skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would any of the following measures help with Reddit growth and retention of users?

1. Make an official Web UI (responsive to desktop/tablet/phone) that users like, plus iOS and Android apps that people like? (Maybe make a responsive Web UI that's closer in spirit to old.reddit but with polish, and appeals first to smart power-users, while still quite usable by others? And then make the iOS and Android app store apps that appeal first to the more casual doomscrolling demographic that's still not even comfortable with nested comments and just wants to engage with their reactions to content?) But don't kill third-party apps before then, when Reddit isn't known for good UI after old.reddit.

2. Improve their image and video hosting, and then nudge people to use it (rather than leaning on bandwidth of third parties who sell ads that Reddit could be selling, who eventually try to poach users, or who eventually disappear and take down Reddit-initiated content with them)?

3. Discourage other poaching by third-party services, like subreddit mods of recent years stickying posts advertising the "official" Discord for that subreddit, and try to supply whatever genuine appeal that third-party has as part of the Reddit monolith? (If there is any appeal, and the fragmentation/poaching is not just driven by the mod's self-interest.)

4. Make sure Reddit is getting their share of all the LLM training epic goldmine value of the Reddit corpus? (Maybe this is part of what's behind the API lockdown, but that cash cow might've already left the barn, and maybe there are other angles to also be pursuing urgently?)

These questions have come to mind, but I don't have data or internal business info to answer them.
First of all, you made a general statement and I demonstrated its falsity. Now you're changing the subject to, "Oh, but not all patented drugs become generics."

I never said they did. However, there are giant companies that do almost nothing but generics, like Teva, so obviously lots of generics exist:

https://www.tevapharm.com/our-company/teva-facts-figures/

As for "what doctor will prescribe "worse-pirin" when there's a better aspirin on the market now? What insurance company will cover it?"

nearly all insurance companies require a generic to be used unless there's a very strong reason to use the branded product. In your example, if the new drug genuinely is better, then the patients deserve to have it. If it's a trivial improvement then it won't get approved.
Would the SEC be protecting investors if they allow 1 investor to get scammed to the benefit of 2+ investors?

We need systems in place where everyone can make trustworthy investments. If people can't feel safe (even if it's one person or many people), then our economy will slow down (see current crypto prices post-terra, ftx, and more).
> It’s already turned into an echo-chamber of nonsense, ruled by all-powerful mods to whom every user is a racist transphobe nazi homophobe enemy.

I’ve literally never had this problem. And I’ve commented on a multitude of subreddits for years.

Curious to see some concrete examples where your comments were framed in this manner.
Recently I got curious about SQLite in serverless settings and eventually figured out a way to combine GCP Cloud Run with Seafowl, an early stage database. SQLite has been quite helpful!
Did a write up [0] in case anyone is interested. (also about to submit it for my first Show HN.)

[0] https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/deploying-serverless-seafowl
No agency has the resources or interest to go after individuals that aren't doing anything especially egregious.
I agree there is a lot of low hanging fruit which could differentiate consumer from Pro for the next generations.

The pro could increase the FOV (some mentioned black borders at edge of vision), increase refresh rate and brightness (some mentioned adjusting to room brightness when removed), reduce the weight and thickness with titanium (some mentioned unbalanced weight), have more private sound (I understand it is pretty noisy to the neighbors so you would currently need AirPod Pro for plane/bed use), increase the cooling system (some mentioned it is warm), get some sort of med-tech sensors (control with thoughts, detect stress etc), get back sensors (the AirPod demo of being passed by the bike seems it needs some sort of backup camera/360 video record options), get cellular features, get Mx Pro chip, and increase the front screen size. After that I expect outdoor waterproof Ultra models (The scenes of people twitching on couches compared to the iPod dancers flinging themselves around could not be more stark).

Many reviewers also mentioned getting their hair messed up making it unwanted in professional scenarios where sharp looks are important which is something to solve for a true pro model. I imagine corporate will want all sorts of usage data and screen sharing.
Another important thing to mention is that WebP, HEIC, and AVIF are all based on video codecs whereas JPEG XL is a traditional image codec.

I find this article describes the differences and pluses/minuses incredibly well: https://cloudinary.com/blog/how_jpeg_xl_compares_to_other_im...

TLDR in the article is that both technologies are valid and have a significant use case. I still work plenty with the browser and would _absolutely_ use JPEG XL as a replacement for WebP images, traditional JPEGs, and PNGs if I could.

