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Zack Kanter

@zackkanter
29 posts
2023-12-29
Old media vs new. A stochastic parrot - architecturally incapable of abductive reasoning, generating statistically-interesting, ideologically-motivated strings of words that are coherent yet untethered to any metric for truth - makes its move against OpenAI.
2023-12-29 View on X
Techdirt

The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft relies on a false belief that copyright can limit the right to read and process data

This week the NY Times somehow broke the story of... well, the NY Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft.  I wonder who tipped them off.

2023-06-16
AWS pioneered ephemeral cloud services with Lambda, a serverless compute platform that goes away when you don't need it. GCP takes this a step further by making the service offering itself ephemeral, whether you need it or not. It's the New Way To Cloud™. https://twitter.com/... [image]
2023-06-16 View on X
Bloomberg

Alphabet plans to wind down Google Domains and sell its assets, including ~10M domains, to Squarespace in Q3 2023, a source says for ~$180M; SQSP jumps 9%+

Alphabet Inc. is winding down its Google Domains business and selling its assets to Squarespace Inc., according to a statement Thursday.

2023-04-26
I will never understand how the financial press allows GCP and Azure to get away with counting Workspace/Office in ‘cloud’ revenue. https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-26 View on X
Alphabet

Alphabet reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $69.8B, net income down 8% YoY to $15.1B, Other Bets revenue down 35% YoY to $288M, and Other Bets loss up 47% YoY

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 25, 2023 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023.

I will never understand how the financial press allows GCP and Azure to get away with counting Workspace/Office in ‘cloud’ revenue. https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-26 View on X
CNBC

Google Cloud turns profitable for the first time on record, with a $191M operating income on $7.45B revenue in Q1 2023, vs. a $706M loss on $5.82B in Q1 2022

There are a few debates currently brewing within … TechRadar : Google Cloud has finally made a profit for the first time Simon Sharwood / The Register : Google Cloud makes its firs...

2022-11-15
Just wait. This article wasn't written this way because the NYT is corrupt. It was written this way because SBF stole money from rich white crypto bros in order to make political donations at a critical time and rescue democracy from the brink - a modern day Robin Hood. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-15 View on X
Gizmodo

The New York Times' bizarre SBF profile presents the disgraced founder through a gauzy lens, fails to challenge him, and gives him the benefit of the doubt

FTX filed for bankruptcy on Friday, leaving reasonable people to wonder how a cryptocurrency platform founded in 2019 …

2022-07-29
@pt @AliBHamed Sure, it cost small businesses $100B, but at least we have bad ads now.
2022-07-29 View on X
Bloomberg

As advertisers struggle with Reels, Meta tries to ease them into the format, including, sources say, by encouraging them to test their video ads on TikTok first

Bloomberg : Tweets: @sarahfrier , @robleathern , @zackkanter , @adamnash , @pt , @can , @can , @can , @pt , @can , @can , @iwriteok , @pt , @pt , @can , @iwriteok , @robleathern ,...

2022-04-26
I just want to be in the room when Elon finds out that the “algorithm” is some forked implementation of jquery on top of a bespoke XML/Esperanto hybrid data lake.
2022-04-26 View on X
The Verge

Elon Musk says he wants to improve Twitter by “making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans”

and at some point it should be studied with the perspective of some temporal distance - but the neediest, most ardent, and most passionate censorship crusaders are the tattletale-e...

I just want to be in the room when Elon finds out that the “algorithm” is some forked implementation of jquery on top of a bespoke XML/Esperanto hybrid data lake.
2022-04-26 View on X
CNBC

Twitter agrees to be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk” for $54.20 per share in cash; the ~$44B deal requires shareholder and regulatory approval

- Twitter's board accepted billionaire Elon Musk's offer to buy the social media company and take it private, the company confirmed.

2022-03-16
Very cool. With Domains out of beta, the next step is a price increase and then deprecation. Excited to see the next incarnation of the product. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-16 View on X
Engadget

Google Domains launches out of beta in 26 countries, after seven years, offering 300+ domain endings and “around-the-clock customer support from real people”

Seven long, long years ago, Google started offering users a way to buy a domain without having to deal with a host provider.

2021-11-01
This is the greatest article ever written. Start to finish, it's perfect. https://www.wired.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-01 View on X
Wired

How payment processors hold the power to decide which products and services can be purchased online, as Stripe bans businesses like tarot card reading

Payment processing companies decide who is empowered to buy and sell online—and their policies show a gross misunderstanding of metaphysical practitioners.

