skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They charge for "the ability to tweet, retweet, like posts and reply to posts."

It will be very interesting to see how this turns out.

Obviously, there is no value in the ability to publish your thoughts. You can do that for free on an ever growing number of platforms. But Musk seems to bet on a private attention economy. Where even private individuals are willing to pay for attention. Not only businesses.

Has this been tried before, or is this a first?
Brown rice is not healthier than white rice
I was part of the PC demoscene in that era (1997-2002) and it definitely was a super productive and exciting time. The transition to Windows wasn't necessarily a big deal, but the impact of 3d acceleration definitely was.

In that period 3d accelerators were basically capable of running Quake and not much else. Traditional demo effects that relied on reading the backbuffer (even to just do some basic postprocessing) were either unavailable or had to have bespoke implementations per card. There were no shaders to speak of, and so on.

For me that really killed demoscene innovation for a while, and a lot of demos basically consisted of a bunch of alpha-blended layers for a while.

Nowadays, though, I'd say the scene is probably doing pretty well even though it's arguably even more niche than it used to be. Oh well.
All types of poker benefit skilled players over time, but can reward amateurs on any given hand because the outcome of the hand is ultimately determined by the cards (which are shuffled between every hand).
You need a way to bootstrap the social network. A pure clone with no users has very little to attract anyone.
It's been widely reported that many of the senior management at Tesla/SpaceX had to run interference to keep Musk away from day to day operations.

X/Twitter is Musk unchained.
Drought turns Amazonian capital into climate dystopia
GPT-4V is a new model release, not an update to an existing model. You are free to wait till it is more mature before using it. Its availability doesn't suddenly introduce new risks for people using other models.
How are those vertical gaps between the bricks filled?
Normal people write queries in a bunch of specialised classes. Data access in php is a pdo method call away anyway. But no, php devs need ddd dtos hydration models yml file configs goat sacrifices and a heated religious debate over why php is the belly bottom of web development and indeed the world. Tabs vs spaces.

Such a nice language bastardised by over engineering and reinventing the wheel. Sad.
(Probably literally) tons of paper used to be shuffled around office buildings. My first (mechanical) engineering job basically everything was typed (by a secretary) in triplicate(?) with a copy sent off to central filing. If you started a new project, one of the first things you did was head to central filing to take a look for related paperwork.

We didn't have a pneumatic system but we did have internal mail delivered multiple times a day. There was even a trope back then of people starting their careers "in the mail room."
Has it become some weird kind of virtue signaling to replace Red Hat with IBM?
Congrats on launch! I like how simple the layout is and you can get right to value. Any difference between an AI transcript and a transcript provided by the show itself or something like PodScripts? Also, I see the red icon next to pod eps does that indicate an AI transcript was created for this ep and not others?
How a bottom-up GTM strategy is impacting security teams
[Dupe]

Lots more discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37922973
I think you need millions of bots and the marginal return on spammers may be thousands of a cent. So even $1/year may be too much for botnets.

Imagine a botnot and if each node cost the operator $1. The economics require near zero marginal costs to ddos or spam or whatever.

It seems to cost $10-20 to buy 1,000 followers [0] so I expect lots of those accounts get turned over frequently.

It will be interesting to see if this has any effect.

[0] https://www.socialchamp.io/blog/buy-instagram-followers/
Harvard designs AI sandbox interaction without compromising security
A new distance-based feature set for keystroke dynamics
Big discount with one click
You can drag an anchor after your boat and damage them. They are marked on the map to avoid such damages. It is a quite common accident.
AOL could bring AIM back for free and destroy Twitter with a single feature. Status update history. /s
Is that done just at Christmas or all year round?
> We often don't realize how warm the world we live in truly is, from a physics standpoint.

Or cold? There is a big ball in our solar system sitting at tens of millions of degrees K, and you think 273 degrees is warm?
The backlash is funny. USPS does the same thing for mail forwarding to verify identity and legitimacy. It’s not like this is some crazy money-making idea from Elon.
Metafilter does something like this, where you have to pay a fee to sign up.
Wait, so Patlabor is about Mecha and Patlabor 2 is about realistic military stuff?
Feds Admit Stingrays Can Disrupt Cell Service of Bystanders (2015)
You do know that they don’t actually have 1 billion in cash, right? So your proposal is just to take away ownership of companies from anyone successful.

That’s not an equality mechanism, that’s a way to drive successful companies into the ground by the government seizing and selling them off.

