skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may simply be a case of each codec having its own strengths, however I also wonder whether the issue here isn't also that the "small" compression size you're linking to in these examples in general isn't good enough; you're trading the kinds of artifacts you want - and in general jxl doesn't appear to do as well as avif at low quality settings.

But consider also e.g. https://afontenot.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#reykja... - even at "large" quality settings avif pretty visibly distorts the sky and there's some blur it the nearby trees too.

In any case, comparing to even the fairly good (for jpg) mozjpeg encoder it's clear both of these codes are much better than the status quo, and not that different from each other - neither wins universally vs each other, but both pretty clearly do vs. jpeg.

A fairly simple heuristic seems be that if want images at the tiny size - pick avif. At small, pick avif unless you really, really want to preserve texture over detail. At medium, pick jxl for texture, and avif for detail; and at large, pick jxl.

Browsing through these images in general, I think I'd usually pick jxl at medium or even sometimes large settings; small simply has too many artifacts in general (but if I had to use that - avif), and at better quality I (personally) find the distortion to texture more noticeable than loss of detail. I guess it depends on how important compression ratio is to you?
By throwing UTF-16 under the bus, or by extending it, in the same way that UCS-2 was created by extending UTF-16.

Just like a number of UCS-2-representable codepoints in the basic plane were given up, in order to allow that number squared of non-UCS-2-representable codepoints to be representable in UTF-16, a number of UTF-16-representable codepoints in a supplemental plane could be given up, in order to allow N^2 non-UTF-16-representable codepoints in not-yet-existing supplemental planes to be representable in UTF-16-but-worse.

Yes, I'm talking about putting surrogates in the surrogates.
UFO Mystery: Controversy Swirls Around Report of Retrieved 'Craft'
> new users can be intimidated by the information overload

The learn to use it? There's now a reverse trend in appliances: they use to be simple, now they are quite complicated, see washing machines, yet people handle it.
Google’s Secure AI Framework
Strange, I have the exact opposite experience. I have personally have felt ostracized multiple times for suggesting it was likely there was an unintentional lab leak. I often got criticized for suggesting it was a bio-weapon, while I never thought that and never even said those words. Sometime in the past 12 months this disappeared.
What do you base this on? That’s literally a treasure trove of “public data” that those companies absolutely love to sell.
He was correct to do this, because it was funny. Any true longtime forum poster would recognize this. (Conversely, if it wasn't funny, he should've done it differently.)

Although doing Lowtax things may lead to turning into Lowtax, which is probably bad.

I can certainly tell you it's not a serious problem, because it'd be illegal if it was. All serious problems with websites are revenue issues or legal issues.
OpenAI Chronicle: What Drives ChatGPT Creators?
Also would force the platform into a death spiral. 95% of users leaving -> massive reduction in content -> more users leave -> no more content -> reddit is gone.
Indeed, posting the original link works directly. I suspect that HN has blacklisted ScienceAlert as a reposting website.

Thanks for your help :)
I posted it with the original link and will mention the reasons and details (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36290333)
It will not be their decision though. There are different ways to boost profits. Also, the new CEO might want to shake things up a bit - even if they just apologize and roll things back.
Walking seems like a waste of time to me. It's a slow form of transportation and a very inefficient form of exercise.
Surprised to see 9gag mentioned in the context of Reddit alternative. Does anyone use 9gag for more than memes/funny stuff?
French farmers are the highest-subsidized in all of the EU. One even gets subsidies for having fields lay fallow or reductions in production. And French farmers are well known for their drama. Spilling tons of milk on the motorway, drowning Paris in dung, threats of beheadings. So please forgive me when I just file "letting farmers commit suicide" as yet more drama...
The other curves should all be the same color.

The gradient over-emphasizes the bottom curves while making the top curves almost disappear, giving the impression that the red curve is more of an outlier than it actually is.
>Just when people believed there were enough satellites in space, China announced its plans to launch a satellite constellation that orbits the moon in an attempt to explore the early days of the universe as early as 2026.

