skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the same problem with this that I do with "federated forums" or "federated forges"—what does it even mean for an encyclopedia to be federated? In fact, they already are—if I want to go look up information about Minecraft, I can use the federated internet to go to minecraft.wiki.

So what are these new "federation" features actually giving us? Is it just OpenID login reinvented?
In my case, it really struggled with over-hyphenation when a line break would be completely fine.
So move the moderation decisions onto the end user? Somehow this doesn’t feel like progress.
So which undergrad majors do you propose Caltech abolishes? I can think of a couple with awful starting salaries.
The South emits a lot producing products consumed in the North
To be fair they seem to be somewhat accurate and objective. The Russian economy has proved to be unexpectedly resilient. Western countries continued buying Russian oil/etc. while restricting the exports of goods and services which lead to a massive current account surplus in 2022. They also have enough reserves to run comparable deficits to their current one for at least several years.

Of course having to raise interest rates to >20% while claiming that inflation is actually ~9% is not a good sign. Current account surplus is also going down and is pretty much where it was before the war.

Funnily enough the Russian government seems to be "fighting" the central bank by giving out mortgages and loans at a >50-80% discount. Which would indicate that (hopefully) their are forced to chose between inflation going our of control or most of the economy (at least the faction not directly dependant on government contracts) griding to a halt.
Isn't there a way to sell the unused solar power to the grid in summers and during winters the grid sends back the power needed to you at a discounted price?
> Are you saying no one without ADHD takes prescribed medication?

No, I'm saying that the cognitive effect on function of someone without ADHD taking ADHD medicine isn't the same directionally as that of someone with ADHD taking it, the way the upthread proposed analogy of "a drug that increases IQ score by 25%" but which is only prescribed to those with IQ in the lowest quintile framed the situation. Excess dopamine impairs function in a different way that dopamine deficit, it doesn't increase it beyond what is seen with normal dopamine.

> If what you say is true, then the free market (black market) for adderall wouldn’t be so lucrative.

It is true, but the black market for adderall isn't mostly taking it for the same effect as people with ADHD are (some are, because there are still biases and access issues which prevent or delay diagnoses for people with ADHD, as well as deliberate, government-created supply shortages in the legal market.) But largely are taking it for wakefulness (an effect of dopamine surplus), and because dopamine surplus is part of the brain's reward system such that things which have been experienced which produce it are actively sought out. Again, this is why therapeutic dosages for ADHD are titrated to avoid going overboard.
I had the same experience using the original SE for several years. Apps and sites would lay out funny because they just weren't ever tested with that screen size anymore.

That was the only thing that prevented me from getting a mini. But truth be told, I still think it was too big.

I miss the size, weight, and shape of the iPhone 4S.
> I would pay for local news

Most of my local papers have moved to a subscription model, often with paywalls so I currently pay for local news. Have your local papers not?
Personally I don’t think China is a developing economy at this point. ~25k per capita GDP (PPP) and sub 5% economy growth per year. India by contrast is just 11k per capita GDP (PPP).
That's great. I wish we had more housing like this, especially if we could build them into little hobbit villages. I would readily live there
This alternative doesn't load with NoScript on, so I think I'll pass.
Given the knowledge available to them in the 70s, yes. A mistake, but done for good reasons (lowering satfat).
What's the problem with rich people riding the bus for free? All bus-riding should be as close to free as possible.
> file name does not include its full path

No, it is the full path that's considered. Look at the commit message on the first commit in the `--full-name-hash` PR:

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/5157/commits/d5c...

Excerpt: "/CHANGELOG.json" is 15 characters, and is created by the beachball [1] tool. Only the final character of the parent directory can differntiate different versions of this file, but also only the two most-significant digits. If that character is a letter, then this is always a collision. Similar issues occur with the similar "/CHANGELOG.md" path, though there is more opportunity for differences in the parent directory.

