skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask "dumb" questions.

The best lesson I have learnt working in product development (both software and physical) is to ask "dumb" questions. The vast majority of the time they aren't dumb. What seems to you, on fist pass, to be a dumb question is almost certainly an insightful one. The person, your customer/client, will be pleased to hear you asking it.

Every answer to a question is a jigsaw piece, ask a question that fills in the next gap until you have the full picture. Each answer gives you a new edge in the picture to ask a question about.

Sometimes the "expert", your customer, who you are asking won't know, and that's just as valuable as it gives you insight into them and the new field you are working in.

Don't stop asking questions, start with them, then Google and read anything and everything you can.

An enormous part of new product development is learning about the field, then applying your learnt knowledge from elsewhere to it.
Yes, it’s accurate. I tested it at the time and was shown that video. It was later fixed for ‘cats’, but it took a while.

There have been other examples beyond that cat video too, that just got a lot of attention.
No Paywall: https://archive.is/pfkql
> The article claims that Chinese army researchers were at the lab researching viral weapons. That sounds like ill-intent to me.

The US does weapons research it does not mean ill intent. The Chinese does weapons research for the same reason the US does it.
Per the Apollo developer's post, a huge amount of the problem is existing subscriptions already sold for $10/year, which are now massive costs - and negative on net if there's even four months left on them. Not that having the price of your app suddenly quadruple from $10/year to $40/year because of API fees would be a small problem on its own!

https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w... ("Why not just increase the price of Apollo" section)
How would one print a function with a free variable? Consider this (but imagine there is surrounding code which defines y):

(lambda () y)

How can we print this in such a way that preserves semantics?

You can’t just print the original source definition, as y would then be undefined (or I suppose it could be defined to be whatever y is in scope at the deserialization call site or something thereabouts, but that wouldn’t guarantee that the deserialized function is equivalent to the other with respect to how it behaves, despite the source being identical).

You can’t just inline the serialization of y, because the original function returns a particular reference, and there’s no guarantee that the rest of the dependent code will not expect a stable, unique (and possibly mutable/state-full) instance of this value.

I suppose you could, on the side, also serialize the entire program state (or rather, at least the stack and heap), but then things get tricky when any object refers to something like an opaque pointer (even if you have an extent you can safely copy, you’d have to handle issues like different virtual addresses being mapped) or file descriptors, etc.

But maybe all those challenges can be overcome — so I’ll ask: how would you go about serializing an arbitrary object in such a way that one could deserialize an equivalent object?
Any books on generating ideas?

I feel like im stuck on step 1.
It’s not 3” of ground clearance. You can get a person comfortably to lay down under any engine.
There is easily over a foot. Plus you could overservice the strut. Plus if you really needed to you could fly without the cowlings. Still most practical would be just to pull the inlet to save space.
Neil Young, who lives nearby, called it simply "Redwood" in 1972's hit Heart of Gold. (I've been to Hollywood; I've been to Redwood.)
FWIW, it is not difficult to set up NullAway: https://github.com/uber/NullAway
I would think that when people in the CIA manage to understand international developments well enough, they typically become highly critical of US policies and then leave...
I used to read these types of books (including the most popular of the bunch listed here) years ago. I had this idea that if I just kept reading this stuff, I would eventually just "get it". (I never did. I "got it" much faster by reading individual comments from select people, and trying things out by myself)

The thing is, it seems to me that many of these books are just extremely information-sparse. Very very lengthened ways of making a small set of points. And because of that, I don't particularly remember the lessons learned from the lot.

200 pages to tell you to talk to your customers? 300 pages to explain that you should focus on your core business and not get sidetracked?

Here's a challenge to those who have read books in that list. Pick one you've found useful, and tell me how it changed you. Then look at your comment and decide whether the book could have just made that same point in that many words.
> If you download the iOS or iPadOS 17 beta, JXL will work in pretty much all apps.

I’m running iOS 17; JPEG XL doesn’t work in Chrome (or Brave). So there’s more going on.

What will be interesting: if Google will enable JPEG XL support in the next update of Chrome on iOS…
The Transatlantic Accent: Half British, Half American, 100% Wonderful [video]
It isn't. There's a fundamental difference between hype around something useful and hype around something that isn't useful.
> The very nature of the site is self moderating. Let people post what they want and vote on it.

This only works (mostly) for legal content. Unfortunately a lot of illegal content would be highly popular and upvoted if not moderated. It also doesn't really work when a subset of users engage with the system in bad faith or leverage bots.

Paid moderation is expensive - even if offshored - and I'm surprised that Reddit is willing to risk having to take on increased moderation costs. There's no way the lost potential revenue from 3rd party app users is enough to make up for that.
obviously (!) it means that the more things look like everything should be fine the less people find ways to be, to feel, to act as they actually are - non-fine, and due to this the more they can end up using more and more.
I was merely saying that for public transportation to be viable again in these cities, someone has to act - either by lobbying loudly and/or by putting their money where their mouth is.

