skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I signed onto Fosstodon last week to give Mastodon another try. I found the overall experience to be massively improved (last time I touched it was in 2017) and the recent traction it has gotten puts it well ahead of anything else IMO (I'm also testing out Farcaster and a few other services, but those seem pretty niche/immature in comparison).

While Mastodon is a bit rough around the edges, it has that same sort of excitement to me when I signed onto Twitter back in 2006, and most of those same friends/connections from those early days have been migrating. Based on the numbers floating around, I think it has enough traction now/critical mass to be it's own pretty exciting thing. While a lot of instances will fail, I don't think economic sustainability is actually a showstopper. Patreon, OpenCollective, any number of tools can handle recurrent donations enough to sustain larger instances, and there probably will be some alternative approaches as well. Migrating accounts between Mastodon instances isn't perfect, but is a core built-in feature, so while there's a bit of instance roulette, I don't think it's such a big deal. There are tools like https://fediverse.observer/ that might help for picking. It even has a map view, which is pretty neat: https://fediverse.observer/map

Here's a rough view of ActivityPub growth: https://fediverse.observer/stats

FWIW, I decided early on as I started researching into the current state of the Fediverse/ActivityPub that I should probably run my own instance. There are hosting providers that provide Mastodon hosting (although most of them like Spacebear and Mastohost are oversubscribed), but as I was researching, I decided something like Pleroma or Missykey would be a better fit anyway. There are some forks and I ended up using a fork of Pleroma, Akkoma (since, while a bit involved, it has pretty decent docs for setting up w/ Docker Compose and overall seems like the best-performing of the bunch, and has good support for most Mastodon clients). I was able to repoint my account from the Fosstodon Mastodon instance (which included migrating my followers!) to my new personal Akkoma instance pretty easily (the only wrinkle was setting up webfinger since I decided I wanted my canonical account id to not be a subdomain).

For those looking for a bit of an overview of what the current "Fediverse" landscape looks like, some resources that helped me get started:

* https://fediverse.party/

* https://joinfediverse.wiki/Main_Page

* https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/mastodon-is-dead-long-live-mis...

For clients btw, I'm using Whalebird https://whalebird.social/ and Sengi https://nicolasconstant.github.io/sengi/ on desktop, and Tusky https://tusky.app/ on mobile.
Only positive reinforcement for researchers in some fields
What is their actual reach and impact to the AI field?
All that `cmd`ing makes me feel like I'm in Emacs ;). I wonder if there's a way to bind those actions to vim-like keybindings.
Is there any attempt to reorder IO events such that writes (and maybe reads) operate in as contiguous of a manner as possible? It might only be relevant in the case of multiple writes to the same file, so the complexity trade-off might not be worth it for TigerBeetle, but might be worth it for other systems.

Edit: also, are you guys hiring? ;)
Thanks, I somehow missed that.

Since there's no way to select multiple categories in the "suggest" form, I take it you will manually amend the entry.
https://bunny.net/stream/

how come this isn't being used by activitypub to offload server work?

you dont even have to use ffmpeg, just dump the video directly and get encoded videos back...

if your server is NOT running FFMPEG, that is potentially more resources available for actual server work
I also believe that writing is better than typing for information. What's more though is that I think AI coding solutions could worsen our retention of information when it comes to coding.
Yeah, of course he can do whatever he wants.

The think is that quite a few people have been convinced by his talks and want to use Jai for real projects.
This person might as well said that he is not planning to finish his game.

Screwing around with tooling and languages seems to be a common pitfall to not finishing a game.

Why not just use the best ecosystem like Unreal/Unity and get the game out of the door fast?
Same things that would change anybody's mind: logical arguments and real-world examples.
Honestly, this seems like little. We should be wary of the source we try to pull, but given how easy it is to upload something malicious you’d expect thousands of images of this kind. Maybe DockerHub is already detecting and deleting these packages?

Or why aren’t more people interested in this?

Not sure, but maybe injecting into commonly used libraries via subdependencies is seen as a more effective method, getting more focus. Would be interesting to have a broader analysis of malicious artifacts!
> On the other side, humans have been fine using natural language to delegate commands to each other.

I think this is really a characterization. Mostly human communication is full of errors and problems.

What is true is that when it is important enough, humans have come up with ways that minimize communication errors and frameworks to deal with ambiguity - mostly these involve training and effort though, it really doesn't come naturally.
Worked for me. Once I realized I could learn anything by just reading the assigned textbook and taking long form handwritten notes, studying became an efficient exercise that I didn’t mind doing.
> and also with Auto Tab Discard extension it is well managed

Have you compared it with the default Hibernation (Tab Unloading) recently? I don't use any extensions apart from UBlock Origin since I lost trust with extensions after seeing a recommended FF extension promoting scam.

