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Ask HN: About the Shitshow (a.k.a. Twitter)
Given the state of the Twitter API & new costs it seems like many developers, small companies & organizations are throwing in the towel. It seems plausible to me, that this doesn't necessarily spell the end to the good bots or apps or feature enhancements to twitter. What if twitter itself recreates some of these things or sherlocks some aspects of these things as features? It might seem cynical or spiteful, but what should throwing in the towel look like? If you had an open source repo should you delete it? Should you try to suppress access to info from your site that describes features & benefits? Or is it too late? Or maybe it just doesn't matter at this point.

I have no skin in the game (no apps, no bots, no twitter handle any more), but this all just occurred to me while reading articles about some of the apps & tools that will most likely being going away.
Rep probably rolled their eyes, said "that's why 99% of the accounts get turned off", and sighed.
> This seems like more management by manchild.

"Manchilds" track record in this Game of Life is by and large a testament to how well he understands its rules. And, maybe, how silly they are.
As a small government advocate, i have no issue with labor boards.

the alternative is violence or unionization, neither of which are optimal in resolving disputes like these in a civilized and efficient manner.
Use libredirect instead, it comes with a prodigious amount of configured redirections. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641069
That would be correct if we lived in a twentieth century communist society in which the local spectrum of Mittelstand, to Petite Bourgeoisie to Bourgeoisie consisted of humans with moral rights. I would not advocate for this in a society with twentieth century conditions.
I am advocating for this in a twenty-first century economy in which most wealth will be controlled by corporations and artificial intelligences.

In another comment in another thread I’ve also stated that private entities like Jeff Bezos would operate their own welfare programs. Black celebrities in particular are known to reinvest in the neighborhoods they grew up in.

I predict that the State will provide the basic necessities and that private entities will provide comparatively more luxurious goods to those willing to their loyal patrons. Should the investment portfolio which me and my girlfriend have been building from our salaries as elite embedded systems engineers grow as I think it will, I would provide such a welfare system to those close to my heart. As a good citizen I consider that a civic duty.

I believe that your libertarianism should be compatible with either of these forms of welfare.
I'm not sure i follow. How exactly will the people "awarded with outsized profit for addressing the shortages" help those starving due to lack of affordable food? "The market" doesn't work for goods whose demand is inelastic, such as food and medicine. Letting people starve "to allow the market to function" is cold blooded greed.
> So, I played a bit and it appears that if a client is disconnected and changes of the state happens when offline, once connected these changes will be applied to the other client who was having its own changes in the state. So its working on the "last message" basis? Also it seems like it can't detect the offline/online status?

From the server’s point of view, it’s just an ordered broadcast channel with replay. The conflict semantics are whatever you build on top of that.

The `useSharedState` hook in the React bindings implements last-write-wins. For the `useSharedReducer` hook, the reducer itself determines the semantics, but in the voxel editor demo we also use last-write-wins.

> Also it seems like it can't detect the offline/online status?

Online/offline status is exposed in the client libraries, e.g. in the react bindings there is a useConnectionStatus hook: https://driftdb.com/docs/react#useconnectionstatus-hook

> I'm curious because the interesting part of this kind of systems is the way races are handled.

It’s academically the interesting part, but I think it matters less than people assume it does. Here’s a section from a blog post I wrote a couple months ago:

> Developers may find it tempting to treat collaborative applications as any other distributed systems, and in many ways that’s a useful way to look at them. But they differ in an important way, which is that they always have humans-in-the-loop. As a result, many edge cases can simply be deferred to the user.

> For example, every multiplayer application has to decide how to handle two users modifying the same object concurrently. In practice, this tends to be rare, because of something I call social locking: the tendency of reasonable people not to clobber each other’s work-in-progress, even in the absence of software-based locking features. This is especially the case when applications have presence features that provide hints to other users about where their attention is (cursor position, selection, etc.) In the rare times it does occur, the users can sort it out among themselves.

> A general theme of successful multiplayer approaches we’ve seen is not overcomplicating things. We’ve heard a number of companies confess that their multiplayer approach feels naive — especially compared to the academic literature on the topic — and yet it works just fine in practice.

https://driftingin.space/posts/you-might-not-need-a-crdt
Kinda like the whole Dark Energy thing in physics, I still hope for a better explanation, some day.

BTW I've once read a hypothesis that severe pandemics (like the black death) select for individuals with highly active immune systems, which in turn increases the rate of autoimmune diseases. Not sure what to make of it, but it would explain why it's more common than we might otherwise expect.
I don’t think anyone is proposing forcing anyone to work a shit job. I do think that working in food service compares favorably to working in subsistence farming, shipbreaking, or being unemployed with no job prospects.

