skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, even if we can agree on it being fair I still don't see anything wrong with what Reddit is trying to do. While the profit might be minuscule compared to what Reddit is looking for, its still currently more than reddit is making.

I don't think a person using a third party app necessarily implies they are a power user or better at moderation. Hell, in the beginning reddit didn't even have a mobile app and the only options were third party apps.

> They generally have extremely low overheads though, with nearly all being the work of just one or two developers

Hmm, I wonder how they can provide that with such low developer counts - maybe because Reddit as a service is subsidizing the majority of the value the third party apps are capturing.

Its entirely within reason for Reddit to want to capture that value instead of giving it away to free to third party apps.
I'm curious why you think that.

From my perspective, you should do what is best for yourself and your users. I think you should definitely be leveraging things like CDNs that are low effort and high impact to save yourself time and help your users.

Not using things that are closed source and from megacorps feels like a luxury that a lot of people cannot afford. Not monetarily, but in terms of time and effort. When I'm working on a side project I want to remove all the friction I possibly can so I stay motivated and keep working on the project.
Your pop-over to join the newsletter and continue reading won’t allow someone to continue reading without signing up for your newsletter. There’s no way to close the pop-over modal. This is user hostile behavior. When scrolling, it reappears over content. Very anti-user behavior.

This is equivalent to forced purchase required to use the restroom at a venue. Don’t be like that. Compassion is good for business.
> Kotlin provides modern features in the Android development Java land stuck on the ancient Java 6.

These days you can use Java 8 features with no issues, and Kotlin isn't really solving the fundamental problem of runtime version on target devices — it's just spitting out Java 8 bytecode by default. Android build system already _desugars_ newer Java language features for older runtimes, and they could do the same thing for all the new fancy features. I guess they choose not to because Kotlin is already there.

That said, I do believe Kotlin is still more concise, has better nullability handling, and upcoming exciting features of its own like compiler plugins
You're quite right. Science requires the skepticism to apply the stress to theories needed to make them strong. I'm assuming Einstein tried to raise objections using evidence to the contrary and alternative explanations.
It has enough thrust on one engine to take off empty. But, to expand on my edit, it requires both a test pilot and way more runway than the airport has.

Edit: Numbers

Empty operating weight: 134,800 kg (297,300 lb)

Maximum Takeoff Weight(MTOW):
247,200 kg (545,000 lb)

The empty operating weight includes everything needed to fly (including crew) minus useable fuel. So the only additional weight need is fuel.
Yes, just like Yudkowsky and Altman are focusing on bullshit conceptual, theoretical and absurd risks as a smoke screen to what real risks and real harms will and are occurring right now, for regulatory capture and more funding for their bullshit non profit research orgs, so too do most AI ethics researchers.

I'd say they're not even hiding how useless they are. Hell, one of the main criticisms of internal PaLM was that it was not progressive enough and didn't toe the Silicon Valley Democrat party line and thus was racist.
Most of the discussion on this thread is about my timeline of saying we were one of the first families with internet in 1994. First of all, I did try to qualify it with “as I was told” - i was a kid and all I knew was what my dad and the internet told me - but I was writing that comment with haste and on second thought, the timing was certainly more like 1992. Also, I didn’t say that’s when we got it, just when he told me that. As i said before, he had it in the 80s. Just to throw a wrench in the discussion. Also yes, it was hyperbole to say it took 15 min to download an image, but just barely and just for the fun of the story. Love you all and your pedantic asses.
Enlighten me but how is it any different than how US operates? In US, sure we vote but most elected members work for their donors and special interest groups who are effectively corporations run by oligarchs. So in other words it’s indirect elected oligarchy. I mean there is a reason why the approval rate of Congress is historically low at their twenties, if it’s truly of the people that would not be the case. It seems worse in Europe where EU and it’s unelected bureaucrats control everything.

It seems to me in every world, it’s the selected group of powerful people mostly exerting their influence through money.
Lol, this made day.

In the meantime all others (but zig) switched over to unidentifiable Unicode identifiers
Not sure that's right. There's usually no expectation that a product owner would have "the knowledge to develop it on their own, given enough time".
They are doing the same now.... Reddit will end the same way as it begun
AI washing is the new hotness in class warfare
> You as a programmer should first and foremost care about the semantics that you want to express in your programs.

I think what is semantics vs implementation details depends on the task at hands. From my understanding, the need for value types mainly originate from the need for precise control of memory layout, In which case the representation is part of the important semantic.
C#/.Net seems to have a simpler approach by just providing representation flatness as a tool and let the developer chose what they want to do/focus on.

> In many cases it means that an object you use has and need an identity. But you may find so that it doesn’t make sense in a given case, like a date, or a coordinate — so you can express that it doesn’t have identity, allowing for more freedom on the compilers part.

