skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to keep it away from pik (successfully) and jpeg xl (with moderate success), but in the end we needed to add yuv420/yuv422 for old school jpeg recompression (75 % of old jpegs are in this unfortunate mode).

Usual JPEG XL images are always yuv444.
There's nothing wrong with that, go get a job at any bigco and enjoy decent income at low variability.

OTOH if you put in the same amount of effort as most other people, you'll get the same results as most other people. That was not enough for highly ambitious people like Bezos, so he sought to build a team of other highly ambitious people to take a big bet with.
>methane emissions reduction, renewable energy load management

This is like saying cyanide pills have a great feature in nutrition.
I think the author favors Perl way too much.

"Scales up": I don't know of any widely used projects written in Perl with tens or hundreds thousands lines of code. I know a lot of big projects written in Python, JS, Java and C#.

"Compatibility": Author means stability. Last breaking changes in Python were in Python3, which came out 15 years ago, and no breaking changes are anticipated in the foreseeable future. So I would say it's fairly certain that Python programs written now would work 10 years from now.

Incidentally, Perl also attempted to make breaking changes with the transition to Perl 6. The only difference was that it didn't come through.

"Extensible": I don't understand this metric at all. Suppose I want to implement a module in C++ or Rust. Is it significantly easier to do in Perl than in other languages? I don't think so.
What is ocaml?
Latin is pretty stable, but not entirely fixed: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/14/world/vatican-introduces-...
just to note, border control _is_ part of FSB.
Yet not available to really decided that. Their role out strategy is too slow.
One of the things that I noticed when I started python (many many years ago) is that it crashed a lot more than perl.

perl you really had to properly abuse it to make it actually crash.

Now, some people see that as a feature not a bug (for either perl or python's behaviour)
It's interesting that people say the same about Java and Python;

Java is great for well structured programs and scalability.

Python is great for scripts, just don't let the programs grow too much in size.

(Not my opinion, I am impressed with how well Python programs can scale in size if using a proper framework e.g. Django)
lol, the histrionics.
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Ok show me another language which has near native performance, gradual typing (thinking TypeScript here), and lets me do lightweight functional and lightweight OO programming.
Unfortunately, they don't look as nice as the originals that were shown a few days ago, I wonder how they did that.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/i4WR5ULH1ZZYl8Watf3EPw

They talk about a custom QR codes ControlNet.
jpegli is an even better option -- it adds 10+ bits in old jpeg format in its '8-bit mode'
The suspects were not anarchists ... they were allegedly connected to a Kurdish militant group (so more like nationalists).

I hate gov.s as much as the next guy, but the rant is off-topic here.

The main problem is that they try to formulate simple encryption in a criminalizing way, which can lead to bigger problems if it becomes a widely accepted view.
Would you die of apnea in while sleeping ? IMHO the biggest risk is increase of cardiovascular problems (in the long run). Some may die from ventilation reflex deficiency but that not necessarily linked to sleep apnea, and don’t even if this trouble exist and its frequency.
There is no evidence that the islands in Brave New World are not to be taken at face value.
That was so long ago it’s almost irrelevant. The only relevant connection is the last remaining YC founder Steve Huffman who likely is going to be heavily influenced by Sam Altman on the LLM=fresh real-time conversational data being valuable.

If stuff like GPT is going to be useful as a Q&A engine on Google/Bing it needs plenty of data feeds that are coming in quickly and fed into training. People claim some old scaped DBs of Reddit comments are enough because some OSS model trained on it but I’m skeptical that’s a serious option for Microsoft and the like.

Otherwise the HN/YC<>Reddit is pretty much just an old founding story, not one relevant to today or the culture of HN.
Personally, I find it very readable. My only criticism is that its syntax looks "weird" nowadays. I mean, a newborn language would never go with `my` as local variables declaration prefix, or `->` for object method call, or `sub` for function declaration. I think Perl would benefit of a transpiling approach, like what Elixir is to Erlang.
> it still being up

Must have gone dark in the last two hours, I guess. Clicking on your "context" link gets me:

> The moderators of r/programming have set this community to private. Only approved members can view and take part in its discussions.

The GPT astroturf fail seems like a worthy story in itself, if it could be stood up - amazing!
bah, use perl, its fun and fast.

If you can make readable code in it, then you are a proper programmer.

If you can't then you'll need to look at the other code you write, because that's probably unreadable as well.
Most examples here and in the comments seem to involve an entire RSA prime coming through unredacted, and dealing with various ASN.1 shenanigans to figure out which bits actually belong to the prime.

But the situation is potentially still quite bad even if you have less information than that. See Heninger and Shacham (2008):

https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/510.pdf
How about Dart/Flutter?
>I don't understand why people get so angry about it.

