skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applied for Twitter API access for a small personal app a few weeks ago. I receive the following response yesterday:

Thank you for applying for access to the Twitter API. We’re working on exciting updates including new access types and will have more to share soon. Please stay tuned to @TwitterDev and resubmit your application as soon as we launch our new API.

In the meantime, you can learn more about the Twitter API v2 and find resources on developer.twitter.com. We appreciate your continued interest in developing on the Twitter API.

Thanks,

Twitter
1984 was only limited by Orwell’s imagination on what was possible with future technology.
> ChatGPT is passing with flying colors all the traditional tests we used to test for intelligence.

I am not sure where you are getting that from. ChatGPT is failing at extremely basic understanding tests, as even the simplest conversations with it show.
> in a competitive market

Yes, hence my point about semiconductor fabs vs. hen cloacas.

You can’t just point to a single product type undergoing a price shock and declare the market has failed. Preferences are sticky, but substitutes abound. People will adjust their preferences, and egg consumption will drop. If prices stay high, other products will begin to take the place of eggs in various contexts. We aren’t entitled to cheap eggs, but neither are the producers guaranteed record profits beyond a quarter or two. This too shall pass.
I want to say that I completely endorse this. The whole thing in all its details.

I don't have any reputation to sacrifice, and I don't expect my endorsement to convince anyone, but I want to set a precedent that it's ok to believe this.

It's true, as far as I can see. And I've been thinking about this for something like fifteen years.

And if other people who think it's true are ashamed to say it out loud, then I want to let them know that at least one other person on the planet has said so too.
Adaptive tuning of human learning, choice variability to unexpected uncertainty
Uwurandom – Like /dev/urandom, but objectively better
This is my personal cynical take as well. It is somewhat interesting that Musk is a signatory given his connection to OpenAI, but this only suggest that recent efforts by FOSS community were a lot more successful than some considered possible.

I can't say that I am not hesitant, but this open letter made me think we might be on the right track ( personal AI that is private to you ).
> The same light quality is vastly more expensive to achieve with LEDs, even if you account for high electricity prices. Good indoor lighting is now something only people with plenty of disposable income can afford.

Where? How? I can no longer buy quality LED lighting at any price. I have a bunch of Sylvania Ultra Sunset Effects bulbs purchased ~15 years or so ago that nothing since even comes close to.
Amazon DocumentDB Support on Humongous
The argument is these companies are using our ideas created by us humans in this thing called the interenet for free and without attribution and it's problematic.
> You can certainly go to any public space and do this, however. People do it all the time (admittedly less frequently with megaphones). Are all of the people on street corners doing twirlies with cardboard signs immoral? Billboards would be a gray area example whereby they're hosted on private resources (land) but intrude into public space (view from highway).

Yes I specifically said private spaces for a reason. Apples and oranges here.

There are no public spaces on the Internet.

> Imagine if you accept a "free social media feed" of information about your community, and you "get home" and it's full of ads. Or you accept a "free article" from a website by clicking on a link, and when you load it (consuming bandwidth on a line that you paid for), it contains just as many ads as it does paragraphs of information.

Not sure why you're trying so hard to counter my examples, with inadequate examples to boot?

I am still getting something from that feed with ads, or that article with ads.

If I only get flyers and no cereal, then not the same, right?
There’s No Such Thing as a Casual Interaction with Your Doctor Anymore
Not as much as you'd think - by design, JP7 has a low vapor pressure and doesn't ignite easily. To start the engines in the SR71, they used the very pyrophoric triethylborane (spontaneously combusts at -20C).
More:
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=john%20wick

Even have typo variants:
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=jhon%20wick

What's funny is they've even bothered to publish multiple versions of some packages. Looks like most of these packages were created in the last 2 weeks.
He's not broadly stupid. He does seem to have the very specific failure to believe that rules or consequences apply to him. He's correct about this a lot of the time, and it's probably the source of a good deal of his success. I think he's capable of believing he could be president some day.
Not all, only white LEDs. You can use any cheap LED RGB strip without white components and set it to yellow/orange light with blue completely off. It has poor CRI though.
PRISM is literally the state forcing you to decrypt and hand over data.

I'm sure the CCP has their own potemkin legal system - the FISA courts are smoke and dressing just the same.
"What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander" as the legal cliche goes. OpenAI cannot on the one hand claim that google did something wrong if they used their outputs as part of the bard training while simultaneously on the other hand claiming they themselves are free to use everyone on the internets content to train their model.

Either they believe that training should respect copyright (in which case they could not do what they do) or they believe that training is fair use (in which case they cannot possibly object to Google doing the same as them).
The problem is that previously the low-effort default option was great, and now the low-effort default option is bad and to get the equivalent of the previous great default you must now spend a bunch of extra time and money. "Caring about CRI" is basically just caring about the human visual system working correctly, that shouldn't be some weird niche.

