skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"not in itself an indication of any ill-intent"

Was that even insinuated?

"no evidence that it was ever studied in the Wuhan lab"

Wut?

"Between 1 July and 1 October 2012, we received 13 serum samples collected from 4 patients"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9744119/
Honestly that plus the awful tiling behavior at relatively low resolutions should have been enough to disqualify it from being mangled into something resembling an image format. It was made and tuned for movies, not stills. But its image format gets to inherit all of the drawbacks of that initial use case, including awful encode/decode performance.
> I think that we would get back to “organized society”, yes.

This is roughly what I meant to express. Didn’t mean to imply we’d return to where we are now, but ultimately the drive to survive and thrive would bring us back to some kind of organized society.

My core point being that “cavemanship” isn’t some kind of stable state like Kaczynski insists. It’s an ephemeral/unstable state on the way to some higher level organized society that balances tensions.
This is kind of like the Twitter fiasco where in the eye of the storm a lot of loud people are pressuring more people to make this seem a lot bigger than it is.

Unless you have some alternative that has Reddit functionality, but can somehow operate without revenue, I'm just going to assume there isn't and Reddit will continue operating as normal.

Just doing the math $2.50 seems reasonable if you're going to redistribute the data to users while bypassing the ads.
AVIF looks better to me at low bitrates, JXL has much more visible block artifacts:

https://afontenot.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#vid-ga...
I had this told to me and had family members told this by doctors. A large number of addicts started from medical prescriptions for legitimate pain. I have been scolded for not taking pain meds.
I don't get it. If I log out and go to reddit.com I see it he "Popular" view with a pretty good looking UI, 4.5 "cards" per screen height, I don't think that's what someone could mean by

> it's shocking how terrible the site's UI is

On the other hand old.reddit.com is just this super dense early 2000s kinda looking UI that I'd never use.

Am I just in the minority here on what is considered good UI? Am I looking at the wrong thing?
You could always have some breakers that could only be pulled by the chief flight attendant, or at least signal to someone in the cabin they were being pulled.
I think opportunities might help people avoid taking the drug in the first place, but from observations, even folks with seemingly great jobs and families often fall to opioids once they try them.
You reminded me of how sad I get when I think of all the Youtube content erased by its creators for the sake of being more marketable.
How is Twitter rapidly decaying? I am a daily, but very light user so I may not be observing the trends as well as you.
You are missing the point that the developer needs a good working relationship with Reddit. He said very clearly that for him this is not about the money but about a passion project of his.
The point of my comment was that in most companies the managers are the jerks, not engineers. As a VP I had to shield individual developers from some insane managers that got kicks from the tiny power they had.
Glad you liked it. Yeah, resource usage is so low that some folks are running it in their homelab even on a raspberry-pi.
I can give perspective as someone who enjoys modern Java, writes Kotlin at their dayjob (and loves it), and also likes Scala 3.

Here are the things that if Java had, I probably wouldn't see a reason for other languages:

1. Lack of first-class lambda syntax. In Kotlin/Scala you can write something like:

fun doSomething(handler: (String, Int) -> Foo): Blah

In Java, all you have are the "Function<>" and related interfaces, which are clunky to use.

2. Opaque types (Scala 3). These have been one of the most impactful programming features I've ever used, and I sorely miss them in languages that lack them.

object Foo:
opaque type UserId = Int
opaque type Email = String
def mkEmail(s: String): Email = s
def findUserIdByEmail(email: Email): UserId = 42

import Foo.*
val email: Email = mkEmail("foo")
val valid: UserId = findUserIdByEmail(email)
val invalid1: UserId = findUserIdByEmail("bar") // error: can't use String as Email
val invalid2: UserId = 123 // error: can't use Int as UserId

3. Union types (Scala 3). You can emulate them in Java/Kotlin with Sealed Types but it's much more verbose.

type JsonScalar = String | Int | Boolean
type Json = JsonScalar | Map[String, JsonScalar] | List[JsonScalar]

// Makes writing functions that take multiple argument types much easier:
def handle(it: String | Int | Boolean): Unit = ...