Because not everything is about you. Or me. People get angry because BTC has (or they view that it has) wider bad influence in society (for shady stuff it's often used for, for its energy use, for the way it's promoted as a pyramid scheme/cult with people who don't know better losing their savings doing BTC speculation, and so on), which don't stop being problems when someone personally doesn't use it.
> I don't think he is that inapt, and that his board is stupid to let him in charge despite such a failure, profitability was just never the goal.

Just fyi, reddit rose around the same time as Facebook so it’s likely they share a similar governance model, where founders control an outsized part of the board/voting shares. Since Uber and wework semi-imploded investors are less forgiving of that sort of thing but legacy companies like Reddit likely still are run that way.
As the Guardian obit puts it, he represents a slice of Italy promoting power and wealth over lesser qualities.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/12/berlusconi-dea...
That's fine. My point is, that's not diversity and inclusion. It's assimilation.

To riff on your riff. There the Groucho Marx’s quote: “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.” While perhaps he meant it differently, we have people/groups lining up to get a seat at a rectangular table with a history of: bigotry, genocide, misogyny, prejudice, war, greed, cronyism, materialistic, etc, etc, etc.

The new members are so proud of themselves for getting a seat at that table, conveniently ignoring all the unnecessary death, suffering, injustice, etc deeply notched into that table.

That's not diversity.

That's not inclusion.

That's assimilation.

To think otherwise is naive.
We came pretty close to nuclear war between the US and Russia though. In fact, a Russian, thankfully, decided to ignore a false alarm to prevent a full out nuclear war.

And I don't think we're out of nuclear threat yet.

As for environmental, it's headed that way unless we figure out some technology to recycle everything and reduce the impact of humans to neutral.

For AI, we don't know yet but a lot of smart people are putting out the alarm.

As humans continue to advance in technology, the chance of one of those technologies destroying us increases. I don't think anyone can dispute this.
> . Without a doubt, the worst airport I have even been to, so I think this guide is a little outdated

It depends on where you're traveling from/to, but Schiphol has Yotel within one of the terminals, which means you can rent a small hotel room to sleep in for a few hours (you don't have to book a full night - they know their market). They even have showers available.

I used it once on a long layover in a very long trip, and it was honestly indispensable.

The guide mentions this in-terminal hotel, so that's accounting for some of the rating.
Only federation defends from what is now happening with Reddit. See Freenode and Libera Chat.
>That would be fine if they also objected to computer games or reddit or TV for the same reason

Many do. But those don't even come close to BTC for the benefit/energy waste ratio...
It’s likely that very few Reddit actually users want short form video. And that the acquisition was mostly for the user base which they then tried desperately to hold on to.

So the obvious answer is to create a standalone service… which it was before they acquired it.
> [closed platforms] will increase and which could be accelerated with different approaches to languages.

the business incentive is towards such closed platforms - data and platform ownership has value after all. It makes zero sense for a business to keep a platform open and potentially help a competitor.
That's the point actually. And not only in Reddit, but in all current social networks. You must lose posts, you must always look at the fresh snapshot of posts. And it works, people are conditioned to work with ephemeral internet. Apps and sites all work like this nowadays - Facebook, Instagram, Shitter, Reddit main page, Netflix main page, even HN partially. You blink and everything is gone, here is new content for you, enjoy, but not too long and don't become attached.
This drives up engagement in the population with attention disorders and promotes advertisement, since it is organically natural to see ads between ad-like endless posts.
Message from the PM:
https://twitter.com/rishisunak/status/1668174629695832064
You're wrong. They are obsessed with FatFire. ;)
I don’t know why people that are not historians or investigators should think about what terrorists wrote. That sounds like a bad idea for the society overall. It encourages them.
I use OneTab, it is perfect for me, with the caveat that it has no categorization or sync, neither of which I really need.
That was back when pg still posted here and could rally the troops.

Doesn’t look like he engages much https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg

Maybe dang could arrange something or it could happen organically. But that particular event was in response to an acute flood of traffic. Not some long term reduction in comment quality and Reddit-tier rage/politics.

You can’t fight floods with a small temporary dam. Nor can you moderate your way out of it entirely as every major subreddit has shown (hyper modding usually does the opposite by sanctioning a certain ‘acceptable’ set of low quality posting and fuelling meta drama).
> That's again a decision made by Python. Some other languages behave as if each iteration had declared a different variable.

Doing that requires block scoping. Python does not have block scoping. The alternative would be to create a dedicated pseudo-scoping for for loops, which is technically possible (e.g. `except` blocks have special casing to avoid circular references) but is a lot of additional complexity, not “just” changing the scoping of iteration variables.

Furthermore (1) happens to provide a pretty good workaround: you can set the iteration variable as a default value of the closure, it’ll be evaluated at the creation of the closure thus “fixing” it.
What is one of those 'really clean' languages that we should be using then?

