skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I think that this is actually very common and we just don't hear about it much.

Most of these online multiplayer games are implemented with heaps of unsafe c++, and due to the nature of the game, are constantly parsing inputs from the network, and from other clients. This is a recipe for disaster!

For this reason I will only run modern games in some sort of sandbox, ideally in a VM with GPU pass through, or maybe run them on a dedicated system that is only used for games.

Even in a VM, exploiting it would give access to the passed in GPU, and from there I'm not totally sure what is possible, so even this isn't perfect but it's quite a lot better than nothing.

Normally people are launching the game through the steam GUI under their regular uid, so CS:GO for example with this setup, can read and write to all of the data in ${HOME}. That's pretty scary!

Even running steam through flatpak doesn't give you much protection when sharing the X11 socket.

I think the most reasonable setup for the "average user" is to create a separate user account on their system that is dedicated to gaming. You can run graphical sessions for both users at the same time and switch between them via whatever method (i would just switch between multiple ttys). Users on Unix-like systems in theory should not be able to interfere with other users, or even harm the system so long as they can't escalate to root. It's important to realize that there are situations where an unpriv'd user can harm the system, like if there is a bug with sudo, or a kernel exploit! I think it's much better than the default though!
It makes sense if the mobile app provides more "monetizable" users. Shift everyone to the mobile app (or try to) and juice those numbers for advertisers and provide better revenue numbers for the IPO.

Unlike the API change though, I think they do risk losing users with this who still see ads and provide some return.
No Doubt. But there needs to be someone who does his or hers best effort to hire, or fire people and does their best to make sure the workers can succeed in their task. Thye workers themselves can not do that because they can not hire themselves.
> It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To access the site you can log on via desktop, the mobile apps, or wait for the experiment to conclude.

Wow. Most companies at least have the grace to allow users to opt out of these kind of experiments via a "labs" kind of configuration.
Show HN: Cassandra CQL Parsing Service
A microservice (as a Docker image) that parses Cassandra CQL commands and returns information about those commands.
No, your first code snippet is totally fine. The button's name comes from its descendent elements by default. In this case, the `alt` attribute of the image provides the name.

Sara is good source for accessibility information but I think you've misinterpreted that post. If an icon button uses an `img`, making the image's `alt` the name of the button works well. If the button's icon comes from an inline SVG, background image, or icon font, I recommend Sara's first technique, visually hidden text within the `button`; names from text nodes are more robust than from attributes (`alt` being an exception, in part because it has been around far longer).
For a smoking gun, I'd expect evidence. This is just reporting on a diffuse claim of hearsay, allegedly by what might be labeled a party with geopolitical interest in the public narrative. It may be disinformation just as well. (Especially, as similar claims were already repeatedly made based on what turned out to be false links, like the Wuhan Institute being just around the wet market.)
I did a length:data encoding in the fake Lisp-like library in cppawk. Haha.

For instance cons(1, 1) produces "C1,1:12". Type code C followed by two decimal integers separated by a comma, terminated by colon, followed by the car/cdr data. The decimal integers give the lengths of the car and cdr part after the colon.

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/cppawk/tree/cppawk-cons.1

The list (1 2 3) looks like "C1,12:1C1,6:2C1,0:3" .

A cursory scan through the string tells us that there are three C's, so three cells in there.

Note the C1,0:3 at the end: (3 . nil). nil is a zero length object: the empty string represents nil. So the cdr length of the last cell is zero.
Uh... ?

"I demonstrated to the officer that Range Rover made them that way from the factory"

Am I supposed to break the windows out before going to NYC?
‘It’s not even good for money laundering’: Nassim Taleb lashes out at Bitcoin
Just because they don’t think about it doesn’t mean it is good for them. (E.g. sugar in almost everything that kids eat).
> Trying to monetize that at scale is hardddd.

Good thing nobody is asking for that.
If you exclude surrogates, I think you can fit the rest of the codepoints in 20 bits. There would be no need for surrogates all Unicode scalars are representable elseways. Looks like an easy size win.
Those of you who anticipate continuing to use ChatGPT to answer programming questions: where do you think it'll get answers from if people who actually understand stop using q/a sites?

Where do you think ChatGPT finds these answers?
Aka the mob argument
If management has shown themselves to be adversarial in this case because they think the power users aren't correct, a 2 day strike isn't going to do much to convince them otherwise.

This would have to be a month or more. And I think that's the real threat - the 2 day is a shot across the bow, if it impacts statistics I think it will likely be extended until management cries uncle.

If I were management I'd do everything in my power to make this strike look like it failed (since the alternative to actually preventing the strike by negotiation seems to have been scrapped or unconsidered).
That's what happened with H1N1 but we know that hasn't happened with Sars2 because Sars2 only spreads efficiently with a furin cleavage site but the furin cleavage site also makes it more pathogenic so it would definitely not spread undetected.
> Like other public social networks, if they log out of their account or use a different account, they will be able to view your content.

