skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am on a small fiber ISP in one of these states.

I don't think it is community owned, but the distinction doesn't seem that important from a customer experience standpoint. The scale and locality of the business is what makes it great. They can care a lot about the network quality because there isn't so much of it that they need to outsource everything. All elements of their infrastructure are not only on battery backup but also standby natural gas generators. My power and water go out before my fiber does. I've never had an outage outside of scheduled maintenance windows.
Shannon says no.
What about mesh networks like Guifi in Spain, Freifunk in Germany, or Red Hook Mesh in Brooklyn?
What if it's your own hair, but glued back on haha
Lawns are functional though, they aren't just a status symbol. They can be, but they can also be a social and recreational space. Can also be a piece of art - you may laugh sure but, what is art? What is something kept for its aesthetic value alone?

Also over the pond it's an invention much older than merely the 18th century.
I guess it depends on whether the crucial mutation that flipped the organism from "non-chicken" to "chicken" happened before or after fertilization!

Or alternatively we can say that the germ line went from 49% chicken to 50% chicken to 51% chicken? Biology is really a continuous state space anyway and trying to push things into categories too hard will break them.
Show HN: I built a Slack app to automate timesheets and project tracking
I bet there's there's a poorly thought out directive from the company bigwigs to integrate AI into all Microsoft products, and middle management is gobbling that up to get ahead in the rat race.

Visual Studio and VSCode have also become infested with little Copilot icons.
> Something being physically possible doesn't "break" the law, and breaking a law doesn't render that law useless.

No, but the ease of breaking the law does need to be weighed against the costs it imposes on everyone else. Carrying a driver's license is almost a non-cost, and is really only necessary til people hit 28 or so and cashiers largely stop checking.

Needing to verify age online could place very real costs on people. Enabling surveillance is an issue. The chilling effect of knowing that database leaks are going to tie your real identity to your online one is an issue (think the Ashley Madison leaks, but for your old angsty teenager Reddit account). There are a lot of small groups who don't want their membership revealed, like LGBT people in countries with laws against it, domestic abuse victims, support groups for people with trauma, etc, etc.

I don't think I've seen a system that doesn't involve those issues. I'm sure one is hypothetically possible, but that never seems to be a goal of these laws.

So the question is whether restricting social media use by age is worth those drawbacks. My personal values say it's not, but I do recognize that's a value call to some degree and views will differ.
Linked from the OP: https://www.newamerica.org/weekly/how-did-north-dakota-becom...

IIRC, North Dakota, despite its Republican voting record, is actually pretty socialist (including a few legitimately state-owned companies).
> Sure enforcement would be spotty and loose, but tickets for parents and fines for tech companies would go a long way to establish the cultural change without the need for "verification"

A company can't work like that - the tech company will need to do it's upmost to avoid the fines, and so will implement verification that is both unsafe, incredibly invasive, discriminatory but crucially has an audit trail, and it's insane to suggest they would do anything else.
> Let's say the Transformer market is 10x bigger in 2035 than in 2025. Nvidia maintains 40% of the entire market, down from the 90% today. They'd still be vastly bigger in 2035 than in 2025.

Sure, but they currently have a P/E ratio of 67… So being vastly bigger in 2035 is not necessarily enough. They have to be enormously bigger and still hugely profitable.

> Nvidia can do the same though.

Yes, but then they don’t have that moat.

> The moat isn't in inference. It's in training.

I’d say it’s even narrower than that: Nvidias AI moat is in training novel / unforeseen NN architectures. Will that be a meaningful moat in 2035?
Genuinely wondering, why are so many people on HN allergic to any mention of decentralized solutions? It was precisely the opposite in 2014.

Now, anything that smells of BFT consensus, open decentralized protocols, smart contracts, distributed computing, gets lumped with “Web3” and downvoted to oblivion. I was surprised Freenet got through the other day without being associated with it, despite having WASM smart contracts and all of it.

