skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oops, this is a dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36287411
Will they succeed in driving their users away?
Discover how a father creatively combined AI tools and imagination to design a magical Harry Potter-themed treasure hunt for his child.
For me, the issue is I have severe sleep apnea. I was recently at the Hawaii airport and my layover got delayed 12 hrs. None of the power outlets worked. I was like, guess I'm not allowed to sleep. I was awake almost 48 hrs by the end of the trip.
Fully remote is hard, but there is a spectrum between that and fully on-site.

Software developers can work from home most of the time and meet in person for meaningful interactions (i.e. not just work in office instead of at home) periodically and when needed.
Here's some more:

- no way to play a unison without resorting to multiple channels
- communication is one-way, so no standard way to query what CCs the synth actually supports
- tuning table support wasn't part of the original spec (MTS exists but most synths don't implement it)
- poly aftertouch exists but it's hard to actually use it effectively due to how it's implemented in keyboards and how the protocol is designed
- 128 notes per channel isn't enough for some instruments without resorting to MPE
- MPE addresses an important use case but breaks some MIDI abstractions (users have to know about "zones" instead of "channels")
- it's possible to lose a "note-off" resulting in a stuck note
- 31.25 kbps is slow by modern standards (USB is faster, but then you're stuck with short cables and the "what if neither or both devices are a USB host" problem)

On top of that, I think it's a bad sign that midi.org requires you to login to download the MIDI 1.0 spec. What are they trying to accomplish by making it harder than it needs to be to just read a 40-year-old specification?

I think it may be a good time for a new protocol that isn't based on the same fundamental abstractions as MIDI. Device compatibility isn't necessarily even that big a problem as long as cheap conversion devices to translate between protocols exist (though of course MIDI devices would be limited to what it's possible to express in MIDI).

Instead of note on / note off, I'm imagining a bidirectional protocol where the controller explicitly allocates voice circuits, explicitly tunes them to a particular pitch, and then either triggers envelope generators or takes manual control of the envelope.

For a physical layer I think CAN bus could be a pretty good option. It's meant for low-latency real-time tasks, it's supported by a lot of microcontrollers, the standard speed is 1mbps, and cable length can be very long at that speed (40 meters).
I’ll admit I don’t know much about the back end. I’m not that sort of dev. Is anyone working on a reddit clone to deploy, then? If there was ever a time, it’s now.
To some degree it’s the fact that markets aren’t perfectly efficient and companies aren’t perfectly rational. Another component is that biases and stereotypes are often somewhat accurate, more so than random luck.
Fund managers are a different kind of thing, because it's a principal-agent problem. The fund manager has different incentives than the client. He wants to get a bonus, so he takes risks consistent with the structure of his bonus contract even if they're not aligned with the interests of the investor. It's not surprising that underperforms, it's a textbook perverse incentive.

But people often get ahead by understanding an industry. For example, when Stable Diffusion became available last year, someone who was paying attention might have noticed that it was likely to become popular and spike demand for GPUs to run it on. If that person went out and bought some shares of NVDA or AMD at that point, they'd be happy with where it is today compared to an index fund.

But a major index fund is unlikely to temporarily change the ratio of those companies in the index in response to that kind of information, so the higher returns are only available to people who are paying attention and willing to take the risk with their own money.
M2 is still quite far ahead in user-interactive tasks like browser and JVM, as shown by actual user experience in battery life. Cinebench isn't exactly the only efficiency test and Anandtech shows AMD still trailing far behind on the SPEC2017 suite (a variety of real-world applications).

In desktops (Mac Studio etc) where you can run unlimited watts, yeah Apple doesn't do as well there, but the efficiency is still amazing. And in the laptops, the actual user experience shows the cinebench numbers aren't capturing something.
> Will users and communities end this protest and go back to business as usual?

Maybe. It's hard to get back to business as usual when your usual client just stops working. We'll see how people adapt. I'm not sure I want to install the official reddit app.

