skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the issues you mention though are real dealbreakers for those trying to use this as a private user. It's really a big adoption barrier not being able to join big rooms without the server 'melting'. Those rooms are big because they have a lot to offer. Those of us promoting matrix as a next gen truly free and federated platform have always expected these to be fixed. It's just not really fit for purpose without those fixes.

It doesn't inspire confidence that we have to wait for this to 'trickle down' to the free version.

And ok yeah I think it's a good idea to kill concurrent product development that does the same thing. As long as it makes the remaining product better.

So there's also a Rust version of FOSS Synapse? I wasn't aware of that. Even the official blog post speaks only of python for the community version.

> By making optimisations that primarily support massive servers proprietary (for now), the $ can hopefully then fund features and maintenance of core FOSS Synapse

Your own blog post about the pro version (and the one about forking synapse) basically said that you wouldn't be working on the community version at all anymore? Unless I misunderstood. But my takeaway from this is 'it's a dead duck, it's time to pay up'. Which is a bit worrying as this is the kind of price only viable for large corporations.
Not at all. I share your sentiment. Many topics are beyond my intellectual grasp at this time, but I’m always hopeful that my curiosity will lessen their obscurity given time and persistence.
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Matrix is an open protocol published by a non-profit foundation. It has always had both FOSS (eg Element) and proprietary (eg Beeper) implementations.

You sound like you are getting Element mixed up with Matrix. Element releases almost all of its implementations as FOSS, and to help Matrix grow, will make those as good as possible for average server sizes. It’s only gigantic servers which actually require the new proprietary modules. Given everyone who uses FOSS Synapse can keep doing so, and given FOSS Synapse dev should hopefully improve and accelerate if actually funded by $ from Synapse Pro, it’s not fair to say that “FOSS is essentially a marketing tool for Element”
Maybe it's marketing, but there seem to be some advances [1]

[1] https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantu...
We are going to break their culture like we have everyone else’s. The hegemon will conquer all.
Can nostr be used for the same form of social network as bluesky (ie, a twitter clone)? It seems that it would only show messages from people the user explicitly follows, for example, and not replies by a third user.

Also it's distasteful to do any sort of content addressing on json data. One would think they'd learn and use CBOR after seeing secure scuttlebutt, but no? Now you have to worry about only sending text payloads, escaping some characters, avoiding whitespace when printing the json... Guaranteed to be a source of bugs...
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Then there is that Saul guy
I do support many FOSS projects. Obviously I can't provide the kind of funding that element is looking for. And that's really where it rubs, none of us in the community can. It's their choice to position this as a massive enterprise level solution.
Yeah, I wanted minimal approach like make it just work without adding anything on top. Although, overlay buttons would have been much easier to implement, heh. Also, jump or shoot (at least) as buttons would be more accessible and I might do that as option once I focus on touch later on.

I'm also toying with the idea of zooming it in with a follow cam, but I'm getting much ahead of myself now. :)
Playing with house money for the founders
This hasn't matched my experience at all. TikTok is much better at surfacing interesting content. IG's "learning" seems to be a sort of auto regressive retargeting rabbit hole logic that just doesn't compare. And the people do seem nicer. But maybe that reflects the videos I am being served. IG discussions on the other hand are more likely to have the kind of smug snark your comment does.
I think it is more of, holy shit, OpenAI is entering this space, and maybe Anthropic as well. What can we compete with:

- Name? No

- Technology? No because we rely on other LLMs

Do we have anything? No. We've taken in a lot of money from big-name investors, so let's see if we can turn ourselves into a complementary asset before people realize that LLMs are nowhere near what they are sold as.
Perhaps 35 is prime? We may never know.
I'm tired of all the issues with Matrix as well. I've never had a message get received or a notification pushed in less than 10 minutes. Went back to XMPP and messages are instant. I want to love Matrix. E2EE, proper federation, voice calls, But the experience is terrible.
And massive amounts of testing and working with other stakeholders.

Functional testing with all the systems it ties into is 900% of the work it seems.
Oh brilliant. So all we need to curtail someone's speech is assert they are "a foreign adversary hoping to decimate the USA?"

That clarifies things!

What about the speech of "the enemy from within" who is "more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these other countries"?

(And to be clear: I think TikTok is awful and should be banned, but I want much, much clearer arguments than this as to why it is able to be banned under our Constitution)
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It's a shame it had to come to this but I can see why Element had to make this choice.

To me it feels like they've ended up in a position similar to Docker Inc. where they've spent years of work and tons of resources building the standards and reference implementations, but missed out on the juicy integration and support contracts.

