skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's assuming that everyone has a good grasp on what's going on, and considers this funny-picture-App to be their top priority.

That's the issue with operating on principle:

We HN users might be aware of this particular issue, but there's thousands of products that we use, because we're unaware or don't have the energy to fight.

So with all the exploitation, abuse and pollution that you indirectly support, why do you expect most users to draw the line at a weird website?

Not simple at all.
I have moderate successful Java library. Problem with documentation is:

- it takes effort to write it

- there is a split between what documentation describes and reality

- it falls behind as new stuff develops, project gets forked, taken over...

My solution is to have code examples, that are part of unit tests. Separate folder that describes most common use cases. If documentation is wrong, project does not even compile or test fails. And I can always point to most current version of examples in git branch.

I really think any document beyond simple readme.md is overkill for most projects.
This is why AI is going to take over the world in the future. Why bother hanging around real humans, who are frequently assholes, when you can hang around AIs that are always courteous and helpful? And once they develop AI-driven companion robots that look and feel mostly human, romantic relationships between humans will be gone: why bother risking a toxic relationship when you can spend your time with an AI that's always nice to you?
Here is the video with basic instructions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toecTUthqtw&ab_channel=REDir...
I'm hoping it'll encourage people to go out to the internet and find a multiplicity of replacements.
How do you suggest they survive long term if the continue to lose money?
> It can come with gag orders and so on

Those are not really a thing in the EU (at least, not for regular police)

> you're not free if the government can just seize your things when you have not broken any law

This is something that can and does happen in the Netherlands, f.e. when the government feels they need to destroy your apartment and build a new one (as part of gentrification, generally). They are tangentially required to get you replacement housing, but not at the same price or in a similar location. Thus, not in any practical sense. If they cannot find this for you they will still kick you out and where you will live after is your problem.
Upper middle class first world problems huh?

It's probably a lot easier than a lot of other living situations.
It [also](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dubsmash&oldid=11...) had suffered a data breach and went from competing with TikTok and musical.ly to being two orders of magnitude smaller than the combined TikTok.

Probably Reddit thought they were just buying a mailing list and a development team. So the cost should be compared to Reddit marketing's acquisition costs and Reddit HR hiring costs.
You forgot AI.

Also:

>Want to see a contrast?

The new Digg (2012)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4321773

What difference in comment quality do you mean exactly?
Please qualify that ridiculous statement? Any device powerful enough to do so can be intentionally and catastrophically destroyed through misuse.

This is one step removed from even that - a third party device designed for hackers being intentionally used for destructive purposes.
Maybe he meant percentile.
America divided Korea – then came war
> >f Air India wants to risk sanctions, There are approx. 34 Billion[1] reasons why that won't happen

See my other comment [1]. Nobody thinks the U.S. will permanently stick Air India with sanctions. But everyone knows there is a gray area during which, if you're an American or do business with America, particularly if you are in a regulated field, you do not want to be the banker or engineer who kept doing business with an entity that just publicly violated sanctions.

And both sides' politicians would love this. Private parties bear the cost. New Delhi can rail on American imperialism, the immorality of sanctions and the pragmatism of its geopolitical strategy. Washington can talk up how it pragmatically exempted India while throwing pot shots at Russia's isolation. It's a manufactured crisis with a simple solution whose costs are borne by a third party: that's catnip to electeds.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36289706
Fark was pretty well known back in the day. Certainly not /. levels of famous but online people of a certain age all seem to remember the name.
It was impressive how quickly Digg killed itself with the terrible redesign. Back then, Reddit was mostly considered a knockoff. It actually was to a large degree, but everyone moved to it very quickly.
It is not about productivity, it has never been about productivity.

It is about power and control.

Remote workers can have a life, can see their children and friends, and may even have energy to go chasing other job offers.
HR and CxO hate all of that with a passion that would outshine a thousand suns.
Not Heathrow: The Pan Am 707 That Mistakenly Landed at RAF Northolt (2022)
Thats how I hire :)

I tell them what we do and listen to questions. If there are any ofc.
if you don't like people suspending you (and/or everyone else) from their subreddit, you can always create your own, or deal with the root cause of why they're doing it

> don't darken the sub and make it blocked to everyone

don't tell people what to do with their subreddit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Are Reddit GDPR request getting processed slower than usual? Previous time I tried it was within a few minutes, but this time it's half a day and still nothing.
I would assume that a small percentage of mods are doing the vast majority of actual moderating. So the interesting statistic would be the percentage of mod actions performed via third-party tools.

