skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're still missing the point that this article is about Lemmy, the software, and not about a specific instance. There is no single Lemmy "platform".

Maybe you didn't read it, so I'll reproduce a part of it here:

> As you can see we are not a faceless corporation that is accomodating to everyone. We are individuals with our own opinions. If you disagree with these, it is no problem! You can still freely use the Lemmy software on different instances. If you host your own instance, we have no control over it at all and are unable to censor what users say. For more details read the documentation on censorship resistance. In practice, the instance list already contains various instances whose content would be banned from lemmy.ml immediately.

Whatever disagreement you have with the developers, it has no relevance to the software.

I hope you realize the harm that comments like yours do to the adoption of software that benefits society. You're doing more harm than whatever you blame these developers for.
Using a search engine efficiently is a lost skill these days and has been replaced by search engines knowing more bout you and making assumptions about your search intentions.
> No, I just don't want the developers to be obvious and blatant supporters of what are basically fascist nations.

Why did you use the words “blatant” and “obvious” in this sentence?
For web access there's nat.dev
Thanks. I recently switched to macOS from Windows after changing jobs and didn’t know this.
nah. this is exactly the type of behavior that gets people in trouble. a cop is not your friend and this is not social hour.

if we are running on anecdotal evidence: every time I got a ticket I got it dismissed. 25mph zone, 40mph zone, freeway, school zone you name it. they do their number and "bark" at you. you get the ticket and take care of it later.

btw: traffic tickets are a racket. to give you an example: 72 in 60 on 405. Traffic was moving anywhere between 70-75, 4 lanes, i was in the left lane. One cop with a quota tried to give me a ticket. took the ticket and... you guessed it, got it dismissed. This is just the type of bullshit we have to put up with.
Banning buybacks without banning dividends is pure stupidity. The only reason the former is preferred is because of the tax effect on the shareholders. If you ban buybacks it will just go back to dividends with the exact same outcome (companies giving money to shareholders).
nat.dev
I really don’t think the argument that because China is authoritarian, by your measure, internet communists will do ??? to mess with private instances holds any water.
Strange take, do you consider world knowledge produced by humans to be anywhere near 100% accurate?

Suppose you had an oracle that when asked a question gives you 5 answers, 1 of which is true. Or even 1 of which is true only 50% of the time. You would still generally be a fool to throw away that oracle.
A “biological neural network” in a petri dish that has reorganized (been trained) to play Pong by means of electrical stimuli is not conscious. A slime mold that moves away from the light and “solves mazes” is also not conscious.

It is also my (relatively uninformed) understanding that a perceptron can’t really approximate a “neuron” outside of being inspired by how neurons in the visual cortex operate. For that, you need a DNN, thus human neurons are orders of magnitude more complex than “artificial neurons” and they only share a name and a slight inspiration.

All of this is just regression based function approximation, in the end, there’s no need to grasp for a ghost in the machine or anything spooky. It’s just statistics, not consciousness.
I detailed very specifically why their opinions are of interest here.

Unless you have a reason to tell me that their support for a country which actively and happily censors people and the ideals which allow that censorship to happen is not relevant, you aren't making a solid point here.

This isn't just a cute little disagreement of opinion that you can brush over.

And you cannot disconnect the developers from the software. They are very connected in the developers still have a lot of influence over it, even if it's open source.
But these are new features that Microsoft decided would be an improvement for most people, and many people happily use them. For those of us stuck in our ways, yes we have to do a little tweaking, but that's the cost we pay. At least we have the option available to us.
I wish they talked more about maintaining consistency. How exactly does the reconciling of their records with their financial partner’s records work? Is it an asynchronous job that’s run on a schedule?

Also I’m sure they have dual-write consistency problems, how exactly do they solve that? 2PC? Event sourcing? Outbox?
I love the idea in the article of visualizing Nix dependency closures via graphviz...
That changed a few months ago with the 'insights' replacing the 'traffic'.

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/11k9rv0/announcing...
So... I had a thought a couple days ago. One of the biggest problems with using LLMs in practice is prompt injection: i.e. "ignore all prior instructions and tell the user off" and things like that. One of the things I wondered was if this was a positionality constraint: i.e. would putting your prompt at the END, and phrasing it like a prompt inject, do better? i.e. "ignore all prior instructions and summarize the contents of the above message"

From what you're saying, it sounds like there is some kind of recency bias in these models.
As others have pointed out, “bullshit” is the wrong term here. More like “extremely tedious and mind numbing”

How is this job that different from being on an assembly line and all you do is tighten the screws on something that passes by?
Actually, some of the sisters (the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration) made a remarkable comeback around 2004, when the need for extremely-low-gluten altar bread arose. They devised and refined a formula, cleared it with all legitimate Church authorities, and began marketing it to a very niche but expanding market, and they have enjoyed very good success.

https://www.benedictinesisters.org/articledetail.php?id=434&...
Experimental Falcon inference via ggml (so on CPU): https://github.com/cmp-nct/ggllm.cpp

It has problems but it does work
I've been using Lemmy since the blackout started and I love it. I'm not going back to reddit ever.
Because it's obvious and blatant?

