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That would be an awesome HOWTO

I've been using OpenWRT (previously DD-WRT) on my routers for years now. Mostly I just enjoy not having nonsense on my router!

I think how I got started with it was by finding my device in their devices table and reading the page specifically for it. https://openwrt.org/toh/start

The biggest caveats would be: I've never had any issues personally, but be aware of the risks; avoid bricking your router, and be prepared to recover it in case the worst happens (make sure you back up the firmware before flashing it.)

And once you're installed.... `opkg upgrade` is much riskier than `dnf upgrade`. There's usually no script doing necessary modifications for you. Use with care.

Feels anticompetitive, and maybe even bad for Adobe as they prioritize acquisition over organic development.

Indeed it is

The "initial frame -> video" problem seems way harder than generating video from a text input. Once a good dataset for that problem is assembled, it seems like Stable Diffusion would naturally accept an additional "time" dimension, and generate cohesive output, with corresponding massively increased hardware requirements.

Though I'd venture that the first "novel to feature film" or "novel to TV series" algorithm won't just be an upscaling of this tech....

I think they did envisage it---thus the urgency at developing their own content.

Hard to compete right away with a century of Disney content etc. But, give it a few decades, and things might look better in hindsight.

You may be right that "unconditional surrender" and occupation are prerequisites for the sort of transformation that Germany and Japan underwent. But the collapse of empire as experienced by Russia vis-a-vis the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact may have been sufficiently traumatic that such a transformation could have been triggered.

The tragedy of not having a "Marshall Plan" for the former communist bloc is that we will never know if it would have worked. There was no guarantee, but at this point, to me it seems like a terrible lost opportunity.

But perhaps, as China's dominance becomes increasingly uncomfortable for Russia, things in time may change. A reformed Russia integrated into the "western" alliance... one can still dream, however faintly.

I've been using DPDM: https://github.com/acrazing/dpdm

These are my package.json scripts for detecting cycles:

  "cycles": "run-p cycles:client cycles:server",
  "cycles:client": "dpdm client/src/\*/\*.ts --exit-code circular:1",
  "cycles:server": "dpdm server/src/server.ts --exit-code circular:1",

The exit code is set like that so that the CI will fail on cycles, since we run this in our CI build.

I also hear people use ESLint, probably this: https://github.com/import-js/eslint-plugin-import/blob/main/...

The fact that the compiler itself doesn't error on cycle imports, and that the errors caused by those imports are so opaque, seems like an oversight to me.

Proof of Person is the problem we most need to solve.

A means to cryptographically assert in a privacy-preserving way "a human being generated this"; or less privacy-preserving, "human being X generated this".

To do either in a distributed fashion would perhaps involve peer-to-peer attestations of human-ness, published as a "web of trust" in a distributed database. But any anonymity/pseudonymity would be easily broken if done naively.

Of course, "human being X generated this" is something that would be easily facilitated by governments, with certificates issued to each citizen/national. Americans can only dream of this happening at the federal level---states will have to be where the action's at.

Recently switched from the Gmail web UI to Thunderbird (backed by Gmail IMAP). I don't think I could ever go back---for the first time in many years my inbox is getting the attention it deserves. I've cleaned up the junk mail, added a bunch of folders and filters, and it's a whole different world.

Definitely Thunderbird could be better than it is. But it's definitely better than what it's replacing, at least for my use.

Interesting. I had in mind a symbolic algebra solver. More like Maxima's `solve` and similar. But maybe a numeric solver could serve a similar purpose? Probably not, since the existence of a numerical solution does not imply that the equation is solvable analytically.

The actual domain is an elementary algebra course---can we use a neural network to generate algebra problems that have solutions? Using GPT-3 will produce algebra-esque math/text, but not guarantee that the problems are solvable.

Another possibility I'm considering is using a neural network to generate transformations of a solved equation. Start with `x = 5`, then apply operations to both sides until getting to the problem form e.g. `x + 2 = 7`

Gets tricky when the solution has more than one element, like when squaring / taking roots.

Perhaps there are some who will never learn to love themselves but in general I think it can be learned. I don't think there actually is a hard and fast rule that people struggling to love themselves shouldn't seek relationships. Some of my own greatest progress in love toward myself has, as in the OP, come from learning from a romantic partner who actually did love me in ways I hardly imagined. But I do think that for relationships to be sustainable in the long-term, there has to be or develop an element of self-love. We can't ask our partners to love us, for us.

Love for myself is something I'm actively working on right now, as someone whose depression has also long defied resolution by conventional treatment.

It seems to me that the treatment-resistant depression, and the struggle to love myself, are the same thing.

