skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was incredible marketing for the game. I remember all the gaming press wrote about it. It would just inspire you to try to play the game.

If someone made an MMO today, it would make sense to stage similar events to get some nice viral marketing. The 'corrupted blood' incident in World of Warcraft gave the game a lot of free marketing even in normal press - who loved to write about it. From what I understand (many?) players enjoyed the few days of chaos too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
The question then is the additional cost worth it. Employee tampering is rare and already dealt with in other ways. Also putting things on chain doesn’t prevent it because there are still employees making the game and thus can still add back doors that will be legit transactions.
Do you have a link for this? I tried searching for it but couldn't find any details. Mostly I'm wondering if those numbers include just JPEG or also include other formats. E.g. including PNG would tend to drag the median / mean up. Also, if sites are currently using 1.0 bpp JPEGs, I can only assume that they'll want to reduce sizes further when switching to a better codec, since 1.0 bpp is quite low for JPEG.

Note that there are samples where JPEG XL still has way too many artifacts at e.g. 1.3 bpp: https://afontenot.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#pont-d...

I do agree with you, though, that if a site is targeting 1.0 bpp or more, they're usually going to see better results with JPEG XL than AVIF.

> progressive decoding

If I'm not mistaken, it isn't enabled by default for JPEG XL and reduces the encoding efficiency by about 10%.
Aqueously altered igneous rocks sampled on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars
I am having the same problem, not only for that thread but for all of the old threads. I already contacted HN about it, let's see.
The comment has been deleted to remove the unnecessary comment: you're seeing the improved version.
I have been on for quite some time and yes, the early days were more exciting but the reason things are more dull is not only a commercial one.

A lot of things on here are boring just because nowadays they just work well, not a lot of stuff to improve.

Also things got boring because the common folk got online, most people are boring, where in the old days one could have a conversation with interesting professors or other people good at their job, nowadays the internet is a glorified "come see me how wonderful I am and how pretty my life is" egoistic echo chamber of totally uninteresting people.
I hadn't ever searched for bras, but Google got me dead to rights - I have B cups and finding bras is hard. AdWords is scary good I guess.
To a degree, Rust does this. The standard string type is always guaranteed to be valid UTF-8. Then there's a string type for the OS native format and a string type for what constitutes a valid path on the file system. Of course, arrays of bytes also exist and so does a type for a null-terminated "CString". Converting between them requires runtime checks (unless you invoke unsafe code and promise you know better than the compiler).

It's cumbersome at times, but a perfectly reasonable tradeoff in my opinion. Some libraries add other string types when they're needed to interact with a system. For example, the windows crate has wide strings.
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33077441
So my Linux kernel running the majority of the infrastructure of the company I work for is untrustworthy?

Do you not trust kernel.org? Or the GPG signatures of the commits?

What about Mozilla?

As for "someone that can be sued", have you read any of the EULAs of the commercial entities that you think are "reputable" and "100% trustworthy"? You can't sue them.

Similarly, do you trust all of the CAs that have certificates in your OS or browser trust store?
My surname is Pepper and it didn't come up with me :D
Hi, would you consider relocating in north Italy?
I'm sure you can buy one.

Getting delivery is another thing of course.
Money laundering is one. What about ransomware? What about malware mining cryptocurrencies? Also I think North Korea is using cryptocurrencies to get money out of cyberattacks.

It does not feel like all this is prevented by trivial analysis, is it?
It's super obvious, but it turns out that your phone not being accessible all the time actually removes a distraction. It's hard to not laugh about how simple this is, but yeah, it helps.
Choose prime numbers for the duration of those gifs and they will never close at the same time :)
Buckle up. Their last "major outage" lasted 2 weeks and some customers' data was still irreversibly lost.
£550k roughly. Average is around £850k. Out of range unless the head of engineering has a spouse
Do you have any more information about this? I thought CR2 was floating point. Any details about how they store the mosaiced data in a TIFF would be very interesting, I assume.
Arm loses 40% of UK staff gained in SoftBank years
I'm not sure what you mean here, but if your point is that the average twitter user probably doesn't read real literature then I'd agree.
The first URL doesn't even show the fallback JPEG for me on Firefox for Android so there's probably something else interfering with the use of that website.

My browser seems to render AVIF just fine on Ubuntu and Manjaro, with Nvidia and Intel GPU backends. If it works with hardware acceleration on top of Nvidia's shitty drivers, I assume it'll work everywhere.

