skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a really cool idea and would be something I would use. Is there some way to translate short phrases like "drehte sich um" all together rather than word by word?
Saying that LangChain removes the value of learning to write prompts sounds to me like saying that the existence of ORMs removes the value of learning SQL.
I've said this before on my throwaways - this is the same logic as Bitcoin. I don't want more responsibility, I want to use a service that works.

Also, like BTC, the whole thing is network effects, and barriers to entry dramatically curtail networks. People like Twitter because celebrities and journalists use it, not because of the data model.
If the US part has all the talent and all the profit, seems like that'd still be a pretty viable move, wouldn't it?
I agree it is nonsense. The closest I can come to a point is: Amazon locks consumers in with prepayment schemes (like Amazon Prime, where you've prepaid for shipping). Then all the sellers have to follow because thats where the consumers are.

But it's an incredibly thin argument. I am a prime member and when I go to buy things online, the fact that I should choose amazon to get cheaper shipping absolutely never enters my mind.
A more apt comparison : offering Barack Obama the Nobel peace prize!
Indeed. It does rather show how much this is a discussion among men with no female voices.
What is the biggest resource bottleneck in Mastodon?

Like, are the certain design decisions that could be optimised to make it more resource efficient? Is it just because it is written in Ruby? Is there something inherent to ActivityPub that means it has to use a lot of resources? Can work be done to make it cheaper to run?
Most of the author's complaints are about the cost and complexity of running an instance. That doesn't really have much to do with whether it rivals other social networks or not.

But I agree, a better headline would be "Mastodon is Doomed as a Twitter replacement". It's fine for Mastodon to not want to be that. But at the same time a lot of recent arrivals were perfectly happy on Twitter and have only moved because of Musk's shenanigans. So long term they'll probably jump ship if a viable alternative comes along.
> It should be noted that's the opinion of Western liberals

No, it's my personal opinion and observation.

Synthesis of external influence is unavoidable -- people being people -- and paradoxically faster when formally made verboten. Else why does China have a Great Firewall (proves external influence is attempted to be avoided) to prevent cultural intrusion and a massive flow of graduate students expatriating (evidence of the paradox)?

A culture can avoid or embrace. It's not a normative "Western Liberal" value called out, it's a positive acknowledgement of human behavior.
> Running your own instance is increadibly time consuming and difficult to understand how to secure and scale.

I mean, sure, maybe, if you're running the huge and clunky Mastodon source. Akkoma is much easier. GotoSocial is even easier again. Honk, assuming you don't need MastoAPI support, is even easier still since it comes bundled with its own UI.

It'd be easier to take the article seriously if it wasn't blinkered from the get-go.
Probably like a number of users here, I used mastodon "before it was cool" -- and it was never in reality an "alt twitter", it was its own microblogging service, with niche communities, and with its own set of pros and cons.

IMHO the hopes of an influx of users to make it the next Twitter doesn't change the fundament of what Mastodon represents.

The author's statement that Mastodon's CEO has "no plans for monotization [sic]" does not, in my take, reduce the benefits of open-source & federated communities one iota.
Hey! So the Home Mini visuals in the app aren't something I'm personally involved in but I'll make sure to pass on the suggestion for you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
Chatbots Sound Like They're Posting on LinkedIn
Oh, this is harsh:

"What LLMs are currently capable of producing is industrially scaled, industrial-grade bullshit. That’s troublesome for many reasons, not least of which is that humans have enough trouble discerning the age-old artisanal variety. Every human is required to make a zillion tiny decisions every day about whether some notion they’re presented with should be believed, and rarely do they have the opportunity or desire to stop, gather all the relevant information, and reason those decisions from first principles. To do so would pretty much halt human interaction as we know it, and even trying would make you pretty annoying."
Yes, there are other ways to do it, but adding another tool as an option is good, too. Being able to nest containers makes composeability a little bit better, too. For instance, if I want an image that effectively has multiple base images, instead, I can just run both base images in containers inside of the parent container. You can bundle a lot of related containers into an arbitrary app container. It's a natural expression of programming composition into a containerization context, in my opinion.

Containers being nestable components makes a lot of natural wants much more natural to express.
Admin/Veteran of small social networks over the last 30 years here. Yes there are.
>[...]delivery service issue, [...] confusion about billing

Are these really the two big reasons people cancel?

I cancel because the subscription is too expensive for what they offer, be it the quality slid or the content focus changed too much from the original. It is a cost to benefit analysis in my mind.
How Does Founder Sleep Impact Company Growth? (2019)
The internet in general and this forum in particular is prone to pedantic misinterpretations— just heading it off.
> That would change.

Therefore, what?
If TPB was links to the original source videos as hosted by Disney, I don't think they'd have had such a hard time arguing it was OK.