It's a shame Google/Chrome is not supporting the tech. It would be a major improvement in the landscape.
You claim Apples Mac line of products is adversarial to hackers. Which I dispute with the example they help alternative OS to run on the Mac. First with Windows and now Asahi.
NextStep was easily the best there was. Nothing else was remotely suitable. The only contender people like to fantasize about is BeOS, which was nice (I used it as a daily driver for a year), but a toy compared to NextStep and OSX.
Those reasons, lifted from the wasteland of the bug linked:

- Experimental flags and code should not remain indefinitely

- There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL

- The new image format does not bring sufficient incremental benefits over existing formats to warrant enabling it by default

- By removing the flag and the code in M110, it reduces the maintenance burden and allows us to focus on improving existing formats in Chrome
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Give it a minute. The news that Safari would add JPEG XL just dropped yesterday. Given that big change the decision may be reconsidered, but not in one day.
Not disagreeing per se, but I find it interesting to regard Hinduism as anything other than a major world religion.
I think a reasonable person would agree that if you ask a cop if you can do something and they won't answer but then take enforcement action against you later on, that would be bullshit.
AI is not creative. So, if you lack creativity you are doomed... fully replaceable by AI. If AI can write your framework code better than you then what does your employer need you for?

On the other hand AI is really bad at the same things that most software developers are really bad at: applied organizational skills. If you can actually write software and make independent original decisions you are probably just fine.

The big difference there is that many developers struggle with basic literacy and spend their careers dicking around with tools and chasing trends: the expert beginners. Doomed.
See the link below for benefits and examples:

https://cloudinary.com/blog/how_jpeg_xl_compares_to_other_im...

The big one is that you can transcode existing JPEG files effectively and reversibly to JPEG XL without any additional loss. So you can get the benefits of the new format without having to re-sample your existing JPEG images.
In their demos they clearly show the pairing up of controllers to play games.
interesting - unfortunately they didn’t make it in YC this year; maybe the next one
I'm not sure if it's cheaper when you compare the whole machine price, not just GPU, since you can't buy piecewise with the Mac.
Thieves and muggers are salivating.
No, though you may wish to check over the 2nd paragraph in the post I replied to ;D

Admittedly without quoting it does look out of place. I just edited it to fix that. Thank you!
Levine has talked about this a bit. It's much easier to be a harsh regulator after the crash than on the way up.
Yeah but "just replacing $50 seal every few years" is smaller problem than "taking apart whole engine to replace the $50 seal". And now they can technically be directly oiled instead of whole oil in petrol thing.
I would take longtermists seriously if they were one of those poor people they talk so much about. But right now, there is an obvious conflict of interest when they speak about longtermism.
They add support and there's little adoption.

Who cares if there's little adoption? Why not be feature complete? It's not like Google is some cash-strapped startup.

Heck, macOS ships with terminal definitions so you can log into a Mac using a Commodore B-128 as a serial terminal. It didn't have to, and that's certainly going to have less adoption than JPEG XL.

(/usr/share/terminfo/62/b-128, if you're curious.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_CBM-II
Right. We already made that mistake with fonts and still only have provided workarounds (esentially the same as polyfills) instead of just standardizing a reasonable base set. This would be even worse with image formats.
From the Apollo creaator himself

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...

Citing the specific piece of text

> For reference, I pay Imgur (a site similar to Reddit in user base and media) $166 for the same 50 million API calls.
Why browsers can not have features as binaries on OS? For example, I can drop Ogg Vorbis support from my Debian but one is a nightmare - if Debian's devs would manage to dictate me what codecs I can use and what I can not.
> now infinitely more productive

How much more productive do you feel you are coding with an LLM? As another HN user said, to me it's like a talking dog -- incredible yet useless.
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You need to seriously read what you’re actually replying to instead of what you think you are because you keep bringing up that the AW is not a failure when nobody said it was.
The work compares against Hyperband and the new method is significantly better (Figure 2, Hypothesis 2).
Skimmed the article, so am not sure if it mentions this, but I often use subtitles due to the incredibly bad audio mixing that seems to have been a trend in surprising amount of new releases over the past few years.

I am not a native English speaker, but do have near perfect levels in TOEFL tests so it aint that.
Have you stopped beating your wife?

Yes or no. No hemming or hawing. It's a simple question, yes, or no?

----

Is it clear to you now that a simple yes or no question, couched in an incorrect assertion is not actually a simple yes-or-no question?
I'm not sure it's fair to say that Facebook had a 7-8 yr head start because Apple has been developing every single component that goes into the VR headset for well over 10 yrs. They design their own cameras, displays, micro processors, lenses, speakers, sensors, etc. Apple has hundreds of engineers working on each of these components for various devices they sell. They've shipped a billion+ of their own custom processors and have a world class chip design team to make custom chips for specific products. Meta has no where near the level of hardware design expertise that Apple has. They've also been slowly laying a lot of this ground work for years now with ARKit and LiDAR on iPhones / iPad Pro, moving Mac's to Apple Silicon and supporting iPad apps on it (allows them to bootstrap the Vision Pro app store).

