skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's exactly one way in which I trust Microsoft more, but it's important: I believe that they are less likely to pull the rug out from under us. Not that they won't, but they're less likely to.

This I agree with in some sense! There are just so many people standing on the rug that it's a harder pull in total.

That said, I do think that it's easier for them to make small changes that extract value. GitLab always has a nuclear option (at least for now) -- you can run the F/OSS version (and if you don't want to, you can find someone to run it for you which also grows the ecosystem).

> without any signs of removing features or privileges that people rely on.

This I doubt... But nothing comes to mind immediately so I'll bite my tongue!

> GitLab, on the other hand, has made numerous shifts over recent years, eliminating or vastly curtailing their free tiers and pushing more and more of their development effort out of the open core and into the enterprise portion of the product. After the sheer number of changes they've made to their SaaS offering I wouldn't trust GitLab's hosted offering to stay stable for the next 10 years.
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> If you're self-hosting this is less of an issue, but I frankly also don't trust GitLab to not start playing the same games that so many companies have been playing lately and pull out of true open source entirely. If security updates ever stop, and I see that as a real possibility, we'll have to migrate anyway.
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> So this is why I sympathize with people choosing GitHub: it's been stable for a very long time and shows every sign of staying that way, while the other offerings are clearly in flux.

So I disagree about GitLab (and there's the simple fact that it an be forked/actually is F/OSS), but thanks for the explanation here, I see how you got to where you stand -- when I think of GitLab's changes I just think of them trying to find a way to sustain their income/the thing that lets them push the F/OSS forward, but I totally get seeing it the other way and being tired of the shifting companies have been going through!
> In fact I bet that level of population penetration is higher than even Facebook in its first few years.

If memory serves me correctly, Canadians were the most likely to take an interest in Facebook in the early days. As of 2008, less than two years after being opened to the general public, 32.9% of Canadians were Facebook users. (If my memory fails me, it is possible that some other country had an even higher uptake.)

Only 13.8% of those in the United States were Facebook users at the same time, so if you are referring to the USA specifically then your bet is a pretty safe one. But this also highlights that early interest in technology tends to be highly regional. Relatively high ChatGPT usage in the USA does not imply relatively high usage worldwide.

Which is important as Joe Public hales from the UK. You might have been thinking of John Q. Public, which is the member of the Public family who lives in the USA, when you went to US figures. But I can find no ChatGPT usage data for the UK. The chances of what Joe Public will say are unknown. The odds are probably not as good as what you suggest.
> Even as Hatmaker spiralled towards the ground, she says the thought she might die never crossed her mind. At most, she thought she might break a leg – jeopardising her plans to climb to Mount Everest Base Camp three days later, a trip that had been a goal of hers for a couple of years.

Okay, Miss Humblebrag :-)

Still not impressive as Shayna Richardson surviving while pregnant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shayna_Richardson
Do you regret writing it in misleading clickbait style, calling it a "prison"?
I'm all ears if someone has a counterexample to the Church-Turing thesis. Humans definitely don't hypercompute so it seems reasonable that the physical processes in our brains are subject to computability arguments.

That said, we still can't simulate nematode brains accurately enough to reproduce their behavior so there is a lot of research to go before we get to that "actual knowledge".
> but we've hit a point where even high-end chips from that generation aren't really wide enough for a lot of users; four cores isn't really enough for midrange consumer workloads.

So "and software demanding more resources for no good fucking reason.".

You're really just reinforcing the parent's point.
The guy’s twitter bio says he proved P!=NP. Clearly a crank.
Because ChatGPT is a sizable domestic business, and most large data collectors are enrolled in the NSA's PRISM program whether they like it or not.
i seems you exclude many android options, that have hidden selfie camera and good working fingerprint scanner. ZTE Axon 20 5G as an example.
Only if your photos are in Google Photos. And weren't we expressing the concern of sharing our personal data with giant massive tech companies? Google Photos work entirely locally these days?
The rebrand/redesign is explained here: https://freenet.org/faq#faq-4
how can one export DNS zones? there doesn't seem to be any options for that
Too late: https://technology.inquirer.net/131791/ai-child
Which made me think. I would expect other stars to do this. Would magnetic polarity be detectable at interstellar distances? could novel astronomy* be done on stars this way?

* Does the magnetic flip period tell us anything about the star that would otherwise be hard to figure out.
What’s the twitter that’s not owned by musk? Because I’m surprised there isn’t a single twitter clone alternative.
Your question fundamentally makes no sense; POSIX is not a protocol, it is an operating system interface definition. It describes the OS foundations which you can then build websockets, IRC, a web browser, a calculator, compilers, local login prompts, {python,ruby,...) interpreters, etc. on top of. Your question is analog to "why can't {Windows,Android} work on the web?"
Rebuking, shunning and ostracism are key levers for societal self-regulation, and social cohesion. Pick any society, at any point in time, amd you will find people/ideas that were rejected for not confirming enough.