The grouping algorithm puts less weight on each character the further it is from the right-side of the name:

hash = (hash >> 2) + (c << 24)

Hash is 32-bits. Each 8-bit char (from the full path) in turn is added to the 8-most significant bits of hash, after shifting any previous hash bits to the right by two bits (which is why only the final 16 chars affect the final hash). Look at what happens in practice:

https://go.dev/play/p/JQpdUGXdQs7

Here I've translated it to Go and compared the final value of "aaa/CHANGELOG.md" to "zzz/CHANGELOG.md". Plug in various values for "aaa" and "zzz" and see how little they influence the final value.
But they are delicious
I suspect that the comment was provoked by the term “solarpunk”.

For many people in non first world countries this sort of existence is standard - not something to be blogged about with artfully composed photos carefully edited and posted to the internet.

So I guess the comment was provoked by something like that. It was certainly one of my reactions reading the piece. I also thought “oh that’s cool, I wonder how they did it” but it was very short on detail, made up for by self-congratulatory back patting.

Maybe the person making the comment lives in a developing country and finds it a little jarring to see “solarpunk” cosplay.
I think it's more a rite of passage.¹

You don't have to make it your job.

In a similar way I think more people should change a flat tire or change the oil in their car. I think it will make them more aware, but they don't have to become a mechanic.

[1] A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. It involves a significant change of status in society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rite_of_passage
That seems to be more a guide on how to sell socialism rather than providing another economic axis.

Did I miss something?
Take the 7 billion from the existing 37 billion and get rid of some existing stuff which is non-housing related.
This was my experience with matrix.org, mostly pedos and far right extremists or other weird anti social characters . Turned me off from these kinds of platforms big time.
They could also be be referring to London's congestion charge, that drivers pay for driving in inner London.
It's legitimately a pain to do, because most Wikipedia articles use a bunch of templates. So for anything outside the most-simple of articles you suddenly have to implement a lot of the more painful bits of wikitext. Then if you want to import them back to Wikipedia, you've got to match those things back up or you'll get reverted for messing up the page...

Plus complying with CC BY-SA requirements for the content, of course.
Can you please stop? We're getting tons of complaints about these posts.
What you say about children is true and I have already said in my first comment that the structure of the words meaning "zero" in most old recorded languages indicates that the concept of "zero" must be more recent than the concepts of the other small numbers and of negation.

Nevertheless, even if the concept of zero has been understood later than the concepts of 1, 2, 3 ..., it has still been understood in many places at least four thousand to five thousand years ago, i.e. already by the time of the oldest writings that have been preserved and thousands of years before the invention of the positional system of writing numbers, where the importance of zero has greatly increased and where it has required a dedicated graphic symbol.
I live here in Nigeria where electricity has been epileptic since I was born (I'm 23 now). Like, I live in one of the nicer suburbs in my state, but 12h of power isn't guaranteed.

So, last year, I spent $7k on 8.4 KW of panels (400W * 21), an inverter, and 20KWh of batteries.

It's been life-changing. I've been able to go completely off-grid. Like, I disconnected from the grid (i.e., my meter) completely. And my usage has gone up to around 50KWh daily (air conditioners, fridges, etc.) but it hums along day-after-day. That assurance that the power won't trip off while I'm on a meeting with a client has done wonders for my mental health among others. Just reliable, stable power.

And, given that I used to pay $0.12 per KWh, the whole setup will pay for itself in 2.7 years. Just under two years to go.
>> TDD, code coverage

I don't know how to track TDD, but for me, code coverage is an example of the same old false proxies that people used to track in the 000s.

Before creating a metric and policing it, make sure you can rigorously defend its relationship to NPV. If you can't do this, find something else to track.
There is a small chance of a tie, because of how two states split their electoral votes. If they were both all-in like the other states I don't think there'd be a way to split the swing states to make a tie.
I've not driven a DMC-12, but lack of power steering doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me? All the vehicles I've driven without power steering have been ok; usually the steering wheel is much larger to give you the leverage you need; it's not as bad as you'd think if you've used a car with inoperative power steering.