Why are the blocks so total (or, rather, why is "mute" not the default behavior) given the simplicity of overcoming the read block? Also, isn't the main reason to block is to avoid seeing something bad anywhere?
* prefers-contrast: more
Have a look at the link being discussed. Subreddits all the way down to 5K+ subreddits are going dark. It's all across the board.
Oh my gosh, thank you for that wonderful piece of advice.
Annotations are a great way to get rid of boilerplate and noisy code.
For instance, I find Spring @Transactional a much more effective, less bug prone and productive way of dealing with db tx vs having to manual code and handle exceptions, rollback, connections etc ..
Same goes with JAX-RS.

I would choose annotations over having to code all that manually any day.

You can easily test and debug. Yes, it will cost some time to understand how aspects work and how it is all wired up, but it is worth learning.
No worries, I'll just not use Reddit.
First and foremost, it's understanding precisely what a slippery slope is, and what it isn't. More isn't actually, due to changing times, other protocols or factors, something simply got steeper or trickier to navigate, which was not something expected or predicted as a net result.

A slippery slope always was and is slippery, venturing over onto it generally results going downwards.

It's joins a list of argumentative logic which has poor outcomes if it is misused or not applied correctly - in regard to slippery slopes, people are prone to misusing it either out of ignorance or rather deliberately to BS / promote their agenda, often to generalise opposing ideas and thoughts.

I'll sidestep the gun debate in the US and stick to what happened in Australia 25 years ago when they brought in extra gun rules At the time a number of concerned people pointed out what they were trying to implement was a slippery slope in that it would be increasingly difficult for the average citizen to retain their guns. Oh no it wouldn't the govt at the time stated, paid half a billion aud in a scheme to recall various guns, and a one time fee was maintained as the only onus on a person who wanted to keep their guns, a fee payable along with complying with gun safes, registering all their guns and making a case for more lethal arms. It wasn't long though, fees became payable every 5 years and then the prices started to hike upwards, so much so the powers that be offered yearly payment options - since there really was a fair bit of paperwork involved to keep the gun registry up to date and keeping abreast of changing weaponry ... this wasn't unexpected, thus it was indeed the slippery slope that a number of people identified.

[Important note: Most striking changes since the introduction of the new gun laws in Australia, included rules how authorities could respond to poor gun ownership, police were given a much wider broad common sense range of actions against idiots who liked to think they could scare people and neighbourhoods with their careless gun activities ... and the law courts could really put anyone unfortunate enough to be stupid around or with guns, through the wringer - more as a warning to anyone else who might be stupid enough to think they might get away with being a tool. ]
I categorize my phone usage (in order of necessity) into information, communication and entertainment. Information would be something like using Maps, but reading news, HN, Reddit, and social media are all considered entertainment. This helps me monitor how much "tech" is stealing my time and attention.
Successful announcements doesn't make an AI company, paying customers do. In zero interest rates you can instead make investor hype your product so they increase the share price, but it doesn't work forever.
Their data goes back to 1992, the start of the Clinton presidency.
The funny thing is that no-one AFAICT has realized that the same content can be encoded in different-looking QR codes. Beside the obvious (different error-correction levels), the content itself can be changed while maintaining its semantic meaning (e.g. "https://example.com/foo", "HTTPS://EXAMPLE.COM/foo", or "HtTpS://eXaMpLe.CoM/foo" are all semantically identical) and even the QR encoding itself can be tweaked (e.g. by changing the version and mask, see the demo on https://www.nayuki.io/page/qr-code-generator-library). Each combination would yield a different-looking QR code that would encode the same meaning, and it could therefore allow the diffusion models even greater freedom.

I'm sure somebody will get to this soon.
The marketers from Crypto have transitioned to Ai... With their outlandish hype and over embellishment of capability, they are flooding the Internet with SEO spam concerning Ai, while it really isn't ready for prime time. This is the new reality, it will cause burnout and backlash against innovation, and it artificially bilks investors and causes rampant and harmful overvaluation and inflation bubbles in IT that ruin trustworthiness in tech.
Which state are you in? My annual premium is 12 times the monthly premium (all on the first page) and there's no 16% mentioned on page 48.
Digg sits up in its grave and looks around.
Good leadership is more art than science.

My critique of Taylorism was not directed at individual managers, by any means. It's firmly at that bean-counter view of the worker, as an input of "human resources" to be minimized at any cost. You'll note that Taylor was not the first person to call himself a manager.

