skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Photographic JPEG images are used at around 2.0 to 2.5 BPP in the internet, while same for WebP and AVIF is around 1 to 1.7 BPP as the current practice in the internet.

People in the internet don't like to store photos with 0.5 BPP even with the latest and greatest codecs, it gets too blurry and artefacty.

This is not a statement of my personal aesthetic opinion but observing what gets done out in the wild.
Influencer: someone who affects or changes the way that other people behave.

A "deinfluencer" would be someone that does _not_ affect or changes the way other people behave (like me).

Which is clearly not what this article implies with the term. The people described in the article are also influencers. They just provide negative reviews instead of (paid) positive ones.
I’ve read of people taking large batteries with them to power machines while camping, RVing, etc.
UTF-8 with surrogate pairs has to be the worst idea I've heard yet this month.
Why not show reviews anonymously and time-delayed?
I think you've got it. /r/worldnews, /r/news, /r/askreddit, /r/WTF, /r/games, /r/politics, all fairly large subs, all still up and running. Enough for that dopamine hit.

Some subs that didn't go completely dark are understandable, like /r/outoftheloop and /r/explainlikeimfive which have gone read-only so that readers can ask and get explanations of what's up.

But there are some surprising ones, like /r/programming. Maybe because it was created by /u/spez? Somewhat interestingly, he's also a mod of /r/outoftheloop.
Indeed. My recollection of similar threads at the time was not a celebration of Russian deaths, but a mockery of official Russian statistics that were claiming an implausibly low number of hospitalised and dead.
Reminds me of https://javalin.io
firefox sync is pretty good for that. it is e2e and you can host your own instance
I think it would be pretty easy to make a clone, but everyone who tries seems to end up getting nerdsniped making something federated instead.
Every major retailer from McD to Starbucks does this.
Nobody left Tumblr? Right now it is up in the air if this is Twitter or Tumblr result if people are going to leave due to this discontent.
> I would expect a much more visceral discussion

Is this influenced by the Balmer interview about the iPhone and how he scoffs at it?
Nope. They'll just outsource this to underpaid contractors like Facebook does.
Ex-Samsung Exec Accused of Stealing Designs to Make Copycat Chip Plant in China
June 12, 2023, 6:20 AM UTC-> Updated on June 12, 2023, 7:19 AM UTC

https://archive.is/ohfng
> Most people cannot turn and change gear at the same time.

That's just not true. If you cannot do that, you won't get your driver's license in most countries.
> renewable energy load managment

I'll pick this as the most absurd use-case. Every party in an electricity grid already has to trust all the other parties in the network. What advantage does a trustless distributed ledger have that a more conventional distributed DB and messaging solution doesn't?
That was legitimately interesting, thanks.
ahem US privacy law makes it basically illegal for anyone under 13 to have an account on most services. https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/rules/childrens-onl...

Not that it's any better presenting such videos to 13 year olds. Or adults, for that matter.
People use UTF-32 sometimes because computers have 32-bit ints but not 24-bit ints. If you want a single primitive type to represent a code point, that's gonna be a 32-bit int. If you make an array of those, that's UTF-32.
For major subs, absolutely. Take /r/videos for example. What's to stop bots from uploading porn to /r/videos at breakneck pace? You need a small army of moderators to close the floodgates. It might not happen immediately, but eventually, there will be massive spam submitted to default subreddits with new moderators.

Moderation takes time and unless Reddit is going to pony up $$$ to pay mods to sweep in on short notice, then I suspect people who casually volunteer will quickly be overwhelmed.
Thanks for checking it out.

We’re solving knowledge management and collaboration in teams. At an individual level, bookmarks are an important input for knowledge. So we solve that.

