skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because Andreessen is the HN reader's ideal VC, on paper. He is (was?) highly technical, he built a very successful product with Netscape. He also came of age during the first tech bubble and in theory should be able to see through the BS.

Yet nearly every public statement he's made since becoming a full-time VC has been about pumping the worst companies and claiming they're the future. Airbnb, WeWork, a metric f'ton of crypto startups.

It's almost painful watching the inventor of Netscape trying to postulate to Tyler Cowen how Web3 is the new internet:

https://twitter.com/liron/status/1537186589486460928
All these answers are interesting, but overthinking it. It's simple: find something to do away from work that you love just as much.

It's not your pride or your ego. Never lose your passion and don't let the world beat it out of you. Feel your own greatness in more than one way and it will improve your life in ways far greater than just the ability to take criticism. You need a playground in your life that's not connected to your paycheck to dump your energy into and make a mess.
There's a "mini-van" renderer and examples on usage for node/deno on the library's website. I actually found that probably more compelling than the JS client library usage.

For me what's missing is wiring with a larger state machine (jotai or similar) and async importing of components at runtime.

In the end, I'm not completely convinced this is better than React/Preact/Inferno, and even then, adding a UI library like mui will get even bigger. It's the patterns and the size/scale of what you're building and how many other devs you would have to develop with that should determine things like this. Are your using on generations old phones where access is akin to slow 3g, or is everyone on a modern 1440p+ desktop with over 30mbps of bandwidth?
That is true, but it is a personal limitation of mine that I work best on codebases I don't share.

I have been thinking about how to handle this problem, and I'm not sure of the solution.
In my mind I've always been curious what Intel could do with fixed width instructions with a newer 64bit ISA.
Ah, baloney. If you can open the book, you can photograph it with your iphone. You'll find the result answers your concerns. Try it with any of your books.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-454_4g15.pdf
Agreed, this is a very fair point. I'm also sad at the voices that have been lost one way or another through this transition.
To give a slightly different answer than other commenters:

To detach emotions from work without throwing out the value of good work: attach your self-worth to something UPSTREAM "doing good work", a cause of good work, and not the work itself. You do this by realizing that the emotional attachment to your own work was never really about the work, it was what the work implied about you; the emotional brain jumps to conclusions. Good work, when you zoom in as if with a better telescope, that you are responsible, capable, well-intentioned, generous, intelligent. These can be ends in themselves—you'll disappoint yourself when you fail to live up to them, for their own sake. Those are better ends—they let you say "I DID address everything I could think of but I missed something, I'd better learn from that", rather than feeling something you missed as a vague attack against your whole being. And because, you often try to prove we are all those things—fearing you're not—but fool ourselves with things that don't really prove it—like material wealth, or attention, or good grades. And then even if you succeed you are left with some guilt: "I got the good grades but I feel like I could have done something more important..."

You can take it further: those attributes, when you zoom in further, resolve further, into a feeling that you are worthy of existing, and worthy of love. In my experience (I have felt this, but I haven't learned to live like it), feeling "worthy of love" gives you permission TO love, to be good—which again you can invert. It's the right reason to be responsible, capable, etc—all of those flow outward from something deeper rather than being ends in themselves.
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”

― Henry Kissinger
> Could take the entire platform with it if all of the available funds are going towards serving free api traffic.

You seem to have a really skewed sense of how Twitter's API actually works, and you also seem to be under the incredibly incorrect impression that the API has no rate limiting.

Like most services, Twitter actually saved money by offering a free API with OAuth, because the alternative is for people to use web scrapers and direct access by password, which is orders of magnitude more expensive both due to direct network traffic costs and due to the security costs of people/apps doing insecure things to get around the lack of an API.

> Yeah, but if the bulk of the world's population is slamming an api that's free...there's no more api or platform at that point, since it's not going to generate enough revenue anymore.

This is literally an argument for requiring all Twitter users to pay to use the service, since the official apps all use the same API.
Unity can make glTF for it (as can Blender or anything else that exports glTF). The unity pipeline is: https://github.com/matrix-org/thirdroom-unity-exporter
WG14 can still vote it into C23.
>This might be one of the few instances where I'd actually be happier with a usage-based billing model.

Why 'few instances'? I'd always prefer an API to be pay per request. It's my favourite thing about OpenAI (if you ignore the fact that big players can get access to the base model through Azure).
The US has pretty good relations with Vietnam now
George Lucas may be an idiosyncratic film maker but he is a rather thoughtful person when it comes to making films and I find interviews where he discusses the process to be very interesting.
It's possible that no new information is needed, just better analysis.
Midjourney API – My Take
I needed a really simple API that could generate images, i.e. prompt in -> an upscaled image out, not intermediary steps for variations, or upscales (though I'll be adding that soon).

