skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No.

Shareholders have been critical of Twilio's performance, and therefore Jeff Lawson over the last year or two though... They're in a difficult place. They don't have the margins of a SAAS company and they've been losing a lot of money.

This was fine in a low interest rate environment where investors are willing to pay up for growth, but when that changed investors wanted them to cut costs and show a path to profitability. As a result Twilio was forced to do large layoffs and refocus the business on products with higher margins.

Perhaps Jeff just didn't want to run the type of business Twilio needs to become in this new environment. He doesn't strike me as the kind of person who gets passionate about running a mature business that needs to focus on optimising profit margins above all else. I he think prefers to get stuck in and build things cool things, and for better or worse that's not where Twilio is anymore.
They added 20K in 2004 [1], for those with high-level degrees, possibly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_Visa_Reform_Act_of_2004
> For any reasonable definition of scientific evidence, there is a lot of evidence for almost everything.

Slight tangent, but I've seen a similar thing when trying to decide which religion, if any, is true:

Every one I looked at had at least a few very intelligent, seemingly rational adherents. It seems like there's a subjective element to what evidence each person finds persuasive.
It’s also impossible to pirate movies without pirating movies.

It’s one rule for them and another for the rest of us.
I don't think so. There is no stable interface to the drivers which makes their reuse in other projects a huge effort. With Linux you either get the whole kernel
or nothing and the whole thing is more than a HAL or BIOS.
Hah, yeah. But it's a good problem solving and reasoning exercise. One of my courses in college used this book and it's very useful for reasoning about general real-world science topics: https://uscibooks.aip.org/books/consider-a-spherical-cow-a-c...
A fee, be it $5 or $1 doubling each year, doesn't work well for a variety of reasons.

1. Big players can afford protection even when a product isn't profitable - Disney may lock things up to claim a catalog even if most, independently, isn't worth much.

2. What defines a work? For a TV series, is it the entire show, each season, or each episode?

3. Some works exist in much higher quantity. Ie, photography vs video games. A photographer would have to increase their prices dramatically to retain copyright for even a short period.

I am all for copyright reform, but this option doesn't work. I'm a much bigger fan of the idea of everything being public domain PERIOD with the arts being publicly funded - Ben Jordan has a great video defending this idea I can't link to easily while at work.
Tiled backgrounds? I miss them too.
The Quest is fully cordless whereas the Vision Pro has a cord that goes to a battery pack that you wear on your waist. Though neither device requires you to be tethered to a computer.
I have started using https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace for things that I once used sysdig for, it works quite well and is not broken as often as sysdig.
Having just listened to it seemingly being proud[1] and coming across as completely unrepentant. The podcast only reenforced my view that Armstrong should not be given any form of celebrity or space on any platform. He needs to just go away.

1. "More than anything I'm just really proud...proud I didn't quit...with no support or anything."
My take: They're too expensive at volume (and they have competitors, just not famous ones) and not specialized enough / not best in class compared to tools like Klaviyo.
Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, Calif.
Most machines don't learn like humans; these machines do. It'll be even more apparent when we put LLMs in mechanical bodies and allow them to update weights in real time, which is only a few years away given there aren't any real technological impediments. It's stupid to suggest that it should be illegal for an LLM in a body to watch a copyrighted movie because it could memorise and quote it verbatim, when that's what humans do.
I'm sure Meta will be very happy helping Apple selling more iPhones.
Right? I could create the next Netflix that has ALL the content, if it wasn't for those pesky copyright laws.
A projection that is better at showing the comparative difference in length between going through the Suez canal vs going around.

The mercator makes Africa look comparatively small on the y-axis which is a problem if you are trying to visualise the size of Africa and the time it takes to go around the continent.

