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> There are no other options now.

XMPP never went away. Nor did IRC. Nor did USENET.

The entire old Internet is still there, protocol-wise. It is unused because users don't want it; it's clunky, it requires manual maintenance, it just plain doesn't work as well.

> Google won’t rank those projects higher than they’re legally required to, so not many people see it

You don't have to invoke a conspiracy to explain why these projects rank low. Google bases its rankings (primarily) on "interest to users" signals. And they just don't have the interest. It is a chicken-egg problem, but the egg smells. When Facebook has 2 billion daily active users and Mastodon just topped 1.8 million, the naive assumption is that Google 2,000 times as likely to guess if you're talking about "social network," you mean Facebook.

And it's not about propaganda. No amount of propaganda is going to make my mom comfortable running her own Mastodon node, or help her find my grandfather's posts when he's on a different node. Users don't want the complexity. The web used to be more complex and we moved away from that as people.

> Mastodon kind of sucks right now

... and is pretty much the best thing outside the walled gardens.

That's the issue. The wildnerness is full of tigers.

> They’re not waiting for a savior because they don’t feel the effects daily beyond a few ads. It’s a slow process that hides the true outcome.

I think we agree on this but I don't know what you mean by "true outcome." The true outcome is people use the Internet for what they want and then get on with their lives.
https://archive.is/oCqjw
The only one being foolish here is you with needless pedantry. Yes the legal contract says that the authors dont owe anyone anything but there is also a social contract at play here that you are apparently not understanding.
Kafka API is the HTTP protocol for data streaming
So far, people have come up with many alternatives for quadratic attention. Only recently have they proven their potential.
Webpage design and visuals remind me immediately of Parsec game from late 90's → https://web.archive.org/web/20210629164711/http://www.openpa...
I was going to say, "I wonder if Bun.js would/could use this" but it looks like Jarred Sumner has been cherry-picking bits of libxev for at least six months.
Regarding Delta and AGPLv3: I'm not entirely convinced the current Delta terms are actually in violation of AGPLv3.

For context:

> Due to the licensing of emulator cores used by Delta, I have no choice but to distribute Delta under the AGPLv3 license. That being said, I explicitly give permission for anyone to use, modify, and distribute all my original code for this project in any form, with or without attribution, without fear of legal consequences — unless you plan to submit your app to Apple’s App Store, in which case written permission from me is explicitly required. Dependencies remain under their original licenses.

Basically, "I grant you the combined work under AGPLv3, plus an exception for my original code." You can make use of the exception iff either that original code is separable from the rest of the work or all other involved copyright holders grant identical exceptions. The "No further restrictions" clause can only apply to code that Riley Testut does not own and is using under the AGPLv3 license.
The legions of unpaid mods manually reviewing user comments and posts are such an advantage. A lot of people attempt to run their own shill subreddits but they end up being such poor quality and isolated that no one goes to them and they're basically invisible. I feel like one of the reasons reddit search is so bad, is that you actually get exposed to all the low quality subs that way whereas Google just ignores unpopular subs.
Eh... I don't understand current fashion for "pixelart" games... It was done on purpose in the past to look good on CRT but nowadays it just looks terrible...
It was the Wachowskis following Kubrik, who was generally famous for abusing his actors to get the performance he wanted.

As Laurence Olivier supposedly said to Dustin Hoffman, “Why don’t you try acting, dear boy? – It’s much easier!” It's just not necessary to abuse actors to get a good performance. And people get hurt when you take that route.
I remember watching it on YouTube. Really liked the book design. How expensive/difficult is it to have each page in different colour? Tell me more about the page quality. Also it looked like "product sans" at first glance, if yes then how is it licensed? Why didn't you choose flat binding?

Anyway congratulations on the book release. It's really a beautiful creation and worthy of being an art piece.
Have any of these methods found clips and speedrunning shortcuts? Examples: Clip the base of the flagpole to skip some animation time. Clip into and walk below the floor to run past obstacles. Etc.
Very nice! TBH, libuv sometimes felt like it is popular because it's popular rather than sheer technical prowess. I was never comfortable with how much allocation is done by it, and I don't always find how it deals with platform primitives as useful as I'd like.

> don't be afraid to reimplement this kind of stuff for you. A purpose-built event loop isn't that complicated,

Amen. There's no need to view the event loop as mysterious. It's just a while loop that is constantly coordinating IO.
> I pointed them towards vLLM, but it sounded like they were set on ollama

I'm baffled how someone could be so set on Ollama. Being married to a tool is always weird to me and being set on the (very) wrong tool for the job even when faced with good advice is even weirder.