I'm interested!
It's useful to ask specific questions that google doesn't know. People still collectively know more than Google, and are easier queryable)
"Then a user-hostile redesign killed it" is the story of anything and everything software. It would be far shorter to enumerate what hasn't been killed by a user-hostile redesign.
I've always found it interesting that what seems to kill social link sharing sites is not some better site coming along but the existence of decent alternatives when company executives loose sight of what their site needs.
Typescript is very nice, just need to get rid of the javascript underneath.
Anywhere in the world, I doubt any real estate business functions with no contact with criminal organizations and local politics - too much money depends on regulations and their executive applications or lack thereof. In early 90's Italy ? Is that even a question ?
> Yep. Like a neural network powered search engine, right?

They've already got that - it's those text snippets. They're quite unreliable, so a reliable one would be different of course.

But Google doesn't get paid to provide search results, they get paid to show ads you click on. It doesn't seem to me this is the same product as AI that shows you text summaries of search results.

Worse, if you mine all the content out of search results instead of making users click on them, why will people even make new webpages for you to show in the results?
But they dont care about how email works. Type 'mom' in to, type message, hit send, call mom to let her know you sent an email.

Same with reddit/others. Most users dont care about how it works or what makes it special or what the tech stack is. They want content: fast, easy, not crashing and in one spot.
It was never meant for money laundering.
I have a couple of decades of Perl, and used it for everything from automating warehouses to building the original BBC iPlayer to big data ETL. I’ve also spent the last five weeks writing Python exclusively for a job, and the two years before _that_ doing TypeScript on the backend.

CPAN is better than its equivalents. The consistent documentation style and location, focus on tests, and so on is excellent. Miss CPAN.

Python is a fine language. Its type system feels like a toy after using TypeScript, but last time I used Perl in anger there was nothing. The scoping is weird, and I think makes readability worse, but you get used to it.

TypeScript is awesome, but setting up the compile step for a new project so it works with testing and so on, weird edge cases about which module system you’re using, these are irritating.

I love Perl, and I think in Perl, but given its ever-decreasing mindshare, I’m not sure what major new projects I’d start in it. At both the TS and Python role I’ve written Perl that acts as a superior bash, and it’s been excellent for this, long may it continue. The big issue is that I’m reluctant to share my Perl with the rest of the team because I’m the only one who knows it
In all cases we don't know if the user-hostile redesign was the root cause or just a symptom.
The destruction is not healed when they are gone.

He seems the least dangerous party in the Italian government now.
Traitor – Automatic Linux privesc via exploitation of low-hanging fruits
Thank you to share your story. I'm sorry that you lost family members.
Moreover it is arguably the converse - organisations with a deep heirarchy and a lack of operational structure - that are most prone to predators. Individuals with narcissistic or sociopathic tendencies are attracted to positions where they wield power over others but have little to no accountability. This is why it's so important for misdeeds to be brought to light and justice.

An example is the UK political system, where it's clear who has "say", but the structure for dealing with quite serious misbehaviour is very outdated. Only today there was an article in the BBC about this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65856484
I made a FULL-BODY keyboard
He's about to graduate college and will join SpaceX. He's 14
Which one is older C or perl?
Yup that's the key point a lot forget
As much as I wish that to be true I doubt it. A large portion of users will simply scroll through reddit and look at the latest cat videos or social media stunts. You can scrape this content without any contributors at all. All the separate communities that reddit hosts probably contribute very little to their ad revenue.
> What's your definition of "compact" here?

Number of elements in an encoding

5: ˜ n o ñ õ

3: ˜ n o

> so I worry you'd end up with something closer to a vector format than a normal character encoding.

then stop 1 step before that :)
Now that they have extension support in IOS, I'm surprised RES has not been ported across.
> "Scales up": I don't know of any widely used projects written in Perl with tens or hundreds thousands lines of code. I know a lot of big projects written in Python, JS, Java and C#.

* DuckDuckGo
* cPanel
* booking.com
* craigslist

These projects use millions of lines of Perl code and trust me, there are lots of other companies, banking infrastructures included (!), that use Perl as their backend or in-house services.
> has near native performance

what do you mean by this?

https://github.com/niklas-heer/speed-comparison

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
It's a terrible thing to say this of a man, or someone who has died, but thank God.

I mean, it might well by the end he was been pretty aged in his mind and was being used or fooled or had lost the plot : his comments about Ukraine were staggering, appalling aberrations you never want to hear from someone with considerable public stature in any country.
I forgot to add "not controlled by a single corporation" to my list of requirements. Also not gradually typed, I think? But I would consider it if it weren't all tied into Google and had a larger ecosystem.
Most “AI doomerism” parroted and boosted by the media consists of whinging about the danger of some hypothetical general intelligence as an absurd and far fetched existential threat in and of itself, not as a socioeconomic threat or threat fundamental to our humanity (differentiated from a threat to our species, to be clear.)

