skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a nice story but it's actually a load of rubbish...

https://theoutline.com/post/2205/this-38-year-old-study-is-s...

"Despite his claims of a revolutionary breakthrough, Alexander had trouble finding a journal to publish his results. Both Science and Nature rejected the study for publication, likely due to significant problems with the methodology and results. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior published the results in 1981 with little response and the funding for Rat Park was canceled shortly thereafter."

"When scientists tried to replicate the Rat Park study, they got mixed results. In 1996, a study attempted to precisely replicate the conditions in Alexander’s Rat Park, down to the breed of rat. The researchers conducted two experiments to see if they could replicate the Rat Park study’s results. In the first experiment, the happy, social rats consumed slightly more of the morphine liquid, in the second experiment, the isolated rats drank slightly more. Neither experiment reflected the Rat Park’s results, which had the isolated rats drinking up to seven times the amount of the morphine liquid as the social rats."
Then dual licensing is not possible?

It's a simple IF statement.

IF commercial then $cash, else $mit.

A dual license doesn't mean they can choose if they already are what they are, ie for profit.
I think it's not so much optimism as getting so blinded by the nominal, theoretical purpose that they don't pay attention to what people are actually doing. As they say, "follow the money". That'll tell you the difference between stated purpose and revealed purpose. "The purpose of the system is what it does."
This is my favorite kind of HN content, people following their curiosity. This a double-deal since the original story (https://kuenzi.dev/toothbrush/) had someone trying to investigate their toothbrush, someone else couldn't stop thinking about the story, and decided to take it further. Thanks for posting this!
I can't fathom how you got this impression. It would be like a visitor to the US saying that in their experience, cars are only used for travel between cities.
Hey, I'd be interested in seeing what this looks like but the README.md is just a bunch of wordiness. I worked on a beanstalkd client for Node.js and Golang, here's an example of going straight to the point: https://github.com/getjackd/jackd

I'd say making a better README.md is your #1 priority.
Do you know what it means? It seems irrelevant to the discussion, introducing a new variable won't make you unable to sort in place. You could even allocate memory on the heap and still sort in place.
In Stockholm there is an IKEA in literally the most central and most expensive commercial real estate in Scandinavia -- at Sergelstorg. I'm moving into a new apartment now, so it has been extremely useful to have an IKEA by the central train station!
Enclothed Cognition Theory
The author definition is without merit.

"my wife reassures me of masculinity by reminding me..."
> He owned four cab licenses in Portland. Then Uber came in and shredded his retirement plan.

I am sorry for your friend, but not for him losing out on his rent seeker plans.
And if you read the source you will see that all those tools will retain free access to the API...
Placing the blame on the substance rather than society is an on-ramp to criminalization.
I think IKEA is strategically making downtown stores all over the world. They recently (well, over a year I think) opened a downtown location in Stockholm, and it's excellent. They provide many of the smaller items you would find in an IKEA, and some showrooms. It's awesome for people without cars.
If I understood him correctly, it was his belief that he's learned something systemic from a one time event.
I think this is definitely the most common response. AVIF, as a video intra-frame based codec, works best at very low bitrates. JPEG XL is considerably better at high bitrates.
I got a sense from your comment, and the one you replied to that the problem was that the wealthy were buying the housing, rather that only the wealthy could buy the housing. I admit I may have read into your comment a bit much.
> It's interesting to consider "how would you build it better"

Creating these one-off websites was easy but also pretty easy to track once detected, since virtually no one visited the fake sites (and they re-used unique components). Since the NSA and their "Five Eyes" partners tap into the global internet at so many points for "full take" feeds, it seems like it should be possible to devise a passive approach that monitors seemingly normal interactions with legit high-traffic sites. Just combining commercial browser fingerprinting and broad geolocation with certain patterns of behavior, like visiting a few particular sites in sequence, should be enough to identify the asset trying to make contact. Then the asset's subsequent connection to a different unrelated (and equally legit) site could be taken over by a MITM-style interception.

I'm assuming here the NSA can gain sufficient certificate access for some major sites either surreptitiously or by gaining certain corporate employee's cooperation. Once the NSA has stepped into the online transaction with the legit site, it serves up slightly modified pass-through data from the real site to the asset. While more work to set up, it seems something along those lines would be virtually impossible to detect via bulk monitoring, especially if, at the end of each communication session, the asset is given a different ID behavior sequence to use for the next contact. Thus, there's no repeating behavior pattern statistically different enough to stand out.
Earlier discussion about the initial hack (sniffing the password & resetting usage hours): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36128617
Great teams self-manage. Managers and management generally exist to ensure a baseline, but they can’t really do much more. In a strong team, everyone displays leadership properties, and they typically don’t listen to non-technical management.
My family member died from his addiction and I'm still angry at him. He made several decades of selfish, disastrous choices. He had every advantage in the world and squandered it all. I'm angry we don't do more to fight these drugs. Drug dealing is very much a violent crime, it killed my cousin. The popular culture that celebrates drugs and dealers.