Why not give people the chance to make that call for themselves? And what’s the alternative? If you automate it all away, they’re still going to be farming and breaking ships.
Small in a sense it's only me running it and relatively low customers number (~400). So in that sense small applies?
> Interest rates must increase until they meaningfully lower housing prices.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/mediacenter/files/FOMCprescon...

> We are seeing the effects of our policy actions on demand in the most interest-sensitive sectors of the economy, particularly housing.

Main speech, page 3.

> and he named housing in particular.

He named "X-housing", which means "ignoring housing". Housing is doing well. Its everything _EXCEPT_ housing that's doing poorly right now.

Press Conference section, page 8.

> The inflation in the core services X
housing is still running at 4 percent on a 6- and 12-month basis.

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So housing inflation has stopped (and anybody shopping for a house would realize that prices are no longer going up, but have begun to drop).

Meanwhile, everything else in our economy seems to still be going up in price. That's bad, but Powell notes that these other sections of the economy take "longer" for the Fed Rate hikes to kick in. So they're going to slow down the rate hikes and see where the current trajectory takes us.

IE: ~5%ish terminal rate in the near term. More data needed to evaluate the long term.

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> Powell said yesterday

While I'm being pedantic... Powell said it on Wednesday... which was two days ago :-)
LOL, I want to frame this comment. Abso-fucking-lutely stunning.

Thanks for ironically proving my point and demonstrating just how ignorant the criticism was.

I can't get my head around this. I describe a feature, that has long since been ret-conned from the community because it became such a thorn in everyone's side.

And you're just like "nah it probably wasn't that bad even though it was excised and is no longer talked about *and I can't even remember what it was for*" (despite being the exclusive only way to do local dep management). Stun-ning.

What is was "sold as a fix for"? Man, the hubris of people commenting on things literally completely ignorantly.

LOL, really didn't think I'd be gaslit about GOPATH in 2023. Brilliant, keep it up Gophers!
You're talking about one of the 5 highest cost of living cities in the WORLD, that goes out of it's way to make housing more scarce and more expensive. This doesn't generalize to the rest of the country.
Why waste time figuring out I need five Franks and 10 Amys? I'll just dial up a one of me and head home early.
But obviously labor costs are a big part of the costs of goods, and the Fed has specifically cited wage inflation as a contributor to goods inflation and aims to reduce wage inflation by raising interest rates.
This is so awesome. Fantastic demo.

An "air-piano" seems well within the realms of possibility now.
The word 'this' looks like it got clipped out of the title, OPs post makes more sense with it in

Pretty cool read
> In what kind of world does a strong jobs number, implying a strong economy, sink stock prices?

> There is a clear dichotomy between the 'financial' economy, and the actual economy. The pre-eminence of 'Shareholder value' should be relegated to the 20th century, and we should focus on making the economy serve society.

Low unemployment means wage inflation (as companies compete for scarce labor), which means more inflation in general, which raises the odds that the Fed - which is currently fighting very hard to try to constrain inflation, as the law requires it to do - will have to raise interest rates. This is good in the long run, in that inflation is very bad (and particularly bad for poorer households), but in the short run it hits stock prices because company borrowing will become more expensive, and there's some risk of over-correcting the economy into a recession.

I wish people making political points about economic news would at least try to understand the economic news first.
Baby Boomers: Baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. They're currently between 57-75 years old

They haven't. I'm GenX and all of my boomer parents still work and lots of my friends boomer parents. It's starting but it won't peak for about 5 years.
There are hardware reasons even if you leave any software scaling inefficiency to the side. For tasks that can use lots of threads, modern hardware trades off per-thread performance for getting more overall throughput from a given amount of silicon.

When you max out parallelism, you're using 1) hardware threads which "split" a physical core and (ideally) each run at a bit more than half the CPU's single-thread speed, and 2) the small "efficiency" cores on newer Intel and Apple chips. Also, single-threaded runs can feed a ton of watts to the one active core since it doesn't have to share much power/cooling budget with the others, letting it run at a higher clock rate.

All these tricks improve the throughput, or you wouldn't see that wall-time reduction and chipmakers wouldn't want to ship them, but they do increase how long it takes each thread to get a unit of work done in a very multithreaded context, which contributes to the total CPU time being higher than it is in a single-threaded run.
We are completely off topic at this point but it is worth mentioning that due to the pseudoanonymous nature of bitcoin and ethereum, they are actually quite bad for those things and tokens such an Monero, ZCash, Grin, Beam, Mina and many others are much better suited to illegal transfers.

Also worth mentioning, what is illegal strongly depends on jurisdiction and can sometimes be moral despite their legal status.
There was a pandemic that occurred in the last 2-3 years that put a damper on social and outdoor activities. Also home office is less important than how available your work requires you to be. Constantly 5m away from your computer doesn't give you much runway.
I'll add The Syntopicon as a really good book that Adler wrote (kinda).