> “Supercharing teams with AI” What does that even mean

We use gpt4 to summarize and auto organize knowledge: which could be from team chats, documentation, bookmarks, etc. This helps teams collaborate better without having to play Sherlock on team chat logs etc… hope that makes sense…

I do agree with you that I need to do a better job of describing it. I’ll work on it. Thanks for your feedback!
This is really sad actually. Whatever you think about him, you can't deny he lived life to the maximum!
He will still be remembered as a brilliant but mentally ill person who was terribly abused and ended up turning into a terrorist who hurt a lot of innocent people which only resulted in suffering.

Some misguided, confused or immature individuals might temporarily idolize him but hopefully they will end up growing up (in any and all senses) and realizing that two wrongs don't make a right and that this was most likely caused by a lack of understanding and support from the rest of the society which is a growing problem nowadays.
Meanwhile, bare QR codes are ugly AF and draw the eye away from any other design... Things like this might lead to greater use.
It could be worse. If you get to ‘there I am’, it’s too late.
Slashdot attempted a redesign, but there was a revolt (the slashcott) where everybody refused to discuss anything except for their dislike of the redesign, and - after a week or so - the site relented and didn't go ahead with the change.

The real cause of the decline of slashdot, in my opinion, was the corporate buyout and departure of CmdrTaco, Hemos, and the rest.

For what it's worth, the site is still going, there's usually at least 1 story with >100 comments on the first page, at least when I've taken a look.
I tracked down the original statistic. CEO u/spez wrote:

> About 3% of mod actions come from third-party apps, and we’ve reached out to communities who moderate almost exclusively using these apps to ensure we address their needs.
Whatever. This is nonsense. Influencer or defluencer, you're just a cog in the big click farm machine. Bad press is good press and all that.

A true defluencer would be someone who's not on those platforms. Slow news day at CNN?
> Being well-liked and poor is waaay worse than being rich and hated.

Only if you're an egotistical sellout.
There are ads on this page? I almost forgot that I've been experiencing the internet ad-free for years now. Thanks uBlock!
I had experiments with Ardour on Linux a few years ago, but those got killed by:

- no support for VST plugins

- clipping/distortion and no out-of-the-box compression in Ardour

- jitter during recording, problems with clock

Has anything changed recently?
I domewhat agree with the main statement that financial interests inflate technologies and create "hype" for monetary gain. But:

>AI isn’t “artificial” and it’s not “intelligent.” “Machine learning” doesn’t learn.

Is just an insane thing to write.
That is also how JPEG XL quality was decided. I viewed every quality affecting change manually and if it didn't pass, it didn't pass - no matter what objective metrics said.
Admin abuse is inherently funny. It's like slapstick. It was funny on SA when the users paid to sign up in the first place, and it can only be more so when they're not even paying customers.

Should've made it a wordfilter though. Those are more participatory.

(You won't take this advice, which is why I've run a large popular internet forum before and you haven't.)
There is more to it than the amount Reddit demands now. One huge issue is that it's a very sudden move.

30 days is not enough time to change apps business models (with existing paying customers in the mix). Additionally it seems reddit made promises in the beginning of this year that they wont monetize API access.

Reddit does not want to find common ground with 3rd party apps and make money with them, it wants them out of the market ASAP.

The issue even extends to non-mobile users that are afraid now that old reddit will be chopped for better monetization etc.
> It's a bit bizarre as a book review.

Facinating essay but not really a book review.

Here's my review of the book:

Literal survivorship bias taken to the absolute extreme. Bluntly put, Frankl attributes his survival to his postive attitude and uses it to flog logotherapy. In one instance, Frankl comments on the increased number of deaths in the camps around Christmas. He attributes it to dejection and loss of hope amongst the inmates. One would imagine the weather in December having something to do with it but that isn't brought up.

To be fair, the book opens with a disclaimer that it "does not claim to an account of facts and events". The bulk of it consists of wishful thinking and feel-good nonsense.
ChatGPT is Just a Big Fancy Spreadsheet
They could turn off video and image uploads and reduce server costs substantially. Remember when you couldn't directly upload a video to Reddit and everything was a link to YouTube, Vimeo, or Dailymotion?
The current moderators are paid only in internet points and power over a community. Zero actual dollars.

