skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About two months ago I was at a festival with friends and a I had a psychedelic experience. What’s funny is earlier that day I had just told my friends “I know this sounds boring but I don’t like dancing that much.” Then while I was tripping I found that I was really enjoying the dancing. I felt like I was tapping in to a part of myself that had been dormant for a long time. I felt really confident and cool and sexy dancing to the music, and had a wonderful time. The thing about this is that in the subsequent weeks and to this day the confidence is still here. I have come to realize that the pandemic messed me up in ways that I hadn’t even realized! I’m pretty in touch with myself - I go to therapy once a week but I’m usually talking about work and relationships. Dating in particular felt hard and I didn’t know why, but since rediscovering my confidence dating has been going very well for me. Now when I talk to people I like I’m finding them asking me for my number or asking me out. I had a cute friend I’ve been crushing on for a while nervously ask me for a kiss!

The point is that there are parts of us that are nearly accessible but our brain pathways need a little temporary loosening to strengthen some of those pathways, and psychedelics can do just that. They’re no panacea and it takes some experience to really gain the desired effects. But they can also just be enjoyable and they’re generally harmless, and it’s such a shame that they’re so stigmatized. I live in Oakland where they have decriminalized mushrooms and I’d like to see more decriminalization and ultimately legalization of mushrooms, LSD, and more.

I have a friend who has been doing legal ketamine therapy under the care of their therapist and it has helped them realize the ways in which they had been hanging on to old relationships which were holding them back. They’re finding out how to advocate for their own needs and they’re much happier for it.

We’ve got a crisis of unhappiness in this country and psychedelic therapies are absolutely a powerful tool we could use to help people find themselves.

Though I should say, probably because I just listened to a bunch of Noam Chomsky last night, that allowing broad swaths of the population to become more deeply in touch with their core needs threatens the status quo and current power dynamics. Honestly tho the structures of power are so solidified I’m not sure there’s really much actual risk to them from drug legalization.
Even before 600 given "filter:follows" search used to provide a more accurate timeline than the Following tab, and is now half full of random tweets that have nothing to do with the accounts I follow.
Twitter is a crack pipe for dopamine hits, which OpenAI has no business in. Highly doubt bots is the actual reason, since they have had that problem since forever. Now, infrastructure bills could be a real reason.
> annoyingly breezy certainty.

I may have to steal that phrase (:
“Just works” in this context means executing the compiled CUDA or the PTX bytecode without recompiling. Nobody is ever going to utilize ROCm if it requires distributing as source and recompiling.

To make it even more insulting, even simply installing ROCm itself is a massive burden, even on an ostensibly-supported (as geohot discovered) and even just “it works out of the box if you distribute and compile it locally” is ignoring that whole massive “draw the rest of the owl” stage of getting ROCm installed and building properly in your environment.
genius is a strong word
It's even more devious than that. Some merchants have taken to planting obviously fake reviews of their competitors to get them banned from the platform.
Maybe.

It's really hard for me to believe that a uniform 600 tweets read per _day_ limit for almost _all_ accounts is the best tool they have to mitigate a scraping attack. They likely have great insight into the risk profiles of each account based on age, size, past engagement. This is an incredibly coarse banhammer -- very close to just turning off the servers, IMO. Reasonable if it lasted for an hour, debatable if it lasts for a day, idiotic if it lasts longer.

Would love to see the inside story, hopefully it gets leaked/reported at some point.
Yeah - my last interview was a bit like that. Uninteresting, lazy factorial question, some syntax bits on Python, can you list some canonical definition of object orientation, no probing at all on any topic of interest, and then a brief trivial squabble on what a list comprehension is.
Noteworthy if true that Twitter's Google Cloud renewal date was June 30th and they were attempting to migrate away as quickly as possible:

https://twitter.com/RiverTamYDN/status/1675164339274240001
You interact through the rack via an API, yes. I hesitate to say "like openstack" because these sorts of systems are huge, complicated, and what "like" means depends on you know, what you use. But you do get management software, yes.
Look at all these super knowledgeable “engineers” down voting this.