If this is confusing it to me, the need to identity seems to be a property of a specific object instance, not really a property of a class/type.

> But the performance improvements are generally not the goal themselves

I am not sure how true this is, the design document itself reference numeral code performance as one of motivating factor.

> when this particular case happens and your object can’t be null, the compiler can even completely inline/flatten your data

As someone who have "worked" on quite of bit of runtime/compilers, "compiler can" always turns out to be "compiler doesn't".
This idea of a compiler to auto-magically deciding and optimizing data layout sound great in theory, but in practice is very very hard to achieve in most meaningful ways.
There are an alternative interpretation of the same data. The rat park may provide protection against addition, while the rat cage makes the rats more vulnerable to addition.

This model is often use with illnesses such as chronic stress, depression and ptsd. A "rat park" has many major health benefits, and aspect of it is measured with organ donations in order to determine which patients has the highest probability of surviving.

A way to see it is that in order for a negative outcome you need three things to be true. Be exposed to a trigger, while being vulnerable, and lacking protection.
Wow, that's rude. He said something wrong.

It's important that we avoid the twin extremes of, on the one hand, categorically blaming circumstance for everything, and on the other hand, categorically assuming 100% culpability. The proper view is that human beings operate at a nexus between circumstance and decision. Circumstances can create good or bad incentives, and statistically, people will follow incentives (hence the need to legislate properly, for example). These incentives can be strong or weak. They can create more or less pressure to follow through with the incentive. But we must ultimately make a choice and that rests with us (in the extreme case, something like extreme pain can blind a person and effectively rob him of the freedom to choose intentionally which is to say with the capacity to use reason). So how culpable we are for a decision varies on a variety of factors, but there is almost always some culpability.

In the case of your parent comment, it sounds like the person in question is very culpable, that he had the capacity to reason, to know he should have chosen otherwise, but did not. There's nothing wrong with the content of that claim as such.
The engine would be scraping the runway as the 747 took off. :)

Edit: The fan of a 777 engine is 10in wider than a 747-8. According to a chart from https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/21375/what-is-t..., the ground clearance is 3-5 inches. Which is a bit short of 10 inches. :)
> average user 344 requests per day and the polling rate of 600 requests per hour do not seem to be in agreement

I don't think the app is making those 600 requests 24/7.
How common are shark encounters in California?
Mirror [1]

[1] - https://archive.is/9QMSS
Algeria gained independence in the 60s, and they have been involved in several wars ever since. The current status quo is probably explained by the civil war that ended about 20 years ago.
The amount of obese people has been consistently on the rise for many decades. Before the 60s it almost did not exist.

Clearly there is a solution, since it used to not be a problem. "People eat more now" is just a tautology. Why do they do it though? Food was worse in the 60s?
Especially since this is not like this kills wifi and lans

Seems like a slightly technically proficient cheater's dream. Perfect excuse.
Blogging Has Just Changed Forever and No One Is Talking About It
While I would prioritize other factors in a next-gen image format, the fact that JXL manages to lead in all those plus the ability to “upgrade library” is an incredible achievement.
Or just make the room a Faraday cage.
I find that blaming imperialism on the imperial aggressor is a safe and practical approach.
Dutch Government's New Proposal Extending Warrants Automatically to Hack Victims
The Dutch government is facing scrutiny over a proposed amendment to the intelligence and security services act, which seeks to automatically and administratively extend warrants to target victims of hackers. The addition, known as a lex specialis, brings significant changes to the existing legislation, expanding the scope of powers and widening the range of individuals and organizations to which these powers can be applied.

https://berthub.eu/tmp/dutch-intelligence-and-security-law.h...
Hopefully this starts a "battery" approach to dealing with APIs, 3rd party apps, keys and a way for end users to quickly and seamlessly sign up to use services via 3rd party apps.

Why not..

1. User installs 3rd party app

2. You accept reddit TOS, an API key is attached to your account. It could even be integrated into apple/android keys or user subscription models. You pay either directly to reddit or via your payments to the 3rd party app service fees

This could work for so many use cases. Why should developers need to do think about all this nonsense like key rotation, constantly changing pricing models, using round robin API key rotation because you're hitting limits with one key, etc. Devs should just set up the experience so users can bring their own battery and plug in to start playing.

Just provide the backend. Let devs build cool 3rd party apps around it. Each user can just get their own API key that's tied to them, either simple case like the reddit account, or its part of the apple id subscriptions + keychain.

Everyone makes money. Everyone gets to learn programming or whatever the fuck makes them make 3rd party experiences. Everyone can just be happy.
PNG only produces reasonable image sizes for a very restricted category of image. And while JPEG is decent for photos, it does a pretty bad job compressing images which contain sharp edges or text.