Even if Apple found the displays, cameras, sensors, etc. the one thing they won't find available is the processors(s). Apple is shipping an M2 chip, which they use for desktop computing as well as a custom new chip to handle sensor information. I read that the actual parts cost of the Vision Pro is $1500, and that's with Apple having huge contracts with their suppliers for other components and getting a discount. Add in R&D costs and even at $3500 Apple is likely not making much on this device. If Meta were to make a similar device I think it would cost $5k or they would have to sell it at a major loss.
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I think the point that many are missing is that Apple doesn’t announce half-baked products at nearly the rate that Google and company does.

The fact that Apple took this bet isn’t indicative of the current product, it’s indicative of the future. They’re correct in almost every product bet they make. If you don’t see it, you’re probably not seeing the long game.
"Our mission is to make device integration simple..." would be more appropriate
Great analogy! Well done.
This isn't all that different from a four stroke, at some level. With a piston engine you lubricate from below, the oil never getting above the rings. Practically some does and gets burned away, but that's negligible usually. Anyway, the seals on the liquidpiston engine supposedly do the same, keeping the oil from leaking around the seals (in a significant quantity anyway; I'm sure it's higher than a four stroke though).

Here's what their webpage says:

> The seals do not experience centrifugal forces, and can be lubricated directly by metering small amounts of oil directly to the sealing surface through the housings, which means that oil consumption can be reduced to levels potentially comparable to that of a 4-stroke piston engine (essentially negligible).

Obviously take all this with a grain of salt. I haven't read any practical studies on this.
I think this is more of a return to the status quo.

10+ years ago there were 2 big names in open source embedded databases, Berkley DB, and SQLite.

Then the NoSQL fad hit, and a bunch of new key value stores emerged. Now developers are remembering what made relational databases great.

Even when you don't need relational features, SQLite is battle tested, and a great choice for storing key, value pairs.
There was no ICO, it has an immutable fixed supply, it's not in perpetual startup mode, and not centrally controlled operationally and can't be bought back.
> I just don't think that it makes up for depending on a small team of volunteers to resolve all hardware issues in an ecosystem hostile to OSS

This. The volunteer pool is too small. And you're supporting a shitty company.
The "K" resolution race in TV display specs needs to stop. Outside of specific esoteric use cases, 16K resolution offers no compelling benefit for typical consumer TV-style consumption. Watching TV at a comfortable living-room viewing distance, all those extra pixels offer no meaningful increase in perceived image quality to the viewer.

Wasting pixels, bandwidth and BOM budget on resolutions vastly exceeding human visual resolving capacity is especially offensive when there are still so many other technical improvements which would significantly improve viewer's experience - including contrast ratio, absolute brightness, dynamic range and not over-compressing video sources.
Aged like milk.
Yeah we need a law against it. A lot of people would support such law. Could be defining issue of our times.
Have you tried Bigscreen VR? State of the art to watch a movie together in VR
Yes, the way Kraken was doing it was super sketchy. Basically you give them your money, and they give you some regular APY. Very reminiscent of a ponzi scheme.

Coinbase did it right, structuring it as a staking service. Staking is something that anyone can do, but it's a pain in the ass. Coinbase make it easy by letting you stake assets, and they run/monitor the staking nodes for you, and as service fees, they take a cut of the rewards (which fluctuate moment to moment).
The solution is to not install CUDA on your base system because you need multiple versions of CUDA and some of them are often incompatible with your distro provided GCC.

Here is what works for me:

- Nvidia drivers on base linux system (rpmfusion/fedora in my case)

- Install nvidia container toolkit

- Use a cuda base container image and run all your code inside podman or docker
Anybody that goes to work alone in a home office room is isolating themselves more completely than sitting in a common area with an XR mask.
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Hey, I'm the founder of Guru (https://getguru.ai/), a video AI dev platform. Developers are using our movement APIs to build some cool form feedback apps, including NFL coaches.

- Demo: https://www.formguru.fitness/video/c96fa975-fd9e-4912-8f60-1...

- Blog: https://blog.getguru.ai/guru-sports-powering-the-top-prospec...

- Customers: https://www.cadoo.io/, https://www.breakawaydata.com/, https://pharosfit.com/, https://www.producthunt.com/posts/fitx.