4. Context-oriented programming with "given/using" in Scala 3 and "context-receivers" in Kotlin.

This one is harder to explain succinctly but essentially it allows you to decorate methods/classes with required "contextual" args.

Instead of passing them as regular function arguments, you must invoke the function inside of an "environment"/"context" where the requirements are satisfied.

This makes threading dependencies through your code much easier, and eliminates the need for dependency injection frameworks in many cases.

interface Logger {
fun log(message: String)
}

object ConsoleLogger : Logger {
override fun log(message: String) = println(message)
}

ctx(Logger)
fun doSomething(): Int {
log("Hello")
return 42
}

fun main() {
val logger = ConsoleLogger
with (logger) {
doSomething()
}
}

5. First-class support for asynchronous programming. With "suspend" in Kotlin and a current prototype being done in Scala 3:

- REPO: https://github.com/lampepfl/async | SLIDES: https://github.com/lampepfl/async/blob/main/scalar-slides.pd... | YOUTUBE TALK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fm0y4K4YO8

6. Passing arguments by name, rather than positionally.

fun doSomething(a: Int, b: Int, c: Int): Int = ...
doSomething(a = 1, b = 2, c = 3)

7. Tuples (Scala). They're like anonymous data classes/records.

val t: (Int, String) = (1, "foo")
val (a, b) = t
all valid, until the ubiquity of modern net use. Many people dont make individual purchases, instead they subscribe to bundled services which in turn gate-keep at a company store. The amounts of money moving in walled-gardens now are vastly larger than any individual products ever saw.
Reddit took $1.3 billion in investor money. What makes you say they're not having their chain yanked? Going public solves an investor problem, but I don't see it solving anything for Reddit's community.
That was my first thought (maybe because I was thinking about Racket, and happened to hack up a quick bencode parser in Scheme, https://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/bencode/ ), but it's not just bencode.

I think a lot of data encoding protocols that are for arbitrary non-app-specific data needing more structure than Unix shell tools lines&whitespace, and intended to be simple, but you still want to make them efficient to parse while streaming, end up like this. You have a few types, some values are variable length, historically you often choose ASCII character set (for human readability, portability to different platforms, passability of different gateways), and you might as well minimize parsing lookahead, so there's some likely ways you'll signal types and sizes in the stream.

Google Protobufs (for another contemporary popular protocol) has somewhat different requirements, which leads to less-text result. But if you had those requirements (say, extensible types like in a traditional rich RPC mechanism, and maybe minimizing bandwidth), you might end up doing much the same thing.

Or, today, you and GPT-4 might just punt on "micro-optimizations", and layer atop JSON or maybe still XML.
Oof, the Awair Element is 230 on Walmart and 275 on Amazon. That’s a fair bit more than the 60 that GP quoted.
It takes a lot of optimism about lack of human greed to think that this is not the case, IMO.
I just went through this too, and I ended up with a Philips One.

Its only smart-ish feature is the vibrating quadrant timer, it feels like it cleans more or less the same as my old Sonicare, it uses a normal AAA, and best of all it was like $30.

There's no real third-party ecosystem for heads yet, but I'll happily trade that for something that just works.
>That's an intellectual fallacy it's easy to fall prey of: if most cultures and nations have committed heinous acts in their past, one should assume they are still doing terrible things to this day.

>MK-ULTRA is dead, but history teaches that one day we'll learn of something even worse that's occurring right under our noses in 2023.

