skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parents are technical sheep. They'll do what a site tells them to, even if it bogs down their phone, adds notifications, and inserts yet another advertising tentacle into their life. They won't be mad because they don't understand. As an engineer, I think it's reasonable to be mad for myself and those that don't know better.
> If chrome adopts JPEG XL, there won't be any reason to use avif or webp.

Yes, absolutely, there is definitely no browser or version of a browser which lacks jxl support and could make use of avif or webp over jpeg.
This is not true; the number of Unicode scalar values excluding surrogates is 17*2^16 - 2^11 = 1,112,064, which is larger than 2^20 = 1,048,576.
It's best summed up by the comment I'll link at the bottom of this comment [1]. Notable details include:

- The link is to Raddle, an anarchist community (which uses Postmill).

- The Lemmy dev has personal beef with Ziq, a prominent and well-respected voice in the global anarchist community, and the administrator of the Raddle website.

- Lemmy dev's reasons for creating Lemmy were twofold: he (and others) was banned on Reddit for hate speech or whatever you want to call it, and he knew he wouldn't be accepted on Raddle because it's a good community (or in his words, Raddle is run by "anti-tankie scum").

- When Lemmy went live, he immediately banned people for speaking against the homophobia of Stalin, Putin, and Xi

- Lemmy dev is specifically a member of the LaRouche movement, which according to Wikipedia "has been referred to variously as Marxist, fascist, anti-Semitic, a political cult, a personality cult, and a criminal enterprise ... a far-right political movement ... one of the best private intelligence services in the world ... one of the strangest political groups in American history"

I know HN isn't supposed to be all political, but this is also a security and user-safety issue. Hope I'm not crossing the line into soapboxing here.

- [1] https://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/-/comment/276944
We have to face realities. It's obvious that companies have found that working from home negatively affects productivity. Companies are all about saving money and maximizing productivity. If working from home had been at an even level, or even a bit less, to working from the office then they would had chosen it over having people go into the office since maintaining an office, and all that goes with it, is very expensive.

Yes, some of us tried hard to make it work but like always there was a minority that probably did not and now we all have to pay for it.

At this point, the best we can hope for is a hybrid work schedule. It's not what we want or wish for but, if we are lucky, it's what we can get.
Yes, I think it’s the way of the world. If the power users and gatekeepers are aligned with the bulk of user’s needs it works well. We usually see issue like this when things get out of alignment.
> Aside from maybe like a Hollywood editor […], I have no idea who these are for.

That’s exactly who these are for
The site seems to have gotten stuck. There are a couple mirror sites listed which are working. e.g. https://reddark-digitalocean-7lhfr.ondigitalocean.app/
12kg for warmups, 24kg for 2 handed swings and 16kg for Turkish getups.

Read Kettlebell Simple and Sinister. It’s silly but very informative and detailed on how to lift safely and effectively.
Watch YouTube videos too and record video of yourself until your form is perfect.
What to do when the US becomes uninsurable
The one I use is CodeGPT. It doesn't. It's a simple chat-like wrapper over the GPT4 api.
Click on the "All" toggle on the top of the page.
Fark redesign is now live (2007)
Unfortunately, you are misinformed. Deaths are lower from acute infection (still hundreds a day), but long covid affects up to 20% of reinfected w/ omicron. It is currently unknown what the long term implications of infection are (but multi organ damage is documented, incl. cardiac/vascular issues and brain damage). Note that HIV presents w/ mild flu-like symptoms and kills 10 years later. Other viruses have long term implications. The gov. has abandoned you for the economy and you should be very angry. They killed a million of your fellow citizens to make the line go up.
We're too far removed from the time and place to accurately determine what happened. Even if we had first-hand witnesses or documentation, the disinformation 'aura' around the whole thing makes it impossible to get the honest truth out. There's no chain of custody for evidence that you, yourself would trust. That's what I mean that at this point it doesn't matter what the reality was, the damage is still compounding from it. The absolute worst thing out of the last 3 years is the terrible messaging from authority figures to unify around public safety. To say 1 thing and impress upon everyone the legitimacy of the danger, without distracting from that message and leveling conspiracies. From an objective historical point of view we want to know what happened, but no one will be able to confirm the legitimacy of that now.