Your comparison would be more reasonable if LAION had an origin link and then a link to a copy of the file explicitly for the purposes of copyright infringement.
The issue is weight - state highways are frequently used for landings in Alaska. That doesn't mean they're good to go for a 737.
Once you implement a basic ActivityPub server, you realize you're basically asking for a friendly DDoS. If you toot a photo to 1000 followers, your server needs to blast it out to every unique instance in that list of 1000, then ask for whatever updates they have. It's not "efficient," but the upside is that it's conceptually very simple.
But that's not at all the reason why. Even the article explains it. They sold well but Chevrolet's quality control is bad. They lost money because of recalls and lack of good control processes to make these cars. They ran a cost benefit analysis and said, "fuck it, we'll continue making shittier cars".

It also doesn't help that many U.S manufacturers opt into building Trucks and SUVs to avoid emission regulations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
My upload speeds, that I pay 120/mo for, are under 300kb. Boradband in america is largely a joke. I have only one provider in my area under 200/mo.
The switch statement in Ruby uses the `===` method under the hood. `===` does not mean "equals" like it does in Javascript. Instead, `a === b` means, does `b` belong in the set of `a`.

irb(main):001:0> Integer === Integer
=> false
irb(main):002:0> String === String
=> false
irb(main):003:0> Object === Integer
=> true
irb(main):004:0> Object === String
=> true
> The lesson is "create something that people truly want to pay for".

No, that's not the entire lesson. If an unknown indie band had created an identical album, it would not have made anywhere near the same amount. If we're going to distill it down to "what people want to pay for," people usually want to pay for something they think other people like.
>The good news is that there are folks (and I forget the name, doh) working on a Mastodon compatible alternative that doesn’t use Ruby and Postgres.

pleroma?
If you are going to do an ad hominem attack, at least cite some specifics about this particular author. Otherwise, this adds nothing to the conversation.
The difference is they didn’t take money from customers to deliver a promise at a future date.
Do you have a writeup on this configuration?
It seems like most Twitter power users who prioritize easy setup, UX, and audience access, and who don’t really care about federation, are migrating to Substack Notes.
Tesla will obviously want to make their product appear as safe as possible. Detractors will obviously want to make Tesla’s product appear as dangerous as possible. As long as they’re not outright lying, I don’t begrudge either side for obeying their incentives. The 10,000ft picture is that drivers using FSD seem roughly as safe as drivers without it.
The article is crap. The main point is in the second half of the article:

> Amazon binds its sellers over to something called Most Favored Nation status. That means that sellers can't offer their goods more cheaply than they do on Amazon – even if it costs them (lots) less to sell in Target or direct from their websites. This means that every time a seller adds a dollar to their Amazon sale price, they have to add a dollar to the price of their goods everywhere else, too.
Yes, I read the PR statements about recent NNs. But what if some new company did it intentionally? So for example, starting from today:

- Currently NNs are in a grey legal area all over the world because nobody knows if so called "training" is a copying or a fair use.

- Lets imagine that NN corpos would win and legalize all NN training as fair use, disregarding any copyrights.

- Now this hypothetical company appears which has a NN producing copies of original training data on demand. When confronted with a question they simply wave it away saying that all "training" of NNs is legal, so they aren't breaking any law. And when perfect copies start to annoy too many people they fine tune their model to produce almost perfect copies. Because there is no definitive line in the art separating a copy from original art.
Google says it's encrypted "with your Google account", not with your password. I don't know what the former means, but they do not say they're using your password to encrypt it.
Awesome. We were just talking about maybe getting a Bolt EV to replace our aging Fit. We were also thinking about the Leaf but rumors are that it's on the chopping block as well. It's weird to me there isn't more demand for small hatchback EVs.
the fear is of the threat to humans and the human livability of the planet, not for the planet itself, which will still be fine after we all die

not sure what's arrogant about that, it's a bit of perspective
Should we allow teenagers to drive on the road before they have proven to be safe? We don’t know how safe they are.
The unfortunate answer is that the courts have yet to decide what exactly "training an AI" means in the context of copyright.

I personally do believe that training using copyrighted data is _not_ a violation of any existing copyright, but using the trained AI to reproduce and distribute something that an expert in the field would regard as a copy is a violation.
> Wait what

Ruby's triple equals (`===`) is defined differently based on the type of the operand on the left hand side.

`a === b` is syntactic sugar for `a.===(b)`; and for classes `klass.===(other)` is defined as `other.is_a?(klass)`.

