skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it is like Mastodon, but they steal all your data so they can sell it and comes with ads? Are people in some kind of Stockholm syndrome with getting their data harvested by mega corporations?
thats ludicrous...it took them (wagner) one year to get bakhmut...how are they supposed to get kiev now, in a second attempt?
-Main page is some Three.js example (that you can break if you find the controls)
-Android app isn't available on Android 10 ?
-The one-thread link (this link) is minimalistic but takes literally 10 seconds to load and looks to just continue the "zuck is surely a real human not a robot" theme with the branded replies. Also manages to have a horizontal scrollbar

If this is USA-only they could at least mention on the webpage. But now this looks like a really weird failure mode of a launch.
TFG?
Spoiler warning : https://rentry.co/phd_sim
The iOS app requires you to share an astonishing amount of data with Meta. Why do they need access to my health data for me to see others shitposting and dunking on Twitter?

Until they offer an option for people not willing to share their daily step count with Meta — and let's face it, in the age of surveillance capitalism and Meta going down the tubes, that's not likely, — it's a hard no from me.
I am not sure it is legislators job to censor free speech?
And if they passed such a law and it was somehow constitutional, it would then be the president's job to enforce it, so they are very much in the same boat wouldn't they?

The current movie (and TV and music) censorship regimes are all based on an agreement between producers that they will not produce/distribute etc material that is legal but "bad" and in exchange the government will take no action against them like tax hikes etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code

This is how the US has handled all sorts of "censorship that's not technically censorship" since day 1. The actions here seem to be basically the same thing but in our era it's social media not rap music or sitcoms.
Ah yes, because a steady stream of Yoel Roth approved leftist propaganda was good content.
15-20 more federal holidays
What should we do with the artistic legacy of people who commit heinous acts?
Afaik if you can demonstrate that the archived contents are belong to you, you can send a request to the internet archive to take down that content.
I guess their target market are people that really never want to worry about their notes being leaked, and are willing to pay a premium for that.
Something like this may grow out of the GGML project, which is gaining traction. They already have a weights format which can be loaded with mmap, though AFAIK the model architecture still needs to be defined in C++.
No not used it ( at least not knowingly ).

I like the idea - kinda back to a decentralised web of peers like it was in the early days.

However the complexity of the technology is certainty off-putting - I'm not enough of an expert to tell how much of that complexity is adherence to a tech stack ( like RDF, SPARQL ) and how much is simply the complexity of the underlying problem.

I would say the guys behind it seem fairly pragmatic. As an example while the technology allows you to self host, they acknowledge that most people won't be able/want to - and are looking to enable providers as well.

I think one of the problems with the LD/RDF community is it can attract the type of person that things 'we just need a single well defined data model for the universe'.

I think trying to get one schema to rule them all is doomed to failure - for two reasons

- for ontologies to be effective all the users of that ontology have to have a shared understanding of the ontology - simple a written down definition isn't enough.

- the world can be viewed from multiple angles - even if you could agree one view, it's not going to be optimal for all use cases.

However as I said, the SOLID project doesn't appear to be falling into that trap - it appears very focused and pragmatic.
What's their DAU in a week going to be?

A junior dev could build a working twitter clone in a couple weeks; tech was never Twitter's moat.

Twitter had a first mover advantage and got the community of microbloggers. Mastodon and now threads aren't going to fully coopt that community -- And they need to fully coopt it to win.

There are too many people who won't touch a Facebook product with a 10-foot pole(Myself included), so there's a whole group of users, especially academics and technologists, who will never seriously use threads
I did one a few years ago. https://usesthis.com/interviews/matt.lee/

Glad to see they’re still doing them. My stack has completely changed since.
I am from a generation which grew up with phpBB forums of various kinds, and I loved the format.

I still struggle with understanding why we can't remain within decentralised forums. Was it such a hassle to check like four URLs a day to see what was happening in the threads you participated in? Are centralised feeds such a core necessity to us?
> but if godot gets popular enough, money will be waved in the maintainers’ faces, and it will follow the same trajectory.

Yeah just like when Blender got popular, the developers sold it out and now it's a shitty piece of software.

Haha, just kidding. The above never happened and Blender is still getting better every month.
> What's the fastest way to gain 10M users?

> Start with 2.35B users.

I mean it is funny but I don't recall seeing anything on Instagram about threads. iirc, the first time I read about threads was on techmeme a few days ago when it became available for 'pre-order' on the apple app store.
Do we have to have one of these posts every hour for a service that automatically gives you an account if you've got Instagram?
EEE is not really relevant here, they're not "embracing" fediverse at all. it's a completely separate app. they just vaguely claimed they would in the future.