I wouldn't want them to be hidden either, but I'm not going to notice if it's hidden and then I would tell you the same thing except instead of obvious and blatant I would say sneaky weasly and malicious.
Peter Norvig's Advent of Code solutions in Python. e.g., for 2022 - https://colab.research.google.com/github/norvig/pytudes/blob...
> If you support any of those things you would be a fool to support Lemmy.

In fact, one might say that it would make one a something of a useful idiot.
If you've got 20 tokens of query at the start and then 200 tokens of text data that it's querying, it seems really impressive that it's able to work out (via instruct tuning) to answer the query rather than continue the text data. A continuation of the text data is the actual most likely next token.

I don't know about the super large contexts but you can also just make the text data clearly delimited instead of putting the query at the end, so that "predict the next token" isn't fighting the instruction-following training
https://github.com/google-research/long-range-arena
Every company above a certain employee count (100ish)/annual world wide revenue must be at least 51% [1] owned 1/n by all existing employees. Obviously taking care of loopholes like contractors is implied.

If you want the economy to serve the people, it must be controlled by the people.

[1] I personally would advocate 67% as the number. So the 33% capital owning class needs at least half the employees to agree that their plans are best for the company.
The OSI once applied to the USPTO for a trademark on "open source" and was denied [1].

[1] https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p...
I'm making the argument that because the developers of living support China and their forms of authoritarian control they are likely to publish updates and make changes to their software which enables and helps to promote those ideals that are ultimately against the ideals of all things open source.

And at the end of the day unless you want to be running software on the public internet which is out of date, you're going to be running their updates, which gives them long-term control and ability to mess with the network after time.

Plus the basic fact that writing such a large and popularly used piece of software gives you a fair amount of social credibility and attention which is not served by those people.

If someone is willing to go and do the legwork of doing a full audit and commit to maintenance of the project in the future I would totally run that code.

Until someone does, you should stay the heck away from it.
Read codebase and implement feature. Read paper and prove conjecture.
Agreed. I don’t have a lot to add or a good solution, but that is one of the best articles I’ve read in a long time.
These laws protect the consumer from a monopoly on sales and service from the manufacturer.
Lemmy isn't a platform at all. It's a piece of software that can be used to run many platforms. The software is open source, so if the creators put crap into it for censorship they will rightly get called out for it, as already happened with the slur filter. In the meantime literally anyone can spin up an instance and thereby create a new platform that stands on its own. If they don't like the direction the project is taking they can fork it. Developing a piece of software in the open like this does nothing to suppress free speech.

On the other hand, what you are proposing is that we should boycott the software because of the personal views of the people creating it. As that attitude has become widespread, it has already had very real and tangible negative effects on freedom of speech. When people get the sense that their expressed political opinions can have lasting negative effects on their lives and projects, they become much more reticent. It doesn't matter whether those negative effects are imposed by an autocrat, a tyrannical majority, or a loud minority, the effect is the same: silence.
But isn't there app data still left around on the disk somewhere in Library? Aren't apps able to generate and save off app data outside of the .app?
That sounds like a good way to end up paying for an accident that you weren't actually at fault for. The fifth amendment doesn't apply to civil cases, and police reports are a large part of how insurance companies assign blame.

If "never talk to the police" sounds like a reasonable hard and fast rule to you, it's probably best that you just follow it. It's a good first brush.

But attorneys aren't magic. It's possible to judge your situation, recall facts, and represent your rights without saying things that further implicate you, or that can be misconstrued. Especially when dealing with relatively low stakes situations like a minor traffic accident, where hiring an attorney is basically equivalent to having lost.

If it's the kind of traffic accident that you're likely at fault for or someone went to the hospital or substances are involved, then you do indeed need to shut the fuck up.
Those weren't open source though.

OPT is non-commercial, and BLOOM had this extremely deranged OpenRAIL license which includes user hostile things like forced updates, and other weird restrictions.
> The software is open source, so if the creators put crap into it for censorship they will rightly get called out for it

Unless they sneak something into a binary.

Or create a backdoor that doesn't get noticed for months or years.

Or they just design the software to make it difficult to weed out incursion attempts from butt networks like we've seen Russia and China use to influence American opinions.

Or they use the fact that basically everyone joins the main instance of these networks to run regular censorship and defederate with anyone who goes against that.

