herid @herid@qoto.org

Apple Working to Add Support for Sideloading and Alternate App Stores in Europe https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/13/apple-europe-alternate-app-store-support/

BREAKING: US finally sending Ukraine the Patriot missile defense system, the gold standard for surface-to-air defense. This will help Ukraine defend against Russian missile and drone attacks.

Another potential game-changer in Ukraine's fight against the Russian invasion. 🇺🇸🇺🇦

It looks like Apple is finally going to allow third-party app stores, which is a pretty big win. Why are they doing it? Upcoming EU requirements that will hit in 2024.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-13/will-apple-allow-users-to-install-third-party-app-stores-sideload-in-europe

Not paying severance, chaotic firing & selling blenders to make ends meet. What an unholy mess https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Having to hold a conversation daily with patients - especially parents of young children - about when to go to hospital (dehydration, lethargy, respiratory distress) and then going to meetings and shops where adults are unmasked... What will it take for people to get it? Surreal.

‼️🇺🇦Official: Ukraine launches production of 152-mm, 122-mm projectiles. (More) https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/official-ukraine-launches-production-of-152-mm-122-mm-projectiles #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

https://t.me/KyivIndependent_official/13043 ⚡️🇺🇸CNN: US to supply Ukraine with Patriot air defense systems. U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is finalizing plans to deliver Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, which may be announced this week, CNN reported on Dec. 13, citing three U.S. officials. The arrangement has yet to be approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and signed by Biden, according to CNN. #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

@mattblaze People seem obsessed with the idea that it will lead to abuse. A month or so ago a former Twitter engineer or product person was on here saying that replies, not RTs were the place where most abuse took place.

There are so many valid reasons to have the feature (sharing with comment, following up, starting *new* conversations, not hijacking, etc.), but everyone is focused on the one *invalid* reason not to have it.

In some forthcoming work with coauthors we found that we needed a bound on the upper tail probabilities of a Poisson random variable that was just a little bit sharper than the standard bound coming from Bennett's inequality. It wasn't hard to obtain that bound, but we had difficulty locating the precise bound we needed in the literature; so I wrote a little blog post to record the (straightforward) improvement of the Bennett bound. https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/an-improvement-to-bennetts-inequality-for-the-poisson-distribution/

Before Musk Riled Everyone Up With Misleading Twitter Files About ‘Shadowbanning,’ Musk Used The Tool To Hide Account Tracking His Plane

What the actual files have shown is a supremely competent trust & safety team, that was put in an impossible position, and actually bent over backwards to try to be thoughtful and careful about their decision making, rather than ad hoc and emotionally driven.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/12/before-musk-riled-everyone-up-with-misleading-twitter-files-about-shadowbanning-musk-used-the-tool-to-hide-account-tracking-his-plane/

Something I've been thinking about a lot lately, even more so with the arrest of #SBF -

I had an Econ prof in college who always said his ideal "irrational bubble" would be one with no physical commodity to go irrational over, ex: no tulip bulbs or beanie babies. 🤔

I can't help but watch the #crypto meltdown and feel like Dr. Dalenberg got his wish.

#FTX #SamBankmanFried #economics #money

This is one of the iconic #Antonov #An-124 #Ruslan freighters originally designed for the Soviet military. Roughly 50 of those have been built. After the collapse of the Soviet Union quite a few of the planes have been used in the commercial charter business. This one, operated by Antonov Airlines flew cargo for the German military prior to the withdrawal from #Afghanistan. I saw it at #LEJ airport in spring 2021. A totally different time, it seems. In the meantime Russia has attacked Ukraine, including an eventually unsuccessful attempt to seize the Airport of #Kiev Hostomel where Antonov was based. The huge #An-225, the bigger sister of the #Ruslan was destroyed. The Ukrainian #An-125, though, seem to be still in business. They occasionally pop up on the flight tracker app of your choice hauling cargo all over the planet.