skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - headphone/mic jack

> - mic only jack (but why another one?)

Simple: some people use headsets that have a TRRS connector (stereo audio and mono mic on one cable), others have headsets with a TRS (stereo audio) and TS (mono for the mic) connector, while others use a separate headphone and mic (e.g. ModMic). Of course, many headsets these days use USB, but there are plenty of 3.5mm ones still floating around, and if you search "headset" on Amazon, the first two options are 3.5mm.

There are, of course, adapters (TRS + TS <-> TRRS), but most people don't have one/don't want to buy one/don't know they exist. (I only have one because an old headset came with it.)

It's probably only a couple cents extra to achieve much wider compatibility.
Show HN: Communick. Privacy-respecting social media and messaging hosting
I know it is not the first time that I submit Communick to a "Show HN", but given the renewed interest for alternatives to the existing social media networks, I thought it would be ok to post about it again.

I've been running it as a side-project for over 3 years now. My reasoning was that if/when people started to pay attention to the tremendous damage caused by ad-driven social networks, they would be looking for alternatives where they wouldn't mind a small monthly/yearly amount. So I set up to build a provider of alternatives, which would all be based on open source technology and that was designed to interoperate with other servers as well.

Basically, the idea is not to become yet-another social network, but merely to provide a solution for those who want to be part of the Fediverse without having to deal with the headaches of dealing with hardware (provisioning a server), software (troubleshooting/upgrading service) or meatware (dealing with quirky/unprofessional instance admins or unresponsive moderation).

This, quite frankly, has not caught on. Network effects are very real and very few people would join my Mastodon instance when there are so many others who have been managing to be supported by donations (I still think that is not the most rational and fair model, but this is a discussion for another post [0]). No matter how cheap my offering is or even if I was creating group packages [1] to allow people to pay for their friends, it's hard to compete with "free".

I was getting a lot of requests from people who wanted to have their own instance, so this is what I start to set up. I started last month to offer Mastodon managed hosting. In this case, the customers are fully responsible for their users and the content, and Communick is only responsible for making sure the infrastructure is in place.

This weekend I was planning to make the final adjustments to add Pixelfed hosting, but with the events related to Reddit, I ended up taking the opportunity to make some experiments with Lemmy [2], launched a "test instance" [3] and got it to play nicely with my cluster, so if anyone wants to run their own server, they can.

If anyone is worried about data protection: I'm running the servers in Germany, I have absolutely zero tracking or analytics in place, the Matrix server works with end-to-end encryption and the reason that I did not add any bridges to it is that so I can keep it "clean".

Any feedback is always welcome, and I have a 14-day trial for anyone that is on the fence. The Lemmy instance is open for registrations and will be free for everyone that signs up now until I can integrate with LDAP so that I can have SSO like the other services. Even if/when I close the registration for paid-only members, I will happily grandfather in any of you that sign up.

Thank you and hope to see you there!

[0]: https://raphael.lullis.net/community-is-not-enough/

[1]: https://communick.com/packages

[2]: https://join-lemmy.org

[3]: https://communick.news
I wouldn't even mind that, that'd be a creative sponsor spot. I think they're talking about actual ads here.
Hm, I don't really see how this is Reddit-like. It doesn't seem to have anything like subreddits.

If I wanted to recreate a subreddit on non.io, how would I do that? How would I enforce rules?
For me, it'd be a good Jurassic Park TV series - but not ANY JP movie, those things are absolute crap and they've lost a lifelong fan. They lost me at the third one and they have only further alienated me since then.

That or a Trespasser-like game.
That math challenge assumes that the attacker will want to try all keys.

In reality, they are going to run rockyou.txt against it and just move on if that isn't sufficient.
Yep, it was very messed up. It also went both ways, my maternal grandmother suffered decades of abuse from her son because she didn't consider her married daughters to be 'her' family. It took a plan of forcibly sneaking her out, moving her away and threatening her son with legal action to get her away.

Even after that she struggled to accept being a 'burden' on her daughters.
On Safari, getting:
"Timeout when waiting for 3rd party check iframe message."
And nothing loads.

Works in Firefox though.
Tried to open it, it kept undefinitely in a loading animation, opened the web inspector, reloaded it and there only shows a Cloudflare message error saying that they blocked me from visiting it.
Eye tracking has been $100 to own for many years now through a certain company. Why hasn't it taken off?

The mouse is the superior input device. When people who actually need a better input device get one, they get more advanced mice:

https://3dconnexion.com/us/spacemouse/
Ah I can totally see how my simple statement can imply that I would advocate for no documentation. This wasn't my intention. I think it's important to provide all team members with resources and guidance on how to maintain documentation so that it doesn't go stale. Documentation requires extra time and maintenance but providing tools to decrease the effort to ensure that written documentation doesn't go stale is important for every technical team leader to do.
What if I told you your gut has taste receptors?

