skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what if your instance end up being a far right honeypot?

Why does it have to be a honeypot?

Agree on the importance of choosing a server, they tend to have a distinct couleur locale. It is far more likely that you'll end up on a far-left server when you're using Lemmy. The most popular server is Aspiring to be(e) a safe, friendly and diverse place, under that lies one which proclaims itself to be A collection of Marxist communities, for memes, learning, news, discussion, media, or anything you like followed by A general purpose lemmy instance for queer and gender diverse folk, and their allies and one advertising itself as hosting Communities for furries by furries. If there are any right-of-centre Lemmy servers I have not come across them.
Incompetence/stupidity are my leading hypotheses. But I don't care enough about reddit to give it much thought.
of course you shouldn't be mad at your friend. he is suffering and seeking relief. the sacklers and the cartels for sure are despicable. but they aren't responsible for your friend either. they didn't force him to take drugs. it sounds petty but i firmly believe for a number of reasons that it is very important to keep this in mind.
Electrical wiring fault starts a fire. Not sure we don’t want a pilot to be able to pull circuit breakers for everything on board.
Also, my friend is in the hospital and apparently will be there for a week or two. So he will leave with several hundred thousand dollars of debt, which will probably be shackled around his mom's neck.

This is a medical crisis that will never get solved because our medical system doesn't want to handle people with these addictions. No one does of course. But that's the only way to solve it in my opinion.
There is no reason to suspect Ill intent. Accidents happen. It is well known the WIV were doing gain of function research on SARS-related CoVs. It is also known that the WIV were partners in a proposal to insert human specific cleavage sites into SARS+related CoVs
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...

The probability that a novel SARS-related CoV would emerge naturally in the city in China that was used as a seropositivity control -and the location of the worlds largest SARS-related related research lab, and which had very low wildlife consumption compared to Southern coastal cities is < 1/1000

There is no evidence for any infected animals at the Huanan market
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.25.538336v2

There was a known ascertainment bias towards reporting associated with the market
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.00313-23

The modelling by Pekar et al inferring multiple spillovers at the market was flawed
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.10.511625v1

Prior to the pandemic, the State department literally warned the US govt. a SARS-related accident was a real risk at the WIV
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-dep...
virustotal says it's good: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/48fe6cd5ef2cb9779db5bf16...
I realize my accuracy claim is not at all correct. Said more for reference.
> Optional added effects are of minor consequence

you seem to have an inability to use the phrase "to me". you dont dictate the patterns or usage of the population, only yourself.
Hopefully not a metaphor for the internet after advertising sees it's reckoning.
Geoffrey Hinton – Two Paths to Intelligence
Reddit wasn't in great shape when the Digg thing happened either. Reddit is just a platform for forums. There are literally thousands of alternatives.
Seems like most companies could use a Defense Against the Dark Patterns teacher :-)
As a year long spring (boot) dev, I felt right at home with angular 2+ -it‘s literally the spring framework of frontend frameworks.
> It was a wake-up call to the airline industry of the dangers of over-reliance on automation.

Ironically, if the pilots had simply let go of the controls, the airplane would have righted itself.
What kind of deliberate practice can help if morove your mental liquidity?
Executives unwilling to support workers adequately should not expect them to take shifts.
The amount of security that'll be required to keep people from sleeping in the beds and grabbing/stealing from here is probably astronomical.
Objective metrics (like dssim) are not the best way to compare image codecs. This is in part for the obvious reason - that none of them are perfect and the human eye is better - but also for other reasons, including that some codecs use metrics internally for bitrate targeting, and these metrics can disagree with the metrics used by other codecs. Without a visual comparison, it's impossible to say which metrics are better for a given set of images.

JPEG XL was based (in part) on Google's "pik" codec, which used the Butteraugli metric for bitrate targeting.