Load shedding is exactly what would prevent this in the future, scaling up capacity and adding a cache is only going to help buy some time.

Wish I could have a dollar for each time SREs duct tape rather than solve problems with systems thinking.
It's going to be hard to continue hitting record highs if you're limiting how much of your content people are able to see.
You need to do this anyway if you're implementing saved games.

Most modern PC games/engines have a really good instant quicksave system which dumps the entire world state very quickly.
The Implications of Twitter's Response to Web Scraping and System Manipulation
As far as the cover photo, I don't think ketamine (a replacement for PCP) and MDMA (an analogue of drugs like Adderall (amphetamine class)) qualify as psychedelics. It makes more sense to classify psychedelics as 5-HT2A partial agonists, meaning LSD, psilocybin, DMT and analogs like bufotenin, and mescaline, from a pharmacological perspective. See:

(LSD, mescaline, psilocybin)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5756147/

(DMT)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9768567/

Ketamine and MDMA in contrast act through different pathways, the former being a dissociative anaesthetic acting via the NMDA receptor, and MDMA acting as much via dopamine receptors (though unlike other amphetamines, it also increases serotonin levels significantly). In popular use, these are so-called party drugs, and users often have no idea what they're taking (amphetamines and ketamine have been commonly sold as MDMA). I don't know why they've been lumped in with true psychedelics so frequently, but they're much more likely to be used recreationally as a replacement for alcohol, cocaine, etc.

Secondly, I think naive users should be aware that the true psychedelics are indeed dangerous if not treated with caution and respect, in the same sense that a motorcycle is. Drive a motorcycle too fast, bad things happen. Ingesting a large amount of psychedelics is similar. There are at least two particular dangers: immediately, a psychedelic overdose leaves the user ambulatory, so they can end up falling off cliffs, walking into traffic, and otherwise oblivious to dangerous situations. Secondly, some people have traumatic responses to very large doses of psychedelics that can take months to recover from (dissociation from reality, paranoia, etc.).

Still, I think these drugs can be immensely beneficial and people should be able to access them, much as people should be able to drive motorcycles. Perhaps one solution is that they should only be supplied in low dosage packaging (aka microdose amounts), such that people don't accidentally take large doses with the common unfortunate consequences. It's generally not a good idea to think of them as 'recreational' either, although many people are going to use them that way.
> I'm seeing only 10% off, maybe it varies by location.

It should vary by model. The top seller list just shows the cheapest one, 10%. The 512GB is 20% off.
Yep somewhere along the way we forgot that you can't become profitable on volume when marginal revenue is negative. This is first-year business undergrad stuff.
How is user seconds defined?
I'm not really sure what she thought was going to happen. There is no way that Musk was going to stop making decisions, especially about content moderation, which is really the main concern of advertisers. If he wants it to be his kind of speech over the concerns of advertisers, that's what it's going to be, and she has no path to success.

I've heard Elon really seems like he's listening and that he's actually going to take advice. Yoel Roth actually believed that Elon was going to implement his trust and safety recommendations. Then he would go and tweet what he was actually going to do as soon as he was out of the meeting. At this point it's pretty well documented.
It's Our Turn to Eat: Corruption in Modern Kenya
https://cepa.org/article/its-costing-peanuts-for-the-us-to-d...
Cheap for the USA. It's for the Ukrainians to decide whether the cost in lives is worth paying. As long as they're willing to keep fighting there's no downside for us in supplying weapons.
The problem is it's not just storing all of the jigs in a mothball warehouse, it's that a BOM for a 5-deep subassembly subcontractor vertical supply chain may have no substitute for custom parts with a 12-month+ lead time and require the living process knowledge of particular technicians, engineers, machinists, operators, and more to deliver the goods. Companies go out of business, employees retire, and then you're like a VW mechanic looking for NLA parts or 3D printing your own. Then you're calling around, bribing companies to make your custom shit that they may not make anymore. This shit takes a lot of time and logistics.
That's probably why the limits are temporary.
If someone is out there secretly training and paying Orcas to sink yachts... that would be pretty neat.
Twitter can also be used on the desktop.