Plenty of blame all around but central is the person who decides to use.
Objective metrics have many weaknesses and pitfalls, but keep in mind that just eyeballing images is not necessarily better.

Non-blind n=1 human test can be just as flawed. What you like in a particular scenario is not representative of codecs' overall performance.

Testing with humans requires proper setup and a large sample size (which BTW JPEG XL has done!)

The problem is that these codecs are close enough in performance to be below "noise" level of human judgement.

You will not be able to reliably distinguish q=80 vs q=81 of the same codec, even though there is objectively a difference between them. And you can't lower quality to potato level to make your job easier — that changes the nature of the benchmark.

People also just differ in opinion whether blurry without detail is better than detailed but with blocking or ringing. If you ask people to rate images, stddev of their scores will be pretty large, so wide that scores of objective metrics can fit in 1-sigma.

People also tend to pick "nicer" image, rather than the one that is closer to the original. That's a bit different task than codecs aim for.

Codecs can allocate more or less of the file to color channels, so you can get different conclusions based on e.g. amount of bright red in the image.

So testing is hard. Plenty of pitfalls. Showing a smaller file that "looks the same" is easy, but deceptive.
Would it make sense to broadcast vital information to "nearby" aircraft, so they can store and forward when something went wrong?
FWIW, Many of the participating subs are going dark indefinitely. And the real APIcalypse will happen in a couple of weeks, when people actually using third party apps literally can’t anymore.
Which raw materials? Platinum for fuel cells? But that one will continue to be issue till we can mine it from asteroids.

We are technical people here no need to hesitate to name the materials or link information.
If you get sea sick on a boat look at the horizon. It brings your vestibular system in sync with your visual input. If you look inside the boat your visual and vestibular systems are out of sync.

The same could have happened to you on the coach - the river gave you something distant to fix your eyes on because of the visual appeal, while other objects did not offer the same point of stability because they were not attractive enough for you to fixate of them or not distant enough to provide stability.
At the cost of smoothing everything out losing a lot of texture and detail. In some cases it does look better because the artifacts are smoothed over, but it’s not a clear-cut. Especially with photography where the ISO grain is often a part of the art, it’s often completely washed away.
Same reason Twitter and Meta have kernel engineers - for their backend.
They wasted half a decade not building promised moderation tools for the people who create value on Reddit.

Instead they were busy running cost/benefit analyses on how aggressive the dark patterns to drive users to the maligned mobile app should be.
I mean, this has a certain truth to it... but this isn't really a situation unique to management.

A lot of engineers, of all flavors, are at least partially in the field for the money. Maybe they enjoy their work, maybe they're good at it, but for a lot of people it was more of a plan C or D after the things they really wanted to do turned out to be something they couldn't make money at.

Some of them would rather be authors or musicians, some of them chemists or physicists, a number of them are just waiting to buy a goat farm upstate. If you include them people who would rather be engineering something else, but that something else doesn't pay the bills, it may be a majority of engineers who are in it for the money.
Whoops, you're right. The picture I saw was relatively low res and it kind looked like it was Nicaragua.
Lol. Probably worried it would reproduce and become a paperclip maximiser.
Yes, but consider the delivery systems. The UK has 4 SSBMs, and at best 3 of them are seaworthy at a time.

Even if the UK managed to launch successfully without those systems being taken down (and there will be a missile failure rate), Russia has sophisticated air defenses, and there will be a substantial loss rate. Only a small fraction of those warheads will hit.

And those are not megaton warheads. These are small nuclear weapons meant for battlefield use. What's more, the UK is simply not going to go for a genocide; they're going to hit military assets, which are far more spread out.

So while the UK can deter from conventional attacks on itself, it's by no means a MAD scenario. They do not really have a shield to extend across eastern europe the way the US does.
> Visual quality, file size, compression time, decompression time, browser support, toolchain support, patent restrictions. Considering any one of those in isolation is insufficient for evaluating image formats.