Use your eyes instead: https://afontenot.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#wasser...
Scientists are growing animals in artificial wombs. Humans might be next
I’d consider it a brand damage to Cloudflare too. Their CDN clearly couldn’t offload the sever traffic. Ideally they should just serve stale content while server recovers.
How?

Apollo’s dev never released the source code to the app, only the server which sends out push notifications.
This is not happening at the same time by pure chance. Once the Fed turned off the free money, all of the negative profit companies need to adapt or die.
Not to be too glib, but what freedom are you talking about here? Iraq and Afghanistan were both invasions on the other side of the globe.
>how can they continue as a business losing money?

You can't. Imagine you started a website, you're losing money, and 3P devs are serving your data, ripping out your ads, profiting themselves, and then staging entire public campaigns against you ask them to contribute or get lost.

If I had a small website and asked HN for advice in this regard, 100% of replies would be to boot the 3P dev. Nobody would say, "Dude, let him/her keep doing it! You're being greedy and stupid!"
> Nah. Disagree and I don't even know why is this highlighted. It really does matter what you choose. Same with Mastodon.

This was my initial response as well, but realistically I rotate reddit accounts every few months anyways (I prefer the anonymity that codes with), so I can just do the same for lemmy. Try a server for a bit, and then move to a server when I find a better one. Treat it as ephemeral.
Name calling people who don't think like you tells me everything I need to know about you. You're not better or smarter than anyone else. You think you are, but just poking around your wares, you're really not.

Your navigation looks like utter trash. I've seen high school graduates do considerably better. It is a mistake. Just own it.

You've taken a stance based on regurgitated talking points. Do you get upset with yourself when you learn something from stackoverflow?
It’s popular despite itself… but It’s not successful.

One of the things Spez is whining about is that they’re not profitable.
Necessity is the mother of invention.

A CRUD app with a UX so bad people feel the need to use third-party clients isn’t exactly a moat. Half the people here could scaffold a Reddit clone in a week or less.
Every payment dispute has different circumstances, but surely it's possible to observe a pattern here. Google recklessly screws over ordinary people, even when unprovoked. But apparently they won't lift a finger when billionaires don't pay their bills.

BTW in the first case, Google looks bad because they are. Payment issues are common, and should never ever result in people losing their digital livelihoods. Bans should have a meaningful appeal process. Users should be able to reach human employees that has the power to actually resolve issues. There's no excuse for getting so many basic things wrong here given the consequences.

Your framing of the second case is plainly wrong too. It's theft by Google. You can't discontinue a service you never received. The author moved to prevent further theft only after Google explicitly refused to do what was right.
I also think the CEO is a scapegoat. I’d argue that Huffman showed more courage than Elon did, though.

That said, Huffman’s handling of this was bumbling at best.

It demonstrated a failure to understand his own users or the culture of the site.

For that alone, he should go.

But there are plenty of other reasons company leadership has failed its community, particularly it’s unpaid workers moderating content.
Tigerbeetle DB: a storage fault model
What does the Air Quality Index measure?
It’s easy to become obese in America. These 7 charts explain why. (2016)
>Nobody needs a vote based link aggregator thingy in their lives

A link based aggregator, you are correct. There's more of them out there than TODO app tutorials. What I do find hard to separate from is the communities that have constant ongoing daily conversations. Cooking, AskCulinary, all the science subreddits, some indie video game ones. Having one non-discord like hub for a community is great, and I do miss checking in on my daily AskCulinary questions and helping newbies out.

Really all I want from it is just a forum with the ability to upvote threads (rather than replies bumping them up) and the ability for anyone to be able to create their own sub-forum, but to heck if I can find something in that category that replaces reddit.
Yes probably it needs a (way) better implementation, but the idea could be useful. Especially during this summer that will be very hot.
I think it matters significantly less with Lemmy than it does with Mastodon/Pleroma/etc.