Would the author start with this sentence if it were an American satellite?

It's a science research satellite. Maybe that kind of sentence is only appropriate for military satellites?
I don't recall the world ending because of a couple infected Windoze machines. Plus it made teenagers like myself a bit of cash for cleaning up friends'/relatives' computers.
Good for signal, bad for scale.
I initially found this via ScienceAlert (https://www.sciencealert.com/ufo-mystery-controversy-swirls-...) and used the title from ScienceAlert simply because the title from "TheConversation.com" was too long for HN.

My initial decision to post this was regarding a previous post on HN made at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36216745. The post from TheConversation starts to analyze the claims (in a general and simplistic approach) on if we should take things seriously or not, and I thought it might interest some of you.
I tried to post the original a few days ago but the submission was automatically killed.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/i4WR5ULH1ZZYl8Watf3EPw
Is there ever a genuine, non-arbitrary business requirement to limit any string to a certain number of unicode characters? And by characters here we probably mean extended grapheme clusters.

If the data is going to get printed in a monospace font, on a passport or credit card or something, then i can understand a limit on the number of characters. But then it's not full unicode either - you want to constrain the length in some specific character set.

Otherwise, i think limits are always arbitrary. I suspect there is a strong cultural holdover from the days of punched cards here.
The public sure, the governments no.
I don't doubt Reddit's ops competency, I doubt we will see any problems. I am sure they have people going through the mental exercise of "what is this 'strike' going to do to our infra?"

As an ops person the only time I have ever thought "It's going very well" is when something I expected to cause an outage didn't or a new automation seems to be working properly.

Everything else is change and failure is proportional to change. 5000 subreddits going dark is definitely change, and I would definitely be anxious about the uncharted territory, not happy to see low load on the servers.

I think I would be worried about these people who are downloading their post histories, deleting their post histories, or potentially mass deletion of accounts. Requests against old posts and uncached content could potentially be expensive. Of course, without a deep understanding of Reddit's infra/architecture, it's hard to really estimate what kind of problems might arise.
Thanks. I think some of us (well me) are more suited to holidays than travelling as a lifestyle. It is the contrast from the normal that makes it exciting.
It doesn't appear that there is a clear zoonotic origin for SARS-CoV-1 and MERS either. The case is circumstantial in a similar way to SARS-CoV-2. Yes there are several animal reservoirs that carry similar viruses, but there wasn't a specific one found from which any of the 3 strains came.
We hope it will save time when assessing bugs and describing new features, by providing a base reference of what the code currently does.

We intend to have designers update the doc when describing a change request, and the devs also update the doc afterwards.

We're not sure any of this is going to work; in the life of the project there has been at least two major documentation efforts, that failed because they were eventually abandoned (not maintained).

Some are still hoping there's some kind of magic bullet that would let us automate everything... and I'm not immune to this myself.
> Disagree with this for lots of reasons

You might have visit a different reddit then. GP's comment is spot on. Oppressive moderation is rampart on reddit.
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s former prime minister, dies at 86
ComfyUI allow you to design your own workflow. It also mean understanding how things works, it's far harder to use than automatic1111 UI.
And no help from airport staff? One would think "passenger with medical device that needs charging" would be a common-enough scenario to handle somehow :/
I'm guessing it's because UX as a field has gone from focusing on usability and aesthetics to darkpatterns in the service of commercialization.
With UTF-7 being a requirement for certain (outdated) email protocols and programs intentionally sabotaging their UTF-7 code paths (most importantly .NET 5), UTF-7 will remain relevant for anyone dealing with email software for a while. UTF-7 is just one of the many ways in which email can screw you over.

SMTP can't reliably handle UTF-8 so your options quickly devolve into base64 encoding messages or falling back to UTF-7 encoding. Base64 is a lot more wasteful than the alternative, as cursed as UTF-7 may be. For full interoperability, some mail servers even require you to be able to deal with UTF-7 wrapped inside another transcoding format!
As they say, "the determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language.".

