skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, this happens every few years, and it never comes down to a default. It's a constant charade. Everybody knows that actually defaulting is a disaster. They use that to try to use the threat that the other side will come out looking at fault, in hopes of extracting concessions.

There won't be an enormous crash because it's not going to happen. There won't be a big bump because it's already been priced in.

Get in today, wait a month, it doesn't make all that much difference. Time in the market beats timing the market. Get in now, pick up the tiny bump from the inevitable resolution of the debt ceiling thing. Or wait; it doesn't matter all that much in the long run. Assuming you're in it for the long run. And if you're not, you're wasting money trying to time it.
What is the vision for Twitter?
Been a few weeks in the platform. Feels way too much Elon-centered, but still an interesting turn, taking into account that this is the platform that muted the speech, live, of their own president. So... interesting times nonetheless, as the Chinese saying goes.
Ok... that was my path and since I was not interested I did not know of Andor. Will have to take a look at it.
There were two 30 pin connectors by the way. I had to get an adapter to use my 3g iPhone on an older car stereo that supported iPods. All it did was flip a couple of the pins around.
It seems to do ok at coming up with starting points or give you options if you're stuck. But the quality of the prose it comes up with is indeed awful. It gets a bit better if you ask it to write in the style of a specific author, but marginally so.

I guess maybe it gets to mediocre fan fiction level.

That's still pretty impressive, but not very usable for creative writing yet.
I’m working on a book of fiction that involves some of the figures mentioned tangentially in this article. Rosemont, run by the Stephenson family, a mob connected bunch, figures prominently. Interestingly, a gambling firm called Emerald with suspicious ties to Rosemont’s garbage collection was in line to open a casino in Rosemont, for which the Stephensons simply started building infrastructure before the license was granted, but an alleged meeting between Donald Stephenson and “No Nose” Lombardo put an end to those efforts. Rivers casino had to open over the border in Des Plaines so that Rosemont would not directly benefit from the tax revenue. Rosemont is a town of roughly 3000 people, and the citizens are actually paid some amount from the city’s funds for living there rather than contributing taxes, whereas Des Plaines is a town of 60000.
I'm mostly meaning: will the best chips (CPUs and GPUs) in 2030 use this method, or not?
And what is his actual mission?
Unfortunately having uncapped gigabit Internet isn’t an option for most people. I would gladly pay for that if I could. But I’m stuck with Comcast. I’ve lived in 4 different cities in the last decade and I’ve always been stuck with Comcast. You should absolutely not assume that massive downloads don’t matter to most people.
They should expand this to 90-9-1-.1 to include the .1% that cause all the problems that eventually lead to content moderation, claims of freedom of speech violations, hate speech, bannings, and eventual closure of forums.
https://www.youtube.com/@CMUDatabaseGroup
Yes, it's all the way up there.
As these coincidenses will sometimes have it, I just dug out my old paperback copy from the basement a few days ago, and looking mightily forward to a reread.
Show HN: A Rails-like endpoint switcher for iOS apps
My takeaway from the article is how bad mainstream takes were on LLMs just two months ago.
I... Think they were? I kinda remember having ICQ on it, but maybe that was already the iPhone 2. Or I'm hallucinating.
1k hours of runtime on the PCjr web server
The machine has been featured here before but it has achieved a fun milestone: more than 1,000 hours of continuous runtime without restarting the software, rebooting, etc. See the stats at http://brutmanlabs.org/status .

The machine is a 4.77Mhz IBM PCjr probably made in 1984 running IBM PC DOS 5.02. A Xircom PE3-10BT Ethernet adapter (originally designed for laptops) on the parallel port allows it to connect to network. It has a modern-ish IDE controller and an SSD but those are only needed because of the amount of content; the machine could happily serve pages from RAM indefinitely. (Serving from the floppy disk would be painful, and probably short lived for the floppy disk.) I am cheating slightly and sending large, multi-megabyte requests for PDFs to another machine because I don't want those to tie up the machine for so long.

