skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the NSA’s going after you they can probably hack your instance more easily than a professional one. Spambots might just do it anyway because one guy doesn’t have a full security infrastructure.

Why do crypto and Fediverse people keep recommending people do the work of entire corporations for security? Those companies don’t employ hundreds of cybersecurity professionals for no reason
> This is the kind of explanation that I need, which surely no AI can deliver.

But have you tried? GPT-4 is great for coming up with hypotheses of why thing are the way they are.
I’m not taking a side of whether Elon is right or wrong.

However, you mentioned that today is an admission that the bot problem is worse. However that not true, the restrictions are specifically on viewing data (scrapers) rather than creating data (bots).
> Looks like a lot of improvement to me.

Dunno about "a lot". Certainly, it's improved in the area of modeling humans and faces, but landscape still looks pretty much the same.
I haven't actually used it yet, it can be very efficient to compute right next to where your data is though. A lot of inefficiency comes into play when you're marshalling data around between servers.

And you want to grab that fish out of the oven. In my opinion, the use case is not to install this on your OLTP database. You want this on some side server where you could apply change data capture.
Have you considered that a lot of people use both platforms and don’t really care about the politics of it?

Those who do care are very loud (on both platforms) but they might be a minority in practice.
A decade ago, I'd routinely ask wife's extended family to not upload pics of us to social media. I'd get the look but I think they respected it.

During hurricane relief trips I make a point of avoiding the org photographers and sometimes they'd made a point of cornering me. I guess they didn't want to miss anyone. When it got to that, I said there were warrants out for my arrest.
Have they tried batching API calls? /s
Mastodon instances have a section on the About page (under “Moderated servers”) which shows you exactly that. You can even get it programatically: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/instance/#domain_block...
C++ GPT-2 inference engine
Most people aren't even aware how far their "broadcast" (posts) travel, or whose hands their data ends up in these days.
This problem of decentralization was already solved by Usenet decades ago: your user ID is your email address and the various servers (Usenet instances) all mirror each other's posts.

The problem with that was that email addresses are easily forged and Usenet lacked adequate spam filtering and content moderation tools because of its decentralized nature and the general lack of effective spam filtering in the late 90s/early 00s. So it was replaced by forums which were in turn replaced by social media.
Whoever survived multiple internal knockout round of reviews would definitely have high value in job marketplace. Believe it or not many people like working in current twitter like arrangement rather than cushy no impact 9-5 jobs.
I had (til quitting reddit) been using redreader for years and it was great. Yes, it got an accessibility exemption, but that may just be temporary. I didn't realize redreader was unpopular compared to other apps. It is on f-droid so I tried it out and liked it.
The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left. My guess is Elon said "the site's too slow!" Engineers noticed that the home feed request was slow. They didn't understand how it worked, had no tools to profile it, and were given an unrealistic deadline to fix it. So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at least one of them was fast.

I worked in the games industry for a while, and came to understand how they could spend so much money and so much time, and yet release a game where even basic functionality was broken. It's exactly this sort of extreme schedule pressure that, ironically, makes a huge morass where changing one thing breaks 10 other things, so progress grinds to a halt.
According to some recent articles from mainstream media:

There are about 550 full-time engineers at Twitter. [1]

There are about 625-670 H1-B holders working at Twitter.[2]

This isn't quite the full story since of course H1-B holders might be doing other jobs than engineering; many of those 550 engineers are not US-based; there are other visas for foreign workers in the USA than the H1-B; and Musk has reassigned some workers from his other companies to work at Twitter.

But it sure looks like the answer is: a lot!

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/twitter-is-down-to-fewer-tha...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2022/11/04/twitt...
You could perhaps pivot someday into your own original IP (i.e. create a word/letter based game that doesn't infringe a corporations IP).
"Developers are losing touch on what process boundaries mean,"

I feel like a lot of the problems are from misused Agile. Devs are building systems that haven't fully been thought out. I don't know when I've seen a fully built out process map in the past 5 years.

MVP1 is easily built as severless, but then what happens when the full implementation gets more complicated? Do we rewrite all the server less architecture as a monolith? Nah, just tack on some more Lambdas. No way can we slow down for a refactor, and all the original devs that wrote it have job hopped.
And I think they are doing what I'm describing. There's basically no scientific reason to favor Revenge story over entertainment except that it resonates with people and gets more clicks
The company was not thriving but the product itself was rock solid.

It’s hilarious to think it is at all acceptable to kill public access, and drastically limit authenticated access, because of a few scrapers. There is no way Twitter prior to Musk’s acquisition would have had to do so.

> What do you think?

I think you are not looking at the situation objectively.
Jitter is a little randomness in how long clients wait between retries. It ensures that you don't have a "thundering herd" all retrying at the same time. Imagine if your API used exponential backoff of [1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, ...] and a large group of requests gets a retryable error at t=0. They will all retry at exactly t=1, t=2, etc. If the group is large enough that repeated surge of requests can knock you offline.