Besides, I don't control the lighting decisions of every place I go that's not my own home. And many people might be impacted in tiny ways without even noticing (cf. the old research about fluorescent lighting in schools/offices impacting mood or concentration or whatever).
There's a misunderstanding in this comparison between Rust's trait object system and C++'s virtual functions. While both mechanisms allow for polymorphism, they are fundamentally different. Rust's trait system is a compile-time mechanism that allows expressing shared behavior between types, whereas C++'s virtual functions are based on runtime polymorphism and dynamic dispatch.

I understand what "dyn" does here, but we're fundamentally comparing apples to oranges (or apples to pineapples). I think it would be more beneficial to explore the tradeoffs of these two systems with suggestions and approaches for going from one to the other rather than being stupid* and thinking this is a competition, which does the opposite of garnering adoption.

The Rust ecosystem needs to learn to be empathetic rather than dictatorial if it wants to succeed.

As a meta comment, I suspect this comment will be downvoted, or at best, refuted with straw men rather than on merits of this criticism.

* Yes, stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc
I am designing an off-grid cabin with a solar panel array charging a bank of batteries with a propane generator backup. I run ethernet as power with a custom designed PCB that terminates at the outlet side where it exposes a 20 watt USB charging port and an ethernet port.

The lights are all basically cut 12v light strips inside of old light fixtures with a custom controller that also terminates PoE. The 48 volts that most PoE standards specify is more than enough to push power down the line for < 100 meter runs.

The advantage of PoE here is that anything under 50 volts is considered low voltage and does not need to follow the same rules as normal house wiring. I did not like that everything is hinging upon a beefy PoE switch so I actually made it passive PoE instead by design.
Sometimes there is something to be afraid of.

Bravery is being able to have a productive response to that fear. But simply dismissing the fear as unreal does not lead to helpful decision making.
It had survived for 15 years and there was no hint that it was going under.
This was neat. Found the important bits in https://megous.com/git/pinephone-multi-boot/tree/tools/main....
My kid has learnt a lot both programatically and online social skills thanks to Scratch.mit.edu. Thanks from Spain!
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people."

Here in the United States, that's a popular statement amongst the pro gun/2a supporters. It strikes me as very similar to this discussion about AI.

"AI can't hurt people, people hurt people."

I haven't spent enough time to fully form an opinion on the matter, I'm just pointing out the similarities in these two arguments. I'm not sure what to think anymore. I'm equally excited and apprehensive about the future of it.
I did YC in W21 in NYC. I was not allowed to meet people in large groups until April (after the batch).

I disagree with each and every one of these ratings and conclusions.

Firstly, the comparison should be "Is the alternative to YC worth it?" For many companies, the alternative is raising nothing and bootstrapping, or raising at significantly lower valuations.

Additionally, I believe founders approach YC the wrong way. YC is not there to coddle you. They are there to give you access to hundreds of exceptional founders, brilliant partners who have seen much more than you, and a fundraising platform.

It is on the founder to adapt their behavior to get the most out of Y Combinator. Unfortunately, many founders are unable to do so, and waste the opportunity.
I don’t see this as contradictory. It’s the same reasons it’s a bad idea to talk to cops: it can’t help you, it can hurt you, you might say something false, they might mishear you
I mean, the Nasdaq 100 lost almost 30% in 3 months, from March to June of last year. Doesn't mean every CEO fumbled that bad. Or maybe it does!
How come probably the most important intervention, building sea walls around Manhattan et al, isn't happening?
The big picture is the complete ending of the v1.1 API and significantly changing quotas. The new limits seem designed to make it hard to read tweets via the API but relatively easier to post tweets.
> Basically it says that America have always had a kind of us vs them mentality and it's now running internally

This has been a thing in the US since before we were the US. The south vs. north and urban vs. rural divide has deeply affected the entire fabric of the US down to the 3/5ths compromise in the Constitution to placate the southern states to ratify the Constitution in the first place.

Don't forget that time in the 1860's when literally half the country tried to leave as well. This is nothing new, it's just that the rest of the world can see it in real time nowadays (and much more of them speak English) when that was not possible previously unless you were a real international policy wonk.
Yeah this is one of those things where quality really makes the difference. If you buy cheap LED bulbs, you'll hate LED bulbs. Buy goods ones, and you love them. The dichotomy is really stark in the overall HN discussion.
self promo:

Something like this but no server at all would be cool.
wip, https://github.com/temphia/lpweb
This is wrong in so many ways.