For one, it's pretty low-stakes: With Mastodon, you lose your followers, your posts, and your platform. It's hard to start from scratch, unless you have a chance to move house with the “migration” tool. Lemmy accounts are, comparatively, much more disposable. You can move house at the drop of a hat and it doesn't matter too much; your new profile has fewer comments in its history, who cares? People don't follow _you_, after all, they follow the _community_.

If you pick a bad server, just make a new account, no problem.
This does just sound like market forces justified with ideology. TSMC is signalling that you better love it because it ain't gonna compensate you properly.

The games industry is the same from the other direction (excess of willing labor).
It had "development silicon" instead of "production silicon". At the very very least that means you can use `sudo` and `su` after logging in with the well known "alpine" credentials.
Not surprising, it's hard to compare image formats, it takes a lot of sample images before you can say anything, and even then it's hard to rule out sampling bias
Try the EFF's Privacy Badger. I didn't see any ads there.
Just click "Continue without Disabling".
Oh? Thanks so much for telling me what goes on in my head, bub.

The average bit of user-generated content is of very low quality. Which is why pretty much any successful platform, this one included, uses user-generated signals to filter the good stuff to the top. And any social context is prone to vicious circles where dark triad find somewhere successful and ruin it. Preventing that requires active weeding. All of that is labor I value.

The platform deserves some credit. But as all the developers here know, Reddit is not succeeding on the strength of its software. Reddit doesn't have a technology moat. It's a pretty standard web forum. They didn't invent it, they didn't perfect it, and not only could it be replicated, it has been many times.

So should the platform get paid? Definitely. Reddit-the-corporation should have enough cashflow to cover the bills and support the necessary staff. But right now the tail is trying to wag the dog, and Reddit-the-community is not having it.
People do not go from an engineer to CEO full stop. And also, plenty of CEOs with a million dollar golden parachutes do terrible jobs. So does large parts of management.
Why would you want to transmit s-exps over a network? What's wrong with HTTPS or TCP/TLS?
Can we please stop erasing history. Add context to it instead.

It’s perfectly fine to acknowledge that we were deeply flawed individuals in the past. Erasing history makes it so much more difficult to learn from it.
You should see today's GUI. They are terrible.
Cities: Skylines II Release Date and Features
Did you see the post where someone had reversed engineered some key encryption/obfuscation(?) function from the Android app which was just a substitution cypher and had a 66 byte memory leak on every call?
The bottleneck in web apps very rarely is in hot loops that benefit from native-code speed. Most of the time you spend waiting for an HTTP response is either waiting in line to be processed or waiting for the database or other external services to do the heavy processing. Optimizing on web means ensuring you're processing the queue efficiently and making fewer, more efficient database calls.

I'm not familiar with either implementation, but I wouldn't place an a priori bet on Rust over PHP for web. We've had many many years to figure out how to build efficient PHP apps and very little time to figure that out in Rust.
I used to do this on lispms...just `(lambda (x) ... ,z ...) assuming z is small

what you would really do is make a lookup table and keep the closure locally and send a reference and forth. idk why we don't see this more, its a pretty straightforward way to lash together some programs
This is good feedback though, as I had the same issues. It shows the value of launching and iterating quickly with user feedback, rather than building in the dark in the guise of perfection.
>Nobody believes they have a right to reddit

When people castigate the mere idea that Reddit should be trying to guarantee a return to its investors - and I can point you to examples of this if you wish - it's hard to interpret this as anything other than people saying that their interest to unfettered API access is more important than the interest that investors have in a positive ROI. I guess you could say that this isn't establishing a "right to Reddit" but that seems like hair-splitting to me - "we don't have a right to Reddit but anything that would take Reddit away from us would be evil."
Mattress Ratings You Can Trust
Robyn – A Python Web Framework with a Rust Runtime
I wish the rows with the definitions were vertically aligned with the rows with the words in a way that didn't make the adjacent definitions ambiguous when scrolled halfway down.
They shut down a sub called “jailbait”, I’d say the vast majority of people are ok with that type of “censorship”. And if being against that disgusting trash makes me “pro-censorship”, fine.
Looks good too. I bought pre-doorbell controversy along with a doorbell. It appears Eufy/Anker is doing better now.(0) After having a couple different webcams taken over by security holes, mine only point outside and are hidden.