But what started as a personal need ended up as a subscription-based micro-SaaS.

I'm working on a hobby-ish project for video generation on various topics, which needs tons of images, thus my incentive to make this API. I chose MJ because it seems to generate consistently good-looking images, but more importantly, it can generate 16:9 images. I was previously using DALLE2, but it can only do 1:1 aspect ratio and it returned weird stuff more often than MJ, so I dropped it. I might SaaS this video generation tool too when it's ready, but it's a long way.

The system is pretty basic as it focuses heavily on functionality and ease of use. You basically create an account and can generate images right away if you already have a MJ sub (although I recommend using a different discord account for this), you get some free usage and can extend via a simple QR BTC/Lightning payment.

Tech stack:
Python (simple http server, Discord API),
certbot,
SQLite,
BTCPay,
voltage.cloud (BTCPay, Lightning),
Google Cloud (Compute, Storage),
HTML/CSS/Javascript,
Docker for the bots, running locally through a VPN (so if my IP is blacklisted for so many connections, I'll just compose down, compose up, and get a new IP),
nordvpn docker image (connecting the Discord bots through it)

Not looking to make any money from this, but it was a nice intro to the world of BTC Lightning payments, and oh boy how many possibilities it planted in my brain. I'm amazed that this is not yet widely adopted, even if there are wallets providing free liquidity, so as a simple user you just pay the normal btc fee when you top up.
I pay $200 a year ($17 a month) for access to a large, productive portion of VMWare's datacenter stack through VMUG. 6x that for access to a social media API is a terrible deal. At $100/mo, Twitter is basically saying "We don't want your business".
My For You tab is excellent. But as to the rest I have to disagree. I get the same number of spam DMs, and I don't see better replies to big accounts. They are real people, but they're tiny follower and accounts who aren't relevant but paid for blue.
> To use the article's example, you can just directly fill in or ask questions about the upper triangle of the matrix below.

And how do you formulate those questions?

This article is proposing a method.

"Just ask," you might respond, but the point is that non-technical audiences might struggle if you just ask "Do we think Name and Price are related?" because that's very abstract.

Formulating it as a specific example of a potential rule or relationship creates something concrete and relatable that people can react to.

Again, I think it's a bit kitschy, but having worked with non-technical audiences who struggle to think in terms of abstract relationships between data elements, I can see some merit in the idea.
Good. Real consequences are exactly what is needed for the people behind that event.
Don't forget Sequoia Capital now too, after the SBF fiasco [1]. Though maybe their reputation hasn't quite reached the gutter yet.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20221109050305/https://www.sequo...
> The PS1 was implemented in spare die area of the PS2’s USB controller.

This really confused me until figured out you weren't talking about the IBM PS/1 and PS/2.
Yeah. What's the next grift? Maybe quantum computing?
You are spreading misinformation. Base load is hardly a dead horse. Batteries might eventually solve that problem, but so far no country has deployed significant amounts of battery storage, let alone done so at a cost that would allow for heavy industrial uses. Until battery storage is proven to work on real power grids, nuclear power remains the only viable option to deliver reliable base load.
I have a Bible from 1800 or so, and a couple others from 1870 or so. I store them in the comic book archival bags, and keep them in a part of the house that says at a constant temperature.
The argument is that basic human decency is "woke". Did I get the gist of it?
Neither major US party has significantly different policy than Kissinger, and currently both are significantly more aggressive. They also both believe that Domino Theory is true. The major difference is that Kissinger and Nixon opened up China, while the US sees the comfort and wealth of Chinese people as the biggest threat facing the world today.

Kissinger is a scapegoat that lets everyone else off. He's another Judith Miller for the liberal soul.

Here's the LA Times calling Kissinger a wimp last year: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-21/richard-nix...

Here's NYT pretending they weren't calling him an idiot and a coward by writing a story quoting only people calling him an idiot and a coward: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/world/europe/henry-kissin...

edit: also, I hate to add this because it's so 2023, but it's a trope that we blame on the one Jewish guy everything a bunch of WASPs did on his advice.
From a systems engineering point of view you want people hitting an API for programmatic requests. The alternative isn’t “The bots magically go away”, they just get more sophisticated, mix in with and impersonate user traffic, and become impossible to properly rate limit without collateral damage. APIs are for the benefit of the service provider as much as they are for developers.
Microsoft chief says deep fakes are biggest AI concern
https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-2/

Under heading “I/O”
Or protecting the envelope.
Yes, the needs for archives (sole copy) and backups (additional copies of live data) are different.