If you want to see what Taylorism applied to war would look like, look no further than Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The spreadsheets said we have more ammo than Stalin did in WWII! It's impossible that they were all looted and all we have left are Mosins from the museum! What do you mean, sanctions prevent just in time manufacturing? We replaced all our professional soldiers with independent Wagner contractors on work release from prison and conscripted children. Why do they keep deserting? No one wants to work anymore!

You'll also note that the most famous military book of all time was not called The Science of War, but The Art of War.
How would they identify the person and get their contact info. I'm assuming their automated system is looking at IPs and services
I guess you can get karma here? But it is not as if anyone is attempting to build communities on the HN platform. I'm not even generating worthwhile content, let alone doing tens or hundreds of hours a month of free moderating. I don't think it is the same at all.
Yea of course. Users of streaming services don’t use those services to prolong the success of the providers yet they continue to buy in for services rendered. I think a truly community driven approach is going to be independent of Reddit as a backbone.
I have been in this A/B test group and I have been in the A/B test group that tries to show a TikTok style feed (one that gets new content based on the content you spent time observing) rather than a normalized upvote based one.

Without old.reddit.com, I would have not used reddit. I think it is important to never comply with these forced changes.

I think there is a larger discussion on professional ethics to be had. Is it ethical to implement dark patterns and "force" users into behavior or to degrade experience, not as a cost saving measure, but as an effort to force compliance?

We implement these things we would probably not tolerate ourselves. We implement ads but use ad blockers. We try to force app usage but allow old.reddit.com for ourselves. How is that ethical?
Agreed! The wisest peeps (I always harp) see AI Art as a functional tool on the metaphorical toolbelt. It doesn't make all the other tools obsolete, it's the tippy top of the pyramid so to speak.

The cherry-on-top to refine things we cannot do, adding an artificial flare to the organic substance, yada, yada, yada.
I use teddit(dot)net. Let's hope it survives these changes.
I quit reddit years ago. Not worth it. An echo chamber.
Encountered this in my final year of University and audited half the online course before it went way beyond what I needed to know. Boyd was a great lecturer, and the content was fantastic. Really interesting stuff to know. I was applying it to model-predictive control, which is a super interesting set of algorithms as well.
This is what keeps me on old.reddit. The new web version and the app are always losing my place.
To me this looks like Apple porting a feature that's existed on iOS for ages. It's one of those features that I imagine is "so obvious, we missed it." It's certainly a much better idea than apps made with Electron.
the GPUs that matter here are A/H100s not randomly 30x consumer cards or mining specific chips

there is a 30x performance difference between generations on AI, the cards from the crypto hypecycle don’t do much anymore for the type of AI work that matters.
This is why a major value prop for ChatGPT is it's like Stack Overflow but it will always be nice to you :)
Nothing, because the AIs will tell you to invest in low cost passive index funds. Mainly because it's correct but also because the AIs will be certified financial advisors and will tell you what any of them would.

"Regular traders" are gamblers whose job is to give market-makers their money in trade fees.
I mod a sub with high advertiser value. Just checked without ad block. Reddit it showing completely untargeted irrelevant ads to the userbase.

Maybe they're doing some sophisticated tracking of users by interest and showing relevant ads there but somehow I doubt it.
They need to create a username and password to ask that question? If they already have a Reddit account that wins
Same thing that stopped Nvidia from releasing a driver for their modern cards for Intel Macs... Apple.
Huh? The parent didn't make that claim. The grandparent wasn't making that claim. And I certainly haven't ever heard Apple stating or implying that free apps are less secure than paid apps.
I never wanted to use the reddit app. Must have caved and installed it one day. I use it now, and it doesnt feel different from the site.

Say what you want about HN, but at least the contrarians bring out opposing views. The bigger reddit subs have a mob mentality that use to annoy me, and now scares me. People are itching for a chance to hate, and pile on from every angle. It's childish, naive, and most of all vindictive and bitter.
With all social media fucking up severely, what's next?
reddit's completely fucked up in the name of money, instagram's all advertisements and no content whatsoever, youtube has no rating system, twitter's being fucked by elon, facebook's facebook, tiktok is just mindless scrolling, quora's all BS answers, twitch is completely unusable, discord's a complete walled garden... what now? there's no one place i can go to that i trust on the web anymore besides... wikipedia maybe. it's so hard to find reliable information whatsoever these days and the internet's getting more mindless and useless by every passing day, and the centralization of the web crumbling really showed me how delicate information is, and how we're literally writing the library of alexandria and burning it in real time.
I can no longer access subreddits I have been subscribed to. They are also no longer listed in my subscriptions.

Private subreddits are indeed invitation only
Is there a self-hosted alternative for Reddit to migrate a single community?
This is how I discovered old.reddit.com still works. And it has none of the broken javascript or A/B app pushing code in it.
IMHO "it does not solve the issue of intermittency at all" is a nirvana fallacy.