When compared to Vivaldi's default hiberation(Where I have to manually trigger bg hibernation every now and then), FF's hibernation seems to do its thing (about:unload) quite well.
Indeed. Some of those companies value their brands at more than what Elon spent on Twitter. It seems reasonable to me that they would hesitate to risk appearing next to divisive political content.
Related:

‘Limbic Capitalism’ Preys on Our Addicted Brains - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20063527 - May 2019 (85 comments)
The masto.host "Mastodon as a service" is a one-man show run superbly by Hugo Gameiro. This and comparing it with other Mastodon hosters: absolutely fair value for the money.
People balked at "imaginary" numbers for like a hundred years as a "niche math toy" until it became super useful in physics.
Exponential growth over 30 years to 9x the original value is 7.6%/yr.

Real growth was closer to 7x, so 6.7%/yr and indeed similar growth was sustained over a large part of those three decades.
Traffic experiment pits machine learning against ‘phantom’ (traffic)jams
I think the author covered it sufficiently, because the author is correct that if you just walk up to someone with the referenced videos, they are going to come away with the mistakes the video author discusses. They're going to think things have specific functions, in specific ways, in the super-orderly manners presented, etc.

Redefining machine to the point that it happens to cover what cells really are won't change those misconceptions, or at least, it won't change them for a very long time and until you get those definitions propagated far and wide. Which will be an uphill battle because they are frankly less useful than the current definition we have, which works in the real world we all interact with.

Nobody is hearing "the cell is a machine" and then goes off thinking "ah, what they clearly mean is that it is a whole lot of goop interacting in shocking complicated ways with each other all the time resembling literally nothing else a human calls a machine". Playing games with definitions is, well, exactly that: Playing games with definitions. It doesn't actually change anything in the world.
People that have an interesting projects for stress testing the langage.
Instead of condescending to them, why not try to help the project be more efficient with resources? It is an open source project after all.
Custom Windows ISOs for gaming aren't new, they just don't surface into the mainstream that often because they mostly distribute through word of mouth, these days mostly via Discord, YouTube, and Tiktok.[1] One such ISO, EVA, was made by one of the AtlasOS contributors.[2]

Though EVA raises another problem with this whole trend of ISO distributions over distributing the tweaks and install steps — it's trivial for a malicious actor to impersonate any of them and distribute a build full of exploits:

> The custom ISO from the previous project is discontinued so please do not ask for it as it has been recreated with malware.

The social, and typically decentralized, nature of the distribution means the only way to know a legit build is to already be inside the community distributing them. If you're not in the community and get hacked, nobody cares anyway.

That's why I'm surprised AtlasOS has such a big presence, and uses GitHub to host their ISOs - they're kind of asking Microsoft to hit them, maybe in hopes of raising their profile.

[1]: Several channels offer roundups and reviews of different ISOs with links buried in video descriptions or subtitles, such as https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSyKK_dtmNzCyp0O8TLVHAQ

[2]: https://github.com/amitxv/EVA
I'm pretty sure Phil is the curator.
This can be explained in a single URL:

https://www.protondb.com/explore

This is a list of games (by default sorted by popularity) and their compatibility with Linux. Some games work great, but there are major games like PUBG and Destiny 2 that don't work at all. Some major games like Apex Legends require tweaking to work.

If you're a hardcore gamer, then you need Windows because the games need Windows.

Though this may slowly change over time since Valve put out the Steam Deck which runs Linux.
Windows naysayers (so, yeah, that's pretty much all of you: no need to raise your hand: just flag this comment, post your outrage in internal YC groups, and the universe will carry on regardless...) will disregard WSL as being confusing, too little too late, EEE, etc.

But, in the real world? The 'Store' version of WSL (or, as you should call it, GNU/LSW, of course...) is actually pretty good.

Previously, I mostly used WSL (néé GNU/LSW) to get a proper `dig` and `curl`, but in recent builds, I can actually run most previously Linux-only software that I'm interested in, as long as it targets Ubuntu x64.

So, progress, I guess?
I wonder if people didn't train their dogs "by name" at that time. I imagine that many of these dogs were working dogs in some sense, and maybe they were more like horses in that their names were useful labels but not actually used to address the animal.
I mean, "avoiding backup software on your computer" seems like a big ask for organized backups.

But, yeah, I have lightening drives that connect directly to download pictures onto (well, purchased as a gift).. They even also have USB to be read in a computer.
It's tough because I think he has a really difficult job in many regards; Meta catches so much unjustified flak (in addition to justified flak) that being a figurehead for a project like this has to be exhausting.

Being constantly sniped at probably puts you in a default-unreceptive state, which makes you unable to take on valid feedback, as yours sounds like.
I've heard Merzbow before; I think it was the Pulse Demon album, actually. While I won't comment on whether it's art or not, I don't think it meets any of the criteria for "music" other than being audible sound. No rhythm, no notes, no harmony, and barely any discernible structure.
I wonder if we've done comparative work between paper writing and writing in something like Obsidian for not retaining the full work but effective downstream use?

