skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where did you only get 2G in the 2020s?

My previous smartphone supported 4G/3G/Edge, but for some reason the 4G didn't work. At all, ever, anywhere (not a provider/subscription or OS settings issue, and WiFi was fine).

In my country 3G was turned off a while ago to free up spectrum. So it fell back to Edge all the time.

That phone died recently. I'm temporarily using an older phone which also supports 4G/3G/Edge, and where the 4G bit works. Except... in many places where I hang out (rural / countryside) 4G coverage is spotty or non-existant. So it also falls back to Edge most of the time.

Just the other day (while on WiFi) I installed Dolphin as a lightweight browser alternative. Out in the countryside, it doesn't work ("no connection"), even though Firefox works fine there.

Apps won't download unless on WiFi. Not even if you're patient: downloads break somewhere, don't resume properly, or what's downloaded doesn't install because the download was corrupted. None of these issues over WiFi. Same with some websites: roundtrips take too long, server drops the connection, images don't load, etc etc.

Bottom line: app developers or online services don't (seem to) care about slow connections.

But here's the thing: for the average person in this world, fast mobile connections are still the exception, not the norm. Big city / developed country / 4G or 5G base stations 'everywhere' doesn't apply to a large % of the world's population (who do own smartphones these days, even if low-spec ones).

Not that some low-tier mobile plans also cap connection speeds. Read: slow connection even if there's 4G/5G coverage. There's a reason internet cafe's are still a thing around the world.
>I don't know of any pre-2010 forums

https://www.vogons.org/ ->Since 2002

https://bbs.archlinux.org -> Since 2003

And so on, just to name two important ones.
You can find info in Reddit, Discord is a black hole
I feel like self driving cars is one area where Google's slow-and-steady culture just works better than the move-fast-and-break things culture, since the things that would break in this case are literal human bodies.
Nothing forges on in Palestine, after entire population starved and infrastructure destroyed.

Here's to surviving the nth ge-n-ocide.

Although we should indeed mourn victims on all sides.
folks have used such communication channels for a long time. there were folks using bbs chat instead of bbs forums, folks using talk instead of mail, there were folks using irc instead of web forums. there's always room for both.
Damaged or used lithium ion batteries must be transported by surface mail only, in the USA.

https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52apxc_032.htm
Someone recently told me a pleasing story. Guy in HOA erects American flag. HOA complains and demands flag be removed. Attorney friend suggests taking advantage of (I think) a Carter era federal law that encompasses several admirable freedoms, eg clothes lines and zero impact yards.

Guy removes flag and erects clothes line with tacky garments from thrift store. HOA cannot prohibit this. Guy compromises by offering to replace flag with slightly smaller version. HOA reluctantly capitulates and clothes line is removed. Flag flies.
Isn't that just Reddit?
https://www.overclock.net/threads/mod-lga775-support-for-lga... I did this mod back in the day, can't believe it's been 11 years.
I totally agree, and also stop using FB groups it's even worse.

But the issue is no replacement is proposed by the author.

Discord has the advantage of:

- being free

- being maintained by someone else

- being used by a lot of people, so no need to create a new account for many users

- being very useful as a chat and growing organically as support from there

I don't see many competitors available. For example discourse is paid 50€ per month for 100 users maximum, which small project can pay that ?

Edit: I rarely see FB mentioned on these debates but it's probably by far the biggest place used for forum. I'm a member of several 10k+ groups. Even discords don't come close of it. The official bambulab group is 60k people, the hiking group of my area (1 million inhabitants max) is 30k people. The numbers are insane, as is the information invisible and lost
I do have a Mac mini: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40534047
Side note: I really dislike how shortsighted many orgs are with the extreme level of "go to your customer" that led to using the persistent IRC client I used to banter during game nights with my friends a decade ago as an all-encompassing support and outreach forum. Forget forum admins. Forget the future. Forget the "open web". It's dysfunctional right now for me, the current target market of whatever product you're selling or program you're running. I'm alienated from whatever your thing or community is by how badly Discord works for over twenty people, so I don't engage with you, and I must imagine many others feel the same way. Surely someone's aware of this in your org? Was the single-digit man-hours saved by not spinning up a FOSS forum or starting a subreddit really worth this? Who made that calculation? /rant
libera.chat is free. the network doesn’t compel registration, even! (though some channels do)
Sad. I was expecting something actually to do with education. This is just the premium service with more surveillance tools for the school.
> Managed forum hosting from $50/month

Yeowch. $50/mo is a huge cost for anything that's not making money.
> or have any hope to run in Wine.

