skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter’s US revenue has dropped -83% from $661M in Q2 of 2022 to $114M in Q2 of 2024 according to: https://twitter.com/RealNeilC/status/1817562915634819464

That's a pretty dramatic collapse.

The thing about Infra - is that if all you want is 99% uptime - that's, with reasonable architectural decisions - relatively straightforward. You can run with a skeleton crew (particularly if you make really smart Infra Decisions like Midjourney, Whatsapp, others have done an outsource 95%+ of your infra to a third party (Discord, Platform Messaging APIs).

As time goes on though, and you go through incident review after incident review, and sharpen things up - and 99% becomes 99.9% you start to get diminishing returns on more Infra Employees - at some point they don't add much reliability value (but boy do they make pager rotation schedules pretty nice).

My sense (from both interviewing and working with them) is that the vast majority of people fired/laid off from Twitter weren't (for the most part - definitely lots of exceptions) core engineers or core infra-people -they were people on the periphery associated with making Twitter a friendly place for advertisers, and just maintaining a healthy work-life balance for the Infra people - a job where you could work your 30-32/hours week without it becoming all encompassing.

When they were fired, Twitter became a very unfriendly place, and the advertisers ran away, and the revenue crashed.
This is very clearly divorced from the realities of warfare.

* A Kalman filter is an algorithm, not a magical wand. How is that algorithm implemented? What are the parameters? How are they tuned? How is the state, and uncertainty thereof, modeled? How accurate is that model in the field? Details and implementations matter. Finding answers that work reliably in the field, even for a limited set of circumstances, takes huge amounts of time, money and talent, and involves a continuous process of trial and error.

* Drones have a limited payload capacity, which means a limited amount of ammo to burn on false positives, and a limited amount of smarts and sensors with which to process their environment.

* Many attacks rely on the element of surprise to catch the enemy unaware, or leave them with little time to plan - shooting fake targets alerts others to your presence and can quickly give away your position, providing time to take cover and/or stage a counterattack.

* The people developing the smarts for these drones are a limited resource that need to be found, hired, and paid, and they have to play a cat-and-mouse game to maintain the robustness of the targeting system.

* Asymmetric warfare is a time-honored guerilla favorite. It doesn't matter how fancy and sophisticated your drone's targeting system is if rendering it useless is cheaper, and wasting ammo on non-targets can very much tip the scales here.
Link to the lawsuit: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25033227/x-v-garm.pdf
The reply section of posts with any reach has become unusable on purpose, and they're making it even worse. Great!
I get that, but it's also designed for sharing your entire laptop screen, so you'd have to either switch back and forth between code and chat, or take up half the screen with your chat app, both of which seem like they would be pretty disruptive to the actual screensharing.

It seems like it would be better to just send a screenshot and then discuss, so the other person doesn't have to watch you typing messages to them instead of looking at the actual thing you want to share.
The latest paper using the Ran data is fascinating and has some cool drawings of currents and inflows: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn9188

Their earlier paper from 2021 discusses some of the earlier mapping the submersible did of the Doomsday glacier: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abd7254

I was surprised by how complicated the topography is with these underwater currents. They cut upside down canyons and create some complicated caverns, overhangs, etc. just like rivers do overland.
Your premise itself is defective where you're setting up the individuals as prisoners (or enemies) meant for failure.

Here is an example of a better win-win premise and result:

Sweden and the United States seal a major nuclear energy agreement (6 August 2024)

https://energynews.pro/en/sweden-and-the-united-states-seal-...

> Sweden and the USA sign a memorandum of understanding to intensify collaboration in advanced nuclear technologies, including modular reactors and waste management.

> The main objectives of the agreement include the joint development of advanced nuclear reactors, such as small modular reactors (SMRs), and improved nuclear waste management.

If this can be done with Sweden, then with some extra effort from both sides, it also can be done with Russia. If you then repeat it in a hundred sectors, the equation changes completely.
Interesting tidbit at the very end that's worth noting for anyone using the API today:

> By switching to the new gpt-4o-2024-08-06, developers save 50% on inputs ($2.50/1M input tokens) and 33% on outputs ($10.00/1M output tokens) compared to gpt-4o-2024-05-13.
I have been doing lots of experiments with visuals too for example this: https://github.com/m-onz/artifice. I made an installation at Corsica Studio's https://fakedac.net with genai content all night. Drum and bass, techno and many other genre's.

That 2 hour mix was created in an extremely short amount of time. Limited by the fact suno and udio don't have API's. I've done tonnes of work using replicate.com musicGen A.I that I threw in the bin once I heard udio & suno... once we get API access... there will be new genre's of music and hyper media beyond what we can consider normal music now.