Microsoft is the only company that i know of with a true EEE approach eg with Java
You're not wrong. The Genesis shipped with fairly 'boring' but powerful hardware for the time - an M68K, a Yamaha synth, and a PPU-style video scanout chip. In contrast the Saturn was a kitchen sink of novel ideas that developers struggled to work with. Two CPUs, a polygon rasterizer[0], a sound system with an M68K inside, AND a DSP with a VLIW instruction set.

At the same time I'm not convinced that these failures are entirely orthogonal. Developer marketing is still marketing. At some point during the Saturn's development someone should have said "hey, maybe we shouldn't make developers juggle five CPUs to get decent performance." Letting the system engineers go wild with power is how you wind up shipping a system that looks really powerful on paper but nobody can actually develop games for. See also: the PlayStation 3.

[0] Which itself wasn't even as functional as the PlayStation's. If I remember correctly, rendering to a texture was either impossible or merely very difficult. SEGA also stuck a PPU in there as well which you could use for some effects but it didn't make up for those missing features.
The Trump administration lost any benefit of the doubt with their judicial appointments when they outraged the legal establishment (eg American Bar Association) by frequently ignoring the most qualified candidates for judicial appointments in favor of ideologically Republican ones.
All commercial software is rented. It's already been created and the marginal cost is Zero. You are ostensibly paying for bug fixes and new development, which is at least partly true in many cases. SaaS at least admits a rental model.

Free Software is rent-free, but development may be slow.
Taiwan was basically a dictatorship until recently, not that I agree with the pro autocracy sentiment at all.
That's not their huggingface repo says: https://huggingface.co/internlm/internlm-7b

The current release on huggingface is available under plain apache 2.0
> A little flexibility is ok, but choose-your-own-adventure is not

Now I'm wondering if you could write the how-to in Twine so that it automatically only shows the reader the parts relevant to them based on what they've chosen as they go through it :-)

edit: and having read the article, I see Julia Evans had and executed that idea already -- wonderful!
Are these products available to buy and what is the actual price?
> They will be though.

That remains to be seen.
Historically, religion doesn't have a great track record with its use of moral authority.
If you have a semi-decent machine, I would recommend to run it locally since you then can really adapt a certain style. Your anime might be too specific for the general models many sites have available. Even smaller devices can generate images, although it would take a bit more time.

For a start I would recommend the webui from Automatic1111. There are a lot of install guides. You need to fiddle a bit, but installing the correct version of Python (I think still 3.10.6) should set you up for success. For all systems there are scripts that do almost everything automatically and you then only have to put the models you download in the correct folders. There are also a lot of videos on youtube.

For models you might look on sites like civitai.com or huggingface.co. Most still use stable diffusion 1.5 as a base model. If it is a popular anime, someone probably has already made the correct training set for you.
I don’t write very often but one of these days I will add more. [https://charron.dev](https://charrondev)

I mostly keep it up so I can remember how to keep a next JS project at a very high page speed score.
I'm assuming this is due to a planned staged roll out vs the entirety of the EU got together and agreed no more products from meta.
Yes it's live. JSTucker made an OPML: https://gist.github.com/Josh-Tucker/030b8cba6557927a27f1c7e6...
Agreed. For me, the simplicity and forward compatibility of syncthing and a markdown editor are too great to give up for Joplin.
Getting inspiration from Iran does not sound like a good idea
Damn, the US is doomed if we have a systematic expectation of individuals validating people telling them to panic
they have an evolved use of irony where they project with their accusations, luckily more people seem to have become savvy to noticing this

the incompatible logical extremes of safety vs freedom is starting to line up with historical precedent again
Am I on the same internet? If social media taught people one thing, it is to rock the boat as hard as possible, because only this gives them attention. Twitter is called the hellsite for a reason.

What is it that you want? Intelligent discussion, but not too strange, but interesting, not too toxic, but you wanna say what you think and you feel like you can't say what you think, because then "the others" come with their toxic bullshit?!
What about yelling bomb on an airplane
Dillon here (CEO @ Paperspace, YCW15). I want to give a huge thanks to the YC community and all the support over the years. We have always admired DO and couldn't be happier to join forces!
And in winter time, put liquid water in that freezer, when it freezes, dump the ice outside, repeat.

With enough milk jugs and a long enough time period, you won’t even have much of a water bill.

The neighbours might complain about your “unsightly” pile of water jugs, but you’re saving the world while they’re destroying it.
My Payment Inventions over the Last 10 Years
FTI, TFG means "that former guy" and refers to Donald Trump:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TFG
> There’s no metric of success for non-commercial ones. They simply exist as long as at least two users are using them to communicate.

This is something I didn't really understand when I was younger.

In every online community that has had some amount of hype surrounding it, there are prominent figures either hyping it up further or spreading doom and gloom when the metrics don't match their expectations.