0. https://www.theverge.com/23573362/anker-eufy-security-camera...
> it was not censored like HN!

I don't feel like HN is censored. Does anyone think HN is censored? dang steps in mostly with technical edits or to break up a particularly nasty fight once in a while, can this really be called censorship? of course, you can take a karma hit from other people, but reddit always had that as well.
Fantasy fears about AI are obscuring how we already abuse machine intelligence
Probably jailbroken phone, but honestly I am equally clueless.
Once I wanted to use Data dog with our internal project. Unfortunately I couldn't use the trial, it ended when I was ill at home. So I asked to prolong the trial. Ohhh that was a big mistake. They came upon me with zoom meetings, with two persons from their side. Asking do many questions about everything made me angry. After our internal meeting we agreed that we will use another service. So I emailed Data dog that we will pass on their offer. And then emails started. I was like stalked about "let's do the meeting, tell us more for what do you need 3 weeks more of the trial .." and so on. That was worst corporate behaviour I experienced
That is a good point. Are there modifications to the voting strike idea that would make it effective?

For instance, what do you think about an "inverted-voting" strike instead? Everyone on strike does things roughly as normal, but swapping most of their down votes for up votes, and visa-versa? That way, people on strike will continue to vote about the same amount as before, and in the same subeditors as before, so it would be harder to identify them. The hope would be that although Reddit could do work to clean up the voting data, it would be annoying & take time, and presumably still end up as significantly lower quality data than they had before.
Visual quality, file size, compression time, decompression time, browser support, toolchain support, patent restrictions. Considering any one of those in isolation is insufficient for evaluating image formats.
> it calls constructors to create dependency objects, and passes constructor parameters to inject them

So, basically DI. This is the recommended mode of operation of Guice & Spring.
> So, what is the battery life on that device? One hour? Two hours?

I'd put the average battery life of a $600-700 gaming laptop at ~4-6hr, although if you undervolt the CPU (getting maybe 80% of the performance) you could achieve 8+ hours on a charge. Screens vary, but they're typically 1280x1080 -- however at 120/144Hz. I'd say both are acceptable for most people.

And I am not claiming to compete against the MacBook Air 15" for $600-700. I am just pointing out that performance-wise, a $600-700 gaming laptop can equal a $1200 Macbook, and hence is a much better value.

If however you want me to find a challenger to your MacBook Air 15", I will.

With a $1200 base 15" M2 Macbook Air budget, you can get a Dell XPS 15 for $1,149 (https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/laptops/12th-gen-intel/spd/x...). The i7-12700H equals the M2 in single-core and beats the M2 in multi-core workloads. It comes with a RTX 3050, 16 GB of DDR5, and a 512GB SSD, and a 3456x2160 OLED touch display. You get 8GB more RAM, twice the storage, a better GPU and multi-core performance than the base model Mac Air for $50 less. Battery lasts up to 13 hours.

I am admittedly also an Apple fan, but that doesn't mean I have my eyes on the competition. While Apple has had its share of advances, and while it is still my go-to for my laptops, I will be the first to admit that there are plenty of alternatives depending on what you're looking for. And some of those alternatives are hands-down a better value depending on your criteria.
Breach Notifications [pdf]
As a citizen, I am concerned. Loosely interpreted, if your machine was hacked by a 3rd party - regardless of who it was, it is then permitted for the police to hack your device in order to determine the extent of the hack.

Very loosely interpreted, it also means they can go after you if your bittorrent traffic was found in the traffic of group "X". Since sometimes, it is not possible to determine which or what traffic is included.