So seriously think about how a wealth tax would work and come back with a proposal that justifies why a company like SpaceX should be seized by the government.
Regulations can be undermined at so many levels. One local example over here is noise pollution night flying around airports. It all looks good from the high level. But then you go into the details of how the disturbance measurements and calculations are implemented and you find that I could litterally be firing a canon outside your bedroom window every minute and it would still come out officially as if your sleep was never disturbed.
Low serotonin levels might explain some Long Covid symptoms, study proposes
> under sea ones are harder to get to

At least not for state actors, or perhaps well-funded terrorist groups.
This is really just a way to get your CC authorised to make transactions. It’s a nothing cost, but it exponentially increases he likelihood of someone buying something through the platform, or upgrading to a new feature set.

IMO, this will fail.
Founder personality could predict Startup success, study suggests
Perhaps proving https://xkcd.com/1172/, that would be pretty disruptive to the way I use the hide button, as it's a good way to leave your cursor in the same spot and "dismiss" posts that I don't plan on reading one by one. Adding a confirmation, and therein forcing me to continuously move the mouse there and back, would completely break that.

I agree with it shouldn't be so near to the link though (and with the broader topic that it seems HN prides itself somehow on having bad UX instead of just simplicity -- albeit perhaps because we couldn't all agree what to change and how!).
I’m surprised he hasn’t asked his fanboys to volunteer to moderate. Reddit has volunteer moderation.
In my experience, you're super wrong about the vast majority of PHP engineers

And PHP has wide built-in support for multiple database engines (check out PDO) so this is largely not a part of an ORM.

This leaves the ORM to focus on higher-level work, like how to abstract the differences away regardless of which engine you end up using and focussing on the representation of your data and the API you use to interact with it.

That's pretty powerful and has allowed tools like Laravel and Symfony to suit a super wide range of needs.

But yes, it does also mean that you're not switching your entire language or framework stack when some database technology providers baits-and-switches their licensing - which has been known to happen
All joking aside, this the user count is probably being driven more by email and possibly Teams than Excel. I would guess that most of the licenses are for what Microsoft calls "frontline workers"[0].

It is also highly likely [1] that this is a very, very, bespoke deal and the user count is just an easy pricing model to use that the Amazon people can wrap their heads around and that Microsoft can recognize revenue from.

0 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/fro...

1 - source: I used to be involved in crafting and negotiating these sorts of deals, although a bit smaller ($100m-ish vs $1b) and I've never done business with Amazon or Microsoft.
With ideas floating around about the AI based distortion of society, or with people looking to make examples of how AI will be used as an authoritarian force multiplier, Marc is trying to provide an alternate vision. Since our default view seems to be one of fear, he thinks it should be one of individual power. Clearly he feels the paradigm is wrong. A broke writer who envies the Marc Andreessens of the world is of course going to turn this into an issue of money and class. That's what communists do.

I think we short-circuit the authoritarian uses by having models that anyone can run and utilize any way, any where, for any purpose. At least, I'd rather think about that than worry about whether or not Marc has talked to "poor people," whatever the fuck that means.
I remember reading somewhere in a different HN thread that some tools use pitch to represent indentation depth. There are all sorts of audio cues that can be used to represent syntactic information about code.
I really hope they used tabs instead of spaces .... space space space space space if ah equals equals bee ... space space space space space space space space space ...

I'm going insane just thinking about counting spaces.
NQCC2: The Not-Quite-C Compiler
There are still some pharmacies that offer medicine by tube but most have gone to a single drive thru.
Procedural art has a different quality to it though :)

Edit: That is to say, I don't think the only value of the demoscene is to create something cool under technical limitations. I think it's to create something cool in a computational medium (the spirit lives on as procedural art, shader art, etc. as well).

Every method of producing a work (done under finite time, I guess :P) will give sometimes vastly different results. Hand drawing an animation will give something completely different under similar time constraints as video editing and completely different from procedural drawing.

To give some examples: you can easily render thousands of points, e.g. stars, make them twinkle, draw thousands of trees, and give them all detailed movement. That's very hard to do by hand. By hand you'll have better control of style, and details like paint texture, etc.. Animating characters (with genuine character) is trivial by hand but quite difficult procedurally (you have to resort to essentially manual animation in the end). There's the question of offline vs online rendering... if you're offline rendering you can go bonkers with millions of objects. I personally like being able to run it real time, I find it gives it a more intimate feeling, and is easier to reproduce (but am not against offline rendering if you find it suitable!).

Also very exciting to me is baking randomness, either with a fixed seed or changing seeds every time. You get a different piece every time you watch it! The possibilities are really vast, and mostly unexplored.
I read grey comments and I upvote them if they are not offensive or extremely wrong (or huge walls of text).

