skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I’m not equating them. I’m relating them. They are related. Anarchists have yet to demonstrate that they can build a robust society grounded in their theories (second definition) that doesn’t descend into anarchy (first definition), or result in some individual/group seizing power and putting down the opposition, betraying anarchist principles.

What anarchists propose is not in principle impossible, but it’s never been demonstrated to be practical. A near-universal critique of utopias is that they are not robust in the face of sustained opposition: that is, they assume everyone is ideologically aligned.
There are myriad ways that networks produce value. One immediate one is attention — if you think the ability to direct attention does not have value, I suggest you try selling anything to anyone without it.
Since Bluesky is invite-only and there's a lot of clamoring for invite codes, it's easy to think that you're missing out if you're not a member. I'd like to offer a different perspective, that most HN readers would probably be happier on Mastodon than Bluesky. In particular, Bluesky is very small, has a strange vibe, and has almost no technical content or people interested in it.

The number of participants on Bluesky is small, and everyone seems to know each other. Getting even a single like on a post is an accomplishment, and getting 16 likes (I think) gets you onto What's Hot. Approximately nobody is interested in technical discussions; Mastodon is much better for that.

The vibe on Bluesky is weird. Everyone is very enthusiastic about being there, and most of the discussion is about being on Bluesky. Someone said that everyone is Extremely Online and much more interested in meta-discussion than discussion, and I'd agree. Bluesky is all about the in-jokes and memes, which turn over at a dizzying rate, much faster than even Twitter. It's a very horny place, with lots of butt photos.

I don't want to be negative about Bluesky. For people who want a tight-knit community to chat with, it's great. But don't feel like you're missing out if you don't have an invite code. (BTW, I don't have any to give out.)

Edit: I'm not hyping Mastodon here, just comparing Twitter alternatives. Unfortunately, so far I've found that Twitter is the best choice for me. I get maybe 10% of the interesting technical discussion on Mastodon that I get on Twitter. And I still don't understand how to work with the federation. There's also Newsmast, a new social app that reached out to me, but there's approximately 0 content there.

One thing I forgot to mention about Bluesky is that it looks exactly like Twitter, so much that I can forget which app I'm on. It's very different in that regard from Mastodon, which is like alternate-universe Twitter.
Can you give me an example of all-terrain robots that can do with minimal human intervention?

They can troubleshoot, make hardware store runs for missing screws, and actually figure out how to read the drawings and assemble a deck in a realistic (non-gamified laboratory) environment?
I don’t think you have to be better than your peers to do great work, unless they’re direct competitors. You could be working on something they’re not, approaching it in a way that they haven’t, making a creative expression of something particular to your own nature and experiences.
No, it actually isn't supposed to work, it's not officially supported. https://sep5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation_Guide/Ins...
It's trivial to shift frequencies up or down
It probably would, but Mastodon is now at around 13M accounts, but with ca. 3x as many instances as when it hit 10M, so it's increasingly better prepared for large user surges.

E.g. signups have hit ~6x what they were earlier today but it's still only an average of one signup per instance per hour.
He's definitely destroying Twitter as we knew it. Whether something new will come from it remains to be seen. I wouldn't hold my breath, but I'm not going to claim to be psychic.
I am having trouble imagining what you mean. Can you illustrate your point with an example opinion that is held by 70% of the population but is taboo to discuss?
The world is full of chaos. A mentor can also can inflate you to an irreversible, terrible path. Being part of a collective is often more beneficial than walking the path alone. I believe it's better to learn within communities, where members can teach each other, rather than relying on advices from a single guru.
The purpose of the teacher is to tell you which book or tutorial or video is worth it.
idk. 80s-early 90s pixel art style was all the rage 10 years ago as retro, nowdays the action is at late 90s-early 00s wonky polygon graphics, so it seems to have advanced pretty proportionally
It's ok, I'm already reading your comments out loud in a mock Lyndon LaRouche voice, and it's hilarious.
> What microblogging service does most of the rest of the world use?