It's still killing people. I directly vaccinated thousands in Los Angeles, I had several family members die, and 1 of my aunts - an RN - is getting reinstated after 2 years because she was fired for telling people "the jab will kill you". This was after she tried to convince my other aunt - another RN - that she should not get the vaccine while being in a risk category.

Never have we seen disinformation used to harm so many. It's too dangerous to talk about, and if we found the truth no one could corroborate it or convince others of it. It is done, millions are dead.

As a sidelong thought, I'm convinced in this information age that there is no truth. The truth is anything you want it to be if you can inspire a viral cult around a contrarian thought. I'm sorry if I just sound so jaded.

I still remember assisting a woman who /wanted/ the vaccine while her husband screamed at us outside the tape line with officers nearby - screaming about how the government was trying to kill black Americans and citing events like Tuskegee. We earned that, and I still see the fear in his eyes when we swabbed her arm.
Probably the HN hug of death. I was able to read it by following the link at one of the other locations it had been posted on HN previously, eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7409611
Keep in mind this is 80% of the subreddits that announced would be participating in the event. There are over 3.5 million subreddits altogether, though of course most of them are dead or with a single user.
Spez’s car’s doors open like this, not like this, not like this.
you could also ask why were pro sports all white for decades before they began to look for talent outside that pool? didn't team owners (and local fans) want to win games above all else? eventually, yes, winning is what ultimately mattered most - but it took half a century for that priority to be fully recognized as the one that outranked all the others, including racial bias.
ChatGPT Finds $1.5B in Tax Refunds
> OpenBSD's man pages are one example.

OpenBDS's developer to user ratio must be less that 1 to 1000s. When you update one line of document, you're probably saving time for thousands of users accross years of use.

Most project I worked on had at most a few dozen people with an actual chance of reading the documentation, and the majority of them aren't users, they'll be reading all the code anyway because they're not in a position to blindly trust the documentaton.

Why should we calculate the ROI of the time spend on maintaining good documentation the same way in both cases ?

PS: I also think a distinction should be made between specification and documentation. It feels that both are conflated too many times.
https://r.nf/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_des...

If you want to read without feeding the beast more than necessary ^
Could this all be deliberate to tank Reddit stock as soon as it goes public to make money off shorting?
If you're bad at it, and you can reasonably outsource it to a human, software, or a robot, do it.
The worst in my days were the very large projects. Besides many other problems. The system's funcional design was written up by analysts talking to the client's middle managers. Neither of those groups had a grasp on how things realy got done on the workfloor beyond the most basic sunny day scenarios. Actual developers and actual users were not allowed to talk to each other as many times the new system would obviously involve some redundancy/displacements in the workforce which needed to be kept under covers and some completely made up at salrs pre-existing system capabilities of the supplier such conversations would 'leak'.

Needless to say these projects typically crashed and burned irrecoverably at first contact with production.
That's why it's called a hack, there is some luck involved along with the perseverance.

In my case I've recently been rewearing a much older less stylish belt as an example of what life was like when Ronald Reagan went from the first low-class actor in memory to become elected president of the USA.

It was just barely tight enough to begin with and I ended up having to poke some additional holes so it would still hold up my pants. For that reason it's been relatively ugly for quite some time, but has never failed to fit.

A common saying back then was "belt tightening of the '80's".

