skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In their updated policy, it appears they now won't remove any existing images, but projects who don't pay up will not be able to publish any new images

This is not correct. It's the "organization" features which are going away. That is the feature which lets you create teams, add other users to those teams, and grant teams access to push images and access private repositories. Multiple maintainers can still collaborate on publishing new images through use of access tokens which grant access to publish those images. It's kind of a hack, but it works. You would typically use these access tokens with automated CI tools anyway. This will require converting the organization account to a personal user (non-org) account. (Interesting note/disclosure: I was the engineer who first implemented the feature of converting a personal user account into an organization account some time around 2014/2015, but I no longer work there.)

For open source projects which are not part of the Docker Official Images (the "library" images [1]), they announced that such projects can apply to the Docker-Sponsored Open Source Program [2].

I would also heed the warning from the author of this article:

> Self-hosting a registry is not free, and it's more work than it sounds: it's a proper piece of infrastructure, and comes with all the obligations that implies, from monitoring to promptly applying security updates to load & disk-space management. Nobody (let alone tiny projects like these) wants this job.

Having most container images hosted by a handful of centralized registries has its problems, as noted, but so does an alternative scenario where multiple projects which decided to go self-hosted eventually lack the resources to continue doing so for their legacy users. Though, I suppose the nice thing about container images is that you can always pull and push them somewhere else to keep around indefinitely.

[1] https://hub.docker.com/u/library
[2] https://www.docker.com/community/open-source/application/
It's because in the US, you have to run in order to stay in the same place. There is no more stability. Swim fast or get eaten by the sharks.
About time someone realized that re-centralizing back to GitHub’s services isn’t a good idea in the long run as I said before [0] during the recent ‘Dockerpocalypse’ thread.

Perhaps there is some glimmer of hope for self-hosting after all.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35174819
Yeah, that'll do it.
> Fwiw when I’ve used the baby-belts they felt very secure. Always wondered why US airlines didn’t use them.

There appear to be very good reasons.

From the Study on Child Restraint Systems: Final Report produced by TÜV Rheinland for the European Aviation Safety Agency in 2008 [0]:

–quote–

The loop belt is derived from the normal lap belt (width, material, buckle). The normal lap belt is designed to support the webbing on the iliac crest of the adult. In biomechanical terms, the adult is restrained by the lap belt over his or her iliac crest in an accident (cf. section 2.1.1). In infants, however, the iliac crest is not yet fully developed. The loop belt therefore rests by almost 100 percent within the infant’s abdominal region. The induction of forces into the abdominal region of the infant results in extremely serious internal injuries.

For this reason, the loop belt is no safety system for infants in turbulence, aborted take-off, hard landing, in emergency landing conditions and other accidents.

Furthermore, the infant is seated within the adult’s excursion path. Dummy tests in emergency landing dynamic conditions illustrate the situation of an infant fixed with a loop belt on the lap of an adult. They show the following pattern:

The inertia forces resulting from the mass of the infant and the effective accelerations affect the abdomen of the infant via the loop belt. Since the abdomen cannot induce exterior forces, the loop belt drives into the soft parts. The infant is additionally loaded by the pressure of the downward movement of the adult’s upper torso and his or her femurs hitting upwards. The loop belt drives through the infant’s abdomen and only stops at the vertebral spine.
The adult hits onto the infant. The infant is pushed through the legs of the adult and hits onto the floor.

Infants fixed with a loop belt suffer extremely serious to fatal injuries due to their position within the adult’s excursion path and due to the restraint method.

–end quote–

[0] https://www.icao.int/safety/airnavigation/OPS/CabinSafety/Ca... (pp. 74-75)
User bitcoinistrash is the one that brought it up, and they're spreading incorrect information about how it works.