Reducing the effects of intermittency on production by bumping up the throughput of interconnections (in order to aggregate production on a vast geographical scale) which are otherwise needed (continuity of service and optimization) will be very useful because:

- many sectors (industry, agriculture...) need hydrogen, which is nowadays obtained through dirty processes => green hydrogen will be in high demand (not only for grid backup)

- storing huge amounts of hydrogen isn't possible right now (progress towards salt caverns storage is slow) and may never be
resistance to manipulation can probably come from things like more substantial evidence + personal reputation or identity confirmation.

By the way, why do people weigh zoonotic spillover so high relatively to lab leak accident? There were lab leaks before even in Beijing, eg. of the original SARS when it was researched. That SARS kills faster so it didn't get to infect too many people... And that's only what's documented, considering it's China there could've been any number of other times.

Intentional leak chance is low but accidental leak is so likely it's surprising this pandemic didn't happen before considering security practies that were known and raised questions before the pandemic. But everyone magically forgets about it. All because some US scientists wanted grant money too much and so laughed everyone who disagrees out of the room.
Java programming paradigm is dead in the modern day. You needlessly write way more code that is needed, all without any benefit, relying on third party libraries for main functionalities that may or may not have egregious vulnerabilities like log4shell.

The build system also takes needlessly long, because of how many hacks it involves (Groovy being a language designed to fix Java, being used in Gradle build system which runs a whole Java VM just to compile code)

Hardware is cheap these days, developer time is more expensive. Use Node or Python.
>I'm convinced, if they contract this out to first-tier construction firms from oversea that specialize in underground infrastructure (e.g. Europe, Japan, Korea), they can get the job done at 1/3rd the cost.

No, they can't, unless the US somehow temporarily makes NYC Japanese territory for the duration of the project. Any foreign firm would still be stuck with the same laws, and the same politicians and other corrupt people, that are in position today and prevent efforts at economical construction.
I’ve been on Reddit for more than 13 years and I never cared about karma. Why would anyone care about this?
> You seem to misunderstand the size of the complexity space we are dealing with here.

I don't. The whole point of my job is to understand this exact degree of complexity. The rest of your comment rides on that assumption, and is moot. As I said, emergent properties are often unexpected, but once the observation has been made, it is possible to work back through the system to understand how the property came to be (because the system is still deterministic, though not apparently obvious.) Having a billion input features does not change this.

Frankly, understanding the oddness of a ML model is not half as difficult as people make it, and might even be easier than predicting ant colonies. Our inability to predict their behavior has nothing to do with our ability to understand what features influence which behaviors, only that measuring the current state of an ant colony is difficult because it's not like they're all housed within an array of memory. LLMs are, thus we'd understand them better if the most common implementations were not hidden away. Case in point, all the optimization techniques that have emerged from having LLaMa available.
In fact, the Racket dialect being discussed has a facility for this:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server-internal/closure.htm...

It is correct that usually Lisps do not have a print-read consistency for every object, just objects that someone has decided to care about. Most Common Lisps are like this. However, note that many of them have image saving. Image saving traverses the heap and serializes every object. That includes lexical closures. Their code vector, environment vector(s): everything is traversed. It's just not a printed notation!

If some object isn't printable and someone wants it badly to be, it can be arranged somehow.

It boils down to pragmatics.

Foreign objects (FFI handles holding foreign pointers) are going to be tricky; you would need some hooking mechanism to try to do something meaningful.

Image saving already cannot do some things, like saving open network connections such that they come up connected in a restarted image.
Try Larder? https://larder.io/

Sadly, pinboard is basically a zombie these days.
I always treat those popups as a reminder to switch to old.reddit.com. The annoyance of having to do that then reminds me why I don't use reddit much.
Did you miss the part about the OP's windows having a factory tint? They came that way from the factory; it wasn't an aftermarket add-on. So, these windows must therefore be in compliance with the federal rules for motor vehicles, or else the car couldn't be sold in the US.

It should not be possible for a state to pass and enforce motor vehicle laws that override the federal government.
Video to video with Stable Diffusion
Doesn't make it appropriate at all but since they're testing "will the average user put up with this crap" restricting to just people who went out of their way to go into settings and enable labs would yield really biased results.

No self-awareness that running such a test ya know might make you the bad guys though.
I find it funny people have been going on this anti Reddit turning profit crusade, but ignore the fact Reddit is pretty similar to Facebook groups, just has much better ui and indexability

And everyone I know in real life who uses Reddit on a daily basis is also in at least 2-3 FB groups. Be it a local mom/dad group, Costco group, the car they own, or something more niche

They’re not big Zuckerberg fans but they’re much more accepting of him making billions than the Reddit shareholders

FB groups also utilize mods who work lots of hours for free. So those who say Reddit cannot IPO because of the free labor are wrong