Very astute observations.
so if i understand docs correctly i can integrate it with existing prometheus setup to get eg. long term metrics with S3?

and this would allow me also to get all logs to the same place?

i see that graphana support in enterprise only feature, does it mean that long term metrics mirrored from prometheus are no longer available there?

is there any way to get just graphana plugin for self hosted deployment?
What led to the realization that it was all crap?
Syntax is pretty much one of the downsides of Python. Especially the new additions, including f-strings, match-case, type annotations, async-await, data-classes etc. The largest downside is that they hugely blew up the language complexity for no tangible gains. It's like you had a crappy bicycle before, but after an "upgrade", you have a crappy bicycle that doubles as a crappy ice-cream maker.

This means that anyone who wants to write a parser for Python from scratch is screwed. The language was garbage before, and writing a parser for Python was already very difficult, but after more junk was added to it, it just became unnecessarily more difficult. So, if you might have had a glimmer of hope to have tools that analyze the source code and do something with it, even as trivial as highlighting... well, there's less and less hope of that happening.

So, OPs complaint about f-string is sort of valid. OP didn't really look for a very bad example though, but bad examples are hard to refine into more concise form. Fundamentally, what sucks about f-strings beyond them being completely unnecessary is the situations where one has to deal with multiple incoherent escaping rules, s.a. when one has to interface with, eg. logging module or string.Template or str.format() or % in general. Another vomit-inducing combo is raw strings combined with f-strings (i.e. building regular expressions through interpolation).

Yet another downside of f-strings is the departure from object-oriented approach. The benefit of str.format() was it being object-oriented, which allowed for extensions in the same way objects can be extended. f-strings are an extension of the language syntax, but Python doesn't have an easy general way to extend its syntax (barring the fact that you can abuse the import system to import altered Python sources s.t. they have desired syntax).

But, again, these disadvantages are hard to present as a one-liner, and for many simple uses of the language, which is the majority of its uses they are inconsequential. Unfortunately, that majority of uses is also transient and contributes nothing back to the language... so, it could be confusing to rely on the majority's opinion when it comes to judging the quality of various language features.
I was surprised after MH370 that there isn't a beacon or flight recorder on the surface of the plane, that's buoyant and detaches on immersion.

Though I assume the engineering and regulation means such a thing has a decade+ lead time and then would only exist on new planes.
Wouldn't boycott be a better word than strike?
Economists Love Immigration. Why Do So Many Americans Hate It?
AP is fine. Small instances are fine.
Sideloadly and a lot of messing about, it doesn't need to be jailbroken though.

While it's still here: https://old.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/145y787/tutorial...
a 20TB seagate is ~$350 right now, so >$1k would not be "competitively priced per terabyte". But I still agree that its likely going to be >1k because storage density per disk is also a factor (and greed obviously).
My understanding is the pandemic actually caused some serious gaps in weather forecasts. Some commercial flights transmit weather conditions to central authorities , which are extremely useful for building granular forecasts.

During the pandemic, commercial air traffic plummeted. While it has returned to normal levels, it seems the models are still missing some historical data.
I like Lemmy’s stack etc. and do not want to spread some 'FUD' but are tankies (or alt-right) just politics? I think it is bit different than being liberal using software by conservative developers (or vice versa).
It feels like github/gitlab/gitea solve 90% of these questions at scale fine.

Used as a social platform vs code repository? Surely Github have enterprise class storage and networking so if the question is around hosting the platform on Github then maybe that works at a technical level assuming one is willing to take the risk of Microsoft cancelling their social platform when someone complains about a comment and Microsoft don't want whatever divisive content is on their platform.

If self hosting I would be surprised if a single server or single VM could scale git to millions of people making comments, tens of thousands of comments being edited and thousands of comments being purged. My experience with managing large git servers is that it gets exponentially slower with mass manipulation of the repositories and that was on fairly beefy servers and that was just Jira, Fisheye, Crucible and Confluence and less than 10k developers, not millions of individuals. That is unless by self hosting we are talking about using automation to spin up many instances and even then it is not clear to me that git can scale horizontally like that. Even then that is not really self hosting, that is getting VC funding and starting a new company which draws even more attention and requires even more staffing to manage the content.