There's nasty form of this where the site is offline for a bit and then all the clients rush their requests in when it comes back online. The client requests are all coordinated on the site recovery time and end up overloading the site with their coordinated retries.
That's wonderful, Katamari is great and this code looks pretty readable. Do you have any screenshots?
> so the interviewer can rank you vs themselves. You need to be good but not too good you’re a threat

Maybe only about 10% of people who are sadists or calculating assholes actually follow that motivation? Unless you had a very special sample pool. Most interviewers i've met - both good and bad - were just trying to do what they think is right, with varying degrees of competence.
Context: https://twitter.com/a1k0n/status/1674644631156555780

"I reimplemented GPT-2 from scratch in C++ as an exercise to really understand the nuts and bolts of LLMs. GPT2-117M isn't a super great model, but it's extremely satisfying to get it to generate basically the same thing as other reference implementations."

"I" refers to the guy that wrote this, I, version_five have nothing to do with it, I just thought it looked cool.
Good? But also, this seems kind of a big hammer to use?
This is a lot more complex than just praising the US for the state of affairs past World War II. Bootstrapping Europe with the Marshall plan was great. But Western European peace is largely entrenched thanks to the Schuman Plan leading to the formation of the Steel And Coal Community eventually mutating into the European Union.

US efforts elsewhere are ... not great? While the US involvement in the 1949 coup in Syria is not clear, it's certainly sus how quickly the president approved a pipeline. Then there was Iran shortly after with Mossadegh (https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthr...) etc

Central and Southern America , well , can we even name a country where they haven't intervened for the worse?
I really think this is all due to the Rocky/NASA deal. Their sales team (IBM/RH) must have freaked out. If Rocky can put a deal like that together then so can Oracle.

I felt bad for Mike McGrath when I read his apologetics. The technical guy playing as a pawn in a proxy battle between salespeople and lawyers.
Alabama used to love that method of justice. It was not a very good idea
Existing users, I guess, are all finding it unsettling. Except maybe the Salacious Crumbs out there, cackling at his every action.

But new users can currently read only 300 tweets before they are rate limited for 24 hours, and that is all of about 12-15 average threads.

Why would they find it less unsettling? It's not a competent product at this point.
IceCube Detects High-Energy Neutrino Emission from Milky Way’s Galactic Plane
> FC 2 had a great story, great characters, lots of interesting mechanics. And of course, the Standard Ubisoft Paradigm (climb a $TALL to unlock a map quadrant, sneak into $PLACE and fight $HEAVY, $SNIPER, and $LIGHT, have a $FORCEDENCOUNTER with $SUBBBOSS for some exposition), was still new enough that we weren’t tired of it yet.

FC2 didn't have that. FC2 was set in Africa. It's still my favourite of the bunch for a lot of reasons (only a little because I understand the local language the mooks are screaming to each other when you're in the middle of a firefight).

It's funny, when I first bought FC2 I played for about 8 hours and I hated it.

When I went back to it after about 8 years, I found that I appreciated the immersion a lot more, and it quickly became my favourite.
I see the issue with H-1B really simple. Take into account all jobs + college students (STEM). If nationals can't match the demand, allow international students to fill it.
PhDs are granted 4~7-years visa in specific fields (STEM). Companies will get tax breaks if at least 80% of their workforce have citizenship.

The sweet spot here is to keep the foreign talent coming without hurting nationals and now more than ever with the advent of "AI".

We'll see which countries will attract the most talented people around the world while also developing its own talented people at home and thrive because of that, and which countries will get let behind because of brain drain and innovation.
If the enemy's air defense is either DEAD or SEAD, then why would you need to insert operators/SForces via HALO? At that point you could just use helicopters to infiltrate/exfiltrate.

HALO is for opponents lacking AD and radar.
Are people really struggling to sign up for KBin/Lemmy. The act of subscribing to magazines is a bit confusing but signing up was like any other of the hundreds of websites at this point. Sign up, browse the front page, click in, comment. No more complicated than Reddit.
Those people often have a better idea how to run "their" company (and are more interested in keeping the company alive) than the latest celebrity CEO who's then replaced with the next one after six months.
Let me introduce you to the concept of theorems.
One of the funniest justifications I have heard for companies using new fangled untried tech is to attract talent - no one wants to work on boring tech apparently for the fear of being outdated.