ADTs and pattern matching go hand in hand, and they - along with immutable structures - are the cornerstones of functional programming. They provide you very strong compile-time guarantees in a very elegant and readable form. I like to write code this way, and out of 10k LoC I would estimate at least half is ADTs and pattern matching for me. Maybe more.

Too bad that although Java's ADTs are coming along nicely, pattern matching is in it's infancy (due to limitations inherent in Java). This is the single language feature I miss the most from Java and Kotlin from Scala.
Amazon's First Job Listing
Assuming your employees are not charlatans, WFH normally means a bit more work for the manager in exchange for somewhat improved productivity.

Maybe your managers are lazy or incompetent?
Maybe if they gain enough followers, companies will pay them NOT to deinfluence them?
Too early? It was always "oh now piedpiper fails… oh we saved it, we are rich again"
> Maybe if Airbnb had unannounced professional reviewers stay a night at every property and do very comprehensive critiques?

Isn't that what they do with Airbnb plus and lux options?
Permaculture can adapt to almost any climate and convert land into food forest. Basic idea is to conserve moisture by creating swales on contour and planting a wide variety of plants and fruit trees mostly on the ridges. At the moment it is initially labor intensive to get started but is very low maintenance once established. In the future AI robots can tend and harvest it in a way that does not require huge fields of monoculture.
Nothing new, London has congestion charge/ULEZ, it works decently well apart from the Tory corruption that allows all the assholes here to drive giant range rovers/SUVs in London, they should've banned new registrations drivable in London for SUVs in like mid 2000s or something.
Totally insufficient.

People need a green outlook out of their windows, surrounding greenery is linked to various kinds of psychological goodness. Having to commute to an overcrowded, dirty, needle-ridden park or outskirt somewhere isn't an option.

And for wildlife, continuous bands of greenery and routes of migration with only small interruptions (like street crossings) are necessary. Isolated islands are almost useless.
> Oh, and everything involves real numbers, no fancy stuff like complex numbers or rationals or p-adic integers or Banach spaces.

Or integers! You could probably do complex convex optimisation okay, but when it's integers, you need a whole new set of techniques.
You'll get significantly better compression by using general purpose compressors.
Compressesing your sample file, we get 823 bytes with brotli

Download TurboBench and make your own tests:

[1] - https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench
Isn't #2 freely available for anyone to scrape? And even if they shut down access now, presumably everyone training LLMs already has a mostly complete dump of reddit comments/links.
In Zuck's interview with Lex he was talking about a text-based social media platform they Meta has been experimenting with recently. This would be a great time for them to try to acquire users
Not anymore! They’re googling the GitHub docs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/retiring-the-aws-documentat...
Usenet cost was distributed to ISPs, which eventually sank it as they lost interest. And it never solved the moderator conundrum; at one point, a third of Usenet was spam, and another third was "spam cancels" deleting the spam.
So, What Do You Do?
Characters per minute (CPM) according to the guy that tried to convert me to VI.

I kid you not.
It would be at least possible to write a python plugin for the 'automatic1111' ui which allows you to simply input the QR text, and have it generate images based on a variety of possible configurations in batch so you can go through and pick the one which is most aesthetically pleasing.

edit: It would also be beneficial to have a script which automatically distorts the image in various ways and checks to see if it would be recognized by a QR code scanner, and give a score so you can see how likely it would be to be scannable in various conditions.
That won't work, moderation is human-complete.
SO mods can sometimes be just as petty and power-abusive as reddit mods, which is annoying to see, and of course there is little recourse.
I'd personally hide or delete them. But I can see why someone might argue for this functionality, it's not totally absurd.

