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Good question. Mycellm is the protocol layer: identity, routing, credits, reputation. Similar to how BitTorrent verifies pieces match their hash but doesn't judge whether the content is any good (that's left to trackers, communities, external tools).

Mycellm can verify that inference happened: signed receipts, reputation tracking (success rate, speed, contribution history), admission control that cuts off freeloaders. Each network sets its own policies on top; a private group might trust everything, a public network might add spot-checks or consensus routing.

Directions I'm exploring for public verification: fast-of-N routing, spot-checking with known outputs, consensus at temperature=0 where inference is deterministic. But the verification logic should be pluggable — different networks, different standards. That's a design area where I'd welcome input.

Curious about Runfra — when you say 'Uber for GPU', is that an orchestration/marketplace layer where independent GPU owners sell compute time? And what does 'batch-first creative workflows' look like — image gen pipelines, video, or broader?

This is exactly what I've been building — mycellm.ai. Seed GPU when idle, earn credits, spend on inference. BitTorrent economics for LLM compute. It's live now (my homelab serves the public chat). Would love to have you involved — github.com/mycellm/mycellm

This article is a good primer on how AV1 works (and compares with VP8 and VP9): https://www.red5.net/blog/av1-vs-vp9-vs-vp8-comparison-for-l...

When using Promise.all(), it won't fail entirely if individual promises have their own .catch() handlers.

In my xp, React Native was far more fragile a few years ago, but it has improved immensely since then. I quite enjoy working with it these days.

Hetzner isn't an American company so why should they accept American drivers licenses?

When in Rome ...

I've found React Native, especially in recent times, to provide a very good mobile dev environment.

I wrote an app and had it running in both iOS and Android in no time (with minimal iOS dev and zero Android xp prior to that).

My app included the Jitsi video extension (with very customized Jitsi controls and self-hosted backend), so not just a simple CRUD app.

(To be fair, my background is mostly Node and React, but those skills made it a breeze.)

Amazon says it has acted properly in response to FTC demands to ensure the preservation of relevant evidence. The company says it gave executives “explicit instructions on how to disable Signal’s DM [disappearing messages] feature.” A copy of those instructions has been provided to the FTC, according to Amazon’s filing.

Amazon's 'explicit instructions' on keeping messages visible: either a move for clarity or a masterclass in corporate subtlety.

Banks have either a federal or state charter. This bank has a state charter.

https://www.dobs.pa.gov/Documents/DoBS%20Forms/Bank%20Forms/...

Washington state makes it so easy. My ballot is mailed to me weeks before the election date. I have plenty of time to research and fill it out. I then drop it off at one of the many official dropboxes around the city (or you can drop it in the mail for free, as long as you get it postmarked before the election date). The ballot is tracked from the time it's sent, received, and counted (I have mine set to alert me of its status via email and SMS).

Then they got lazy and just numbered the months.

* Chinese et al have entered the chat

This pattern is fairly common around the world.

It's amusing to me that in the Western world, the original Latin designations are off by two as we moved the start month but never adjusted the corresponding month numbers (so DECember (10) = 12, etc).

Fyi China calls itself 'Zhongguo' — literally 'Middle Kingdom' (Country)

Check out DietPi — Debian-based OS with optimized software packages for devices such as Raspberry Pi. And super easy upgrade options.

https://dietpi.com

The US plunged into the worst recession since The Great Depression of the 1930s when Lehman Brothers bank collapsed, which quickly cascaded around the world.

2008 is aka 'The Great Recession'; it likely would have been much worse without govt intervention, though the targets of the help were corporations, not the average person affected by it.

The 2008 crash was the culmination of a house of cards largely enabled by deregulation that wiped out huge mainstays in America, including the auto industry. GM and Chrysler are only with us today because of massive govt bailouts. Many banks large and small failed and were absorbed into larger ones (eg Washington Mutual). The govt bailed out other banks deemed 'too big to fail' (eg Chase).

Countries were also failing over this (eg Greece, which used the euro hence was not a sovereign currency issuer and had to rely on Germany et al to assist). Severe govt spending cuts were imposed around the world, leaving the average citizen bearing the brunt of the downturn.

None of the criminal bankers that caused this crash were held criminally or civilly accountable, sparking the Occupy protests. In fact, they still got their big bonuses that taxpayers paid for. Meanwhile, average people lost their homes, businesses, and jobs.

It took about a decade to return to pre-crash economic levels. Not counting 9/11 (the effects of which changed the trajectory of modern life), this was the first 'once in a lifetime' shock for Millennials that set us back many years … just in time for a global pandemic.

There are some movies about the 2008 crash. Maybe checkout 'Margin Call'.

Twitter definitely punched above its weight as the go-to forum for companies, politicians, celebrities, media, etc.

For the record, United Airlines leaked that. (Though Apple could have similar provisions with other airlines — we just don't know.)

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/11/apple-spends-150m...

Once upon a time, Apple shipped a few models with both Motorola PPC + Intel x86 CPUs.

Eg: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_quadra/specs/mac_quad...

As a Bernie-style 'leftist', I can't say a response to this abortion assertion any better than Pete Buttigieg did on Fox news (<2 min clip), and I bet the vast majority of _all_ Americans would agree with this take:

https://youtu.be/wKOoWYfIzIw

As I've matured, I've found the words of Stephen Colbert ring truer and truer: 'Reality has a well-known liberal bias'.

I'm a millennial. I've moved from libertarian in college to 'far left' in the American political context.

Far too often I see calls for 'centrist/moderate' — policies touted as noble in many circles — as argument-to-moderation and false-equivalence fallacies.

It's especially bad when put into context that America is the richest country by far on the planet, yet wealth distribution is extremely out of whack and we allow such conditions to even exist in this country.