Cracking sha256 hashes implies trying to reverse a specific hash. There are literally thousands (millions?) of potential inputs that hash to a valid bitcoin mining block output. It's basically a race to find the first one matching the rules of the current block difficulty. The goal isn't to produce any one specific input/hash pair.
Why is Rupert Murdoch associated with Stanford? An open letter to leadership
"A lot of the world is able to walk, so people don't need wheel chair access in buildings".
"A lot of the world is male/female, so people don't need made up genders and surgery".
... sounds great, huh?

Anyway, where does this "people don't need X" stop, though? You also don't need oat milk, tofu, soy, peas, etc. to survive.

Let's just go back to foraging for roots and berries and see what population size we can sustain!
> Mules are a cross bread of donkey and horse and are effectively sterile, ergo no tree.

Not always.[1]

[1] https://horses.extension.org/is-there-a-chance-that-a-mule-m...
On the plus side this will at least further discourage use of planes for domestic travel...

We really need development of HSR across the US. Maybe if they make flying miserable enough we can actually make some progress on that front.
Sadly, nobody can run from memory management.
See: 'drone seed planting'
> Not entirely true

If you want to communicate anything by that, please explain what you're referring to. I'm not going to read that entire page trying to guess. I can't at first glance see anyone asking "what is physics?", if that's what you meant.
Depends how loosely we interpret this. Do we mean online AI language models which are part of a continuous lineage tracing back to the present chatGPT will not have revolutionized anything, or do we mean that OpenAI and their product line known as chatGPT in particular will not have revolutionized anything? Let's disambiguate now so no one says we are equivocating in 5 years. I'm understanding it to mean the former.
It’s precisely because we’ve treated these “rounding errors” seriously that aviation is so incredibly safe. It didn’t used to be, it got that way because the engineers treated even a single injury as an unacceptable failure.
After a few train hijackings or whatever I'm sure we'll need mugshots to ride it too.
Generalists are typically better in smaller companies. As companies grow they move towards specialists.

This is typically because of workload. In the early days of a project the work oscillates between front and back end. As projects grow you will have enough frontend work to support dedicated front end engineers and similarly for backend.
I don't think the reason to be informed is to feel good.
>I wish we had a more accurate name

Propaganda.
You Should Be Outraged About Silicon Valley Bank
But has anyone ever looked at a program that was structured after "clean architecture" principles as outlined by good-ol' uncle bob and thought "yeah this was a great idea!". The answer is no.
Japanese don't want non-Japanese (non-Yamato) people in there. Even 1/4 non-Yamato people face discrimination, and half-Japanese essentially have sub-human status. Even if the other half comes from richest and most civilised countries on Earth.

Also seriously, no foreigners understand Japan. I don't think this is a country someone from the outside can really integrate there.
Yes, but this is a hate fact.
Well, if my phone's autocomplete took a very sane prediction and made it insane, i'd call that a failure. There's obvious success and failure conditions even in the most basic auto completion. Same goes for 2+2.

Which is the meat of what we're discussing, right? We steer the auto completion into favorable results. We fine tune how it predicts. All of this is with the goal of a higher success rate and lower failure rate given some conditions.

No?
Wait, they train with live nukes? Why? Just in case the US needs to nuke North Korea? A military exercise is taking place as we speak, all while Kim Jong Um is launching ICBMs and issuing threats to show off.
It can sit there and communicate with people endlessly. In fact, that is what it's good at.
We flew last week non US Oman Air, and got a baby belt, but not on a domestic flight in the Philippines.

Maybe it's not required for us domestic? Domestic flights have more flexible regulation generally.
Crypto loves wagers does ChatGPT-4?
The crypto world loves wagers. From Do Kwon’s bet on the LUNA token price to a recent bet that the US will enter hyperinflation in 90 days. But each time it's been handled manually. So let's use ChatGPT-4 (early access!) to build a smart contract for it. Follow along, I even recorded my screen! Spoiler: I'm feeling a lot less worried about being replaced
Bin packing everywhere! Truck loading?