This is a bit similar to Stack Overflow claiming only 11% of mods are participating in the strike there. What they didn't say is that it includes almost all of the active Stack Overflow mods and some community-run anti-spam and moderation tools. So the coverage of actual mod activity is far larger than that number might make you think (and the number is of course outdated as well).
This is funny because comments here are talking about going to war with the west over an airplane.
I don’t mind context targeted ads, they are even useful sometimes. User targeted ads are invasive and I avoid them.
The redesigns always scary the final users because they have to learn again how to obtain information or how to use effectively a service (think about a municipality website). I do not think every redesigns kill the website, but you need to be very cautious about editing the workflows.
That's because there hasn't really been a need for one. But that could change rapidly.
I think the demographics of present day reddit are very different from the ones of the ones of Digg (pre exhodus) or Slashdot (pre Digg). Most of the people will probably never care about any drama Reddit the company inflicts on some of its power users.
A simple google search will bring up dozens of sites & a variety methods so take your pick. They all say Reddit is 40-50% American
Oxford comma, is it necessary?
I got in trouble for not using the much hated Oxford comma :(
I don't think it's an undefined goal, so I don't worry about the difficulty. :)
> Binary people are funny. Everything is always 1 or 0, nothing is ever undefined and the idea to have different levels of certainty never occurs to them.

Not what I was conveying. There's a place for nuance, but from my experience in practice, being able to be decisive is more useful than contemplating and questioning. Not to say I avoid the latter (what are we doing right now?) or that it isn't useful, but the times at which it's really needed are few and far between
How Do You Do Fellow Kids, that allegation is clearly false.
And you will be able to buy TKeys that are unlocked, and you (your organization) will then be able to personalize and lock them yourself. Does it then start out as SW, and then become hadrdware? Also not a lawyer. ;-)

https://shop.tillitis.se/
"""
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This is the principle of commodity fetishism, the domination of society by "intangible as well as tangible things" which reaches its absolute fulfillment in the spectacle, where the tangible world is replaced by a selection of images which exist above it, and which at the same time are recognized as the tangible par excellence.

"""

Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
I agree that subjective (human) testing is better than comparing using metrics, but the downside is that you can only look at so many images, and it depends quite a lot on the image content how the various codecs perform.

When doing a visual comparison, imo the best way is to start with the original versus a codec, to find out what bitrate you consider "good enough" for that image — this can vary wildly between images (on some images "small" will be fine while on others even "large" is not quite good enough). Then compare the various codecs at that bitrate.

There's a temptation to compare things at low qualities (e.g. "tiny") because there it's of course easier to see the artifacts. You cannot extrapolate codec performance at low quality settings to high quality though, e.g. it's not because AVIF looks better than JXL at "tiny" that it also looks better at "large". So if you want to do a meaningful comparison, it's best to compare at the quality you actually want to use.

At Cloudinary we did a large subjective study on 250 different images, at the quality range we consider relevant for web delivery (medium quality to near-visually lossless). We collected 1.4 million opinions via crowdsourcing in order to get accurate mean opinion scores. The results are available at https://cloudinary.com/labs/cid22.

One important thing to notice is that codec performance depends not only on the codec itself but also on the encoder and the encoder settings that are used. If you spend more time on encoding, you can get better results. A fair comparison is one that uses the best available encoders, at similar (and relevant) bitrates, and at similar (and relevant) encode speeds.

It's almost impossible to do subjective evaluation for all possible encoder settings though, or to redo the evaluations each time a new encoder version is released. This is why objective metrics are useful. There are many metrics, and some are better than others. You can measure how good a metric is by measuring how well it correlates with subjective results. According to our experiments, currently the best metrics are SSIMULACRA 2, Butteraugli 3-norm, and DSSIM. Older metrics like PSNR, SSIM, or even VMAF do not perform that well — probably indeed partially because some encoders are optimizing for them.

Here are some aggregated interactive plots that show both compression gains (percentage saved over unoptimized JPEG, at a given metric score) and encode speed (megapixels per second):

SSIMULACRA 2: https://sneyers.info/benchmarks/tradeoff-relative-SSIMULACRA...

Butteraugli: https://sneyers.info/benchmarks/tradeoff-relative-Butteraugl...

DSSIM: https://sneyers.info/benchmarks/tradeoff-relative-DSSIM.html

(Note that Butteraugli and DSSIM are distortion metrics, not quality metrics, so "less is better")
My guess is that many marketing based sites bloat their staff and expenses to a self perpetuating and useless degree.
A large amount of it (I think they were going for all) has been saved by /r/datahoarder. So I wouldn't worry about it disappearing. It'll likely end up on archive.org at some point.
I know SFGate as the San Fransisco newspaper website that for some reason comes up when you google for questions about repairing old homes. Seems like they're spending their entire SEO budget on lath and plaster repair guides.
Robert Reich explains it well using Hacksaw Bob. There are facets he doesn't touch on in that example which he addresses in the full series. Very excellent presentation.

Hacksaw Bob: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kZtN3XTk5w0
Whole series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOLArO56vjuqhmPDfbLGa...
I think Apple’s clang is the one they build the OS with, and they don’t want to run the risk of introducing a compiler bug late into a project.