Proposing that autonomous driving is the only way forward sounds pretty sad to me as it doesn't solve the main issue with cars: their environmental impact.

I didn't mean it would be easy to do, nor that it is decently doable to use public transportation in these cities' current state. Sorry if it came out that way.
> and the other two people in the cockpit aren’t able to even see this.

Presumably they would have seen it if they had looked. But they didn't feel it.
Get this on Apple vision pro at launch
Yeah, something like "a" in the below code wouldn't have a "natural" serialization I don't think:

(define a (list "a"))
(set-cdr! a a)
The admins of the main instance have displayed a distinctly pro-authoritarian and anti-US stance. The pejorative for this ideology is "tankie" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie ).

Searching for that pejorative and Lemmy will find discussions about it with links (though not links to Lemmy itself since those sites are poorly indexed by Google).

This came most recently to visibility with the comments on an NPR article posted to Lemmy about China tightening access to Tiananmen square and Hong Kong detentions in /c/worldnews a week ago.
Just have to say that I love seeing that book mentioned. Such a fantastic book.
Classic example of "you don't know what you don't know" :-)

Maybe get a job as a manager, manage a few software engineers for a couple years and then see if your original (bold) statement holds true.
Code and Programming Projects
Have you read Peter Turchin? Maybe ultimate lumper, as he tries to find formulaic equations for rise and fall of societies?

I would make one counter point to Lumpers/Splitters. If you have all the details, you can loose the ability to use that data. It is a problem in all fields, millions of data points can obfuscate what is happening, a nice trend line is over-simplified, but lets you make some judgments.

Have you seen all of the books on WW2 or Civil War, do you need to read them all and know all details before you can make any judgments, or form any opinions. Or can you read an 'overview' that leaves out the details but gives the broad strokes.

Guess I've seen too many people go down the 'details' rabbit whole, and in the end not produce anything but more details that aren't adding.

But, have to caveat. I think it is very valuable that people are out there doing detailed research, so there are details available.
Just think there is also a lot of value in finding patterns.
And I'd disagree that history is too complex to find patterns.

Same old problem. The more simplified the model, the more it could be inaccurate, but the more detailed the model, then it is overfit and not providing any information. Do you need to know what was going through the minds of every civil war solder at Gettysburg, every movement, to know who won?
Yikes. I mean, yes, in this sense you're right. We've never found conclusive disproof of the various conspiracy theories around the assassination and have been forced into a consensus that, y'know, Oswald shot him. But you don't believe that. And nothing is going to make you. So from you're perspective "we still don't know". WIV is going to be the same. You'll never get the disproof you demand, so you'll continue to disbelieve the consensus opinion.

Yours is a world where disproof rules, and conspiracies are assumed true until proven false. I'm sure it's entertaining, but it's not "true" any more than mine is.

In my world, Oswald probably shot JFK and covid was probably a natural virus, because those are the hypotheses that demand the least of the existing evidence. I'm willing to change my priors with more evidence, but not because of the lack of disproof of an entertaining counter-hypothesis.
I've been considering using Reddit data to pre-seed the content in a successor to Reddit. Though I am unsure how that would stand legally.

As a side note, I created an alternative Reddit API[1] and Reddit didn't like that so much they banned my 13 year old Reddit account.

1 - https://api.reddiw.com
Ask a lot of people what their problems are, and when a pattern emerges, try to solve it for them.
That's not the US system. It is definitely something abused within the US system but to call it the norm is ludicrous: realistically most families can't buy the university a new building (such a "buy in" also is not particularly unique to the US nor uncommon in rich, middle, or low income countries). Most people get in based on merits, but merits are fuzzy and incredibly difficult to measure. All measures of merits can be exploited and hacked as measures are only ever a guide(see Goodhart). Pure meritocracy doesn't exist because it cannot exist. You don't get closer to that meritocratic goal by setting up more bottlenecks or strict standards, but rather by recognizing the chaos and messiness of the real world: that measurements come with noise. You should have measurement, but it needs to be deeply ingrained that measurements are noisy.
The price of Apollo according to their website [1] is $1.50/month subscription for their highest tier (Ultra), or a $5 one time payment for their secondary tier (Pro).

[1] https://apolloapp.io/pro-ultra/
I agree with you at heart, but that's like saying the head of a hospital or the head union guy dictate what the experience of being in a hospital or shop floor are like.

That is absolutely true, but in the interest of making money the owners will replace them in a heartbeat. Sure, the vibe will change, some existing users will move on, but there are always, always new users to hook.

Reddit are not even paying these mods pennies, they couldn't care less about them and getting rid of them to find ones who are more "compliant".