The automatic moderation tools are hilariously bad, that's why people are using the API for 3rd party tools.

Let's see how this develops.
An example a real life reconstruction of a partially redacted SSH private key : https://blog.cryptohack.org/twitter-secrets
Literate programming is great until your code base becomes unwieldy. Then you need a README.md file which acts like a pointer to the correct entry points.

Then as the code grows, you need to document the architecture, add small gotchas, etc.

At the end of the day, documentation wins.
In my dreams Python has the stability of Perl, then I'm woken by an alarm that a Python script I wrote 6 months ago uses a now-deprecated feature ...
> I've already eliminated all the other socials and that has been very good for me

You do understand that you are posting this to hacker news right?
I would assume the deinfluencer would not strictly keep to bad products. Given influencers don't only peddle good products.
It will pass. A lot of HN users are Reddit users. It’s natural for there to be overlap. Let us nerds mourn the decline of our meme sanctuary & things will return to normal.
> While it would be ideal if all the software devs writing say a General Ledger application were accountants, the reality is that will not be the case.

I don't think this is necessary at all. However, to do a good job here, it's critical that the people building the software understand the principles of how the domain works and how people interact with it.

To take this literal example: I'm not an accountant or bookkeeper but I've spent 15 years of my career working with people in this domain. Even when I encounter a new part of the domain I'm not familiar with, I find it easy to put together the need from my existing knowledge and figure out what we need to do.

Take an example where I didn't invest in understanding a (financial) domain: my team inherited a report generation script that a founder was running for Finance. Initially, we just tried to expand it to handle more transaction items. Because we didn't understand how this report was being used, we skipped issues, caused issues when we changed things elsewhere, etc. Our Finance team was pissed because we were making their lives harder with our total lack of understanding. The answer? Spend time with the Finance team making sure every engineer understood what this report contained, what it was being used for, why it was important.

> In a software world dominated by technical requirements, how to determine and model functional requirements in an external domain can be what makes a programmer a great one.

I agree here, I just think that this understanding needs to go a little deeper than just modelling the domain. I feel it's important for a team that works in a domain to really get it. I think this looks like being able to explain the core of the domain and how it works in practice to a layperson.
Google actually never officially got rid of their “don’t be evil” phrase, even if I agree with you that they are far worse at adhering to it than they used to be, and I suspect too many of their current executives have no attachment to it beyond not wanting the pointless employee morale or PR hit of actually removing it.

The reason people think it got removed is two events:

One, when Google Inc reorganized to create its Alphabet Inc corporate parent in 2015, the “Don’t be evil” motto stayed with the Google LLC subsidiary that still today handles most of what we associate with the name Google. For Alphabet, they added “Do the right thing” instead of moving “Don’t be evil” to the new top of the corporate hierarchy.

Two, in 2018 they moved Don’t be evil away from the preface of Google’s code of conduct. But they moved it to the last sentence, which is at least far more prominent than burying it in the middle, let alone removing it entirely.

I used to work for Google years ago, before all of the events I’m discussing and with no personal connection myself to those events. (Obviously I’m speaking only for myself here and not for them.) I think nowadays their level of morality as an organization is slightly better than or comparable to most other prominent tech megacorps, whereas they used to be atypically much better than that. The same deterioration has occurred in how good or bad of an employer they are - they used to be great, but now they’re slightly better than or similar to most other prominent tech megacorps. Still not worse than their peers in either morality or employee experience. But as much as “don’t be evil” is still officially there. It’s definitely far less of a corporate focus than it used to be, which I find quite sad.
Sure, but as I mentioned it has absolutely nothing to do with the CRC calculation, that is what you claimed.
A huge sub like /r/funny (40 million subs) will have zero issues finding volunteers.