So, they pick what’s current early in a project and stick with it.

They may add a few backports of bug fixes to that, but that’s it.

IMO, that’s a good strategy.
I would agree that that's currently true, however now there's suddenly a lot of pressure to get a viable alternative up and running at the scale necessary to absorb a critical mass of redditors.

At the time when reddit absorbed digg users after the redesign it had a fair amount of downtime as part of its growing pains, I'd expect to see the same for all the proposed alternatives in the next few months.

With how thoroughly reddit is screwing the pooch here though I think it's a matter of if and not when.
Protip from my side if you're crashing Airbnbs full-time: bring a knife sharpener. I've yet to see the Airbnb that actually had a usable set of knives. Typically all dishes are whatever cheapest you can get at IKEA.
> 1 of my aunts - an RN - is getting reinstated after 2 years because she was fired for telling people "the jab will kill you". This was after she tried to convince my other aunt - another RN - that she should not get the vaccine while being in a risk category

It's crazy how many nurses don't trust science and news reports. Here in Belgium it was a big problem too. So many of them seem to be very cynical about and have serious distrust in big pharma while they themselves administer drugs that make (most) patients better. How they can just overlook that and keep their jobs is beyond me (no offense meant to your family)
For sure. I don't remember Fark, but when Digg went from being a tech-centric site to a despicable spam bucket I do remember everyone fleeing to Reddit.

Now that Reddit is trash, I guess all the serious tech people are already here... ?
Ask HN: Is Subreddits Profitable?
Remote Struggles
"Flat" != "no authority".

Flat structures may, or may not, have a head.

What they don't have is deep hierarchy.

Mind that this has its own set of benefits and disadvantages. Fewer deparmental turf battles, but very broad spans of control and/or highly autonomous roles.

An ant or bee colony is a flat structure with a strong central control, at least reproductively: the queen. This isn't an ideal comparison, of course, as the individual workers don't take orders from the queen (or anyone else), but instead respond largely based on instinctual behaviours and pheremone signalling (in the case of ants at least, I'm not certain of bees).

Flat structures may lack any leadership, or have various rotating or ad hoc leaderships. These are more akin to the structureless organisations Freeman writes of.
> If they were clever they would've done some guerilla marketing to get people onto their platform off reddit...

It was already happening "organically". Every single gaming subreddit had a discord as well. When they announced the blackouts, they left a "see you on discord" message. It's sad because I don't really like discord, it's a blackhole of information. With Reddit you could google and find things, unfortunately nothing gets indexed on Discord by google. So to find anything useful you need to join a discord "server" (not really a server) and use their search (which isn't great).
The “without much thinking” part is likely the mistake here.
Maybe instead of this banning 3rd part Apps. They could charge all users 9.99 or 19.99 a month. Thus generate revenue for the IPO.
The poster is just saying that "the "glitch" of today will be the nostalgic style of tomorrow".
Yep, these guys have spammed the front page as of now all from the same url
My home feed on Apollo is hilarious. It's the smallest subs I subscribe to that never make it to my front page. It's basically "small hobby subs". Even if I were interested in continuing to use Reddit it's basically broken as of right now. I can see what's happening with Warhammer and Kubernetes patch notes.
The activity on my Twitter feed has definitely decreased ever since Musk took over. And I've decided to migrate basically >90% of my tweeting to Bluesky because I'd rather use Bluesky and I need to put my posts where my mouth is.

Not that I can effectively even read those tweets now that the third-party apps are killed.
I'm not seeing chaos exactly. Pages load quickly, but the issue is that the content is stale, there's a lack of new articles or comments. The server is fast, the content feed is slow.
The only place where I’ve seen documentation done well was where it was enforced. For ex: if you’re adding a new analytics tracking event, it must have corresponding documentation in internal wiki or build fails. It was annoying step but it enforced reliability of this wiki.
Yep, keeps me alive.
And some were reunited even the wiki article you linked to says so.
Why do I get the impression that this is a delusional strategy?
What are you doing here? Discussing things like tech, employment, life?

It's all first world problems anyway. There are kids starving! /s
I have been trying to research alternative(s) - with limited success. For example
book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Moose-Heads-Table-Karin-Tenelius/dp...
, podcast: https://leadermorphosis.co/
, training: https://www.tuffleadershiptraining.com/
, jobs: https://info.jobswithnoboss.com/

At current workplace trying to subtly suggest/introduce that there’s an alternative way…
Yes, just look at the amount of reviews of old cameras on YouTube! Of course, this is software so it will be easier to find than an old camera or lens but I am also sure it will also be celebrated as a timeless genre.
Think Ukraine’s Offensive Has Started? Wait for the Heavy Brigades
Zuckerberg's Vision for AI: A Bot That Makes Ads and makes you a better friend
> Dunno whenever that's a widespread issue with the Dutch police.