EDIT: Redditor for 14 years 99,665 post karma
97,633 comment karma
I felt it was a bit underwhelming that when I traveled to the center of the galaxy and got that staff of life thing that instantly makes a planet level 3 habitable. The character that gives it to you tells you to find the 3rd planet from Sol (Earth). I found Earth, expecting another cutscene of some sort, but nothing happened. Earth was just a level 1 (if i recall correctly) habitable planet, so I used the staff to make it level 3 and then I just colonized it and kept it as my main base for a while.

I didn't bother trying to kill all the Borg but I did manage to ally myself with them, which makes the rest of the galaxy your enemy.
> A third party cannot find out all the people that the first party blocked.

the third party can fetch a list of all valid user IDs, and sequentially query the first party about each of those user IDs

it takes more time and may be subject to e.g. rate limits, but the information is equally available
How in the world can an Ikea solve the crime and homeless issues? Not clicking.
“At the Edge of Life” with Pietro Boselli
Great teams manage their productiviry themselves, but don't work in a vacuum. Whether their output is properly evaluated and rewarded entirely depends on their manager.

If they increased their product KPI by 150% but their manager had the goal at 200%, your team's suddenly underperforming. If they need 2 more engineers to fill specific spots, the manager will be the one pitching it to HR and convincing upper management to green light the expense. Same for the team budget in general, same for company-wise deadlines, resource allocations, what growth opportunity the memebers get. And so on, and so on.

There's a myriad of super critical things that members take for granted but go through their mamager and get screwed when the manager is bad at its job.
the generation of companies that defeat these vc companies will bootstrap, and use things like remote and chatgpt to make it work.
I think it's about the ability of someone who perhaps has a great idea (imagination) but lacks time, resources or the skills (execution) to make it happen. Of course that a talented producer will create a more compelling song (at least for now) but if the tool is an amplifier it should also boost talented composers - their prompts or inputs to prompts might be much more detailed, more interesting, more creative than those of a neophyte. This of course makes some assumptions but I think the draw for most people is that they can "make" something that sounds cool with almost no effort. My belief is that someone who puts more effort in a GPT and has more expertise can get a lot more out of it as well. I could of course be wrong and GPTs might be the big equalizers, but I doubt it.
Yeah nothing shows Reddit who's boss like checks notes aggressively engaging with their product.
HE-AAC is a bit better than Opus, plus has the benefit of MP3's "works everywhere" experience. I posted more detail elsewhere in the thread if you're interested.
Good for you! Just like software engineering, people management is not for everyone. Hope you build kick-ass software in your next role.
> So, for example If Adobe comes in with an app that links to new web apps that they promote we need to allow that "app store" in, even worse Google could come up with an app that runs all their 3rd party Chrome web apps and we would need to allow that in too! I don't see why we want to do that. All these apps won't be native, they won't have a relationship or license with us, we won't review them, they won't use our APIs or tools, they won't use our stores, etc.

What a horror - someone won't be using Apple APIs and tools.

This perfectly shows how Apple's ban on other browser engines and all similar restrictions in general are not about security or any other bogus excuses they like to present, but about being anti-competitive lock-in control freaks.
Some more detail: https://simpleflying.com/pan-am-707-raf-northolt/
Summary of what you said: A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on...
"web scale"
Il network IRC pensato per gli utenti e gestito dagli utenti? Un progetto ambizioso e nobile.
To me, AVIF seems to be better for preserving sharp edges, JPEG XL seems better for preserving textures.
Common in some arab countries
Sudan, Syria, Iraq and partially in Jordan

https://www.accessnow.org/empty-promises-shutdowns-exams/
You're right, I should have said CAT 5e (where they run a ethernet cable to the plane).
Just launder it through an LLM, problem solved.
The powers that be have deemed that they don't care what the "free labor force" wants or thinks. They care about the experience of the users, not the experience of the rulers of petty internet fiefdoms.

Reddit has indicated that it wants to pay for content moderation. So be it. Who are you to tell them how they run their company?

Maybe when we move away from "volunteers" then the "volunteers" can get real jobs that pay real money! It'll be good for them.
> Basic auth sucks because it sends the password for every request,

Normal auth sends a cookie every request. That is really the same. You have to do state somehow.

> and for get requests it shows in the url

This is not true
I was mostly joking, but you can compare a skateboard and a car and make the skateboard look better if you just mention weight and pollution but not top speed, autonomy, etc.
Yah it does. Pretty fast too! Mastodon I think suffers from running on RoR. Lemmy is written in Rust.
I used to smoke and chew tobacco quite infrequently once a day or so, but for about ten years, but decided to stop about three years ago.

During the past several years I’ve come back to realize I was using tobacco therapeutically — specifically to actually focus and as a relief from constipation.

And, since then I’ve been “trying to get healthy” - especially mentally. But just feel endlessly stuck trying to get some kind of ADHD diagnosis — having seen 4 separate mental health professionals for problems I never had on tobacco.