What I mean:

When I write something I remember all of it, ironclad, written on my soul levels of remembrance. When I type something, I don't get that, but I get something akin to a pointer. I don't remember the content but I know it's stored in Obsidian/Docs and I can just go look it up.

What's more effective for day to day life? I don't know. I imagine people have a larger bandwidth for the latter, but is it better to keep all the details on hand, in buffer?

Who knows? But I'd like to see some work done on it to compare.
> Wait, are we supposed to take the side of the poorly treated advertisers?

It's interesting that you think we're supposed to take a side at all.
> This was the general drift of my thoughts as my wife and I dropped off my eldest son as a freshman at college. I put on my best face. But it is the worst thing that time has done to me so far. That moment at the dorm is implied at the kindergarten door, at the gates of summer camp, at every ritual of parting and independence. But it comes as surprising as a thief, taking what you value most.

Well written. Perfectly describes my feelings dropping my oldest daughter off at college. While I had two more still at home, it was clear the role I had grown into over the past 18 years was coming to a close.

When my last left home I felt a kind of crisis of identity. I had, perhaps a bit begrudgingly at first, costumed up and played the role of father when my first child was born.

I think at first I thought I could continue to be the person I had been: continue all my side projects, activities and "raise-kid" would just be another project. Slowly though, "father" became my primary project. Even my side projects were affected: things like a MAME cabinet, a Step-Mania dance pad project I saw as two-fers that the kids could enjoy as well. Other projects, like a wooden push-bike for kids, a play-house, I would not have considered at all before I became a father.

And so, slowly perhaps, father became my identity.

Oh sure, I'm still "father" but besides being physically absent, I know too that this is when they need to also be socially distant from me and my wife.

The empty nest has left me wondering who I even was before I became father. I confess that I can only see something like an apparition of what was a more hedonistic me back then. Going back to doing my little projects now (no longer family-focused) seems almost pointless.

More than a few people have suggested I volunteer, and perhaps I will give that a try ... if I can find something that clicks.

Perhaps though, if I live long enough, when my kids have kids of their own my wife and I will have something resembling our old roles back.
I actually lost the ability to write after a small stroke. Comes out as nonsense. Can still type at 80wpm just fine.
Apparently different parts of the brain.
The real question is why would you want to retain information in your brain when you're already writing down that information?

I take notes so that I DON'T have to remember.
It's got a lot better, like, a lot, a lot. So much so in some films it's used everywhere. I've read accounts of how mocap data is routinely thrown away because it's basically junk and poses are redone in 3D now in some films.

That said, the optimal outcome is not a consistent one in this field. People still rush stuff and that leads to ordinary looking CGI in new works.
flamebait!?

Best way to retain information is spaced repetition. How you do it is up to you. Lots of love.
It’s not far from South-Ukrainian Nuclear Plant, north of Odessa. That region is not an active war zone and there’s no meaningful targets in that specific town. It’s just the first blackout in the last 9 months.
And how do you feel about having to buy a license for every N operations using the feature?
Image Metadata and Exiv2 Architecture(2021)
This is a bit like the “don’t write your passwords” stuff. It doesn’t matter how obvious the arguments against it are — the author of this piece is not the first to note the absurdity of this setup — it is engrained as “best practice” and you will be fighting an uphill battle as a heretic trying to do anything else. I’ve lost similar arguments for similar reasons.
The incentives of optimizing for future revenue are different than those when you are optimizing for minimizing expenses. These values are not very comparable.
This is really good, the language, the examples, just everything. It's right up my alley.
GP is saying that the slow part of pharmaceutical development (synthesis,trials,etc) takes so many orders of magnitude longer than the software part (candidate generation) that any speed improvement is moot. In fact having lower quality software generated candidates merely leads to wasted time later.
My passwords are synced between all of my devices - iPad, iPhone, and Mac.

Even if I lost all of my devices, I could walk into a store, buy a new device and log in and all of my passwords with be in sync.
There really should be a syntactic sugar for things like pure function/stateless, and its collary, explicitly reentrant, verified by the compiler. Then a debug mode- or perhaps flag would allow all functions which dont qualify as explicitly non-threadsafe, possibly having that as the default.