I sometimes worry for the future of our industry because of exactly this. The culture of buzzword driven development has become enshrined in the recruitment process - often from both sides - because of this kind of vicious circle effect. Now anyone - again from either side - who tries to escape it and instead advocates using sensible, robust tech to build useful, good quality products risks becoming a pariah and seriously damaging their career as a candidate or their ability to recruit strong candidates as an employer. Of course this assumes we are judging career progress by level of seniority reached or compensation paid instead of more indirect achievements like producing something that provided real value to those who used it. But if we're being honest most people obviously will.
Turning off my adblocker helped me kick my YouTube habit.
Instagram has a Twitter-like product in the pipeline now.

Google had their foray into social media more than a decade ago and it failed miserably. Starting from that point they've produced a continuous stream of failed products that never received enough support to last long enough to see viability.
I've always been a very verbal person but the first time I tried mushrooms I found I wasn't able to describe my experience in words and I really wanted to draw it. Up until that point in my life I had thought of words as being the de facto correct way to convey thoughts, but that experience really made me understand that words were just my way of conveying thoughts, and there really isn't a correct one. It was absolutely a transformative experience for me and made me appreciate art, all forms of it, in a deeper way.

Interestingly enough though that first experience with psychedelics was the only one I actually found transformative. I did mushrooms maybe half a dozen more times afterwards and experimented with a few other drugs including LSD and MDMA and I never really felt like any of those trips gave me any deeper insights or changed the way I viewed things.
I LOVE how these guys unit test hardware sub systems before putting them onto whole motherboards.
Apple Vision Pro Cost Breakdown – How Much Vision Pro Costs for Apple?
Did you ignore "H1-B" on purpose?
Matters little, but the rate limits are opening back up. 6k/600/300 -> 8k/800/400 (~noon) -> 10k/1k/500 (~3pm)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675214274627530754 and self-reply
As the article says, and as Bloomberg, etc have also reported. Twitter finally agreed to play nice with Google and the issue was resolved. They are probably trying to get off of GCP, but this isn't because they suddenly lost access to GCP from payment refusal.
I mean, Decentralization sells itself on that. Look how well centralized platforms have done this year.
Definitely looks like it could be an app running on an iPad or other tablet, sitting in a dock. I'd be happy to pay good money for a proper techy alarm clock app on iPad, since I've tried a bunch of those apps and none of them have been suitable. I've spent more on alarm clock apps than if I'd just bought a new physical alarm clock! And yes, I've also bought several new physical "atomic" alarm clocks....

The screen needs to be OLED or high quality backlit LCD. This display looks like it would be much too bright at night, even when turned down to the lowest brightness possible.

It also need to let you change the color of the interface, so that I could have a red that doesn't destroy my night vision, instead of green that would.
I'm not sure they scale so well. They probably need so many GPUs that teachers are more efficient.
I fully agree with you. If you keep your API simple, reasons for code generators disappear and are quickly drafted by hand.
Thanks, it looks like they fixed some prior complaints about not being able to see this.
The GCP contract expired yesterday
What an odd take. Obviously the problem is not that soybeans taste like soybeans.

There are numerous benefits to making plant-based meat alternatives, including:

1. Better for the environment, as animal agriculture is a significant contributor of greenhouse gas emissions.

2. More efficient use of energy and space. Converting plant material into meat isn’t efficient; a lot of energy is lost in the form of heat, movement, waste products etc. The less meat we eat, the more people we can feed.

3. More ethical. Some people don’t like killing animals, but also don’t want to give up meat. Alternatives help these people align their actions with their beliefs.

I was also going to include health, however this isn’t as clear cut. I’m not convinced plant-based meat alternatives are really any healthier.
Yeah more often than not people just really really want to touch the hot stove.

Being the bearer of bad “stoves are hot to the touch” news makes you a downer.
Unless you're running at 100% load most of the time, it's atypical to run a server on bare metal these days. Much more flexible, maintainable, and cost-saving to stick servers in a VM.

We sell a product that used to be delivered as a rack mountable server, but now I think nearly all our customers want a VM instead.
I like to write the same email except as a work ticket, not a request, so long as it's under my team's control. Justify it, then do it.
I guess I'm a bit confused at what you're saying. Are you asking it to explain things to you in a pirate voice so that it is more entertaining and you can maintain concentration? I don't find this as really relying on GPT. Or are you saying when you have simple routines that need to be implemented but are boring and so you have GPT generate most of them for you to reduce the bordem? I also don't see that as contentious with what I said above (all programming has a lot of boring and routine shit).

