skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Muting is fine, blocking is censorship.
You'll know it is decentralized when someone can run an instance and remove the blocking and censorship. (Never, I predict)
a computer can never be held accountable — therefore a computer must never make a management decision
> Physical back-breaking work has not been eliminated for most people.

I said most of it for most people specifically to avoid the quibble about mechanization in poorest countries and their relative population sizes.

> Physical exercise triggers biological reward mechanism which make exercise enjoyable and, er, rewarding for many people

I envy them. I'm not one of them.

> ergo it is not undesirable

Again, I specifically said "and for many people, for many reasons, is often undesirable" as to not have to spell out the obvious: you may like the exercise benefits of a physically hard work, but your boss probably doesn't - reducing the need for physical exertion reduces workplace injuries, allows worker to do more for longer, and opens up the labor pool to physically weaker people. So even if people only ever felt pleasure from physical exertion, the market would've been pushing to eliminate it anyway.

> UK NHS calls physical exercise essential.

They wouldn't have to if people actually liked doing it.
Amazing that you comment that on an announcement that is one large effort of many that Apple have been doing to build an open-source ecosystem over many years...
> Bluesky asks about which server to use on registration

No, it does not.
Those who would condemn "science" need to explain why their concept is different from listening to the weather report and doing the exact opposite -- that's not a recipe for success, and "science" has gotten far more right than wrong over the years.
I still don't know how to quit Vim without googling for instructions :P

As an anecdote from my time at uni, I can share that all our exams were either writing code with pen on paper for 3-4 hours, or a take-home exam that would make up 50% of the final grade. There was never any expectation that students would use pen and paper on their take-home exams. You were free to use your books and to search the web for help, but you were not allowed to copy any code you found without citing it. Also not allowed to collaborate with anyone.
Alright, just give me 5 minutes to quickly inspect the likely over 100,000,000 lines of code that either go directly into a ROM or are part of the build tooling, and reverse engineer however many binary blobs are involved in the process.

The "you can just read the code" mindset is completely unrealistic, even for software that's orders of magnitudes smaller. If the issue at hand is entering my Google password, I'd rather do it in a ROM built by Google.
My estimates show X has at most 200,000 real English languages users. Can anyone prove X even has 1/30th of bluesky? Can’t count bots.
You’re welcome to check for yourself?
I just get an unspecified error loading the tweet — why do people still use this platform ?
Definitely agreed. And slide rules, and log tables, and...
At least blocking him still works.

(I wish the number of users who blocked an account would show up next to the number of followers)
Only if you're starting with paper?

Years back I worked somewhere where we had to PDF documents to e-fax them to a supplier. We eventually found out that on their end it was just being received digitally and auto-converted to PDF.

It was never made paper.. So we asked if we could just email the PDF instead of paying for this fax service they wanted.

They said no.
Done. I had the same issues with it myself when I initially wrote it, but couldn't think of a better wording at the time.
Hopefully it's less confusing now.
Bluesky is less attractive right now to Canadians who are participating in the boycott of US products. So Mastodon seems a better fit. There is even a collector page for Canadian Mastodon servers:

* https://mastodonserver.ca/
I'm sure Anthropic have too many applications submitted that are obviously AI generated, and I am sure what they mean by "non-AI-assisted communication", they don't want "slop" applications, that sounds like a LLM wrote it. They want some greater proof of human ability.
I expect humans at Anthropic can tell what LLM model was used to rewrite (or polish) applications they get, but if they can't, a basic BERT classifier can (I've trained one for this task, it's not so hard).
Yeah I don't think CRM is the correct thing in this case... I just think that there needs to be some new set of incentives put in place such that the culture reinforces the outcomes you want.
The users are doing the blocking, not Bluesky.

We’re just slamming the door in the face of Nazis and fascists.

It’s my individual right to avoid assholes.

Not censorship.
$0.01 per action? Yeah, and I’ve gotten up to 10 cents or so I think in a “single” action but so what? The most I’ve ever spent with it in one go has been like $5 for a couple hours (maybe even 6-8) of on and off usage. That $5 was completely worth it.

Also you can use local models if you want it to be “free”.
How do you know what a good book is? I've seen recommendations in fields I'm knowledgeable about that were hot garbage. Those were recommendations by reputed people for reputed authors. I don't know how a beginner is supposed to start without trying a few and learning some bad habits.
There is no 'learning' in the abstract. You learn something. Doing tutorials teach you how to do the thing you do in them.

It all comes down to what you wanna learn. If you want to acquire skills doing the things you can ask AI to do, probably a bad idea to use them. If you want to learn some pointers on a field you don't even know what key words are relevant to take to a library, LLMs can help a lot.