People struggle and many don't know it needn't be so difficult, even at the 'bottom'. Sadly, most Americans have no idea just how far off things are, as indicated in this 2011 study: https://jeremiahstanghini.com/2013/03/06/perception-vs-reali...

I worry about the instability this causes, both economically and politically, as extreme wealth (and power) continues to concentrate in few hands while so many fall down the class ladder.

The USA — with the 'most rights of any people in the world' — incarcerates the most people, by far, in some of the most inhumane conditions (slavery is explicitly legal in such contexts) among the developed nations.

We're 'free' in an Orwellian sense. Freedom to be educated, have health care regardless of one's employment|wealth, welfare with dignity for those in need — none of these concepts come into consideration into what 'freedom' actually means in practice.

My political leanings started libertarian. Over the years, I have traveled and read, and came to see the US for the farce it is, and encounter the deluded population convinced America is 'the greatest nation ever'. It has potential for sure, but when will we unlock it and truly taste real freedom?

I use Finicky to seamlessly route links to the right place (browsers and apps, such as Zoom so you don't have to bounce in a browser then the app).

You can use the args param in the browser callback to get incognito mode for your matches (I've confirmed this snippet works for Brave; others may vary):

browser: ({ urlString }) => ({ name: 'Brave Browser', args: ['-incognito', urlString], }),

https://github.com/johnste/finicky

Innocent, accused, or even found guilty — the conditions in American jails and prisons are barbaric and anathema to the proclaimed values we claim to hold.

Our media and politicians are quick to portray deplorable conditions in Russia et al, but it happens right here all the time.

I've had a couple family members and friend experience such treatment, including losing employment while it was getting sorted out. It's awful and needs more attention to change this.

(Scandinavia is as close to an ideal that I can imagine, though I know American society is so focused on antiquated notions of revenge and punishment that it's going to be a long time coming to view these as places of rehabilitation and reintegration than of violent, dehumanizing retribution. The state has a duty to ensure humane and dignified treatment for everyone in its care.)

I'm American. And I agree with everything you've said.

Here's an example of what one could do building off a platform like Column:

I previously worked at Center (https://getcenter.com), which after a few pivots, landed on offering expense management and analytics software to businesses. They partner with a vendor (not Column) to issue credit cards.

Center gets a realtime feed of card activity into their system to properly categorize the spend based on various signals or rules, which may, for example, prompt employee to attach a receipt. They focus on companies with decent T+E spend because they get the card interchange fees — that's the biz model: earn money from the card spend / merchant fees (as opposed to competitors such as Expensify that charge per user/card/report/etc).

And for the business using Center cards, they get nice software, instant visibility into spend, spending controls, et al, all at no cost to them. I don't mean to make this an ad for Center (I have zero financial stake in the company), just illustrating what you could do atop a platform like Column based on this specific example I worked closely on.

According to Column, their credit card service remits 100% of the interchange fee to the developer company, so you could build any number of services to enhance this data and service.

We can go back much further in time and find the same lamentations:

'The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.' -Socrates

No doubt, Apple is more opinionated when it comes to UI/UX than others — for better or worse. It's a trade-off.

Fwiw, Apple does provide more control over the display tucked away under Settings/System Preferences => Accessibility (lots of goodies there, actually).

Not clear if you knew that and still found that too limiting, but perhaps others will have fun poking around in there.

At least on the Mac, I can almost always find a third-party tool that can accomplish anything Apple didn't expose.

I largely agree they need to reduce their App Store fees — it is damaging their goodwill for relatively limited benefit, but more-so it's attracting government scrutiny that will likely lead to worse outcomes for Apple and its users if they don't relent.

'Defund the police' means we reallocate the every-increasing funding for armed agents who want for nothing (not unlike the US military — look at the municipal budget allocations for police vs schools etc) and invest those funds into:

1) Alternative first responder services, such as mental health experts to deescalate incidents that far too often end in tragedy 2) Invest in preventative measures to ensure communities and society at-large is healthy: provide educational, medical, and economic opportunities to materially improve people's lives

And more generally, police in America are long overdue for major reform. 'Qualified immunity' has let officers use violent and lethal force with impunity. They are supposed to be the trained professionals, yet their bar for use of force is _lower_ than an untrained civilian's. The oversight boards are a joke, with no teeth to actually hold police accountable. It's crazy when you think about all the principles espoused by America re: limited gov't and power to the People yet we have this superset class above the law they are meant to enforce. I expect them to be held to a higher standard, and to actually know the laws and people's rights so as not to infringe on them without consequence.

And from talking with a (civilian) criminologist inside SPD who studies this up close, the mentality of cops is disturbing — very 'us-vs-them' — they aren't 'peace officers' who 'protect and serve', but are above us and demand 'respect' and unquestioning compliance above all else. They're the high school bullies equipped with guns and a badge. Their training by US/Israeli ex-military is disturbing because they react to all of us a potential mortal threats rather than as a member of a common community. There's a reason we had Posse Comitatus, but now we've militarized police at the local level, and surprise — they act like it.

I enthusiastically am voting for NTK in the general. The fact is heavily-funded and well-armed police for decades _has not_ and cannot improve the situation anymore than the military occupation in Afghanistan did. Crime is a symptom of more systemic issues, particularly poverty and loss of faith in public institutions. In short, hopelessness and despair.

Reminds me of Hawaiian Pidgin :-)

'If can can. If no can no can'

There's a utility app on macOS that I've used for years called Shush < https://mizage.com/shush/ > that provides a global mic toggle (double tap to invert toggle to speak/mute).

Very nice because it works at OS level and is same no matter which app I'm using.