Me as far as added sugar and artificial sweeteners is concerned, I'm out.
> While you have learned a lot about LLMs and generative AI for instance, it is extremely unlikely you have learned from the most well informed sources.

4chan is certainly not the best source compared to, say, scientific papers or technical conferences, but is there any evidence it's any worse than Reddit? A lot of the work pushing Stable Diffusion forward came out of 4chan IIRC. I believe the most popular UI (automatic1111) came out of 4chan.
Winget Configure: automate machine setup and project onboarding
It's an appeal to Occam's razor. The most simple explanation of why a novel virus started infecting people in a city with a virology lab is that the written plan to make covid in that lab was executed.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/aZbLI
In a time, not so long ago, before we could have all the clothes for cheap in super markets, yes, it definitely helped.
I'm a millennial, so I can't really speak for zoomers. But to speculate, I'd say that a lot of people are on discord because if you play video games, you're probably on discord to socialize and/or to use the audio/video chatroom stuff when actually gaming. But the reddit thing seems more like a "lifehack" content thing than anything else. I doubt many people saw that tiktok and created a reddit account because of it, which is what I consider "using reddit". And 100k seems like a lot, but couldn't that just be all the reddit users who also use tiktok?
This one seems nice. It's better than the other alternatives that were posted here.

Probably needs a bit more modern UI but it's functional.
I don't know about that, there's info there that's unavailable anywhere else. I've on a few occasions found that an anon I was interacting with was the primary author on a project I was contributing to or had written a paper on the subject. It's a very diverse bunch.
There are probably 200 ways to manipulate text on Unix. Does this limit anyone in using the tried and trusted awk, sed, cut, grep etc.?

I define my font sizes in em and rem. It bothers me exactly 0% that someone else is able to define his fonts in millimeters or pica’s.
We should do both. Gates has outsized personal influence and resources, he's not some quirky hermit that publishes startling pamphlets but is otherwise separate from the world. It's rational to consider whether and where his personal interests coincide with his policy proposals.
I think that already exists, as the Power Delete Suite https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

eta: that doesn't have the restore function iirc
Nope. Someone may just be targeting you. May be worthwhile to change your master password.
On the bright side, at least you know if you are affected!

When an employee snoops, you will never know.
Because of exactly your comment. And that if GPT-4 does answer this specific question correctly, it doesn't create strong evidence that the claim itself is wrong. The specific example is intentionally an extremely low hanging fruit. Others are less obvious and apparent, but still exist. The point is about trust and stopping criteria, not pounds vs kilograms.
I've had pretty good luck with Virtualbox and legacy OSs. It's open-source. WINE works surprisingly well with older Windows games and apps too.
And we trust the guy to advise/pontificate/steer the health care and also the WHO.
That game is still great. Show some respect!

More seriously, Tunic also draws upon newer Zelda titles as well as games outside the series. In addition, many 2D Zelda games have come out since the time of the SNES, not even counting re-releases like the recent remake of Link's Awakening.

Tunic doesn't just evoke Zelda aesthetically as a substitute for developing its own aesthetic! It's a loving homage to a series that absolutely materially inspired the core gameplay, too.
If mods see harassment, they can block such user or use broader preventive measures, including defederation. As with any other Fediverse software.
[Not] incidentally, around the world it's easy to find people who know more about American politics than their own local politics. I'm friends online with several Brazilians; they spend as much if not more time talking about Trump than Bolsonaro. Why is that?

I think this is for a few reasons; America is a [the?] global hegemon; so American domestic politics have some earnest global relevance. But more than that; reporting one country's news is more efficient than reporting N countries' news. Fewer stories means fewer writers to pay, less research and investigation to do, etc. Furthermore people have an appetite for news, but a finite appetite; sate people with news about America and you'll have them thinking less about local issues. Therefore, news organizations in other countries have both an economic and political incentive to report American news instead of local news. What's more, America encourages this because for America it is a form of soft power to live rent-free in the minds of everybody else.

Point is: when a narrative becomes taboo in American media, that's likely to rub off on the rest of the world. Particularly so in countries where a sizeable portion of the population consume at least some English-language media, participate on English-language forums, etc.
Loads pretty fast from Europe right now and UX looks reddit-like.

Good first impression.
Yup, this seems super plausible. Even things like the frontpage feed and user comment history probably work on the assumption that most of the data they're pulling is probably visible (which leads to the "just filter it in the backend" approach), but also every external link or bookmark into a now-private sub will trigger the same kind of check.

This is likely shifting load in very unpredictable ways... I'm sure a sibling comment is right that it's probably less load overall in general, but it'll be going down codepaths that aren't normally being exercised by >95% of requests and aren't working on the assumption that virtually all content is being hidden.