If i visually compare the distance on the mercator and an equal area projection is looks to make the trip about 20% shorter on mercator (compared to the apparent visual distance going through Suez). Non of the projections will be 100% accurate but the mercator is less accurate for this specific case.
> There's some weirdness around android browsers refusing to load html from the phone itself on security grounds

OP here - I have been able to open single .html files on Android (browser uses 'content://' and not HTTP in the address bar; my initial attempt at a portable mobile knowledgebase was FeatherWiki, which is single-HTML. For HTML pages that referenced scripts or external images, it would only work on Android if I had an HTTP server app running. The SimpleHTTPServer app on Android is free and works for this.
I'm curious if the author has ever been in therapy. I would never say food + sleep + exercise is a substitute for professional medical advice.
You can buy 7 Quest 3s for the price. Or 14 Quest 2s.

How many people did what you did though? Were those all Apple branded monitors + printers? There were much cheaper alternatives in the same time frame.

I paid full price for a 3DS on day one, doesn't mean it was the right price for it to be a success.
A two to three week longer transit time will increase sales prices of the imported product by 2%? I' d like to see the calculation behind that assumption...
Stock price isn’t a great indicator of product quality though. Stock price requires endless growth which is unsustainable.
My company is actually doing mostly Europe and ex-US North America
You’re leaving out the massive amount of debt he added to the company as part of the buyout. That means they need to do something like triple their most profitable quarter just to be where they were before the buyout.
It doesn't actually learn like a human. Nobody would walk away from reading a book on child development and say in good faith "yep that's how the AI is made."

Don't even get me started on the ridiculous civil rights metaphor-- if you believed that you should be demanding OpenAI be shut down for human trafficking.
https://archive.is/hucUp
A GitHub repo with just a bug tracker and no source code is kind of lame. If they really want to promote PWA they should have full source on there.
> If Crazy Carl says that aliens abducted his prize turnip, that is in itself evidence that aliens did the deed. It is wildly unpersuasive evidence, but nonetheless evidence.

You're correct, evidence exists on a spectrum from "highly implausible" to "highly plausible".

> People like to believe that "someone says" isn't evidence, which is wildly disconnected from how human society works.

Human society is multi-faceted.

In the sciences, "someone says" is the lowest form of evidence there is. It is so close to "no evidence" that we simply disregard it without further thought.

In the legal system, "someone says" is the highest form of evidence there is - witness testimony can, and routinely does, trump any other evidence.

These are the two extremes. Other human societal systems use the word "evidence" to mean anything in between these two extremes.

You are conflating the science's usage of the word "evidence" with the legal usage of the word "evidence".
If you can afford it the commercial versions are always superior to the consumer ones. The spare parts are available but at household levels of use, they’ll almost never break.
I'm somewhat on top of the stock, here's my not financial advice take:

1. Growth rate slowed such that valuations had to come down (went from inevitable overtaking of Salesforce in size, to decades of growth required)

2. Environment -- Cashflow negative meaning another raise was required without fiscal controls and in a high interest environment that's really tough. A return to office end of covid anxiety meant the Covid bubbled stocks are returning to mean. (eg compare zoom has done relatively similar over past 5 yrs)

3. IMO a few execs were absurdly over compensated whilst investor pressure against dillution was targeted to rank and file employees. eg: Eyal Manor earned a reported $42M in compensation (and a $2.5M retention bonus that reading between the lines sounds like hush money), meanwhile ICs were often given below cost of living raises and no refreshers.

1-2 means outside investors had to lower the valuation and 3 meant a combination of dilution and morale hits.
The idea of using an interpreter to save space is sound.
Wozniack used that idea in SWEET16 for the Apple II (also 6502 based).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGdEN9Z7owg
Can someone explain why when the Evergiven blocked the Suez canal for a few days the news reported it with such catastrophistic tones but now that the canal is effectively blocked by Iran-backed forces nobody screams about a global crisis?
I have multiple monitors at home, but when I’m traveling, I’m stuck with my laptop. Could be a huge upgrade.
So what if that were true - no reason to treat them as human because they are not human (or even close to human) presently.
But it doesn’t. It’s learning technique is called reinforcement learning and is inspired by one of many models of how humans learn, namely conditional reinforcement.

