skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That indeed seems like the kind of compare and contrast text that LLMs often produce. The format is something like "look at the commonly described characteristics of X and Y, draw between them and describe the commonly described contrasts between the respective characteristics". It's rather tedious and often only useful to learn those characteristics. Especially the way it often falls down is that it can't extend-by-analogy the various equivalent characteristic. Or it doesn't get the idea that our question is "how could we make X work like Y" and can't really answer it if it did get it.

In this example, as far as I can tell, the relevance of RFT would come if the transformers architecture of LLMs, which allows output based on context, allowed these models to partly simulate the "personal histories or cultural contexts" through having on language reflecting those things. I don't know if that's a reasonable claim but it seems like LLM can't really "get" even that sort of possibility.
Anyone else getting a Same Origin Policy error in Firefox? Threads.net doesn't work at all for me on FF.
I've contemplated this, but in general I'm not a big fan of hosting personal files on the cloud if it can be avoided. Maybe if I use rclone and encrypt it...?
My Problem with the Four-Document Model
Where be your jibes now?
it'll be very good. it won't resolve conflicts for you, though - just like Dropbox or Google Drive also wouldn't. It's last-write-wins, so you either need to keep your devices connected and syncing at all times, or you need to be careful when you edit the same files on different devices.

I use Syncthing for all kinds of things and it's excellent, but it's not really a silver for bullet for mutable data like text files.
The way Twitter verification used to work and why was of any value to other users was that, if your twitter name was, idk, the name of an important politician or company, the blue checkmark meant that someone at twitter took some amount of care to check that you're actually that politician or company. Like, "verified" meant that twitter verfied their identity, tying the twitter account to some sort of external credentials. You used to know that you're talking to the actual company support team or whatever.

Now it just means someone paid some amount of money. They're "verified" in the sense of like verifying the email address you used to sign up with to an olde timey web forum, and maybe that you're probably not an absolutely minimum effort spam/scam bot. However the "verified" checkmark is still basically useless because it doesn't verify an identity or credentials anymore, and it's easy enough for bad actors to get the checkmark to then impersonate some brand or website or whatever, and have their posts get privileged by The Algorithm.

So, previously "verified" status was useful for people to be able to tell that the posts they're reading are really from who they think they're from. Now, "verified" status means that bad actors and bad posters get their posts boosted ahead of normal posts, so the replies to any mildly popular thread are going to be full of attempted scams and tepid takes. It's become completely useless for its original purpose and makes content discovery worse.
Strange, I found most of those things easier with KDE and Gnome V2.

What do you consider polished and efficient? Minimal chrome?
I nearly positive google maps isn't including ozone
Remember XMPP? I would use a custom client to connect with my facebook friends. Then one day they said nope and turned it off. Did that hurt XMPP? No, not technically. It is used behind the scenes with jitsi for example.. but would you use XMPP for a new project today? Unlikely.

I foresee the exact same thing happening with ActivityPub.

Edit; I should really scan all comments before I post, someone else posted something similar
> Should I worry that a cohort of supergeniuses is plotting an existential demise for the rest of us?

Because they're human. They've evolved from a lineage whose biggest advantage was that it was social. Genes that could result in some large proportion of serial killers and genocidal tyrants are mostly purged. Even then, a few crop up from time to time.

There is no filter in the AI that purges these "genes". No evolutionary process to lessen the chances. And some relatively large risk that it's far, far more intelligent than a 70 iq point spread on you.

> There are power structures and social safeguards going back thousands of years to forestall that very possibility?

Huh? Why the fuck would it care about primate power structures?

Sometimes even us bald monkeys don't care about those, and it never ever fails to freak people the fuck out. Results in assassinations and other nonsense, and you all gibber and pee your pants and ask "how could anyone do that". I'd ask you to imagine such impulses and norm-breaking behaviors dialed up to 11, but what's the point... you can't even formulate a mental model of it when the volume's only at 1.6.
Eh, sort of. NextStep was more 4.4BSD based. MacOS trasitioned to FreeBSD elements.