But yeah, I had a nice conversation with a guy who kitted his out as a movie replica at a outdoor showing of the film. He said it was fun to go to events, but it's terrible as a car. And some of the parts are unobtanium, like the flux capacitor. Not that that's unique for cars in that era, try finding a federal EGR filter for an early Vanagon; just gotta hack around it.
Personally, I don't think the capitalist-driven agenda anywhere in the world gives a flying fricative about the health of anyone, only the health of the profit motive and it's benefits to shareholders. Food and healthcare is but one more example. Love or hate the JRE, I think this episode [1] provides much food (pun intended) for thought. The common person simply does not matter other than as a(n) (addicted) consumer.

[1] https://youtu.be/G0lTyhvOeJs?feature=shared
It would be rather interesting if technology simply caused people to start writing in the roman alphabet. Phonetic spelling is certainly the superior option, so perhaps that will simply be what people arrive at through inevitable statistical pressure.
where is our hacker news copilot when we need it?
isn't this the counter example? japanese ads, magazines, documents, websites, are often super visually cluttered. seems counter to the paper to me

if this clutter has negatie affects why has japanese design settled on it?
I think the duty of evidence is on the accuser

Fraud is not a victimless crime
Just kind of sounds like recreational programming isn’t your thing.

That’s okay too :)
How does freenet let you own something outright?
If you really believe that, you should take a look at the Wikipedia page of Kenya, especially the history section.
I wonder how much Freenet would be considered “web3” and “blockchain” by the HN crowd, considering it explicitly uses smart contracts and transactions signed by self-custodied private keys

Guess it’s all in how you present things and what terms you avoid :)

For what it’s worth, I am interested very much in decentralized systems and smart contracts, having built them and also running a YouTube channel where I interviewed people behind the projects… including Ian Clarke and freenet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWrRqUkJpMQ
Try gaming NPV.
There's a fundamental reason why doing, and learning from doing, is necessary to learn (to do), and can't be replaced with book learning.

Maybe stated like this it sounds obvious, but it runs counter to people expecting LLMs to learn to do things for themselves by "book learning" (pre-training), unless regurgitating artifacts from the training set is all you need.

The issue is that intelligence and action are prediction (with motor cortex output predictions driving muscles and becoming action - a useful insight/framing from Jeff Hawkins)... In order to act well, you need to learn to predict/react well, but these predictions need to be based on your OWN state per the sensory inputs you are receiving. Learning to predict what someone else would do (being book smart) doesn't help when you're the actor, where the predictions need to be based on your own internal state.
Twelve Years as a Digital Hermit
I interviewed the founder of the original freenet and the current freenet, Ian Clarke (among others) on our channel about decentralized systems, might be interesting for the people here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWrRqUkJpMQ

It is on our channel https://youtube.com/Intercoin where I tried for a few years to have really deep dives with some of the too people on technology, sociopolitics and regulations around decentralized systems.
We posted the same time. You said it better than I did!

But - cosplay - 100%
> The UI is the challenging bit, and that's because Linus just slapped something on to demonstrate it

Which makes it weird and bizarre. Especially in the context of this whole discussion.
Not really sure what you’re trying to say.
I tbink both of you agree!

There are two solutions to gain the energy again from "the same" field.

1) Lost the energy it won in the last pass.

