skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A new major study into the impact of generative AI on misinformation farms shows how fake, unreliable and mainstream outlets are using algorithmically created content.
Wealthfront Launches Bond Investing
You're on one; for a narrowly focused target audience and subject.

Other forums still exist, too.

Most of the active alternatives right now are discord groups, sadly.
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The point I was making is not whether Russians feel mistreated or Asians feel mistreated etc. That is a separate debate. I am only making a limited point on "Lab leak theory was censored because it lead to rise in Asian hate crime". This makes absolutely no sense to me. Investigating possible lab leak theory that lead to one of the worst pandemics in recent times should be done irrespective of whether there is hate crime or not. Both have no correlation. And investigation can be done behind the scenes too. The problem is that there was absolutely no attempt at doing proper investigation. Whether it leads to conclusion or not is secondary.
>I always see this argument and don’t get it.

Internet misanthropes contributing to the trend for people to lose friends and acquaintances as they age.
Could you please elaborate on what atrocities were caused by conspiracy theories?
What kind of devices can make your life easier wether you are small business, medium or enterprise.
In my experience, not everybody is good at writing good documentation.

I usually see software build by brilliant engineers, people much smarter than I at building software, and the documentation sucks.

Not that is not there, but that is very difficult to understand.

It is clear to me that you can be very smart at doing certain things (for example writing software) and suck at others (writing documentation).
I'm looking forward to learning more about VictoriaLogs! You guys always come up with elegant solutions and I'm sure this will be no exception.
Yeah, text people. Should solve that problem.
Unfortunately, most cultures teach developers not to read. Between having barely any documentation, poor discoverability of said documentation, poor quality documentation, teaching people to 'talk at the first sign of trouble', it is only natural this is the outcome.

Now we're stuck with both a chicken-and-egg problem at most places, while in places with decent documentation, many developers still come in not reading it, discouraging any significant upkeep of existing documentation.
Google Cloud really freaks out when you ask it to do weird stuff with porcupines.

My wife and I just want to do weird stuff with porcupines, damnit!
I quickly lost interest in AI art precisely because everything it generates looks like it belongs in genre fiction.
Hiring C/C++/Rust devs and retraining (stupefying) them where necessary is prob a lifehack to get top talent without having to sift through 1000s of Js resumes.
> Alder Lake has its AVX-512 disabled

Alder lake has AVX-512 disabled because 512 bit data paths on atom cores don't make sense and Microsoft couldn't execute on a IHV specific scheduling change so quickly. AVX2+ and later Windows scheduler changes will take care of this. Just like P-states, Intel now has hardware scheduling hints for the OS as well.

> Meteor Lake is not happening on desktop

Because arrow lake is tracking closely within 6 months and MTL/LNL are focused on the platform power efficiency.

> Those teams are underperforming and it has nothing to do with 10nm delays.

It very much has to do with process nodes as well, with tight coupling of process to chip area (yield, thermals) and number of transistors.
Thanks for the notice, added login with email option.
Since when does bbc run ads pretending to be articles?

This is an ad for cdi.
There is not actually a contradiction between "people can have feelings on the topic" and "the feelings are, in themselves, pretty useless".
This is really a good essay and surely deserves a high profile, but it's disappointing that it, and some bits of angst about Valve's internal situation, seem to be the only discussions of organisational structure that get widely shared these days. Back from about the '70s to the early '90s it seems that there was quite a lot of management-theory/theory-of-the-firm research into different organisational structures and how they affected innovation, ability to change and other desirable or undesirable characteristics of organisations. And it didn't just stay hidden in academia, as the results got a fair amount of coverage in newsmagazines and the like in the early '90s. (Which is how I heard about it: I'm no expert.) As you might expect, the findings on relatively "structureless" orgs seem to have been pretty compatible with Freeman's observations. But there was also research on many other unusual forms of structure and hierarchy, for example the "matrix management" which famously got implemented at Dow Chemical in the 1970s https://hbr.org/1978/05/problems-of-matrix-organizations .

But for some reason interest and attention seems to have completely faded out, at least at the popular level, by about 2000 or so. So the Valve situation gets reported on as if it's some kind of unprecedented novelty, and not an example of a sort of situation whose outcomes had been hashed out pretty thoroughly a decade or more earlier.
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The key is to have no involvement from marketing and other executives, other than the engineering department. The approval process should be very very fast and easy. For example, just the CTO needs to approve and he does this almost always, and within a day.

Even the slightest friction makes the engineers not want to bother.

We've made a pretty successful engineering blog at blog.doit.com. I've published more there by far than in any comparable period of my career
I'm not sure there's a lot of polite code here. They are knowingly and intentionally killing a Facebook feature so that it can't compete with the app store. It goes to show you how lax antitrust enforcement when such blatantly anti competitive actions go unpunished.
Yes, I don't trust any offsite stuff. (Remember PRISM?)