Most of the world doesn't.
If you work in the US for fang or similar your life is probably much better. I love computers. I love what they do for recreation and keeping in touch long distance. But work hours are longer. Education and housing is no longer affordable for most people. In the US life expectancy is beginning to drop. You would think people would have easier less stressful lives with greater financial security. But it's not the case for 99% of us.

Quick example. A doctor in the 90s would expect to look forward to less time wasted on paperwork thanks to computers but administration work is increasing. Likewise most professors at most universities will tell you they spend more and more time on administration. Shouldn't this be one of the primary things a computer could address.

My point is great gains brought by a technology such as computers may not translate to great end user benefit. Largely due to compensating inefficiencies elsewhere in the system.

So for example. It may be that chatgpt makes people 10x more productive. But if management gives bad direction it doesn't matter. If most software being developed is redundant then it doesn't matter. If most software is just making ads run faster then it doesn't matter. The technology needs to be appropriately directed to be of noticeable social benefit.
Especially love the extras.

"Abolish affirmative action
I say its high time we go wild
Waste your inner child
Throw your helmet in a dumpster and go to school in gang attire"
-Smut Peddlers
"coastal" is ridiculous. American vs American hate is out of control.
that's because nobody wants to hear what the people on your instance has to say. you think they should be forced to?
When you name something, then it becomes a flamewar about that something.

But generally speaking, anything that the US/"San Francisco" left wing ideology deems "bad" is generally unwelcome.
I don't know how well opiate use correlates to the legality of alcohol. In theory, then, you could depress opiate use by introducing alcohol, but that doesn't mesh with what's going on in America right now, where opiate use is rising without any prohibition on alcohol. Khat's an upper, not really comparable.

There are other factors that drive the demand for these drugs, and I think we're in agreement that the demand can and should be addressed in large part by dealing with root causes. But sex, drugs, guns, abortions etc. have all been successfully prohibited. There's little human behavior that hasn't.
The question is if companies still hire less experienced people or if the experienced ones are equally productive without them because of ChatGPT.
It’s amusing you’re perfectly illustrating the OPs point. “Vanilla opinions” is so vague as to be completely meaningless.
salmon hats? the color or the fish?
I'm LGBT and my spouse is trans. I don't believe you should silence anti-trans rhetoric. I believe you should engage it.

The ability for /r/conservative to ban my counter arguments is just as harmful as Mastodon shutting down the anti-trans positions.

Conversation is what moves us forward and is how we find commonality.

I grew up religious and conservative. I changed a lot of my viewpoints through friendly conversations in the internet of 2000-2010, before tumblrism, cancel culture, and censorship took hold.

If I grew up in today's world or internet, I might never have been exposed to different opinions in a non-hostile, no-judgment environment. By trying to segregate, censor, and ban we're only leading to intractable polarization. Never giving folks an opportunity to change. Never accepting that people are capable of growth.

Please let's talk with each other. Even if we disagree. You'd be surprised how effective that can be.

We're all suffering though this world together. Laugh away our differences and find the ways and the things that we share. We all hold more in common than you might think.

Love your enemy, even if they don't love you (yet).

If I could have one lasting impact on this world, it would be this message.
I’m an experienced dev

I’ve held off on some projects (but not others) completely because I needed help but I didn't trust the help to not put in backdoors or compete directly. I also needed to learn some concepts in advance.

With ChatGPT it has definitely been a 10x boost because I can trust it not to put in backdoors, at least for its own benefit. Its a great pair programmer, I dont take its solutions out of the box, I walk through them with it and iterate on improvements together. Instead of waiting for a response on StackOverflow and getting into a moderation war in the process, I just ask it and get instant responses that are far better than someone chasing digital karma points.