Docker has turned into the OCI standard and most Kubernetes deployment don't even run containerd anymore. The company has massively rate limited Docker hub and recently increased the pricing again, which has had much bigger impact for end users than this pivot by Element.

I really hope this works out as a funding source for future Matrix development, I don't see how its ecosystem can continue to be developed and healthy without Element.
> The haplodiploidy hypothesis, though nice, is not without its problems. Firstly, there are plenty of species with haplodiploid genetics which do not form eusocial colonies.

That is not a problem. Reproductive fitness must always be measured relative to an environment. Just because colony life is a successful strategy for haplodiploid species in some environments does not mean it will be a successful strategy in all environments. You can see this in other species. Female lions live mostly in cooperative groups while male lions and all other large cats (leopards, cheetahs, and tigers) are solitary.
AMD has been doing IF-connected CCDs/chiplets for a while now - since Zen 1, released in 2017. All the x86 OSes work fine on each iteration.

Application authors who care about wringing out the last drop of performance need to be mindful about how they manage processes and cache lines on this hardware - as they would on any other architecture
No, you have this completely wrong.

The reason that small servers struggle today is not because their workers are written mainly in Python rather than Rust. Hell, they typically don’t run workers at all. The slowness comes from state res being slow algorithmically; state storage being slow and inefficient; wasting time trying to talk to dead servers; no support for “thin nodes” but always doing full mesh federation; the fact faster room joins never got finished; etc etc.

ALL of this would get fixed on FOSS Synapse. The point of Synapse Pro is to try to get $ to actually fund that work. Only massive-scalability stuff is in scope for Synapse Pro: all other features, perf optimisations, maintenance, security work etc will land in FOSS Synapse as it has for the last 10 years. Assuming that this gambit works and there’s any $ to fund it, of course.
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I guess the PP question was like "what real world problems could solve an AI trained on TikTok videos?". Sociology research, maybe.
Isn’t that kind of like saying “complex numbers are a nice formalism, but only the reals actually exist”?

What does “reality” mean, in this context?
Loki has the following problems:

- It is non-trivial to setup and operate. It requires properly configuring and orchestrating numerous components - distributor, ingestor, querier, query frontend, compactor, consul, ruler, memcache, index service, etc. - see https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/get-started/architectur...

- Its' configs tend to break with every new release, since some configs become obsolete and some configs change names and/or structure.

- It is very slow on "needle in the haystack" queries such as "search for logs containing some rarely seen trace_id", since it needs to read, unpack and scan all the logs at object storage. This may be also very expensive if the object storage service charges for read IO.

- It doesn't support log fields with big number of unique values (aka high-cardinality log fields). It you'll try storing logs with high-cardinality fields into Loki, then it will quickly explode with enormous RAM usage. Recent Loki releases provide half-baked solution for this problem - "structured metadata" ( https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/get-started/labels/stru... ), but it is still experimental and requires non-trivial configs (aka it doesn't work).
With no mathematical rigor there is no mathematical understanding. You are robbing yourself, as the concepts are meaningless without the context.

Truly appreciate the power of linear approximations by going through algebra, appreciate the tricks of calculus, marvel at the inherent tradeoffs of knowledge with estimator theory, and see the joy of the central limit theorem being true. All of this knowledge is free, and much more interesting than a formal restatement of "it was not supposed to rain, but I see clouds outside, I guess I'll expect light rain instead of a big thunderstorm".
I still don’t quite get how the cpu knows what is low priority or background. Or is that steered at OS level a bit like cpu pinning ?
I’m of two minds about it. I agree that these days it’s by far the safer choice to steer clear of such antics.

But I do sort of miss the days when we had a little more fun with computers even at work. Twenty years ago it was pretty ubiquitous to get a goofy desktop background if you left your machine unsecured all the time and I never saw any harm come from it.

Times change I suppose.
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I'm reminded of writing JavaScript way back in the old Internet Explorer days (6 and to a lesser extent 7), when you had to manually null out any references to DOM elements if you were done with them, or else the JS and the DOM nodes wouldn't get garbage collected because IE had two different garbage collectors and cycles between them didn't get collected immediately.
Yeah. I've seen some split between low vs high doses, where the first two doses cost less than the rest - a cynical take is that they want to make it cheaper to get started knowing they will get you hooked possibly for life, or at least the duration of their patent.

But yes, non-linear by design - a 15mg dose provides 6x the medication but cannot be sold for 6x the price or people will stay on lower doses (or discontinue) rather than going to a higher dose.