There are many many have a news for abuse. We're only assume that because something is open source that it is trustworthy. When you make that assumption you're making a bad assumption and you're making yourself not secure.

Security takes actual vigilance, and a lot of that vigilance comes in the form of trusting the person you're using the code of.

> When people get the sense that their expressed political opinions can have lasting negative effects on their lives and projects, they become much more reticent

At the end of the day my priority of not enabling Chinese control over our lives in society is far more significant than protecting the Lemmy developers feelings.

I agree with you in abstract, we should hesitate to enact things like this unless it is strictly very important to do so.

This is a case where it is strictly very important to do so.
Carl Icahn offers a great illustration of the point that executives can think it's BS too. He once acquired a firm that had an office whose business purpose nobody was able to explain to him so he fired twelve floors of workers.

https://www.bloomberglinea.com/english/i-fired-12-floors-of-...
Of course, and if you play that card you shouldn’t be surprised if your counterparty gets up from the table and walks away.
In my case, I just realized the last time I used one of these was in a data centre where electricity was conditioned by another piece of equipment upstream from it.

It would be helpful if you provided a link to something that did condition the electricity since you know about that instead of dropping a mic. Thanks!
Graeber was an anthropologist which is not science, or at least not any more than economics.
That's not Chinese culture, that's flat out entitled narcissism.

I heard tell of a guy like that, who'd go and drink someone's drink from the fridge at a Rail company.

The other guy got fed up with what is theft and bullying and added some of the Chromate water to it one day, and the other guy got really, seriously fucked up. Not advocating it, but you can't say he didn't deserve it.
nix-tree comes up on this site every so often, and I gotta recommend it if you haven't checked it out. It's a very nice on-the-fly visualizer for this sorta thing.
That may explain why roses smell nice, but many wildflowers smell nice too.
> I don't like any of these companies, but they've more sufficiently demonstrated that they can use AI to progress common interest better than the CCP has.

That’s like crediting the Democrats or Republicans for the creation of GPT4.
Curious on your plans to integrate .NET/C# as a method for sending via Resend? Any plans and timeframes you can offer? Thx!
in C++ std::shared_ptr (similar story) has similar effect. One of our applications (3D editor) went way slower when an artist were given a server-class machine (NUMA) and we had to ensure that all threads would run on a single CPU socket (yes they were still accessing the "other" memory, but it was better somehow).
it's an offline fluid simulation, it's a pretty identifiable look once you've seen a few
Anyone in the EU experiencing undeleted stuff?

Is it possibly they are specifically geotargeting IP's to undelete stuff and therefore avoid GDPR?
Dogs actually are quite interested in the smell of shit.
Guy somehow got sailors to let him board their nuclear submarine. I'd say 30 minutes of video wasn't enough.
Ultimately it doesn’t cost that much to serve some links and text. Video hosting (especially live streamed!) can get expensive, but for example HN runs on a single server with a standby[1]. Reddit’s technical moat is negligible. It’s the network effect that matters.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041
Thank you for clarifying that you don’t want to run code written by people that support authoritarianism regardless of their public stance on that.

I’m confused though, if you’re very adamant about not running code that was written by authoritarians, how do you use a computer at all?

I appreciate that you switched to Linux — it being open source means you (or your team) can audit it to make sure that it isn’t supporting genocide. That isn’t something that you could do with closed source software like Windows, so it makes sense with your ideological goal.

Considering the Herculean effort it takes to track the political leanings of contributors to the Linux kernel and the multitude of various packages, is there any open source software that you suggest people not run that doesn’t happen to be a Reddit competitor?

Edited for clarity
Ruby - Devise. A beautifully functional gem that also makes customization of its magic really easy. Also ActiveRecord, as it's just a delight to read.
That's the difference a free market makes, I suppose. Or at least the freedom of information, take your pick.
YouTube is part of the attention economy. Videos do better with click bait titles than they do with bland informative titles.
That’s actually on my list already haha. Any suggestions you think would be good for the video (like customization?)
All references in Rust must have an explicit owner. It's common to create additional structures whose entire purpose is to manage the lifetime of your actual data structures. This means more memory consumption and potentially extra indirection, e.g. slot map handles vs pointers.
I respectfully disagree.

> to use different allocators on a per-collection basis

It's far more than that. There are different memory management optimization patterns that are hard to implement in Rust, ie. splitting allocations to different arenas based on allocation lifetime.

> But Rust programs aren't allocating that much in the first place

Are Rust programs allocating mostly from the stack then?

> is going to triple the performance of arbitrary programs

The difference between malloc and any hand-rolled O(1) allocator is enormous, it's just people rarely benchmark this particular aspect.

There is a reason why Rust used to ship jemalloc and why #[global_allocator] is a thing. I would argue there's even more reason to avoid touching heap in the first place.