I’m coding in ways I wouldn't have, lots of bitshifting, assembly. I can just ask “how would this same procedure be done in assembly”, “why is the syntax like that”.

things that are both hard to ask and hard to google.

it predicts what it needs to explain, unprompted, instead of someone online that wants you to prove that you’ll take initiative in scouring documentation and trial and error yourself.

these are just some of the ways that its a productivity boost for me, let alone acknowledging the subcontractors and developers I simply didn’t seek out to hire.
Call a spade a spade. YT shorts is a terribly named, half assed, years late copy.
It's not a "redirector" and does show the content.
Yes:

https://waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug-causes-self-ddos-possib...
The Truth About Bender’s Brain
You are implying a 1:1 relationship with good experiences and bad experiences. That's not how drugs work. It is important to know the actual reality of this type of ratio so that individuals who are looking to use a drug of this nature can be well informed.
what players do you use for RSS video? right now i use RSS for comics, blogs, and podcasts. i could reuse the podcast stuff probably, but i expect there’s stuff out there tailored more specifically to video.
PoCs turning into full blown production systems happens quite often, even if not planned.
Without specifying scale, this seems pretty easy. Pieter Levels has been able to manage a tech company with just a single engineer and with some optimization he could probably fit it all onto a mac mini without too much trouble.
I agree to an extent.

The only metric that matters, and unfortunately the hardest one to measure, is conversion rate. Everything else - impressions, clicks, watch time - are just really bad approximations of real value.

_If_ Musk can establish Twitter as a high-conversion platform, he will succeed; however, that's a big "if" because I think this latest decision is a huge miss. I was on twitter for 15-20 minutes today and got rate limited. I'm not a bot.

Are enough people going to give Twitter $8 because of this to offset those who stop being active on the platform and driving ad views? I highly doubt it. I know I'm just moving on to doing other things instead.
I'm not really sure that their statement is temporal or regional. With failure in general comes lessons that can be applied to other situations, regardless of anything else.
Absolutely, it really was pouring gasoline on fire rather than the sole cause of the ideas. All the functions they provide would have turned up but on a smaller more sustainable scale, more like the older traditional companies of the past.
I already mentioned advertising and how it's the only real economic activity enabled by social networks. Unless Twitter enables some kind of payment processing and gives the participants the ability to actually exchange money for goods and services Twitter will continue to be an economic loss leader. Most people on social networks do not contribute to the real economy in any meaningful way.

Same logic applies to bluesky networks and servers.
There are a few, but I suspect the most widely used would be wasmtime. It's written in Rust and can be used from Go [2] but requires CGo (as mentioned by GP).

[1] https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime
[2] https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime-go
> Ketamine, too, turns out to be quite addictive by the way.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-ketamine-addiction.ht...

I have done the medically assisted Ketamine trips. No sign them being addicting to me whatsoever.
It didn't do a whole lot for me, but some of the other peeps in my cohort had amazing results working through old grief.
And when you're at Twitter scale, sprinkle some jitter too.
Certification is needed to hold software "engineers" accountable for shoddy software. Eventually I expect anglo countries to catch up to what other developed countries do and regulate the term.
While there may be huge sections of Twitter content that are like what you describe, I haven't encountered that. Instead I see tons of hyper-focused discussion from very specialized scientists that I wouldn't see otherwise. I see lots of discussion if obscure housing policy, that I wouldn't see otherwise.

Now, this has been severely degraded by the changes that Musk has made. The spam in direct messages is off the charts now, whereas in the past I would get maybe a spam per year. And when one of my areas of interest has a post that gets popular, I have to scroll past all the insipid clout-chasing replies from blue check marks which get floated to the top of replies in an attempt to reward some of the worst people on the internet. Also the long form tweets that need to be expanded are a big deflation of user experience, as reading and replying to those are suboptimal compared to a tweet thread.

But this is also the general internet: 99% spam plus 1% quality. And the quality of the 1% of good Twitter is some of the very best of timer material out there.