I've heard some old bug reports about colour management and AVIF not working together well in Firefox, that was the reason support had been baked in for a whole but the format was still locked behind a flag. I suppose they fixed that now that they enable the format by default.
"In 2003, comedian Billy Crystal was asked, on the field at Yankee Stadium before one of the league championship series games, for his first recollection of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry. "I was sitting right up there [first-base side, upper deck],'' Crystal said. "In the second game of a doubleheader, Ted Williams strikes out against Bobby Shantz. Thirty years later, I meet Mr. Williams. I said, 'I have home movies of you striking out against Bobby Shantz in the second game of a doubleheader at the Stadium.' He looked at me and I swear, Tim, he says, 'Curveball, low and away.' He said, 'Ellie [Yankees catcher Elston Howard] dropped the ball and tagged me, right?' I said, 'Yes, that's it!'""

https://www.espn.co.uk/mlb/story/_/id/6996357/seventy-years-...
Thanks, I missed the brief mention of those, but it's still not an ATT issue and they do apply the same standards to their own apps.
It's back up again, at least for me.
This is a Denver startup. go Fiona!!!
That the society is moving away from the concept of calling or vocation is also a problem. As a scientist (or physician or nurse or whatever) you are no longer rewarded for devoting your life to such things. You will not be supported (maybe even shamed for your enthusiasm or for failing in the reas of life that you are sacrifying), noone will watch your back, the administration will blame you for what they can, and you will not be paid overtime of course
I see much use of the word "piracy" in the comments as an unquestionably derogatory term. I'd like to question it.

In terms of the current capitalist model, we're agreed, piracy is a bad thing: People pirate media, the industry suffers monetary losses, the media producers don't get paid enough to keep producing, and as a result of all this there is less media. I'm with you.

What if the entire premise that this was a bad thing was wrong though?

The only thing that would go away is _this iteration_ of media creation and distribution.

"In the old days", things like music and stories were _meant_ to be copied, shared, and even expanded, by everyone. I'd argue this was a better system because it's literally what "culture" means:

"the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively" — my Apple dictionary, don't know it's source ;)

The standards were high, because the motivation was in great part the art itself, not as much the monetary gains (compared to today). Of course the artist has to earn money to live, but they used to before too! This part is a whole argument in itself, so I won't expand on it here.

My point — and believe it or not, I have a point — is that technology seems to be naturally supporting my world view on this, and we're trying to artificially cripple it not to.
>Are you suggesting that it is difficult to judge what ideas are great and what ideas are idiotic

that's quite an arrogant thing to say and probably will rub a lot of people the wrong way.

but let's give it the benefit of a doubt.

Let's say that there is a quality greatness separate from the qualities of likely to succeed, easy to implement, monetizable and so forth

where idiotic is concerned I would wonder if this is a quality separate from physically impossible, illegal, has obvious undesirable side effects? Is being guaranteed of business failure for an idea you hope to build a business on make that idea idiotic?

Now once we have this question as to what exactly comprises greatness and idiocy in ideas we can say there are many intelligent and successful people who have thought an idea was brilliant and would be hugely successful (two qualities we have separated), which idea then resoundingly failed.

The Segway comes to mind. I remember when that was first revealed, I thought hey this thing is genius, amazing. I sent it round the office, everyone had a big laugh about how stupid it was, including our lead designer who went into a big tirade about how people have bikes (in Denmark), Americans should just get bikes, they were not going to redesign their cities to accommodate the Segway if they don't redesign to accommodate the bicycle etc. etc.

So, was the Segway an idiotic idea, a brilliant idea, or a mediocre one?

I submit it was both brilliant and idiotic.

Our designer who saw the idiocy did not see how we would end up with the computerized autobalancing of the Segway in everything (except evidently bikes), how we would have autobalancing electric scooters, skateboards etc.

the people who saw the technical brilliance of the Segway did not realize how it was just not going to be a successful consumer product.

So - would you have judged the Segway as Brilliant or idiotic or just mediocre, and why?

on edit: clarification, fixed some grammar
I think ear training helps with that. I found listening to fusion helped because you were introduced to many scales you didn't hear in everyday music, so soon heard the differences.

There's nothing more grating than hearing people playing slightly out or doing half-bends on guitar. I've played with people who have played for decades and still can't hear that they're out, and it's terrible.
I am already living close to the great North.
that statement is completely false

(if you want accuracy stay away from George Monbiot articles)
What did LinkedIn do a few years back?
I'd call that a bad engineering culture
We need a state of climate emergency to just ban some needlessly destructive practices, ideally globally. Mowing lawns is something we can just decide not to do. Meat and dairy we can just decide not to do.
I'd say the typical recommendation is Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning". I do recommend it, it's a great book. However, for me personally, the book that truly triggered my re-evaluation of life (my own and in general) was "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins. Lots of things instantly fell into place. It may not blow your mind the way it did for me, but read it anyway -- it's worth every second of your time.
Jesus same happened to me so frustrating! Everything working ok, then slowly increase of writing failures and power resets, and strange clicking, eventually all disks drop, scary every time it happened

I swapped every server part before the PSU. Updated Linux, downgraded, tried kernel options... At some point I thought btrfs was the problem so I created an mdadm ext4 raid but got the same problem

It was a btrfs raid 1, lots of fs errors, and files missing until restart, as some disks were down. But didn't lost any data (take that ZFS!) besides the one being transferred as the disks/array went down anyway
The net impact of these companies is massively positive. Facebook, with its trust-engendering social graph, enables huge numbers of businesses and social groups to exist that otherwise couldn't while Google has enabled so much information discovery that we just take for granted now.