Why not?
No, on reddit you are subjected to the reddit administrators their policies. You have no real control. The user interface is also awful if you're interested in content older than a day.
discourse has a few commercial hosting platforms. communiteq is one i’ve used.
I HATE working out. One thing I found that worked for me was to simply do 5 pushups and 10 squats first thing stepping out of bed. No matter what. Takes a few seconds and it's done before you can complain about it. After a while I bumped the numbers up. Then again and again. I still wasn't doing a long workout, but it was something and it made a big difference in eliminating wrist and back pain from sitting all day.

After a few months something would happen and I'd stop. Then after a few more months, the pain would start again and I'd get back into it the same way.
yeah, it's called phi-3-medium-4k-instruct

https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3-medium-4k-instruct
You never had to replace the battery? All batteries lose capacity over time. That's hardly unique. In fact battery replacement is the most common repair.
I don’t get the love for discourse. I’m not one of those “every webpage should work without JS” purists, but Discourse seems intent to reinvent basic web features with JS and has some performance issues and as a consequence of both often (maybe when hitting something not in cache?) takes ages to load during which time you get nothing but a poorly-styled loading throbber, you can’t even read the content as it loads in. Even official instances are incredibly slow at times. One topic on https://meta.discourse.org/ just took over 30 seconds to load for me. Discourse just feels somewhat overengineered.

Also anything that’s $50 a month doesn’t compete at the low end (which is where most OSS discussion hosting would exist) with Discord, which is free.
IMO, if universities want to use "AI", they should use their resources to implement their own, open language models rather then implementing a commercial one.
I don't like Discord as much as the next person, but people use Discord because it's convenient. Why do people prefer Discord to IRC when the latter is free, open source, and indexable?
Fridge is always empty. Want snacks? Too bad, only water available, nothing you can do at 2AM

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No alcohol, only espressos. No snacks, only lunch + maybe dinner, sometimes meat, if there are sugar cravings only honey on rice cakes.

Lost 22 kilos since October with 7 more to go, everything is so sweet to me at this stage and I have no need for sugar.

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In a class of any substantial size, it's very obvious who is using ChatGPT and who is thinking for themselves.

A large fraction (often 70%) of responses will be identical in structure and content, if not verbatim copies of each other. These are the people who have used ChatGPT. These are the people who tend to do very poorly on closed-laptop examinations.

Students have a choice of how much of their critical thinking they choose to offload to the computer, and how much they develop their own critical thinking skills.

Robust assessments in classes still paint an accurate picture of students' capabilities. Designing those assessments requires work for instructors. Pour one out for the lazy.

I suspect that in the coming years, industries will reward those who are capable of adding value beyond naïve parroting of LLM output. Pour one out for the lazy.
A career change, or a job change?
I haven't self-hosted any, but I enjoy using Flarum [0] forums. They
load faster than Discourse ones and feel snappy.

[0]: https://flarum.org/
Fedora >> Debian is an interesting take. I've never particularly got along with rpm-based distros, and they always seemed much the same quality, just different. What makes the difference in your opinion?
This is the key part here. There's nothing wrong with using Discord to chat about random stuff. If you're talking to your friends about your latest night out or playing online games with a community, then Discord is fine.

The issue is how some communities use it as a wiki, documentation and forum replacement for information that should be available on the public internet. This is a huge problem for speedrunning and modding communities, which seem to love using Discord and Google Sheets and other awkward 'must know the link to access' tools for information that should probably be in a wiki somewhere.
Mostly, yes. Particularly in the terms of "Discord-difying forums". But you cannot have multiple subforums for your community on Reddit (unless you do something weird with subsubreddits, but those won't be clearly visible). Discord allows you to have several channels. Additionally, I'd like an alternative that isn't threaded like Reddit and HN. Threaded communities have their place, but classic chronological topics also do.
Sam Altman is considering turning OpenAI into a regular company: report
Imagine porting a web app to new frameworks over 25 years or keeping up with Macs ui Framework over that time frame ...
It’s called Discourse and it’s really great
I think the most interesting question is how such early galaxies can even exist. How does this fit to our current throretical models.
> you should test it out and benchmark it with something you'd consider a "real world" example.

I thought that you might have specific experience with "real world" applications, thus my question.