I think there would need to be some simulated load testing that attempts to replicate real world social platform behavior to see where git starts to fall over otherwise we would just be speculating in circles. I suspect if this were attempted there would be multiple layers of caching nodes not doing git and trying to minimize or optimize edits and purges to the storage and that may not even be enough.
Being insecure about what you wrote or said in the past is 100% normal part of putting yourself out in the public. When you go back and actually read it then it’s usually never as bad as you remember.

Even if you are more wise today it doesn’t mean other people at prior stages of your earlier development won’t benefit from the immediate perspective you likely lack now.

That’s just the human brain at work.
> "this post is over a old and may not align with my current views"

The fact people need to be told this is unnerving.
> It's a bit unfortunate that some things like that are considered a luxury these days.

Those always were a luxury. Before mass production most people just couldn't afford to have things as we do nowadays.
Ok but in that scenario, a natural emergence would have come from a strain from Wuhan, while the lab leak theory explains why a virus from relatively far away had an outbreak in Wuhan.
That gives me a cert error then an Outlook Web Acess login. What is it?

edit: presumably, https://tildes.net/ with an s
Brings to mind Robert Pirsig's 'value rigidity' concept: 'an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment to previous values.' I don't remember if there was a term for the opposite, but 'flexibility' seems to be right.
We should not treat drug addiction as a crime -- it's a medical condition and should be addressed in that context.

That said, we need to find a way to institutionalize and treat those that have become non-functional from their addiction(s). And that power needs to be wielded with extreme transparency and accountability.
I get where you're coming from. Naming vulnerabilities has been discussed ad nauseam, so I won't even bother trying to add something. Both sides have valid arguments.

Personally, I just really like puns :D.
Matter devices are required to work without cloud: https://matter-smarthome.de/en/benefits/benefits-of-matter-1...
I agree it's not self-explanatory. All such pithy statements are only insightful based on hard-won experience behind them—the map is not the territory, after all ;)

As far as "strong opinions, weakly held", this is one of my favorites at work in a large scale product engineering environment. It goes beyond "mental liquidity" as described in the OA (which is really just about the "weakly held" part). The "strong opinions" part is that often times groups will succumb to analysis paralysis or unwillingness to make a decision due to group dynamics. Having a strong opinion (ideally backed by knowledge and expertise) is a way to push through and bring clarity. The risk is there is a personality type prone to blustering overconfidence that will push a group in a certain direction without reasonable justification. Ideally what you want is a critical mass of smart, decisive, but open-minded people who are quick to assimilate new evidence into their viewpoint.
Haha. No. But I’ll mark the date when someone confused me for a computer. In the near future everyone will get to have that moment.

Side note: not sure if I should take that as a positive or negative signal about the quality of my writing.
COVID caused a lot of mind-changing. For example, we thought that plain cloth masks were somewhat effective at stopping transmission, but now we know that they are not. It's surreal to think back on wearing them even outside at times, when someone would pass on the sidewalk, for example. But it may have been rational to take extreme precautions at first, when we didn't know better. It's just too bad that there weren't many real-world studies done on masking efficacy, so that we could know what would and would not make a difference.
Im certain his advice was good when companies like airbnb could get away with launching without a functional product and handling everything via phone calls
Right- in the FedEx case it was a last ditch effort to literally knock the suicidal flight crew member off his balance and regain control of the aircraft. If you have a 'nanny' computer telling you that you're unable to do that, those crewmembers may have ended up dead instead.

Point being, in an unforeseen emergency, allowing crews to override the normal safety mechanisms may in fact save lives.
Should Adults Be Consuming Breast Milk?
Sure it does, you need a way to pass arguments for case/gender etc. It's not impossible to make it work, I already implemented a prototype for it, but it requires changes to how it handles references.