There's probably some microservice instances that are currently melting themselves into a puddle until they can deploy additional instances, additional DB shards, or roll out patches to fix dumb shit that wasn't dumb until the usage assumptions were suddenly inverted. Meanwhile there's tons of other instances that are probably sitting idle.
Most Thinkpads still have three buttons (admittedly part of the trackpoint, so above the touchpad).
I have not read a reddit devblog or anything like that. My guess is they are doing some kind of caching of posts via elasticsearch/redis or something similar. It must depend on the privacy settings of a sub.

So when 1000 subs go private, they potentially had to update hundreds of millions of comments.

Anyone else have a theory?
In a mobile browser, this would also be not as easy as in an app because the permission would have to be requested on-demand (or on page load), if I am not mistaken.

E.g. this demo triggers a permission prompt:

https://sensor-js.xyz/demo.html

I also agree with your other points though.
For what scenario? Gaming? What about use as a virtual screen? What about social interaction? What about some of the other scenarios that were depicted in the wedc demo?
I had just one sentence in my original message about Cuban immigrants, my writeup was not about them in particular. It was just an example of one of the things I was saying, basically that I know that many Cuban immigrants wanted to reject their old regime - not necessarily their culture, which is not in conflict with "the rules" as I see it. I see in Latin Americans refugee a desire to live the US life while preserving their values (which is also the case for other immigrant groups, but NOT all of them).

I was actually praising the integration of law-abiding Latin Americans in the US, including Cubans. In my community, we all eat our food, celebrate our culture and speak our language among ourselves, but we're proud to be American and actually want the American way of life for ourselves and our family. Many of these immigrants easily integrated and even married locals. My wife, who's American, hangs out with Latin American women of different countries, all living a "Latin America spiced" US life.
Microsoft Edge is insane. The amount of privacy invasion it has by default, the constant nagging to re-enable and undo all your changes to the defaults, and maze of settings you have to disable is just crazy. Is there anything it doesn't phone home? Every image, everything you type, history, absolutely everything. I was interested in it initially but I 100% avoid this browser now. I feel like it takes 20-30 minutes to comb through all the different settings everywhere in the browser and even then we hear about bugs that leak it all anyways. Microsoft edge is a complete disgrace.
I'm honestly under the impression that people are just too irresponsible to do some things. People are not machines who go into a bsl 4 lab and do proper safety precautions each and every day without slipping or becoming lax. If you have a lab making viruses, eventually, it will escape. If the viruses they are making are capable of shutting the whole world down for a year, then we really need to ask whether we should have them.its not a question of "is doing this useful?", because I'm sure it is. It is a question of is this worth doing even though we know it will inevitably go bad? You can talk about all the precautions and regulations you want, if people are involved then eventually someone or a group of someones will do something idiotic or malicious and break everything. There's literally an entire Wikipedia page about lab outbreaks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecuri...
I like the idea and the price is fine. But I'd rather pay $2 for the servers instead of rewarding posters. The problem is that once they start making money it will become too clickbaity/commercial. I strongly dislike the mass content most "pro" YouTubers like Linus tech tips and the like generate.

Reddit never really had this because all you could give was subscription time. Paying causes this mainstream focus and clickbaiting.

Maybe you feel the need to attract content generators to your platform but it will only create more mediocre content IMO.

What was so great about Reddit was that people created amazing content that they were passionate about, regardless of whether it paid well or not.
> I've also considered adding a threshold for payouts (i.e. $50 withdrawal minimum) to help with the reporting aspects.

Do this anyway. You don't want to be paying out every cent immediately to people reposting things that otherwise warrant moderation.
> How does that work with a app like Discord, which is more like a huge group of villages and not one big village?

Reddit is/was also arguably a huge group of villages. It still feels that way, if you are only subscribed to sensibly small subreddits and you experience it through the prism of old.reddit and third-party apps like Apollo. Reddit doesn't think that that model is the future, though, and the mainstream Reddit experience has evolved away from that and toward the algorithmic feed model.

I would be wary in assuming that Discord's interface and community model will remain the same as it seeks ways to monetize.
So should Bill Nye be required to keep publishing the original version of his book "Undeniable"? [Between the publication of the hardcover and softcover editions, he changed his views on GMO foods, and updated the relevant chapter.]
>HiFi horrified Second Life content creators. It downloads assets from HTTP. There's no grid. There's no central asset server. There are no mandatory user accounts. So anything you sell can be quickly copied, hosted wherever, and duplicated with complete impunity. SL will kick you off the grid if you misbehave, but HiFi was made in such a way there was no grid to ban people from.