The software is my the mTCP HTTPServ web server. It runs on everything from DOS 2.1 up, supports up to 8 concurrent users at a time, supports filename and path mapping so you don't have to look at horrible DOS 8.3 paths and files, supports BASIC auth, logging, and a few other fun features. I've been working on it for nine years now. (mTCP is even older at 14 or 15 year now.)

The tricks to keep it running this long are a small UPS system and an SNTP client so that it can keep the clock synced with the rest of the world. The UPS protects the machine, router, and fiber ONT for a total load of 45 watts. The machine loses a few seconds here and there due to lost interrupts for the SNTP client is a necessity for longer runs. The SNTP client also helped it transition through the daylight savings time change in March.

The limiting factor is going to be disk space for logging; it is generating logs and eventually that disk partition will fill up. (I need to add log rotating and compression.) This machine was running when the ChatGPT client for DOS was announced, and it was hosting the mTCP networking pages at the time, so it got quite a bit of traffic. I learned after that to leave a lot of space for logs.

It beeps when somebody visits - enjoy!
What is someone who owns a house but has reduced mental capacity supposed to do? The house is worth $500k, someone offers them $300k, the person doesn't have the mental capacity to shop around... I'm just not sure what the right solution here is. I'm afraid it would be even worse if they weren't allowed to sell.
Everyone parrots the same glass gliff term they recently learned but Musk has actually a good track record putting women to lead companies and them very much succeeding.
Improvement over what exactly?
It sounds like they already had multithreaded code in C++.
The real problem that still is not fixed is that `datetime.date.now()` and others do not do the right thing and encode the system timezone. Rather they record a time without timezone. I have seen this cause so many problems because people are just not aware.
A few years ago I picked up "Music By Computer"[1] from a used book store, and it's fascinating.

Published in 1969, it's a collection of papers from the 60s about music and sound processing on the machines back then, and it goes into a lot more detail, if anybody is interested and can find a copy. It even came with recorded music on 5 paper thin flexi-discs that I've never been able to play.

https://www.amazon.com/Music-Computers-Heinz-von-Foerster/dp...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc
Twitter never went down because of those engineers and the great work they did. Elon has been making all kinds of shit up as he goes. He is not an engineer, and never will be one. He can be a great businessman (and at times -- he has made great decisions for businesses.) and be a terrible engineer. He seems to be stuck on the latter even being possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5SJeotIq20

This thing flies, you can't flip it, safer than an already-pretty-safe-surprisingly Smart car, lane-splits, and parks anywhere.

We may not be the target market, but that doesn't mean it doesn't deliver.
Ellen Pao. She fired Victory who was very popular for running AMAs (Ask me anythings) with a lot of high powered people. The popularity of those dropped a bit after that and they were never the same.

Edit: Someone clarified below that Knothing took responsibility for firing Victory but Pao definitely took the heat for firing victory on top of nuking several popular (edgy and outright bad) subs
I wondered that. The implication of "poison pill" is that something that looks broadly OK actually contains a detail that renders it very perilous. The canonical example is a company arranging its finances in such a way that a hostile acquisition is too dangerous to risk.

This isn't a detail; it's the whole point.
Copilot and chatgpt are some of the services i am perfectly content paying for.

ChatGPT is a great way to delve into new topics, and for that alone it’s worth it.
> Feels way too much Elon-centered

Have you tried blocking/muting/blocking and muting the user by the name of Elon Musk?
> all other things being equal

But all other things will never be equal because animal protein costs 10x more energy to produce.

> what will happen to people when for reason there’s a problem in the supply chain of a specific crop or you have a bad year with low yields and the price goes to the roof?

Have you been to a produce department? Most of them in the US could be reduced to 25% their current size and still have 200% the diversity of the meat department. Being unable to find one or more amino acids is just not a problem that vegetarians have.

The problem is constantly having to cook for yourself because vegetarian options at most restaurants (or prepared by well-meaning carnivore friends) are just "leave the meat off" and not designed from the ground up to be nutritional without meat. Cultural change would make it easy.
The empty makefile is valid
What are you referring to here? The iPhone didn’t have apps for over a year, until the same time as the iPhone 3G launch.
That's basically the boat I'm in. I really like it, it's a good bit of software, but it's like having an error-prone person to bounce ideas off of.

