skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The community is organizing the first ATProto Developer Conference, Seattle, March 22-23

Getting together to show and talk about building the next gen of social media

https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf-confirming-date-seattl...
>Or maybe someone can explain why a researcher would leave a platform with 100x the reach

Nazis. That's why I left.

The US has turned toward fascism and Musk is a big part of that. He has endeared himself to the Trump administration, which has promised to institute policies of nationalism, discrimination, and authoritarianism. Twitter will likely be used as a tool of propaganda and disinformation, if it's not already. Meta is equally compromised in my view.

Easy or hard, I have no interest in using the platforms of boot-licking oligarchs. Even if they have 100x reach. (I'm not a researcher).
BMW UK no longer posting on X
The moderation is mostly federated. You can choose which lists to subscribe to to mute/block/label as you see fit.
The relay stores a copy of everything ever posted by anyone, that's why.
Many large accounts report higher engagement on Bluesky despite having much higher follower counts on X. The effect is especially profound when you’re linking to an external site. X absolutely buries external links.
How do you know summary entries are valid if order doesn't matter?

I.e. "we have 10 customers as of this date" can become immediately invalid if a new entry is appended afterwards with a date before that summary entry (i.e. because it was on a peer which hadn't yet sent it)
definitely true with dimmable LEDs. I have noticed that dimmable LEDs die in a year when running on a GFCI circuit. Solution is to find the junction and branch the switch/dimmer before the GFCI.
How would you compare it to Ubunto or Fedora on WSL?
Bluesky doesn't have a working only followed feed.
Yeah. A bit more depth in the episodes up to that point and the plot would have been fine.
> Or maybe someone can explain why a researcher would leave a platform with 100x the reach, when they can just disable or limit comments.

Platforms are what we make them.

Possubly Nature figured out that by posting content on Twitter they are helping promote a platform that is perhaps hostile to their purpose. Or maybe they would have a wider reach, but to a completely wrong audience.

Or maybe they just figured out Twitter is ass, and decided to post on a better platform, by whatever measurement of "better" they have.

By reducing everything to "ideologically captured", you are saying a lot more about yourself than about Nature.
Bulldozed: flagged, downvoted, villified, sidetracked, strawmanned, ad hominem, getting cancelled.

They often use tactics like brigading, dogpiling, astroturfing.
What's wrong with the "following" feed? Works for me.
Yeah. Think that got the broad strokes of the atproto architecture right for social media. Individual data stores -> aggregation/crawler layer -> services/app views. Feels like how search engines work with html web sites.

I think it will be more successful than Mastodon has been.
Thanks for that. I was thinking of trying NeoVim but I regularly use the `:!` feature to filter (selected) text through Unix utilities – and `:view` if I forget to use the `-R` option when opening a file that I don’t want to accidentally edit, e.g., log files.
when they started they already had everything that was created. before them and they have no moat.
I peeked at the code for gethostname in ripgrep, and it's nice and straightforward.

Much like op said here; we have a culture of "don't write unsafe code under any circumstance", and we then pull in a dependency tree for a single function that's relatively safe to contain. It solves the problem quickly, but at a higher price.

BTW, thanks for ripgrep. I don't actually use it, but I've read through different portions of the code over recent months and it's some very clean and easy to understand code. Definitely a good influence.
Of course a memorization machine can pass exams that are mostly based on memorization.
You can also choose your own moderation, algorithmic feeds, and frontend

The API is open and free too, making it much easier to build on the network. The system is designed so that we can design new record types and create all sorts of applications on ATProto. It's going to go well beyond just a Twitter clone and each app shares the same social fabric, instead of having to attract their own, which is going to accelerate the network effect

Is it perfectly federated, no, there are weak points that will be made less weak with time. It's not a reason to put it down
Rust may not be what you want to write, but it's what you want your coworkers to write.
All good for the average user. You cannot run a saw or other corded power tool off an AFCI breaker. it trips _constantly_. This is a problem because NEC wants AFCI/GFCI in all rooms with concrete floors, like garages. This means you basically put those plugs in to pass and then pull them out again.
I was about to suggest the same. They sell books, ebooks, music, films.
You can increase the quality of your messaging, increase the volume of your outreach or continue doing the same thing. It might be time to take a step back and reassess your overall strategy.
The public dataset is available on HF here: https://huggingface.co/datasets/cais/hle

As the main website notes:
"The dataset consists of 3,000 challenging questions across over a hundred subjects. We publicly release these questions, while maintaining a private test set of held out questions to assess model overfitting."
The proponents of crypto are scam artists. Whether they operate ponzi schemes like FTX, or whether they are just trying to inflate its value to pull the rug at a later date. They see BTC as an investment rather than a currency.
I agree that's 100% a problem, but as for that kinda thing ... hopefully we see folks broaden their platforms.
But is a programmer who uses AI to program the same as

a Typescript programmer who doesn't understand JavaScript well?
Or a Python programmer who doesn't know C?
Or a C programmer who doesn't know assembly code?
Or an assembly coder who doesn't make his own PCBs?

