skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very reasonable and common question (I asked it myself before joining the team)

Account portability is the major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol. We consider portability to be crucial because it protects users from sudden bans, server shutdowns, and policy disagreements. Our solution for portability requires both signed data repositories and DIDs, neither of which are easy to retrofit into ActivityPub. The migration tools for ActivityPub are comparatively limited; they require the original server to provide a redirect and cannot migrate the user's previous data.

Other smaller differences include: a different viewpoint about how schemas should be handled, a preference for domain usernames over AP’s double-@ email usernames, and the goal of having large scale search and discovery (rather than the hashtag style of discovery that ActivityPub favors).

https://atproto.com/guides/faq
I’ve got a Raspberry Pi 4 booting from an old SSD I pulled from my MBP 2011.

I run it as a “pi-vpn” tap server and it has Samba installed.

Using Tunnelblick on my MBP, I can access my LAN from wherever I am. TimeMachine works too.

However, I mostly use the VPN to get to UK TV when I’m abroad. Sky Go, Netflix and iPlayer mostly.

I’m planing to use my second Pi 4 as a tap client and the WiFi as an access point. I’ll take it with me next time.

I’m going to try to get a Sky Q mini working with the system to get UK TV in an extended holiday in Portugal. Both ends have symmetric 1Gbit connections so it might work.

Edit: I’ve also had a Pi 4 running N64/PSX/Arcade emulators (Emulation Station) over-clocked to get a good frame rate. PS Bluetooth controller.
This comment reminded me of the saying that "the idle mind is the devil's workshop" (which I'm not sure about the origin of). I more frequently do things that are stupid and which I regret when I'm bored and have free time so at least this one person here relates to it.
At home I run:

Raspberry pi 4 8GB with a 22TB external hdd and 1tb external ssd. For uhhhh media. Runs *arr stack and samba. Raspberry pi os (debian) with everything defined in a docker compose file. Also runs tailscale. Having my entire media library anywhere I have one of my devices is pretty sweet and setup was stupid easy. No plex.

An i3 NUC for hosting a game server for some friends. Think it runs ubuntu server. Runs Valheim. Also in docker compose.

A mitac board with dual GbE and a low power intel cpu N3-something. Runs pfsense.

For learning and tinkering I spin up VMs in hetzner and delete them when I’m done. We use AWS via terraform at work and I’m not likely to work somewhere where physical servers is something I’d deal with so using the most likely interface I’m going to be put in front of makes more sense for me. Having everything in terraform really is lovely, from networks to machines it’s all in my editor.
How come the market doesn't fix this?
Researchers discover neuronal biomarkers of schizophrenia in the blood
I keep hearing about how the #1 profession every kid wants to be is YouTuber or influencer or something like that. But don't these professionals rely on high-end graphics/audio/video editing software to produce polished videos? Doesn't all of that require a high degree of computer skills, including using files?
Non-IT parents think their kids "are good with computers" because they can tap the next video on YT.

IT parents show their kids what an OS is, what a File Explorer is, etc. Perhaps it's useless, but it sheds a light on that's behind those curtains, and kids start understanding the mechanics of 'stuff'.
Lemon laws apply to individual cars that cannot be fixed after repeated repair attempts.

This though is simply Tesla abusing customers.
I was in the process of doing that when I came up with an simpler and a lot more reliable method: Deleting the Threads profile.
The "language wars" narrative feels pretty played-out, so I'm not going to get drawn into it. In the software world everyone seems to recognize that different languages have different strengths, and that there's room for more than one. I'd love to play to the strengths of each language (example: SystemVerilog for verification; VHDL for fixed-point DSP).

A polyglot HDL world is elusive because simulator vendors insist on charging incrementally for language support, and open-source tools fall into either camp Verilog or camp VHDL. This is just another thing to lament.
This experiment? You didn't read the paper about the experiment.