2021-10-31
Great example of how NYT uses subtle language to drive a narrative: draft legislation a16z is ""circulating"" is actually a blog post on a16z's blog. Perfect word to suggest back room dealings without being factually inaccurate. NYT is god mode propaganda. https://a16z.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-31 View on X
New York Times

A look at a16z's crypto lobbying and draft legislation it is circulating in DC, which some worry may create regulatory loopholes for its portfolio companies

aka A16Z—has bet billions on world fueled by crypto, saying it will disrupt industries dominated by entrenched middlemen and is good for everyone. But they need new rules for this ...

2021-09-27
As Larry Page famously said, “your margin is my opportunity.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-27 View on X
CNBC

Source: Google Cloud Platform to slash its revenue share from 20% to 3% for third-party software on its cloud marketplace, matching Microsoft's cut

As Larry Page famously said, “your margin is my opportunity.” https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-27 View on X
CNBC

Source: Google Cloud Platform to slash its revenue share from 20% to 3% for third-party software on its cloud marketplace, matching Microsoft's cut

2021-09-13
Good. Cross-team “collaboration” implies cross-team dependencies; silos are a sign of decreased coupling. Distributed work leads to cleaner interfaces. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-13 View on X
GeekWire

Study of 61,000 Microsoft employees shows the shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration, threatening productivity and long-term innovation

2021-06-21
“To fulfill Apple's first order [in 2013], TSMC spent $9 billion, with 6,000 people working around the clock to build a fab in Taiwan in a record 11 months.” A modern marvel. Inspiring. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Analysts say the dominance of TSMC, which makes ~92% of the world's most sophisticated chips and 60% of chips used in cars, poses risks to the global economy

an industry that happens to be one of the world's most critical. A deep-dive on how it happened, and what it all means. @yoyominnie @StephanieAYang @asafitch https://www.wsj.com/.....

2021-06-01
Every sufficiently-funded software CEO on earth will tell you that their constraining factor is hiring great engineering talent - repatriating commodity servers to save on COGS means increasing engineering headcount requirements, definitionally making the constraint worse. 3/n
2021-06-01 View on X
Andreessen Horowitz

Analysis of 50 public software companies finds that repatriating workloads from public cloud infrastructure could help them reduce their cloud spend by 50%

Andreessen Horowitz : Tweets: @zackkanter , @jasnonaz , @lizrice , @jaycuthrell , @zackkanter , @zackkanter , @stratelogical , @sandykory , @divinetechygirl , @teej_m , @matt_levi...

@martin_casado @sarahdingwang This certainly is a cautionary tale of what can happen if you don't think carefully about your cloud spend - just not in the way the piece contends. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-01 View on X
Andreessen Horowitz

Analysis of 50 public software companies finds that repatriating workloads from public cloud infrastructure could help them reduce their cloud spend by 50%

Andreessen Horowitz : Tweets: @zackkanter , @jasnonaz , @lizrice , @jaycuthrell , @zackkanter , @zackkanter , @stratelogical , @sandykory , @divinetechygirl , @teej_m , @matt_levi...

Excellent *financial* analysis of using *commoditized* cloud infrastructure (vanilla servers). It misses: i) the (long-term devastating) cultural cost of recruiting world-class engineers to do undifferentiated heavy lifting; ii) it's unfeasible to recreate noncommodity infra. 1/n https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-01 View on X
Andreessen Horowitz

Analysis of 50 public software companies finds that repatriating workloads from public cloud infrastructure could help them reduce their cloud spend by 50%

Andreessen Horowitz : Tweets: @zackkanter , @jasnonaz , @lizrice , @jaycuthrell , @zackkanter , @zackkanter , @stratelogical , @sandykory , @divinetechygirl , @teej_m , @matt_levi...

2021-04-10
Wow. Apple chose not to build an Android version of iMessage even though it could - simply because it would cause them to bleed customers and lose lots of money. Big tech companies are out of control. iMessage is a basic human right. iMessage is infrastructure. https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-10 View on X
Droid Life

Epic filing reveals that in a 2016 email Phil Schiller said “moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us”, which Epic argues is proof of lock-in

what a story! You should call me. https://www.theverge.com/... Florian Mueller / @fosspatents : Since #EpicGames started its fight for app developer freedom last summer, these two ...

2021-01-30
The Robinhood incident is a good reminder to founders: when you don't tell people the real problem because you're worried about how bad it will look, you almost always are rewarded by coming away looking much, much worse. https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Profile of the trader known as DeepFuckingValue on r/WallStreetBets, who began investing in GameStop and explaining why in YouTube videos starting in mid-2019

Trader known as DeepF—ingValue on the WallStreetBets forum helped turn the investing world upside down.  “I didn't expect this.”