But I'm dubious about the use of needing to explicitly mark functions as non-threadsafe, its a bit like the const vs mut, but while const might be slightly less common save for things that should be autogenerated, in the case of reentrant, if it isnt explicitly marked, it should never be used reentrant, even if it happens to be a pure function at the moment, or for this one implementation etc.
I wrote an extremely hard and complex program in which I had to use c++ metaprogramming throughout. Not my decision. I do not understand why you could possibly need more metaprogramming than C++ provides. This is a problematic feature to begin with. Not worthless but not worth much. The debugging was difficult. Many problems show up buried in literally thousands of compiler error messages.
Why the clickbaity title that seems explicitly designed to raise animosity when the conclusions are as a pro-vaccine person might expect? To like cause fights when an anti-vaxxer posts it without reading or something?
Often you don’t need to confirm the e-mail address to complete whatever workflow you’re doing.
Unfortunately this toy example isn't even pure functional because it raises an exception as a way of providing an alternative return from the function.

A better example, if one wanted to keep a single function pure and still keep (two) states would be to return a tuple of (current_count, is_expired). Further, since it uses zero as the implicit boundary to determine when the counter is complete by counting down from the provided value, the function should be named countdown_timer() or something more descriptive.

Honestly I'm not sure who this little article was written for. The references to C++ were irrelevant. The OOP Python example, however, was a pretty common example of how Python people write code. It's a shame, really. We should (edit: not) have to deprogram people to get them to choose something more like the latter "functional" approach over the former pointlessly-OOPy example.
PTSD: Alleviating flashbacks by playing Tetris (2019)
So a double oxymoron?
This seems pretty outrageous but reading their website they state:

eufy records and stores videos locally when motion is detected by your device. If you subscribe to our cloud storage service, your videos are securely stored in the cloud and can be deleted at any time. Your videos will be permanently deleted from our servers according to the storage period on your plan.

so it sounds like it's working as intended with their privacy guarantees to do with your data stored in the cloud and ensuring it's only accessible by you

Although the part about identifying faces does sound pretty Orwellian
They make special external disks (that may require an iOS app). I bought some for a friend.

But you can also have it connect to a computer over wifi and auto-backup. Does Google let you do that?
Violent Protests Erupt at Apple’s Main iPhone Plant in China
I guess I do fit in somewhere, thanks.
A cell is not a machine in what most people would understand under this word. It's almost like it's full of agents that each have their own goal and through endless evolutionary selection these goals between those agents became interconnected in such way a complicated way that they play this "orchestra" that is a cell. But when you look inside it's a huge biological mess. There is no central part that controls everything - cells and multicellular organisms are hugely distributed systems.
Thank you - I’ve had this suggested before but just couldn’t get it to work. I’ll have another go as that is obviously way better (and saves running a very large VM).
I suspect the point of the article was to be seen again and remind people of his book.
I feel like there is a tendency for technology to overpromise by offering solutions to the wrong problems. To take your example, what is the fundamental issue with elections? I would say that it is that the optimal number of people for deliberative decision making is probably around Dunbar's number, certainly not millions. When you have millions of people, it is purely a media game, so decision quality falls off a cliff. So I doubt general elections can ever yield better results than they currently do, regardless of the voting system and regardless of technology.

So my general skepticism regarding blockchain is that it presents technological solutions to social problems (so it won't work). AI is different since it's a bit all over the place. In principle, it aims to solve problems that are obviously worth solving, but as long as it will fall short of its promises, the partial solutions we do get are kind of a mixed bag: if we need to keep a human in the loop or at the wheel, it's suddenly a lot less attractive. And the path to the AI being good enough to be trusted is nebulous at best. But we'll see. As for PCs, their utility has always been obvious and the roadmap clear.
I mostly agree, learning efficiency is not directly tied to the method, but how the brain processes it over time and may even require multiple methods to sufficiently learn something. I wouldn't be surprised if emotions or feeling frustrated while trying to learn hampers it as well.
I've always feel like I get my best quality sleep when I go to bed extremely tired.
Really cool! As a novice, it definitely felt approachable and fun to play against.
For me, Atlas was just a way of installing my gaming windows install a little faster, because I didn't have to spend hours removing or disabling all the shitware, spyware etc. I was gonna do that anyway. I think it's just as likely that people using Atlas are just Linux/Mac daily drivers who consequently have a much lower tolerance for Windows' builtin malware, and so take efforts to make the little time they spend in Windows more bearable.
It runs DOOM though.

https://youtu.be/J2qU7t6Jmfw
The vast majority of Windows games work perfectly fine on Linux nowadays. The only major exception is anti-cheat, but even that is starting to change. Even 343 is working to bring the Halo
Master Chief collection to Linux by moving to EAC’s linux offering (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/09/343-working-on-halo-th...)

With the incredible success of the Steam Deck, PC game publishers would be stupid to ignore it.

VR isn’t there yet, but VR isn’t a massive industry anyways. And besides, Valve is the PC VR company. Anyone predicting that VR is never going to work well on Linux is being foolish. As soon as Valve decides to allocate resources to Linux VR, the problem will be solved. And they have every incentive to do so, since they’re clearly all in on Linux gaming.