It doesn't always directly give me an answer I can use, but it's extraordinarily handy to be able to copypaste a large server log into it, ask what it means, and give suggestions based on that. Often just knowing the proper-nouns to look up can be immensely useful.
I respect that there are many people doing their best to help their clients, without regards to the short run impact to their pocket book. (Obviously there is a long run benefit to keeping clients happy, etc, etc.) It is not hard to find examples online of buyers agents being told to ignore sub-3% listings, and the universal advice for people doing FSBO or flat fee listings is to still offer 3% tot he buyer.

I think it would be better if the system didn't have this conflict of interest in the first place. It sounds like your market is there already, I expect the rest of the country to eventually follow even if they have to be dragged kicking and screaming. (See Moerhl, Sitzer/Burnett)

On the positive side for agents, currently the best and worst buyer's agents are forced to charge essentially the same price. Breaking up the current model would in theory allow some differentiation. The best agents can offer more services that buyer's may want. Experienced buyers who need less help can go to an agent who charges less, etc.
With the rise of steamOS gaming I would be surprised if things don’t change in the future.
And then they changed the spec on the 31 pin connector half way through it's life. I had an iPod ready car stereo back in the day, and it required an adapter to use my iPhone even though they were both the same physical connector. Fuckin stereo was expensive back then especially one with iPod integration. I had the thing for maybe 2 years at the most. Felt pretty burned by that one.
Twitter has 400m users. At $8 that's $3.2b/month, $38b/year. This might be a decision most social networks didn't take, and an unpopular one, but if it works it can have massive payoff.
there are two ways to use twitter: curate a small number of follows you read most tweets from, or follow many and treat twitter more like an endless river to sample from
I wonder if an LLM trained on your favorite author how many words/sentences paragraphs it could generate in the middle of a book that would be basically undetectable.
It is much better for twitter, since I can use nitter, and read whatever is written there, and I can't do the same for mastodon.
AGI has long been consisdered the holy grail of AI research and GPT-4 is basically an AGI so..
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It is much more likely that crypto will end up where most VC backed scams end up; with a stubborn and shrinking remnant of diehard fans who never realized how they were being used, and the VCs with the yachts.
And Palm devices.
I worked in retail for years, and have also worked in call centers, gas stations, things like that. I will say the quality of employees varies widely, there's a lot of really smart folks in these jobs (sounds like yourself included).

I think it's easy for smart people to get trapped in these bad jobs due to individual circumstances or mental issues (speaking for myself).

I'm sure there's a big variety of ways people get treated, but in general, no you don't get fired for not being chipper that's an exxaggeration (except at some places I'm sure, maybe Disney or Hooters?) I don't take lyft but I do know one driver, they ended up having car issues, having to quit driving, and it was basically a big waste of money for them.
As far as I understand, LLMs with 95% correct answers are much more useful than a car that doesn't crash 95% of times (if you need to pay attention to correct mistakes, you may well be driving).

A 95% correct LLM might be utter garbage in some areas but nearly flawless (thus reliable) in other, menial and time consuming tasks, such as summarization, rewording, providing new ideas, etc.
Yeah I can’t think of any. I mean if I had to come up with something, I would talk about tooling. MySQL Workbench (when it works) is by far the easiest to use and most feature-rich of all RDBMS.. MS. It runs on any OS too, which is a ding on SQL Server and not Postgres since Postgres’ is a web app- which has the limitations of a web app (no right click for example- which I know is possible in a web app, but last I checked not implemented for pgadmin).
In China, the Police Came for the Consultants. Now the C.E.O.s Are Alarmed
Maybe it's just me, but this video looked like dystopian satire... did anyone else view it that way?