1. It's 2 volumes, so not just one book

2. He wrote it with the help of 11 others

3. It's more of a reference manual than a book

4. It's keyed to 58 other books

All the same, The Syntopicon, I feel, is up there with the first Dictionary or Encyclopedia. A titanic effort that helps synthesize the world into a manageable tome.

Getting and being able to use a copy is honestly difficult.

But, dear Reader, worth it at any price. The depth and breadth is amazing and the way he links his 'great ideas' makes traversing the entire history of western thought easy, especially with modern tools.

It's obviously Adler's magnum opus and it shows.

If you'd like to grab a copy, let me know.
I don't think there is any regression. There are certainly economic realities that have changed over time but the general distribution of people who have an interest in education or entrepreneurship probably hasn't changed. The 80/20 rule comes to mind here. Most people in the 1800s weren't starting railroads or running factories, they were doing the labour of building the railroad or working in a factory.

If AI does anything I think it will make lower skilled and disinterested people more capable by acting as a 1 on 1 and minute by minute guide. They may not seek this out themselves but I imagine quite a few jobs could be created where a worker is paired with an AI that walks them through the tasks step by step making them capable of operating at a much higher skill level than they would have before. At that point good manual dexterity and an ability to follow instructions would be all you need to perform a job, no training or education required.

I realize this can be a bit dystopic but it could also be eutopic if society is organized in such a way that everyone benefits from the productivity increases.
I use ChatGPT not because it is so great at solving tricky technical question, but because Google has become so incredibly shitty at it. Google's response these days is ten YouTube videos and a random mix of web posts dating between 2005 and 2023 for a piece of software that I'm using the latest version of. I honestly don't even bother trying anymore.

ChatGPT is a mixed bag. Sometimes it nails it, but I've also seen it hallucinate complete nonsense solutions, for instance in Davinci Fusion using a node type that doesn't even exist in the program.

As for "incredibly intelligent philosopher", I don't even find it an interesting "person" to talk to. Its responses are pedestrian, pedantic and boring. A question like "if God is good then why evil in the world?" is met with a summary of the wikipedia article on the problem of evil. I can read a Wikipedia article, thank you.
And on the spending side, people who can't afford to buy a thing just don't count in the inflation metrics. For example, when nvidia saw that fewer people were going to buy GPUs this generation, they raised unit prices. That makes the inflation number go up even though economic activity is down.
It was profitable from Q4 '17 on, with the exception of Q1-Q2 '20.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom...
Is Nitter using the API protocol or the obfuscated javascript network protocol?
[England & Wales] Court of Appeal orders Tulip Bitcoin case to go to full trial
Ah yes, because teens on tiktok over use a word, you've decided every usage of the word is wrong and a sign to stop listening. And you seem to think disclosing that to people ... doesn't reflect poorly on you?

Feel free to google the word, then the behavior I described, then look at the peer comment where someone literally goes "idk what that long-since killed-off-thing was but you must be exaggerating".
Let me correct my sentence: there's a blind belief that _technological_ progress automatically equates to better life conditions.

And to clarify: I'm not saying "all technology is bad", but rather "not all technological progress is automatically good for humanity".

As an example, living conditions of hunter-gatherers were way, way better than living conditions of the first people in cities, and I'd argue, depending on which parameters you use, might still be better than our modern, big-city living conditions (except maybe for the richest 1% of the world)
I use this site quite often.

If you are on imdb/letterboxd, you can refine by genre/keyword/popular-rating… (+ see what you already watched/added)

https://letterboxd.com/shooton70mm/list/tspdt-2022-top-2000/

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls539460207/
Trends in the dollar training cost of machine learning systems
On my Pixel 7 Pro phone, I'm able to ge represent all kinds of strange hand positions correctly on the screen via my selfie camera.

There is some jumpiness but I am holding the phone in one hand and making hand positions with my other so I'm less concerned about the jiggles.

It has a hard time naturally when all of my fingers are occluded by one another.

Way to go.
> "Does a boomer get any better retirement benefits if they raised a child?"

This is the sentiment you seem to want to express. Plenty of people have children without raising them. And vice versa for foster and adoptive parents.

Also, everyone who rents or owns housing pays taxes to support schools, WIC, and the like.

Plus the dependent tax breaks and tax refunds. Which happen early on, not later, and so have a greater value than retirement benefits which come later in life.

And to round it out, people with children tend to live longer than those without children. Which directly impacts SS and Medicare use: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/have-kids-live-longer-20...
I still wolf down my lunch at work so I can get back to the problem I was working on. Just like I wolfed down my dinner as an 11 year old so I could get back to my Commodore 64. Finally, a comment thread from the point of view (and empathy) of the immensely bored kid. Kids throughout history couldn't wait to get through dinner so they could go back to the TV or to the radio or to whatever other fun thing they wanted to do. There's nothing abnormal about this.
What does COVID have to do with this? The fertilizer shortage is caused by the war in Ukraine.