Is AI orchestration just adding another layer of abstraction to the top of the programming stack?
There's prctl https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/PR_SET_NAME.2const.htm... that writes to /proc/self/comm
For personal matters, I prefer ghosting (receiving and giving). It's better for everyone in the long run. Just rip the bandaid off. The person has made up their mind, so discussing it just prolongs the inevitable.

For business matters, it's just common courtesy to not leave someone hanging.
If you contribute the max to a 401k for 30 years you should have around 2 million (and don't put everything into stupid investments, which many 401ks make hard). But that is $20k/year that doesn't go into your wallet. Of course inflation needs to factor in - 30 years ago your max contribute was about half of today ($9,240.00 vs $23,500.00) and so your expected result would have been more like 1 million. But if you contributed the max for all those 30 years you are probably close to 2 million. If you start today for 30 years you should be quite a bit more than 2 million - but how much I cannot predict. I'm assuming above that you get an employer match which most do.

The above assumes you have a 401k. Those plans are more available than any previous retirement option (other than social security which nearly everyone has and is mandatory). However even though 401k is available to more people than previous workplace retirement plans, there are still large numbers who don't get a 401k (someone who can have one but chooses not to is also an issue).

The above is US centric. Many people reading this don't live in the US and so have completely different options that I have no idea about.
Andreessen Horowitz set to pull back from UK crypto investing
I was going to say similarly, what competitors are better. Alexa or Cortana or Hey Google? Google is maybe a little better but none are ChatGPT which is a different thing

I thought the whole point of Apple Intelligence was to have ChatGPT as backend for Siri, but this does not seem that?
> If you want free stuff, is your strategy to smear them into giving you more free stuff?

Docker literally offers free stuff if you follow their process. They followed the process and have gotten silence in return. Somehow that doesn't strike me as "smear them into giving you more free stuff".

Don't say you're going to do a thing if you're not going to do the thing.
This article potentially answers a question I've had for a long time: why I find working at night more pleasant than working during daytime. I thought I was just a night owl.

But actually my daytime setup relies on the sun coming in from the windows just like the author's first illustration. For night time I don't have a ceiling light so I naturally have multiple lamps scattered across the room (depending on where the outlet is) all with fabric wrapped light fixture (because they look good).

I suspect many people might be in the same situation.
> People who have moved to Bluesky like to tell themselves it's the "smart place", but it's really just the place where you agree with the politics.

I don't care if it's the smart place, but it's nice to have a feed that reminds me of pre-2015 internet spaces where people talked about things other than politics. I just did an experiment and opened up the for-you page on X, and out of 18 random posts of people I didn't follow, 10 were political in nature (ranging from MAGA to far left).

I open Bluesky and I see art, technical projects, people's pets, etc.
I can't say I'm posting a lot of links, but there's a pretty wide consensus from people who post on both that the Twitter view volume doesn't necessarily translate to a higher engagement volume, even if they have many times fewer followers on bluesky
> chewed a mouse up with the snowblower because of course.

LOL, I've done that too. I figure it must have been dead prior to being chewed up because snowblowers announce their presence fairly definitively.

We're probably much more urban than you, but we've got a ravine connection to the greenbelt, so do get all of the above. Has been a bear in that ravine, but didn't see it ourselves.
> The alternative front ends exist because people want something for nothing. If you don’t like their policies don’t use their product.

Then why am I paying for an alternate front-end instead of YouTube premium?
Open source is about standards. If for example USA uses chinese algorithms or whatever, if China discovered some drawbacks in it and did not disclose it originally - it can be used as a weapon.
Even before the LA fires, Californians fled for 'climate havens'
Investing in the Next Generation of AI
I ran a very small personal webserver with limited storage on Ubuntu on EC2 for a while.

The EC2 instance, likely the smallest configuration available at the time, hit an inode limit just running updates over time.
> If this particular API has been stable

Well, it hasn't. The tcgetwinsize() was proposed (under this name) in 2017 and was standardized only in 2024. So it's less than a 10 year old API, which is missing from lots of libc implementations, see e.g. [0]. Before its appearance, you had to mess with doing ioctl's and hoping your libc has exposed the TIOCGWINSZ constant (which glibc by default didn't).

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/tcgetwi...
I would much rather get an honest answer in any scenario, no matter what it is. There are people out there who would take that feedback and reflect on it in a positive way.

How else can you improve or be mindful of things in the future if you don't even know what happened or what went wrong?