In fact, at least from my perspective, most of those AI doomers are the “elite” that Kaczynski talks about. They’re looking to control it, have the academics that Kaczynski despises on their side, are good at bullshitting, etc., and a good way to control it and keep power in your hands is to paper over the real risks and perform regulatory capture.

That is to say, they want that system of technological progress to continue, but they want it to continue in a way that is controlled by them, centralization.

So, yes, but no. He absolutely despised those people. To clarify, I don't think you'll find many who want the whole system to stop, the most extreme you find are those who still want the system to continue, but want only “responsible” and “safe” companies to have control over such things, flip flopping between that and the possibility of air striking datacenters if some multi-modal model convinces them that it's sentient.
> If anyone from reddit corporate is reading this, understand that you’re playing with fire here. This week is critical to saving your platform.

I'm actually quite surprised we've not had a Verge/Techcrunch/The Information story with views from the inside yet. Reddit was always a quite leaky ship that treats staff badly. Internally there has to be some people side-eyeing and thinking that Huffman has lost the plot, especially with his AMA making the blackout worse. Morale is probably not high. Those hanging around for any kind of IPO payout probably know this is going to hit the financials of that quite badly.

If your role is anything to do with community outreach you have to know you will not be able to do your job for the next year at least - even if Reddit were to somehow tough this out, it's most engaged users and moderators now hate your guts.

Maybe journalists are waiting for the strikes to really hit and we'll see it today.
Apparently so is Geoffrey Hinton, Bill Gates, and hundreds of other well educated nonviolent people. New technology poses new risks, and those risks can and should be understood. Calling people "doomers" and relating them to ecoterrorists politicizes the issue, and dehumanizes valid points of view.

"Adolf hitler was a vegetarian painter". Technically correct, but slanders two otherwise very reasonable groups of people by stating the irrelevant things about a person's impact on society.
You can use a PDF parser tool to extract data from PDF tables.
I'm building parsio.io - we use pre-trained AI-powered parsers to parse PDF tables: https://parsio.io/table-extraction/. Another example us Tabula (free)
Crockford is not Eich.
I'm with you that a site of that critical size probably won't die, not within a decade.

The same was AOL is actually not completely dead. Yahoo! is not dead, Digg isn't either, neither did MySpace. And I'd totally see Tumblr having a full come back to the front of the stage.

Another way to put it could be "dead to us" for any specific value of "us".
I’ve worked at a few startups, 1 or 2 that grew large (from <50 people when I arrived to tens of thousands of staff around the world). If your sails do catch the wind and you have to scale up, then documentation is invaluable (that and automation). Documentation needs an owner though, because it generally has a half-life and decays over time. This kind of ownership has to be enforced.
Aren't politicians with ties to the mafia quite common?
What does this trash have to do with my comment?
Migrating Postgres: From Render to Neon
Used to.

Nowadays Google is equally user-hostile and is happy to accommodate its peers.
Maybe ChatGPT can write one.
> The same could be said about plain HTML/CSS though.

Genuine question: How much of the complexity of working with HTML/CSS is unnecessary and how much is inherent to the problem they solve? Is it as bad as with Javascript?

I would say that we, for the most part, have a very clear idea of how we could (theoretically) replace Javascript with something much better.

I don't know of alternative layout languages, so I don't know how good CSS is in comparison. And what could we replace HTML with? My general appreciation, from my ignorance, is that they are not that bad.
The list of participating subreddits[0] includes ~3/4ths of the big subreddits. 7 of the 10 subs with over 30 million members[1], 81% with 20-30 million, 77% with 10-20 million, 80% with 5-10 million, and 71% with 1-5 million

I don't think the blackout will be limited by its scope so much as by its duration

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplet...
[1]https://www.reddit.com/best/communities/1/
GPT isn't nearly powerful enough for that.
The fact that we only have speculation is due to yet inability to find a natural source of covid and China's refusal to be a decent member of the world and instead chose to obstruct and hide as much as they could.

But, I'm sure china would admit to the world that their research lab was the fuck up that killed millions of people. It isn't like china would ever try to censor and control information that makes them look bad.
Are you American? I am, and I need to go to Russia later this year. I'm told it's no big deal and nobody cares.
You can easily dislike the Italian left for a number of reasons, but being commies is definitely not one of them.
An America-Less Internet
It does, but Rust also has separate namespaces for methods and variables. That is, a.foo(b) will always be a method foo and never a field foo, because the syntax is that of a method. In order to access a function object, then call it, you would use (a.foo)(b). The parentheses cause the contents to be parsed as a variable expression.