Minimizing maximum to minimum ratio for structural stability.
> Travelers who volunteer to use the new system are directed to insert their drivers license, ID card, or passport into the appropriate reader, stand on a marked spot in front of the webcam, and remove their face mask, so that the image from the ID (or, more likely, from some back-end image database linked to the ID, although that hasn’t been disclosed) and the image from the webcam can be compared by some undisclosed algorithm.

So… mugshots.
How long are rates fixed in the US?

In Aus & NZ, even “fixed” rates are only for a few years (3-5 I think).
A critical function of a seatbelt is to protect others in the cabin from a flying body tumbling about, in addition to being protecting the person buckled up.
Same but I just don't vote at all, unless there are any strong trustworthy pro-worker candidates which basically doesn't happen. I will also show up to vote against anti-worker ballot measures, which are more frequent.
I'm also passionate about this topic and trying to apply technology and seeing what I can learn. From looking into this topic, stuff that could be helpful are: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Soil Moisture Capacity sensors.

Wrote this article for monitoring seedling growth:

- https://bartlomiejmika.com/posts/2021/how-to-read-data-from-...

I've been following HN for a while and saved a few articles that pertaining to this topic:

A grandmother made a forest
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22499224

Ask HN: What are the (software) opportunities for coming Green Revolution?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25147863

Ask HN: Are there any software jobs in nature/animal conservation?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23938635

Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23794141

Growing crops in cities will put an end to food waste
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25540378

Why I am building permapeople.org (permapeople.org)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24696688

Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325138

The Miyawaki Method: A Better Way to Build Forests? (2019) (jstor.org)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26114425

Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22395292
This is why devs should chose a language like golang. It is readable because, generics aside, you don't get to do much with the language and it also runs very fast.
100% Agree. It's an entire article written about a celebrity or politician's tweet reacting to another celebrity or politician. It's an entire article that talks about some filler setting up the background, the actual embedded tweet, a paragraph or two quoting that tweet with filler in it, then perhaps a second reaction tweet or a bunch of tweets that random people responded with either positive/negative or both depending on what the author is trying to achieve or influence.
That feels circular, what is a dollar then
If we closed our eyes for a year when it comes to kids, we'd probably eradicate food allergies.
Alcohol is another massive killer. So are tobacco products. Processed food, and all of these factors are heavier on economically challenged folk.

Just saying it's not worth the outrage we've seen. Anyway we're ot.
I think that is an insightful and balanced take. May I ask where you get your information? I like to follow important court cases and usually read the Supreme Court rulings, but don't have a good resource for state and District law.

More to the topic, I think the law on the scope of contractors is overly vauge, and this hurts both individuals and business. Both benefit from clear legislation and the topic of contractor definition has mostly been hashed out in case law precedent.
I found myself thinking that yes, you should still learn to code, but no you probably shouldn’t bother to write blog posts about why you should still learn to code.
Unbounded growth is a fundamental evil. Our system of corporate organization has been creating troll accounts for a lot longer than the Internet has been around (they just call it marketing, but a pig by any other name...).

Nationalism is anachronistic and hasn't been anything but an infected social appendix since the Internet.

I wonder why it is that at the same time, you're so seemingly rose tinted about the situation domestically as you are paranoid about the situation internationally. I don't mean to say that bots, trolls, and psyops don't exist; they do.. But we perform them on our own people anyway and it's not as if the goals of the government are aligned with the people in it anyhow.

The effectiveness of these campaigns is about on par with that of what journalism has unfortunately become - mostly bullshit and everyone knows it but what are ya gonna do? They keep putting it out and it's not like you're going to convince those still locked to the cycle that they're living in a cave.

I think size is a major part of the problem.
I live on a farm in rural Western Australia, and my wife and I have spent considerable time and resources in planting wind-breaks, shelter-belts and doing our local roadside rehabilitation.

As you would know, it's hard work to plant, and hard work to keep the seedlings alive for long enough to establish and grow.