So neither is a good choice, unless you know a priori that all your images will fall into one of the categories where these formats do a decent job.
> Increases the risk of using Russian airspace

Air India has always had a YOLO attitude to air traffic control. I'm somewhat surprised America doesn't restrict inbound and outbound flights from overflying Russia.
The technical beast is the internet infrastructure. The phone client is nothing.
I've met many, many incredibly successful, intelligent, disciplined, kind, impressive people with incredibly serious addiction issues. 10s-100s of millions in net worth. These aren't lazy people.

Recovery does take an immense amount of hard work and discipline, albeit in a very different way than, say, reading legal briefs, writing code, performing surgery.
After I had surgery on my ankle in college, my dad took away the pain medicine the moment it was no longer necessary (1 day later) and just gave me Advil after that.

I didn’t fully appreciate why until I saw somebody go through it.

But then I got the entire picture. This man struggled. Hid it from his family. Finally confessed it to his wife who stuck by him and sent him to a rehab program to get clean. He was gone for about 4 months and got clean. Got his life back. Got his family back and got back to work.

And then his old dealer came back around. It took another family member telling the dealer he’d shoot him on sight if he ever came around again to get that predator to leave.
The Dictatorship Problem
> I'm somewhat surprised America doesn't restrict inbound and outbound flights from overflying Russia.

That would make a lot of non-stops not viable. Russia is gigantic.
Idea:

Community / site for collective truth-seeking. Possibly integrated with Metaculus.

One can submit new pieces of evidene which would be commentable (in threads), votable, and programmable (to toggle / affect of other submitted evidence threads).

Users can adjust the weights, vote on them (to generate a certain consensus / prediction), and even toggle of pieces of evidence manually.

The site automatically gives the probabilities for different scearions. I don't have an instant vision on how "all" possible scenarios would be chosen.
There is no exam high stakes enough anywhere to warrant this sort of disruptive nonsense.
nice reccomendation.
Art is like this. I trained to be an animator but left when it became apparent how much of working at a studio was just A Job.

Really, thinking about my various friends with some kind of creative life, this is every single field where sometimes your core skills are something you picked up because you actively liked fooling around with them, and managed to find a way to make a living with, and sometimes are something you picked up because it's what your guidance counselors pushed you into because it was a field with a lot of growth potential that was vaguely aligned with what you actually enjoyed doing.
There is teavm and cheerpj which can already execute java (or any jvm class file) in js or wasm.
We had a dev in our team who would love to use these one liner cryptic expressions and challenge the minds of code reviewers.

It was all fun until he left and others had to refactor bunch of code. One liners like that often have very little benefits IMHO.
creating art can work for some people
...fixed weights to the steering wheel

I have to wonder what else the driver was doing. Perhaps sleeping or playing a game on their phone. I am glad they threw the book at this person and I am a Tesla fan.

I don't own a Tesla yet but I will shortly. I now have a Subaru with EyeSight so I am accustomed to some extensive driver assistance. Especially on the highway but you still need to pay attention.

I do a lot of business travel and have rented multiple Tecla's, a Chevy Bolt (no assist), and a Polestar (limited assist). The Tesla driver assist is outstanding but is still only assistance. It is not fully driving the car for you and you need to identify and pay close attention in more complex situations.
It is default behaviour of Substack - to be honest I am not sure if it is even possible to change.

However, you don't need to subscribe - you can close the popup and carry on!
Something physically attached (especially to the electrical system) can always theoretically interfere with the rest of the plane. If there is a fire, is the pilot just supposed to shrug as the plane goes up because he cannot interfere with the black box?
Opus is pretty widely supported (still some holes though, for example very few Adobe products support Opus), and it can sound better than MP3 at less than half the bitrate.
I feel like one day blackout is going to have an opposite impact as it might give Reddit a false idea that no matter what they do people will eventually come. Instead of one day, if people were doing it for a few months, it will be effective. But we know that is not going to happen.
There’s no technical reason for it to be bound to github, it just haven’t been a priority.

Contributions welcome.
Almost every website is hosted on someone else’s server. If that argument held true no company would be offering anything. It’s nonsense.
> Even in FAANG it's a promotion.

No, it is not. You switch from L6 IC to L1 M (FB/Google scale). Compensation remains exactly the same.

> If not immediately, the cap for ICs is much lower.

This is different from management being a promotion...
"extremely unlikely" is still not the same as "impossible"

hash(x) != x
Private key redaction: Ur doin it rong (2020)
Nobody will ever want the truth because if it did come from the lab it implicates the Chinese government as well as the US government given that the US funded research in Wuhan through the EcoHealth Alliance to get around the ban on Gain of Function research in the US.
My guess is the fact that existing jpeg images can be transcoded to jpeg-xl losslessly is the driving feature. This gives an easy migration path for existing sites that don't have high resolution masters that can be re-encoded into AV1 or webp.