And the kernel space for both absolutely have a lot of BSD code, more than the Mach or IO/Kit portions last time I checked.
Older than...Lotus Notes?
Isn’t insulating a house way more expensive than buying a bigger heat pump and paying for extra electricity?
Feedback is always welcome. Thanks for checking it out! I may botch the response to your points, but I'll give it a try below.

Force > To use the base, yes some force is required. In our opinion, you want force to prevent false-positives on latching. False positives are a big problem with bases, as people perceive latching to have occurred when it actually has not. Visual latching indictors are not sufficient, in my opinion. Our experience and design encourages audio, visual, and tactile feedback to minimize misunderstandings and false positives.

Please note that while a base is convenient (people like the quick click-in, click-out of bases) it is not needed. You can just use the seat belt. Roll with whatever you prefer. Personally, I just use the seat belt.

Fire-aft> I have no idea what you mean by "fire-aft distance". But it sounds like you are worried about angles. We designed the seat to encourage good angles at rest, whether with the lap belt alone or with the companion base. Most automotive seats have a 5-10 degree upward angle. A rear-facing infant car seat should be resting in place at no lower than a 30 degree angle, and no higher than a 45 degree angle. If you go too high it increases choking risk but conversely improves the crash test scores. If you go lower it is better for a baby at rest and has less choking risk, but worsens the crash test score as more force is distributed into a smaller area and less rotation of the seat is possible. All this to say, there is a lot of variability across vehicles and seats in a vehicle, and to the best of my knowledge no car seat base accounts for all the permutations well. Regardless, angles are important because babies (especially younger ones) are still developing the muscles that hold up their head and have less head control than it might appear. For the parents out there, the final back angle should be approximately between 30 and 45 degrees as measured from a level plane, but please refer to your seat's user manual for its instructions. In most scenarios and vehicles the Kioma car seat should rest at an approximate 40 degree angle.

Competitor Comparison > We try to avoid direct comparisons with other companies, because it makes the lawyers wince. However, while I'm biased, from my personal experience I can say I'd take the Kioma any day over the competitors. There are many reasons we built this product, and none of them included "existing [insert company name] does a great job at this!"
That sounds awful. Either a law should be passed so that the executive branch can enforce and make laws, or they should remove the Frankenstein veto.
> The US military is one of the biggest consumers of fossil fuels

I guess this phrasing is up for debate, but according to the source linked "the DoD would rank 58th in the world" in fossil fuels.

Is that a huge amount of fossil fuel use? Absolutely. But one of the biggest?
The UX is much better than Twitter IMO. I like how easy they made the onboarding
+1 for Obsidian. So much faster that Notion and does what I need, with amazing plugin ecosystem if you want specific features.
Honestly this is what I think everyone has wanted for a while. It's a stripped down version of Twitter from years ago without any of the nonsense and ads, and a straightforward ui/ux. And it already has your profile information from Instagram and everyone you already follow and/or friends with so there is little to no setup required which makes the onboarding essentially one or two taps.

edit:
and yes I know the irony of "no ads or nonsense" (yet), but as a way of getting people to join (in the near term) its a pro.
Glad to see Matthias Felleisen's paper "On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages” mentioned right off the bat.

Shriram’s talk on the same is mentioned too—Shriram is a great guy and I’ve enjoyed all my interactions with him. He’s working on improving CS education. There’s a neat program called “Bootstrap” that he’s helped found that aims at teaching algebra with programming. The idea is that functional programming helps students grok important algebraic concepts. (Sorry if I slaughter the description.)

Anyway, I appreciate these people and their work. Cool stuff.

(Disclaimer: my advisor has had both Shriram and Matthias as advisors. I thought they were cool before starting my PhD though, so it’s genuine. :)
great to hear that it works, but it is hilariously expensive for what it does.