Maybe they'll change their mind the first time a VC, customer, or hire sees Ollama and laughs ;). Kind of kidding but not.

> I’m curious though, why do you think llama.cpp is a toy compared to vllm?

llama.cpp is downright incredible for supporting things you would never do in multi-user production environment:

- Support Nvidia GPUs going back to Maxwell(!)

- CPU (waaaay too slow)

- Split layers between GPU and CPU (still way too slow)

- Wild quantization methods

- Support all kinds of random platforms you'd never deploy to in production (Apple Silicon, etc)

- Much, much more

Whereas the emphasis for vLLM is:

- High scale serving of LLMs in production environments

llama.cpp does really well when used in Ollama type use cases - "I want to run this on my Macbook and send a request every once in a while" or "load a huge model across VRAM and RAM on my desktop". WITH the understanding that being hosted locally is more important than being at least as fast as ChatGPT (which is more-or-less considered the bare-minimum standard in the industry).

I said "at least isn't aware of vLLM" because you can take it even further than this (like Cloudflare, Amazon, Mistral, Phind, Databricks, etc) and use something like TensorRT-LLM with Triton Inference Server which kicks performance and production suitability up yet another couple of notches.

It's a right tool for the job kind of thing.

At this risk of sounding elitist I have no idea how a dozen total tokens/s on CPU (or whatever) is going to be acceptable to users.

Especially in the case of the original scenario (AI startup) - if you go into a highly competitive and crowded space with Ollama (CPU or not) you're going to get beaten up by people deploying with solutions that are so fundamentally drastically better.

All of this said I have no idea what you mean by "small-scale-but-still-production" and no idea of your users or use case(s). I suppose there's always a chance llama.cpp on CPU could be fine in some cases. I just can't possibly imagine what they would be but that could just be my own experience and bias talking.
Windows 10 is nearing the end of support.

Windows 11 will make less work for your future self.

If either is running in a VM it will only send telemetry on activity in the VM. If you are just running Word, Word activity is all that will be sent. And if you share documents with anyone not running Word in a VM, Microsoft will probably get similar data. Or ifs you send a document via email all kinds of entities will have metadata.

I guess everyone needs a hobby. For some people it’s trying to beat the house in Vegas. But the people who do do so because it’s their business. Good luck.
In InstructGPT there is a direct pretraining gradient addition as well as KL penalty
Nah, that's not it, I measure the CPU & GPU work separately, and 15ms happens between the kernel invocations. It also happens when I don't print out text.

Thanks for the idea though! I treat it as the first community contribution :D
otoh New York's grid system of numbered streets is an encouragement to wander who knows where with some confidence that you can shortcut and backtrack.
Yeah I was thinking about this and hoped that Postgres had a `float2` data type but `int2` would have to work. I could scale the numbers to fit them into 2 bytes with minimal loss of precision, but decided I'd rather take the storage space hit since TimescaleDB promises good compression. Still haven't measured this though haha.
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gwern! FWIW, I read what you have to say in the same, careful way that I read Bostrom. You're a treasure.
Are you saying it's pure chance that operations like "man - woman" = "king - queen" (and many, many other similar relationships and analogies) work?

If not please explain this comment to those of us ignorant in these matters :)
> tech people feel they’ve discovered something new and noteworthy

Everything on the site is like that (I fell for it too) but it’s not obvious until you run across a topic where you are an expert. He blathers well.
but no burn in on my LCD.
Most things are hard or impossible to monetize. It's much better to focus on monetizing things that are easy monetize to and bring in a lot of money (e.g. coding skills, via a full-time job), than trying to monetize writing, guitar playing, or whatever someone's hobby may be. There's just little to no money there.
We have millions of poor Americans voting against their self-interests to protect the thousand billionaires.
Why do you suppose node is still 50% faster on this benchmark? v8 trickery or something in the library differences?
I got the impression they sold lots of dogs as cargo-carrying robots for US defense organizations.
Yeah, but it's not their fault that most of the companies selling diesel cars lied and are continuing to lie about their emissions.

The EU is especially failing on this front, VW should have been caught year before it was.
There are a few projects doing this. This one piqued my interest as having a potentially nice UX after some maturity. https://github.com/OpenInterpreter/01
Have you read the entire context behind this? Some of the biggest proponents of this are... VW, BMW, etc.
I love Kotkin!
Am I wrong in saying that high-speed trading does nothing to make the world a better place, and simply sucks up hardware, infrastructure, and talent to enrich a handful of people? If not, how about a per-transaction tax on securities trades, one that wouldn't be out of line for individual investors, but would extract considerable funds from HSTs that could be used for things that will make the world a better place?
TIL I use only 82% of my MacBook's standard US keyboard
How much of your standard MacBook keyboard's area are you actually utilising? Do you know?