Meanwhile it provides 6x the medication. One multi-use 4-week pen has enough to provide 12 weeks of doses at 4-week titration if used off-label. Obviously this is only helpful on low doses.

Important note: I am not a doctor, I don't recommend doing this - in fact, I have not done it myself and will probably not do it in future. I have seen YouTube videos of medical professionals explaining how to dose split weight loss drugs though.

I would highly recommend dose splitting the brand name drug over picking some compounding pharmacy's version of the drug, or worse, buying it off the street. It's crazy though, there are even counterfeit medications in the supply chain sometimes, for example: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-w...
There is no output for success.
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If you just block the connection, you send a signal that you are blocking it, and they will change it. You need to impose cost per every connection through QoS buckets.

If they rotate IPs, ban by ASN, have a page with some randomized pseudo looking content in the source (not static), and explain that the traffic allocated to this ASN has exceed normal user limits and has been rate limited (to a crawl).

Have graduated responses starting at a 72 hour ban where every page thereafter regardless of URI results in that page and rate limit. Include a contact email address that is dynamically generated by bucket, and validate all inbound mail that it matches DMARC for Amazon. Be ready to provide a log of abusive IP addresses.

That way if amazon wants to take action, they can but its in their ballpark. You gatekeep what they can do on your site with your bandwidth. Letting them run hog wild and steal bandwidth from you programmatically is unacceptable.
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When you said "jump in perceived latency", did you mean perceived latency went up or down?
that seems too obvious. as we saw with DJT stock, which years after its reverse merger defied similar predictions of worthlessness, things that seem too obvious usually have some form of small print or do not replay as they did in the past. Most shit coins implode, but $Trump may be an exception.
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If somebody told you that LLMs are a good replacement for search that person was misleading you.
Down, significantly
Definitely a lot is missing, yeah, and adding more will take time. But it works well already for pure computational code. For example, Google Sheets uses WasmGC for Java logic:

https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc#the_final_...
I've had similar experiences with Google as well. Reaching out with new services, hours with some of their technical people, invites to meetups, free credits, an extremely pleasing and responsive account manager. We spend a few hundred thousand dollars a year with them. The actual software is top notch. Most haven't been just turn it on and forget it.
Ik.

And Aravind has been fairly vocal about India, and is drastically expanding their lobbying and growth team in India as we speak.

Tbf, a lot of it is probably because of the IITM "mafia" - they have an amazing alumni network and are fairly close.
Lol, so its like playing an interactive fiction game.
Matrix have always been suspect.

Disappointed but not surprised.

In short they are saying that if the nation states hadn't opted to use Matrix they would never have bothered developing this Rust version, which only shows that they were never sincere about developing a performant open source version, not to mention their involvement with some suspect Israeli comms companies and the phone home agendas.

Interesting question - will their "nation state" level customers have the right to inspect the source and make changes to it?

Just waiting to have this post flagged.
Crazy how this Gestapo like gov managed to force uninstall Kaspersky. I paid money and they actually did that? That actually just shows me that that antivirus was too strong against the NSA.

Anyhow I'm a Linux user and a VPN user and a Tor user and an I2P user and a Freenet user.

AND I LOVE LEARNING ABOUT DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS IN RUST.

This government is becoming too totalitarian and should be made an example of. The internet was made to be impossible to take down and so should our thoughts and ideas. Distribute everything from now on.
I'm probably an outlier here. My experience with GCP support has been nothing but stellar, like I described in another comment down below
Nothing like a bit of synthetic tennis:

https://cs.stanford.edu/~haotianz/vid2player/
> It doesn't occur to you...

It did occur to me, which is why I couched my statement with "may". Though your framing is still compatible with "rationalization"

I found the tone of your comment needlessly - and weirdly combative.
> Why bother with that anymore if we're just getting the "broken implementation"?

You’re not. All work (other than stuff which primarily benefits scalability for enormous deployments) should land on FOSS Synapse - particularly core performance improvements like faster state res. This is just trying to fund it.

And no, this is not us trying to compete with Teams - this is us trying to force big Matrix deployments to actually route $ to Element to fund upstream
dev, rather than use System Integrators who win the big tenders and then mysteriously fail to route any $ to us.
Would you be able to point me to the talk or blogpost of nextcloud that talks about their business model in detail?
I would be very interested in how it works in practice, how they differentiate with their enterprise versions and so on.
I agree that their business model sounds like having the best of both worlds, so any material on the details that you could share would help me a lot figuring out how to replicate it for other solutions.
For traditional LLMs this might be true (especially large MoEs at bs=1) but I highly disagree with "multi-modal models" phrase since most of the models that output in other modalities are generally compute bound. Which means less flops will make the experience so much worse (imagine waiting a couple minutes for an image and hours for videos).
I get much better output from o1* models when I dump a lot of context + leave a detailed but tightly scoped prompt with minimal ambiguity. Sometimes I even add - don’t assume, ask me if you are unsure. What I get back is usually very very high quality. To the point that I feel my 95th percentile coding skills have diminishing returns. I find that I am more productive researching and thinking about the what and leaving the how (implementation details) to the model - nudging it along.