When the price comes down to $3/month, I'll start paying for it. Until then, I'll use Syncthing for free.
Echo should be the protocol name
Any info on when the app will become available outside the US?

edit: not sure why I‘m getting downvoted, didn’t realize it was mostly about me being in Europe
Sad ending for a great product. I've been using Simplenote since 2015 and it's been refreshingly consistent.
I wanted to sign up but it looks like it's only available for mobile. Guess I don't get to be 5M+1!
Twitter has became soo weak that even Meta decided to forget about status quo and build alternative.
Nothing absurd about it at all.

We live in a capitalist society where attempting to execute on a big hairy audacious idea can lead to spectacular success or equally spectacular failure.

Elon clearly crushed it by executing his business plans for Tesla and Space X and therefore deserves to reap the rewards.

As for Twitter, he bought an overpriced toy for himself and in deciding to use it according to his desires, instead of the previous owners, he destroyed the previous basis of Twitters valuation.
But don't rule out the possibility that his remake of Twitter doesn't lead to a new and even higher valuation based on executing a new vision and operating model for the platform.

I'm betting that Elon gets the last laugh...
Need for uses other than eating.

Like de-icing roads.
Seems so.

Nuclear power plants around the world have been releasing water containing tritium in the ocean for decades. The amount Japan is releasing is actually quite small in comparison.
What's ozone for?
Services that rely on local storage are vulnerable to their own data loss scenarios as well as being much less convenient.
What about this story makes you confident they had the assets to pay out the client balances they reported?
Still made all around the south bay.
Wow. Assuming that’s all true, good luck, ex-Evernoters! I hadn’t used your stuff in ages, but I’m sure lots of worked hard to make something nice.
Of course but read the comment I was replying to, to my reading they're saying the regular water cycle would take care of the excess salinity which is drastically wrong in the human scale and a complete misread of the issue. The problem isn't that we'll over salinate the whole ocean but that locally the released brine will kill some, potentially large, area of underwater life before it diffuses back down to the rough background levels.
This is quite interesting. The flowers close up when VF2 detects a person's face. Any other applications based on that?
For some context, this isn't really an argument about how much science should be in the curriculum, but how detailed and prescriptive that curriculum should be.

New Zealand's High School curriculum is very perspective. There is an exact list of skills that students are expected to show, and all assessments are managed centrally. Teachers are more or less expected to teach to the test first and then fit actual learning around that. It does work well when the curriculum is well designed.

This article is talking about the the primary school (elementary) curriculum, which has always been much less prescriptive. There are no centrally managed assessments, just a set of learning guidelines that teachers have freedom to design a learning program around.

This new science curriculum draft is taking this anti-prescriptivism approach to the extreme. It's a pretty short document that lists a few overarching mega topics. It's expecting that teachers will read between the lines and manage to teach all the important science skills within context of those topics and get them ready for high school. On the positive side, this gives teachers even more freedom to customise their teaching programs.

But it also places a massive workload on those teachers to actually work out what they need to teach students. Good teachers with strong science skills might be able to achieve this, but the rest will struggle. Opponents of this draft are arguing the majority of students will receive sub-standard science teaching, find it boring and then stay away from science courses at high school. Science is one area were you really do want a more prescriptive curriculum, simply so these generalist primary school teachers know what they should be teaching.
From what I've heard, they use FreeBSD pretty much just in their CDN appliances. Apparently their application servers are mainly Linux.

There's a lot of weird reasons why you'd use FreeBSD in storage appliances that I have mixed feelings about.
I'm already using it outside of US (Hong Kong)
Alternative front end for Lemmy (looks like old.reddit)
They lost the plot when they started selling Evernote-branded socks (and other accessories). No bugs smashing, better search or faster/more reliable sync: flush with VC money, the smart guys at Evernote decided that Evernote-branded socks was what their users really wanted.