Additionally, use cases are critical for understanding which of these and other properties matter, as well as their relative importance. Authoring formats (e.g. Apple ProRes, DNG) are evaluated much differently than distribution formats (e.g. AV1, JPEG).
>My own reading of this is that there are individuals who are prone to flipping out, even though they may well be very intelligent.

The converse is also true, the vast majority of people will not react even when heinous atrocities are imposed on them, in a gradual manner. Most 'leaders' i.e politicians and high up executives in large corporation know this and use this fact to their benefit.
Killing off HTTP completely is simply not going to happen, and in the meantime using HSTS does confer a tangible and real security benefit.

Regardless of whether we can kill of HTTP, this argument that “optional security is not security” is completely facile. For example, I could write my own browser right now that doesn’t verify TLS certs. Does that make HTTPS’ authentication “not security”? The real question is what proportion of clients _do_ honour HSTS, and the answer to that is “most”.
The nearest relatives to SARS-CoV-2 are found in Yunnan and Laos. The only known link to Wuhan is the Wuhan Institute of Virology sampled both areas.

They refuse to share their records with WHO or the NIH. That's a crucial caveat when saying there is no evidence they held a precursor. We don't know as they have refused to share their database.

The Times article is interesting as it suggests the work in DEFUSE to add furin cleavage sites went ahead and they passaged the virus in humanized mice. This would explain the furin site not seen in other sarbecoviruses and why humans topped the list for binding affinity from the outset.

Note the cases near the market are based on what David Relman described as "hopelessly impoverished" early case data. There was also sampling bias in retrospectively counting cases as market link was often required. WHO hasn't accepted market origin in part as there were likely much earlier cases than those in December linked to the market where no animals tested positive.
It takes sustained usage for the heatsink to saturate, and then the fans ramp up quickly. They do stay next to silent otherwise.
Isn't point (5) kind of moot with virtual threads?

I think golang shows that a synchronous, imperative paradigm wins the masses.

I'm not too brushed up with Kotlin suspend, but does it suffer from the classic "function coloring" problem that plagues other solutions? I've dabbled in functional effect systems in Scala, for example. I really enjoy them, but my coworkers sure don't when they realize that to perform some IO in a new place they will have to update a huge stack of type signatures to be wrapped in an IO monad. Async/await in javascript has the same issue, though the syntax is a bit friendlier.

My great hope for virtual threads in Java is that we can bring great IO performance and scalability, on par with golang, without retraining devs.
In France, there is a global population move towards the west coast-line, particularly the Atlantic coastline.

As a consequence, the price of housing has become high enough to trigger riots. In the Basque Country, in Brittany. Lots of locals cannot buy any space anymore. Lots of (mostly not high salary) seasonal workers have to go live further in the countryside, triggering longer commuting by car in these regions where trains are underdeveloped.
Is this supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing?
From a mutual friend, apparently the withdrawals were severe. He was actually admitted to a recovery place with his mom's help (that was $45k for a month!). Fentanyl is stored in fat cells apparently. It takes a long time to leave the system. So he was hospitalized because his potassium levels dropped to a dangerous place.

I'm not sure of the price tag. But i had another friend who was told to go to another hospital when his wife's pregnancy took a bad turn. They spent two weeks and it was several hundred thousand. The insurance said, just beg the hospital to reduce it? It was ridiculous. I'm just sure my friend won't leave with that covered. Not the hospitals responsibility for sure but it's outrageous the cost and prevents people from seeking help.
Sure, other languages without semi-colons and using invisible tabs for syntax are fantastic. What I love best are magic object types where you only discover invalid type casting when running the code.

And lest we forget the fabulous unit testing for those non-tedious languages. Oh.. I forgot testing is tedious and therefore unavailable for most of those languages.

But hey, just look at that really short code without a single comment. The word you're looking for is: Fantasticc! :-)
At most this comes down to Reddit’s inability to provide a quality mobile app that satisfies the 3rd party app users. The niche ones like disability friendly UIs is likely a different issue that may simply require a different app entirely given the typical product dev demands of most big companies.

The real problem is Reddit mostly sucks at design and UX. https://new.Reddit.com shows it’s not getting better besides search.

The users don’t really give a shit about API pricing or understand/care about Reddits steep financial demands. IRL Reddit probably have bankers down their throats for the IPO and Sam Altman/PG/Steve’s VC friends are pushing the AI data goldmine angle. Only the execs know what is really happening behind the scenes but there’s some very clear motivations here they aren’t doing a good job of communicating (possibly out of fear of the super niche r/antiwork type audiences who in reality will whine regardless).