That said, we visited a farmer in the wheat-belt once who was planting shelter-belts of tagasaste (tree lucern). They used a machine that ripped a furrow (common farm machinery), and something rigged behind it that would drop a seedling every x metres. The furrow would naturally funnel water to the seedlings roots.

Don't have any particulars on what the machinary was, especially the back part of it, but I'm sure tree farm companies (those that grow Pine, Bluegums, etc as a resource to later be turned into furniture, building materials, or woodchips) have some tools and techniques. Perhaps seek some out and interview or arrange for a tour.

Of course, all of those machines require fossil-fuels to get on site, to function, and to leave the site again. You win some, you lose some.

Even planting one tree, and allowing to survive, and grow is impactful. Trees are habitat to birds, insects, small reptiles, and some mammals. They are shade. They bring nutrients up from deep in the earth and make them available to smaller plants at the surface, enriching the ground. They are water-pumps, keeping the ground salinity low, and making that water available for rainfall further in-land of coastal areas.

Every single tree you put in allows populations of animals to live and flourish. You are making a difference. You're doing an exceptional job.

I digress a little, but even so-called "Weed trees" have habitat value. I have seen people cut down Willows and Sydney Wattles in our neighborhood, which are introduced and not wanted, and feel they have done a good job and are saving the planet etc. etc. But then they don't plant anything to replace them, displacing animals who don't have really anywhere else to go.
The early ones -- make your own cloud chamber for atom splitting, X-ray machine made from vacuum tubes, big metal rocket powered by explosive powdered zinc -- were collected into a volume that's amazing.

https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-American-projects-amateur-...
Wait, what corpus is the AI going to actually consume to generate that news feed? Police blotter reports, press releases, and tweets?
I actually thought this might have been written by ChatGPT.

Part of the answer is that "you should learn to code beyond basic syntax, so that you can be better than the computer".

What it doesn't mention is that the state of AI is also going to continue improving, so you're possibly entering an arms race.
Ask HN: Suggest some of the best books in field XYZ for self study
Mastery of every topic require self learning with great dedication, whatever the field may be.

What are some great books suitable for self study in your field?
Yeah that and things like ORMs are less mature.
I agree the naming is confusing, so that's why we're renaming it :)

I don't see the difference between osh / olang vs. osh / ysh ? Why is the former clearer than the latter?
I am a woman when writing this sentence but a man after I'm done.

I disagree there is any issue at all, much less an "apparent" one.

Declaring there must be objective, immutable, universal boundaries for gender expressions is certainly a valid position to hold; but it's not universally shared.

So an ostensibly neutral "authoritative reference"
bot shouldn't offer your worldview, nor mine, when asked such a question.

It certainly shouldn't say women can't have prostate exams. That is factually incorrect in the actual world you live in (regardless of whether you personally consider those people "women", they do and others do as well.)
It's kinda sad. If we persisted all the hashes that have been tried, we'd have the mother of all rainbow tables.

Be a bitch to search. But damn would we know the topography of the function space.
If it's the product I think it is (I don't recall the exact name), it's not putting the repo into GPT. It's calculating embeddings on the code in the repo, storing those in a vector db and providing context from the store when processing questions about the repo. Effectively when you ask "how does foo work" becomes 1. lookup code items related to foo getting 1-N copies of code. 2. ask GPT "here is code related to foo <result from 1>. Now answer the following question: how does foo work"
I run fold@home I'm at 207M points... Sucks I'm in 14K range... I'll probably never hit #1 haha
i dont know why this post didnt get traction. you're on an incredible streak Simon!
Joe Average doesn't care whether his communiques are encrypted, Joe probably doesn't even know (nor care) what "encrypted" means. All Joe cares about is whether he can talk with whoever's on the other side: Their spouse, a friend, a business acquaintance, whoever.

