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I built a community that aims to keep FOSS projects alive. It's meant to solve the kitchen and egg problem by having as many people and projects sign up, and then any developer who was interested could just automatically get commit permissions to any project. It's called Code Shelter: https://www.codeshelter.co/ It's stalled for a while, so I don't know how viable it is, but I'd appreciate any help.
Hadn't heard that malapropism before.
I built a community that aims to keep FOSS projects alive. It's meant to solve the kitchen and egg problem by having as many people and projects sign up, and then any developer who was interested could just automatically get commit permissions to any project. It's called Code Shelter: https://www.codeshelter.co/ It's stalled for a while, so I don't know how viable it is, but I'd appreciate any help.
> kitchen and egg problem Hadn't heard that malapropism before.
I'm working on destroying proof-of-work blockchains. I have a plan for BTC, but I'm not sure how to approach ETH. Advice would be appreciated.
Interesting, what approach are you taking with BTC and what's the reason that approach won't work for ETH?
A way to preserve and link factual data sets. Most reference to Wikipedia are dead links. Many legacy media will stealth edit articles or outright delete them. Original media files can be loss and after strange eons their authenticity will not be able to be asserted. It will soon be impossible to distinguish from deep fakes and actual original and genuine media. Some regimes such as Maoist China wanted to rewrite the…
Given these snapshots, you could write manual extractors or build a machine learning system [1] to extract the main content of each page as plaintext. Then load these timestamped text file snapshots into git, which will give you a hash of the content and let you easily track changes.
Push the git repo to a few places like github, bitbucket, and maybe IPFS where people can mirror it.
[1] https://joyboseroy.medium.com/an-overview-of-web-page-conten...
Alternatively you could use the built-in reader mode in Firefox or Chrome which do this automatically, but then you'd have to figure out how to maintain stability of the extraction algorithm between new browser releases.
Economically sustainable and ethical monetization of user-generated-content games. The closest most known example of this kind of game nowadays is Roblox, but I'm thinking of things more like Mario Maker or the older-generation Atmosphir/GameGlobe-likes. Unlike "modding platforms" or simulators/sandboxes/platforms such as Flight Simulator, VRChat or ARMA, these games' content are created by regular players with no te…
I'm surprised you didn't mention Core. https://www.coregames.com/
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I have spent quite a lot of time thinking about coordination in general. Indeed, knowledge is a vital part of it. The problem that I see is that knowledge is too vague and lossy and changing and incomplete [as I mentioned in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26203718 ]. An hypothetical solution would be a system that talked a language similar to plain english, but that was determinist. You let people…
A combination of "all categories are fuzzy" and "all models are wrong but some are useful"? I too doubt the effectiveness of a symbolic AI approach. Although I studied that and other approaches in the field, you may note that my background is in biologically plausible methods for pursuing artificial intelligence. I think the direct human input method is given too much focus although it and related interactions have t…
>> A combination of "all categories are fuzzy" and "all models are wrong but some are useful"?
Are you talking about my first paragraph or symbolic AI?
>> The fallible sensors directly reporting readings from reality already has sufficient noise related issues.
I assume here you are trying to say that human input is not reliable.
I don't understand what's your approach with AI here. You seem to want to use it to better inform people? How? You are going to say that human input is not reliable, but then train an AI that can't explain itself and expect people to take its advice? Either noise can be palliated at scale in both places or none.
Finally, I'm very familiar with meditations on moloch. But you seem to be betting on an "education-based" solution, which doesn't fit very well with the scenario that meditations on moloch exposes, which is not that some people couldn't make better choices (for society, the collective), but rather that the "questionable" choices of a few can deeply compromise the game for everyone else. I mean, we all probably agree that it would be great to educate people on these concepts, but I doubt that will be enough to stop the dynamics that cause it.
We are having atrocious READ/WRITE latency with our PG database (api layer is django rest framework). The table that is the issue consists of multiple JSON BLOB fields, with quite a bit of data— I am convinced these need to be abstracted to their own relational tables. Is this a sound solution? I believe it is the deserialization in these fields of large nested JSON BLOBS that is causing latency. Note: this database…
An hour with the query planner can save you days or weeks or wasted work!
Stateful, exaclty once, event processing without the operational capacity to run a proper Flink cluster. This thing needs to be dead simple, pragmatic and cheap/simple to operate and update. The only stateful part in our infra at the moment is a PG database. We are going to start work on this in a weeks, so I'm looking for some insights/shortcuts/existing projects that will make our lives easier. The goals is to proc…
It’s a more future proof than building this on top of Postgres.
I want to bring back old school distributed forum communities but modernise them in a way that respects attention and isn’t a notification factory. Mastodon is a pretty inspirational project but the Twitter influence shows, I miss the long form writing that was encouraged before our attention spans were eroded. Not at all close to solving it, but it’s been on my mind for a long time. Would love to hear if there are o…
I am building a project ( https://linklonk.com ) that does information discovery in a way that respects your attention. In short, when you upvote content you connect to other people upvoted that content and to feeds that posted that content. So to get your attention other users need to prove to be a good curator of content for you. I'm planning to do a "Show HN" post next week for it and would appreciate any feedback…
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> It's a shame phpbb, vbullettin and other big players in the space were too slow to adapt to mobile. Was that a problem? My memory is that everything used 'Tapatalk' for mobile, perhaps before the first iPhone even (I recall using it on an iPod Touch).
I used to volunteer my time to a very major forum software. Tapatalk at the time had a very strange business model of having a plug-in/add-on that was free to the forum owner but charged for the app that the end user used. This was, even at the time, traditionally backwards from the current user interaction model: path of least resistance to engagement. It was unpopular among forum admins as they would rather buy a l…
I wasn't involved with the hosting/software/ops etc. side of it at all, but I moderated 'The Computer Forum', latterly 'Computer Juice', and used it mainly with that. I fondly remember wasting an awful lot of time helping people solve Windows problems (haven't used it since.. not saying that's related..) and spec new builds.
I suppose that's all happening on StackExchange and probably some DIY custom pc Discord server or whatever these days.