Reddit could do plenty to fix the mobile (and web) issues and buy good will by openly confronting them. Plenty of product and transparency failures here well beyond spez’s Apollo dev conflict taking up the bulk of discourse that mostly only powerusers care about.

Otherwise Reddit is known for having powerusers, mods, and a general anti-authority “we’re making a difference by shitposting on the internet” culture. Especially after their net neutrality protests. It’s only natural for such a thing to turn into a big deal when the poweruser minority gets upset and for the rest there’s a prime opportunity for outrage against [faceless big corporation]. Reddit’s favourite target.

Reddit could much, much more easily placate the regular non-hardcore users by simply being transparent about their very real business demands to make money (esp with LLM) and by very publicly doubling down on making a better mobile app - since clearly they view 3rd party apps as not feasible for their current business plans. So why not fix why people love the 3rd party ones?

But as always big business PR is awful, transparency is downplayed and intentions are obscure as if users are idiots. Etc. Typical big co mediocrity.
Yes, of course, everyone should treat disingenuous propagandists as if they were attempting to have a serious discussion. If anyone objects to that, it is "deciding a topic is off-limits," which is insane. Of course we should let them run their horse paste grift and just patiently repeat over and over, "no, no, studies show it doesn't work. Please wear a mask to reduce spread."
It seems that the site broke down and now redirects to a Twitch stream

> Can I watch the website myself!

> Afraid not, our site recently broke down due to the amount of requests, and for the time being we've resorted to livestreaming it. When traffic dies down we'll put it back up.
Yes, it does make sense. I made the same decision.

It doesn't have to be a "selfless" decision. I made it for myself. Tell me, what part of streaming video involves them needing to track my location and decide when I am at an acceptable one to do so. The fact that they are gathering and using that information at all is not acceptable to me. I canceled immediately because I won't pay them to do such a thing.
As the author, I assure you that we will be conducting a post-mortem analysis for sure!

We experienced an astounding increase in traffic, nearly 100 times our usual volume

You can find mirror on Substack: https://vived.substack.com/p/the-compact-overview-of-jdk-21s...
this exchange is so hacker news
Length suffixes are for the truly insane.
There were some other replies in the thread. Does not scale linearly from mouse to humans. The human equivalent (from memory) is about 8 gm/day.
Yeah, I don't know how it is for everybody, but I'm reminded of the line, "A good horse runs even at the shadow of the whip." When I've been at places that have taken VC money, there's always a deep, pervasive awareness that the deal is "exit or bust", and that every investor call should include good news in up-and-to-the-right form. At least with us, they didn't have to do much explicit yanking of the chain. Probably for the same reason that Fat Tony doesn't often have to remind people that he expects to be paid on time.
I can see how "Redwood City" could become "City of Redwood", and then just "Redwood", through multiple steps. I had never heard of it before moving to norcal.
Like 10 people work on this game, no surprise nothing is happening.
Didn't both KotukuInAction and TheDonald get shut down by the sub's original creators due to them going off the rails and then forcibly re-opened by the admins and handed over to new moderators who were happy with the massive growth in a direction the original owner never intended and actively did not want?
The doom and gloom honestly is mostly driven by Reddit’s leadership being incompetent. If Reddit leadership reached out and worked things out privately and in a productive manner with 3rd party app developers to create a plan and agree on reasonable timelines, none of this drama would have surfaced at this magnitude. Would people still be pissed at the API charges forcing apps to charge subscription fees? Probably. But you wouldn’t have peoples’ favorite Reddit apps shutting down and creating a much bigger stir as we have today. And I think everyone is in agreement at some level that Reddit deserves some compensation for API usage. But again, this has all been handled very poorly by Reddit leadership.
Interestingly in the latest FF on Linux for some reason for me the colors are washed out for AVIF and JPEGXL but not the other formats. Looking fine in Chromium though.

When zooming in 3x I can say that AVIF looks significantly better than JPEGXL in the lower quality settings while being consistently a little bit smaller in filesize. There is better color retention, less noise and looks sharper. At the "tiny" setting the difference is night and day. At the highest setting they are so close enough that I wouldn't say there's a clear winner for me after going through all the images.
The "suffix" there is a docs mistake. if you look at the example csexp's on the page the lengths are prefixed. I think that the csexp's of this package are compatible with Rivest's format.
Because life is not just the economy or GDP. There are many other important factors in a society, for example, integration.
I still feel bad for whatever web developer had to check in the "this page looks better in the app" banner.
If you’re being sarcastic in text, throw us a `/s`.