2) With the field to avoid losing the energy in the return trip.
Maybe you could use the IJsselmeer as a pumped storage hydro ;)
The problem for any "Wikipedia alternative" is that there's one obvious way to bootstrap themselves: importing Wikipedia's content. But that leaves them either needing to work out how to impose structure on it themselves (difficult), or just importing it as-is and leaving it messy.
What Will It Take for China's GDP to Grow at 4–5% over the Next Decade? (2023)
Seems a bit bloated. I opened the front page and could only see a list of recently edited pages, with the count constantly ticking up. Trying to open any of them by clicking them didn't do anything, seems like the page was ground to a halt. Tried to search 'wikifreedia' to see if there's a wiki page explaining what the project is about, but could not get the search to go through.
Well, until '27, I'm allowed to use the grid as a free battery, basically, this is a kind of government subsidy. But that will end, and the contracts available will be fixed price with a feed in tariff or dynamic (realtime) market price, but then prices can and have been negative during peak solar hours. A battery can solve this only for a bit, and maybe with smart algorithms it can be trading on the electricity market full time, I'm not sure if that makes enough money for the grid power in winter.. it's nice to think about though.
Boa tarde
That was a great read and it gave me several ideas. Thank you.
Yeah, this domain is weird spam.

- "As published on: africa.cgtn.com, Friday 18 October, 2024."

I can confirm the OP text is indeed identical to the text on that CGTN article (Chinese state-owned media). This is simple plagiarism—among other things.

edit: On that tangent, CGTN Africa itself plagiarized Oxfam's press release—it's obviously the same text, run through an LLM for rephrasing. It's SEO spam all the way down!
We would love a write up about your findings.
And not killing journalists or the opposition would be also a nice touch. Or not jailing people for having an opinion about the army.
TIS-100 was more of a puzzle game than a sandbox factory building game like factorio.

TIS has a much tighter game loop with hard success metrics for each challenge.

I wouldn’t really compare the two.
Oxfam is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya because it's considered a relatively stable/safe country with relatively good facilities and infrastructure. Nairobi provides a good central location to reach other parts of Africa where much of their work is based, and Kenya also provides a favourable regulatory environment for these international organisations to operate. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is also based there.

Both of these organisations certainly have their issues with corruption, fraud, and grift, but that would likely be the case no matter where they are based. If anything, being physically closer to where much of the money is being spent should help them keep a closer eye on the work that they're funding.
if every bar in town bans nazis or punks, even if the last bar has high minded ideals you kinda know which clientele they'll get
or you get a battery. Is just great. I have 3.5kw solar power witha 9kwh battery. Very very seldom it switches to power line. And this is in south Germany, maybe a bit sunnier than north but still - it rains a lot/cloudy, sun is sparse.
Did Freenet ever get over its "content moderation" problem? Don't want to summon the FBI.
I believe you're mostly correct.

I've also found that particle sizes are also important: keeping things in their natural sizes and chewing them yourself does a couple of important things such as mixing them with enzymes, sending signalling about what's coming into the digestive tract, and making food the right size, instead of ultra fine, which provides a different mix of nutrients to the lower parts of the gi tract (and lowers absorbed calories from nuts).
Olá boa tarde
Which part of it?!
There's (almost) no FTTH in Germany. The US used to be as bad as Germany, but it has improved significantly and is actually pretty decent these days (though connection speed is unevenly distributed).

Both countries are behind e.g. Sweden or Russia, but Germany by a much larger margin.

There's some trickery done in official statistics (e.g. by factoring in private connections that are unavailable to consumers) to make this seem better than it is, but ask anyone who lives there and you'll be surprised.
For the parser itself, there is work being done on something that's more structured. The new parser lets you round-trip from the wikitext to the generated HTML and back, which means that it's entirely possible to work with wiki content by just manipulating a DOM rather than having to work with the wikitext yourself.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Parser_Unification
Social problems demand social solutions.

If you're skeptical about Wikipedia, you can easily create your own fork of Wikipedia: the data and code is open source after all. In the end, it’s all about whether you can keep a community alive and kicking. No one gives a damn about whether a wiki is built on ActivityPub.

There are many examples: Larry Sanger, who was mentioned in the article, created Citizendium after breaking from Wikipedia.[0] He was then involved with Everipedia, a for-profit venture built the original code base which later morphed into crypto nonsense.[1]

There are many examples of other wikis too. Some are focused[2][3], some are fun[4][5], some are revisionist[6][7][8], and some meet the requirements of totalitarian regimes[9][10].