If you wanna learn complex context dependent professional skills, I don't think there's an alternative to an experienced mentor.
I haven't seen a single such a screenshot, not one.
Yes, sorry for the awful wording. I've updated it to hopefully be less confusing.
America first, indeed. This will definitely drive down inflation and improve economic conditions for normal people.
The other key feature there has been proactive platform moderation -- truly bad actors have been banned early & you can block a whole list of bad-faith accounts at once.

AT proto seems like it would be perfect for a wikipedia-style fact check organization.
The thing correct information doesn’t change so it will feel like an echo chamber to people who have been taught being sold a new idea each week is the same as “challenging yourself.”
Testing usually isn’t enough if you don’t understand the solution in the first place. Testing is a sanity check for a solution that you do understand. Testing can’t prove correctness, it can only rind (some) errors.

LLMs are fine for inspiration in developing a solution.
If it's not clear from context,

I ain't reading that. You're just trolling. Peace out.
Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping
Mastodon typed in almost any search engine points to mastodon.social; in some cases joinmastodon.org shows up on top which still suggests mastodon.social but has a distinguish "pick another server" button on right side.

Bluesky by default creates account on bsky.social, while there's barely noticeable button with icon that allows you to provide another server.

An ordinary user will head to what it'll find in the search results, fill out credentials and log in. It won't change the defaults if it actually notice there's a possibility to do that at all. Not mention a mass user needs to be aware in the first place that there are other instances/servers, and you can interoperate with these just like with email providers. Neither mastodon or bluesky explains that in a simple discoverable fashion - which IMO should be done long ago.
With "woke" being used very flexibly to encompass whoever stands in the way.
Porting Crystal Realms to Android with Bevy [video]
Have you tried setting up and running an email server the past decade? Email is horribly centralized.

Nostr is the way. It will take time but it's sufficiently decentralized. Doesn't require DNS. Users hold their own keys. Fairly easy to run a relay. It's also a trust network, with encryption out of the box, so I think it will become a usable successor for email+GPG.
Same happened to oluv, one of the few honest audio review guys. His channel got attacked by scammers, his content stolen and hit with fraudulent IP claims. Youtube has become a cesspool.
What you can always do to get ALL your raw data out of Garmin connect (as FIT files) is using the data export (https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=W1TvTPW8JZ6LfJSfK512Q8).

There are some good OSS libraries to read and interpret those files (e.g. Python https://github.com/polyvertex/fitdecode, Go https://github.com/tormoder/fit).

To get your _current_ data, it is possible to pull the current .FIT files from your device (watch, bike computer, ..) when it is plugged to your computer and mounted as file system.

I once started a side project to do exactly that, but abandoned it after a while (https://github.com/jo-m/garmin-disconnect).
Contrary to what we could thought, Bluesky doesn't asks about which server to use on registration.

It's not federate.
Not directly.

The only type of business relationship his feeble little mind understands is quid pro quo.

He is incapable of nuance and is unfit to lead.

This is a man who went broke more than once in the casino industry. He’s either stupid or corrupt, take your pick.
I kinda disagree with everything here.

a) non-mobile internet has never been spotty unless you were on an overloaded vodafone cable connections, those are infamous

b) 50 MBit/s is not "very slow" for any reasonable definition

c) enough neighborhoods in bigger cities and probably also in more rural parts don't have more than 100. I'd need to see some proper source for that.
You can get rid of the trivia by training one model on the slop, then a second model on the first one - called distillation or teacher-student training. But it's not much of a problem because regularization during training should discourage it from learning random noise.

The reason LLMs work isn't because they learn the whole internet, it's because they try to learn it but then fail to, in a useful way.

If anything current models are overly optimized away from this; I get the feeling they mostly want to tell you things from Wikipedia. You don't get a lot of answers that look like they came from a book.
Could you expand on this, is there any disadvantage to continuing with ollama?

I use Ollama for prototyping and then move what I can to a vLLM set up
Really nice!

I wish more bosses were like you.
I have access as of ~3 hours ago. Using the Win desktop app too, which is behind on some features (Operator, tasks). I open up any of the models and it shows up as a `(Deep research)` tag on the input field next to the web search option. Didn't clear cache or anything.
How do you arrive at that estimate?
Are you sure? I followed the Bluesky link on your profile and immediately saw two screenshots of Elon’s tweets.
30 miles West in Ann Arbor, there are tech gigs but not tons of them. If you are apart of the University of Michigan, there are tons of opportunities via the college and the groups there, but if not there aren't tons of openings.

Detroit itself is an amazing city, but it isn't a tech hub, nor is it for everyone. It is the shell of the automotive companies that started to move their operations of out the country in the 50s-70s. Check out the book "Origins of the Urban Crisis" to get an understanding of the decay in Detroit and other large cities who the Big 3 have abandoned for a profit.