Note that conditional reinforcement is not how humans learn, it is merely on of many models, an approximation, a scientific description of it. Nor do language models learn with the same technique. But merely a technique which draws inspiration from conditional reinforcement by applying some (heavily controlled) reinforcement contingencies. This is the only thing they have in common.
Considering that the discussion is about shipping in the southern hemisphere then maybe choose one of the many different map projections that better represent that part of the world.
Yes! And because of sandbagging :)
Stacked bar charts have the same weakness as pie charts where it is very difficult to tell the relative sizes of the pieces.
I dont know what to say besides what's happening right now has a different feeling than shooting a kid for throwing stones. As wrong as that is (I believe), the Israelis can point to the concrete action of the stone throwing as a proximate cause for execution.

The current conflict is killing tens of thousands of noncombatants who had nothing to do with the October incursion. They may have supported it politically, or celebrated the violence against their oppressors, but that doesn't make them combatants deserving of death.

I think the difference now is the clarity of the mass disproportionate response. It's impossible to stretch the definition of "self-defense" to include the actions Israel is currently taking. I think that's why people are motivated to respond differently and with a different degree.
In my experience as an American working with people in the EU (particularly the UK/Western Europe), the developers there are every bit as capable as Americans and get paid less than half of what an American would - seems like quite a deal to me.
Check data you can easily get just by user's email or phone number
I hate twitter posts. They never have any context and post as if you have all of the context already. And you can’t even see original posts or replies without being logged in. Please don’t post twitter or be kind and just use nitter
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There's no indication it's deprecated, it'll let you install it in its broken state with no warning.
Relevant precedent from Japan:

https://analyticsindiamag.com/japan-sets-the-precedent-for-a...
Hi, an earlier version was posted to Github, which I will remove; the repo linked in my article is on Codeberg.

https://codeberg.org/rafi_c/Folderbase
We'll see, if we care to look which I don't anymore since I'm not involved in sea freight for a while bow, how rates from Asia to Europe change. Because this rate change is what matters, not the additional cost for carriers.
Major kudos to Tim and the gang for making good on their Q1 '24 promise.

Looking forward to picking one of these up on eBay after the first wave of preorders gets bored.
They own a lot of those regional competitors that are less well known.

They play in both market categories, they sell it at higher margins with twilio brand.

Then sell it again, at lower prices from more regional less known brands.
At this point in my life, it's much more likely that a bank will lock down my funds than that I will get dementia and lose access to my keys.
> “to get good at golf … you really just need to hit the ball more. With the club.”

On one hand, it sounds generic, shallow, and self- evident, but on the other hand this is basically how the entirety of the Tao Te Ching reads. It is possible that people find value in hearing things repeated to them that they likely already know.
Even if it does learn like a human treating it like one doesn’t follow at all. Your second paragraph is just rubbish, nowhere does the law apply to “all conscious self aware beings” and I’ve no idea where you got such a ludicrous idea. The law is, again, by and for humans with animals being a minor exception and even then it’s usually just affording them protections. The only laws that exist and are geared towards non-humans are regulations restricting corporations and entities.
TBF, it's now been re-licensed under a more liberal MIT license.
Oh I didn't realize that. I thought all VR up to this point required a computer video card. I'm out of the loop.
He's saying that in a politicized world (like the one we live in) the use of the phrase "no evidence" is a sign that the author is lying to you. He's claiming that if you if read a story by someone in power which claims "No evidence for X", you should update toward "X is probably true but politically inconvenient".

He's not claiming this is logical, only that empirically it's a good strategy.