What's absurd is a CEO editing posts to troll people
So does this means their astroturfing bot is open to prompt injection?
Hey! Sorry to drop in like this, but could you spare one invite for me too please? The community looks interesting and I'd also like to participate in some discussions but I haven't had any luck finding an invite (I missed the last reddit thread by a few hours)

Can drop it to vildravn@gmail.com, don't think HN has DMs.
Has NYT ever written something that isn't anti-China or associated China with a positive/neutral tone?
Arma 3 might be somewhat realistic, but that has nothing to do with what I’m saying about Warcraft 3. I’m saying the level of micromanagement and perfect information in W3 is completely unlike how actual battlefields can be managed.

AI that is good at W3 manages every individual unit’s actions and it does that based on a map that magically reveals enemies when you get close. Nothing like that would ever work IRL.
There are alternatives. Lemmy has seen incredible growth over the past two weeks.
Today where we need exploits in order to regain computing freedom I take the exploits please.
Would those users continue using Apollo after Reddit bought it and filled it with ads or would they start to slowly drift away to other clients over time?
I see your topic as [dead]. I don't know anything about moderation here but the HN allows me to vouch some topics, maybe because I have high enough karma and I have set showdead option. That means that some kind of a moderation system (probably automated or semi-automated one) marked your post as kind of bad and somebody needs to vouch it.

I do not want to vouch your post, because I do not want even to read anything tied to UFO events.
It doesn't work like that. Pages bounce back very quickly (particularly if they are already indexed). Google swipes removed pages regularly even 1+ years after they have been removed.
yeah but at this point, currying seems to be a loss in ergonomics in most use case we have found in the wild. I love the idea, I love the principle.

But the jury is definitely still out for if the pattern of showing it in syntax and semantics actually is beneficial. And yes, I know nearly all the examples you can come with to show how useful it can be.

But the cost of having it seems to more than compensate the benefits.
HN mods can confirm this, and cx42net (or any other submitter) is encouraged to email mods at hn@ycombinator.com for this or other issues. I'd done so myself on a recent submission that was autokilled.

As for ScienceAlert, looking at submissions from the site strongly suggests it's banned:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sciencealert.com>

That can be lifted for specific instances on request.

Though in this case, the disambiguated link from The Conversation would be preferred: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

<https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>
IMO it's kind of strange to want evidence for something that can very clearly occur. Do you really deny that it happens? As it is though I don't have any examples handy, maybe someone else will be able to provide one for you.
Some more piano-like limitations:

The tuning is assumed to be 12-tone equal temperament. Other temperaments are possible, but you're kind of off in uncharted territory. Especially if you want a temperament that doesn't use a 12 note repeating octave. (MTS exists but it's not widely supported.)

You can't play a unison without resorting to multiple channels.

No way to do the equivalent of guitar hammer-ons and pull-offs in a polyphonic manner without resorting to multiple channels. (MIDI 2.0 at least adds per-note pitch bend.)

(A lot of MIDI limitations can be gotten around by just using multiple monophonic channels instead of one polyphonic channel, and that's what MPE is. Sadly most of the otherwise amazing famous analog poly synths out there can only receive on one channel.)
No but they still need mods. Otherwise the quality will quickly go so far downhill that no one wants to see use it anymore.
This could have been titled “Points Half Made.” Time and again he seems to set off on a path to saying something coherent, then mumbles snarky innuendo and changes to the next subject.
That would be fine if they also objected to computer games or reddit or TV for the same reason. But wasting energy is only an issue when it's crypto?! That is where I get confused.

Equally I don't actually think Crypto will cure cancer any time soon...
I think that stasis, low load, boredom and nothing happening - metaphorical tumbleweeds, is the opposite of chaos.

Servers timing out, error messages on the user's screens, overload, flashing lights and on-call PagerDuty alarms going off would indeed be an example of chaos.
Stayed in a really nice place many years ago. Went off the airbnb platform...harder to do now...bargained the rate and paid cash for a few months.

Never saw the owner except near the end when he was showing the place to prospective new tenants.