Me and my wife aren't even that obsessed with nudity and stuff, but given how nsfw stuff comes up in media and politics, I'll keep it offline until nudist colonies are the norm.
We're there because it's where we've found reliable enough remote hands and network. And yes, the thread model of "the USA goes off the internet" is bad enough that we figure things are much worse than us being much use at that point.

And regarding the privacy risk, we haven't seen a credible threat that would have our servers accessed directly by US law enforcement that isn't just as credible anywhere else in the world. It hasn't happened, we don't believe it will happen.

So yeah, we disappear in an interesting little thought experiment like this one (despite having Australian-owned IP space, it's advertised and routed into our US locations, so fair enough it's blocked in this case)

I do think the timing is ripe for us to look at having more datacenters around the world again. We have had both Iceland and Amsterdam locations in the past, and neither were reliable enough to put production traffic to, multiple hour network outages and inability to contact support and get them fixed - but maybe the landscape has changed enough that it's viable again now.
most European countries have some variation of the French model discussed below as opposed to the English/American model.

This is the reason why, I believe, that European countries has had no problem at all signing up for longer copyright because it fits in with our conception that the purpose of copyright is to protect the rights of the creator.

This was normalized by Berne, but let us suppose we got a new Berne convention and the U.S said hey long copyright does not help support the promotion of science and the arts etc. and I don't think that would go over that well, because shortening the period of protection does not fit well with the EU conception of what the purpose of copyright is for.

Hence the reason lots of arguments on here where people say I think it should be 25 years probably won't fly because it seems unlikely people in power are going to want to overthrow the international order on that point.
> And the double-whammy that the presented widget itself pushes real organic results down the page.

Even further down the page than they already are! It's easy to forget from the uBlock bubble that the intended experience of Google is to search for a company and the first three "results" to be for three of their competitors who paid for placement. The endgame is leading with an AI generated section with sponsored fine-tuning to bias it towards suggesting particular products, followed by sponsored results, followed by real results buried between GPT-generated SEO farms.
> I think if commute time was even partially employer-paid we would see a much more honest evaluation of the pros and cons of remote vs office-based work.

Companies do have to pay for their office space. My employer did not review our lease during the pandemic. Recently, we got out of the other lease in the region and consolidated both offices into one smaller office for people who want to work in an office. We're saving a ton of money.
Not only that, they now have a perfect way of tracking the association between multiple accounts, which is very helpful for selling a person's ahem real browsing history.
Smart home company Eve bought by multibillion-dollar automation giant ABB
Just seems like enough time to read any search queries that match on reddit threads each day, but no reason to browse.

I just flat block it, but use workarounds when I rarely need to view Google results, may follow this same approach going forward.
Hi me! And a veritable ton of Hacker News folks back then. I have plenty of misgivings about China but I am also a reasonable person. Turning this into an everybody weaponized it against Asians argument is handing a lot of us a weapon we never picked up.
I’m not defending anything about a lab leak. I’m addressing the previous poster’s question about why there were attacks on Asian Americans and not Russian ones.

The lab leak theory and weaponization theories were never squelched. The right wing in this country fantasizes that their viewpoints are marginalized while having their most extreme viewpoints broadcast on the top watched news programs in history. The idea that the lab theories were squelched was floated by those very same programs as part of their promotional formula.
Defense in depth is the reason.
Not all Christians buy into that worldview.
Why couldn’t the third party apps just ask the user to provide their own api key?

It’s how chatgpt works, what is the pushback with this? I heard Apollo requires the app to communicate with an Apollo server. So are the Apollo devs mad they are now being charged for their data stream?
I think it is supposed to be a tool to allow people to exchange goods and services without resorting to barter.
I can't stress this enough. Know your audience and tailor your documentation to them.

You should write three types of documentation. One for users, one for admins and one about architecture.

User docs are simple. How do I use it. What are the API calls, etc. Admin docs are about how to install/break-fix/troubleshoot issues that are beyond user interaction. Architecture is how the system is constructed, why certain tech was chosen, etc.

There's nothing that makes documentation more useless than when you're trying to do something like install the software but you have to dig thru piles of docs about why Postgres was chosen over MySQL. If your users or admins cant find the info they need quickly, they'll soon discard the documentation and user/system ops will go back to word of mouth knowledgeable.