It reminded me of Keiichi Masuda's "Hyper Reality":

https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs
I'm making gpt-3.5 pick from a given list of tags. It will happily create all those tags you suggested, but I thought that if we don't make it pick from a list, then the tags could get too long-tail and as a result, not so useful. What do you think?
Nice list and blog you have. You now have one subscriber more to your RSS feed. By the way, I disagree with your stance on RSS excerpts. ;)
Don’t forget the infamous remark from the Slashdot mod about the first iPod, “No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.”

https://slashdot.org/story/21026
Modern headline algorithms follow this formula: Scenario I Made Up? Doesn't It Stress You Out? Click for Relief!
I would also want to know this prior to any interaction. There is still so much money in this space, and the risk of your innovation being harvested / co-opted / subverted along with it. At this point Mozilla seems to exist solely as an anti-trust insurance policy for Google. How are we to know if FUTO is any different?
I bet he's gonna give it a go though!
Milli Vanilli also sold over 10 million records. Maybe popularity doesn't equal quality?
What's your criteria for Elon's decisions being bad? I'm curious.
Reverting to the status quo before be bought the company and limiting free speech again to attract advertisers.

When Tucker Carlson announced that he'd post his new show on Twitter, Musk already sent a cryptic mail saying that Carlson would be subject to the same "community notes" as everyone else.

We'll see how it goes, I'm just getting vibes that everything will be reverted to a standard SV company.
And miss the whole show? :-)
Not really. Many cultural traditions emphasize reciting every single word from classical texts as part of the learning process.

(I hated it, but it's still there 2000+ years after books were invented.)
I feel like his womanizing behavior was bad and that it was also somehow wrapped up in his attention seeking and other self promoting drives that made him so well known. I don't think it should be hidden.
Great idea for a game!

A question I ran into while playing your game is why it says "Amazon" and "Prime" are only 3% related? That seems very surprising.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/27/plane-...

https://www.skybrary.aero/articles/light-aircraft-post-crash...
Regarding the last point: What I still find the most entertaining is how easily you can change its personality, especially via the system prompt. You can get it to be rather snarky, even sometimes insulting, which makes for hilarious IRC bots.
> If World War III starts tomorrow, you're right, I'm going to have problems.

I don’t know. Chaotic environments seem to be where my ADHD mind operates best when not on medication. I’m by far at my most productive when shit is on fire and everyone is panicking and doesn’t know what to do. I don’t think most ADHD folks would need medication if it wasn’t for modern working environments. When I’m dragged into WW3, my inability to pay bills on time or my complete lack of ability to start putting together that architecture until the deadline is looming will no longer be my greatest weaknesses.
> since she's not an insider I'm not sure if she counts as a whistleblower

Unsure. Statute doesn’t seem to require being an insider, just providing “the Commission with information in writing that relates to a possible violation of the federal securities laws” [1]. (This may not count as independent knowledge, i.e. “factual information in [her] possession that is not derived from publicly available sources” [2].)

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-17/chapter-II/part-240/su...

[2] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-17/chapter-II/part-240/su...
This sounds a bit unlikely. Would they really have different mission intros after detecting you reopen the game?

Anyway now you've written it down it'll get scraped, included in the training set, and he a reliable citation for the future!
This feels like classic Hype Cycle content: the higher we peak on Inflated Expectations the lower we'll find ourselves on the Trough of Disillusionment.
The “you” of today won’t experience the problems that the “you” of tomorrow will, so why not throw caution to the wind?

> the real organic you

It’s part of the concept that there is no “real” you; they are both equally real.
Just so we're clear, realistically "everyone gave up air travel" means the government shutting down airlines, not people voluntarily not buying plane tickets. I would vote in favor of massively limiting airline travel across the board, but until that happens I'm not going to make my life worse for absolutely no benefit.
> User Identity in ATProto is decentralized, it's meant to use W3C DIDs.

The W3C spec leaves all the hard parts to vendors, which is why the only DID implementation up to now has been Microsoft's, which relies on an AD server in Azure. Much decentralise.

Bluesky's isn't that, but a hash of some sort, which is centrally decentralised ... on their servers? I think this is one of the bits of AT that isn't finished yet.