Shouldn’t “hackers” welcome building new, disruptive things, especially if they are open source and disrupt entrenched centralized solutions of the entseeking “establishment” cartels? I feel like an old grandpa on HN today, still embracing the “old” “Hacker Ethos” that was being promoted by YC when HN was in its early days.

Has hacker ethos really today shifted to unironically supporting closed, centralized solutions, and attacking most disruptive technology by deriding it, downvoting people who speak about it in any terms other than dismissive, and trying to make sure it doesn’t take off?

It feels a bit like the story of the political left and liberalism — once upon a time the goal of liberals was to make race a non-issue, for instance, but now that same attitude is considered racist by many on the left. Once hackers were anti-establishment in an “information wants to be free” way. To liberate “systems” from “the man” and bust them open. I remember it. It was still the case a mere 10-15 years ago. On today’s “Hacker” News, if you’d look across a large swath of reactions to projects which aim to do just that, you’d never know it…
FWIW, here is most of the announcement from FreeBSD's Release Engineering Lead, Colin Percival. Notice that support won't actually get shorter until ~December of 2029:

> 1. FreeBSD stable branch support durations, starting with FreeBSD 15.x, are
being reduced from 5 years to 4 years after the .0 release.

> 2. A predictable schedule of releases is being established, with a new minor
release from one of the supported stable branches occurring most quarters.

> More background:

[...]

> 5. Having a .0 release every 2 years works well from a development perspective
(considering things like new features which can't be MFCed) but the security
and ports teams can't practically manage more than 2 stable branches at once;
so a 4 year support duration is more feasible than a 5 year support duration.

> Based on this, the FreeBSD core team has approved reducing the stable branch
support duration from 5 years to 4 years starting with FreeBSD 15 (the support
duration for individual point releases will remain until "next point release +
3 months", although that will now be more predictable) and I have put together
a schedule for upcoming releases:

Release EoL
13.3: Mar 2024 Dec 2024
14.1: Jun 2024 Mar 2025
13.4: Sep 2024 Jun 2025
14.2: Dec 2024 Sep 2025
13.5: Mar 2025 Apr 2026*
14.3: Jun 2025 Jun 2026
15.0: Dec 2025 Sep 2026
14.4: Mar 2026 Dec 2026
15.1: Jun 2026 Mar 2027
14.5: Sep 2026 Jun 2027
15.2: Dec 2026 Sep 2027
14.6: Mar 2027 Nov 2028*
15.3: Jun 2027 Jun 2028
16.0: Dec 2027 Sep 2028
15.4: Mar 2028 Dec 2028
16.1: Jun 2028 Mar 2029
15.5: Sep 2028 Jun 2029
16.2: Dec 2028 Sep 2029
15.6: Mar 2029 Dec 2029
16.3: Jun 2029 Jun 2030
17.0: Dec 2029 Sep 2030
* 13.5 and 14.6 are supported until 5 years after 13.0 and 14.0 respectively.
All good things to have around your home. Possums eat insects =)
The poorest in the US get free healthcare too (Medicaid). Not even subsidized. Just free.
Hey!

Working in an agency, we used an external tool for time tracking, but I’d often forget my timesheets, and managing project budgets and hours was a hassle. I figured others in agencies, consulting, or professional services probably had the same frustrations.

So, I built Billable Ninja – a Slack app that brings time tracking and automated reminders directly into Slack, making it easier to stay on top of everything without the extra steps.

I’d love any feedback, especially from those managing multiple projects. Let me know what you think!
I'd put the language selection to the top of the page. When loading the page it was in Spanish for me.

The 'snap shopping' feature adds furniture. But it also changed a wooden floor to tiles, added power sockets, removed a light switch and the dimension of the room in the back are now slightly different. At least the wooden flooring should remain I think.
I get that, and like anything it's a matter of trade-offs.