There is some scope for prompt engineering with text-to-* media generators... combined with automation. Machine listening and categorization: For example a network of virtual listeners able to refine and generate new work before a human hears it... think music agent systems by Nick Collins on steroids.
Thanks. I should have added that I was talking strictly about emotions.
It's essentially an Earley Parser[0]. It maintains a set of all possible currently valid parses, and zeroes out the probability of any token that isn't valid in at least 1 of the current potential parse trees.

There are contrived grammars you can give it that will make it use exponential memory, but in practice most real-world grammars aren't like this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earley_parser
I would recommend reading more of the pricing page. You'll learn that:

- $312/year and $960/year are for unlimited users, not per seat

- Additional error/event volume is priced separately from the base plan

- You can pay for error volume, either prepaid or on-demand, without a custom enterprise deal:

> Each of our plans comes with a defined quota, with the option to process additional events by setting a pay-as-you-go budget. You can also plan ahead and save 20% over the pay-as-you-go rates by reserving events.
That's great work and a terrific post.

We had lots of legacy subcomponents that permeated throughout the app's data structures, and as a practical matter, we couldn't reopen all that existing code. Some of that legacy code crossed organizational boundaries, so eliminating laziness throughout simply wasn't do-able.

So given all the above, there are two reasonable conclusions, which aren't contradictory:

1) If we could have reworked lots of existing code, we could have eliminated space leaks via @tome's approach.

2) Haskell's laziness is fundamentally misaligned with projects like ours, which has cross-organization code, long-running iterative algorithms, and complex data structures.

In desperation we used deepseq, which everyone knows is bad, and shortly thereafter we cut our losses by switching platforms.
People always find a way to justify their existence. In sufficiently large companies you can find people whose job is to satisfy policies invented by other people in other departments. In one sense, they were all "needed" because of the domino effects of some policy created long ago.

But if you get rid of all of it at the same time, it might be tough to see the difference from the outside.
I'm really curious if there has been a comprehensive study on incentive corporate tax breaks like these. It has become my understanding that these are rarely worth it.

Reminds me on this very interesting video on the subject focusing on Louisiana (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTic9btP38)
I've used chromecast to power all my "dumb" tvs for years and being able to use my laptop or any phone that's on the wifi has been amazing to avoid using a clunky roko or firetv interface. Sad to see one of the most personally useful pieces of google tech ending.
Terminating employees without cause (i.e. due to employee’s poor performance) entitles the employer to unemployment benefits, causing the state to increase the business’s unemployment insurance premiums.

If an employee quits or is terminated due to not coming into work, then they are not eligible for unemployment benefits, and hence the business’s unemployment insurance premiums are unaffected.
This doesn't address what was said at all.
You can take Caltrain to San Jose. I did this commute for several years when I lived in SF and worked in SJ. With electrification coming top Caltrain this fall, it should be faster than the current diesel trains. Depending on where Twitter's offices are in Palo Alto and San Jose, it probably won't be that bad.
What? No it wasn't! You used to be able to view entire Twitter threads without being logged in. It was also possible to go to someone's account page and see their posts in reverse chronological order. The latter went away shortly after Musk took over. The former took a little longer, but is now gone as well. In many cases you can't even view a single tweet without the site trying to get you to log in.
Thanks for your reply. I learned a lot.
For people wondering why you need a lot of decoders with x86, this answer explain it well (see "Decode problem" part) :
https://qr.ae/p2IEt9
Monitoring a remote machine makes a lot of sense. I'm still not totally getting how it can work for live collaboration, but if it works for you that's great. I do love the minimalist efficiency.
I think Twitter is down 60% in advertisers and 30% in users? Elon personality is part of it, but losing so many people handling community, clients, institutions… I am sure the company has lost most of its institutional knowledge.
Language models like GPT output a large vector of probabilities for the next token. Then a sampler decides which of those tokens to pick.

The simplest algorithm for getting good quality output is to just always pick the highest probability token.

If you want more creativity, maybe you pick randomly among the top 5 highest probability tokens or something. There are a lot of methods.

All that grammar-constrained decoding does is zero out the probability of any token that would violate the grammar.
I love it.

Our workflow is built around removing the need for an office and technical infrastructure. We have live streams of our timeline output (video editing) and an open comms channel. Most of our team is pretty introverted, so it's a push to talk system. We mostly just leave notes in the chat if it doesn't warrant a full discussion.

Crude solutions are often the ones that get adopted.
I thought the same when they fired a bunch of people at my old employer (and 98% of the developers left).

Well, they just outsourced everything to cheap devs in India and things kept rolling.
No new features and some new bugs, but most things work.

Turns out you don't really need that much to keep lights on.
Presenting the latest and greatest idea from “The Free Speech Platform”.