The CLIPS "Advanced Programming Guide" states in secion 11.1, that "...compiles all of the constructs [..] into a single executable and reduces the size of the executable image. A run-time program will not run any faster than a program loaded using the load or bload commands"; so as far as I understand it, the code is still interpreted (i.e. not affected by the translation to C).
Right but not with the ability to easily jump between the two. That was really my only point. Feel the pain of hardware failure but I have been there before with a logic board failing. 1 week turnaround even in a dense metro area apple store. I bought a mac studio on the spot and always made sure I can jump between machines where needed.
Which means less promotions and less raises because now it’s spread amongst more people. Businesses exist to make money
I like your questions. They are the sum of what our culture and society projects onto us.

The question to ask is what kind of people you want to create? It is perhaps a bit arrogant to think one can upgrade such a complex device. It can be a modest modification tho. Then you find ways to push society in that direction. You probably wont move mountains but we work with what we have. This nudging might involve a company depending on where we are going.

I doubt one could contribute to society directly.

Calling it a job is just our nutty vocabulary. The ancient Greeks would probably call it leisure.

I had some pretty good ideas for myself but the problem I kept running into is that people are so fucking unimaginative and nihilistic that they get angry if they cant have their cynical 3 seconds glory of "I told you it wouldn't work"
> People can and do vote with their wallets by choosing products that optimize things that are important to them.

I don’t think average “Apple product buyers” think about “optimizing things that are important to them” when they buy Apple products. They just buy them because they look “pretty and shiny”. Most of them don’t understand how Apple takes advantage of them. Any reasonable person would be repulsed being treated like that. Unfortunately, most people either are not tech savvy enough or don’t care to understand that Apple takes advantage of them. People need to be educated on how computers work and should work so that they understand what companies are doing and so that they could vote with their wallets.
Its worth noting that its common, at least in my experience, for HOA membership to be part of a real estate purchase contract. Meaning, if you want to buy a house and it happens to be in a neighborhood with an HOA, you don't have the option to buy that house and not join the HOA.

I've never understood why we allow that to be legal, just like neighborhoods or complexes that are age restricted, but we allow it none the less.
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It's not called anything until the lmsys leaderboard ranks it. Microsoft's blatant benchmark overfitting on Phi-2 makes for very little trust in what they say about performance. As a man once said, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice-can't get fooled again.
Do you think Alexey Navalny‘s conviction for embezzlement caused him to lose any supporters? Probably not. It was a transparently political use of the justice system to sideline an opponent.

People I’ve talked to feel the same way about Trump. I’ve asked why vote in the primary for a candidate who lost the midterms and his last election, and the sentiment is that “We can’t let them get away with it” meaning the lawfare against Trump.
> they have a "legal basis called legitimate interests for using your information to develop and improve AI"

UK?

I much doubt that would wash.

Report to the ICO.
somethingawful
Or you could switch to proof of knowledge and use that old boring tech of a conversation. Also harder to game at such a low latency.
depends on how far. Q8's are pretty much on par with f16/f32 weights. Q5/Q6's if they drop off barely drop below 2%. folks are running Q2, Q3, etc due to being GPU poor, of course it's going to be terrible. When you want to run a 70B model that's originally 140gb and all you have is 16gb of vram.
I have a few of each experience, homes without HOAs, and homes/condos with. (Nearly all condos have them.)

There are, of course, pluses and minuses to either.

I bought an expensive home in a nice suburb, no HOA. My neighbors, who were there before me, suddenly decided to fill their back yard with old rusty cars on blocks they were “working on”. And get a fake deer for target practice. This cost me then of thousands of dollars when I sold my house.

No HOA restrictions I’ve ever dealt with were worse than that so I’m now fairly pro-HOA. I have plenty of freedom and opportunity to buy a house without one but I likely won’t again.
unfortunately, irc is not a replacement for discord.
I dunno, I still quite like GraphQL, but as with all technologies it can be misused; a lot of the schemas I've seen are pretty poorly written, but the spec certainly doesn't make it easy with design choices like: no type inheritance, fields are optional by default (causing huge annoying problems with GQL->TS). Adding a few linting rules helps as well.

The problem I always had with rest was that nobody really follows any patterns, not in the same company, not in the same project. There are a million different decisions you can make with rest and if you let a dev alone to build it themselves you're gonna get yet another variation, whereas GQL is only implemented according to a spec.