This war will cause more deaths indirectly than it does directly, just like almost all large wars.
Many financial institutions and others (including some that aren't obviously sensitive) regularly and randomly want to send you an SMS to confirm your identity.
Hosted pre-compiled builds would need to account for

- Feature flags

- Platform conditionals

- The specific rust version being used

- (unsure on this) the above for all dependencies of what is being pre-compiled

There is also the impediments of designing / agreeing on a security model (do you trust the author like PyPI, trust a central build authority, etc) and then funding the continued hosting.

Compiling on demand like in sccache is likely the best route for not over-building and being able to evict unused items.
Yes, effectively. The nuance being currently this graph and set of nodes isn't exposed to the user. It's "manual" inputs i.e drawing walls, placing windows etc. But this makes creating VPL on top simple.
> I doubt it. In as much as they are allowed to function, markets will reward people addressing the shortages with outsized profit

This is dangerous, fantasy thinking detached fromt the real world.v

If there is shortage of food today, you plant wheat today, it will be ready to eat in 7 months.

If it's not the right time to plant, it could be a year. By that time, people will be dead already.

Now, we don't even have idle land ready to plant, and if you have to invest in greenhouses or similar to increate productivity, farmers don't have that kind of money and even if they did capacity would take years to come online.
Kinda a follow up to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31550189
People outside the finance industry really buy it too. I think it's because in most companies, VPs are above director. Only in finance, is it below.
The Japanese Turn Pessimistic About the International Order
Per what I have heard from graduates, they agree that the pace is fast, but that you get used to it.
I would greatly appreciate a moratorium on this genre of article until there is compelling accompanying evidence that a meaningful portion of ChatGPT's users are unaware of these shortcomings. I have yet to encounter or even hear of a non-technical person playing around with ChatGPT without stumbling into the type of confidently-stated absurdities and half-truths displayed in this article, and embracing that as a limitation of the tool.

It seems to me that the overwhelming majority of people working with ChatGPT are aware of the "con" described in this article -- even if they view it as a black box, like Google, and lack a top-level understanding of how an LLM works. Far greater misperceptions around ChatGPT prevail than the idea that it is an infallible source of knowledge.

I'm in my 30s, so I remember the very early days of Wikipedia and the crisis of epistemology it seemed to present. Can you really trust an encyclopedia anyone can edit? Well, yes and no -- it's a bit like a traditional encyclopedia in that way. The key point to observe is that two decades on, we're still using it, a lot, and the trite observation that it "could be wrong" has had next to no bearing on its social utility. Nor have repeated observations to that effect tended to generate much intellectually stimulating conversation.

So yeah, ChatGPT gets stuff wrong. That's the least interesting part of the story.
Twitter was profitable in 2018 and 2019, took a deep dive in 2020, climbed way back up in 2021 though not quite to profitability.

However pretty much the entirety of their revenue stream was ads, and Musk started taking a big dump on that early 2022.
Yep, I just ordered from them again for the first time in a while... Big mistake.

My order was very simple, just a pack of head bands since when I go for runs I sweat way too much.

After my run I took the head band off and my forehead was DYED the color of the band and later broke out in hives...

Grimly reminded me Victorian Era arsenic-based green dyes, which leached from fabrics into people's skin and made them very sick.

Amazon desperately needs content curation somehow, the experience of figuring out which headband to buy was so awful... And after all that, it caused a mild injury from god-knows-what chemicals.
> I made an estimate three or four years ago that I think there’s a 50-50 chance that we’ll have clear signs of life in 2030 of artificial general intelligence. That doesn’t necessarily mean a huge economic impact for anything yet, but just that we have a being that’s running on computers that most people recognize as intelligent and conscious and sort of on the same level of what we humans are doing. And after three years of hardcore research on all this, I haven’t changed my prediction. In fact, I probably even slightly bumped it up to maybe a 60% chance in 2030. And if you go up to, say, 2050, I’ve got it at like a 95% chance.

> What I keep saying is that as soon as you’re at the point where you have the equivalent of a toddler—something that is a being, it’s conscious, it’s not Einstein, it can’t even do multiplication—if you’ve got a creature that can learn, you can interact with and teach it things on some level.

Last I heard he wasn't interested in getting into the murky waters of consciousness. But I guess I misremembered. I'm very surprised to hear that he's very seriously talking about a conscious computer in the near future.
Spotify founder Daniel Ek officially launches new startup – taking on healthcare
read wendell berry https://www.counterpointpress.com/books/the-unsettling-of-am...