skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll take the contrarian stance here. During the Morgan Stanley Conference interview, Elon Musk forecasted that Twitter had the potential to achieve a positive cash flow status by the second quarter of 2023. Advertisers are returning to the platform and they just announced their new API monetization plans [0]. The company's strategic direction notwithstanding, Twitter may be a profitable company soon.

[0] https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1641222782594990080
Is it that simple though? There are probably other factors that make people in the US more prone to drug addiction (e.g. poverty, lack of opportunities...).
Definitely. Even if they're pretty small, with the user needing to click on them / open in new tab to view them in full glory.
a year ago it had just lost over US$1B over the running year
Why do they need to be on every block? If there's no "it's a crime" markup,
drugs are really cheap, and illegal supply chains can't really compete with Walgreens and CVS supply chains sending out semi-trucks full of product from distribution centers.
The way I see it, it more-so shows that his strength is in companies that are heavy on complex engineering problems.

Twitter on the other hand, is a company dealing with sociological/societal challenges, being that it's a social network. That takes an entirely different kind of skill set to do well as a CEO for.
What's really absurd is that people are still using that platform at all.
Not sustainable?

Twitter generated $5 billion revenue in 2021, a 35% increase on 2020 figures and a significant improvement on the 8% and 13% increase the two years before.

Cut backs were needed, as advertising revenue would have been significantly down this year, given the economic down turn. However, there was no need to gut the company to make it profitable.
thanks for the heads up, i'm gonna give this a try! i tried to set up matrix before, but i just couldn't get it working ;(
Sometimes people just don’t want to work with you because you’ve become a moniker, too. There’s no reason, seriously. It’s called being shit out of luck imho
I appreciate your candor. I missed that the first chart indicated real income.

I do find it interesting that housing and living costs seem more unaffordable than the CPI data implies. I came across some Statista data that indicates that real hourly earnings fell for non-managerial workers from a high in 1964 and took nearly 60 years to recover in 2019[0]:

> On average, workers in the United States in nonsupervisory positions got paid $23.38 an hour last month. Denominated in constant 1982-1984 dollars, that amounts to real average hourly earnings of $9.40, the highest amount on record since 1964.

I could be wrong but I imagine that many of these workers were probably hit harder by the pandemic and current inflation than those lucky enough to be able to work through it.

[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/17679/real-wages-in-the-unite...
>These are not the same things.

You mean because the token ids are in a different order? This is irrelevant to a transformer model, there is no inductive bias that similar tokens should have related token ids.

>Interestingly, the code FB provided doesn't seem to have any special handling for digits

Yeah, token handling is done in sentencepiece.
They all have the same shareholders (pension funds, index funds, etc.)
Also here:

https://bellard.org/ts_server/
If you think either state cares enough about hn commenters to go through some process of surveillance or whatever, don't you think they'd just hire a real person to do the psyop?

Like, this isn't a particularly huge social network, I don't see what benefit the automation would give you here.

But then again.. The China-hawkness of this place is sometimes suspiciously a little strong. So you might have a point.
One data point is that there is no way to get the full text of long tweets from the API. Twitter Blue subscribers have been able to post tweets longer than 280 characters since early February but the API only returns the first 280 or so characters.
Oh please.

"The United States has appropriated approximately $115 billion in emergency funding to support Ukraine since February 24, 2022."

The Trump border wall cost is $12 billion. I think ~1/9th is a tiny fraction right ? I don't mean milli-fractions or micro-fractions, just tiny.

And btw, that $115 billion towards Ukraine is expected to grow quite a bit further in 2023/24. Who knows - it might become a milli-fraction or micro-fraction eventually.
This guy went from making fun of JavaScript to teaching JavaScript
>It seems to me that Musk is moving away from advertisements, to trying to build the first social network that doesn't rely on the user being the product, but rather paying for the product.

Won't be first. There was app.net [1]. Gained traction at first and i had nice dialogues with good people, but died out pretty fast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net
Well done creating this! Thank you so much too for opening the source after so much solo effort, I’ve read the high-level architecture document and the things you’ve built sound very interesting and make me excited to read the code.
I would just liket o say that I think that HN is very diverse. I come here to read tech and progress news. But this is also the best site for reading about culture, ethics and other issues that I can find. All newsmedia eg BBC, Guardian, PBS, ABC, New York Times etc., all have an editorial axe to grind. By listening and discussing here with the very people that make 'progress' and in a real sense shape culture I gain very much and am allowed to have an opinion. Most people here are awesome considerate people and the trolls don't usually stick around very long.