It’s truly difficult to explain in words how embarrassing the video from their CEO is. You really have to see it yourself in order to believe: https://x.com/lindayaX/status/1820838625245880634
There are several instances of matching motion in older Disney features; it seems likely that instead of rotoscoping 3rd generation animation off of 2nd etc. they're all 2nd gen rotoscopings off an internal 1st generation live action reference library.
It's minimalist because if the system is unstable you don't want to have to do anything fancy like open a window or look up a bunch of localized resources, as those could run into the same corruption that led to the initial problem.
NYC is one of the safest cities in the country.
From what I've learned from OpenAI, the "latest" "cheaper" model will perform worse than the previous model on various tasks (esp reasoning).
Don't trust companies that save and hand over data. Don't trust proprietary security solutions. If this is literally just TLS based vpn wrapping, it's no different from using an onion bridge to get to your VPN endpoint. Proton gives data to federal agencies. Proton keeps user data. Proton removed their warrant canary. Use something better.

EDIT: If you want a truly safe VPN, you will need to do some work on both adversary modeling and technical implementation. If you are just worried about your ISP (filesharing of legally protected digital backups), use whatever. If you are worried that your data may be collected by your VPN provider, use a series of tor/vpn multihop. If you are a paranoid mf, use a privacy coin to purchase a VPS and then connect to it via tor on a public wifi network, set up a .onion hidden service for your ssh/chisel/etc port, connect over tor to forward your tunnel port to localhost, use that tunnel to connect to a multihop VPN system. Suggestions include mullvad, PIA, cryptostorm, whatever you want really. Throw a VPS with generic openvpn in the middle of your multi-provider hops, again paid in a privacy coin. Pay a homeless man to colocate a physical server that has DRAC and luks along with something like AMD TSME, then run containerized multihop there aswell.

Basically if you want something done right, at least do some of it yourself.
~October 27, 2022. So yeah, about 2 years ago.
He might need a similar strategy for Tesla with corporate fleets starting to boycott them because of his nonsense:

https://unternehmen.rossmann.de/presse/pressemeldung/rossman...
I'm a big dummy but do you care to elaborate on that?
You can only enforce the laws so much, once the tipping point is reached where there are too many people who can't or won't abide by the laws there's nothing to be done any more. At the end it's an economic problem, the rent is too high.
It sounds like you're describing Windows Recall for Enterprise.
Dutch judge uses ChatGPT to help reach a verdict
> Feel free to ping me at the email in my profile if you're up for kicking any ideas around.

I did not find a email address in your profile.

However, I have a NNTP server and can use that to set up a public discussion forum for such things. Some of the appropriate newsgroups in Usenet might also be used (e.g. comp.infosystems and/or comp.protocols.misc) if you like to use that.

If you have a GitHub account, then the GitHub issue tracker can also be used for discussion of specific issues with the specific project (the Scorpion protocol/file-format specification, and the programs related to it (e.g. client and server software)).
I was surprised it took so long until I reached this line:

> The model can fail to follow the schema if the model chooses to refuse an unsafe request. If it chooses to refuse, the return message will have the refusal boolean set to true to indicate this.

I'm not sure how they implemented that, maybe they've figured out a way to give the grammar a token or set of tokens that are always valid mid generation and indicate the model would rather not continue generating.

Right now JSON generation is one of the most reliable ways to get around refusals, and they managed not to introduce that weakness into their model
Ode to clownstrike: 2 hours of GenAI music based on Andy Farnells cybershow.uk
This is an ode to clownstrike and genai based on text from Andy Farnells brilliant post on cybershow.uk. More eloquently written than I could have put his text has been turned into a 2 hour mix using bleeding edge music genAI systems. It took around 2 hours to make... if you reverse the audio uploaded to suno it will defeat copyright protection checks. I managed to smuggle some beatles - a day in the life and get John Lennon to sing my lyrics. I also experimented with genre interpolation using the output of udio.. and extending it via suno.
The people at Google that thought killing Chromecast and replacing it with a $100 device certainly do not have the consumer in mind. This is entirely a political play within the company.

They said they sold 100 million Chromecasts, but do 100 million houses really have (or need, or want) home automation? I seriously doubt it.
Even when I was there for GDC one week this year there was a young black woman who was being detained for assaulting an asian lady.

Would be somewhat normal except she started attacking the officer, stripping off and screaming racist slurs. She was clearly on drugs- which gave pause to the seriously large amount of homelessness and drug use that seemed incredibly normalised on my short commute from Mission to the Moscone Centrr
I read about the magnet method when I was young. I always thought that was so cool. It never occurred to me until now that I never tried it!
"open-source, aesthetic, and minimal app"
> because, presumably, you don't fly?