What I didn't get when I was younger was that this doesn't need to affect me at all. Unlike the people mentioned above, my financial or reputational interests don't align with the size of the online communities I participate in. For me it comes down to "do I enjoy participating".

If you aren't an advertiser, streamer, content creator or anything of the sort, you don't really benefit from hype, growth or any of those things. So don't let these things affect your enjoyment of talking to people online or playing video games with them etc.
I wonder how it ranks compared to other github projects in number of issues opened vs issues closed/resolved, median time to resolve issues, etc.
Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, T2.social...

I really expected we'd end up going towards a standard with various clients.

Instead this.
"Bootleg" refers to the "Bootleg Sampler" series of demo discs that got packaged with Saturn consoles.
Build consumer trust and profit from it by deceptive betrayal. People no longer trust brands like they used to. Instead people rely on reviews, but trust in that system is eroding due to betrayal as well.
To be more specific, godot has 8009 open issues at the time of writing.

Certainly one of! I'm only aware of flutter/flutter and rust-lang/rust outranking it.
For a blog about "practical engineering", it doesn't address the fact that in practice, saltwater isn't just "water and salt" but also all kinds of particules, pollutants and impurities that will clog any membrane after a while.
> As far as they're concerned, everyone else agrees with them and they're getting more and more re-enforcement.

Yes. Radicalisation in a nutshell.
>Research into the question of the origin of life has put atheism to bed as a serious hypothesis

This is almost too dumb to respond to, but here goes.

Atheism isn't a hypothesis and never has been. I half-suspect you mean abiogenesis, but even there you'd be dead wrong. Recent research in abiogenesis has continued to make progress and I'd be happy to provide you with some recent citations. As for atheism being "a scientifically viable stance" you sound like you're way overstating the case in the hope that people won't know the difference and will give you really unearned credence. Per Wordnik, in their third definition atheism is "the denial of theism, that is, of the doctrine that the great first cause is a supreme, intelligent, righteous person."

Put in layman's terms, that definition of atheism boils down to disbelief in stories that someone tells you about a supreme creator. Nobody is obligated to listen to or accept somebody else's words, even if they're said at high volume in over a microphone in front of a bunch of people willing to put money in a basket.

Science, on the other hand, is (basically) the "Money talks, bullshit walks" way of trying to filter out the whole host of lies, special pleading, misinformation and plain nonsense that gets bandied about under the "religion" banner.
What is pfsync and why do I care?
>>If Threads is a fractionally less toxic version of Twitter, it’ll do quite well.

Toxicity is Twitter's moat.

Its like people going to watch UFC fight, or boxing or something like that. Niceties aren't addictive. You need controversies, trolling and fighting all over to attract people.

That's why people go to Twitter. Not to post Birthday and Vacation pictures.
if the random government bureaucrat "demanded" something of you you didn't want to do, and you laughed him or her out of the room, both actions are okay

it seems Facebook was more polite than that, instead just ignoring the random government bureaucrat when it suited them

also, in American courts, it is the actual harm that matters. No harm, no standing, no court case.
It stands for “The Former Guy.” Some people won’t say Trump’s name.
>The internet is going to become bedlam and madness drowning in the noise of auto generated content.

I'm less pessimistic, simply because this content is trash. It's not just that it's inaccurate, it's also that it's uninteresting and repetitive. Who will consume it? If no one will consume it, who will host it, and for what purpose?
Isn't it very inefficient to pass structs like Model by value to functions?

I guess it doesn't matter for the matrix operations since they will be probably inlined, but what about the bigger functions?
The official docs[0] are definitely the way to go.

[0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/intro...
It's not that hard to build a backtracking matching engine, at least if performance is not important. I did that in the past for the C# syntax tree used in a decompiler.
Basically the syntax tree has a bunch of additional (non-syntax) pattern nodes, that support flexible regex-style matching of a pattern-tree against a concrete syntax tree.

Example pattern:
https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy/blob/1100d64e4bbd878164...

Implementation:
https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy/tree/1100d64e4bbd878164...
There's an argument that some pieces of the disinformation has some truth to it and thus not being able to say it cause more harm then censoring it. (So which side actually is analogous to yelling fire, the censorship side or the non censorship side.)
Hummingbird SQL Parser
Yes and that's frustrating
And now 25 million

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/6/23785630/instagrams-thread...
Why is this not surprising at all? Of course they will slurp in every single data point your device will grant them. Why shouldn't they? They are providing you with all of that amazing entertainment for free (and always will be, right Zuck?), so why shouldn't they make a buck off of knowing you're a couch potato that doesn't exercise? </sarcasmThatSadlyIsnt>
There is a concept that we can only BE in relation to something else, indeed even the most basic idea of true and false, 1 and 0 are in and of themselves relations. It permeates everything, a sort of cosmic dichotomy.