More examples here:
https://dev.to/baweaver/understanding-ruby-triple-equals-2p9...
There’s this thing called IRC…
Definitely—there are so many thriving fora that were around before Facebook, and will be full of activity long after Meta has been delisted.
Cloud gaming. No thanks. This trend to requiring an internet connection to play offline games is spooky. Who TF wants that?
Their intended solution was to liquid cool the launch pad internally, which would require demolition and starting from scratch anyway. Since both starship and the booster were already superseded by newer designs. I don't think it was "rushed" exactly, but it was either scrap them or use them and get the flight data. It's been sitting for months and likely preventing them from moving forward, so I'm sure they were eager to take action. The damage to the rest of facility and tank farm was almost certainly not expected though.
I love this. This is an awesome idea for accessibility and, presumably for ergonomics. I don't have any accessibility requirements that would warrant this, but it seems like it would be really convenient and ergonomic to be able to keep your hands on the keyboard all the time. I have three questions.

1. How do you clean this? As someone who uses a mouth guard at night, they can get pretty grody if you're not meticulous with them. Can you use denture cleaner or similar on the product?

2. Are you consulting with dentists on this? It seems like you're putting an invisalign analog in your mouth and that could be potentially harmful to one's bite. Presumably if you're using this as an accessibility device the pros outweigh the cons there, but I am curious.

3. How is tongue fatigue with this? Have you found people's tongues get tired after using it for a while or has that been a non-issue?

Again, love this idea and wish you all the success.
How Long-Lasting Memories Form in the Brain
This is what burner card is, and I don’t want to bother with.
That changed. It is now possible to unsubscribe through the website (or at least, there is a gui to do that). I did that, but my subscription is active until next January, so we'll see.

Last year, I asked their support to unsubscribe me and rejected all the 50% discount offers. They said, 'sure, bro', and, needless to say, early this year I was hit by a (50% discounted) bill for a yearly subscription.
I don’t like the whole layer cake of math that we do. Still, in a traditional geometry course you get a lot of pieces that help with trig and calculus, and an exposure to at least informal proofs.

A whole lot of stuff in AP Stats is a relatively dead end for many people, but geometry and geometric reasoning is necessary for all kinds of engineering-ish math.
Nope it's a side-effect of the current business model which is to monetize attention at the biggest scale possible.
Ok, maybe college is typically "worth it" in the sense of typically paying for itself.

But ... costs for American schools have gotten a bit out of control, and I think it's entirely appropriate to view them critically, ask what their purpose is, and how they can achieve that purpose more efficiently.

- colleges and universities have seen a large increase in the number of administrators, over a period of decades

- simultaneously, an increasing share of instruction is shifted to adjuncts

- we're now at the point where a year of private school tuition is less than the salary of an adjunct professor in many cases

So while students are paying more for education, they're getting less (or at least less instruction from actual faculty). If the point of colleges is education, I think we should begin tracking the fraction of schools' budgets which go to teaching costs (faculty who actually teach, facilities costs for instruction buildings) vs everything else, and only institutions that spend more than k% of their budget on teaching should be eligible for loans and grants. k can be brought down over time.

As a very distant alternative, perhaps we're now at the point where we should offer a way to track, recognize and acknowledge work done with a private instructor. Suppose we normalized the practice of one to five students pooling funds to hire a different instructor every semester for intensive and personalized instruction with virtually no administration costs, or a small pool of instructors convening a short-lived "school" on a topic. If we were willing to recognize students demonstrating the same amount of proficiency in their chosen area gained outside of a "college", perhaps we could strip away the less useful parts of colleges as institutions.
> What is the average social media user going to host their Mastodon instance on?

A Raspberry Pi?

https://github.com/guysoft/PleromaPi

(Sadly no AkkomaPi yet, it seems.)
I'm told that the reason for the wide powerline/signpost margins of midwest highways, was so that B-52s could land on them.

There was a fascinating book, called Outside Lies Magic[0], where he talks about these kinds of things.

[0] https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-r-stilgoe/ou...
It may be the whole appeal for you but for others it's a deterrent.
Most of the hard part of coding is adapting to the shifting understanding of the problem, and/or the scaffolding needed to solve expedient parts of the problem while building buy-in and funding to finish the rest.

If you find a way to make any of those parts easier (and “write it for you” has always done the opposite), you’ll trigger Devon’s Paradox, because the cost of being wrong will reduce and so more projects will proceed for longer.
How can the UK prevent two US companies from merging?
The model updates are not persistently stored and are not accessed individually. The system can only access aggregated averages of updates.

Here is a paper that describes the cryptography protecting user data https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/281
The rules for one of my favorite games says that it can only be experienced, not explained. I see that Ruby has the same philosophy.
Using debugger for the first time was actually incredible. Having a debugger attached to a live service with zero impact was such an alien feeling. What a cool piece of tech.
The demographics who both buy new cars and buy EV in 2016-present wouldn't be caught dead buying something from GM. No wonder it went over about as well as the Subaru Baja.

Slap a Toyota or maybe Honda badge on the grill and the Bolt/Volt would have flown off the shelves.
This is amazing, thanks for the detail! I'll set aside some time to have a proper dig through the Electricity Map sources – looks like it will help me expand my map beyond GB.
> There's never really going to be such a thing as a thriving small social network.