A parallel might be that if the board of a company in the midst of a scandal puts out a statement saying "We have full faith in the CEO", your actual conclusion should be that the CEO is on their way out. This isn't what the words mean, but in practice it often turns out to be the right bet to make.
If bluetooth is so essential that a substantial portion of the web will rely on it, then maybe other browsers should support it.
They recently cancelled their video offering and recommend we move to zoom. Maybe the ship is sinking?
This is more on the scale of how much sailboats slow the Earth's rotation, or how gravitational slingshots change the Earth's orbit.
The answer is you're going to a shit university (or at least a shit program at your university, maybe they are great at Journalism or something).
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I wonder how easy / hard and fast it will be to port over quest applications to the Vision Pro. Also wonder how hackable it will be. I'm guessing if it's anything like the iPhone / iPad it won't really be.
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With favorable numbers pie charts can be readable, but what makes them better than a bar chart?
I have experience with induction on an off-grid solar/battery setup, they are awesome and so much more efficient than old electric burners. A standard outlet is good enough for a single induction burner, it heats water faster than a junky microwave. Let me try my hand at some math around this, it may be wrong as I am a lay person.

This requires 15amp service (from FAQs), so it can pull (120x15) = 1.8kw from the outlet. I will assume you can draw the 3kwh battery to 0 (good lithium/over provisioned).

If this thing can output 10kw on a single burner, assuming no overhead for fans, which it will certainly need, it will be using 10-1.8 = 8.2kw from the battery, the rest coming from the wall. Battery is 3kwh. So it will be able to run for (3/8.2x60) somewhere around 20 minutes at this rate before dropping back to 120v outlet power.

20 minutes seems like not much, but that's cooking at an incredibly high heat. Stir fry needs like 3/4ths of that power, and it's done in ~5 minutes.

A more likely scenario is you want to make a a nice spaghetti dinner but you are impatient, you have 3-4 pots going. Steaming carrots in one, boiling noodles in another, browning meat and also simmering sauce.

So lets look at it as one 120v burner, plus 3 battery powered ones. If they also work at 1.8kw then the run time would be 3x1.8 = 5.4kw. 3/5.4x60 = ~33 minutes. In reality the steaming/noodle burners would need a ton of power for a few minutes, then only 1000watts. The browning burner probably needs 1200 and the simmering one 600-800.

Seems like a pretty brilliant idea to add the battery. You suddenly made a single induction burner setup into a 4 burner setup. I have a hard time imagining a single meal that will get close to emptying this. The FAQ says if the power goes out you can make 3 meals on this stove-top. I have 4.8kwh worth of batteries and I can make ~2 days of meals (coffee/oatmeal, soup/hot chocolate, spaghetti) off the battery in winter, and run my lights, charge phone. I agree 3 meals would be easy, and I bet you could stretch to more if you were judicious.

edit - fixed formatting.
When I joined the Twilio Developer Evangelism team in 2014, we spent a lot of our onboarding practicing the "five minute demo" where we live-code a Twilio app from scratch. I thought this was dumb, mostly because live-coding is so damn hard.

Six weeks into the job I watched Jeff live-code a Twilio app in front of 10,000 people at IBM Connect. It was as if he was saying to all of us, "Yeah, live-coding is hard. And if I can do this in front of 10,000 people, you can do it at your local Ruby meetup."

It was the first of many, many times over my nine years that Jeff led by example, set the bar, and pushed us all to reach levels we didn't know we were capable of. Working under Jeff's leadership was the privilege of a career.

I can't wait to see what he builds next.
> Actually we did from the decades surgeons wore masks to prevent the spread of airborne diseases.

Funny you should say that. There were randomized controlled trials on exactly this question prior to 2020. Guess what the outcomes were?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480558/

(Notably, this review is from 2015...it is not subject to the ridiculous politics of Covid.)

> However, overall there is a lack of substantial evidence to support claims that facemasks protect either patient or surgeon from infectious contamination. More rigorous contemporary research is needed to make a definitive comment on the effectiveness of surgical facemasks.

Also, rather (in)famously, a review saying the same thing was censored from the web in spring 2020, because...reasons.