Blame the crappy article, not the science, experiment or paper.
> If resistance is there, the dosage won't matter because the resistant bacteria will survive regardless.

That’s not how evolution works. A few bacteria could be resistant to low doses. After the low dose, and a short wait, now the entire population is resistant to the low dose.

That gives them a much better starting point for mutations to the resistance gene and for crossing with bacteria that have some other complimentary resistance gene.
When I was a kid and knew Santa's real identity, I still worked hard at not letting people diminish the fun to be had in that fantasy. Just like you'd probably not tell a kid "hah, that stick isn't really a gun!" or "That doll isn't really talking!"

I think it was while Christmas shopping that I figured it out. How could Santa be at all the malls, and why does he have a fake beard only sometimes? Why are his elves so tall? Where are the reindeer? We were told that those Santas and Elves were his helpers, and that was all that was needed for me to realize Santa had a helper at home, too.

I stayed out of arguing about it with friends who still believed, because they were having fun, and so was I. It was better to not ruin the enjoyment by spoiling it for the believers, or arguing about it with the non-believers. It was fun being part of the nudge-nudge wink-wink group that knew, but didn't tell.

But I distinctly remember wondering how some of my smarter friends could still believe, and chalked it up to them just going with the (fun) flow, like I was. And in many cases, that was probably correct.
Yeah I mean if Biden actually cared about it he could issue an executive order and have it rescheduled tomorrow whether the DEA wanted to or not. this is just a performative act. He is the chief executive ultimately its his decision to leave it as is of to reschedule it. if he doesn't then it means he doesn't care and anything less is just a performance for votes
Also, good.

An idealistic, technical user might put up with the typical quality of early "alternative solution" apps, but seeing enough errors, crashes, unintuitive UX, and other hurdles, several times across several apps, will get most users to give up on the platform.
Is BlueSky the one running those servers? If so that's still centralized, but yes at least it's a step.
"Man wishes concord; but Nature knows better what is good for the race; she wills discord. He wishes to live comfortably and pleasantly; Nature wills that he should be plunged from sloth and passive contentment into labor and trouble, in order that he may find means of extricating himself from them. The natural urges to this, the sources of unsociableness and mutual opposition from which so many evils arise, drive men to new exertions of their forces and thus to the manifold development of their capacities."

- Immanuel Kant on how adversities often develop our skills and enhance our capacities
Tom Insel: Startups, AI, Psychedelics, and SSRIs
Tom Insel is an entrepreneur and former director of the US National Institute of Mental Health, the lead US agency supporting mental health research with a $2 billion budget. Since his time at the NIMH, Tom has worked in industry to build mental health technology, first at Verily and Mindstrong Health, and more recently founded Vanna Health, an online healthcare provider for serious mental illness.

In his book "Healing", he talks about the importance of the 3 P's for solving the US mental health crisis: People, Place, and Purpose. Greg & Matias interview Tom on Business Trip to discuss the 4th "P": Payment. "We have to figure out how to pay for this", he says.

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7EKn2npHMZl8i1vVJTGdfG?si=x...

In this episode, we discuss…

- Psychedelics in the healthcare system
- Are antidepressants overprescribed?
- AI in mental health
- Tom’s learnings from almost starting a VC fund

Please let me know if you are interested in mental health as a founder or VC! Feel free to reach out caitlin@psymed.ventures
> ... we could be running models than handily beat GPT-4 on consumer hardware,

The implication there is that consumer hardware will have more and faster RAM than the current defaults. AI features are going to probably require more than the 8gb minimum that macbook airs have. Sure mistral 7b can fit, but I think generally useful models start at 32B, and mixtral 8x7B still is short of GPT-4. Mixtral requires about 28GB 4bit quantised.

