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New comment by sirpunch in "Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?"

sirpunch — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 17:03:25 +0000

Bobby Jindal is an Indian American born to immigrant parents from Punjab, India.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal

New comment by sirpunch in "Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?"

sirpunch — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 08:32:39 +0000

I can attest to this with N=1 datapoint here. My best friend postponed having kids till they could afford a SFH, but kept pushing it further as the supply dwindled and rates shot up (tier-1 city residents). I can imagine how the number of planned kids could be directly proportional to the number of bedrooms a couple can afford to have.

New comment by sirpunch in "Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta"

sirpunch — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:54:26 +0000

Not sure why you're making it sound like a conspiracy theory. User behavior profiling is common strategy for all personalized IR products, including recommender systems, targeted ads, web search, e-commerce, and many more. A bunch of major tech companies rely on it. Do you think Google AdSense is also an evil empire? What about Apple and Amazon ramping up their own ads businesses? More people use YouTube than Meta products and even spend more minutes per day there. Do you also think YouTube is also equivalent to cigarettes? What about TikTok, Twitch, and other streaming platforms? Was Doordash also wrong for setting up personalized ads and recommendations?

New comment by sirpunch in "Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta"

sirpunch — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:46:03 +0000

I absolutely love Instagram app and my friend circle actively uses it. I'm not a big fan of Facebook, but I come back to Facebook groups and marketplace fairly frequently. What's your metric to measure this general propensity? DAU? MAU? Vibes?

Sure, the company may not exist 10 years from now. But there's no downfall indicator yet for this trillion dollar giant. All companies that size have headwinds and tailwinds. The self-assurance you see on this platform for Meta's sure shot upcoming decline is just absurd.

New comment by sirpunch in "Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta"

sirpunch — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:41:49 +0000

I find it fascinating how much Meta's business and HN sentiment towards anything Meta are mutually exclusive.

New comment by sirpunch in "Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta"

sirpunch — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:24:35 +0000

You could say the same thing about every big company. Apple has headwinds from sales in China and US-China trade wars, Tesla is trailing BYD and seeing declining EV demand, and so on. Every large company has something or the other going on. But I find it funny that every new project from Apple is reminiscent of iPhone 1 while it's the Yahoo path for everything from Meta.

New comment by sirpunch in "Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta"

sirpunch — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 08:17:45 +0000

This HN bandwagon again. Meta has had an astounding yoy growth. Did you even see their Q4 report.

New comment by sirpunch in "Threads now reaches more than 130M monthly users, up 30M from Q3"

sirpunch — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 07:18:42 +0000

One US & Canada user is worth 3x a European user and 15x ROW (rest of the world) user to Facebook.

Source: ARPU from Meta's Q4'23 earnings announcement.

New comment by sirpunch in "Threads now reaches more than 130M monthly users, up 30M from Q3"

sirpunch — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 03:38:57 +0000

HN users have long been calling Facebook a dead platform because none of their contacts are there. Yet FB has 130M dau in north America. Threads will be fine too.

New comment by sirpunch in "Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results"

sirpunch — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 23:01:52 +0000

Apple's App Tracking Transparency policy has had a measurable impact on businesses that rely on ads for their sales.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4698374

New comment by sirpunch in "A new way to discover places with generative AI in Maps"

sirpunch — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:23:49 +0000

IMO it does provide a better user experience. It gets to the end goal quickly by giving you a list of places directly in the Maps app. You can see how far each place is and if you really wanna go to that part of the town from a bird's eye view. Sure, I can Google the same query. But that'd require me multiple clicks and scrolling through possibly long-winded blogs to finally get a list of addresses.

Apple's ATT privacy policy reduced orders and revenue for Shopify merchants

sirpunch — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:30:58 +0000

Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4698374

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205749

Points: 4

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New comment by sirpunch in "Fix: Hong Kong is not in China"

sirpunch — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:49:13 +0000

Not a lot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

Police alert residents of stalkers using Apple AirTags for malicious tracking

sirpunch — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 01:45:40 +0000

Article URL: https://komonews.com/news/local/renton-police-department-rpd-apple-airtags-communications-manager-privacy-technology-tracker-detect-app-android-users-crime-stalking-safety-malicious-valuables-find-my-iphone-domestic-violation-stalkers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112605

Points: 3

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New comment by sirpunch in "YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix"

sirpunch — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:58:24 +0000

Good point. Although I'd also say that the barrier to entry for content producers is somewhat higher for App Store. You'd likely need some level of computer science education and their review process also takes longer and is controversial at times.

New comment by sirpunch in "YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix"

sirpunch — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:40:30 +0000

Apple doesn't really have experience with building a platform for user generated content. Sure, they have the technological might, but content moderation, recommendation fairness, ad monetization, etc. are different beasts and usually come with awful publicity risks that might just not be worth the effort for the world's richest company.

New comment by sirpunch in "Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies"

sirpunch — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 06:03:50 +0000

Do your kids not use TikTok as well?

New comment by sirpunch in "New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers"

sirpunch — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 17:41:08 +0000

There are also a bunch of recent immigrants on threads like these who have the 'close the door after me' mindset. They also support hard restrictions on immigration, as soon as they get the green card or citizenship.

New comment by sirpunch in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

sirpunch — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:34:58 +0000

I do literature reviews for Information Retrieval domain (Recommender Systems, Search and Ranking, etc.).

https://blog.reachsumit.com/

Specialized Deep Learning Architectures for Time Series Forecasting

sirpunch — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 01:00:36 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.reachsumit.com/posts/2023/01/dl-for-forecasting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35214858

Points: 5

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