RE: 73% jobs - let the machines do the work so people have time to think - and to create culture - and to progress!! Yay HN, yay progress, yay culture!
I don’t see anybody paying to submit a package to a registry. Even if NPM didn’t support other registries or direct installs from a versioning system, different tools would have been created by the community.
When it comes to festivals, the persons walking about selling hand to hand are some distance removed, the person who decided to sell at Glastonbury (for example) or other festivals aquired supply by the van load, acquired a crew of runners, pushed back against others wanting target the same festival, and is considerably closer to the upstream source and has a damn good idea of the quality of the bulk amount they sourced for that market.
I am sorry, but this is written into the Constitution of the United States of America:

Article IV, Section 1:

Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-4/sec...

It is not even an amendment. It was there from the start.

Tons of laws from the different states affect each other.
I think BQN is a lot of fun, it is an array language like APL, but it does some things different https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/ the documentation is great.

Dyalog APL is more of an actual APL, https://www.dyalog.com/

There is also J https://www.jsoftware.com/#/

The array language community on discord "The Apl Farm" (https://discord.gg/SDTW36EhWF) is pretty active.

I also love the Arraycast podcast https://www.arraycast.com/ many amazing interviews and interesting discussions.
Has this guy not heard of Matlab? He's acting like the idea of everything as an array is some niche forgotten thing in a long dead language, meanwhile practically every Engineering department is choc o bloc of people who take the "everything is an array" idea way beyond its logical extent.
> Cut backs were needed

I mean, you are both claiming cuts were needed and they’re too much. So how much was right? How do you know? You’d do a better job than the people who have access to the numbers? That’s a fairly arrogant position
Not C++ the language. But Qt designer is like Gambas, but for C++.

So all these things are indeed similar.
> I prefer to put "tests must pass before PR can be merged", rather than before commits can be made.

I worded it poorly, but this is largely what I meant. Although I was trying to stick to commits on main/master for the repository of record since PRs are a github (and bitbucket?) thing, whereas pre-commit hooks are a git thing.
Americans make a lot of money.

And besides that, they're probably targeting rich kids across the world, out of 8 billion people that probably works out to a global addressable audience of half a billion.
The problem with a lot of stuff in flight and nothing shipped is it’s extremely expensive. You’re basically holding onto inventory that isn’t able to be sold. It isn’t people jamming workflows, it’s economics.
I don't think Biden thinks he needs any excuse/positioning as far as the Chinese are concerned. The real issue is here at home in the US - TikTok is insanely popular, and additionally there's a massive amount of overreach in this bill - they want to be able to ban VPN usage etc as well. Biden is not very popular to begin with, and doesn't need to shoot himself in the foot like this. Unfortunately he seems to have talked himself into a bit of a corner.
It works fine though
I think of this as the inordinate power of advocacy.

It can seem useless to advocate some position that is far out there, but say you convince a million people to use a little less plastic. That's gonna reduce plastic use more than anything you can personally accomplish.

Of course in this scenario you don't have to convince some people, you have to convince everyone, and then especially the people you think are the worst actors, so it's sort of unlikely to be effective.
Writing a sandbox escape doesn’t mean escaping.

If the universe is programmed by god, there might be some bug in memory safety in the simulation. Should God be worried that humans, being a sentient collectively-super-intelligent AI living in His simulation, are on the verge of escaping and conquering heaven?

Would you say humans conquering heaven is more or less likely than GPT-N conquering humanity?
Which one you have and which one you had?
Is that excluding or including cabs, which are yellow in many countries with few other cars being yellow?
> though in practice, the model might have a hard time generalizing to much longer context lengths than it saw during training

What's the benefit of RWKV then? The results are practically identical to transformers.
FreedomGPT spews out responses sure to offend both the left and the right
> Now when inflation finally comes for video games, and you pay the same real price you were paying a few years ago, they're way too expensive.

Less money, other important things to spend on. Suddenly the crappy (lootboxes, hours spend updating) game looks expensive.
Small fee to submit open-source packages?
If Elon hadn't bough it, maybe the Twitter would have been fine without significant restructuring. But now Twitter has to service a significant part of the debt created to buy the company, and thus has to generate more revenue.
Your application code running in the browser has to know how to support this. The browser doesn’t care about the shape of any JSON going or coming to/from an HTTP API.
The list of top cars by model is quite interesting. Some of the Chinese cars are golf carts but most would decently sized and attractive by US standards.

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/01/plugin-electric-vehicle...
> - Cross-Internet reputation system for accounts

Gets rid of anonymous spam.

> - Small fee on submission

Gets rid of amateur spam.

I guess that's 98% of the problem. I think this is a good start.