I downvote very seldom (like once per week). But I don't downvote grey comments, they are already downvoted. (The exemptions are extremely offensive comments or astronomical wrong comments (but I don't remember someone that was so wrong to deserve piled downvotes).)
I worked with a proficient blind python programmer. It didn't seem to bother him in the slightest.
You can buy pre-paid Visa and Mastercard debit cards from many retailers.

Availability of cards isn't going to be an issue.
That's interesting, did you find that gamification attracts users that are not actually wanting to learn a language or what do you mean?
If by "all of that" you mean people caring about Commodore vs Amiga pissing matches, maybe. But the Demoscene is much more, and that's not tied to your generation. There's demos targeting platforms that have only now existed for a few years.
It's a terrible language full of dangerous quirks that require every single line to be carefully crafted with great knowledge or else the "works most of the times but isn't quite what you want here" footguns will get you. And many of those quirks exist right at the surface, no framework can remove those. Sure, it's possible to succeed using php despite all this, but that does not make it a non-terrible language.
Episode 61: Where Do the UK's Interests in European Security Now Lie?
Except the plan will never work for mobile users who sign up via the App Store or Google Play Store.

"According to his biographer, Walter Isaacson, Musk’s push to sign-up subscribers was very much intertwined with his quest to build an “everything app,” and Musk grew angry when he learned Apple doesn’t share credit card details of those who sign up with their iPhones." https://www.engadget.com/x-is-starting-to-charge-new-users-1...

Of course every iOS developer already knew this, including members of his own engineering staff, which just goes to show how insulated and out of touch with reality the guy is.
Why Apollo 11 astronauts signed tons of autographs – then stowed them away
Who, Donald Rumsfeld?
Your point kind of illustrates the article:

Past empires didn't learn from the history of earlier ones. Or failed to adapt to changing circumstances. And were then caught by surprise.

True, knowing what happened to past empires may not help to see where a current great power is heading. But it does help to avoid past empires' mistakes.

China appears better at avoiding such mistakes than the US, imho. That said:

"This integration into Western-dominated and US-constructed international institutions and organisations would not only help China to become a ‘responsible actor’. It would also serve to constrain Beijing's threat to the wider liberal international order, neuter China's threat as a great power competitor and leave the US's primacy unquestioned."

Western policy may have failed at the 2nd half of this quote.

But maybe it did succeed at the 1st part? At least to some degree? China's economy is highly connected with the rest of the world. Any large-scale conflict would cause China huge economic pain, regardless of the capability to develop its own tech / military, manufacture its own goods, grow its own food, etc.

Had China been (more) excluded from integration with Western economies & Western-led institutions, but developed on its own anyway, then today it could 'flex its muscle' with impunity. In the current situation, not as much.

One should alway keep such alternative scenarios in mind, before claiming the current situation is worse in any way.

Every nation that's welcomed into the international community, once in has something to lose. And as someone wrote:

"Germany after WW1 had little to lose, and dived 'happily' into WW2. But 40y later, not so much: they'd be scared to get a scratch on their Mercedes".

Today's China is much in that 40y's-on situation I think. The average Chinese isn't doing too bad. Why risk that by starting a conflict with <insert military/economic power here> ?
As others have pointed out, even the futurist manifesto is highly problematic. That's what's outside his head - his arguments. And it's arguments that Andreessen is endorsing. So no, this is not an ad hominem.
Because the article is complete garbage that doesn’t engage in good faith. It just assumes conclusions that people with a particular political view agree with.

So it’s a great article if you already believe capitalism is evil and want a clap trap, but it’s trash otherwise.
Yes. The situation in the occupied territories is 100% terrible.

> Hamas is only in power in Gaza. The West Bank is governed by the much more moderate Fatah, and they still don't have a Palestinian state.

This became the situation after Oslo was effectively dead (thanks to the Hamas).

> However, Hamas is obviously a problem: so much so that it's known that Israel secretly supported it to weaken and divide their more moderate political counterparts:

THIS!!!

But it isn't a "secret". Netanyahu said it out loud in 2019, I don't have the link though.

He purposely supported the Hamas to weaken the PLO/Fatah and prevent the chance of a Palestinian state. He did some of that as far back as the 90's during the Oslo accord to stop that process.

It's insane. We've been trying to get rid of that f*ing criminal but he's a sticky demagogue who always lands on his feet. Even now when he clearly bears a lot of the fault for this recent attack he still holds onto power and refuses to accept responsibility.
LLaVA 1.5 Demo
All I see are enormous album arrows filling the screen on iOS
And the odd part is that frameworks were meant to provide structure and make code easier to maintain.