But if you're outsourcing a significant portion of your overall work (day-to-day, not just off-days) then that's more what I'm getting at. The people that are like "I couldn't imagine programming without copilot" or such. Every one of those that I've met is missing important base knowledge about programming in general that ends up making a lot of technical debt for themselves. The "build fast and break things" style realistically only works if you have a certain level of expertise OR the project doesn't need to be robust. Former because to actually be fast you need to have a good picture of the whole or else you end up chasing one thing to the next and your overall path is far slower but might seem faster because you're sprinting the whole time.
but not as scalable as Route53DB, obviously
I can confirm that scrolling through replies does count. So reading the replies to Elon's tweets to figure out what's happening makes you hit the rate limit.
i wish i could have been a fly on the wall at naughty dog during the development of these games.

or better yet, i wish andy gavin would get so unbelievably bored that he would brain dump every last detail he remembers about designing and implementing goal, or share the source. it’s tragic that knowledge and experience will vanish
I asked various people about why the KA/KB/MC/XA all used the same die even though they supported vastly different functionality. I couldn't get a solid answer, but several people thought that Intel probably used binning (downgrading chips if the more advanced functionality didn't work).

The SB was the next version, which used the old die layout with 16-bit bus circuitry wrapped around the outside. There wasn't any Sx version that used memory management or objects, so binning doesn't explain the unnecessary circuitry here. The SB was followed by the SA, which finally threw away the unused circuitry. The layout moved a few functional blocks around, so they did some work, but for the most part the die remained the same.

My guess is that chip design was difficult and fairly manual at the time, so it was very hard and time-consuming to make different versions. By the time of the Hx and Jx versions in the mid-1990s, I think layout was much more automated. Looking at the die photos, I don't see structural consistency from one die to the next. It looks like they pushed the button and got something completely different each time.
Write some fake table. Paste it into ChatGPT, then come back to the discussion.

So far you've said that things like "This is the kind of explanation that I need, which surely no AI can deliver." but have not actually tried the system?

As GP asked: have you tried ChatGPT or similar LLMs? If not, go do it .. you may be surprised.
Well...

I guess they might have been Russia's best airborne units, but both at Hostomel and in other engagements, they've been shown to be overrated. Then again, Hostomel was a shitshow of poor planning/intel. I bet the VDV would have loved to know that there was a UKr unit right next door with heavy artillery before they kicked off the assault.
For those who are anti-cloud or want a 2-tier system for any good reasons, Been using this with several wyzecam V2 cameras for 2 years with no issues other than the cameras not being low light sensitive like the V3, otherwise the setup is pretty solid and fast.

https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks
>Answered by murple in 2001

I think I may have read this exact post 10+ years ago. Reminds me of old homes that have since been sold. What links to this Q&A?

This is an example of some of the better sources of info on that site: https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd.shtml
As a haiku:

I can't scale this more
I'll add a microservice
I can't scale these more
> good teacher if you know nothing on the subject

Most teachers don't want to be stuck for months teaching someone the basics readily available on the internet, in literature, and recently, even GPT. But there are bootcamps and paid teachers in many disciplines for the very entry-level folks.

It's easy to get a teacher when you're above intermediate in most topics. You also provide value to the teacher by bringing new ideas. That is more of an informal process of developing mutually beneficial friendships. You don't call your expert friends teachers, though you do teach each other a lot. And those friendships can definitely be seen as teaching.

Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about many people "showing him the way" in expert circles in his biography miniseries on Netflix. That is effective knowledge sharing.
Thats the general politics in mastodon and if you don't accept their politics and rules, big servers such mastodon.social and .online will defederate with your instance.
Its utter BS.
My assumption here is that ActivityPub doesn't have a full implementation of email protocols. I don't know how difficult it is to bridge this.

Also, unfortunately eMail has long fallen to spam. If I'm not searching for it, I won't actively look too deeply into an email from an unknown user.
Yes, laser printers were one of the big markets for the i960. The Am29000 was their main competitor. (People nowadays probably don't realize how computationally intensive laser printers were.)
Actual human users are hitting rate limits under 10 minutes because every Tweet loaded counts towards the rate limit. This is like setting your house on fire at the sight of a few mosquitos.
That's what makes it so perfect when he echos conspiracy theories, Russian talking points, and other whacky talking points and elevates untrustworthy sources by tweeting things like "interesting" catapulting them into everyone's feed.
Why are you downvoted? This is a great post that provides a lot of context and references. I wasn't aware of some of these facts. Thank you.

I'd like to make sure you know you aren't alone on this site. Even here on HN people will downvote to suppress views they disagree with instead of actually refuting any points raised. This can give posters the wrong impression.
Creating and managing multiple accounts is also shitty, if not enshittification. If people have to choose between shitty-hard and shitty-easy, they're going to choose shitty-easy or just opt out entirely.

Twitter is just text messages as spectator sport, people can do without it. The real problem is a narrowing range of media in general through active state action, continued consolidation, and the fact that tech multibillionaires just buy outlets like twitter, The Atlantic, the WaPo etc. and use them for egotistical social manipulation instead of to inform and stimulate important discussion. If it weren't for that, twitter would be the celebrity bore that it always was before weird twitter took the piss out of it. Now it's serving as an outlet for every frustration because those frustrations have been censored out of traditional media.