to a lack of regulation prior because a significant number of people need protecting from themselves.

Regulation also takes time, meanwhile businesses stomp the phantom accelerator on monetizing the lack of regulation.

Regulation is generally a safety measure. Yes, it can be counterproductive and counterintuitive, but regulation doesn't have to be a negative thing, and is frequently there to protect people from themselves.

The proposal of taking away encryption or adding backdoors to everything? Stupid. But not all regulations are bad. I think LLMs are something that absolutely do need regulation on so many levels.
Agreed with the second part, but what do you mean by "Almost nothing on this list is actually positive for security"?
It varies a lot depending on location, but generally you can adjust by adding 5%. 15% is the new 10% and 20 is the new 15%.
These data leaks are indeed very bad, but in what way do they make the actual core product and its security goals "worthless and entirely irrelevant"?
My experience with the NYT (I subscribed to both the NYT and the WSJ at the same time) is that most of their stuff is AI rewrite quality. But they occasionally have centerfold investigative pieces that are very good.

I imagine this is how it is: they have an army of junk journalists churning out content and then a few really good ones who do the tough stuff. It's probably not economical otherwise.
Good idea, I tried that just now. It just accepts it and carries on.
they lay off because they can

they issue bonds because they can

its smart - as money flees iffy industries like banking, it will be looking for a safe home...big tech will have no issue attracting capital

the only real danger is big tech getting extremely overbought, creating another systemic risk
So is this how hallucinations form ? It proposes something half-baked, and then later refers back to it as fact ?
That's.... not as bad as originally advertised, is it?
My first program was for a Heathkit programmable calculator that I got (and put together) in the mid-1970s.
In recent years there have been rises in the ability to share a private jet, so it may be that less individuals are buying private jets but more people are using/flying them.

IIRC they get very heavy corporate use simply because if you are, say, a retail executive flying from location to location, direct on a private jet may be better than small airport to hub, wait, possibly hub to another hub, wait, hub to small airport. It's certainly faster.
There have been attempts to start a bank that would just do this. The FED refused to give those banks a banking license.
If they would give that license, then the 'narrow bank' gets the job of KYC, customer service, and everything else. But the funds remain safe at the FED.

Problem is, this takes a lot of money out of the economy if it catches on. That likely will reduce investment, and damage the economy. So regulators dislike narrow banking.
That's also the case in US politics as well, and has been for a while now.
Of course they can. They can be voted out of office at the next election.
And the second patent is even more generic- even open source flight controllers have more advanced state estimation and control loops.
> Layoffs mean they're doing less

This isn't true, it means they had fat to trim. People that were under performing or working on nothing. There was a hiring arms race the last several years and everyone over hired fearing other companies would get talent first. The industry at most of the notable tech companies was bloated.
> The recommendations you mention are together features of the Passive House[1]

ERV/HRV are actually part of regular building codes in many areas. The province of Ontario:

* https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/ontario-imposes...

* https://airfixture.com/blog/ontario-building-code-ventilatio...

* http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=15947

* https://web.archive.org/web/20180626073728/http://www.mah.go...
Disgust is not a rational reason to dislike things.
If you have larger fixed size array you can get an error when you overflow the larger array. But this then does not necessarily prevent invalid accesses to the parts of the array which go beyond the actual size of what is stored in it or might not prevent bound overflows when copying from the array to some other place.
Please use the post by whoishiring instead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773705
I recently listened to a journalist who spoke to many AI workers in SV. There is an alarmingly pervasive pseudo-religious attitude that they are ushering in a new form of life, and that it is their destiny to be the people who make it happen. Most of them will candidly tell you humanity may go extinct as a result (with at least a 1 in 10 chance), but they choose to plow ahead regardless.

Others appear to be in common modes of willful denial: hubris or salary-depends-on-not-knowing syndrome.
Or they see a vulnerable demographic of lonely people that are easily exploited by some fairly low-hanging LLM "companionship" as a service.
The line already drawn, no indiscriminate killings of civilians, all this technology only minimizes civilian suffering, furthermore it is more humane to use terminators instead of 20 years olds clearing buildings and autonomous tanks/tracks driving though IEDs filled streets.

War is deeply in human nature, it is not going away, question is; how to make it more humane and minimize indiscriminate killings and sufferings in most cases poorest populations on earth.
One of the smartest engineers I know learned to program in college at 20 years old. He has never done much coding outside of coursework or the workplace and now works on the Windows kernel at Microsoft.

This is a bad question.
I think GPT4 can converse on any subject at all as well as a (let's say) 80 IQ human. On some subjects it can converse much better.

That feels fundamentally different than a calculator.