Last time, long time ago, when i touched a php symfony project i ended coding yml instead of actual php because _everything_ was in a config file - hundreds of packages and libraries just because the dev couldn't be bothered to issue calls to native php functions. Hilarious. However i did make a killing in training teams in design patterns and coding practices to help them maintain quality.

And almost always my advice was to write framework agnostic code (treat the framework as if it were just a dependency). Worked nice. Clean little specialised classes, no config maintenance madness, i also enforced running code linters and smell detectors on each commit and push. Gave up on the language when i noticed that _literarily_ all teams had the exact same issues, the exact same topics of debate and the exact same flamewars.
Also called online group bullying, old time religions called it shunning, old UK unions called it 'sending to Coventry', ostracise, ghost = a way to harm people by collective and deniable group action.
Having too many options leads to a lot of bikeshedding as the whole ecosystem ends up fragmenting and disagreeing with each other. It’s one of things I really dislike about JS compared to something like Go.

Personally, I stick to opinionated rulesets such as Standard[1], AirBnb[2] and Unicorn[3] since you won’t spend hours tweaking and selecting new rules.

[1] https://standardjs.com/

[2] https://github.com/airbnb/javascript

[3] https://github.com/sindresorhus/eslint-plugin-unicorn
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/amd-acquire-ai-softwar...
This could just be my own bias, but you might be trying to overthink it or do too much for a first project! Rather than worrying about best practices, just get your code working.

You can relish and revel in the process of improving and finessing your code later, but I'd say get to MVP stage first. Again, I might be not seeing it right here, and just adding my own bias--in this case I'm not sure, so trust your gut on what will work for you!--but at least consider the idea that diving in might be a good way to learn to swim, rather than studying Olympic freestyle technique for your first meet! :)

I'm sorry my advice is not of a more practical nature, I just considered that, in the case where you may not be oriented optimally, ensuring you point yourself in the right direction first could be crucial! Best of luck! :)
some how they forgot to push the boundaries? Baking AI into it should present enough of a challenge if you want it.
I have no evidence to back this up, but I imagine a lot of people are like me and just keep the app on their phone or whatever for when the occasional person sends them something or they read a post on a forum that makes them need to actually browse Twitter.

I imagine a lot of people like me are not even going to remotely consider to pay a dollar to have that ability. It’s not nearly important enough or integral to our daily lives.

This does make me curious though. Could someone pay a dollar to have an account that dozens of people can access until it’s tapped each month or day or whatever the limit is? Basically create the Netflix account sharing problem for Musk. Or mirror the content out forcing a constant whack a mole?
For the vast majority of cases, a long COVID diagnosis is extremely short on rigor. The best evidence available suggests most cases of "long COVID" are misattribution:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
Beyond Memorization: Violating Privacy via Inference with LLMs [pdf]
> The neutron radiation results in short term radioactivity,

From what I read, it also weakens the material and, thus, requires the reactor to be dismantled on regular schedules.
Thank you, that description of each extension and how they work together is exactly what I was looking for.

I appreciate you, internet person.
Elder friend of mine got the fatigue two weeks after covid. after everything else was ruled out she was given ssris for anxiety, and indeed she could walk again a few weeks later.

If this turns out to be as interesting as it sounds, well buy SSRI maker stocks
I don't know AU construction but perhaps there is some sort of stucco that goes over top the block building both inside and out.
Not at all, that is a guarantee that people actually know how to hold the scapel and can enter the operating room safely.

A brick layer doesn't turn into a Construction Engineer, only because they think they know everything about building houses, and have somehow built their own during long weekends.

Likewise a coder out of a bootcamp, isn't someone versed in what actually entails to be a Software Engineer, regarless how cool the title might sound like.
Even though I'm 15 I love tracker music and have so much respect for the work that was done in the days the demoscene was huge. I really hope it keeps going so I can be notable making my own tracker music.
In neal stephensons 1996 classic wired article Mother Earth Mother Board theres a bit in there about why cables are not attacked.

"
There is also the obvious threat of sabotage by a hostile government, but, surprisingly, this almost never happens. When cypherpunk Doug Barnes was researching his Caribbean project, he spent some time looking into this, because it was exactly the kind of threat he was worried about in the case of a data haven. Somewhat to his own surprise and relief, he concluded that it simply wasn’t going to happen. “Cutting a submarine cable,” Barnes says, “is like starting a nuclear war. It’s easy to do, the results are devastating, and as soon as one country does it, all of the others will retaliate.
"

Are we now in the retaliation stage?

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