Finding volunteers you can trust though...

An audience that big + lack of morals + power = chance to make money by manipulating what gets through.
I guess, I don't know much about TikTok beyond the stuff that showed up in subreddits that I wound up filtering.

I gotta say my home view and my popular view are obviously impacted by the protest. I think nearly all of the subreddits I subscribe to participated, so all I see is content in the subreddits I moderate (which are also shut down). Popular looks old & stale to me, so I turned off my filtering... which revealed a bunch of stuff I don't care about.

For me this is turning into a meditation about how new users are frequently impervious to the messages and signs intended to help them and instead often want a real person to spoon feed them the content of those messages and signs. In the future I'd really like improve the experience of new users but I am not sure how to politely encourage them to engage their brains.
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A lot of hosts won't know what mbps means or will say something like "I'm sure the wifi is good. We did a video call a couple of months ago with Aunt Sally in London ..."

A good WiFi network does not imply that the WiFi network is connected to a fast internet connection. ;-)
Not sure. Currently Google gets a normal website (not an error or a 404) for every page. Just with different content.

When search

site:reddit.com "best bicycle"

I get a page a page "Best bicycle for a beginner?" in r/bicycling. But it has no content about bicycles at the moment.

At some point Google will probably decide to discard that page, because there is nothing to see there. How would Google know it should regularely check to see if the old content comes back? That would mean Google's index is versioned. And keeps old versions of pages and revisits them to see if an old version comes back. Seems unlikely.
Uhm no, I checked the IPA transcriptions given by dictionaries.
A more charitable take in this case: fictional anime characters may not be as important as real human beings, but Pokemon are shared culture. The right comparison isn't with this or that person, but with poems, or paintings, or landmarks, etc. - all kinds of social objects.

And of course, giving back to Debord, we can say that the society of the spectacle is one of infinite supply of manufactured social objects.
I am wondering, HN can spawn a few subreddit like channels maybe with Image, Video support later. HN is the best place in internet that encourages good discussions, reddit communities can vastly benefit from the familiar UI experience, good enough backend. Maybe all the mods can write a petition to create HN communities and foster the communities here. Lemmy, kbin are all fine but come on I'll take HN any day over others. Am I missing something?
Capitalist's only motive is money, everything else be damned.
I don't know what happened with r/programming (I couldn't find the mod channel), but I just took it private, assuming the other mods just forgot about it.

Then again, it's spez's subreddit, so maybe he wants it public (in which case he can just flip it back).
bunga bunga
I think in general most companies don't do enough interesting work to produce a consistently interesting engineering blog, along with a tendency to gloss over any sort of mistakes, which typically tend to be the spice that make a narrative actually interesting.

There are a few exceptions, but most entries in the genre are sort of trite and bland. They're too safe, I guess.
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/144l86y/takeaway...
You are right. I've heard similar stories about BattlEye in the past which I assumed might just have been a decision they've reverted since but could've very well been an option up to game devs to enable. Thankfully not many of them do seemingly.
Sorry, yes, I should have clarified I meant "no-one has done it in the current batch of diffusion-based experiments". As you point out it has been done multiple times before, e.g. https://research.swtch.com/qart (online demo https://research.swtch.com/qr/draw/).
same here. r/sneerclub (18.5k) wouldn't have joined without overwhelming community support. Only question is whether to come back in two days. Also I think everyone on the sub knows very well it's a complete waste of time lol
Hacker News is a news aggregator.
More people are living better than ever before. Seems to be working.
>To most people the main use of crypto is to make money go up. This is a dubious use case.

Not only is it a bad use case, it is self destructive. The only value a currency might have is if it is used in trade, holding currency "because the value goes up" is making it less useful as a currency.

Also BTC is very insufficient as an actual currency, especially from a purely technical standpoint.
No, it was my fault. I edited it and forgot to submit it till a few minutes later. I didn’t see the responses before I did.
Tech can go elsewhere. The niche interests can't. At least not as easily.