We've trained our own models (and customers can finetune them), but it exports cleanly to iOS (and Android!).
> By your logic they will never put out a good product.

For their Customers they will. Their customers are ad agencies.

What they will never make a good product is for its users because the goals of reddit the company and the userbase are opposed.
Only Google can make changes to the WebP specification and can do so unilaterally. The JPEG-XL specification is governed by a recognized standards body (ISO).
I wouldn't be shocked if the text was created in a similar manner to the images.
Half of tech is politics. Why else are all the measurements around here in feet instead of meters?
No, they haven't, they've put out Press Releases to that effect.

But when it actually comes time for court filings, which are what really matter, they instead acknowledge that they know exactly what the rules are, but that they "disagree". And why do they disagree? "because for numerous tokens, regulation would require undue effort or not be financially viable [for Coinbase]".

"Your rules are not profitable for us", essentially.
The game console industry shows that even having a killer app isn't enough to avoid selling hardware at a loss and making it up with ecosystem rent.

This has no killer app and is being sold at full price.
I haven’t checked if you guys are hiring, but I would immediately want to be part of this. I do a lot of reverse engineering these days as well as hardware fabrication to create “bridges” from one device to another.
I have a hard time paying attention to media - probably something to do with ADHD - I find the subtitles make me focus more on the content of the movie/show as it's a visual aid.

I can see how having subtitles on can be annoying as they can block important parts of the content, or just be generally distracting (like the article mentions, [DUCKS QUACK])

I've heard there can also be challenges with mastering audio for certain studios - mastering audio so that dialogue can be heard through tinny phone speakers while not replicating well on a TV or expensive sound system.
I would have written this comment 15 years ago, on the heels of an unnecessarily large military being abused to wage two poorly thought out elective wars. Continued market arbitrage away from wasteful US dominance seemed inevitable, just as the break up of the Soviet Union was.

Now, after economic integration with China has run its course and not produced democracy? After Russia's attack on Ukraine demonstrated that wildly irrational tin-pot dictators still exist, they had just been contained? It would seem that the USD empire is more valuable than I gave it credit for - it's the worst hegemon, except for all the others.

I still do hold hope of reducing the power of centralized entities in the long term. But real change like that has to happen from the bottom up due to fundamental conditions changing (eg individual adoption of cryptocurrencies), which is excruciatingly slow. If this is to be the trend, it will happen over many decades.

There is certainly the open question of whether China will surpass the US military and become a world reserve currency based on the draw of military might alone. But that doesn't have anything to do with decentralization, rather just a different centralizer.

PS treating the diminishing of US power as a foregone conclusion and framing it as a political question of whether the Republicans might "embrace change" (ie overtly facilitate the US's decline) seems like a terribly self-destructive paradigm.
Just copying the playbook of every social media platform using monthly active users as a bullshit metric to pump their perceived value.
I definitely felt Mondays on-call were much busier in the hospital. I always thought this could be due to patients spending weekends with family, not wanting to cause a fuss and maybe ignoring symptoms of cardiac chest pain until it evolves into a serious heart attack (STEMI). Also, they may be waiting to see their GP on Monday morning and then get referred to hospital (although less likely with STEMIs).

I also remember the time between Christmas and New Year being very busy - I thought for a similar reason - people understandably just don't want to be in hospital for Christmas.
Bitcoin might be classified as a commodity, but nearly every other crypto out there, especially anything with a premine or any sort of revenue sharing, is pretty clear cut a security.
I'm glad someone else noticed it. It's really annoying to see the ' misused like that.

The correct use for some context : "The scientists' report was really interesting"
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Still useful for other coins, though the returns may not be very great.
Back when we had high trust societies[0] that worked out ok, but that's just not the world we live in anymore. I have respect for people who hold themselves to a moral code and play by those same rules in dealing with them, but I don't have a lot of pity when they scream "life's not fair" when they try to play hockey against people who are playing baseball.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_trust_and_low_trust_soc...
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I don't think that this constrain applies. The dam was part of the Russia-occupied territory or part of the gray zone. Ukraine was not using the damn dam for anything.

At this point I'm not willing to give Russia the benefit of the doubt anymore. Their leadership has more than sufficiently demonstrated that they consider atrocities and crimes of war as part of the toolbox, so to say.
Apple's Achilles heal here seems to be search. They just can't do it.
I know that SIGPLAN makes the regular talks from PLDI available at https://www.youtube.com/@acmsigplan although this doesn't always include tutorials (I can see there are some, but most are missing)
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