Of course I would argue there's a better way to provide these kinds of services that concentrates power less, and that's decentralization with cryptoeconomic incentives to maintain consensus, but for their generation, they did well.
But some of his lyrics are terrible: how many times can you say "in"? In this world in which we live in...

And "someone's knocking at the door, someone's ringing a bell, do me a favour, go to the door, open it and let them in"...

It's like he was trying to lyricise everyday activities. Very odd.

I say this as a penniless musician in contrast to the very successful Mr McCartney (who plays bass lines like he's playing the tuba, very clever)
This reads harsh and frustrated.

I don't mind funding CERN.

Who knows better what to look for than particle phyiscists?

My gut feeling:
Give scientists money with no strings attached.
Do not penalize risk taking.
Or software archeology! (going through interesting old code bases and documenting them for posterity).
> The fact Western powers haven't said that a tactical nuclear strike inside Ukraine will be responded to

is that really the fact?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/us-russia-puti...

how about this?
Accidentally hearing a tune is also the case for lawsuits, eg. Coldplay / Satriani from years ago.
I know a guy who subbed at a concert for the bass player on short notice.

Before the gig started he listened to the first song and learned its bass line.
During the first song (while he was performing it) he was listening to the second song on his headphones and learning its bass line!

It's utterly mind blowing what the human mind is capable of.
You are not a doctor are you?
Maybe we just grew old. I recently paid real money just to support a private server of my favorite childhood mmorpg. After playing a couple of days I got bored and never played again.
When I looked at CapRover recently, the GitHub integration in the docs required manually setting up a GitHub Actions integration and I couldn't exactly figure out what parts I needed to change since the example was for a NodeJS app, and I'm assuming it needed to be added or changed for each repo you want to track git pushes from.

In contrast, with Coolify, you simply login with your GitHub account and it installs a (one-time setup) GitHub app onto your account that automatically sets up the webhooks and I didn't need to do any configuration after that, it just worked for all subsequent apps. That level of ease of use is the experience I had with Heroku and I do not understand why more self-hosted PaaS don't seem to replicate that as well.

Also I like the Coolify GUI over the CapRover one, dark mode plus modern non-Bootstrap design is nice.
I took static ips on my fiber and I use my older workstation as a server.

I use zfs for backup of the whole thing.

It is not mission critical so I can accept downtime. Even then, in the last year I had zero downtime.

I think it can be a viable (and fun) option for many small applications.
> Lisp will read it for you, giving you the tree

The Lisp reader just reads s-expressions. It knows nothing about Lisp syntax and thus does not check it.
My university SE class was during those heady days of MDA, and my opinion, nicely summed up in this article, hasn't changed one bit:

Yes, I could create a class diagram as a PIM; press a button and create a PSM; and press another button and generate Java code. But the Java code had all sorts of holes in it that I had to fill in — and if I changed the model in any way, half of the code I'd written would no longer compile, let alone run correctly. In other words, OptimalJ automated the most trivial things, leaving all the hard work to the end user.

Unfortunately while MDA died, this same scheme is dominant today for OpenAPI definitions with exactly the same problems.
I like how they've misspelt "misspelling" there - I wonder if that was deliberate! (I also like how there's even an open pull request to fix the same...)
That's true, we are source available absolutely. Good thing is in close to 3 years it will convert to open source.
> Imagine getting paid to be outdoors in the sun getting exercise.

Combine that with - imagine being outside when it's cold, windy and raining - and you still have to do an 8 hour shift in those conditions. At minimum, it sounds like a fast-track to arthritis (a painful and non-curable condition that will plague you for the rest of your life). Or, imagine doing hard, physical labor for 8 hours in sweltering heat, which makes other human people avoid going out at all.
He is just repeating Russian propaganda from Tucker Carlson or from RT. Nothing more.
I have a photographic memory and notice it is getting worse with age. Do you find anything helps?

A successful memory might be good for successful people but it might also be a curse to be surrounded by a sea of people who need to be constantly reminded of things when you yourself remember everything. It's like the universe is going in slow motion.
Haha that's how I felt the first time I was in the provinces and could find the Krung Thep bus.