I leave it running in a window while I do other things, and check in a few times a day. Thanks to Twitter product "development", the feed now auto-refreshes itself when you get back to it.
Saudi Arabia’s Vanished Princesses
>Alternatively, many of the private space companies don't have citizenship requirements.

In America at least private companies are equally covered by ITAR, so they do have citizenship/greencard requirements (or need a variance that is nearly never granted in practice). SpaceX can't just hire international talent as it wishes. I assume there may be similar rules in some other countries, though certainly not all. But it's not merely a matter of private vs public fwiw.
The future in question is not profitable (yet, if at all anytime soon). Social media is and will be for a long time in competent hands. You can think that their VR stuff is cool but also know their core competency is good social experiences. You can hate Facebook and Instagram all you want but they are both very popular and profitable.
COM is the main Windows API since Longhorn ideas were redone as COM.

It isn't going anywhere, even if the tooling keeps as clunky as ever.
finally, society can have a break from all the doom scrolling. I wonder how much mental health benefits we're gonna see overall from this.
You just made a long circle to come back to the same fundamental point which is that the backing of the currency is tangential to the main issue: industrial capitalism in the west was heading into a new phase. Really a kind of return to the "normality" of the pre-war, 1930s, really. Because after WWII the US especially got paid a huge dividend by being able to capture and control all sorts of of the world market. But there were natural limits to how far this could go before it was saturated.

Reconstruction of Europe, huge population boom, control over new overseas territory, massive reduction in competition from European nations which had lost their colonies (and a large part of their own native labour force), huge investments in housing & infrastructure, it's hard to overstate just how massively growth focused the years from 1945-1965 or so were. The closest comparison would be the massive growth that China has from the mid-90s til recently.

The outburst of left wing and cultural radicalism in the late 60s, the Vietnam war, heavier US involvement in central America, the decline in corporate profits in the 70s, the development of computing technology and information automation, all of these are connected with the fundamental saturation and then decline in the growth capacity of US imperial economic power...

When limits to growth are hit, the response is usually some kind of crisis -- because capitalism requires continuous growth. War either colonial or against other colonial powers, social turbulence, etc. etc.

Dropping the gold standard was just one of the panic-moves performed by US capital interests to try to salvage things. And honestly, it likely had little to no effect.

After the mid-90s there was a reprieve from this for a bit, as the collapse of the USSR and the opening of China to western industrial interests opened up new economic horizons. Which now seem to be closing off.
Will obviously hose Tweetdeck, especially if you follow a lot of active accounts (e.g., reporters and other news sources) and have several columns. OTOH, there are few or no ads on Tweetdeck so Musk et al. likely couldn’t care less.
https://archive.md/BbE5z
Assuming an interview is a typical 30-60 min time slot is this actually a realistic ask? It seems pretty crazy to 1) get up to speed on a codebase and context in such a short amount of time to 2) then be able to actually develop against the codebase in a meaningful way to add more than one feature to it.

Can you share any additional details about what the process actually looked like or what type of task you were actually performing in the interview? Size of the project (~LoC), tech stack, complexity of the feature, etc.
> [18] The principles defining a religion have to be mistaken. Otherwise anyone might adopt them, and there would be nothing to distinguish the adherents of the religion from everyone else.

I think what's going on here is the theory that the purpose of religion is to create a trusted in-group separated from the out-group, with rules that make it difficult to casually join. [1] If you start from that premise, PG's footnote makes sense. But this ignores the fact that the largest religions really want as many members as possible and would be delighted if everyone followed their principles.