Also think of 20+ years of jpg digital camera photos that can now be transcoded to save space. For Apple that is also a huge win.
I programmed such a tool for my local city back in the nineties from 3d stereo overflies, exactly to detect undeclared extensions, verandas, garden houses and such.
It just wasn't called AI then, just image detection and 3d reconstruction.
What else do 90% of people agree upon? We should put 90% of transit funds to car things but we don’t. That 10% is basically over served when you look at it this way.

But yeah policy should be built around what 90% of people think. In this case it’s that people want cars. And it makes sense because they make life so much better.
You can write on them 24/7. DWPD isn't great, but TBW is almost limitless.

Also sequential workloads doesn't suffer from the write amplification and remain pretty high even if you are writing for hours.
So, the author wrote about a subject without studying beyond one book from one auther he liked a lot? Just more of the 21st century shallow internet then.

Edit: And someone who never heard of how Toyota, and basically everyone else, is doing things now to an extent in the hardware world...
Do we care about preventing a disturbed captain from preventing recording? They can already crash the plane and kill everyone on board. I don't really care about their record keeping in that instance.
The app isn't. The server doing push notifications on behalf of a user is.
> all labs researching viruses do research on dangerous viruses

There should be more attention on this. We're busy worrying about AI that can troll at a college level, while scientists are still busy making frankenviruses after a pandemic plausibly caused by a lab leak.
Do You Need a Data Platform? Exploring Alternatives for Better Performance
Maybe in a first world country that's heavily reliant on the internet sure, shutting down the internet in Algeria doesn't really have much of an impact, people mostly just get mildly annoyed that they can't use Facebook or call their relatives.
Does the answer "no" to this type of questions mean that it is recommended against to consume breast milk, or "no" can mean that there is not enough evidence that would imply that consuming breast milk would be essential (or even beneficial in any way)?
Ah yes the Arab world, where the cultural solution to temptation is not to learn to control yourself like a normal human being but to physically remove it using any means necessary. Even if it involves unplugging the entire country from the internet, or forcing half the population to wear black bed sheets at all times. How does one even go through life with that kind of lack of restraint.
Is Lemmy a part of the /r/chapotraphouse diaspora? That explosion seemed like it seeded tiny tankie reddit clones all over the place.
People don't like Congress but they like their own congresspeople well enough.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/162362/americans-down-congress-...
What about fair or correct? Algerians are just as good as the French and produce just as many corrupt and incompetent bastards and politicians. Dividing the world into "good guys" and "bad guys" is a pretty effective heuristic, sure, but you can do better.
>"Does anybody else wish the compiler wouldn't"

Compiler being obtuse and not being able to figure when it is safe to "break rules" is the problem. Not twisting brain of the programmer into being "safe compiler". This sounds like a Stockholm syndrome.

>"you should be following immutable practices"

No I should not. I should do what makes sense in particular situation and not bending over for some zealots trying to enforce one and the only way.
Nothing beats Rails productivity for me, and I’ve been working with Rails on and off for more than a decade.
I made a kick ass database system on the Spectrum 48K.
(Well at the time I thought it was).

Security was tight.
If you typed in the wrong password twice, the system resets
and you must load it in from cassette tape again.

To use it you first had to load the database system from cassette.
Then form a different cassette load the data.
Then the password.

Made brute force attacks time consuming.

I thought that was highly clever back then.

When you added, edited, changed, removed etc the changed records
only existed in ram until they were saved to tape again.

It did not sell well.
At all.
Not even 1.
A lot of bots now operate and that truth statement is gonna lose its glow
> But also very rarely it will return True for “A blocks C” or anything else that isn’t true. It would make it harder to dump the full list, but it doesn’t solve the case of “does this user block me?” Because you can still easily query that.

if "A blocks C" returns true when A doesn't block C, then this is a problem, right?

it means you can trust false responses (no false negatives), but you can't trust true responses (some false positives)

if you get a true response, you have to confirm it's actually true through some other source, which must not return false positives

that other source therefore must be authoritative, and must also be query-able by any client that can query the bloom filter -- it's no panacea

a bloom filter is an optimization, not a source of truth
How to make a QR code with Stable Diffusion
The word “clear” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your first quote, because in combination with the second quote it is simply excusing hate speech by saying it only matters if it’s clear to you rather than the reality: clear to those directly affected.

Because that is what you’re complaining about: the harassed voicing their concerns and having people make moderation choices based on that.
Saying “viruses like SARS-COV-2” only makes sense for broad applications of the word “like.”

As other comments have pointed out, while that lab was working with coronaviruses, none of the strains were genetically close to SARS-COV-2. Coronavirus is a broad category of viruses.
That's a very photo heavy corpus. Which is fine if you're evaluating these formats for photo compression, but not very useful if you have a mix of photos, comics, memes, screenshots, etc.