See https://github.com/projectfluent/fluent/issues/80 for more details.
You can't because the digital landlords make everything free or almost free in the beginning, before raising it to stratospheric levels once the market is captive. Google did that with Maps. OpenAI is doing it with its API. And people like free or almost free things rather than reasonably-priced things.
True, but luckily they don't intrude on the community or impact the Wikipedia site too much beyond their ever more frequent "We desperately need donations" campaigns. As the Foundation has gotten richer, its desire for more milk from its Wikipedia cash cow has only grown.
"Most people"?

So if you start with a population of 100,000 employees at entry level, after a few years "most" of them will end up as L7?

That does not make any sense. Senior is the terminal band for "most".
Or bios, or whatever has, although non-Windows support is generally bad in hardware because it requires open sourcing drivers.
> how hard is it to pay in cash or to get service as anything but a light skinned person in a japan convenience store?

There is close to zero overt racism of the sort you're referring to.

In almost any Japanese customer service situation involving big companies, the smiles and friendly demeanor are mostly a facade for a very transactional relationship.
I agree with you that the timeline is tight.

Relay For Reddit has just announced their preliminary plan to offer a $2-3 a month paid version. They sound cautiously optimistic and are hoping for some flexibility on the tight timeline.

This is in stark contrast to a week ago when they were very doom and gloom.
No shame at all, very cool! We wanted to go beyond the chat interface, and we have a complicated history management system that ensures answers are reliable in long threads, which wouldn't work with ChatGPT as it removes messages chronologically
I think the chains have figured out the food equivalent of i18n and l10n.

For instance, the McAloo Tikki Burger in India, and the McSpicy Paneer I hear good things about. Perhaps I'll try them next time, though I tend to prefer real Indian food when I'm there.
> "When you see water..... it triggers a response in your brain that you’re in the right place"

I was once on a public coach in a mountain area and was feeling extremely motion sick/nauseating because of all ups and downs and circles of the way. I was just trying to hold off the vomit as long as I could. Suddenly after a turn I saw the river flowing through the glass window of the coach and right there that feeling stopped. It was a sudden calm just by looking at that river water.

It was weird so I did experiment with it. If I looked away nausea came back after a few moments. Did it a few times. Finally I held on to keep looking at the river to keep feeling better.

It may be unrelated to this theory but I don't have any other explanation.
Same. One thing that I've noticed is that this seems to be a rebellion of power users and not the average Joe, which is why this has gotten so much traction on HN. To the Average Joe, if Apollo shuts down, they'll just download the Reddit app. However, HN users look at the Apollo dev and see themselves, so they're jumping on this out of solidarity.

I personally think this will last a few days and then all the default subs will either open by mod decisions or be forced open by Reddit admins. If it's the latter, I expect all existing mods to get the boot and replaced with people who are friendlier with Reddit admins. I also expect that usage of the official app will jump and there won't be any major disruptions to Reddit usage.
This would work better if there was a viable competitor to Reddit.

As it stands, there doesn't seem to be anywhere for these people to go, so they'll likely come back after a few days. Habits are hard to break.

Habits are a moat too.
The other end of this is companies manufacturing products that are questionably eco-friendly and certainly less durable leading to a worse off situation to everyone except them.
Covid disinformation unit made 'hourly contact' with tech firms
Try traveling to other parts of the world if you can. For example I was just in one of the greek islands for a week and everyone was incredibly friendly. Meeting cool people and chatting late into the night is precisely how I'd describe my time there.
There's a neat table on https://jpegxl.info/ which shows all features of both formats. In general JXL has more features than AVIF, although some of them may be more important for special purposes like medical imaging.
I think I read somewhere it was only 48 hours - can you hold on that long?
https://archive.is/Bfhgb
I can personally attest to this, until I moved out to the city, I was significantly kneecapped in terms of what speeds I could have and it had an impact given how many services just implicitly assume you have high bandwidth and more or less lock you out if you don't. And I was one of the "lucky" ones in the sense that I was on a well known national cable provider, heaven forbid you were on telecom DSL or (for the really poor sods out there) V.92 or ISDN.