And since LLMs have been trained on this same mix... they seem to be mostly good at filtering. But they do lie an awful lot.
I don't like the fact that this links to somewhere we can't even view, I think the whole "invite-only" thing is stupid as hell.
Hi! I’m one of the people who fall in the middle of the Venn diagram, and just wanted to let you know I was reading your website and the menu hamburger button doesn’t seem to work on my iPhone 14 on Safari or Firefox, so I couldn’t get to the pricing page etc. I’ll take a note to read it when I’m on my desktop but just wanted to pass it along.
These are results from a model deployed from 2020 to 2021. Early GPT-3 days. We've come a long way since then.
Many of us feel this way about his essays. He bloviates often as if on a pedestal without realizing how transparently arrogant he sounds. Many of his ideas inherently contradict his other ideas, or are simply vague and shallow. But he’s rich, so of course he must be an astute philosopher.
The year is also only half over.
This is why you SHOULD always use exponential backoff. ;)
You can transfer your account to another Mastodon instance, yeah.
Claiming that functional programming is inherently more complex than imperative is also dishonest. Industry developers that criticise it without understanding the value and strengths of referential transparency are no better than your hypothetical academic groups.

All abstractions introduce complexity in terms of indirection and the need to particularise to different instances. Imperative and functional simply happen to have a different approach to where they place complexity and what parts they simplify.

Imperative makes it easy to update state, but then it forces you to keep in your mind every remote part of the program where your symbols may be modified (which is way harder than most developers recognize). Functional requires more work to keep track of state, but on the other hand it allows much better control of program composition and deep complex hierarchical data transformations.

As they say, use the best tool for each job. It makes no sense to deride a key wrench for being more complex than a hammer and being worse at hitting nails.
The Russian power players who could take down Vladimir Putin
Yes. The only real question is whether he's trying to or it's just happening anyway.

When your competitor is Mark Zuckerberg and he can moot an alternative with the sole USP being "sanely run", and this sounds like a positive development, you know value is being destroyed.

But this was predictable way back, including for instance the Thai cave rescue, where his suggestion being shot down led him to make unwarranted, vile personal attacks.

Elon Musk comes across as a malignant narcissist. Twitter is his narcissistic supply. It is going as well as anyone remotely informed would have predicted.

He could have got out of this for a couple of billion dollars, a telling off, and a small hit to his credibility with backers. But no. He has had his thin skin exposed, and everything avoidable that has happened since is the inevitable consequence of him lashing out while decompensating.
Then just make your own instance?

Or is the complaint that you don’t have the power to force yourself on people who don’t want to read your shit?
This could be a really great moment for self-reflection. Could be.
^ https://archive.ph/tkJUn
I think the simple explanation seems to be that he vastly overpaid for it, tried his best to get out of buying, and now that he has sunk all this money into it, he is trying all quickfire ways of making money via Twitter (most of which seem ridiculously bad but I doubt there are many good options for making good money via Twitter).
"Account creation is temporarily disabled"

This adds an additional element of suspense for all the invite code snatchers.
> The Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund has reduced the market value of its equity stake in Twitter for a third time, now putting it at $6.55 million. That’s down from the nearly $20 million the Fidelity fund valued its stake at in October.

From today, according to https://apnews.com/article/twitter-fidelity-musk-value-08c64.... It doesn't sound like it increased its valuation of twitter in any way tbh.
sometimes that depends on circumstance how easy or hard that decision is, for example if you got pocket emeralds as allowance from your parents when you were a teenager it might be easier to have means and agency to build equity for yourself, whereas if you were literally a medieval serf born into a fief then it might be harder to make this decision to build equity for yourself maybe you will have to revolt
Russia denies air supremacy with a spectrum of anti air defences, not air superiority fighters.

IIRC Russia is at 99% air defence effectiveness vs the start of the Ukraine war; i.e. it has not been materially degraded at all, despite HARM anti-radar missiles and so forth given to Ukraine.
There’s a deeper structural problem that affects almost all military supply chains.