[1] See for instance: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/24/there-are-rules-here/
I created a Mastodon account yesterday before I even knew about this and it was surprisingly easy and user-friendly. The big thing it's missing, for me, is a way to find the Mastodon accounts for people you follow on Twitter. If more of the AI/ML community switched to Mastodon, I wouldn't have any need for Twitter.
It's been coming for years now. I will probably be years before it really is here.
As I recall, if you have constant-time random access array with mutation then you can emulate that behavior in a functional language using balanced trees, with O(log(n)) time.

This means any functional programming language can implement any imperative programming language with a factor of O(log(n)) overhead.
I want this to release so bad. It would be the most natural step for me having used Twitter for the last 10 years off and on. There's just a comedic aspect that I haven't found yet in other social media apps. Twitter was a really special place before Elon took over.
The timings between the events (telemarketer calls, victim answer, telemarketer plays automated random greeting, victim replies, telemarketer transfers call to human operator, etc.) can be used for an effective blocking. Like a more advanced Lenny, play an audio captcha that an human call would hear but that will also get lost to a telemarketer and, when call arrives to their operator, the victim's system is already playing random funny stuff to burn up their time.
Could be they are trying to identify bots. Real users will probably leave the app/website on rate limit hit.
Can you share how software engineers can bring hardware to market? Fabrication, logistics, manufacturing. What should be outsourced? Who did you partner with for what?

Also, congrats.
Scraping using a verified account (6000*30=180k tweets for 8$) seems to be cheaper than using the API (you would need 4 basic accounts (50k tweets, 100$/month) - is this pricing for real?)
The charting display mode is a CLI/terminal feature, though, not a GUI one.
Crazy to think that we’re been observing the cosmos for thousands of years through a single sense and we only recently opened up a second one. What a time to be alive!
Nobody consumes twitter that way.
But there are now big debt payments that didn't exist before, from the massively leveraged buyout.
which makes me wonder what's wrong with me that i get absolutely no pleasure from twitter like that or any socials really. i see no difference in reading twitter than watching kardashians, yet everyone else clearly does making me the outlier. i spend so much time solving for edge cases that i am one
It's probably fine. I started using Go (tinygo) for microcontroller projects a few years ago and haven't looked back. If people can make Go work, I'm sure Rust is fine.
More like 6 minutes (600/100) if they're scrolling throughout. Perhaps unrealistic but even given generous allowances, a frequent user of Twitter is screwed within the hour, yes.
The world is still obsessed.

REST, GraphQL and gRPC language specific SDKs aren't any different, and now we have containers and kubernetes in addition.
I don’t use Facebook because of all the crimes against humanity but I’ll be honest. If the cage match happens and Zuckerberg beats the snot out of Musk, I’m a Facebook user for life. I think a lot of people would feel the same. Meta has a chance to turn everything around.
I've just been googling "Damian Lillard" every 5 minutes I don't know what to do with myself
Elon says a lot of things, like last fall when he was crowing about how Twitter had the bot problem licked. Fast forward to today and bot spam is worse than ever before.

You can believe what you want. I choose to believe what I see with my eyes.
I don't think they forgot that, the general plan has been successive rounds of funding so you can say "valued at" at increasingly high values, then an IPO or a sneaky exit through secondary market share sales. Then some dummies who aren't you are left holding the bag.
Ask HN: Am I the only one who is trying to love Homeassistant but fails?
I used to think tech/VC was smart…
In some sense, but not in others. This is an x86 box.
Now imagine being on Elon's Mars colony and having your breathing rate limited out of the blue one day. Today switched my vision of that from wonder and hope to seeing it as volunteering to become one of the belters in The Expanse. I'm kinda sad to have moved from the 'let me in' to 'hard pass' on that dream. It was one of that last big future dreams 1990s me had for the 20X0's.
> What are you excessively curious about — curious to a degree that would bore most other people? That's what you're looking for.