That was 40 years ago, but no better time than the present to break it out again.
It's probably not logical. They are hinting at increased sweating.
With Reddit there does exist a long drawn out process to remove your account and all it's data. Lemmy keeps a lot of that stuff around behind the scenes, including deleted comments, usernames, and media you've uploaded.
Imagine if Facebook shut down its acquisitions Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta would be an irrelevancy.
How brake tech is advancing ahead of Euro 7
It’s still feasible. The search space is limited to “The list of known user names” rather than “every possible combination of N characters”. That’s the difference between computable in under an hour vs computable in millions of years.
> 25% of black teens in their acquisition press release

Not necessarily illegal, but I had thought that, for sure, one shouldn't boast about heavily discriminatory race-related factoids, even if they thought that it would be for a "good" cause.

Didn't they think what would have happened had they replaced the "black teens" in their press release with "white teens"?
While I agree that some syntax sugar would be welcome here (AFAIK the best you can currently do is

sealed interface Tree permits Tree.Leaf, Tree.Node {
record Leaf(int value) extends Tree {}
record Node(..) extends Tree {}
}

), it is not too terrible. Also note that rust really mixed up the nomenclature here with their enums, these were known in every language previously simply as ADTs. It makes sense for these to not have identity, while java enums are always a single instance.
that'd be insider trading, and FTC has generally has opinions about that
Wow so we still design CPUs on silk screens by hand?
We're currently trying to document an existing large Angular application and it's daunting. We wrote some meta-code to list all possible routes and attach components to routes (we were hoping Compodoc would help, but it doesn't work well anymore).

We have over 700 routes (screens), 1200+ components and 500+ different service calls that query APIs in the back end. If we only look at routes and hope to spend, on average, one day per screen, that's 700+ days of writing docs, which is a considerable amount of work.

There's no existing documentation, save for 30,000+ JIRA tickets over a 5-year period, that describe various bug fixes and change requests. But those tickets are just floating in the ether and are not formally attached to any specific component, let alone route.

I was hoping AI would help but I can't seem to find anything relevant.

What would you do?
I don't know about that either, based on Tom's Hardware review of the M2 Ultra it is still pretty competitive and well rounded.

Intel beats Apple at most specs but the margin is too small to say Apple "can't compete", especially for a company that didn't even have a desktop CPU three years ago.
Reddit CEO: We're Sticking with API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark
I use Apollo to read Reddit, but mod using desktop web.

Definitely the Apollo and handling of the API changes is annoying.

But this was much more a straw that broke the camel’s back thing from a mod perspective.

I’ve mentioned this before but I am on the mod team for r/portland and the Reddit admin has been terrible at providing tools and support for serious content mod problems and straight up platform abuse.

There was an incident where we had someone who stuck out as disturbed say they would be carrying out a mass shooting event.

There are a lot of problematic posts but this one was so subtly wrong and the second post from the user, rewording it from another pac NW sub.

IIRC, at the time there was no way to report a content type problem like this to the Reddit admin. The content reporting UX was a dark pattern, seemingly purposefully or thoughtlessly designed to avoid allowing mods to report this kind of concern.

I found a category to report it to anyway, and had to follow up multiple times to get any confirmation that an actual person had received my report.

When I finally did get a reply, the message was a short form letter, providing the least possible commitment to addressing the concern. It was just a terrible showing. I recall discussing this specific instance w other portland mods and how much of a bummer it was to not have the company’s support on such a serious problem.

But much more pedestrian of a concern has been astroturfing. There has been a persistent effort to highlight news and article headlines intended to divide people along racial and economic lines.

It is ~ the same playbook used in targeted ads on Facebook leading up to the 2016 presidential election. This has been going on _years_, and it is no secret.

It got to be so bad, at one point I emailed YC managing director and Reddit board member [1] Michael Seibel, about the problem and still got no reply.

While Portland is a large city sub and likely has unique unaddressed moderation challenges inherent to it, I imagine there are many stories from the all-volunteer moderators in large subs who have been let down in various ways by Reddit.

[1] https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-welcomes-michael-seibe...
Hotel Owners Start to Write Off San Francisco as Business Nosedives
At a high level, it's pretty simple. There was a very well coordinated and intentional conflation of the term "lab leak" with the conspiracy theories around China and the WHO intentionally developing and deploying bio-weapons as a means of global population control.