The obvious competitor for those is still Facebook, but FB's algo is actively hostile to the long-list-of-active-forums UX that makes Reddit work so well.
I want to continue reading and participating in the communities that I was using on Reddit.

Where do I go now?
Ask HN: Gambling and Crypto Casino Ads on YouTube?
For the last couple of weeks I have been seeing more and more ads for Crypto Casinos and Gamling sites on YouTube. Is this common? How is it Google are okay with these morally questionable ads, which may be being shown to children on one-hand and yet with the other de-monetise anything that isn't as clean as Disney?
Not your fault, I had an edit that I’d forgotten to submit but sent a few minutes later when I remembered. I didn’t see you’d replied to me already, my apologies.
I'd pay <10€ a month if I could keep using Apollo and old.reddit.

/u/spez doesn't want my money, he wants to drive out 3rd party clients so he can (try to) make even more money by limiting and controlling the ways people can use the site.
as a player with thousands of hours in csgo, here's my take:

right from the get go, the authors made it clear that each of the rce requires a user to connect to a malicious server. the only scenario this is possible is if the user connects to one of the community servers.

while community servers have been the backbone of previous cs titles, it is far from the main place the majority of players connect to to play the game. the only major exception being third-party matchmaking systems such as faceit and esea, where the connection is handled directly by each service.

so the scope of exploit in the vast majority of the cases would be for a very minor set of playerbase or unless exploiters hack faceit/esea servers.

at the same time, the community servers have had a shady relationship with valve, where some of them allow you to try any skin in the game from server-side. i believe things like that played a part in why valve did not bother much with supporting them with the current game, especially with the ui for connecting to them barely updated since cs 1.6 two decades ago.

moreover, the exploits listed are not by themselves enough to inject a payload to victims's computer. the game itself runs in user mode and the client-sided commands are usually game specific.

overall, while i support the efforts made, the potential impact have been overblown in interpretation. i can see why valve took so long to fix these.
To say “there I am”, you’d need to possess a level of self awareness that would prevent you from acting in a way that would make lampooning you fun
Spring used xml to configure that so no that similar.
stale documentation is worse than no documentation
I mean, "web apps" are just PWAs which iOS, Android(?), and Chrome have all supported for a while now. Still, it's nice to see a better push for web, and it's a bit of a reversal to Apple's historic position on apps (Steve Jobs opposed creating an app store, preferring web apps).
> Terraform isn't hard!

And in the world of AWS Terraform is still manual and tedious (compared to e.g. CDK).
Show HN: Journe – Private and Encrypted Journaling
Encrypted and private journaling that is easy to start and continue forever. Entries are Client-side encrypted with AES-256 so they are truly private and only yours.
would the lauded coffeezilla be an example of this?

If so I'm down with it.
How I wish all those threads weren't all systematically deleted after one week, so we could delve into them right now, but they were, for some reason. And here's my anonymous word against yours. The celebration of Russian deaths started out as morbid innuendos. Example: "Oof, i really really hope not more Russians die, wink-wink. lmao". As time went on the comments became more open and more vile. No objecting voice was left in the threads, as they were cleaned by the free mods into a perfect echo chamber. A fake testament to how alone you are in opposing such thinking.
Agreed, Chatbots will make it a lot easier for the discovery process of documentation.
> Now it's Reddit vs what?

Nothing is an option. Separately from the API drama, I’ve been questioning whether Reddit is a net benefit in my life. Everyone can draw their own conclusion to that question, and I won’t try to convince anyone.

However, for myself, if I’m forced to use the official desktop or mobile app, I’m definitely not going to use Reddit at all, alternative or not.
Maybe it is important to ask if that creativity is truly unique? Or in those cases already encoded in the training data? Humans in general might not actually be that creative. Or variations are something that could be broken.