There are limits to free speech even in friendship or families- there are things that even your closest friends can say that will make you not want to associate with them anymore.
Wait, why does GPU encoding affect the output quality? Is that common in transcoding stuff?
> . Who is going to fast food to keep calories low?

I'd guess that there are more people use that information to select lower calorie food than people who make their menu selections based on the maximum number of calories per dollar, although I'd bet both those groups are a tiny fraction compared to the number of people who just order whatever they're in the mood for/tastes best to them and knowing how many calories are in that meal doesn't influence their behavior/choices at that moment but may still inform their choices later on
Apple gender pay gap lawsuit
My favorite bit

Sioux City Approach: "United Two Thirty-Two Heavy, the wind's currently three six zero at one one; three sixty at eleven. You're cleared to land on any runway."

Haynes: "[laughter] Roger. [laughter] You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?"
#!/bin/bash won't work on, say, nixos, and as you noted, many non-linux platforms. It's a few more characters to do something (more) portable! You're right that docker (or something like nix flakes, which are lighter-weight/easier to introspect imo) are probably a better solution in the long run, though.
I can't describe how fast my eyes glazed over seeing all those numbers. The cow was very cute.
Show HN: Node-Based Flashcards (POC)
Hi HN!
I want to share my progress on this idea that I have been working on: Flashcards, but dynamic, and with node-based templates.

The demo is pretty limited, but I just wanted to try out if it even works. The app itself is very modular and allows adding extra nodes / pages etc easily.

The final goal would be to have many different nodes (that users can download from a plugin store), which can be used to for example:
- generate image / audio
- create interactive areas in flashcards (e.g. graphs)
- dynamically interact with other flashcards (e.g. reference related cards)
...

I would love to hear some feedback! On the GitHub page you can find a demo video as well as a link to the POC deployment.
Thankfully it's nice to know that someone knows how important encyclopedias are and how much prior knowledge is taken for granted as the basis for a functioning society. Consumerism has become so accustomed to acquiring new goods and ideas that it is almost losing its ability to retain the very knowledge of intelligible information-sifting capability. People are not able to think critically to pass down the value of doing so, to tell whether a flood of AI non-sense is real, and no longer knows what to think, because the new products aren't encouraging that at all. I have read that AI is creating a selective pressure, but there's so much a human can do against millions of bots.
Note that the linked video is about a complete redesign of Freenet, see https://freenet.org/faq#faq-3
I think bullet points capture the worst of both worlds. You have text (which people focus on, rather than on the presenter), but you don't have enough that one could learn from them outside the presentation.

There's a saying that bullet points are called so because they 'kill' a presentation, and I think there's some truth to that.
Codd's 12 Rules
Fountain Mode – screenwriting and playwriting for GNU Emacs
I don't know, but it's been more reliable for me than /bin/bash. I think env is part of POSIX.
Learning a new domain or programming language for example
Right now we're mostly trying to talk to software developers about building on Freenet or contributing to the project. Mass market comes later.
and that one word a century baud rate is a bit of a downer.
No but you need propaganda to push NATO borders on Russia, arm a coup, start a civil unrest, fund a war, destroy a peace treaty (Turkey 2022) and then drip feed arms to destroy two countries at same time.

Even in a thread about sick US propaganda, the apologists find an excuse for war.
I haven’t actually used it to write a paper, but I have family who teach and they have shared some of the examples they have had turned in.
Truth social. It's not Musk but you know who else it is.
So a bit like a sheet of carbon vs carbon fiber?

The carbon is an important part of the final material but it’s not really comparable.
Unless, of course, he would be a bit smarter in manipulating Dave and friends, instead of turning transparently evil. (At least transparent enough for the humans to notice.)
Borg reference (decentralized architecture), and Latin "speaker" - but Locutus was just a working title for what's now called Freenet.
The obvious thing people seem to be missing is that the process of creating something is fun to creative people, that's why we do what we do. It isn't a chore to enjoy yourself.

Trying to prompt something that expresses yourself and is fun? Lol. Yeah nah.
I'm pretty sure you could find justification even for why top models don't support microSD card expansion. The problem with this line of argument is that if they wanted to, they could support both without any issues. The real reason is money. It's more profitable to have Bluetooth only when you also make AirPods, and not include storage expansion when you sell built-in memory options at a 400% markup.
Yeah, I’ve started to get a bit cautious about the quality control in these papers too… not because I doubt there’s a problem, but that I suspect it’s all too easy to ignore the quality control necessary to ensure lack of contamination when the researchers go in looking for a positive result… it’s a “cheap win” and I don’t like it…

I’d like to see some reproduction research on the more wild microplastics results akin to the level of diligence put in when Clair Cameron Patterson was developing Uranium Lead dating and discovered that due to lead added to petroleum based fuels the whole fucking planet was tainted with a level of background lead … he had to go a long way, basically building a clean room before such rooms were considered a normal part of precision research… to get a clean environment with no contamination and get accurate results.