To me, in most cases, 4 or even 10 minutes is just not a big deal. It's fire-and-forget, and there should be a bunch of things in place to prevent bad deploys and ultimately let the team know if something gets messed up.

When there's an outage, multiple people get involved and it can easily hit 10+ hours of time spent. If adding a few minutes to the deploy time prevents an outage or two, that's worth it IMHO.
Haha

obj[JSON.stringify(x)] = y

* Ducks *
Perhaps trying random things uncovers more big opportunities than market research does. Market research tells you to breed faster horses; random things converge to combustion engines.
I just wish Microsoft had a simpler mindset for their OS. Simple, privacy-first, consumer-first defaults and optional upgrades to more enhanced tools via their App Store.

Imagine if instead of Windows Recall being installed and available automatically on machines, they just added Recall as an optional downloadable add-on via the App Store... I don't think it would have received nearly as much backlash.
> It’s hard to get clarity when you aren’t even willing to define the words you’re throwing around.

I already told you to google it.

> My refutation about the “donor class” stems from the fact that Trump raised relatively little money compared to his rivals in 2016 yet still won. If the donor class wielded all the power, that couldn’t happen.

?

We’ve been over this. They don’t wield all the power.
Why not both? Imagine a world where everything is a dense housing block - that sucks. Some of us want to own some land and not be butted up right against their neighbor. Or have to hear the person next door fucking their spouse or blasting loud music. No thanks.

More housing needs to exist - but ALL housing does not need to be dense multistory developments.
The big issue in much of California are rats. So many god damn rats.
Starlink has insufficient capacity for metropolitan areas. I don't think this is easily solvable, given the shared medium and the bandwidth constraints.
When trying to convince a Russian engineer a few years ago that the west has plenty of corruption, his main counterpoint was "yes, but it's not the same; you guys have a kind of corruption that's at least able to function." He made a big deal about how severe it is even in very minor roles.

With recent events I imagine the difference is going to decrease a bit, but I don't think it'll be the same within 4yrs.
Just nope.

The value of notepad and paint to me are that they are simple and reasonably minimalistic. Adding features makes those sorts of programs less useful to me.

Also, I can't trust any software that incorporates AI because I can't trust that my usage of that software won't be used to train AI.

So this move means that I won't be using these tools anymore. Not that it matters to anyone aside from myself, of course. It's also not a huge deal to me -- I'll just start using different tools that still meet my needs.
Sixteen states (down from 21), detailed here: https://communitynets.org/content/state-state-preemption-sta...

Despite this ban, many communities in these states have pushed forward.
But those are new kinds. Not new providers.

There's no phone company that made all other phone companies irrelevant.

There's no tv channel that made all other tv channels irrelevant.

And there's no radio station that .. you get it.

And so it's hard for me to concolude that there's some ISP that will make all other ISPs irrelevant. Honestly most people will probably have about a 50/50 split between home wifi and phone internet. And that home wifi might have significant intrusion from space-based ISP, but not completely. (I realize spacex is also hoping to provide some phone service from satellites, but I digress)
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Oh Lord, MS Paint has AI, too?
I believe .codeowners does that
Sure, all that’s interesting and highly realistic. But does it make Nvidia the most valuable company in the world?
TV certainly didn't make radio irrelevant, radio is very relevant in situations where you can't look at a screen, or would prefer not to. It's also much lower bandwidth, takes up a lot less space, uses a lot less power on the receiver (even compared to say a modern mobile device) and audio only content is much cheaper to produce.

I've heard it argued that podcasts make radio obsolete. That is more plausible.
I think it's premature to be integrating LLMs into operating systems. That said I think they're very valuable, and the training is fundamental research. I feel like complaining about the resources used to train new models is a bit like complaining about the resources used to build experimental fusion reactors or particle accelerators. The fact that we're seeing direct applications is a bonus, but it's still more like fundamental research than anything.