While I'd personally love to see extensive, rigorous investigation of this question, simply repeating "masks work", or "people didn't do it correctly" (your current argument) when all of the current high-quality evidence
suggests otherwise doesn't inspire confidence in those of us who actually use the scientific method.
When we started Iron.io in 2010, there were basically 3 companies at every developer event driving the API-first message: Heroku, Sendgrid, and Twilio. Back then, most thought Heroku (as the Platform) was going to be the one ending up in the public markets. Then they got taken out and Twilio bought Sendgrid. Congrats to Twilio and team for the years of success!
seems like the bar chart examples (as a solution to the bad pie charts) isn't representative.

if you're talking about a pie chart that is fractal of smaller and smaller wedges, it seems like you aren't going to achieve much by going to bars.

you probably just wanna do a grouping of all the smaller ones; other.

my take away is, don't have too many, 5 is the aesthetic max, where 2 or 3 is ideal.

personally, stacked bars are only useful if you're showing a trend. otherwise, its a question of density, not format IMHO.
Per some ads I vaguely recall, Proton seems to be positioning itself as a super sekure place where the gubment can't spy on you; Big Tech Bad seems to be a no-brainer SEO blog theme.
You’re right not to compromise and even if you were less ethical, that’s something which is easily detected and could lead to being fired with no recourse. It’s very reasonable for a company to say someone who lies about simple facts can’t be trusted with anything else.
Yes I really want random websites to have access to Bluetooth
The only solution that will help Austin, won't be a small exception to the zoning restrictions. It will need to be systemic. End parking minimums, R1 zoning, minimum offsets, etc... They all need to be addressed before housing shortages will end. Otherwise you are just spitting on the house fire and you will end up with half a million dollar tiny homes just like the Bay Area in California.
The new CEO:

> Shipchandler has over 25 years of experience growing businesses and driving financial performance across global, public organizations. Prior to Twilio, Khozema spent over two decades at GE where he drove operating excellence in GE’s high tech aviation division, plus accelerated growth in the Middle East region.

I wouldn't be too enthused about him running a software-focused company. His experience yells "generic businessman brought in by investors to squeeze more profit".
Is there anything actually new here? It seems ridiculous, like it's trying to claim hobs haven't changed for 50y until this one, it's the only 10kW induction hob and a steal at $5.5k.

I don't need to tell anyone induction hobs aren't new, and in a few seconds' searching I found Miele and Fisher & Paykel (i.e. not cheap brands) 8kW hobs well under £1k, I'm sure I'd find 10+ kW if I bothered a little longer.

Seems like another example of 'what if we made a flashy website and a 'startup' out of something ordinary; pitching it as new, exciting, and high growth' to me.
If Carl tried to file an insurance claim for his stolen turnip, an insurance adjuster might ask a neighbor whether they saw what happened, but otherwise the neighbor who saw the turnip spontaneously combust has nothing resembling legal standing. You're suggesting that it is the insurance adjuster asking that determines whether the neighbor's statement is evidence, while Carl's statement is definitively evidence? Is the key to producing evidence being the first to make a claim about a topic?
Amazing that this is one person's work.
Another link, directly to Flexport: https://www.flexport.com/blog/global-ocean-carriers-halt-red...
Nah, those business-y people just trades their Jabra for the AirPods.
Considering 262k were laid off in 2023. Compared with 165k in 2022. The beginning of 2022 also included the over-hiring phase of the COVID Era[0].

You can see a clear sign of the worst being over and I would expect 2024 to start a return to normalcy again, maybe people will even start hiring again

2022 was not a good time to be entering the industry, but I think for people with 5+ years experience it was not so bad.

[0]https://layoffs.fyi/
Quartz isn't retro enough for me...I find clockwork watches (especially with skeleton mechanisms) more appealing.
Both humans and LLMs learn by consuming large volumes of text (for humans it's initially mostly via audio), LLMs are just less efficient so they need a lot more of it.