It will be interesting to see if llama etc drive a step up in consumer hardware defaults, but always connected to cloud and paying a subscription for cloud services is the trend with commercial offerings.
> it was killed because of worries about internal competition with Intel IPUs

So insane. It's always better in invent the next big thing that changes the market than a competitor, even if it kills another product of your own.
How do you know it is abuse?
What are you talking about? The parent comment literally linked the GitHub repo with the Aseprite source.
I hate it when I manually opt in to adult content and then adult content shows up on my timeline. The fact that only way to avoid it is to just use the app as it is out of the box is a design flaw
It's a great question that, as far as I can reason, has no answer. Newtonian vibes that are familiar to us will only take you so far, and intuitive interpretations of physical quantities often break down when you try to relate them to the scale, experiences, and stimuli of humans.

Let's take momentum, energy, and charge, things that you probably have a strong "real world feel" for. It's worth noting that our intuition for these quantities is actually pretty far-removed from their mathematical origin. Maybe you consider these as different loosely related quantities that pop up in different loosely related calculations, which is a useful and powerful mental model. Momentum is a thing that..."gives velocity to inertial bodies". Energy is a thing...that "does work". Charge is a thing that..."causes forces in the presence of an electric field". If you try to define the terms within each definition, you'll find yourself in some circular definitions, and it'll become unclear which definition, if any, is "most fundamental".

But these quantities are actually quite similar in the sense that they can all be defined in terms of action! Specifically, these are quantities that are conserved because there exists some nice symmetries in the Lagrangian (roughly speaking, a derivative of action). So our intuitive definitions of these things are really just less generalized/more specific understanding of structure that is emergent from action.

Can we look at a physical system and say "oh this one's got a lot of action" or "nature's doing a great job of minimizing the action over here"? No, but we can look at a physical system and say "wow, everything that's happening in here lines up with what I'd observe if this little quantity I defined just so happened to be minimized"

I think no matter how many Lagrangians we integrate or variational calculations we perform, we'll probably never gain a better intuition for action beyond "The Thing That Explains A Lot Of Seemingly Unrelated Physics When It's Minimized." To me, it's both deeply unsatisfying for its abstract and unintuitive nature, but also deeply profound for its universal explanatory power.

tldr; when it comes to action, reject real world feels and embrace mathematical structure.
Yeah, the problem with the wave of Twitter clones is exactly that: they're clones. You don't make a successful social media site by being the same as an existing site but with different people. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Discord, TikTok, Reddit are all very different in how they function and what types of content is shared. Google+ tried to clone Facebook and was a colossal failure despite hundreds of millions, or perhaps billions of dollars being poured into it.

Fundamentally the issue with Bluesky, Mastodon, etc. is that they don't offer anything different to most users. Yes, they run off decentralized protocols, but most people don't care. Yes, there's no Elon, but most people don't care.

So I'd put it firmly in (c). Bluesky and Threads both tried to recapture the lightning in the bottle which is 2008 Twitter by copying it (Bluesky going so far as to copy the early 00s invite-only model!). Both are either failures or marginally successful, depending on who you ask. Certainly neither are a home run.

If you want to get people off Twitter, don't build Twitter-but-different. Build something better.
This is amazing, I, too will always open notes/logseq/typora/sublime text for such purposes.

Heynote is next level.
It's not just an object though. It's an object that has potentially has implicit bindings to something in the rest of the runtime. Bindings that (to my lament) aren't visible in the first clas-object; secret hidden internal state, tying it to the rest of the runtime.

JSON defines what is possible to do that doesn't involve arbitrary bindings to the rest of the runtime. Short of serializing the world, JSON is the best we can do.