Modern military equipment is incredibly expensive, complex, bespoke, and made in small batches. Even in cases when that is not true, as with artillery shells, peacetime supply chains cannot meet wartime demand. Ramping them up takes time, and maintaining them in a constant scaled state of readiness entails an opportunity cost that most societies are not willing to pay.

HN readers should know that military supply chains are not like global commercial supply chains. The supply chains that say Apple or Walmart have built are global scale and quickly responsive to demand. That simply does not apply to many military components from manufacturing through assembly and deployment. The timelines are much longer.

There are things Ukraine needs that money cannot immediately solve. These bottlenecks are an example. (Fears of escalation are another…)

Ukraine is fighting a poor man’s war with a lot of second-hand Cold War equipment and Stingers that served the mujahedeen just as well decades ago.

This is partially due to US funding mechanisms. It’s very easy for Biden to exercise discretion in what he sends (and therefore regulate the intensity of the war) through the mechanism of Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), which can only draw upon existing DOD stocks. He relies heavily on PDA, thus the nature of the second-hand stuff.

What’s interesting is the dual-use piece of the equipment used in Ukraine. By paying frontline soldiers some 5x what they would normally earn, Ukraine has created a market driven by the demand of infantry, usually pooling their purchases in small groups.

They are buying all sorts of equipment, notably power banks, satellite ground terminals, mobile devices, from much more responsive supply chains.

That is, we have strong revealed preferences of the kind of equipment soldiers buy when their lives depend on it, and it looks very different from the bloat purveyed by primes to the Pentagon.

Disclosure: I work with Ukraine Defense Fund to send dual-use tech to the AFU.(Ukrainedefensefund.org)
Assuming the old instance doesn't just totally shut down, you can trigger a "move" process that makes your followers automatically re-follow your new address.

On top of that, you can host your own webfinger alias, as sibling suggests, which lets you have an unchanging address that forwards to your current server. But note that accounts follows URI's not the handles, so you still need the move process to migrate existing followers.

It's not by any means perfect, but it's improving (e.g. the move process is relatively new) and probably will keep improving.
> vanilla opinions that are held by 70+% of the population.

Name three.
Just a self-delusion due to lack of research. It's all due to technology advances, all of it. Against increasing drought and heat.

Sure corn grows in more places now. Because they warmed up - a concern of its own. They'll not stop warming up. Witness https://globalnews.ca/news/9761043/dry-spring-southern-alber...
I’m not explaining any ideology… definitely don’t think of Orcas in terms of “woke” or not. Just stating that rooting for the orcas is rooting for something fairly self-defeating.
My 14yr old daughter sent me this screenshot the other day with the comment "I think that one sentence sums up twitter pretty well".

https://capture.dropbox.com/GqgTAxRimqAXzrdo
Right-on. EG Often-repeated chirpy jingles with imperative lyrics will hang around in heads for decades. Couple of oldies:

"See the USA in your [??] ..."

"You'll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with [??] ..."

Carpenter's They Live was great pointing out how many 'OBEY's are buried in adverts. 30 years before, Vance Packard The Hidden Persuaders was published. 2010, Eldon Taylor's Mind Programming.

Worse yet: TV tearing a great movie up into shreds punctuated with adverts (imagine doing that to famous paintings). I eventually dropped cable as a result.

"Lower than pond-scum" = all the disciples of Freud's nephew Ed Bernays.
Researchers in the field care about results that show what is the real effect of D3 vitamin could be, and that's what these guys are doing.

Small, but not very big effect.
From a pure archiving point of view it would be great.

It's a shame how many pieces of software are already totally lost forever.
>I prefer Twitter in the sense that it's more laissez faire in terms of what kinds of speech get you banned.

Musk literally just said that the term 'cis' is a slur that will get you banned.