These conspiracy theories lead to a marked rise in violent attacks on anyone of Asian descent in the US, and generally fed into the wet dream fantasies of western warlords looking for any excuse to enter that eternal war against Eastasia.

Any time that anything relating to information around Wuhan labs was released, there was a massive flood of how the "lab leak" theories were right all along, and China is, in fact, trying to kill us all. This is the sort of virulent hatred that no social media company wants to help propagate.
Well yeah it’s all federated. There’s no guarantee your replicated posts will ever be deleted from every server they reach.

It’s also the Internet. Don’t say anything on it you don’t want archived forever.
Regarding 'their' culture in their shops I recently came to the conclusion that large parts of them tend offer sloppy services for high prices with cheap stuff.

That may not be the case for everyone, and also depend on how they perceive you, so they vary the prices according to their 'culture'.

TBH they can all fuck off, I won't miss them.
- Do not buy clothes that need ironing
Where did I say that it's without js? It's alternative way
cppreference is indeed a wiki so you can update it if you’d like. Usually the compiler maintainers do.
I hate shameless plugs but if you ask:

https://github.com/minebreaker/Abukuma/tree/master/documenta...

It's a half-baked project and may never be finished.
The civilian world was quite aware of the incident; they just mostly swallowed the cover story whole. A Harvard prof (Matthew Meselson) went to Russia to investigate, and came back with a public report agreeing that the anthrax came from tainted meat. Obviously some people doubted that, but until the fall of the USSR there was no incontrovertible evidence, just the same circumstantial patchwork as we have for SARS-CoV-2 now.

Even closer to the SARS-CoV-2 case, the 1977 flu pandemic killed ~700k people and near-certainly arose from a research accident, probably a failed vaccine trial:

> The 1977-1978 influenza epidemic was probably not a natural event, as the genetic sequence of the virus was nearly identical to the sequences of decades-old strains.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4542197/

That article argues that vaccine trial accident doesn't count as a "lab accident", which seems like legalistic wordplay to me; but I believe the historical context is good.

But in 1978, the WHO wrote:

> Laboratory contamination can be excluded because the laboratories concerned either had never kept H1N1 virus or had not worked with it for a long time.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395678/pdf/bul...

It took decades for the consensus to change, and there's still been no official admission (though note the unverified personal communication from C. M. Chu via Peter Palese in Gronvall's paper, 27 years after the accident).
Do you think the "next word prediction" argument is so popular because we want to believe our intelligence is more complex than it is?
It's insane the speed of progress. That being said, the most smooth example in that tutorial (Temporal Kit) required a lot of outside processing.

I wonder if AUTOMATIC1111 ui will start handling workflow scripts, a.l.a blender workflow boxes.
There's a second response: to not reward AND punish the offending party.

I've been recommending people to replace their content in Reddit with literal gibberish (from random generators), and then delete their accounts. Each person doing this makes Reddit data less valuable for LLMs, and eventually it means that not even Google, Amazon, Microsoft etc. would ever bother paying for API access.
You should try VBScript, Access and Excel, true troves of shadow IT lie hidden on those shores.
they've unknowingly imported some pernicious memes

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2023/06/11/naz...

What you call pernicious meme I call not wanting to live amongst neo-Nazis.
That's how Americans say "lots of the cool kids use the app".
Hate having the TSA open up and steal items from your checked baggage in the US on domestic flights only? Throw a lower receiver into each bag. It's technically a firearm and so subject to the strict integrity rules requiring sealing at the ticket counter. You don't have to be a 2a die-hard or even have a single functional weapon to exploit this loophole.

Or you could get a backpack that expands to the same size as the largest domestic carry-on and skip checked luggage altogether.

Items you can't take in carry-on bags but are allowed in checked bags: alcohol, actual or improvised weapons.
To me fair the folk dying today are tangential to the origin story.