It doesn’t have to be quite that bad for a modern researcher, but I’d like to see a lot more of these microplastics papers where they document that they used no or as close to no plastic at any point in sample handling… if a liquid sample has gone from a plastic sample jar and a plastic lid to a plastic pippet to a plastic ampoule with a plastic lid into a machine that agitated it and so on… well of course there’s a damn chance the sample has more plastic in it! I’m not even going to suggest that all the plastic came from the containers that would be stupid… but when I start seeing results like microplastic found in human testicular tissue… I want to know how careful they were with sample contamination because it’s important that we know how bad the problem is getting, is it “1000” or “1002” on whatever scale is being used may not seem like much when the error bars might be +/- 10… but it does matter when this result gets aggregated into meta analysis and other modern “re-processing” that helps us understand the world at the larger scale where studies of aggregate data are the only practical way to approach the problems.
Why would we need one?

The Church Turing thesis is about computation. While the human brain is capable of computing, it is fundamentally not a computing device -- that's what the article I linked is about. You can't throw in all the paintings before 1872 into some algorithm that results in Impression, soleil levant. Or repeat the same but with 1937 and Guernica. The genes of the respective artists, the expression of those genes created their brain and then the sum of all their experiences changed it over their entire lifetime leading to these masterpieces.
Gives another meaning to artificial intelligence.
> no two people will repeat a story they have heard the same way and why, over time, their recitations of the story will diverge more and more. No ‘copy’ of the story is ever made; rather, each individual, upon hearing the story, changes to some extent

You could say the same about an analogue tape recording. Doesn't mean that we can't simulate tape recorders with digital computers.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40674835 (76 comments)
BlueSky? Threads by Mark Zuckerberg?
That video is from last September, this video is intended to compliment it. Both are worth watching, there shouldn't be too much overlap.
If you didn't intend to say that all rental housing is bad, you really phrased it badly.
I like how these kinds of articles hit front page on HN, quite refreshing
Ask HN: Where Do Hackers Live?
I moved to San Francisco, but it feels like most of the tech people here are focused on fame and money without an intrinsic love of tech described in Paul's "Hackers and Painters". I'd like to live around people that love tech in the same way and intensity that I do. Where are they?
> RWY had the original idea but was reluctant to say it out loud for years. In a moment of weakness, he shared it with MWY and BKN, both of whom immediately recognized this as the best idea RWY will ever have. RWY and LRV wrote the first draft. CS, DBK, JBS, EAS, and JLH provided critical review. RMD provided subject matter expertise. DSK took this work to another satirical level. All authors suffered substantial abdominal discomfort from laughter. RWY worried that BKN would not keep his mouth shut until the Christmas issue was published.

Somehow I am not convinced this is a real study.
In other news: OpenAI volunteers to integrate itself into all of Apple's products for free.
If these were chopped, they were for high-order uses like shipbuilding in the time of sail. They are too hard to saw to use as timbering in coal mines (which is assume where most wood has gone during the Industrial Revolution)?
The human brain runs on physics. And as far as we know, physics is computable.

(Even more: If you have a quantum computer, all known physics is efficiently computable.)

I'm not quite sure what your sentence about some obscure pieces of visual media is supposed to say?

If you give the same prompt to ChatGPT twice, you typically don't get the same answer either. That doesn't mean ChatGPT ain't computable.
I’m not proposing deregulation. But it is possible to have bad regulations that don’t produce the desired outcome. Basically, you can’t just regulate by specifying every little detail. An analogy could be drawn to overfitting a system.
hmm...

> they jumped from an average altitude of 0.6 m (SD 0.1) on aircraft moving at an average of 0 km/h

> The study also has several limitations. First and most importantly, our findings might not be generalizable to the use of parachutes in aircraft traveling at a higher altitude or velocity. Consideration could be made to conduct additional randomized clinical trials in these higher risk settings. However, previous theoretical work supporting the use of parachutes could reduce the feasibility of enrolling participants in such studies
People talk about induced demand for housing often enough. It's not as big obstacle as induced demand for car traffic in large metropolitan areas. It simply means that you can't solve housing issues locally. You have to deal with them at a large enough scale.