"Distributing disinfo is the hard part."
No, distributing disinfo is incredibly easy and gives very good returns for a small outlay. There have been so many examples of this - Cambridge Analytica, SCL, Team Yorge, the Internet Research Agency, the Q Cult - that on its own this makes me question the writer's research skills.

And that's just the troll operations. There's plenty of disinfo and propaganda propagated through mainstream media.

AI will make it even easier to monitor target demographics and generate messages that resonate with them. Automated trolling and targeting are not a trivial threat, and not even remotely unlikely.

"AI tools will shift power away from workers and centralize it in the hands of a few companies."
Which is no different to what we have now. AI will just make it even easier.

But even if it didn't - it doesn't matter who owns the AI. If it can do jobs that used to be considered intellectual/creative/educated/middle class, it will. Open source communal AI would be just as disruptive as corporate AI.

It's a political and economic abyss. Ownership is likely to get lost in the sediment at the bottom. We just don't have the first clue how to deal with something like this.

"LLM-based personal assistants could be hacked to reveal people’s personal data, take harmful real-world actions such as shutting down systems, or even give rise to worms that spread across the Internet through LLMs."
Again, this is just an amplification of where we are already. It doesn't address the real problem, which is that personalised generative disinfo and propaganda - and that doesn't just mean personalised by topic, but by emotional trigger - is going to be a radioactively toxic influence on trust-based systems of all kinds.

For example - what happens when you can't tell if the emails or video calls you receive are genuine? What are you going to do with an AI assisted social engineering attack on your organisation, social group, or personal relationships?

We already have deep fakes and we're only a few years away from prompt driven troll farms and Dark Agents who can mimic real people and steer interactions in a toxic direction.

This isn't scifi. This is a very real threat.

There's a deep failure of imagination in this article - looking at small trees that may get in the way when the entire forest is about to burn down.

The scifi threat is on a completely different level - the possibility that AI will discover new physics and start manipulating reality in ways we can't even imagine.

I'm agnostic on whether that's possible - it's too early to tell - but that's an example of what a real existential threat might look like.

There are others which are similarly extreme.

But they're not necessary. A tool that has the very real potential to corrode all of our existing assumptions about work, culture, and personal relationships, and is easily accessible by bad actors, is already a monstrous problem.
I think the cycles are something of a distraction. Ultimately the problem comes down to this.

Given a number N with prime factors (p1, p2, …pn)
And N+1 with prime factors (q1, q2, …qm)

What is the relation between (p1, p2, …pn) and (q1, q2, …qm)
I think it would have always been the same for overseas companies - I've had several YC-founder friends, and the experience is vastly different if you're YC-in-the-Bay versus YC-elsewhere.
As a staff engineer at an org that heavily prioritizes domain knowledge and promotes for it and agreeableness heavily, I think that view is only true in the most black and white of cases. We have lots of developers working at 25% productivity because the flaming dumpster fire of tech debt we inherited is slowly turning into a flaming landfill fire as we pile shit on top of shit rather than fix things. I'm not sure why management hasn't made the connection between repeatedly missing deadlines and rampant unchecked tech debt, I've pointed it out many times. At this point I'm just glad I'm not on a team that's severely impacted, but I feel bad for the people who are going to be forced to crunch and will still come out looking like poor employees.
Eh, for some values of well.

My post is one of the "12 [...] about Twitter not responding to the standard API access request process".

It's easy to keep an API running if you reject access to it, no? Due to a delightful quirk of how the Twitter Ads API review process works, our entire application no longer works, even for non-Ads API use. Genius way to manage the load.
Your first article pretty much sums up the problem of using LLMs to generate articles: random hallucination.

> For an editor, that's bound to pose an issue. It's one thing to work with a writer who does their best to produce accurate work, but another entirely if they pepper their drafts with casual mistakes and embellishments.

There's a strong temptation for non-technical people to use LLMs to generate text about subjects they don't understand. For technical reviewers it can take longer to review the text (and detect/eliminate misinformation) than it does to write it properly in the first case. Assuming the goal is to create accurate, informative articles, there's simply no productivity gain in many cases.

This is not a new problem, incidentally. ChatGPT and other tools just make the generation capability a lot more accessible.
THD by me doesn't even stock the CREE bulbs anymore, just the crappy FEIT generics.

I had to drive all over town to find a specialty lighting store with some 'real' Sylvania brand. (But then found the supermarket across the street has Philips on the shelf. Oof.)
> maybe he's getting rid of it for a reason?

Probably, but is it a good reason? IMO, he lost the benefit of doubt many decisions ago.
Will give this a try. I'm a git noob and am intimidated by git, so I'll take a simple interface any day. Also, beautiful web page design.
I'm just frustrated by people thinking they and their job are somehow special and laying back while real change happens all around them.