I'm not sure the origin story mattered a whole lot along the way, other than being a useful political distraction. I don't think it informed personal or medical behaviour.

Of course discussions around vaccines, masks, social distancing etc did have a huge impact on personal behaviours, so those are far more impactful both than and in hindsight.

The different strategies applied, the messaging, the outcomes, from New Zealand to Sweden and everything in-between will be disected by anthropogists for decades to come.

The actual origin is a red-herring, it really doesn't matter. Viruses come from lots of places. We can't prevent that. What we can control is our response. As long as our first question is "who to blame" our outcomes will be similar, or worse, the next time around.
You could add a few @Nullable annotations to your code where you might return null and be completely null-safe. Nullness is a so-called trivial property, so it can be statically analyised even in such a bolted on way.
I can’t believe the Board hasn’t taken him to the woodshed yet. Everyone makes mistakes but to make one of this magnitude and combine it with the arrogance he is displaying is unforgivable. This guy is the weakest CEO in the industry.
> But we can't sustain our current life-style with them today.

Yes, indeed. We need to very substantially decrease our per-capita energy usage. It is going to be hard for some people.
The only thing I have said about the whole lab leak theory for the last 3 years is this.

IF it was a lab leak, that is the best case scenario. It means the virus was a part of peoples hubris and messing around with viruses. I potentially one time accident.

If it isn't the lab leak, that means it is because of our intrusion on the wild world via agriculture and eventually the conditions of factory farming. If that is what it is, Covid will be the first of many like it.
It's definitely surreal.

Will apathy help Reddit to succeed? Will users and communities end this protest and go back to business as usual?

Will Reddit buckle under pressure and go back on the API changes?

Is this the beginning of the end?

Or will Reddit drastically change because of this and it will be unrecognisable in the years to come?

It's an interesting time.
Does Google artificially keep Reddit's app rating up?
I don’t think people attacking Asians had that nuanced of a motive. More like: it came from Asia so they resented Asians, regardless of whether it was designed or leaked or whatever.
The FTC may have opinions about that, but the SEC files lawsuits about it.
There is a ton of information I need to make sure I have saved, so I might not be out by June 30th, but I can’t see myself using Reddit remotely like I do through Apollo. Mobile apps made Reddit for me when the primary reason I hadn’t made an account till 2013 was because I thought even the old website was bad.

Alien Blue, BaconReader, Narwhal, and then eventually Apollo. All of them great apps, and that was Reddit for me.
"Sink It for Reddit"
I have found ChatGPT to give bad answers for more complicated questions. For example, the other day I encountered some TypeScript code that surprised me. Basically it was:

class A { @SomeDecorator() x: string }

const value: A = {x: "foo"};

I was surprised that it compiled at all and structural typing applied to classes, even though '!(value instanceof A)'. But it worked! I asked ChatGPT for more information about this, and basically it just told me that it wouldn't compile, which was obviously wrong.
Underrated content :)
Here’s a non exhaustive list of what midi (and the standard midi file format) does poorly, off the top of my head:

- Control Change msgs are largely a wasteland of non supported features

- messages are not uniform size, so you can’t read a midi file backwards for instance

- the file format, usb format, uart format, and bluetooth format are all related but not fully compatible. Especially the file format which has meta messages that cannot be sent over bluetooth or uart, etc.

- sysex messages are not packetized in the original spec, needing delay to send large messages

- NRPN and RPN messages are another wasteland

- same with system real-time, song changes, bank changes, smpte, all needless complexity no one uses.

- the file format needs a chunk length written in the header, which is annoying to keep rewriting when recording continuously

- the file format needs an “end of track” msg that needs to be rewritten again and again when recording to disk

It’s fine for NoteOn and NoteOff. Most of the rest of it is pretty mediocre imo.
Hiding Cryprominers on Linux
Diversity and economic freedom: A response to Hanania