All of my friends that I have brought to the D are always weirded out by how big the city is, yet how few people you actually see outside of the entertainment district. The streets and sidewalks can be fully empty, with a 6 lane road that has so many holes that it is more pothole than road now.

This piece is nothing but an advertisement for Dan Gilbert.
It depends on what you're doing.

Very useful when your workload involves a lot of steps of ETL (small throwaway functions and throwaway intermediate data types)
equity is important for splitting the share of revenue and profit from building a company together :)

i believe equity and equity pools are essential and important to building a company. without equity, there would be no startups, no meta, no google, and no raytheon.

if you want to work at a startup, i recommend you start with Y Combinator. they have a great internship, careers, and job board page, and they offer advice for budding engineers, designers, and product managers on their website at ycombinator.com/library . good luck getting that great job in tech!
BKS virtual field -> pilot wave?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory
Tech titans have too much arbitrary power.
Also this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808889

It is a new approach to dithering in 3D, inspired by "Return of the Obra Dinn". After 2018, when someone talks about dithering, it is always the Obra Dinn, except for the submitted article it seems :)
The Impact of MV3 Policies
People were free to teach something in programming.
The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that it's deliberate sabotage of a Chinese model.
Though I found a use for the "kill sticky" bookmarklet.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902395
Got it, learning is something that can be acquired relatively quickly, while evolving needs generations.
Thanks for the explanation.
I tried them all (also anything on Linux) and now I just use Roundcube on a local install, which runs in any browser.
I feel this particularly when I use gguf support.

How do you get accurate information on the template structure?
So I guess people should not use other available tools? Spell checker? Grammar checker? The Internet? Grammarly?

The issue is that they are receiving excellent responses from everyone and can no longer discriminate against people who are not good at writing.
This happens all the time in Google Play, how do you protect against random take downs? You have several copies of your dev account or channel. That's it, you become a spammer to defend against the bot that "protects" us from spammers.
My channel suffered the same fate. I had a few original songs on it and a few original videos on it. Never got a warning or copyright strike or any sort of notice. Just boom shut down.
> Rust was helped by being a Mozilla language, and some of the personalities it had around it.

Indeed. But my point is there was already widespread movement behind building a programming language. So if Mozilla hadn’t taken charge then I’m certain someone will.

My point is that Rust was born from a wider desire for change rather than that desire existing because of Rust. Thus that desire would have been met in one form or another regardless of the invention of Rust.
A slight bend on, “There is no such thing as an alternate fact.”

Something that seems to confound assholes.
"Audio developer's fifteen-year-old channel" would do it.
This is a trademark opposition. If you try to file a trademark that has any common word that any big brand uses in their name, even if you try to register it in a completely different category, they will most likely oppose it.

They do this because trademark folks are lawyers and they get to bill their clients this way, and it's very easy to do since there's software to get notifications on keywords or similar namees. It's probably automated at this point.
This sounds like a design deficiency.

If you have something that should only run in testing, perhaps your test harness should set the global variable appropriately, no?
Reasoning seems to generalize, insofar as o1 and DeepSeek-R1 are better at answering questions than their base models.
Swiss french is not as much of a distinct variation, rather a dialect very similar to Belgian french.
until it changes that
That person can teach OP something about code then? They said it doesn't have to be work-related, but it can be.

I don't know that many programmer/developer jobs where you can just put your headphones on and code without ever talking to another person.

Being able to explain/teach your work is part of "doing the job well" for a developer (IMO).
You've completely twisted what the parent post was saying, and I can't but laugh out loud at claims like:

> there is a 40% chance you are obese.

Obesity is not a random variable — "darn, so unlucky for me to have fallen in the 40% bucket of obese people on birth": you fully (except in rare cases) control the factors that lead to obesity.

A solution to obesity is not to exercise but a varied diet, and eating less of it to match your energy needs (or be under when you are trying to lose weight). While you can achieve that by increasing your energy needs (exercise) and maintain energy input, you don't strictly have to.

Your link is also filled with funny "science" like the following:

> Neck circumference of more than 40.25 cm (15.85 in) for men ... is considered high-risk for metabolic syndrome.

Darn, as a 195cm / 6'5" male and neck circumference of 41cm (had to measure since I suspected I am close), I am busted. Obviously it correlates, just like BMI does (which is actually "smarter" because it controls for height), but this is just silly.

Since you just argued a point someone was not making: I am not saying there are no benefits to physical activity, just that obesity and physical activity — while correlated, are not causally linked. And the problems when you are obese are not the same as those of being physically inactive.
You mean the social network that keeps showing my wife dick pics even though she turned off adult content? That social network? Pass.
That may be true for severe cases. But if you consider the checklists used to determine depression, it offers the results on a scale. For example, the Becks depression Inventory (BDI - II) suggests that the depression maybe either "minimal, mild, moderate or severe". Similarly the Burns Depression Checklist (BDC) tests identifies depression as either "mild depression, moderate depression, severe depression or extreme depression". Anxiety is also measured in a similar scale.