I still have a few Evernote-branded Moleskine notebooks lying around. They came with a 3 month voucher for Evernote Premium, I think. Anyway,
heavily discounted on Amazon, it was almost cheaper to combine the notebooks with vouchers than to subscribe online.

And then you had all the different apps, like a recipe app. My God, all the apps. Complete waste of resources, complete lack of focus.

When the VC money dried up, the penny dropped. Prices were hiked, new subscription tiers with artificial limitations were introduced, management changed, but by then the writing was on the wall and I switched to alternatives.

Being one of the first 1000 Premium users, I still feel bad about the loss of my second/forever brain, though.
I think you have to turn off Enhanced Tracking Protection (and the Firefox Container extension, if you have that) so that it can load data from the other Meta domains.
Ditto. I use ig just for business and twitter to stay up to date with everything else. I won't mix these together.
After some more research, for now, the ones I've found that may be the right choice:

SoundMAGIC E11C
1More E1001
Beyerdynamic Soul BYRD

I think I'll go for the SoundMAGIC E11C and check if it works with the iPod and then try the other two. Thank you.
https://keita.blog/

Not sure how many people here read both Japanese and English, but it's mostly English with some Japanese posts here and there. It's mostly a collection of side projects that I've been working on and some memos for future me.
At 56secure, we have embarked on the journey of constructing AI-powered cameras entirely from the ground up. Our prior experiences with third-party CCTV cameras enlightened us to the possibilities of significantly enhancing security measures. By leveraging AI technology at the edge and integrating it with on-the-ground agents, we are committed to offering users a proactive security solution that surpasses existing standards. https://www.56secure.com
It is available outside the US, in most regions other than the EU (which is due to concerns about violating the DMA afaik)
Federated Authentication (using Instagram) and UI is smooth. It just might work.
No web/desktop version is a dealbreaker for me
Personally, I just use markdown text files+vimwiki on my laptop, along with Markor for Android, and Syncthing to get my notes where I need 'em, but in the end the principle is the same: Own Your Damn Data!
I don't think bankrupt is the right word here. It's the opposite. They didn't bankrupt themselves. Their scam was exposed at some point so they stopped doing it. They didn't lose any money. For what we know, the creators may have been quite successful in extracting money from its users, including Bertyar88.

So, the more interesting question to me is how much money BaseFEX actually made from this scam before they turned it off.
Doesn't work for me on mobile. I'd assumed it was a uBlock Origin or other privacy protection problem. (When I saw this was some Meta thing I lost interest in figuring out why it didn't load in that browser.)
What makes you think they aren't going to put ads in shortly? They are most likely trying to entice people to sign-up and will, once they get to a critical mass of engaged users, add them in.
Surprised to see a non-acquired, non-Facebook app developed by Meta succeed
>The attitude of my bosses.

This is absolutely IT! Everything else is secondary. Nothing boosts a noob's confidence as the fact that his boss trusts him to deliver on the project and gives him the responsibility and positive support needed to do so.
The constraints of DNA over RNA. That checksum double helix has slowed evolution up, which is what makes gene therapy interesting as a military application to survive hostile environments. Some bacteria like bacillus can survive radiation levels 100,000 times more than humans.

Personally I think if you can get a good idea of what the land based environment was like back then, you'll have a better idea of what changes are needed to extend lifespans in order to watch evolution taking place before your eyes. Currently only viruses and some bacteria like Gram negative pseudomonas can evolve quickly to changes in their hosts environment.

What makes their discovery interesting is the use of berthierine, an iron rich, aluminium rich clay.

>The analysis found that fossils with exceptional BST-type preservation were particularly enriched in an antibacterial clay called berthierine.