Just because you're not on them doesn't mean they don't exist.

I wouldn't namedrop the ones I like here because I like them the way they are, but consider: there are so many 100-200 member Discords with consistent and vibrant communities.

They're not trying to become hypermassive cash engines, but that's okay and even good. That's a grim way to exist.
> Bottom line, Teslas are incredible cars and most people that have bad things to say about them seem to never have owned one.

The author owns a Tesla and likes it a lot.
They have a few properties that could make them more attractive for emergencies. There are no objects around the highway that would interfere with wings, especially no overpasses, poles or trees. The stretches are long and straight, as well as reasonably flat. The road surface was/is kept in a good enough condition for planes to land.

There’s still the middle barrier etc., so in a planned conversion that would be removed, a control tower of sorts set up etc.

But in todays traffic, you’d probably not find a gap large enough to squeeze an airliner in. And I don’t think these are still maintained as air strips, at least in Germany.
They continue to recommend statistics. They removed data science from a sentence that also included calculus and statistics.
From the FT:

Activision, maker of the hit game Call of Duty, said the ruling “contradicts the ambitions of the UK to become an attractive country to build technology businesses”. It labelled the decision a “disservice to UK citizens, who face increasingly dire economic prospects”, adding: “the UK is clearly closed for business.”

What a petulant response.
Well, I'm already married, and I think 1 is enough for me.

But the current trend where about 40% of men (much higher in some social groups) end up single, and not of their own choosing, I expect it to cause all sorts problems in the future, caused by frustrated men willing to take greater and greater risks to get access to women.
> Should other states be allowed to circumvent and subvert protections your state offers children? How about other countries?

From words? Freedom of speech. So, yes.
> “A 6-metre fungus would be odd enough in the modern world, but at least we are used to trees quite a bit bigger,” says [geophysicist Kevin] Boyce. “Plants at that time were a few feet tall, invertebrate animals were small, and there were no terrestrial vertebrates. This fossil would have been all the more striking in such a diminutive landscape.”

Throw in a turtle invasion and a time traveling plumber, and you've got yourself a movie.
Sure. Under direction from her. This is another problem entirely in the Sciences, and society in general (particularly looking at politics).
You assert A. I assert not A. You end up playing the victim again. And for bonus points, accuse me of claiming objective truth with no grounding and then post a quote which strongly implies the views contrary to yours are orchestrated lies.

This is not a good faith post. It should be downvoted.
I doubt they would let anyone have access to their hardware. There is a ton of proprietary stuff in there
Forget newspapers, lets talk about SiriusXM and trying to cancel that; it makes the worst newspaper look like they are doing it perfectly.
Considering Starship is part of the Artemis III program, it's guaranteed to be granted.
In 1966, MIT predicted that computer vision was a summer intern sized project, but it actually took an entire academic field and 50 years.

[1] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6125
There's also Pleroma
I fully agree. I am much more inclined to stay with services that give me free upgrades, even if I don't use the gifts (as long as I am mildly interested in still using the service). And I know nothing is free, but it's pretty cheap to give someone a free week or month of a digital subscription.
Abject ableism aside, I find this comment interesting for how it disregards the meticulous study our own peers perform on life around the globe.
What Motivates Software Practitioners to Contribute to Inner Source [pdf]
From [1] > This book documents Version 1.6 of Ruby

Has nothing about the language changed since 1.6?
Especially since Google recently pulled the plug on Stadia because there is not enough interest.

On the other hand, _Google_ shelving a product is perhaps not as indicative.
> I don't know the actual numbers, but what if peak load is 50% higher than average load

You'd know if you read the link I provided.

Nuclear plants in Germany had no issues scaling up and down between 400-600MW and 1200-1400MW per reactor per day.

Now, with renewables you do have this issue. Because due to their intermittent nature you're required to both overbuild them and provide enough grid-scale storage to last for hours.

> It's just not efficient to keep nuclear power at a capacity lower than their peak capacity.

For some politically-motivated definition of efficient. Additional costs to running nuclear plants in load following mode are immaterial.
You're literally describing the way forums, messageboards, mailing lists and everything worked before Twitter and Facebook came along. Yes, people can and will handle more than the absolute minimum social complexity just fine.

And Mastodon in particular will let you follow people on whatever instance you happen to use. "Checking 20 different apps to talk to 20 slightly different groups of people" is hyperbole, not reality.
Honestly that's fine, but let's be clear that you are saying that you support racism.

To get this professor job you are saying you are okay with being openly racist.

Until pretty recently this was considered a bad thing by most people, and many kind, sane, people are not going to be okay with that as a prerequisite for getting a job.
Indeed but they were not committed to it like VW is with the ID.3 and ID.2.
The gig was up when they stopped selling the Sonic and said their future was just trucks and SUV's.