I'm living here.
Note: valuable as in "people are willing to pay for it", not as "it is solving a use-case better than alternatives"
UML was all the rage for corporate IT in the 00s, so I learned it at a damn expensive course.

the teacher concluded the course with: "and this is UML, there is a high chance you will never see or use it again."

he was wrong, saw it a few times again.

he was right, never used it again.
Etcd will spam your logs on quorum loss. It can easily fill your disk before the node comes back online or you wake up to fix it. Etcd logging is playing with fire. Just be careful.
Sounds like a good idea when you need to disseminate state trojans
hckrnews does show dead posts. It's only a link though - no title or scores.
I love this! Just tried it and it's surprisingly accurate.
I had the first version of that album and it's mastered and mixed horrendously. One of the worse albums I have ever heard - I emailed the mastering engineer and he said "McCartney wanted it like that..." and that he think he had learned from it because he rereleased it some years later with a much less brickwall compression.
Yep. I think the one place where blockchain shines is cryptocurrencies. If it's not a cryptocurrency, then there is a better alternative.
Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19212822 2019 188 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439437 2020 267 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30459276 2022 67 comments

It's posted pretty often!
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Sadly, I'm not sure you really need binary blobs to "suck up all juicy personal informations" in the first place.
Mostly that I just find learning new things fulfilling.

I want to design accelerators for Fintech applications at some point soon, hence the FPGA and Finance courses. As for the Manufacturing one, in my eyes I need to understand to full breadth of the industrial chain. Perhaps not as deep as obtaining raw materials (mining/chemistry), but understanding how we turn raw materials into useful tools is something that's important no mater what kind of engineer you are.
Similar user experience with the Remarkable tablet. Love it.
Nonsense. There is no equivalent of MPAA etc interested in taking away guns - on the contrary, firearms is a billion dollar industry with more than enough lobby power to convince everybody to stock up on guns.

Nice conversation derailer, though.
The extra bits that make it Chromium are BSD. But it absolutely depends on the LGPL Blink (nee Webkit, nee KHTML).
Is that ever ambiguous in Latin, or is there enough variation in declensions and conjugations (and enough of them) that the word endings are always clear?
Coming home solo with a roller bag? I almost always take the T, but it’s a 30 minute walk after the red line ride.

For my most recent “Lyft accepted the ride twice and failed twice at 15 minutes each throw” experience on Friday, the T was already in bed for the evening (or about to be, meaning it couldn’t be counted on).

Getting to the airport? There’s too much variability from the T and I don’t like sitting at Logan for an extra 45 minutes when the T decides to operate smoothly nor stand and worry the extra 45 minutes when it decides to be crappy service. (That variability cost is on top of the 45-60 extra minutes the T takes over a car.)

Multiple bags or flying with the kids? Car service every time.
Tesla shares dip more than 8% after third-quarter deliveries report
I can’t speak for their intent. It has less to do with the altruism or the “mission” and more on their personal well being. My dad survived multiple cancers and after he got his strength back, he wanted to build back up his strength. It’s the structure of the system that helps him. He was telling me about their productivity KPIs, and he sees them as fitness goals - as he builds pallets per hour, etc.

My mom spent the better part of her life as the “COO” of their business, so after being retired for so long, she seeks the mental stimulation of work. They’ve never worked in a corporate office, so seeing the structure and thinking behind Amazon amazes her. They’ve always had their own warehouses, distribution centers, trucking, etc. but they built that from the ground up and never scaled because they were “learning on the job”. Never seen what good looks like.

They both keep to themselves. No one in their section know about their backgrounds.
A sergeant, more likely.
I use CapRover and my main criticism is the non-zero downtime deployment.

Also when I update docker some apps don't restart properly, but that may just be my (basic Ubuntu dedicated) server though.
Page 6 of one of the official exam specifications to be taken at age 16 (GCSEs) specifically mentions William the Bastard.

https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/335133-the-norman-conquest-106...
That's one of the reasons why the start of 28 days later was filmed there, near Bank. A familiar scene which often has no one there at the weekend mornings. I worked there around that time in the late 90s. Spent a lot of time at Spitalfields, Brick Lane, St Paul's, Old Street. Was great when young and the company was buying beer.
China alleges U.S. spy agency hacked key infrastructure
I'm working on an open-source framework for converting Jupyter Notebook to interactive web applications. I was using free Heroku dynos for demo app deployments. I have 19 demo applications running (example https://automated-pdf-reports.herokuapp.com/)

All apps use 1000 free dyno hours in ~25 days, so at the end of the month, Heroku switched them off.

I didn't find any free alternative for my users and me. I'm thinking about building my own service where users can upload notebooks and publish them as web applications.