Keys that I honestly never use on my Mac:

- Globe fn key (it's just too inconvenient to press)

- caps lock (I PREFER NOT TO SCREAM WHEN I TYPE)

- F3 - show all windows (I use gestures)

- F4 - spotlight (I use command + space)

- F5 - dictation

- F6 - I have no idea what the moon icon means and what it does.

- F7 - rewind (Idk, I just never press it)

- right option

- right command

- right shift

Each key has a designated area; some keys are larger than others.

Based on this, I've calculated that I don't use 17.68% of my standard US MacBook keyboard.
Photography / blogging don't need to be exposed to the internet. We can take photos offline (either with an analog/Polaroid type camera or with a digital one), and we can write offline (Journaling, or just using apple notes).

That being said, I agree with you. There's nothing wrong with making something pretty for oneself. Many men and women do this with haircuts, makeup, etc. I still get my hair cut even though I don't do video at work. Just because something is surface-level doesn't automatically make it superficial or vain, or done for profit, though there is certainly some overlap.
Thank you! I love Mary Midgley and now that you mention it, it makes sense. Of course, there's the Oxford connection, and Midgley was critical of reductionist materialism, though she was no Christian apologist. There are loops within loops here, such as the Anscombe connection to both of them.

Your comment led me to this: https://www.lewisiana.nl/marymidgley/
> Because Reddit has horrible search

Sorry, but I've heard this so often, and I just don't know what people mean. I use the search whenever I need to get something from a specific subreddit, and it just seems fine. Also, why would a major website like Reddit have such a bad search? Aren't mostly fine search algorithms freely available?
This type of software is often abused by people to spy on their partners...
There seems to be an issue with the download. After purchasing it redirects to a download page but when clicking on download nothing happens. Other users on Reddit are reporting this too. Hope it gets fixed or refunded.
Offtopic: a while ago the mastodon web interface changed so you had to enable javascript to see anything. I stopped reading mastodon links. I've just noticed that the server will cough up the post if you add "/embed" to the url. For the fine article:

https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/112287515017810339/...
To add to the other recommendations, here's a primer on vector DB's: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vector-database/
Sure, it's different in other countries. But as a dark skinned person in America, this is not unreasonable, but pragmatic. Reporting to an archaeology organization is not at all the same thing as reporting to police.
Wearable not available until Q4. Played with the desktop version and was impressed with the quality of the real-time audio-to-text conversion.
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> just an easy way

More importantly, one of the only legally acceptable ways. Most other filtering mechanisms that you can possibly think of open you wide for a discrimination lawsuit.

Which is problematic because an increasing number of people are attaining degrees, making it an increasingly useless filtering mechanism. We've recently started allowing DEI to try and fill the void, but I'm not sure that scales.
https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

Streisand sets up a new server running your choice of WireGuard, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, or a Tor bridge. It also generates custom instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared with friends, family members, and fellow activists.
This is fascinating! I thought only Reinforcement Learning was doing things like this but you're saying you can do this via fuzzying? What does this mean exactly? How is it able to learn to advance through all these levels? Is there an underlying learning mechanism at play?
Warranties are irrelevant if the LCDs don't actually fail though.
It's only illegal if you poor people do it. For us rich corporations, we do what we want
> to assume that SBF only turned to a life of crime because the EA movement lured him into it.

It's not an assumption. It's a matter of record, understood by anyone who knows the basics of the FTX saga. SBF is a lifelong utilitarian, and his co-conspirators were also committed EAs. Anyone who obscures that fact is abetting the campaign of obfuscation.

> Many of the people involved seem to have good intentions

Yup. That includes Sam and his friends. How did that turn out?

> a lot of money has been donated

To borrow your language, "it's quite a leap to assume" that anyone donated money just because EA lured them into it. How do we know they weren't going to behave altruistically in the absence of the movement?

Why is there an isolated demand for rigor when confronting the movement's adverse effects? Do you think that Sam is inherently a criminal, with ideology playing no role, whereas EA donors aren't inherently generous?

> to objectively good causes

Fair enough. I will concede that there were a few of these. In some cases, early EA principles may have helped people arrive at these good ideas in a way that wouldn't have happened without the movement.

It's just that, I get annoyed when people dismiss the downsides, writing them off as aberrations or lone bad actors. And given the major flaws in the philosophy, it's hard to shake my suspicion that most of their longtermist explorations are worse than just "squishy". It seems quite plausible that they're doing more harm than good.
No wonder. I was reading a about historical battles the other day and wanted to research the armour that the knights whore. When I searched for "knight armour" (I didn't know "plate armour" is the generic term), ONE result was wikipedia. ALL the others were trying to sell me knight armour.