Switching apps may as well switch sites too.. I've already got Jerboa installed, trying to see if content picks up there enough for it to remain interesting. Definitely some growing pains right now.
I’m not sure if this is a strategy, but I work about 50-60 hours a week and study as well. To do that without going totally crazy, I have 4 fundamental things I aim to make sure I do everyday which are as follows:

1. Get plenty of sleep, and ensure good sleep hygiene.

2. Exercise regularly (at least 5 times a week - it’s a good idea if you can pick an exercise you really enjoy because that makes it easier to be consistent).

3. Drink plenty of water.

4. Nourish your body with healthy food.

Those things are like my pillars. They don’t make life exceptionally great, but if you don’t take care of basics, you just don’t function as good, and it makes it harder than it needs to be to achieve all the other things.

Then obviously, as a human I have social needs, I kind of like the third space theory. I have a sports club I go to that’s seperate from work and home, and that keeps me sane (I get my social time, and exercise in one hit).

Finally, I absolutely do not procrastinate. Procrastination is an opportunity cost. Whenever I need a break from one task, I switch to another important task that I have to get done. Ie, if I’m researching, I might have a “break” and in that break, I do a household chore, or run an errand, then I get straight back into what I was doing.
Last week I had an attempt of contact via this new chat-thing from a completely empty new account
The TLS Certificate Issuer Field Is a Lie
Isn't there also the issue of federation itself, if users have to understand federation they'll just stick to regular Reddit. Going by the principle of "don't make me think", that is
Probably internal politics. I have seen many stupid moves being the result of internal politics and ego.
I never used fark. Did they make a change to the structure of how users interacted with the site, or did they make a change to the UI only?

digg v4 was a disaster, but the exodus started before that when digg removed threaded comments.

Related: Wikipedia changed what pages actually looked like by moving a contents navigation bar to the left side and minimizing some other features.

It's the last UI change in a major website I can think of that didn't make me grimace.
I do think so. Google wanted me, as compiler engineer, to take a dev ops role, probably in some cellar in NY. Of course I said no.

However I took a good test and even support engineer job once, because it was a major upgrade, even from software engineering.
The problem is the business model is terrible. You need to sell ads to survive and the ads ruin the site.
Note to self - scratching CloudFlare off the list of companies I'd want to work for.
Looks at list

I choose CowboyNeal.
What's your definition of "compact" here?

And there's a lot of ways to put together a character, so I worry you'd end up with something closer to a vector format than a normal character encoding.
I often iterate my prompt on a fixed seed and by changing slightly the prompt to get the best results, so that wouldn't works well here.
Not bad, but the ones from the custom trained NN are way nicer in my opinion, with most of these it's pretty clear they are QR codes (which is probably better for usability, but makes the art a bit worse).
If they are going to take him to the cleaners they're probably waiting for the results of the next couple of days first
Is that as cool for investors? I would imagine, for better or worse, being black correlated with being poor, and therefore black userbase is less valuable then white for ad serving purposes.
An astonishing number of debates are between one group of people saying “Foo needs A” and another saying “Foo needs B” when really... Foo needs a good helping of A and B.
Early 1980s Datsun/Nissan Voice Alert phonograph unit [video]
Piracy is nothing if not convenient.
They've been trying to monetise it for years.
They'll monetise it into the ground.
Described at https://jalopnik.com/1982-datsun-voice-warning-box-used-tiny...
> The Vichy regime wasn't the French government, it was the puppet for an occupying country

That's just wishful hand waving away a problematic period of French history. The Vichy government is a direct successor to the previous government, with Pétain replacing Reynaud as Prime Minister following all procedures, and was elected specifically to sign an armistice with Germany. From there they went on suspending thr constitution and civil liberties, and being in most, but not all (most notably military, the French navy, air force and army didn't help the Germans in any way and ended up being sabotaged before falling in German hands) respects a puppet of Germany. But they got to that position as a direct continuation of the previous Third Republic governments.
Oh my god. I remember this happening, and I remember email drew about it at the time.