But "W3C DID" is not a usable spec in itself, it's a sketch at best.
Ah. I’d add he’s “gambling with other people’s money”, which is the most colloquially-accepted form of gambling.
> It captured attentions of both corporations and government who are pouring billions into it. All of this in the span of one year or less.

Corporations and governments have thrown tons of money into technologies that ended up going nowhere. We're only a few years out from everyone dumping their money into "blockchain solutions", which turned out to go nowhere.

Investors and government stakeholders are easily swayed by hype. Sometimes this hype is well placed, but often the hype results in throwing money at projects that don't produce anything of value. Hype just isn't a good measure of a technology's long term viability.
I banned 2-3 of these twisticles (twitter listicles) from my feed. The fact that I follow the AI researches doesn't mean I want this spam.
I thought I had a vague sense of why they stopped doing AMAs, but for the life of me I can't remember why now. Those were great.
He handled that really well!
How do I sign up to volunteer as one of these sacrificial lamb CEOs? Because I'd absolutely love to fail at something and then get paid a bunch of money to look bad for a few months before people forget and I can retire into the sunset.
> Some mobsters are bad dudes, yeah, but some are regular Tokyo Joes thrown into a bad situation.

The article makes it clear that he was no "regular joe" and was likely responsible for several murders whether he pulled the trigger or not.
There are plenty of reasons to not like him. Few of them relate to business.
Everyone has their own path and experience, so YMMV here.

1. Agree. I'm biased because I've gone from startups -> big techs -> startup. A massive number of friends at big tech have been laid off, but at my startup we're having record years in 2022, and 2023 is shaping up even better. Even if things go south, it'll be pretty obvious.

2. Perhaps early in careers, but not late. Outside of the CTO, I'm the highest compensated employee in tech, and that's still a 60% discount from my FAANG job, even when accounting for current stock prices.

3. I've definitely had way more fun at early stage companies. I've enjoyed the learnings as well.

4. FWIW, I'm 3-3 on startups w/exits (all acquisitions). Net value of my equity was $0, though I did get a 6-figure bonus once as an executive of the company. A $1B exit at my current company would mean some real $$$, such as low 7 figures! Now, to put that in perspective, that bonus was worth less than RSUs from a single year at FAANG (even before stock appreciation). The low seven figures from a startup $1B exit would be about the same as 3-4 years of comp at the FAANG. All of that is to say that I didn't go back to startups for the money.

5. Early in my life at "exciting" startup, I worked wayy wayy wayy more hours than I did at a big company or my current startup. I think hours worked correlates better to my age than to where I'm working. ;)
Turning Twitter into pay-to-play will look “competent” in the beginning, but we’re not sure how it’ll work in the long run.

Lately, it looks like lower level (non-twitter blue) users have no incentive to come up with new content. If they do, high level users (twitter blue) will regurgitate it to their audience and it’ll be amplified to the top. Before, the playing field was level.
Saying that REPLACE is non-destructive is a bit weird. Overwriting data is destructive, by definition -- and even if ARCHIVE is append-only underneath, it seems this use of REPLACE is very much a "logical overwrite", as there doesn't seem to be any kind of time travel view of the old state.

Also, you might be interested in Parquet, perhaps as seen through Delta Lake https://delta.io/ or Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers like https://github.com/adjust/parquet_fdw -- Delta Lake's simple "LSM of Parquet files in an object store" design is pretty sweet.
Because he has an outdated leadership playbook for Twitter. He has had a good track record and he also runs his other companies surprisingly well. I think this decision is set up for the new CEO to fail.
interesting, I did that just now (with out having seen your comment) and got 13% and 33% (for future reference this comment is being made about an hour after parent)

Edit: oh wait I nevermind wave/waves
you do get youtube music included which is a decent alternative to spotify.
Correct. So the code entitles you to get a 70% recurring discount on a monthly basis.

I was also planning to create a Lifetime deal for the PRO plan at 75$ without a subscription. But I was not certain how this would be accepted in the world of hosting.