In the mundane it's our relation to ourselves and the world, but they are very fluid and chaotic. The believe in the metaphysical provides a means to ground a relation outside the chaotic uncertain reality, which can be very comforting and liberating.
Who gets to decide what information is "disinformation" and what is the right information?

Any view that you do not approve of is not disinformation.

Also, you are smart enough to recognize disinformation.. but you think everyone else around you is too gullible and would fall prey to "disinformation"
This is not a genuine question. This reads like 'Darling, could you please put the garbage out?' is a question.

It is not a question.
> That remains to be seen.

I think you will find that Meta will chuck N amount of money to make it happen with some of the Mastodon admins.

And if you don't like it, you can move to another smaller instance, however that said instance may not federate with Threads, otherwise setup your own (unlikely anyone other than techies will do this)

On every single threads.net profile, for example zuck.

"Soon, you'll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, such as Mastodon. They can also find people on Threads using full usernames, such as @zuck@threads.net."

mastodon.social and other instances have signed an NDA and have not denied federating with Threads.
Yeah. Climate change would be dirt cheap to solve if we actually bothered to do it. The famously expensive Georgia nuclear plant cost less than 75% of what Twitter did. Juicero flushed $120M straight down the toilet.
iirc ad targeting was never that good on Twitter. I would imagine there's some kind of relationship between a Threads user and their Facebook account (if they have one) in order to bring all the ad targeting intelligence from Facebook over to Threads. Brands/Advertisers probably love that.
> Add in bots [snip]

Also algorithms that signal boost controversial/inflammatory content as well as unearth more of whatever the user has signaled what they believe in/enjoy/etc, not to mention artificial signal boosts via things like Twitter Blue… with all of this, with social media the extreme fringe can be made to appear popular. It’s like viewing the world through a funhouse mirror.
I wonder how tokenization works for East Asian languages. There are obviously more characters than the token vocabulary size of typical current models.

So, how do models like GPT answer in Chinese? Are they able to produce any Chinese character? From what I understand, they are not.

My second question would then be, which tokenization algorithms are used for Chinese and other East Asian languages. What does that mean for the models? How do models that can learn proper Chinese (with complete tokenization) differ from the models for languages with less characters?
There's a really fun, and deeply relevant, historical tidbit on the history of 'yelling fire in a crowded theater.' That statement didn't actually come from any court case along those lines. Instead it was first used by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in the case Schenck vs the United States, as a metaphor. [1]

So, what was the egregious offense, endangering all of society by words alone, uttered by by Schenck? This "yelling fire in a crowded theater"? Charles Schenck was a member of the local Socialist party, and was distributing fliers urging draft age men to oppose the draft (for World War 1) on the grounds that it entailed involuntary servitude, outlawed by the 13th amendment.

So there's your "yelling fire in a crowded theater" when you concede your right of free speech to the government.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
And you think an uneducated rural farmer is going to trust some numbers you show them? If they think the election is unfair, you going on about blockchain this and zero knowledge proof that is just going to convince them that you're making shit up in order to support a stolen election. The purple thumb proof works way better there.

The academics are right and you're wasting your time, sorry.
OK, but having millions in accounts payable is not the same as actually having it flow out of the company and hit your operating cash reserves.

That's what happening with their loan payments, at a significantly higher scale than vendors they simply haven't paid, and are hoping to shake down for better terms.
I’m like you, and we are wrong because what matters is the default experience.

Not the three clicks in experience, or the I changed a bunch of settings experience. Each platforms identity, the people it draws, the social norms, it’s purpose; is derived from its default experience.

Each identity creates a brand, and the brand is the meme communicated between people. What’s hip and in is a function of brand awareness.
No this doesn’t matter. The president and senate are who pick and approve the judges not the bar association.
All of social media suffers from a paradox: you need enough users contributing valuable content to make it worth showing up, but not so many that it degrades to memes. The key benefit to centralized social networks is solving this by having a huge user base but letting you curate the content you engage with (subscribing to users, joining subreddits, etc.). Small forums have a huge discovery problem.

I loved forums, but with the modern legal landscape, liability for uploaded content, DMCA requests, etc. I would never want to run/moderate one - and that was true even before the current swarm of LLM-generated spam.
I was notified via an Instagram notification that it was launching, and asking if I wanted to "pre-order".
It seems as though many problems get solved once the cost of energy approaches 0.
Do’s and don’ts during an Oracle audit
Genuinely love this little thing. Its API is really ergonomic and it has plenty of things that are missing even from libs like SDL like some nice filesystem utilities.

I'd consider it the Godot equivalent for C programmers.
I remember seeing this and think it's absolutely awesome. If I were someone with such a boiler installed in my home, would I be able to run my own workloads on the device as well? I'd be kinda sad having that much compute but only being able to use it for heat.
Historically, no entity does