Sadly I’ve relapsed and for the first time in those three years since I quit I actually don’t feel constipated when I chew in the evenings. Also, I’ve found the ability to sit down and finish my manuscript.

Meh, I feel much healthier chewing once a day.
Making the claim that you know the proportion of conspiracies that get reported implies you know the number of conspiracies not reported.

Im not aware of any way you could know that or the relative proportion of each.

Where do you get your certainty here?
> So you never use cabs or Uber?

Rarely. Less than once a month.

I get what you’re saying, but there’s lots of friction/hassle associated with all of the cars too. Walk or bike around lower Manhattan on a weekend morning before all of the cars roll in. It’s so pleasant! No honking, no risk of getting run over at every intersection, etc. Biking especially is way better. And for those that do have to drive it’s way better and quicker for them too!

Every time someone drives into lower Manhattan they make life slightly worse for the hundreds of thousands of people that live or visit the area. I don’t want to ban cars, but I think it’s totally fine to discourage driving there.
This seems like a feature. One could imagine profiles that exist solely to categorize say nazis and essentially copying blocked entries or sharing blocklists between groups of accounts.

Kind of like filter lists for adblock. I would like to subscribe to naziblock, magablock,botblock, and trollblock please.
Mods are like air traffic controllers. If you know their name, they probably fucked up badly. I suspect we'll know the names of many more mods if Reddit goes ahead with replacing them en-mass.
So does every social network.
And we don't even use MongoDB!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Price Club #1 on Morena Blvd., San Diego, asked employees, friends, and family to park cars in the lot. Seems to work. Of course the financials weren't reporting average daily cars in the lot either.
Same. And since I chose the SDF instance, I went ahead and finally got myself an sdf.org shell. A new toy to me, though it's been around since 1987.
Science operates on a system of checks and balances, not a free speech model. If your paper can't pass peer review then your paper is what is clinically referred to as bullshit. Now there are people who bypass the system of checks and balances by publishing on pay to play journals but scientist came up with a solution to that too, Impact Factor. They took all the journals and rated them by how much of the content that they publish has an high impact on science and how much of it is bullshit. If you can't get your paper to publish in a journal with an impact factor higher than say 3.5 then you're probably bullshit.
> and sequentially query the first party about each of those user IDs

Only if the third party is allowed to query whether there's a block between the first party and the second party. If the block is only visible to the first party, i.e. there's a view filter, then there's no good way of figuring this out.
On https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575

In-App Purchases
Apollo Ultra Monthly $ 4.99
Amazing Tip $10.00
Generous Tip $ 5.00
Nice Tip $ 0.99
Kind Tip $ 3.00
Godzilla Tip $19.99

They may have a separate subscription service that isn't using Apple's. Or it is possible that the page wasn't updated at some point. Those prices, however, are the prices and match the app.
I’ve had many good engineering managers over the decades. None were technical. But they were good because they did have skills in things like running interference for us. In my experience, people skills are far more important than technical skills for good engineering managers.
Indeed. Could call it something like the RedditCrawl corpus.
I haven't. So what? Is there anything I'm wrong about in a way that you could provide meaningful evidence on? Surely you aren't arguing that only moderators are qualified to weigh in on the social value of moderators - this sort of logic wouldn't pass the laugh test if we were talking about police, or soliders, or middle managers, or low-level government bureaucrats. This whole "thin blue line"-style thinking that moderators are flirting with here is... cringey.
Most higher end vehicles (and frankly, I don't count Tesla as particularly high end, particularly not the Model 3) have similar stats, for a multitude of reasons (including but not limited to driver experience and time behind the wheel as a function of affordability of the vehicle).
You can already do this with the Quest + BigScreen app w/ Remote Desktop.

You'll be fatigue from having a screen on your face within an hr.
Interesting. That would probably be a better place to keep the blocklists, and trust your homeserver to not expose it over API is more reasonable in terms of trust.

It’s funny how the article focuses on friction to circumvent blocking, which is real, but doesn’t mention that their solution greatly reduces friction of discovering who blocks who. Because traditionally that discovery is tedious and not scalable.
I assume it is more the author's response to the headline of this article, which treats the conclusions of the experiment as robustly proven fact.
Competitors can come from unexpected angles, too. Around here some of the nicer convenience stores win on butter, milk, bread, or bananas.
Password hashing algorithms don't work well if the entire search space is small. If you block me it's trivial for me to check my username against your hashes to prove you blocked me. Reversing every hash is mostly a question of how many known usernames there are.
I can still hear the words of my first IT manager from 15 years ago, in his French Israeli accent: "I can tell how smart someone is by the questions they ask."

Wasn't quite sold on his assertion back then. Now, I cannot agree more. Doesn't apply to just tech, but all facets of life.