This is a great article, but there are many, many people for whom this advice is going to lead nowhere or worse. They have often been to fancy universities and have often earned fancy degrees. But what they don't realize is that they've also been trained to respond to the praise of authority figures. The article touches on this point later, but emphasizes a different outcome.

If there's one thing that authority figures absolutely hate is a project that makes you excessively curious.

I'll speculate that those most affected by this perverse reward system will deny its influence over them most strongly. They won't realize that their motivation for projects stems from the enthusiasm that authority figure show or withhold. They will therefore conclude that the warning above does not apply to them. And they will have a very hard time.

I saw this first-hand in graduate school. At least half the students had never learned to disregard the level of the greybeard's enthusiasm when choosing projects. Unsurprisingly, they also did not understood the process of formulating a project idea. This was the half that had, by far, the hardest time. At the slightest hint of graybeard apathy for a project idea, they were onto something else.
Yeah, should have been more precise.
Code that can be loaded at runtime, does not need to be compiled together with the host application, can be loaded by just providing a path to a file/directory and can be executed in the host, ideally securely (not a strict requirement for my usage).
The plugin ideally runs with performance very close to host performance

go plugin package gets close, but the compile part is completely broken, where in reality the plugin has dependencies that can collide with the host. It would be fine if it was just the go runtime requirement that must match, but in reality it forces usage of cgo and a set of problems that make it really hard to use.
Ah... So if I let my 3-year-old great-grandson play outside too long on a cold winter day, then it's Mother Nature's fault when he gets hypothermia and frostbite?

Good to know.
Blue sales ultimately can't hope to come close to what big brand ads used to give.

And ironically enough, blue currently works as a crappy version of advertising thanks to the reply ranking. The promises of prioritizing "high-quality content" never came true; all we see are mid takes and, if you speak Mandarin, AI-powered sex scambots.

Well, worse for us plebs. Not sure if it's worse for the buyers.
I was thinking read/boost-only for all but select users, like sports celebrities.
> At any point Winston could have left. The party had obviously created an oppressive wartime environment that made it scary to leave the safety of the party, but Winston had many opportunities to simply walk away.

Could he have left, really?
nice project. this is why HN kicks ass
> Reddit I get

Reddit is a cesspool of misinformation and phallic references.

I guess there may be certain subreddits/tweeters that someone might want to train on, but I dont understand why.
The demo was the first level in the bay. I think after 100 playthroughs there were like 5 different strategies to clear that level, all equally fun and effective.

And indeed at the end you were just pumping 500 rounds into unstoppable Doom-style monster deep inside some dark hallway.
Pretty much everything you mentioned is also in Unreal Engine and they affected it so much that companies left and right throw away their own engines to switch to it. My favorite part of UE5 is that its "base of all classes" object class (UObject) has its own base object class (UObjectBase).

Actually not just UE, but almost everything you mentioned was in every single engine i worked on (to be clear these were all engines that started long before i worked on them and designed by completely different people). With a single exception they were all used to release well received AAA games.

None of that stuff actually matter at all in practice.
I've found most success with GPT offerings. I also like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney. I definitely make use of a bunch of model offerings available via HuggingFace.
That's bonkers to me. In the northeast US even at 5+ years exp you still need to get into a big company like Meta or Google to have a reasonably good shot at 200k+ as an IC.
> They could even ultimately challenge Reddit.

Frankly I feel Google would be more motivated to challenge Reddit. Since so many of Google’s search results go to Reddit, they might as well try to take over that part of the web rather than leaving it in the hands of mercurial leadership of Reddit.

The only problem is possible retaliation from Reddit and potential antitrust problems if other similar sites feel threatened.
Definitely worth checking out. I went from 20ng/ml to 50ng/ml within a year and noticed some mood stability and energy increases. Your mileage may vary.

For what it is worth, I live in Texas and get plenty of sun each day(30+ minutes) but for some reason not enough showing on blood work.