Pseudomonas loves iron in all states, and its bacteria that destroy skeletons, once animals and insects have picked at the flesh, so there might be some mileage in using aluminium based deodorants for a starter, in order to reduce bacterial levels as a strategy to extend lifespans, besides dietary supplements and fine control over our environment, like air quality.
> It's a stripped down version of Twitter from years ago without any of the nonsense and ads

Hold my beer...
I wish this was an option for home scale, using solar generation to create the ice during the day, for cooling needs at night. I live in the desert, so no shortage of solar energy, but require cooling at night. A Tesla power wall couldn’t fulfill my nighttime cooling needs for a reasonable price, but a huge block of ice, would be a perfect thermal battery.
It is Facebook. People who are in that ecosystem will use it, whereas those of us who aren't will not go anywhere near it.
GPT-4 when released was great at coding. After they aligned it I don’t see it performing so well anymore. I wish they created a model specifically for code generation.
You've listed a few anti-user changes here - some of them incorrect (nobody is forced to pay for anything) - and then asked how the anti-user changes are pro-user. Certainly not the most logical of questions. There are of course many other changes. A better question would be, despite the claims you're making (those of which are valid), has the user experience gotten better or worse? Aside from the third-party apps and temporary rate-limits, you haven't mentioned anything else. So add those negatives to the changes that are pro-user positives and I think you have your answer.

By the way - what is a pro-Musk activist? Someone who corrects false statements on the internet?
When a party has the power to change it, they have little reason to; when they don't have the power to change it, their opinion doesn't matter.
Yes, it preceded iOS Notes. Evernote started in 2004.
I need another app on my phone like I need a hole in the head. What makes this better than, say, Facebook's news feed?
That is a Github issue. If you mark a repository on Github as template repository, they create this nice green button, "Use this template", which links to `<repo-url>/generate`, but this button is only visible to logged in users, and URL only works for logged in users.

This is very inconvenient for people who create template repositories. This becomes especially problematic, and makes me wonder what Github product managers are smoking really, that the big green "Use this template" only shows up on wide screen, if your browser is not wide enough the Github product team has decided to hide the most important button of the page.
We already have abundant fresh water. We use it to transport sewage, fertilizers and other crap to the ocean. It would be silly to try to clean it afterwards - but here we are?

Adding salt is a great idea, it pushes our collective stupidity to a noteworthy level of nonsensicalness.

It makes me wonder what other hard to remove poisons we could add to challenge ourselves. Perhaps design a new disease?
Nothing absurd about it at all.

Unfortunately this is a view held by many Americans. It is sad to me to see people defend the fact that one person can accumulate so much whilst vast numbers of people have so little. Hopefully, someday we will strive to implement a just and equitable society rather than trying to become Ferenginar.
I would assume that people start market manipulating during the troughs. During the bull markets you shouldn't need to fake anything.
Given Instagram’s 2.35 billion users, is 5 million a lot?

Im genuinely curious. Don’t get me wrong, the headline number looks impressive, but isn’t 1 million / hour kind of expected at this scale?
“I wish I had more paperclips than anyone else on the planet”
Perhaps parent-poster would be satisfied if the signup process contained a choice like:

* Yes, please create a starter feed for me of popular content.

* No, I want to start with a blank feed so that I can gradually add things on my own.

That way there's both an explanation of why all those strangers are listed, and a mechanism to curate more carefully.
Thanks for the suggestion! By the looks of it, it seems to be a complete solution similar to Evernote, whereas I just need to figure out the 'syncing' part of things (I use Emacs for the rest).
Don't you think having so many competitors offering free notes apps is a large part of it?
If threads can’t kill twitter, nothing can.
OMG is it really free? Just tried and I think it's worth some investment LOL
Yeah, I'm sure there won't be ads for at least (checks watch) a few more hours.
I’m reminded of a quote from Tommy Boy about guarantees.

> Ted Nelson, Customer : But why do they put a guarantee on the box?

>Tommy : Because they know all they sold ya was a guaranteed piece of shit. That's all it is, isn't it? Hey, if you want me to take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed, I will. I got spare time. But for now, for your customer's sake, for your daughter's sake, ya might wanna think about buying a quality product from me