Speculators hoarding the housing supply sounds like a market failure. If you believe in capitalism, the market will deal with the issue. Non-speculators will show up and build new housing, if you let them. If you don't believe in capitalism, there is always government intervention. The government could, for example, build public housing for 100 million or 200 million people, prioritizing areas with least affordable housing.
I'm not aware of any problems with Gitea yet. I'm just nervous because of the lack of clarity surrounding their future plans.
There’s only one other jazz standard I know of with comparable lyrics:

“Lush Life” by Billy Strayhorn. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lush_Life_(jazz_song)

Listen to Johnny Hartman singing in this recording with John Coltrane: https://youtu.be/sNIn1_RLkmc
> Some teachers are spectacularly ignorant about internet things too

Nothing new; I remember when I was in high school, my geography teacher asked me if another student had plagiarised his assignment-she wasn’t sure, so she decided to ask the class “computer whiz”. He’d literally printed out Microsoft Encarta’s article on marijuana, stuck it to a piece of green cardboard, and used a green highlighter to colour in the photo of a marijuana leaf (he’d printed the article in black and white). He didn’t even bother to remove the “Copyright Microsoft Corporation” from the end of it, and yet still she was asking me whether or not it was plagiarised.
what a failure of imagination by teachers and parents. there’s never been a better time to be a student of any age. now more than ever, everyone is a student forever, no matter your age.

gpt4 is the best educational tool the world has ever seen. it’s only going to improve.

as the environment changes, so must we change. parents and teachers both have been static for far too long.

for the 10% of people who are passionately curious, they are going to learn faster and faster every day.

for the rest, it’s not like they were being well educated before. life will go on.
IMO it's a lot like fusion. In theory, it should be possible, but we have no way of knowing if we're at that level of technical ability yet.

But I think what's fascinating is the incredible strides in hardware we're seeing along side AI, that is cyclically fueling the hype.

While the AI advances are not tangible, the hardware is.
That lag between query and response ruins it for me.
Hard work and skill are only morally good if they have a net positive impact. Plenty of despots were hard working and smart. A lot of people in the crypto industry are very smart, hard working frauds, for example.
I’m not saying sending kids to work will increase their safety, and - again - I’m honestly not sure how you’re getting that from what I’ve said. I would respectfully suggest reading the posts of others in good faith.

I’m saying there exists no evidence that the number of children dying in sawmills has dramatically increased as a result of changing labour laws. This is important, not pedantic, because it goes to the heart of the claim that modern labour law has changed in a way that harms children. If the data isn’t there, this claim is false. If this claim is false, we shouldn’t be rushing to revise labour law on the basis of it.

One person can claim that modern labour law kills children, another can claim it protects children. Until some statistics come in, all of this is noise.

Labour law exists to protect workers. It is too important to get wrong, such as by rushing into ill considered changes on the basis of vibes or feels. There may well be other reasons to adjust labour law - based on facts and hard evidence that it’s not working in some way.

I don’t understand why you seem to take such umbrage at the view that important safety laws should be made on the basis of actual data, so we can ensure they’re effective.
Someone somewhere is quietly working on teaching LLMs to generate something along the lines of AlloyLang code so that there’s an actual evolving/updating logical domain model that underpins and informs the statistical model.

This approach is not that far from what TFA is getting at with the stockfish comeback. Banking on pure stats or pure logic are both kind of obviously dead ends for having real progress instead of toys. Banking on poorly understood emergent properties of one system to compensate for the missing other system also seems silly.

Sadly though, whoever is working on serious hybrid systems will probably not be very popular in either of the rather extremist communities for pure logic or pure ML. I’m not exactly sure why folks are ideological about such things rather than focused on what new capabilities we might get. Maybe just historical reasons? But thus the fallout from last AI winter may lead us into the next one.
I ran the javascript miner for like an hour, then I asked ChatGPT to write some go code that worked perfect (minus an unused variable error).

The go program beat the javascript miner within seconds. Right now it's that easy to get into the top 10.
Got the dates mixed up. Apparently they cancelled his passport on the 22nd, after which he departed. As to whether the cancellation catalyzed the flight to Moscow with help from HK is another question.
Unless people show up late for the talk.

I once had the first morning time slot at a conference. Despite the breakfast break before (or rather because of it...), the room filled like a progress bar.
I have two kids and they have totally different skills of learning. My first kid learned numbers and arithmetic without teaching him by 3 years old. He discovered it himself using youtube. He learned to use the remote when he was 2 years old and knew which shows could teach him. My other kid is already 3 years old and he has problems understanding the concept of numbers and doesn't know how to use the remote control.
I've got a few of these chips (or something very similar, the J4105) in some repurposed Dell Wyze 5070s. They're actually really impressive chips (to me), in that they really sip power and do a lot including web browsing, running a lightweight IDE, basic office suite stuff on Debian, and are really over powered as an appliance (they're popular to convert to run as routers). Honestly I'm really surprised they didn't sell a lot more of these.

The Intel spec for these chips says only 8GB of RAM, but they're dual channel and I find they'll actually run 32GB just fine. The newer N-series processors everyone seems to like
are actually kind of inferior in that regard, since they're single channel and apparently
really only do 16GB of RAM.