It would be possible to try to serialize, and maybe a function is simple enough to serialize. Do we have existing examples of this? There's hundreds of different serialization libraries. For some reason everyone in this thread is super ignoring what seems like a basic widespread limitation, is being condescending to structuredClone, for not doing what no one else does either. Because there's a very good reason: because here be dragons. I don't get why everyone is so combative & aggressive over what seems so clear.
Yeah I follow some music profiles on Instagram and all Threads gave me was their music stuff replaced with their takes on Israel/Gaza.
They recently released Imagen 2, but now without any sort of benchmark or other academic details.

https://deepmind.google/technologies/imagen-2/
The good thing is that the least action principle is fundamental and very flexible. All the physics are encapsulated in the Lagrangian. So you can come up with any crazy Lagrangian you want, plug it into Hamilton’s principle or Euler-Lagrange equations and see what you get. That way, you can build a whole theory from an insight somewhat easily as the fundamental framework is already in place.
Sure you can. This is what happened with Covid (though antibiotics had nothing to do with it). The early, more deadly strains are less fit for transmission to masked and (later) vaccinated populations, so we ended up with less virulent but more transmissible stuff like omicron.
Chips to Compute with Encrypted Data Are Coming
I don't really care what the idealized DEI policy is. I care about what companies actually put into practice. If companies submitted test resumes that were similar besides details identifying race and gender, and a disparity was noticed then I would be totally supportive of rectifying that bias. I'd similarly be totally supportive of anonymizing resumes, turning videos off in Zoom interviews and masking voices. But that's the total opposite of every DEI policy I've encountered. The problem is that a non-discriminatory recruiting system does produce an equitable outcome, but it's equitable with respect to the workforce not the general population. And if other companies in the field are engaging in hiring preferences, non-discriminatory recruitment will actually yield less because the diverse talent is siphoned off to those less scrupulous companies.

In the real world, I've consistently seen DEI policies that call for X% URM engineers and Y% women engineers. And these figures for X and Y were substantially higher than the percentage of URM and women in the software development workforce (at Dropbox the gender target was 33% women in spring of 2019). This led recruiters to be much more selective when hiring white and especially Asian men. It didn't eliminate bias, it incentivized bias for the desirable races and genders. We didn't expand our candidate pools, we contracted them. We stopped interviewing non-URM men from boot camps any only advanced URM and women from bootcamps. We did the same with non-engineering majors. Women and URM men who majored in a non-tech field but practiced programming on the side were interviewed, men in the same situation were not.

Pretty much every attempt to make a company more "equitable" that I've witnessed has followed the same arc. Leadership assures people this isn't discrimination, it's just broadening candidate pools. They send recruiters to Grace Hopper, HBUs, etc. But this doesn't yield any change, because there's no untapped pool of women and URM engineers. Then the company sets quotas (under euphemisms like "inclusion targets", "diversity goals", etc.) and turns a blind eye to discrimination.

The whole reason why we use euphemisms like "DEI" is because nobody wants to discuss these phenomenons in concrete terms. We use euphemisms like "diverse" because we'd cringe if we just explained our policies in plain English terms (and it'd land us in lawsuits). If DEI really was about anonymizing applications, trying to identify and eliminate biases, and preventing discrimination then I'd be all for it. But that's to polar opposite of what DEI really is.
Relightable Neural Assets. (ArXiv:2312.09398v1 [Cs.gr])
I would bet a chunk of $$ that right before that point there will be a shift to bigger structures. Maybe MOE with individual tree of thought, or “town square consensus” or something.
The Bluesky federation sandbox network is up and running as of months ago, which works exactly how the production network will work. The production network is also federated internally (i.e. Bluesky already runs 10 Personal Data Servers) to prove that it operates as expected.

Quite a bit of the app itself is also federated: custom algorithms (feeds) are being operated by many third-party devs on their own servers, domain handles have been in use for a long time, and the API is completely open (all posts/likes, etc can be streamed from `wss://bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos` in a permissionless way, see atproto.com[1] for details)

It's possible to run a PDS (Personal Data Server)[2] in the dev sandbox. Federation for the production network is planned for early 2024. ASAP.

1. https://atproto.com

2. https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/blob/main/SANDBOX.md
Or you could also NOT serve targetted ads?
You take the population of vehicles in the field A and multiple it by the probable rate of failure B, then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement C.

A times B times C equals X.