People are spending all that money training because they are trying to fix the problems you're complaining about, and this includes fixing the power consumption problem. If we can create 3B parameter models that have capabilities on par with today's 405B parameter models, that's worth spending a lot of energy training. But nobody knows what is possible, so they have to try. I feel like you're basically arguing nobody should try because you don't believe they will ever improve, but that seems contradicted by the general trajectory of how things have been working the past decade. More resources spent on training means more efficient and useful models.
The other election night winner: Perplexity
I never get people who aren't grateful for pointers. Being shown which direction to walk is of no value, they must also be carried there.

They didn't claim to save work, they claimed to save hitting a bug, and having to debug it.

They said the word "vararg". They gave you everything.
If the electorate are angry about their economical situation excuses like that will not work. I believe the Republicans have a tall order to accomplish. And if they do not then the Republicans will lose the midterms.
Church attendance is dropping in the US. The only 2 religions where attendance increased from ~2000 to ~2021 are Islam and Judaism.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/642548/church-attendance-declin...
Heavy vehicles that ship goods are societally beneficial, personal vehicles are not (necessarily). We should penalize parking as the negative externality as well.
Yes. Worse, it's corruption. Again, Mayor Pete was made Transportation Secretary. Zero qualifications.
Makurai-theme: a lively minimal theme, with multiple ports
on windows 11 it's still lightweight and snappy though, with tabs, autosave, dark theme and design that fits in and doesn't stick out like a sore thumb
There were two links, I just failed at proper formatting:

1985 to 2020: https://www.fns.usda.gov/yearly-trends

2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024: https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-f...
How will Internet access make Internet access irrelevant?

This is much like saying satellite TV made cable TV irrelevant. Or magazines made newspapers irrelevant.
In a lot of ways I think the CRTC is fundamentally ensuring that the "media being owned by a few rich bastards" remains true?
Or maybe, if we’re lucky, they’ll have to compete on quality as well as price.

When Verizon laid down fiber optic cable in my (former) neighborhood, it was so much better than Xfinity’s service, and everyone I knew switched.

Not to say that the type of physical cable matters as much, DOCSIS 4.0 is in the cards, but latency and bandwidth will always be better on a (good) wired connection.

One quirk worth mentioning, though, is that WWAN did leap-frog WLAN with 5G and especially with ultra-wideband (which isn’t everywhere). Until I installed 6GHz Wi-Fi, the fastest wireless speeds I saw were on ultra-wideband connections to my phone.
You may like this:

Asimov's_Biographical_Encyclopedia_of_Science_and_Technology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov%27s_Biographical_Encycl...

>a history of science by Isaac Asimov, written as the biographies of initially 1000 scientists and later with over 1500 entries. Organized chronologically, beginning with Imhotep

Wikipedia actually lists all 1500.
I really like the project
The land will never be reclaimed by anyone but the owner so why is it a big deal if someone manicures it. Buy your land and do with it what you will.
It doesn't. The chicken doesn't know it's a road
This. Short grass around your structure increases the difficulty of rodent ingress. Keeping dead leaves raked and swept away reduces mosquito habitat. Sure you can put other plants there but the maintenance burden of them is going to be higher and depending on your roof and water/snow situation you might just wind up fighting a continuous battle against their destruction. In most of North America a lawn is simply the lowest maintenance way to keep nature at bay.
Biden said, "the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters", in response to one of Trump's supporters saying Puerto Rico is garbage. Then Biden tried to walk it back by saying he meant that supporter, or his rhetoric, or whatever (and even if we deny him that walk-back, "supporters" is not all conservatives, all Republicans, or even everybody who votes Trump). Democrats mostly called this a gaffe.