Really Google?
That is not what the court said.

It said that the board did not explain the conditions correctly to the shareholders. Hence, they will provide shareholders with a full explanation of what the conditions were back in 2018 before this new vote.
If you want to display analytics on a dashboard I would generate materialized views from your underlying data first and then display that. Try and precalculate as much as possible to avoid having to do it on your front end.
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Google released an updated called the Helpful Content Update[0] in Sep 2023 that decimated tens of thousands of sites, many of which were extremely prominent for general queries. Glenn Gabe[1] has been tracking 400~ sites since then (those that were impacted), and Google has refused to lift the classifier. That's 7 months of no updates or guidance from Google, and sites like Reddit have tripled their traffic. The same goes for LinkedIn and Quora.

This article[2] also highlights Google defending the stance, even though this LinkedIn post[3] shows that there are issues with this. Google literally made Reddit the number one site for _all_ queries with no regard for other creators.

They might as well delete their entire search engine and simply act as the front-end of Reddit's search, which everyone knows is completely dogshit.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/08/helpful-co...

[1]: https://twitter.com/glenngabe/status/1780563588756676890

[2]: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-defends-statements-searc...

[3]: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:71838511...
The Better Business Bureau is a pretty good fit for this.

https://www.bbb.org/us/fl/miami/profile/real-estate/bungalow...

Take a look at Bungalow Living. I had to file a claim against them and won. Their BBB profile is pretty accurate though it could be more so if it were an F.
^^ Original vote and the new one is by the shareholders.
Whats really odd is I've noticed the exact opposite. I used to always get Reddit results on the first page for any random search I did, and the past year-ish I've found myself needing to add `site:reddit.com` to searches if I want to see Reddit results more and more often. I pretty much never see Reddit results without it.
The best CRTs may have been ok but most CRTs in the history of their kind were not what you describe. I've seen and used my share of them over many decades. Even in the 2000s any of the hundreds of CRTs in an office would have been rather characterized by some CRT glow ruining the contrast particularly around text, constantly needing focus and geometry adjustments if yours was fancy enough to offer the option, commonly 60Hz but somehow always flickering, a bulging screen, in time weird color distortions or fading in some corner of the screen that never went away, the inevitable scratch of the antiglare coating, peaking at 1080i resolution if you were willing to sell your aunt for it, the fine stabilizing wires from the aperture grill creating OCD triggering shadows, huge but still realistically limited to 24-32" screen (in reality most were still huge but only 15-17"), hernia inducing heavy, and above 32" gave your dolly a hernia (300lbs worth), hard to adjust ergonomically, likely some buzzing noise, dust magnets, the smell of overheated plastic and dust being burned off the tube, and I'll stop here before it starts looking like CRTs stole my girlfriend and spit in my coffee.

Don't get me wrong, that smell will always take me back to a time when I had hair and it will without a doubt put a happy smile on my face any day. But it's all nostalgia anchored by a couple of technical advantages that pale in the face of overall tech today.
Already sold out in the EU :(
Like all guest languages on the JVM, its domain outside godfathers' mobile Kingdom won't move the needle to rewrite the Java ecosystem.
As the op, you can do both semantic search (embedding) and keyword search. Some RAG techniques call out using both for better results. Nice product by the way!
The Android app stores. The iOS app store doesn't have any known deals.
> Nobody opposes legal equality.

Possibly that's true now. It was quite different in the South 50 and 60 years ago. (I grew up mostly in the South during that time period: my USAF dad was stationed at different places there.) And as a South Asian, you likely would not have counted as "white" — maybe legally you would have been, but as a practical matter an awful lot of people would have treated you and your family as "colored."
Capitalizing on volatility and change. A lot of that change happens to be negative, but they’re generally not specifically targeting any direction.
Sold out in the EU already? Any ideas when it's going to be available again?
How would you stop a broker, e.g. bank, that holds a high volume of securities and provides HST access for a fee smaller than the market itself?
Yeah I'm not saying it's a better way, just that NATO with low contributors has helped to reduce proliferation which might give us reason to tolerate the low contributions a little more than we seem to.
> Nowadays the average age is high school, and probably trending to grade school

Have you ever seen one of the site surveys that subreddits typically do? The median age is almost always above college graduation (22 years old), at least for the subs I frequent. I could see the front page subs having a median in college age (18-22), but I'd be really surprised if it was below 18.
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