The "mild or moderate" segment of depression, or anxiety, is what is said to be a more common short-term occurrence amongst all of us. Most of us manage to often deal with this kind of "situational" depression / anxiety due to some stressful event (losing a job, death, breakup etc.), on our own. But long-term and / or severe / extreme depression is what often requires an outside intervention.
You need sensor feedback to learn new math and talk to other mathematicians.
Europe could create an AI agent to regulate everything.
This strikes me as similar to job applicants who apply for a position and are told it's hybrid or in-office - and then on the day of the interview, it suddenly changes from one in-person to one held over a videoconference, with the other participants with backdrops that look suspiciously like they're working from home.
This comment is quoting Mitt Romney
In maths, start by reading recent papers and see if you can extend their results.
> The "can program in the imperative mode" thing is however important. You can. We should teach more people to do this.

I'm trying very hard to do this through by effect system Bluefin. More here:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bluefin-0.0.14.1/docs/Bl...

https://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/bluefin-all/
I guess _ could be a function that both takes and returns basic_formatted_string? (I.e. not gettext()).
That's a really fascinating, but horrible, point.

Every AI decision becomes a way to shirk responsibility, even more than just automated ones (because then its "your" rule).

Welcome to the brave new world of AI-decision laundering.
Ten hours in one commit? Nope, not yet, but it works great to test out ideas and get unstuck when trying to decide how to proceed. Instead of having to choose, just do both or at least try 1 right away instead of bike-shedding.

I often get hung up on UI, I can’t make a decision on what I think will look decent and so I just sort of lock up. Aider lets me focus on the logic and then have the LLM spit out the UI. Since I’ve given up on projects before due to the UI aspect (lose interest because I don’t feel like I’m making progress, or get overwhelmed by all the UI I’ll need to write) this is a huge boon to me.

I’m not incapable of writing UI, I’m just slower at it so Aider is like having a wiz junior developer who can crank out UI when I need it. I’m even fine to rewrite every line of the UI by hand before “shipping”, the LLM just helps me not get stuck on what it should look like. It lets me focus on the feature.
Unless of course you don’t care about accountability.

This gives google a lot of “oops, the system did it” leeway.
it's interesting to me how easily you can fact check the statement:

> Everyone has a gun on their person with no licensing requirements. Yet at the NRA conference they ban guns.

yet, you claim that it's the late night TV that divides us, while making sure to double down on your misleading statement.

The NRA doesn't "ban guns at their conferences", they have been banned at small parts of a multi-day conferences e.g. where Trump was speaking because that was a rule established by the secret service and they complied for a small part of the conference.

When the majority of a conference allows guns, it's simply a lie to claim that guns were banned. An unintentional lie, I'm sure, but it seems likely to be the result of you believing some headline or tweet and accepting something wholesale as truth because it fit your narrative. I'm guilty of the same, it happens, but hopefully we can both get better about portraying easily fact checked things as the truth.
There are LEOs that were prosecuted by states and the federal government for not taking action while children were being shot by another child.

LEOs are expected to take fire to protect civilians. Protect & Serve is their credo.

I wouldn’t trust LEOs to protect me, so I sure as hell fire am not trusting a low paid rent-a-cop to perform a similar duty.

Nope. I believe that my mindset is prevalent and not an outlier.
Have a look at Nostr: https://nostr.com/protocol
> P.S. These philosophical problems are meant to force a decision from the options given. So assume the the problem is just a multiple choice one, 2 answers. You don't get to write a third.

I know about it. And yet I refuse to play the game. The problem is that even philosophers should be able to acknowledge that in the real universe, no box should be too big to prevent from thinking outside of it.

Otherwise we get people who conflate map with the territory, like what this whole comment thread is about.
the actual text in the ~act~ guidance states:

> Exploitation of vulnerabilities of persons, manipulation and use of subliminal techniques

techcrunch simplified it.

from my reading, it counts if you are intentionally setting out to build a system to manipulate or deceive people.

edit — here’s the actual text from the act, which makes more clear it’s about whether the deception is purposefully intended for malicious reasons

> the placing on the market, the putting into service or the use of an AI system that deploys subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness or purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques, with the objective, or the effect of materially distorting the behaviour of a person or a group of persons by appreciably impairing their ability to make an informed decision, thereby causing them to take a decision that they would not have otherwise taken in a manner that causes or is reasonably likely to cause that person, another person or group of persons significant harm
Meta's investment in virtual reality on track to top $100B
5 years of maintaining India's largest dev community on the web
Nuclear fusion: New record set at Chinese reactor EAST
If only there were many jobs that mandate to drink alcohol to enhance your capabilities...
Go programs freeze when they are launched via a Steam client