What to do about bogus projects sponsored by wealthy companies? What about abandonware? And how do we remain open and inclusive to newbees?
Yeah, cause we shifted them somewhere else. I too can stop drinking (at home), by going out to a bar. Horray, alcoholism is cured.
"Singapore has one of the lowest rates of drug abuse in the world: 30 opiates abusers per 100,000 people, compared with 600 in the United States"
> Small fee on submission

This will immediately bias the submissions only coming in from the west. Remember you can make the fee small but sometimes a person can't even pay even if they have the money. I remember having the 1000 or so rupees required for some VPS stuff when I was a teenager and not being able to pay since I didn't have a credit card. I hope we don't ever make money a barrier to open source.
The idea that laws can't stop ML research is insane. We've barely had open source progress on these things for 5 years due to the "safety" propaganda. Imagine if they were actually illegal to work on, we'd get nothing done in public and barely anything done at all.
This is the kind of work I really love to see here. Whether or not it finds footing it's clearly an amazing learning experience, and it's extremely impressive in its own right. Kudos on a great project.
High performance work is a partnership between manager and contributor.

Employees are not helpless. You don’t have to wait for the manager to do the right thing. You can tell them what to expect from you. You are leaving power on the table by taking a passive stance
I really dislike this sentiment.

Planets can become entirely inhospitable to life. Planets themselves have lifespans. Earth herself has in the past suffered near misses, e.g. 90%+ extinction events. It took billions of years of evolution to produce us, the only species ever to exist with the ability to reason about, prevent or ameliorate large extinction events (such as those caused by asteroid impacts), effect conservation management over evolutionary timescales, and even potentially to revive extinct species or propagate earth's lifeforms beyond the solar system and into a continuing timeline.

It's anti-conservationist and I think immoral to promote the view that anthropogenic climate change and the ongoing biodiversity crisis is about our fate alone.
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Thank you. Just what I was looking for.
The really good modern espresso machines are all in that price range.
> Something along the lines of "unless China gives reciprocal access to all the banned websites listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma... then we cannot permit China to have access to US web audiences".

This is the issue with China. One-way trade doesn't work.
Fantastic work. Looks amazing.
If you're a small enough team, this doesn't matter. But if someone else - whether a single dev or another team - depends on your work then you run the real risk of being a bottleneck to other people and the business.

At that point all the "potential" in the world means jack if we wanted to ship in June but pushed back to August.
It is way cheaper to run inference on commodity hardware, because you don't have to keep track of the activations on all the previous tokens (only the 3 previous ones IIRC).
This looks awesome. Trying this out today!
So what happens when the spam is detected? Are the packages removed?
While there is only 1 biggest player (openAI) I would say we can, but if it gets to a point where we have multiple players i suppose it would be extremely hard without proper controls already in place.
Ie.: Open source = free as in speech, and cheap as in beer ;-)
Exactly. I like to use the term "inoffensive" as a pejorative these days.
I feel a lot of the "Python perf" thing is an inferiority complex. cPython is getting faster all the time, and (obviously using libraries like numpy and others that hook into compiled code) I don't think I've ever seen it become a business bottleneck. If it's ever a scaling problem, then you hire lower-level language devs, it's a good problem to have.

Python is much, much easier to learn, and Rust is notoriously difficult. This obviously feeds into the inferiority complex. But -- while I do know there's a number of applications where perf is crucial -- I think it's well worth doing an ego check before moving from what's a lower friction path and gives you access to myriad developers, including ones trained in very hard disciplines.

Also: does it ever make sense to write something like a CRUD+ backend in Rust? Maybe 100X Rustaceans can do it with one hand tied behind their backs; but imagine what these ubermenschen could be achieving in Python?
Right… and they don’t want to share that power with an foreign entity.
I thought I was alone in this. Something about the scratch of pencil on paper always bothered me; I had to use the softest graphite possible to not go crazy.
Having healthcare accessible in general would at least be a step towards a greater public wealth for individuals. Even a little less poverty has got to do some good.
Yea sorry that was just pseudo code. You want it in this form:

centers = np.array([
[3, 3],
[4, 4]
])
point = np.array([3.5, 3.5])
vals = centers - point
np.linalg.norm(vals, axis=1)
twitter lost copious amounts of money even with unprecedented revenue (from institutional ads one would assume, as it had never happened to that degree before or since, and private ads were cheap in 2021)

https://i.imgur.com/Gea8HRr.png

clearly Twitter was way, way too fat when it managed to lose US$1B with record revenue

which I'm not saying it means you should just close down core branches of the service, of course

perhaps Musk wasn't ready for the amounts of money Twitter required to be made profitable under a reasonable timeline
This approach is fascinating - and I would love to hear more about it later on...

Specifically, the selection of the value metric as time spent in-app (eg. per user hour). This is value metric/pricing strategy that seems like its available to many companies. And yet very pick it as far as I can tell...

"the amount you pay is proportional to the value you receive from the product"

...but is it proportional to the amount of time a user spends in the product? Timely example: I just switched from a legacy bank with a bad UI to one of these neo-banks, which has a slick UI. I spend way less time with the new bank - and its not because i am getting less value...