It really never did recover from this. I "grew up" on Fark, and lots of my early web projects were clones of it/inspired by it. Fark really was a special part of the internet, and it's sad that it fell off. I wonder if the fact that they never moved on from this design was Drew being gunshy about changing it again.
you're over thinking this. The USB does not even necessarily have to be undiscoverable, VeraCrypt is enough. Just put a couple of K on some crypto wallets and hold them in the main volume.

The fact that you've got valuable data on the "boring" volume is enough to explain why it is encrypted.

If you use an amnesic OS that does not right to the USB and is read only on the hidden volume, you won't be racking up the SMART data clocks on write cycles when within the "interesting" volume, making it look completely like a passive USB, sat there looking pretty and gathering dust just holding your wallets.

But even then, you could explain any high usage in the SMART data as it being a random USB you had lying around that you used to use daily, that you decided to throw your wallets on. The SMART data is not timestamped, it's just a total cumulative counter that goes up over the entire life of the device.
We got the H-1B visa, the L-1 visa, and the O-1 visa. You gotta do your research, handle some paperwork, and be ready to jump through some hoops.
Blue-sky hasn't even implemented federation yet, it's basically vapourware.
> Pettiness and immaturity really just is an inefficiency that nobody wants to deal with at that level.

I've seen a lot of docs and written a bunch of docs for higher ups in one of the FAANG companies (one of my docs made it's way to the CEO level). The advice I heard often in reviews was "no weasel words" and "don't interpret the data - assume your audience is smart enough to understand the implications."

One interesting thing that stood out to me is that the lower levels tended to review exactly what was written in the docs while reviews at the VP and SVP level read the docs and used them as launch pads for discussion - it never stuck to the content in the doc. This is likely there's another reason to not inject pettiness in that it doesn't just get in the way of consuming the information, but gets in the way of having the larger discussion that everyone is interested in.
Agreed. The issue is that currently most hybrid approaches seem to be a basic "you work in office 2 days a week", which is not useful for, say, software devs: There is no benefits to anyone in coding in office vs. at home. Instead, days in office should be special, meaning days of personal interactions.
This implies that the website is really called fuck.com (but censored), which is certainly … a choice.
Frameworks such as Spring used to be much more like this, until the annotation hype started to kick in somewhere around 2010. I always thought this was a bad idea. Sure, annotations work nice in a small demo app, but in a large application you want to have everything explicit and under your direct control.
When Reddit first introduced their terrible mobile site years ago, they thankfully left around the old i.reddit.com (also known as .compact) around, which I exclusively used and so didn't really care much about the horrendously user-hostile current mobile site, with its popup windows begging you to use the app. They removed it entirely a month or so ago. I now no longer use Reddit.
Between the two methods, this is also an unintended analogue to how interplanetary Internet would look like. Mars colony designers and hard sci-fi writers, take note.
PG on Remote Work - “things will go most of the way back”
I'm guessing it is because adblockers don't usually work on apps, but they do work on websites.

With firefox on Android i have ublock origin, on the reddit app i don't - I'm forced to watch their ads however they feed them.

Plus, push notifications like "have you seen this post?" and "your comment got 10 upvotes!"
Unpopular opinion Technical Decisions are Made Due To The “fear of looking dumb”
Well, sure, sharing a block list but what if you simply want to quietly not be bothered by someone.

You should have both I think. One so the other person knows, one so the other person doesn't know explicitly.
> appointing new mods and starting the sub back up

That's what I'd do. Most subreddit mods are easily replaceable. And in many subreddits, the people who are mods aren't necessarily the best suited for the job. They often got there through luck, bootlicking, etc. It isn't a meritocracy.
> In short: don’t ever try and redact real private keys. For documentation purposes, just put “KEY GOES HERE” in the appropriate spot, or something like that.