I really think good companies focus on this and those who are successful really shine.
A nice theory, but ultimately from a novel about something completely different than poverty. It feels today like expensive things are also garbage and that paying more for something does little to ensure its longevity.
Amazing to read pages and pages of AppStore rule minutia (Facebook Credits vs. directory-listing vs. heuristics for what links "look like apps") with basically zero regard for user experience (Scott comes closest to this by acknowledging he wouldn't use a completely gutted Facebook app). Everything is about positioning, or what this means with respect to other big players like Adobe if they let this slide, etc. I would have imagined they would have at least been so bought into their own party line that they would have convinced themselves that "We can't allow this because all those apps are junk and we want a pristine experience on the iPad! This is our chance to avoid all that!" But nope, it's all just business.
As a very casual GA user, I'm just curious why they made the transition so freaking painful.
This was not in the version I was seeing. (This was only the first 4 paragraphs.)
Exactly, output is not strictly a return from time spent; plenty of organizational factors as well as individual factors like skill and experience.

A 3x SWE can't produce 3x if they are in 6hrs of meetings a day. Likewise a 1x SWE can't produce 10x even working 12hour days.
It looks like the Mojo work in parts grew out of MLIR and Lattner has repeatedly stated that he wants less compiler magic and more control in the hands of the programmer (indeed MLIR, which Clang might also move to [1], is directly exposed in Mojo).

"Faster than C" is a lot more plausible for Mojo than the claim of running arbitrary Python code eventually ;)

[1] https://llvm.github.io/clangir/
Realistically AVIF would mostly be used to reduce file size relative to JPEG, not increase quality.
Those images are 1.0, 0.57, 0.33, and 0.22 BPP.

Usually we store images at 3.5 - 5 BPP (Cameras), 10+ BPP (Raw or similar for editing) and 1-2 BPP for internet user.

The actual bitrates depend a lot on the image -- graphics with simple backgrounds need less, photos with a lot of sky need less, busy detailed images particularly nature needs more.

While there is one 1.0 in the test, it is for an extremely busy image which would be better stored for internet use at 3+ BPP.

0.22 BPP is almost never used for photographs in the Internet.

See https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/media#fig-15 for median bitrates in 2022 (1.0, 1.4 and 2.1 BPP for lossy formats)
It's a glorified bulletin board. The users are the content. The party can move somewhere else.
The web server fell over and wasn't able to respond to any requests. So folks visiting it were getting either 500 errors or "We can’t connect to the server" errors.
“to help pioneer commerce on the Internet.” - In 1994, this would have intrigued me, in 2004 I would view with skepticism, in 2014 I would laugh

“you should be able to do so in about one-third the time” - No matter the era, this kind of language is a big red flag to me - More often than not people who say this have no idea what they're talking about, the kind of people who call themselves "idea men"

“Expect talented, motivated, intense, and interesting co-workers.” - meaningless phrase

I don't know how recruiting messages were in 1994, but unless this is the Velvet Underground of influential recruiting messages (not many people got this email, but those who did started startups of their own) this reads like a generic recruiting email. Given the state of things in 1994 the "pioneer commerce on the Internet" would be interesting enough to learn more though.
Yeah it's registered and owned in Australia, but routing to the USA. I've tried updating what I can with geolocation databases.

Interestingly this is fun for the IETF's netblock, which usually geolocates my phone to the previous city we met in, 4 months prior! Heuristic guesses create some crazy stuff sometimes.
I've switched to iOS (and now use carrot due to the built in app's unreliability). Today weather was my go-to for years on Android: https://todayweather.co/
I stopped using reddit when the .compact interface was removed. No I go back once in a while but if this goes through I will probably simply never visit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrsAsnl6XGA

High power ham radio has also been found to interfere with medical equipment, such an insulin pumps, apparently a ham got shut down over this. Although it's somewhat the fault of the pump manufacturer there. Another potential reason to prohibit it.

Just have a look at the comments in the video, that says everything about the ham radio community. Not all of them of course, but there are so many individuals with that mentality.

The video shows him having an Ameritron AL-811H, which is an 800W linear amplifier. I'm not surprised at all it's affecting her insulin pump, with those power levels being emitted just 3 doors down.

By the way, it's really worth watching the ending of that video... My God.

And unrelated, this is how the amateur community reacts if you talk about running an unlicensed station, this is so common: https://old.reddit.com/r/shortwave/comments/gv7r64/stupid_qu...

" The FCC has an automatic fine of $19,000 for getting caught on a single occasion and upto $149,000 for repeated infractions "
Remember when someone would acuse you of being paranoid when you said that was the most problable couse of covid pandemic? Yeah...
White people painting themselves black is not black representation regardless of the historical justification or US culture. Calling this out and asking for traditions to stop or adjust is not "woke".
The original comment was:

> The Django ORM is close to useless if your database is not generated by the web app

to which I replied

> not in my experience

I have a legacy database derived from an outside source which is running in production and all my code interacts with it via the Django ORM.
Never saw it that way, but you have a point!
Which prominent figures on the American left have commented on German Christmas traditions?
I would imagine creator of Clang and LLVM has a bit of an idea of how fast C runs :)
Jake Archibald on the web browser event loop, setTimeout, micro tasks [video]
Has that happened, or is that just a scenario? Cause I'd be very interested to see if vegans actually can cut out meat from mainstream mastodon.