I sort of feel like the people who don't give honest feedback or ghost aren't trying to protect anyone's feelings or are avoiding conflict. They themselves have something going on internally that bothers them when it comes to giving or receiving feedback. They are maybe letting unrelated previous experiences dictate their current life and decisions.

So now you have 2 types of people. People who want honest feedback and people who never give it. You can't force either one to do the other thing so we're always left with 1 side feeling unhappy.

It doesn't make sense to me that this is how most folks are ok with operating.
Being in academia (or very adjacent to it), there are two types of BlueSky users:

1) The ones that moved because of ideological reasons
2) The ones that moved b/c Twitter became a desolate hellscape.

I'm closer to (2) than to (1), and the difference between 2024 and 2020-2022 twitter is stark. Before, if you had an interesting tweet about a new article you would get lots of engagement (retweets, discussions, people disagreeing and pushing back).

Now? Nothing, just a few random retweets or comments from non-academic people that almost feel LLM-generated. Compound this with network effects, and even my right-wing pro-Trump colleagues (and there are some) decided to at the very least dual-post.
Why scientists are enlisting fungi to save endangered plants
AI can now replicate itself – a milestone that has experts terrified
The downside is the constant 'rot' of online content. I know most of it was not very valuable, but I find sad how little of our small scale, daily life record will be left after the walled gardens inevitably go down and the server data erased.
>What does gpt dependence look like for people that have non-programming office jobs where they just email all day?

There isn't any such dependency (yet).

Despite strong corporate push I'd say the average person I work with uses it maybe once a week - usually research or summarization.

The inroads LLMs are making on programming aren't translating to other office jobs cleanly. Think it's largely because other areas don't have an equivalent source of training data like github

It'll no doubt come, but for now all programmers seem to have mostly automated themselves out of a job not others from what I can tell.

>Do they actually make any decisions themselves

There is little to no GPT decision making happening despite all the media chat about AI CEOs and similar bullshit. Inspiration for brainstorming is about as close as it gets
And that's a bad thing.
The more you suppress normal people, the more people you will add to your opposition.

But perhaps the right wing knows that.

Maybe they're adding fuel to the fire by supporting extremist LGBT people.

Wouldn't that be something!
I wish there was a bluesky with less moderation. I don’t want bots and spam, but since I can control my own feeds and the mute functions actually work, I can shape it better than the other networks let me. I think that should be the real goal.
Yes, we get the government that we deserve.

Great Mencken quote - can't believe I've never head that one.
The difference is with tailwind that information is stored as text in source control. So you can parse it with nothing but your eyes in GitHub or by looking at a diff, without relying on any extra tooling.
noted we will be providing pictures and examples soon without our git readme soon that will showcase visually how system should function
Watched the video. I like this! Really smart idea to get us one step closer to workable human workflows.

Watching you work with it, I found I wanted something that mushes aider and your stuff together. Where I am spending time in aider, I am spending time complaining about claude using bad patterns, assuming bad structure/types/etc or misunderstanding the purpose of a set of code. Where it looks like you are spending time is in fixing coding errors, and manually reviewing patches.

At the very least, it seems like automating / making easy compilation and type checking results would be nice.

Having used aider for over a year now, I know he's spent a lottt of time on prompting customization for both improved code quality and also DIFF format, and I wonder if you would benefit from some of those lessons in terms of getting better code out of different models.

Anyway, this is awesome, and I love the idea of giving some tools to the LLM to engage with the codebase, pull context and then code. Super cool.
You think there is an organized HN lgbt brigade that coordinates downvoting and flagging of your posts? And they are funded by some external source (astroturfing)? Am I understanding you correctly?
The blocklists systems can often be over-broad and sneakily include personal beefs, but overall the bluesky norm of "block on sight on first aggressive contact" is having a positive effect against engagement-baiting.

Hostile actors seem to be trying something else: LLM "reply guys", which make superficially plausible conversation in your replies.

Twitter is really the King Log/King Stork parable writ large. It had problems under Jack, as absentee owner, but getting an owner who is interested in making it his personal platform is much worse.

Edit: this post has already been flagged off the front page, lol
That actually sounds like a legislation issue.
Are we losing the ability to write by hand?
Probably because GNU Emacs was too bloated for the Amiga's 512KB of RAM (or whatever amount the original model had).
Many of the houses in the PP are already worth 7 or 8 figures.
>Got a link?

You can probably find it if so inclined, he appears in my feed whenever these conversations come up. I have no interest in "proving it".

>My experience is that it's a quiet place, in the sense that a lot of people are talking but there are way fewer raised voices than there are over on Twitter, where people get monetarily rewarded for making viral content.

Both are the same format: it's a post and a stream of replies. Both are the same "volume". Both provide monetary value for viral content, though Twitter is much more explicit in that sense.
This really pushes me to get over the laziness and embrace nix.
Considering that OpenAI is barely able to stay ahead of open-source, and in some cases has fallen behind (i.e. 4o vs DeepSeek V3), I think the data moat doesn't really exist. And the difference between 4o and o1 isn't training on more data: quite famously it's scaling test-time compute, not scaling training.