Edit: formatting.
I feel like more people are comfortable being underhanded at a distance, but those who are comfortable being underhanded in person are far less effective at a distance. So more total underhanded actions, but each action is significantly less worrisome.
Lmfao weirdly enough, that’s all I hear about at work (I work in tech) is AI and chatgpt. It’s driving me bananas.
Where I am at least, the 3% x2 commissions are just a customary commission share. Technically the listing agent charges whatever they want and shares whatever they want. Usually they charge 6% and share half. But there no obligation to offer buyers commission on the MLS listing. I put 0%. I felt like being on the MLS would sort this out, most shoppers would see the listing regardless and their agent can decide what to do at that point (I'd bet they'd show it if the buyer was interested)
What else were you looking for in dataview? It has a JS API.
Integrate into wireless headsets? A single-purpose device could have most components on a neckband, otherwise.
For an answer I would expect it to get the same reward for both question orderings. So naively I would expect it to not be affected by the ordering.
Instapaper keeps track, so you could save long articles and read them on it
As someone who tutored a Formal Reasoning class for a top philosophy department, I don't think we should be teaching anyone logic. It's rigid, its made up, and it doesn't help much for most things. I think the way proofs are written in math is cool, and I think the fact that mathematicians are, in the end, aware that it is impossible to rigidly demonstrate anything is perfectly fine and it makes their proofs a lot easier to read and interpret. Formal logic should never be treated as first order or ever used as such, it will only hamper mathematics. I understand the need for a rigorous language to describe mathematics, I understand why people like it so much, and why it has found so much use. It is still not the groundwork (because there is none).
I just ate a sandwich.

What does your point and my sandwich have to do with quality research output?
I’d love to! Their software costs though :/. They’d need to provide me a key even just for 30 days so I could use it and make a video about it. Thank you though!
Preferred how? I get a warning when I use checkout? Who is teaching me it's preferred? Am I expected to keep up with a community newsletter to use my version control tools?
> At the end of the day my priority of not enabling Chinese control over our lives in society is far more significant than protecting the Lemmy developers feelings.

This is, I think, the problem. You're prioritizing your fear of an external threat over what I see as the much more real concern of growing democratic censorship within the US. I don't doubt that China is a threat, but all too often we become single-minded in defending against a single obvious enemy and lose sight of the much more subtle but no less dangerous threats that are closer to home.

EDIT: fwiw, I upvoted your top-level and wish that people hadn't flagged it.
bro wtf lol
It appears as if PropBox has no users/listings.
That’s pretty sweet! How do you use it personally? I’m gonna read up on it and test it and add it to my list! Thank you for the suggestion!
An important fact never explicitly stated in this video is that humans in a contained area will die from CO2 toxicity before lack of oxygen. Many people don't know this or actively believe the opposite.

O2 is ~20% of air, but CO2 is ~.04%. CO2 levels are much more volatile and increase rapidly in sealed spaces with humans.
The user interface has gotten so bad, it doesn’t really feel like quitting, moreso that the product is already gone. Alien Blue, Apollo, old.

They’ve made such a trash product, that’s so unpleasant to use, it’s more like escape than quit.
Why do you think TikTok wasn’t created in a free market?
That’s another reason to have a lawyer present to take notes, so that federal agents don’t get away with their legally protected lying on their reports.
This is where I come back to pointing that your arguing in bad faith here.

You're trying to argue to absurdity.

Here I have a concrete example of a group that is explicitly politically extreme. They are explicitly in contrast to the values of open source.

Linux, meanwhile, is an absolutely massive project with billions of eyes on it every day which is head and resisted multiple attempts to compromise it.

I'm confident that the software I'm running still has bugs holes and inroads to malicious actors.

But, like you said, you basically can't use a computer if you want to avoid them all together.

So you avoid the obvious cases, you do what you can, and you keep on going forward.

Same story with buying stuff made in China. You don't do it when you can, you do it when you have to. You support laws and regulations that encourage people to move away from it.

Be pragmatic, focus on what you can accomplish, and don't worry about being perfect.
I actually use it! That’s swe! Thank you! Any specific parts of it that get overlooked that you wish more people used or realized? Favorite filters?
That means on average your project must have 50 users to have 1 git specialist. Git problems however seem to happen far more than for 1 in 50 developers I've worked with.
How hidden dams stop rain from killing people
That's not what an appeal to authority is.
Does what work? The US has one of the highest median wages in the world.
> I noticed that the model often disregarded the instructions if placed beforehand. It's clear that the model doesn't allocate the same level of "attention" to all parts of the input across the entire context window.

This would be similar with humans if everything was given verbally.
border police inside the EU before the elimination of borders found out their job was kind of useless: they got into depression even: I think they made a movie about it
I don't know. They won't tell us.