What makes you think industrial light and magic or anyone in the vfx thinks this way? It has been one of the most competitive and rapidly changing industries in the last 40 years.
For reference, this anecdote is on pages 55/56.
With the market conditions right now, have any ideas about how it could be better?

It sounds like structural critiques; like a smaller, tighter community that onboards with better incentives, enables more efficient engagement with the alumni and batch would be a big gain. And importantly, like ycombinator could show more flexibility and interest in the batch. That sounds like a smaller network overall though, with less success stories to tout. If they have a better 'batting average' so to speak, though, that would help the investor environment. How does it affect their income and social lives, balancing it all I wonder. Thanks for the article!
We get cheap electronics? Works well for commodities and physical items.

Software/services are different - especially services where the real asset is user profile data.
As a side point, the bulbs from the link you shared might be of good quality but very, very low power by my standards. In order to work comfortably I need "200W replacements", not 40W-60W. This has enormous influence on my mood in winter months, probably people in warmer climates care less.
> Most people don’t want to pay the premium and don’t value the benefits that come with that premium.

This is also called boiling the frog. People actually do care, but in the scheme of things, they'll accept it.

The default lightbulb in the store 20 years ago had a tender warm light. The default lightbulb in the store today has garish light, or doesn't dim, or has that ugly plastic half cover. A real decline in quality of life. but sure, we can be dismissive about it, of course you can spend hours on the internet figuring it out (ignoring the fact that it took no effort whatsoever to get nice lighting before).
The problem is I used to be able to spend a couple dollars on lightbulbs that consistently looked great and didn’t require a ton of research or money. I’ve bought hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of high-end LED lightbulbs since moving into my new place last year, and the lighting here still looks like crap. Even with budget it’s hard to get something that looks good. Finding something that dims without flickering, the issue with dimming not actually warming like mentioned in the article, trying to match color temperatures to actually look good, so many issues. I’ve tried to splurge and get good lights and good dimmers but I’m still not happy with how it’s turned out. And if you go in any home or restaurant where they haven’t dedicated substantial time and money into good lighting, things are downright painful these days. I desperately miss incandescent bulbs. I’ve been told by several people that I seem oddly sensitive to this, but it’s a huge deal as far as I’m concerned.
What use does it have for use
It's not worth $20B, that's just his ego talking. I can see it being worth $4B. It has no long term path to any kind of high growth multiple. Twitter was always an amazingly useful concept but not a big money making business idea. At best it could become like a steady ultility company.
Improving efficiency of the economy would be a good thing.
For evening humans are more used to to campfire color temp than to the sun.

For daylight, people typically prefer daylight (5000K) bulbs.
The two statements just don't logically follow. A better argument would be that the US, in an effort to improve human rights, sets a minimum threshold for market participation at the level of nations. Unfortunately, that's not the argument being made.

Open markets mean what it says on the tin - markets without barrier. Saying, "We're barring actors for entering the market for reason X," means closed markets even is X is "treating people poorly."
I see the US healthcare system more as a cause for the opiod epidemic, not the solution.
To switch to a commit, run "git goto <commit Hash>".
However, you cannot switch a tag.

I should move this switch command under the branch command.

Additionally, it is a good idea to advise to stash changes; I will likely add it in the next release.
There’s a logo app for ios that my son (9yo) has been playing with.
My peeve is with intermediate base bulbs. They forced ceiling fans to use them but it's nigh impossible to find suitable dimmable LEDs for them. I had a candelabra adapter short out and destroy a dimmer so that isn't an option either.
Elon needs to grow Twitter by 50% before he has 'only' a 30% loss.

There is a huge difference between 55% drop that Mr Musk has experienced with Twitter, and the 30% drop you're talking about.

EDIT:
> from March to June of last year

That seems like a weird comparison? An apples-to-apples benchmark would be the Nasdaq 100 from November last year (when Musk finished buying Twitter) to March this year.
> But current models have no concept of obligations.

_current_ is the key word here. What about tomorrow's models? You can't deny that recent progress and rate of adoption has been explosive. The linked article wants us to step back for a while and re-evaluate, which I think is a fair sentiment.
For this reason I think that LED filament bulbs are the best choice now. The cheap ones can have flicker issues, though. But otherwise they're a nice step up from the last generation of LED bulbs.
I dont know how it works but there must be some way to prevent that.

Otherwise poeple would just

- buy 51 % stake
- run the company into the ground
- announce its bankrupt
- at the auction buy back IP for pennies on the dollar
- start new company with previous IP, same domain name, same servers etc

Also if there was an auction, what prevents Google, Meta, MS, Amazon, etc from buying the IP instead.
This is a cool idea I've never heard before. The universe we're in is the result of a cosmically massive star going supernova.
Unidirectional free trade isn't free trade.
I think op meant logo