The N + 1 problems are pretty much fixed these days & mostly any dev can build something in themselves to fix it if they want to. Permissions/auth is relatively easily achieved with middleware and directives, though it's also totally possible to roll your own by writing something that inspects the querys AST if you really need to have your auth layer separate to your schema.
What's necessary is to limit the power and scope of HoAs. In Canada, for example, HoAs are generally restricted in how they can levy fines - so their ability to mess up your life is greatly reduced.
I remember the fascination of reading through physical encyclopedias when I was a kid.

Having the collective knowledge of the world in my pocket and a personal tutor for any topic still sounds surreal.
No, we have a view of people who are over-stretched failing to meet their obligations while still taking those spots for clout and resume. Your example fits that perfectly. No one wants to be the chair of a non-profit that isn't doing anything because lazy people have packed the board and refuse to work. We can't help but wonder how much better those resources could be used if not restricted to the in-group.
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I haven’t changed my eating habits too much, but I have definitely been paying attention to what I eat, primarily because I’m hemorrhaging money to my ex and attorneys. Whole grain breads; dropped alcohol; don’t drink much soda; way reduced portions sizes because I’ve lost so much weight and I’m just not all that hungry most of the time anyway.

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Updated URL, after Mobime disabled issues entirely on the repo: https://web.archive.org/web/20240531085449/https://github.co...

See also this conversation, where Mobime request respect and to "acknowledge the efforts being made to resolve the situation" while blurting out things like "We could have easily suspended the entire repository, but we have chosen to keep it open to reassure you that we are taking all necessary steps to resolve this". Classy.

https://github.com/raivo-otp/ios-application/discussions/369
For now. How long until they put it behind a sign in barrier ala Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, etc?
You already answered yourself. Convenience and because your friends are already there or because that one thing hosts its forum there.
Am I the only one that sees the quantity of these low value comments entering in HN?

To the parent and top thread op, Please stay on reddit and off HN.
measuring proof of work

This is one of the ideas Sal Khan mentions in his recent book: interaction history with Khanmigo.

But there's nothing to stop you from using another AI system to interact with Khanmigo.
My 6 yr olds favorite show, can be a little dark at times
Have I had to replace batteries, yes. Have I had to do it at the same frequency no.

Not trying to be critical of you, just curious why the batteries get cycled so much. I have used machines heavily over two year periods but perhaps the difference between they were generally plugged in so I was not cycling the battery as quickly.
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https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB (js)
I remember this being the way to unlock Athlon XP’s (though if you bought the mobile version, which used the same socket and ran just fine in a desktop motherboard, they came unlocked from the factory).
Econ has a big working paper culture
I have a question about this. I have multiple instances of curl running in different terminals, all using a single slow internet connection.

How can I give priority to one of these instances?
This is false. I have tested Q8s over f16 and the raw weights and pretty much seen no difference. I strictly run Q8s, I only keep the raw weights if I plan to do some fine tunes.
At the same time using chatgpt or any LLM productively, and getting the most out of it to help you think and reason better is a skill on its own that requires development.
You can write shit in any framework or language though. That's why I always found Typescript such a boon; it provides a way to box people in to use code/framework how it was designed to be used.
Interesting to see how this affects the “free” in FreeTaxUSA if IRS free tax doesn’t work for you.

New York was a state in the IRS roll-out, so I looked at using it for my simple tax return. Surprised to learn I couldn’t use it with my New York Marketplace health care plan.
window maker will happily run on debian 12 with 256MB of RAM!
Ok... does Mastodon always take that long too load? That's not really viable considering the page I ended up on had essentially only textual content - like an old website from way back.

Then I read a Geocities suggestion - something from my elementary days

Discord is actually pretty cool - a walled garden but no different than the rest of the internet.

Google won't send anyone to forums or blogs/personal sites anyways, so this isn't really advice at all
Text, or something like a CSV including descriptions would be great. A quick grep to find what you need.
Would they be on the hook for back taxes?
if you're right do a TCP handshake with them. I'm waiting.
And since the new generation of users is growing up with mobile touch devices, we're coming back full circle to "most users never used a computer before".
Smart marketing move. Society’s influential people are coming from universities.

Many white collar jobs require a degree, and people from institutions like schools will get trained on tools they later use during university and work.

These people will influence others then as-well.

Reminds me of Steve Jobs push to sell computers to educational institutions.
I use Krita for Photoshop-type stuff, and it works great. It is the only good solution I've found in FOSS-land for animated GIFs, and finding it made it easier to wean off Photoshop. Not even commercial alternatives to Photoshop offer frame-based GIF editing. But Krita, fortunately, does.

I know they have a different focus these days, but it'd be nice if they promoted this.