It seems like this could create a bunch of suboptimal incentives.

For instance, in my last company, as the we optimized our product, user session time went down - not up (and yes, retention/NPS/satisfaction went up). B2B Users want to do their job quickly - not spend all day in a product. Setting OKRs with this pricing metric would lead to some interesting conversations internally...On the other side of the coin, customers will be incentivized to push time-consuming workflows outside of the product.

If you are trying to differentiate from competitors with more favorable pricing for cost-conscious customers, seems like something like Slacks fair billing policy that auto-downgrades dormant users could be an alternative direction.

I am also very open I am utterly wrong... like I said, I am honestly curious to hear how this goes. Good luck!
Sears.
So. What. $40,000 is something that a senior SDE could pay out themselves without flinching. A trillion dollar company like MSFT should do better than that for something so severe.

Put another way: just because the researchers didn't (publicly) complain doesn't put MSFT in the right here. There are more than a few kernel developers who didn't raise hell about Linus' abusive behavior. Yet even Linus himself realized his behavior had to change.
Portugal did this in the 90's and they where poorer than the US for sure.

It's a cultural/religious problem if you ask me.
Some authoritarians wrote a blog post.
No. Most systems in a ICE car are designed to be run off the belt of an idling engine. An electric car is only running when you put your foot on the accelerator. So cooling, climatisation, power steering, braking assistance will all need an electric retrofit in addition to the drive train. Ford tried to retrofit an electric PHEV in its Escape and Fusion. Most of the useful cargo space was taken away to retrofit the relatively small battery.
Anyone got any info on how this has progressed? Cool project.
While VPNs are not mentioned explicitly, there is very clear language that talks about attempting to evade the rules, which would clearly apply to VPNs.

Furthermore, some have pointed out that the language of the bill could force providers to start tracking what users do.

I’ve encountered quite a few “but the bill says nothing about VPNs” comments and those seem to be problematic takes.

The bill doesn’t mention TikTok either.
> It's the total lack of security. With the automatic consequence that all kinds security theater get imposed, stripping people of all kinds of rights, and solving none of the problems.

Not that I’m claiming that credit cards are a bastion of security, but could you be more specific?

What rights are you giving up? What inefficiencies do you see?
This is really great work! Keeping a tab on that, congratulations. I marvelled at this.
That's something I'm trying to figure out. I had an earlier version of the readme that had one, but I ran into an old issue where GitHub complains that the repo is over its storage quota. Even after downscaling the image to less than 1mb it still complained so I think I have an issue leftover from an older version of the codebase (I used to store demo assets in the repo).
This is not about Tiktok at all. Focusing on it is missing the point
The time and space complexity of inference is constant wrt. context size. You will probably need more parameters to match the performance of a transformer though, so whether it scales better in practice is an open question.
Often it’s extremely misguided. It’s better for people to work at a job they don’t struggle with. Fire them and move on so they can too
My dude, if you wanna pretend like the greater macro trends have no effects on large swaths of business then be my guest but businesses in may different verticals are prepping for less sales. It's whats happening. You can la la la "businesses are dumb and no one is a free thinker" all you want but that only hurts you.

No business is an island.

I'm not parroting what I've read others say. I'm sharing my LIVED EXPERIENCE from a company that is like EA. Go look at my profile and look at the news.

This place used to feel like we had some nerds that really wanted to understand business. I'm sad that acknowledging simple macro trends is not considered table stakes anymore.
> Engaging one is the social media equivalent of stepping on a landmine

Except you keep your legs and there is no chance of bleeding to death.

So what is the danger you envision?
I'm afraid it can get worse. What happens when there will be a proliferation of "looking legit npm packages" thanks to AI, full with ransomware? Currently I can't really figure out a one size fits all solution to that. Any idea?
Long startup time is relative. I believe it's much lower now than a couple of versions ago. 0.15s or so? Interop between python and rust will also take time.
There are definitely people who have ADHD and are simply not diagnosed, as well as people who are "afraid of" medication for reason X.

For people who are unsure about this, though, ADHD having-ness is not 100% equivalent to "being unable to do your job with focus".

Like parent mentions, ADHD is fundamentally about low executive control. So if you find yourself often saying things and immediately regretting it (often mid-phrase), having trouble with addictive behavior, and otherwise just doing things and regretting them in social spheres (as you "know better" in theory), then it could fall in there. The social issues that come up with ADHD are an under-rated aspect of the disorder, and rules out a lot of the "it's not ADHD it's capitalism" stuff.

If you just can't concentrate at work... might be something else. Handling ADHD with meds can make your life better, but at the end of the day your job might just not work for you.