That sounds amazing. I had no idea something like this existed. I never encountered anyone mentioning it on HN, reddit, discord, etc. Maybe marketing was also an issue for them?
Oh yeah, if you have direct access to the database / backend admin (as I'm sure this importer does), you can frob things to get the correct dates and avoid pushing them out as new posts. Just not possible via the standard APIs at the moment (I had to patch my Akkoma to allow backfilling of posts from certain accounts.)
Villages used to be the norm on the internet, when far more communication happened on forums.

The great promise of the fediverse is that you can have both, even at the same time. You can be part of a single small group where you know the people around you and would notice someone new. But you can also have massive instances without any of those connections.
I'd be all up for an initiative that attempts to burst the liberal bubble which seems to reject the possibility that people have other things to do than follow the latest inclusivity trends online, but come on. You know well what this is about. Had to scroll like 3 posts down to find out that this panders to reactionary clowns[0].

If this were a protest I would expect polemic discourse, yet the "official account" is just throwing shit around and screaming with excitement when someone "gets offended"[1].

[0] https://twitter.com/BjoernHoecke/status/1664190277282611200
[1] https://twitter.com/stolzmonat
I just realized that Justine was the person responsible for the massive reduction in the memory footprint of the Llama models back in March.[1] Super impressive! These are my favorite kinds of blog posts.

[1] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/613
Webb Space Telescope detects universe's most distant complex organic molecules
I'm always excited when things go down like this because that means I get to read another postmortem
> See that’s on-brand with the cutthroat ruthless billG company

Tangential, but this made me reflect on how "good"/"nice" Ballmer, and Ballmer-era MS, was in a very relative sense. This is slightly startling considering how my mental image of either Ballmer or MS is not great. But now looking back it does feel like relentless anti-competitiveness lessened a bit during that era, and lot of good stuff happened then. Windows 7 probably will go down in history as the pinnacle of traditional desktop Windows, MS giving up on IE gave room for Firefox and (unfortunately also) Chrome, lot of previously proprietary stuff got documented and published (SMB and Office formats comes to mind), and there were some nice product developments.

In contrast Gates era Microsoft was very much characterized by strong-arm tactics and throwing their weight around. And now Nadella era feels very aggressive again, pushing the company forwards no matter what; in some ways maybe less vindictive and direct than Gates, but still definitely not nice.
Those licenses are a little silly. You can't copyright a phonebook.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....
Instance blocking depends on the admin. If you are not happy with the moderation of the instance you are on, you can always host your own.
They'd just replace their unpaid workers by paid ones and annoy the userbase even more in the process. Doesn't sound like a great plan.
As a long-time reddit user I applaud the idea. It looks cool and I personally think that you are correct that any kind of social media (for the future) that would not feed on its user base (ads and selling user data) should be offered by a non-profit. Personally I would not have issues if a non-profit would still offer ads it's social media site; they needs income as well, right? Just hope they would not offer the ad companies the data of it's user base.
The GPTQ implementation is reasonably fast, I think.

Or maybe they are running it at 8 bits? I just saw that they funded this: https://huggingface.co/ehartford/WizardLM-Uncensored-Falcon-...
any opinion on why Apple isn't dogfooding this by allowing their software and non-hardware teams to work remotely? Seems like that would be one way to prove it is legit
And a place to store them!
A profit-price spiral in Germany
They stopped updating/supporting the code about 6 months before the big redesign (last push Oct '17, redesign launched Apr '18). Call me a bit of a conspiracy-theorist, but they just happened to raise $200 million on their Series C less than 3 months prior to abandoning their commitment to open-source.
That crossword was a lot harder than I expected, given the number of letters.
Yeah, Qubes feels just a few versions away from being really very nice to use too. But there's still quite a few pain points for me, most notably anything GPU related. And also a general lack of detailed documentation that's quite frustrating. The default security can be improved a lot too. Running a full-blown linux distro in net-vm and firewall-vm is sort of silly, really. Leaves a lot of unnecessary attack surface, and wastes a bunch of memory too.

There's also qubsd which is a qubes like thing for Freebsd, leveraging zfs, jails and bhyve. Looks really promising, but is still in a lot of dev flux. Definitely gonna switch to it when it's solid enough though. Because it looks like a better way to set up your own custom qubes-like setup.
Huh?

"You don't recognize that [the thing you just said]?"?
Lingering effects of Neanderthal DNA found in modern humans
I've been using Pixelfed since I discovered it after Elon bought Twitter. It's helped me get back into photography and I post daily. Of course the userbase is tiny compared to Insta, but I don't care.
Yep, but that doesn't obstruct the page.

Except for a version from 2 years ago that never even made it out of beta ;)
I thought it was a cloudflare outage.
> Apple has to first design a standalone GPU

Why would they ever need that? They just need to provide the usual PCIe interface which the existing cards support.
So in terms of information density and readability, how does it compare to a 5K retina display on an iMac or Studio Display?