The biggest thing is the last "explanatory memorandum" that is attached to the law. While not the law itself, it is in practice how the law will be used:

> the permission granted also contains authorization for, during the validity of the warrant, to also enter automated works of the person or organization targeted by the warrant,

As explained in the article;

> An ‘automated work’ in this specific Dutch law has an extremely broad interpretation and includes such things as phones, computers, servers, websites, databases and mailboxes.

This basically means that if you are part of compromised traffic/target, then as interpreted legally, it's open season on anything you have associated to you.

I really hope this doesn't become standard practice, because it will just mean widespread abuses similar to how the DMCA is used (but more sinister).
It seems ideal to me where Reddit loses the ability to complain about usage by being able to control pricing for access and app developers get to recoup whatever they feel is necessary to maintain the app.

This may be myopic though.
> Most unresolved disagreements I know of are because the groups disagree on some unprovable underlying assumption. Switching positions on it doesn't make the beliefs stronger or weaker, just different

In my experience, that assumption isn't in principle "unprovable" - the parties to the disagreement usually don't realize they're making such assumption in the first place! Switching positions can make the existence of that assumption apparent to all, and if people involved are intellectually honest and discussing in good faith, it's pretty much impossible for their disagreement to remain as strong as it was before.

> Personally, I prefer having convictions and sticking to them.

Good point about competing interests and "reducing to something manageable". I prefer "strong opinions weakly held", but in practice, I embrace the natural inertia of beliefs. I.e. I don't consider me already believing something to be strong evidence the belief is true (i.e. "having convictions") - but the stronger a belief is, or more high-impact changing it would be (e.g. suddenly feeling a moral compulsion to upend my entire life), the more evidence and time I need to change my mind.

This may be also a dumber and less admirable strategy, but it's effectively a low-pass filter on evidence: it saves me from changing my mind every other day, and suffering the costs (including cognitive dissonance if I plain override my beliefs for sake of quality of life).
Many Newly Discovered Species Are Already Gone
Also https://docs.tigerbeetle.com/design/data-modeling
Preferring composition over inheritance is good for languages that don't do inheritance well. Python does it well. But more importantly, Django is an object oriented framework that makes heavy use of multiple inheritance, and the code is gorgeous. It seems silly to choose a big framework like Django and not take advantage of it's features.
It's not free to run a platform. But this is not about platform costs. This is about the standard pre-IPO juicing of the stats to maximize IPO pop, allowing insiders and VCs to sell shares and make bank. People here should understand this more than anyone else.
Yeah, it was embarrassing overreaction by Apple. It was just another iteration of the iPhone. This used to be a thing in the auto industry, with reporters trying to get pictures of new car styling. Now nobody cares. Same for phones. Version N+1 has rounder corners. Big deal.
It really doesn’t matter, I don’t think. You can avoid the official-ish servers run by developers and join another, or host your own.

At the end of the day, Lemmy’s just server-software. Whatever the developer’s politics are, it doesn’t magically poison the software.
The NYT is a reputable organ, known for checking it's sources. Unlike Wikipedia, newspapers don't generally cite their sources; but if a reliable source states something like that as fact, they've probably checked. You're right: they haven't said they can prove it.

[Of course, it could be propaganda, government or otherwise; or it could be a damned lie concocted by the reporter or editor. They've said they have sources, they haven't named them, so it's not unreasonable to suppose they have sources that don't want to be named.]
The age of adtech as the dominant technology revenue model is drawing to a close and Reddit missed out on the golden age. Trying to make ads work now, when it’s clear the future is subscriptions and the like, is just dumb.
While I doubt it has the accuracy of darksky, it's worth noting there's been an alternative website with a similar layout: https://merrysky.net
Maybe if I could then bypass the ridiculous rules some mods put on their subreddits I would.

Imagine paying for Spotify, and then some ego tripping power nanny decides you aren’t allowed to listen to some of the music. It’s absurd.

The lex Friedman subreddit especially is like this. The number of people banned from that sub for simply disagreeing with Lex is ridiculous. Why on earth would I pay for something like that?