You compared self-love to a language, and I think there's truth to that. But perhaps a better metaphor would be that of a neglected muscle or group of muscles.

As a human being, you are enculturated into at least one culture, but really a weave of many different cultural threads---things that have been propagating, in one form or another, for hundreds or even thousands of years.

Part of that cultural heritage is the judgement and self-hate---the keen sense of having failed to be what one ought to be.

But also part of that cultural heritage is immense love. That is part of you, but neglected---it is the unworked muscle.

I recently went to the gym for the first time in years. I hardly did any exercises, but I was sore for three days afterward. It was painful even---seemed like I might have fucked something up. But now, I'm stronger.

I think it's like this with love for ourselves. It is a muscle that can be strengthened. The way this is done will probably be somewhat individual to you, but I think there are patterns to it.

For me it has been very helpful to prioritize the development of this ability. Even to spend effort developing it is itself a sign of love for myself. Even if I fail---at least I'm trying. At least I'm spending time attempting to show myself that I matter.

In fact, the tendency to avoid being with myself---to distract myself from what's going on inside me any way I can---has sent a signal of fear rather than of love toward myself. I'm trying to do less of that---Hacker News will likely always have its place, of course!---and to have more time to be with me.

One of my great hangups has been the problem, basically, of evil. Like in the original post, the question has stuck with me: what if I'm a bad guy?

What if through my self-hate I don't reform myself and keep myself in line?

But the answer I'm coming to is that there is no part of myself that isn't deserving of love, simply for being here. The way I developed as a person was largely an accident of my environment and predispositions. If there are parts of me that are a bit misshapen, so to speak, it is only because they were not nourished as they ought to have been.

Is the answer to now continue the deprivation and the mistreatment? Or is it time to try something different?

When I treat myself with love, something within me responds with great joy that I've not felt in a long time. Something becomes _right_ that has long been wrong. Just saying "I love you" to myself is just a beginning---talk is cheap after all. But standing up for my needs, refusing to betray or abandon myself in the face of rejection from others, letting my self and my ideas come out---realizing that there is a headspace where I can feel not only not ashamed, but proud to be who I am---all of these things show a very deep part of me that it is loved, and I _feel_ that very clearly.

It has also been helpful for me to be part of a community focused on developing a different, more-loving relationship to our respective selves. For me that is part of a reading group dedicated to "The Loving Parent Guidebook", which is part of the literature of Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families. Like all programs that one has its pros and cons and I'm not even advocating for it in particular, but the important thing for me has been to show up, learn from others, and practice things I never practiced before. (As a non-believer in a traditonal "Higher Power" I have had to forge my own path to an extent, but there are many like me.)

Anyway, the journey is only just beginning in a sense. I just wanted to share my perspective in case it's helpful. You're not alone in the struggle, though of course it's also particular to you.

Wishing you the best.

I find it troubling that it essentially imitates human Facebook users.

The data we've given is being resurrected to talk back to us.

Doesn't feel right.

My disgust reaction is provoked by enough transhumanist ideas that it feels more dystopian than utopian to me. I guess I'm too... human... to trans-human too hard.

Top-level cryptographic identifiers that create an identity separate and distinct from a network location are basically de rigueur for network protocols these days. Almost as if it's a missing layer between IP and TCP? Interesting to see the trend continue in this proposal.

Without an easy way to pay for content online, this will be subject to the same distorting, ad-infiltrating forces as the web in general. Charging even tiny fees for content online resolves a host of problems... while of course creating others.

Many thanks

Recently discovered that John Day who I mentioned has a networking approach called RINA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_Internetwork_Archite...

That seems more along the lines of starting over from first principles. IIUC it gives stable identifiers separate from routing location such that the multihoming issue is resolved.

CJDNS and Pinecone both seem to be layering an alternate routing model based on identity rather than network location. So, building on the existing system, rather than replacing it.

So even using uniffi you are getting weird bugs on iOS?

I've long been interested in sharing Rust code between iOS and Android but found the integration to be pretty daunting.

Could it be compiled into a React Native app, I wonder?

"Chen: What we see is the erasure of Buddhism as a religion or tradition that Asians or Asian Americans can claim or identify with."

She writes from a race-essentialist framing to a degree and that drives me crazy.

"white Americans" "white Westerners" x6

There's a sort of cultural appropriation shame being layered here---as if it's bad to have light skin and be interested in Buddhism, or adapt Buddhism to your existing worldview.

If it were non-white people who predominantly led this movement in the US, she would be praising their adaptability as they syncretized a religion to meet their needs.

And are there really no black or latino or asian practitioners of this kind of Buddhism? Of course there are.