"The data is the moat" was a pretty common belief a few years ago, but not anymore.
Gotta give it to DOGE, which already eliminated Co-founder/CO-CEO and its top lawyer. They seem to be walking the talk. But I'd consider it totally serious if Musk's position is eliminated in before his kids move to next grade mainly due to not meeting targets or missing 5 days a week at work mandate.
> The order of log entries does not matter.

This is surprising, Kafka-like logs are all strictly ordered.
You can actually unsubscribe from default moderation, and there's quite a lot of NSFW on there if you want it.

There are some things they won't host, but it may be possible to work around that with your own PDS.
(apologies for AI summary of the above articles; was just trying to be helpful!)

Elon Musk's tenure at X (formerly Twitter) has been marked by a series of actions that starkly contrast his self-proclaimed stance as a "free speech absolutist." Despite his vocal advocacy for unrestricted expression, Musk has overseen a significant increase in account suspensions and content restrictions, often targeting critics and journalists.

Notably, X has suspended numerous journalists who have reported critically on Musk or his ventures. For instance, in December 2022, the platform suspended accounts of reporters from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN, among others, who covered Musk's activities. These actions have raised concerns about the suppression of dissenting voices and the erosion of journalistic freedom on the platform.
Associated Press

Furthermore, under Musk's leadership, X has shown a heightened willingness to comply with government censorship requests. During the 2023 Turkish presidential election, the platform restricted access to certain content within Turkey, a move that critics argue was influenced by Musk's business interests in the region, including SpaceX's satellite launches in collaboration with the Turkish government.

These actions suggest a departure from Musk's professed commitment to free speech, revealing a pattern of behavior that prioritizes personal and business interests over the principle of open expression. The increasing suppression of critical voices and compliance with authoritarian regimes' censorship demands highlight a concerning inconsistency between Musk's stated ideals and his actions as the steward of a major social media platform.
You can see why this site in particular would not like that story. Network effect is major part of many pitches and valuations.
It's already 3x+ the size and growing faster, I would say it is already more successful in one regard. Next up is to build out the app ecosystem that APub has
Same. And Bluesky also allows you to bring your own feed algorithm, so if you don't like the discover feed you could make a better one! It's not a hypothetical either, I follow and use several custom feeds today (for example, one that shows post by people who follow _me_, so I can discover people to follow back).
The major networks (excluding Fox) are biased leftward because their news writers and reporters are biased leftward. It would be much better to allow the problem to be solved organically. Besides, in the era of social media and podcasts, the FCC's equal time rule is antiquated.
When my dad started work in the 1970s he only had a pension which he - like most his age - didn't bother participating in. He latter got old enough to realize that he should save (probably when a new job offered a 401k with match) and regretted it so much he looked things up. Turns out that if he joined until that company laid him off he would get $0.75/month from the pension once he turned 65. In short a stupid investment. Those who were older like you say did much better.

there is one big advantage of a pension: you cannot outlive them. If you die at 65 (as my dad did) bad luck, but if you live to 109 you still get that income to live on.
It was something that a single Google would have corrected, as usual.
Its not for a lack of trying. I spend a lot of time writing text that feel like I actually read the ad. I try to include details, show examples for the things I think are relevant and have others give their opinion on what I should improve or rephrase.
This is correct. Atkinson dithering looks cool (at least to my eyes) but is not the best choice for real time work. In particular, it cannot be implemented in a shader, although you can approximate it. But computers are fast enough that a CPU-bound algorithm can still work at interactive speeds. Not sure how well it would work in an editor though - in theory changing a single pixel at the top left of the image could cause a chain reaction that could force the whole image to be re-dithered.

I did an implementation of Atkinson dithering for a web component in case anyone is feeling the itch to dither like it is 1985.

Demo: https://sheep.horse/2023/1/improved_web_component_for_pixel-...

Source: https://github.com/andrewstephens75/as-dithered-image
> While AI is powerful, it’s also computationally expensive. Unless someone decides to rewrite the laws of physics, there will always be a limit on how much artificial intelligence humanity can bring to bear. This means that we’ll eventually allocate our scarce AI resources towards the things they are best at, which leaves plenty of things for humans to do.

Unfortunately, this argument doesn't hold up because of "cheap" models such as Deepseek R1.
Yep. That's why I'm openly talking about moderation and why I'm very much in favor of an NSFW filter.
Perverted is just some other person being judgmental.
Love the 1930's Kanban board at 2:35
Management Mantras
yeah you would think but the things I've heard about Nextdoor have /not/ encouraged me to make an account. And I sort of know my neighbors lol