I confess that I'm vegan-adjacent, I eat meat whenever it's put in front of me but my wife is vegan so I never have meat put in front of me and I don't miss it, but if vegans can actually create a major ideological schism in the greater federation over their specific issue, I will see that as a problem and pretty much agree that the fediverse is a fail.

That said, it's a better fail than previous fails, so the way forward is not back to the platforms regardless.

But I think the vegans are going to settle for having the right to exist like everyone else, and there are definitely already lots of radical instances I'm sure. But can they make all of mastodon ban pictures burgers on a grill?

Let's find out, actually. The experiment is already in motion.
Exactly. The world IS getting better. Starvation is down, disease is down, information is up, quality of life is up (in general; of course there are specific places where a specific metric is worse).

But that is all no thanks to people like this author, who nihilistically want the world to be worse, especially the one metric that genuinely is getting worse — wealth inequality.
When Reddit first tried pushing their mobile app I gave it a try, but it was so horrible I decided to stay on web. But they kept degrading the web experience, so I quit Reddit on mobile until discovering Apollo. At this point I don’t browse on desktop, and with Apollo being shut down, I don’t think I’ll be back.
Something like that should be pretty easy to whip together with electron...
You know what's even worse? Being poor and hated.
It’s interesting to me in a free country that you also pay vehicle registration (this is supposed to cover your taxes on road use) that taxes like this are a thing.
He was in many ways the template for people like Trump and Johnson. He made it ok to be brazenly and unapologetically corrupt. As others have said, the damage he’s done is immeasurable.
Very first software project I ever worked on professionally gave me a great opportunity to learn this lesson - that managers can not tell you how a task is actually done; you must go and look at how it is actually performed.

I was tasked with automating a billing process which, I was told by the boss, just involved copying some data from one database over to another database.

Come to look at the actual databases. One of them is denominated in US Dollars, the other in Pounds Sterling.

Boss says ‘I’m sure you can just use the current exchange rate’. I decide to go and check how the manual process is currently done.

When I ask the person who has been manually carrying out the task what exchange rate they use, they say ‘I take the current rate each morning and add a bit to be safe, because the actual charge will go out in a few days and the rate might change so I don’t want to risk the actual amount billed being higher that day’ (I can’t remember the exact reasoning but it made some kind of sense given the state of international electronic banking at the time).

How much is ‘a bit?’ It varies depending on how volatile the currency was looking. They were basically hedging. Boss had no idea that the manual process involved this human judgement step.

Taught me to always go and investigate in detail how the manual process is carried out. Where’s the bit where a human being is ‘adding a bit’?
Confusingly if you follow QEMU images there's a link to the LiveCDs:

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/live_cd.html

I love that they're referred to as CDs, I built my computer a couple of weeks ago and am running one with an optical drive for the first time in more than a decade. Might burn one for old times' sake.
> A workman could check the stone size himself by seeing if the stone would fit into his mouth.
I'm back on Tumblr for a bit I guess? I'm on paternity leave and pretty bored between feedings, newborns spend a lot of time just sleeping it turns out.

Heck of a time to lose Reddit.
RISC-V Vector ISA Support Slated for Linux 6.5
I’m in the USA and I try to ignore much of the chatter.

One rule along these lines: if a Congressperson is not in my state or district and he or she isn’t actually influencing legislation, there’s really no reason to pay attention.

Obviously politics is important, but you can’t draw a straight line from that statement to the need to keep up with the US media ecosystem.
I'd recommend it, I haven't actually used VS in years (used to use it daily back in the day)
> the “lab leak” theory tends to be people pushing an unsubstantiated theory to either

For me it's just common sense. It probably came from the coronavirus lab with a bad safety record it popped up next to. Duh. And I "push" it because I value the truth and want to live in a rational society where the truth isn't gamed for emotional or political reasons. And that's probably the same for most of us.
Okay, but a single pass of /dev/zero will destroy all the data beyond hope of recovery.
If you’re in Apple ecosystem, you should try my app Anybox: https://anybox.app

Anybox is a native bookmark manager available in macOS, iOS, and iPadOS.

The data are stored in the Apple’s CloudKit and no personal data is collected.
>Despite the "whataboutisms" (PRISM, Snowden, etc.), the US is pretty much a proponent of an unfettered Internet.

It's not whataboutsim, it's one of the reasons for an unfettered Internet.
But only if it suits US interests.

Do you remember the crypto wars?
Wait, after decades they are introducing a new image format, and it doesn't even have HDR support?! But surely AV1 supports HDR, so why not AVIF?

Edit: According to this table, AVIF does in fact support HDR:

https://jpegxl.info/
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