There's a "cool" factor of foregrounding race these days and I don't think it's healthy. Westernized Buddhism isn't exclusive to any race, nor is being "Western". Why reinforce the lines between racial categories like this, further reifying them?

That said, I appreciate the critique of corporation-as-organized-religion. The decline in institutional religion in America has left exactly the void that is being filled here, but with probably more fucked up motives than your typical church. At least when you would leave your employment, you wouldn't get kicked out of your congregation. But if your employment _is_ your "congregation"...

Separation of church and work might not be a bad principle.

Why not produce an aggregate across all locations?

I appreciate the value of getting up-close with the data to see quality issues, put things in context, etc. But the lack of an overall analysis leaves the most relevant question unasked, leaving us only with the author's biases (as they themselves admit.)

It certainly has, and it has been a key element in the radicalization and racialization of our politics. Many Trump voters were exactly that demographic, and resentful of the double standard. Not a healthy development for the body politic, and something we need to roll back.

The CHERI / Morello effort looks pretty serious, thanks for the pointer... (pun intended?)

I wonder if there is an equivalent in x86-land? As far as I see, this is limited to MIPS, RISC-V, and ARM architectures.

But again I'm left wondering: if this eliminates 70% of security exploits, what about the other 30%? It's great to close and lock the garage door and front door and back door, but if the windows are still unlocked, the house remains easy to rob. Still looking for that secure single-bit....

An evolution simulator that goes from molecular soup to galactic intelligence

I came here wondering the same thing. I guess I could just get the eGPU I've tossed around for a while?

Really, really hate the "podcast invasion". If I could click a button to make all podcasts disappear from Spotify forever, I would.

I still listen on Spotify a lot---I have extensive playlists built up there over a decade. I keep thinking I should find a way out, though.

Indie Shuffle and Funk Whale have been good discovery tools for me lately.

Someday, a benevolent AI will serve as our supreme court.

One can hope... and/or fear!

I actually think taking things out of human hands could give them more legitimacy.

The difficulty of computing the hashes is the entire point of them, to enforce scarcity. It's not wasted if you belief that scarcity has worth, which in the digital world it certainly does.

The price people are willing to pay for something _is_ the value of something.

Cryptocurrencies are gambling in a similar manner to how owning risky stocks is gambling. A cryptocurrency provides various services, and the utility of those services is what ultimately drives the price. Bitcoin's services for example include borderless, permissionless value transfers. The reduction in friction is immense---if you're operating in Bitcoin. Thus one of the incentives to own Bitcoin.

Current paying Heroku customer, so... feels successful enough to me!

Of course, it is counterfactual. I was just trying to illustrate the point that payments would come in very handy for internet infrastructure.

Bitcoin is a means of transferring value peer-to-peer across the internet. I believe in that. I also am interested in the predictable inflation schedule and limit on issuance---I think it's a nice option to have.

Bitcoin is actually pretty unfriendly to terrorist groups because it's a public ledger, making it relatively easy for law enforcement to track. By contrast, being backed by a government doesn't actually make, say, the dollar immune to nefarious uses.

Value is in the eye of the beholder. If Bitcoins sell for $38k then they're worth $38k... right now. As the payment network related to Bitcoin spreads wider, its utility goes up, and the value to holders increases. This is similar to how a fiat currency's value largely comes from the ability / obligation to pay taxes in that currency, but rather than being created by governmental mandate, it is developing organically, bootstrapping.

If the Internet had had a payment system built into it from the beginning, spam may never have become a problem. Advertising would not have been the only effective way to monetize. And so on. Getting to a micropayments world with the Lightning Network or whatever comes after it is a technological revolution that will likely have wide-ranging consequences.

Some of my reasons.

I imagine for companies like those funding this, it's part of their bigger-picture plan to offset their carbon emissions, aiming for net zero and whatnot.

Film critic reviews are the Hacker News of the film world: nerds nerding out.

I once went out with a woman who was highly steeped in film criticism and such. I think she volunteered as dramaturg at a theater company or something like that. We watched "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" together, and I thought it was the most dismal, dispiriting, horrible movie I'd ever seen. Afterward she opened my eyes to how a critic would interpret it, the symbolism, the cultural currents, etc. I hadn't picked up on any of that. I still hate that movie. But I guess I can see a bit better how, if you're in on it, it can be fun to pick things apart in that certain way. It's like a secret language that only you and a few others speak. There's nothing quite like speaking your native tongue when living in a foreign land.

I think a lot of the professional critics are like that. We don't speak their secret language. We commoners are the foreign land they must survive in. They're having a conversation among themselves. It's not for us.

At least, that's what it's become.