One last thing, anecdotally - I find that it’s often better to start a new chat after implementing a chunky bit/functionality.
> I've never had a message get received or a notification pushed in less than 10 minutes.

I receive messages < 10 seconds. What's your setup?
Element have a perfectly good implementation written in Go called Dendrite. I run it. It's good.

But support is deprioritised in favour of Synapse (Python).

Moving the goalposts with Synapse does not rejuvenate Synspse, it creates a fragmented system.

Get used to being boring. I am not moving to an ever centralised Synapse only ecosystem - a single implementation is not a federated protocol. That the new Element mobile client only supports Synapse was a huge red flag.

If diversity in implementation is not encouraged with action I'm back to XMPP (+ Jitsi).
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Yes they are! They copy the actual object dimensions, more or less.

In the original, hitboxes were of tile size (16x16). It made the game much harder to play, especially nowadays when even knowing this fact, it felt very unfair or deceiving at times. There are many quirks that were happening in the background because of it and it was fun remaking that.

Although, this change is one of those that are meant to refresh it and bring closer to today's standards.
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I mostly just shuffle stuff into a folder called CanDelete.

That way it’s there if I ever need it but never see it. And maybe once a year I clean it out with a mass delete
This isn't a problem domain that models are capable of solving.

Ultimately in two party communications, computers are mostly constrained by determinism, and the resulting halting/undecidability problems (in core computer science).

All AI Models are really bad at solving stochastic types of problems. They can approximate generally only to a point after which it falls off. Temporal consistency im time series data is also a major weakness. Throw the two together, and models can't really solve it. They can pattern match to a degree but that is the limit.
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First, huge general agreement. The cringe of these people has gone right off the charts since Trump demonstrated how to distract from real crimes by saying heinous shit.

Second, a couple tiny points:

1. "Musk speaks like a man who believes his own insane conspiratorial guff" because's he's a con artist. Speaking with confidence is core to the con; always has been.

2. Bryan isn't known for using "electric shocks" on his little Johnson. They're acoustic shocks; so put the TENS machine back in the closet.
Last I checked they ratelimit push notifications using a proprietary push gateway, unless you’re a paying customer.
The daunting part is usually DNS. Also, a major flaw with domain names is the fact that they are subject to the whims of the provider. What if your last name is Nintendo? Are you going to spend your time disputing every single DMCA and domain seizure request that come your way?
You’re very quick to accuse someone of being “confused” and that their arguments can be discarded out of hand but show no credentials yourself.

Ultimately, Novak was jailed for his speech no? And cohen was remanded to solitary confinement for his refusal to waive his first amendment rights? If a police department or the federal government decides to overstep in the future what exactly keeps them from doing so? It’s established from these cases that through 1/ qualified immunity and potentially (granted this happened after the case, and rank and file would not qualify…) 2/ presidential immunity for official acts, that any citizen could be detained for speech the reigning administration or local officials do not like, without consequence.

If TikTok is denied its ability to operate in the United States, how can an App Store who operates within the bounds of the law allow it on its platform? I admit this is an interesting issue to consider - unlike the radio spectrum the government doesn’t “own” the internet.

It wouldn’t be too crazy to consider that an App Store would require apps to register using a legal entity in the country that it operates within - you need a way to bill the entity, resolve disputes within that country etc.

I think the more interesting question is denying access to the web site inside the US. There’s no single gatekeeper in that case.
Not mentioned: gratitude that tech CEOs’ vapidity keeps journalists employed.
No because there’s no GPU virtualization and translation involved.

Besides, if you wanted to play windows games on a Mac you’d use Crossover (or anything that wraps GPTk+wine like whisky). It’s significantly lower overhead than a VM, and GPU access is translated.
It would be more respectful for these people not to attempt to impose their absurd pronoun demands on others.
GEMM has been the workhorse of machine learning. It’s amazing how we’ve ratcheted up the TFLOPs over the years.

I wonder what other algorithms allow hardware optimization like this.
A new low for Perplexity AI and will do anything for attention.
I think you've missed the point of it then.