If Wikipedia’s not your style, grab the code, rally a crowd, and make the encyclopedia you want to see—just know it’s the people, not the platform, that make it thrive.

[0]: https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page

[1]: https://rosettacode.org/

[2]: https://citizendium.org/

[3]: https://iq.wiki/

[4]: https://uncyclopedia.com/wiki/Main_Page

[5]: https://edramatica.com/Main_Page

[6]: https://www.metapedia.org/

[7]: https://www.conservapedia.com/

[8]: https://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page

[9]: https://www.qiuwenbaike.cn

[10]: https://ruwiki.ru
If every household did this we would have massive problems. We would still need a base load amount in the winter, and in the summer there would be an over abundance. The price of electricity would swing between essentially free in the summer to higher than normal in the winter, because the cost of operating base grid power would be about same but they would need to cover all operating costs during the winter.
"siri, extend the door handles so the person can enter the car!"
Parent said 100k miles. I agree that 1m miles is much rarer.
Isn’t kind just overriding the type checker? Should that as be necessary?
Very curious to know an example of what's ok in Rust but not in C
You should add an email address to your HN profile since HN frowns on replies like (but I’ll post it anyway):

I fully agree with your comment, and good take!
It always impresses me how they've been doing it for decades now and it still works. Their strategy is known, people have been writing articles and books about it for a long time now. Yet the corporations keep handing their IP over to them on a silver platter. Greed knows no limits.
Agreed and interesting and good to see it has > 1k paying subs (out of 7k total) after a little more than a month - probably as a result of some great stories already. A promising start.
SpaceX Booster Came Within 1 Second of Aborting Its First 'Catch' Landing
The solution to this, at least in the case of Tor, is for existing sites (e.g., Wordpress, medium, etc…) to provide one-click onion-site publishing support.
You don’t actually expect us to do something about this, do you?

Outrage posturing is the name of the game. Say a lot. Sound serious. Threaten action. Do nothing.
Same but I converted to Opus, because I was trying to squeeze it into as little bandwidth as possible. It was mostly speech content and Opus auto detects and optimizes for speech at low nitrates.
I'd maybe agree, not sure. I'm mostly interested in figuring out what the "activist demands" are, specifically. On the surface using these common definitions, they seem a bit extreme.
I transcribed the score, available here:

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/chopin_waltz_posthumo...
So, in one sense I agree with you. There is zero evidence that the human brain runs separate systems for separate types of cognition.

On the other hand, the reason this idea is sticky is because it matches our conscious experience. In some situations, we respond intuitively. In other situations, we choose to work analytically using tools like research, deliberation, note-taking, etc.

I think it's this second sense in which people are using the term with respect to LLMs. And it's not a terrible analogy.

However, comparing "neural networks" to actual neurons is almost never useful.
> I do not find git weird and bizarre at all.

You probably haven’t used it enough, honestly.

Rebasing, reflogs, pickaxes, 3 way merges, merge directions, the fact that merge directions are reversed during rebases, are all weird things that are pretty specific to git.

At least as far as how they’re presented

> First time I hear such nonsense

You don’t seem to listen very closely. Linus himself recognized git’s perceived weirdness in a talk he gave about it years ago.
How does this overcome power struggles and bias? That’s the most important question for me, as bias in Wikipedia is rampant these days, and even acknowledged by its founder.
> ... in summer I might need to pay to feed in the surplus.

You're allowed to just disconnect solar panels. It's free and does not damage them.
To quote Charles Babbage "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question".

Does everything you buy keel over and die the minute its warranty is over? Do you throw away your car the first time it needs a repair?
Doesn’t work well on Wayland unfortunately. Don’t know if this one does but worth a shot.
Yes. The runtime was not affected. Hence, the ts-expect-error. Still nice to have the ts-expect-error fixed :)