I would define replacing the entire body of the key as redacting a private key. I would define the behaviour of the author as advocating against as partially redacting a private key.
While I sincerely hope Reddit feels the pressure and goes back, they have taken a bet in a different landscape as Digg:

1. The vast majority of Reddit users (maybe not the contributors) use the native app. I myself do as well. So this api change doesn’t affect me immediately (of course it does indirectly by restricting moderation and bots).

2. I open Reddit today and it’s different but not inferior. I’d argue the real value of Reddit nowadays is in all the nice subreddits one subscribes to, and most of them are still alive and active. My friends who just started redditting last year have not even noticed the whole shebang.

It’s very possible (in fact slightly more possible than not) that Reddit will survive this mostly unscathed. I’m not betting on it but I’m a poor speculator so don’t take my word for it for sure.
Gaming can make them a lot or money but not at the cost of everything else. They would want to compete with nvidia like they are competing with intel. High-end graphics studios are the core consumers for this product. What the guy said also makes sense, to use a third party GPU apps would need to be designed to use non-apple memory/api which is more stuff that could go wrong (bad experince for users and support cost) and not a whole lot of gamers will jump to apple anyways.
Also "I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup": https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
This one doesn't have to make money, I assume
The main challenge seems that leadership is so poor at making the case for what they believe will be gained. It's always vague things like networking, training or energy.

Add to that the point that the few stated examples are usually available if staff come in even a modest amount of the time, ie they are an argument against full remote rather than an argument against majority remote.
More control, more data, better tracking.
> It's simple. Don't reward bad behavior.

This is mathematically backed.

In the game of prisoners dilemma if someone chooses to defect (bad behavior) rather than cooperate, and you choose to cooperate (reward bad behavior), bad behavior becomes a winning strategy, so you can expect even more bad behavior in the future.
There were times like this in the past (the changes when Pao became CEO and later the censorship through quarantining of multiple subreddits came to my mind, but there were others).

I think the main reason there was no exodus similar to Digg's is not due to good policy on Reddit's side (it became increasingly worse over time) but the lack of a competitor that could quickly scale to receive a migration without going dark.

The number of users migrating from Digg to Reddit and the number of users today is quite different, but if there is a better platform that could stand this migration, Reddit could be dead in a matter of hours.
and when you try to rein in expenses to show less ads, the community begins to propose $10M buyouts and every refrain from reasonable optimizations of their API calls.
>The vast majority of Reddit users (maybe not the contributors) use the native app. I myself do as well.

The idea that you'd willingly use an app with baked-in ads is insane to me, to say nothing of the fact that the official app performs very poorly and could charitably be described as "dogshit UX".
Its going to tank but for a different reason -- because like Coinbase, Robinhood, and other hyped stock listings, all the insiders are going to dump shares on the unsuspecting retail public. I imagine day 1 of trading will be the highest the stock ever gets.
sure full scale thermal nuclear war is better than politics.
Hey Amazon, why do you allow book hijacking?
There are only a handful of subs that voted against or are generally against it and it's all ironic, toxic, and shit post subs like nbacirclejerk, 4chan, etc.
hacker.news already forwards here(!)
It's interesting everything trying to be TikTok. As a user, if I wanted TikTok i'd use TikTok. I don't want TikTok, so I don't use TikTok.

I use Facebook mainly for hobby/owners groups these days as that's where a lot of them are. I sometimes use the market place. My feed is mainly my interests, motorbikes, local events, local cafes/restaurants etc etc. Then there's reels i never interact with which get forced on me every other week after clicking hide. The Reels are all short thumbnails of young girls of questionable age wearing little clothing in provocative poses/dances! They don't fit my usual browsing habbits, I don't interact with them but they force them on me as likely they'll gain lots of clicks from mid-thirty year old male demographic! I'm no prude but I don't want to see what look like children in my feed. We know why they do it though, they all likely get high clicks.