Every police force has issue with abuse of power and the Dutch are no different. As always, it is the worst in the margins and so hard to get a picture of how bad it is in an empirical way.
Unfortunately for Reddit, that handful includes many moderators.
Wow.. Didn't know this. It sounds like something has gone wrong there. Good old greed maybe?
I've subscribed to the beta experiments years ago, before the dark patterns started emerging and I was actually looking forward to any changes, and you're absolutely right, it is totally abandoned. The subreddit has just become a place for people to vent their frustrations and to be completely ignored by the admins.
Probably a cpap machine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_positive_airway_p...
You could do emacs org-mode with auto encryption

Or even better: could just make a little self hosted web app that does this for you

Or another idea (most useful for me): self host an instance of mediawiki and use it as a personal knowledge base
Apple has publicly referred to the C/C++/Objective-C compiler that ships with Xcode as the "Apple LLVM Compiler", apparently a marketing name for their variant of Clang. I was commenting on the fact that the linked article refers to "Apple Clang" which is a deviation from a long-standing practice. I understand the difference between Clang and LLVM; I've committed to both.
I wonder what they're doing now that the entire internet has been converted to walled gardens.
The way Amazon buy and clear out its competition.
I would rather work on the most decrepit of insurance billing systems than go into the office again.
The only "piano-related" limitations of MIDI that I've run into is that

a) a note-on message is fixed at just three numbers (note, velocity, channel), so while I can map velocity to, say, a filter and envelope settings but I can't easily have independent per-note control of them. It doesn't come up that often, but sometimes I do end up with two slight tweaks of the same patch on two channels and it's a bit of a faff compared to just having more numbers per note event.

b) there is poor support for sending articulation (ie., a number that changes without sending a new note-on event) that references a held note, because CCs refer to a channel, not an existing note. Poly AT but isn't universally supported and at least if you're using hardware it tends to hog bandwidth.
"extremely far left" by US standards, sure .. otherwise pretty moderate middle of the road.
Here being HN? IMHO it’s not competing with Reddit, at most with a sub or five. It’s also different to the point of just not being a replacement. Redditors are currently mostly looking at Lemmy. Not sure it’s ready for prime time either.
I mean the data suggests a fair number of people left Twitter or at least check in a lot less: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2023-deep-dive-the-...
After Musk took over Twitter and people were looking for alternatives, one that stuck to me was Discord: they have a user base basically tethered to the Internet and a solid brand. If they wanted to launch a competitor, it could really take off.
We don't know actually. Could be Cease and Disease letters from creators of AI-networks, could be change in copyright laws, could be simply not profitable enough to continue operations or continue to store old data.
Plus a function call (likely with GOT indirection) plus another pointer dereference to get from the locale handle to the array. Also you now need some initialization code to create the locale and store the handle somewhere (unless you want to make this even more ridiculously inefficient and create it each time).

Also, five of those whitespace characters have contiguous byte values so you don't even need 6 comparisons. The compiler doesn't have to keep the short circuting here.
All of the basics of anything google-like: typo-friendliness with word forms and phrases, links to source, formatting of output, GUI, or not spamming the output with a dozen of lines of warnings that some man page files are missing.

Then a bunch more degrees that I could know about if the tool were more usable
If feasible I'd rather bring a roll of my own knives.
> You forgot AI.

You're right, but the reason I didn't include it is that the coverage around AI isn't all emotional. There's a lot of hype behind it yes, but at it's core it's based on new products that people are excited about. But maybe I should have. A lot of them devolve into the same type of hellthread.

> What difference in comment quality do you mean exactly?

Discussion about CSS and web design features, discussions about web accessibility, and how there were just very few flippant comments. These big Reddit threads have a lot of pithy "f** Reddit" comments and lots and lots of silly (angry) jokes that make me feel like I'm on Reddit and not on HN.
This is great advice. Power strips and a HomePod Mini are other high-ROI items.
Is this the first time that the often criticized SE company is holding up to the users, whilst the moderators went on to strike the company and its users?

As I see it, the mods want to continue on their ChatGPT removals and bans, the company is against that and wants a lighter approach.
Cultivar
What the heck are you writing about, this was discussed in all mainstream media I ever cared to look at, since almost beginning of lockdowns. Maybe you watch some strange subset of those?

Sure, the overall narrative was that this is just an unproven theory and nothing more, but it was out there, people were discussing probabilities of some lab employees error who went to nearby wet market afterwards.

I am not saying this didn't happen in scientific community, I don't follow them closely enough to claim that. I recall few cases in Europe where paranoid scientists were claiming this, on top of quite a few other crank theories about various topics, also ie pushing hard for high doses of Ivermectin, dismissing all vaccinations etc. Understandably, with just throwing around various claims without backing them up with facts, they were not received well in community.