Joe Average doesn't care if he's the subject of invasive tracking, Joe probably doesn't even know (nor care) what "tracking" means. Can he read Twitter and Facebook? Can he watch Youtube? Can he shop on Amazon? Yes? That's all that matters.

Joe Average doesn't care about DRM, Joe probably doesn't even know (nor care) what "DRM" stands for. All Joe cares about is whether he can listen to the album he bought, watch the movie he bought, play the game he bought. Can he? Yes? That's all that matters.

Joe Average doesn't care about illegal surveillance, Joe probably doesn't even know (nor care) where the cameras even are. Does the surveillance get in the way of doing whatever he wants to do? No? That's all that matters.

Basically: Life is short, we only have so much time and so much to do. We straight up don't have the time to give an individual shit to each and every thing in our lives.

For most people, a computer is an appliance; it serves a purpose and there is next to no need nor desire to devote any additional time or thought to it. We as power users must respect that reality even if we don't necessarily subscribe to that world view.
First, the costs of nuclear power are quite substantial AND they are front-loaded making it a bad investment. You will need to go through a lot of red tape and spend all the money right away to get some benefit later when it's built.

Second, it's not zero carbon if you include building the plants, since the plants have a limited lifespan, so there's still a carbon footprint for the materials.

Third, if you switch all of our energy to nuclear today with a magic switch, we would run out of all easy to mine uranium in a few decades. While that is not a concern in our lifetimes, some progress on thorium plants and so forth must be made for nuclear to be a long term solution.
>Assuming the utility is breaking that down more or less honestly

...

>And I live in California,

This made me laugh out loud. (Worked with utilities all my life, including in CA.)
Honest question: is there an example in history of when a new technology led to the loss of jobs and didn’t just lead to a shift and further growth? I’ve tried to think of one, but I’m stumped.
I wouldn't worry too much about burnt bridges. I don't mean anything negative by this but, Chances are you are thinking about the situation far more than they are.

As far as the abrupt dismissal and not being able to say goodbye, I think that is a reasonable stance for a company to take. Anecdotally from my past experience with an employee that quit and gave two weeks notice, it was a horrible two weeks for everyone and after them I just told future people who gave notice to not worry and paid them out as if they worked it.

On a more positive note, I would also say that burned bridges are not that big of deal, I have checked with past employers about potential hires that said awful things but still hired them. If you know your stuff, show up for work and don't have a bunch of personal crisis that will affect the business plenty of companies will want you.

Good luck!
Given that it’s hard to hijack a train and put it on a course for Cuba, I don’t think train hijackings are a real threat.
But you can't both have cheap nuclear and the current regulations since they are in conflict.

But I think molten salt thorium plants can offer superior safety
Honesty I think tools like GPT are going to cause more people to learn to code, not less.

I've been using GPT to write very simple utilities in languages I am unfamiliar with, and for me, there's no faster way to pick up a language then to see an example program where you already know exactly what it does.

(Or is supposed to do, finding the small mistakes that GPT sometimes makes also helps learn things, ironically.)
Fixed rates are for the duration of the loan.
Alien Cover Up
Spontaneous Combustion
Indeed, but I was really over with the process of maintaining a Windows partition with a 10 years old version of the Kindle App, with updates disabled, for the sole purpose of manually downloading Kindle books for conversion to epub for transfer to the Remarkable.
Biodegradable Alien Objects
which times and places were those?
It could be sad if one day AI can do anything. One of those cliche "what's the point". No joy anymore in building.
If you ask me, it's when you start talking with the people in the area you're staying in. It's very freeing to have a fresh start in a new place.
What I find more fascinating is that anyone would believe this is a recent phenomena.

Propaganda has always been a part of civilization, and "cuteness" is just as old of a tactic as using fear, honor, opportunity, etc.
To non technical people Open Source often doesn't even mean what it means in FOSS circles. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he releases it under a license most of us on HN would consider "Source Available"