Youtube is the same except content more relevant to me feed. I use Youtube for longer form videos, travel, motor vehicles, tech. They still insist on forcing shorts in my feed. Mobile has got particularly bad as they mix shorts in the feed timeline as regular videos. AndroidTV Youbtube isn't so bad but they are slowly promoting shorts there to.

Not shorts but similar is I used Spotify for many years then it started forcing Podcasts on me as Podcasts where the hot thing. On my homepage where I had music which was relevant to me I had to hunt around to find my music as my homepage was full of podcasts I had no interest in so eventually cancelled my membership.

It's sad when every tech company tries to replicate another companies features ditching the very thing which their users originally joined them for.
David Graeber on "Tyranny of Structurelessness": "[Many] completely misread Freeman’s essay, and interpret it not as a plea for formal mechanisms to ensure equality, but as a plea for more transparent hierarchy."
Yes, I picked up on that. Was just trying to play along :)
At least old.reddit.com still works and it's usable, more or less, on mobile.
askhistorians is an extreme example. They basically change the entire nature of the site through very visible moderation. But my understanding is that places like r/physics would be drowning in lazy memes as well. Take any subreddit you like and look at the posting guidelines. Chances are they are there in reaction to significant amounts of people acting contrary to them.
It has been deleted! It was posted on r/programmerhumor two days ago (had "reverse engineered" in the title), there was a post about how the original post was deleted, and now everything is private.

The gist was that the function started out with a (fixed-size!) malloc, then copied the source key while applying the substitution cypher into the buffer, and then returned the result of calling a JNI function (NewStringUTF, IIRC) with the buffer, but did not actually free the buffer (which wasn't necessary in the first place). And this function apparently gets called quite often.
The year of the linux phone...
> Unlike <img> tags, <video> posters have no standard way of specifying many URLs for fetching the optimal format supported by the client.

Actually, you can do it without needing any scripting, though the technique is convoluted: use as the poster an SVG image (encoded inline as a data URI), containing a <foreignObject>, containing an HTML <picture> element. It ends up roughly this (with superfluous whitespace added):

<video
poster='data:image/svg+xml,
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" …>
<foreignObject …>
<picture xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
…
</picture>
</foreignObject>
</svg>
'>
</video>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impacts_of_climate_ch... suggests aggregate economic impacts of climate change might be between 0% to 20% of world GDP.

On the one hand, that's really a lot. On the other hand, that's really only a few years of growth for market economies.

Soviet style disasters were a lot worse, and didn't even really do anything for their economies, I mean compared to what even moderate access to markets does. See eg https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/norilsk-russian-arctic-be...
It's patently obvious that they're just trying to drive up ad impression numbers on the app to inflate their financials before IPO/acquisition.
Non paywalled by Lars Blackmore http://www.larsblackmore.com/iee_tcst13.pdf
yes , it makes sense i think. Those necklaces are barely visible and very often are hidden by your shirt. They're hardly comparable to something that covers half your head.
I wish pg would call up Huffman and try to convince him that this is a bad bet regardless of whether they win.

They’ll survive. But no one will love them anymore. I was still a fan of Reddit as a platform till the moment Huffman lied about Apollo’s developer for no reason whatsoever.

That goodwill is hard to earn. And although goodwill isn’t convertible to dollars directly, it tends to affect trajectory over the long term. See freenode’s dramatic decline, among many other examples.

I thought tildes was supposedly a Reddit alternative. I guess they never caught on.
Why the Battle for Supremacy in Asia Begins with China’s Coast Guard
Twitter killed a lot of third party apps and it just grew and grew. I suspect there is a vocal minority complaining about these changes. Most sub’s are going dark for 2 days. Time will pass and Reddit will continue to have a highly active user base.
>The government is a government because it has a monopoly on violence to enforce its rules.

That's the definition of State. Governments are just administrative bodies.