> It is possible to use RAID-5/RAID-6-like encoding schemes that can survive the complete destruction of 1 or even 2 storage centers while using less tapes than with simple copies, but such encoding schemes can be used only by very large organizations, which use more than 3 separate storage centers.

Scenarios where two storage centers are destroyed—that’s extreme. The most paranoid scenarios I’m normally willing to entertain are along the lines of one data center burns to the ground in a generator fire, and somebody drives a truck full of backup tapes into a ditch and they’re all covered with mud and sand.

Tapes have a high enough failure rate that you benefit from forward error correction and you benefit from planning to handle individual tape failures. This includes stuff like the tape leader breaking, somebody losing a tape, damage during transport, water damage in storage, etc.

There’s a layered approach here, where you plan for different disasters at different levels of the stack. Each layer exposes some certain failure rate to the layer above it, and deals with some certain failure rate at the layer below it. When I think of backups, I often imagine a top-level data storage system that has a geographically distributed hot backup, and then an offline cold backup. This lets you survive complete destruction of one data center, or lets you survive a catastrophic software bug that destroys data (and a bunch of tapes are damaged on top of that). Pretty good baseline, IMO.
My experience is the same. Look at any POTUS or White House tweet (or a tweet from any well-known left-of-centre account) and it's reply after reply full of vitriol and hate, all pushed to the top.

It's remarkable, and sad.
Note that the decision specific to this case was unanimous.

There was a 5-4 split on whether to go further and require "wetlands" to be connected to another body of water to qualify. That wasn't a partisan split, either: Kavanaugh dissented.
The linked article says it plainly: U.S. Treasuries are in a category of their own. But the facade of fair and uniform rules for all is important to keep, so everyone insists on the polite fiction of credit ratings. The cracks only appear when some external event, like the debt ceiling impasse, threatens to undermine that fiction.
The $100/mo API has extremely shit limits on top of being prohibitively expensive for prototyping. This will kill the mere idea of building anything on Twitter's API. Low friction and upfront costs are important for hobby projects and experimental prototypes.

In this day and age it's expected that companies have generous free tiers for hobby/prototype usage, and it makes sense because it usually costs them pennies to provide it.

Serving API requests is extremely cheap and the volume is almost always going to be so insignificant that they wouldn't even be able to tell if developers are using the API if not for API keys.
Technically, the debt is in default when it is not timely paid. There's clearly a danger of that if a deal isn't struck in time. Assuming it's resolved quickly each time, it's more complex, but not a huge deal.

I don't think there's much danger of the debt not being paid at all, or paid at less than agreed face value and coupons. That would be a whole different thing, the 14th amendment says all public debts of the United States are valid, and to do otherwise would be a huge change, with major consequences. People don't buy long term Treasury securities because they think it's a good credit risk, they do it because they think there's no credit risk. If that changes, the whole game changes.
Could this actually be a good thing for the Twitter bot problem?

Are re-tweets/likes considered a tweet in the tweet limits?

I'm not a heavy Twitter user or developer just a curious bystander and definitely don't have details into the "buy retweets" ecosystem so not sure if the "buy retweets"/buy social cred were using this type of API, humans or webscraping type scripts.
OpenAI's Sam Altman raises $115M for Worldcoin crypto project
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment but if you're under the presumption the Apple Developer membership is $100/mo then I wanted to clarify it's actually $100/yr for Apple Developer (it's actually 99 but I'm not going to play semantics).
I still shake my head at how they were able to successfully rebrand it from amd64 to x86-64; yet ia32 is still semi-accepted as the "official" name of x86.
Imperial wars and the people who waged them in the past are horrible, but the current wars are just and worthy of our support.

This type of reporting perpetuates war by putting us in a loop of kill, repent and repeat. This is generally the type of reporting I find from this and other billionaire owned outlets. If you disagree, please reference an article where they are not in support of the current war in Ukraine.
Their crypto scams look like child's play compared to their 350MM investment into Adam Neumann AGAIN. Like whaaat? Were "Liz" Holmes and Martin Shrkeli not available? Or did SBF not satiate you enough?
>I hear the trending tab is overrun with crypto spam now

Wasn't that already a problem before he took over? I seem to recall Joe Biden hawking some crypto scam after Twitter's admin got catfished into giving a third party access to his account.
Show HN: Open-Source Public Second Brain Built with Obsidian and Quartz
My Public Second Brain (https://brain.sspaeti.com) is built with the help of a wonderful tool called Quartz (https://brain.sspaeti.com/quartz-publish-obsidian-vault/). Obsidian (https://brain.sspaeti.com/obsidian/) has become my favorite for note-takers, given its flexible and linked structure that closely mirrors our natural way of thinking. With Quartz, I was able to seamlessly publish my Obsidian notes to a public vault, providing the groundwork for my Public Second Brain.