Prefer an anonymous hotel room with nice front desk people and a hotel manager who is ok with adjusting to a lower rate.

Honestly. I dont want to see the owner. They're amateurs.

At most hotels if something goes bad i can easily change rooms...usually an upgrade...
Here's the website that the stream is viewing:

https://reddark.untone.uk/
It's going to take a long time before the mainstream is ready to think critically about the COVID narratives, but it's good to see first steps toward the recovery of rationality.

But there's still a lot to cover:

- Lockdowns did little to prevent the spread of COVID and lead to increased deaths by other causes, egregious violation of people's fundamental rights, massively destruction of the economy, and many people's mental health.

- Cloth masks were pointless security theatre

- The vast majority of people except the very elderly and obese were in very little danger

- The vaccines never prevented transmission

- The vaccines only offered very limited protection for a brief period

- The rate of side effects (including serious side effects up to and including death) is a lot higher than anyone wants to admit.

- To most segments of the population, the danger of death by vaccine side effects is greater than the danger of death by COVID-19

I'm hoping in a decade or so, we'll get towards something approaching a "sorry, you were right", like we did with the Iraq war, but there's still a long way to go.
> There is no one problem with Reddit, and that is the problem.

Actually there is one singular problem ... money.

They could accept that "reddit the product" is a 2-5bn market cap business with solid 0.5bn revenue; staff up on that basis, scale their infrastructure on that basis, M&A on that basis, set investor expectations on that basis.
i (at least), as a power user, don't want to work for every small thing in my life. my free time gets spent on hobbies and friends, not on fixing the broken web. if i can use those tools with low friction, i will, if not, i will stop doing it entirely.
I think this has been done for a long time? I made this one that looks like a VLC logo and links to VLC, back in 2013. https://imgur.com/a/rq8WzGm inspired by some post I read at the time.

If you scan it, you realize it's putting lots of "junk" at the end of the URL that doesn't change its meaning, but is used to tweak how the QR code looks.

The URL is on the form videolan.org/#234234234523453455...
What the fark are you talking about? ;)
Profitable for IPO for profitable to survive? It's way too late now but when Spez first came in, he had insane amounts of good will.

He should've been just honest and transparent with server costs and how much Reddit Gold and ads were bringing in. They used to have a Reddit gold target.

From there, they can slowly implement API charges to make a tiny profit so they don't just lose money there or implement Reddit Gold/Premium tiers that offer way better benefits.
> their surprisingly competitive GPU perf,

I think the only thing Pat Gelsinger deserves credit for when it comes to Arc is firing Raja Koduri.

Whether or not this turns out to actually be good for the company or not remains to be seen. A lot is riding on Battlemage not being a mess like Arc was.
> They haven't federated yet so we assume this is just going to work across the entire federation of servers

Do they intend to federate or are they implementing a federated protocol?
Recently I read Reddit has over 2000 employees. I can’t begin to imagine what they possibly do.
> Where did you see it was banned from HN ?

I looked at the submission history and saw that ~all of them were marked as [dead], that's usually a site-ban then. (you might need "showdead" enabled in your settings to see that)
Beats me, the 9gag community certainly has postured itself as a rival to Reddit’s (which, of course, is another meme). But more insane to me is that 9gag is a Y Combinator startup:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4313644

The comment by brackin predicting 9gag becoming a (Buzzfeed-style?) media company with “9GAG Magazine, the book and TV shows” is pretty bonkers, as well as the appearance of- moot???
Fark's biggest own goal was the Tumblr-like removal of the boobies category.
Yeah there's definitely better ways to go, but regardless the main thing is the CEO has no business being anywhere near this kind of functionality.
Today is the day to launch a public beta!
4chan was not a revenge website against SA, this is some kind of narrative written by later generations of twitter journalists. A revenge forum would have the same $10 to sign up rule.

(But the SA admins did delete the 4chan thread on the day its traffic surpassed SA.)