If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall.
It’s possible that all kinds of things skew the results. It’s possible that veterans are more likely to report that they are satisfied in general.

But there have been numerous studies comparing the VA to private hospitals that show the VA tends to be safer and more effective as well as having higher satisfaction scores.

>There’s a reason Obama passed legislation…

People are constantly complaining about other health systems like Kaiser and private insurance companies as well. The VA is the countries largest health network and veterans are a very symptomatic group.

My guess is that if you changed history so that Kaiser was in charge of veterans healthcare, with the same guidelines and standard of care they use today, you’d have seen a similar law passed.
Would have done what you did but it literally won't fit:( my coworker has that at home it's amaze
Why aren’t Tesla sales taking at this point? It’s been two years of continuous bad news against Elon.
> web developers never studied CS in college, and now we're seeing the consequences of them not taking classes on operating systems, databases, concurrency, etc.?

I wouldn't single out web devs, even devs that took those courses don't really remember/understand or apply it. OTOH some without any degree can also pick it up quickly if it's explained clearly to them.

I've also not used 2-phase commits in practice though it's good to be able to recognize when that's the territory you're in. Typically it's commit, detect & compensate.

What's even more shocking is how many experienced Ruby/Rails devs know ActiveRecord but not SQL and how indexes/query plans work.
That’s been true of pretty much every antibiotic at launch.
> it's not more likely, it just does.

my point was that to the human mind (we all learn to count as toddlers), 2 emerges from 1+1 more than 1+1 emerges from 2. I feel like I'm reading the paper that says the latter.

>or any scientific concept that generalised existing theories to a far deeper and more unifying result (e.g classical -> quantum mechanics, newtonian mechanics -> general relativity). You are required to somehow develop a theory that not only extends beyond horizons currently seen, but also one that correctly replicates the theory it seeks to supercede.

Wigner, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...

>Its like a literary character trying to write the story it is embedded in.

sure, that's what it feels like, but we know that the characters are not writing themselves. So what's going on? It's not magic, it just seems magical, but humans psychologically are equipped to have a "theory of mind", were we are adapted to imagine/calculate what other people are thinking and feeling, probably because our game theory works better that way, both for cooperation and competition.

Out interal sense of the beauty and majesty of nature and math and science is just more of that, a reflection of our innate sense of these things because it was adaptive. It's more boring than it seems: it's fun to catch and throw balls or stop and smell flowers, but duh.

When it comes to balloons, I have no desire to spoil your enjoyment of inflating them; but don't spoil my enjoyment of letting the air out.
San Francisco rejects 26 candidates' Chinese names for upcoming election
A fool and his money are quickly separated. The guy probably didn't educate himself as a consumer and did not want to put more effort into chasing Tesla to uphold their legal commitments. Perhaps he read about https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/5/21502379/tesla-modely-roo... and decided to take the loss and move on.

Tesla's target demographics often skew towards those that are well to do financially, a good subset of which are not native. This is an easier to abuse subset of the population as they are not clued into how to use their state Attorney General to push Tesla to make it right, or use the other legal avenues available.
By looking up the definition of the word "abuse" in the dictionary
Copilot tells me all the time that it doesn't want to answer my questions on multiple topics, never political and not usually talking about illegal things (talking about something illegal in itself isn't illegal anyways). So if you don't care about political correctness, you should care about censorship.

And 2 days ago, I was able to use MS' copilot (not Github's) to generate Python scripts, and now it tells me that it is incapable. Just tried it right now and the functionality came back though..

They just keep removing functionalities. To me that is pretty much censoring or whatever you want to call it. The quality degrades even faster then Google search quality.

here is a very simple example: https://i.imgur.com/vydRUwn.png (I would never ask that question usually, but I can't remember which questions I previously asked because they deleted my history)
Still pretty good. I do sometimes wonder if they could have been better, but nobody cares about that anymore. And nobody is going to take that 268% away from me.