The journey of making this possible involved some scripting as well. I wrote a python script, find-publish-notes.py (https://github.com/sspaeti/second-brain-public/blob/hugo/utils/find-publish-notes.py), which is integrated into the Makefile (https://github.com/sspaeti/second-brain-public/blob/hugo/Makefile). This script's purpose is to locate all the notes in my Obsidian Vault tagged with #publish and copy them into the Quartz git-repo.

When I'm ready to update my public brain, all it takes is a simple command - `make deploy`. This command will publish all the recently tagged notes to brain.sspaeti.com (https://brain.sspaeti.com), ensuring the Second Brain stays updated.

Want to see it in action? Here's a recorded example of How I upload to my Public Second Brain - asciinema (https://asciinema.org/a/APNjfEDdep4GMcTR1vd1T903W).

I'm excited about the transparency and accessibility that my Public Second Brain offers. It's a dynamic, growing entity, just like our human brains with backlinks and its graph view. You can find more details about my Public Second Brain here (https://brain.sspaeti.com/public-second-brain-with-quartz/).

Stay curious, keep learning, and perhaps, see you in the world of open-source knowledge! By the way, I also wrote about Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) workflows (https://www.sspaeti.com/blog/pkm-workflow-for-a-deeper-life/), in case that is something you got interested in.
> But it's very rare when someone is impressed when the model is generating text based in something they do understand deeply.

This statement sounds out of date. And you can see this sentiment a lot on HN. I don’t know if the people who say this haven’t tried GPT-4 or they have and are just stubbornly refusing to change their mind about something when presented with new evidence.
You're not wrong. All of those are possible. However some countries are better than others for some points you raised. For example, Canada has no NSL (National security letter) equivalents. We cannot be compelled to covertly log some/all of our users with the current laws on the books. Of course this can change in the future.

Shady businesses are out of scope when it comes to laws, but that's true for any industry. There are ways to protect yourself, if your opsec warrants it, by "double wrapping" and using 2 separate VPN providers simultaneously.

Greed is also a huge factor. Dishonest providers can implement all kinds of SDKs into their software and 2-3x their revenues. This is why its important to use VPNs that offer open source apps you can audit and compile yourself which would protect against some obvious violations, but one can do all kinds of evil shit server side without the end user ever knowing.
I think this is referencing an interview where Tyler Cowen interviewed Andreessen and asked him directly about the true value of crypto and use cases and the response was... lackluster (imo).

https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/marc-andreessen/
Not much, see https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/07/13/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-...
The question was "what is a wetland?" All justices agreed that the property wasn't a wetland. There was no consensus on what a wetland actually was.

The property in question was hundreds of feet from a lake, with a row of houses and a road in between the property and a lake.

The EPA and various rules by Obama tried to make anything that drains into a navigable waterway a wetland, and thus under its jurisdiction. That's obviously ridiculous. This cuts the Biden rule a little finer, so that something designated a wetland needs to be physically adjacent to the water to fall under the protection umbrella.

Reading comprehension is hard, which is why people don't do it.
Have a look at HN threads on topics like corporate diversity, women in tech, or H1B visas.

One man's 'objective critique' is going to be another man's 'grievance culture'.

In any case, A16z attracts more dislike because their image is that of influencers and hype men. You won't see the same dislike of Kleiner Perkins or others because they keep a low public profile.
Supreme Court move could spell doom for power of federal regulators
Come on, they are both equally morally reprehensible as they erode trust in science and lead us towards darkness. Ends doesn't justify the means, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This is basic level stuff.
I'm speaking more of these types of photo ops: "Secretary Blinken stands with former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker at Stanford Memorial Church on Thursday." [0]

Hillary Clinton also spent decades brown nosing Henry Kissinger. I'm curious to see if she releases a public birthday greeting when he turns 100.

[0] https://www.state.gov/dipnote-u-s-department-of-state-offici...
Great question. Hasn't been requested yet, but I'm sure we'll need to support arm at some point.
> By definition, the changes will also be small

Even if all you're updating is an int32 column from 1 to 2, the RDBMS is still writing much more data than 4 bytes. At a minimum it's making a copy of the full page the data is in prior to the update (so 8k for pg, 16k for mysql) and usually multiples of that (mysql writes both before/after).
> Could take the entire platform with it if all of the available funds are going towards serving free api traffic

Bro... Twitter can definitely handle the traffic generated by developers using their APIs. I doubt it even registers on their dashboards.