First off, you've got this backwards. One doesn't have an opinion because one flies or not; conversely, one flies or not because one concludes their situation does or does not warrant the pollution for a particular destination

But equally weird, why are you making this about me personally? If I say I don't fly, that's probably unusual where you're from so I'll be the environmentalist out-group whose opinion is too extreme and can be dismissed. If I do I'll be considered a hypocrite (like what you called someone in the other thread). I can tell you the answer is a middle ground but I don't think it helps anyone here to make this about me. I'd much rather make this about facts and science rather than opinions and feelings

> I think we should absolutely keep airplanes as a mode of transportation

I agree, but since nobody said anything to the contrary, that seems like a given
It seems their Android app is open source... Maybe the protocol could be reverse engineered?

https://github.com/ProtonVPN/android-app

PS: Tried their free plan in China and it won't connect ("Connection Timeout"). In fact, I had to use another VPN to get past their app's loading screen (guessing it got stuck while doing a request to their server)...
> Sometimes, I feel like our mental models can form outside of a context (e.g., a classroom setting), and we are tempted to "force" the context to mold to the existing mental model. The problem, as the author describes, is the context tends to be far more complex than your rudimentary mental model.

Right. A lot of common wisdom I hear seems to agree, like "professional work > university courses", "experience > reading theory", "iterative launches > the perfect launch", "just play/draw/code/practice more". The line about the context being smarter seems like an amalgamation of all of that, where direct experience with the "context" (the real world) yields a subconscious amount of depth you can't even imagine beforehand, much less with rigid external abstractions drilled into you.
could be interesting concept to try to make some heuristics for picking which frame to use; just blindly picking always the latest frame is unlikely to be ideal, instead you might want to pick frames where there is little movement, or no ongoing animations, or some other similar metrics. if you want to be super fancy, you could try to do this analysis per-window and then construct some sort of aggregate for the whole frame.
My first week working in a finance firm in midtown Manhattan there was a significant shooting. These things happen everywhere (edit: in the US) unfortunately. I'm not convinced that a more suburban location that forces people to drive would actually be any safer.
A tax on gross receipts is going to discourage any big business from locating in the city. You shouldn't ask "what incentive of these tax breaks" are, but rather "was it worth have Twitter/Google/Stripe/... downtown" or not.
This is cool. Reminds me of my internship days when I had to build a custom 8086 emulator in Java, and I went down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out the best way to represent the architecture.
“Platform” normally implies that it includes the infrastructure that implements the intended functionality, or what is named in the product/project name (“email platform”). In that sense the name is misleading.
I have to admit, I have a loose understanding of what's going on with twitter or even how to use it. But my personal Mandela effect is that it didn't work right if you weren't logged in for a lot longer than that.

I'm probably mis-remembering.
Consider it an overcorrection to the sick and routine dehumanization of these individuals. I’ve actually seen people on this site say that they laugh at drug addicts on the street. If they could lock them in a dungeon and throw away the key, I’m sure they’d do it in a heartbeat.
I'm having issues with the cursor tracking, I don't know if it's because I have multiple monitors or something like that?

Here's a pic, the ring is where my cursor actually is https://i.imgur.com/TvzskjS.png
It is converted to int, so you have a signed multiplication. I don't think you need be a language lawyer to know this, just very basic C.

But I also do not worry about signed overflow anyhow, because compilers can turn them into traps.
Is there a reason to assume this website has access to audited figures from a private business like Twitter?
No, I don't think they did. I think they'll find any excuse to close down a business that isn't 'we fucked up and made multiple terrible business decisions'.

For example: A local target here in Seattle was closed, citing retail theft. I stopped by there before closure; they had everything locked up and most of the shelves were empty. A grim sight, but the key point of the story was that said Target was also surrounded by other grocery store alternatives which did not lock items up and whose shelves were not empty. All within roughly a block or a block and a half of distance.

The empirical observation is that they closed the stores with less retail theft than the ones they kept open.
"Stealth" isn't a property of core VPN tunneling protocols --- establishing a secure channel is. Stealth is something you'd build on a transport underneath a VPN protocol. Completely replacing WireGuard or IPSEC just to beat DPI seems pretty silly.
It's $1200 a year for the first year or so, then it's more and more over a 40 year career. I don't understand why this is a difficult concept to grasp - your income increases as you develop your career... and so does your retirement contributions.

This fictitious person who can't scrape together $100 a month for retirement but has worked for 5, 10, 20+ years is a complete myth, or a total failure on a personal level.
Are you suggesting a standard keyboard is somehow more ergonomic than one that can be adjusted to fit an individual's preferences?
It "disinverted". And apparently disinversion presages a recession. Just as inversion does.

People got out of stocks because of course they did. Their money had to go somewhere, so they put it into bonds -- short term bonds, driving up the price, and therefore lowering the yield. The bonds are short term because it's just parking the money, preparing to take advantage of the next market bubble.

Meantime, the Fed is going to keep doing what economists tell it to do: keep interest rates up while inflation is still above the target. But the stock markets want their free money, and if they don't get it, they'll throw a fit of pique.

All of which means diddly divided by squat when it comes to a recession. Maybe one is coming; maybe it isn't. This doesn't affect it at all.