While unacceptable by presidential standards, it's extremely tame compared to the things Trump regularly says about groups of people (we could even just limit that to the things he says about liberals or Democrats), and the vocal support he receives from his supporters for these statements. The fact that this got so much attention is evidence that "double standard" would be an understatement.
Where are you seeing a "decentralized solution"?
I have a friend in Michigan who grows a LOT of different foods in his yard, all the way up to PawPaw fruit. You're right that winter limits the growing season, but I was amazed at how diverse this guys food garden is.
And there's more good news. Minnesota is not on that map, but Minnesota has moved in very good directions re: ISPs. My rural neighbors have community internet, and it's _good_. High quality fiber.

I have centurylink - ok not a community plan, but it competes directly with T-mobile, Xfinity (comcast), and other cell-based providers, and provides an excellent product for much cheaper.

And I know for a fact that colorado has been fighting the good fight.
https://communitynets.org/content/colorado-passes-new-broadb...
I granted mic permission, I see my mic input working, but the avatar is not responding
If you speak Japanese you will have a waaaaaay better time in Japan. But no they will not ever accept you in the same way you could be accepted in a European country. If you're Korean or Chinese you might get away with it with the younger generation. But ethnicity is still a big barrier there. Source - I speak Japanese.
For 40 years there has been a demonization of liberalism. Liberals are seen as the enemy. Liberals seek to destroy America and other such sentiments are common by consumers of right wing media. There are similar sentiments by liberals of conservatives.

If the true enemy is the opposing ideology then the vileness of the candidate of your ideology is overlooked by many people. It’s not a good state of affairs for so many people to view an entire ideology as evil and the enemy.

Donald Trump is a piece of shit. So is Bill Clinton. AOC is a good person. So is Mitt Romney.
(This use of DANE is explicitly described in RFC 7672, section 6.)
You admit you "don't know" so you're willing to let the status quo of transitioning kids continue?

It's actually quite simple. This stuff shouldn't be allowed below a certain age.

If you think it should be 16 rather than 18, then just say that, rather than all these mental gymnastics.
> by far the most common mistake startups make is to solve problems no one has. - Paul Graham [1]

I think this proposal points at an interesting issue that I see crop up often on sites like HN. It goes (I think) like this: 1) "I care deeply about what I perceive to be a problem." 2) Extrapolates onto some large critical mass of people, 3) That critical mass of people does not actually agree with the problem statement in any way, 4) Build a solution, never gets meaningful traction, misdiagnoses the root cause of the failure.

I'm not saying this to dump on this idea. Rather, I think it is a meaningful bias that all humans are vulnerable too. But I do think that filter bubbles amplify whatever this bias is to a powerful degree. If you are surrounded by people who are obsessed with privacy, it seems like everyone is inflamed by the economic model of social networks. But, outside the small filter bubble, most other people don't care at all or actually think its a great model.

Having said all of that, maybe a way to test whether you are experiencing this bias is to interview or collect information from as close to a random sample of social media users as possible. The more random the better. If you find yourself talking to people in SF/Seattle or people in the tech industry, that's a sure sign you have a bad sample. When you talk to them, don't ask leading questions that will bias them. Try to understand what their unbiased views on the problems (if any) are with social networks. Maybe you ask them what their best friend thinks so as to try to sidestep preference falsification. If you discover a consistent problem, maybe you're onto something. But then, you're still up against a world saturated with social networks, and convincing people to pay for something they get for free will be very, very hard. I think, ultimately, the only way you'll discover whether the problems you may have found are really important or not is if you can convince anyone to pay you. I suspect it will be a Sisyphean endeavor.

[1] https://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
Show HN: MLGarden, a tool/toy to build and train simple neural networks visually
I made this tool to get some better intuition on how neural networks/backpropagation worked, but I'm really unsure what to do with it now, so I've put it up on github, and I wrote a little primer on backprop and neural networks to showcase it.

Really curious to hear any thoughts you might have, or anything I got wrong in the write up!
Everything with a blockchain turns into a pump and dump grift. The only exception is things that started out as a pump and dump grift.
The Stars and Scale of Sci-fi [video]