skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much as Elon Musk has not managed to kill Twitter, despite nationwide, breathless, reporting to that effect, I don’t think that the Reddit situation is anywhere nearly as drastic as people striking would like to believe. Yes, twitter users have fled and given Mastodon a day in the sun, and the site’s constituency has undoubtedly shifted, but its dominance still seems fairly secure.

Reddit is playing with fire, this could all go horribly wrong for them. I just don’t find it likely. Reddit is really, really big. Those 1% add a lot of value to the site but without it the site is still quite valuable. 1% of users can eventually be replaced and it won’t catch fire in the meantime.

The reddit user base is largely unaware of any of this and will forever remain passive users. I’m confident spez took one look at third party app user counts and said, “worth it.” If Reddit does IPO I expect it to become only more popular. Time will tell.
found https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/black-souls-white-skins
You are right with your last sentence, but reddit is anything but niche. It attracts even politicians and other celebrities, albeit typically only for Q&As. Arnold Schwarzenegger and William Shattner post there for fun with their real names, who knows how many post under pseudonyms. The beauty of reddit is that it attracts even non-technical people who share their insight in their domain (usually anonymous, so to be taken with a grain of salt - but it's usually plausible precisely because reddit is so popular).
oh well, this will be an extremely interesting week for the Italian internet

and also for TVs: brace yourself, moirologists are coming
TCL seems like a better fit for the listed requirements. Even more ubiquitous, more stable, scales up better.
This comment makes no sense.

1- If the airline industry really had a problem about paying for a low bandwidth satellite data link for a 100MM $ aircraft, they could optimize things, such as using ground data links 90% of the time while switching to satellite only in the middle of the ocean.

2- If a pilot is suicidal, black boxes don't help either. It's like saying we don't a better car safety systems, if someone really wants to die they will smash their car to a tree. That's not why BBs exist.
Even knowing that a pilot was the cause of a crash helps immensely in analysing their mental state prior to the event, you know, to prevent it from happening again.

That's realy the key there, you have a 100+Tons of metal and fuel with 100:300 people on board going close to the speed of sound. It NEEDS to be safe, but unfortunately, accidents happen. In such an event you HAVE TO know what happened, know if it was an accident or a voluntary action, the fault of equipment, software, procedure, pilot, ATC , anything really. Every procedure/safety system/training/design specification/ecc.. is literally written in blood from past mistakes.

If i know I shouldn't have left that pilot in the cockpit, great! I'll make sure no other pilot gets in that same mental condition.
That's not how site-wide bans work
This is a new one on me …. Python is unstable?
Well yes, is the claim true or not? The article has:

>The investigators spoke to two researchers working at a US laboratory who were collaborating with the Wuhan institute at the time of the outbreak. They said the Wuhan scientists...

So presumably The Times has the names of the researchers and someone like the FBI could investigate and see what correspondence if any they have with Wuhan about it.
> I would bet money that Reddit has the highest percentage of ad blocking users.

And Reddit's response is to block web browsers almost entirely (on mobile), and try to force people to use the app.

Maybe their next step will be to force use of a desktop app and disappear from the web entirely...
The total cost of servicing that room is going to be extremely similar regardless of a few hours difference in the person physically being in it. They still need to check you in and out (potentially involving a person, though not always), they need to change the room the next day, and it's still not available to another traveller (granted that doesn't exactly apply to a last minute booking like this). Maybe they'd use a bit less electricity but I doubt that's a significant part of the cost. They'd also probably not have a shower but there's no guarantee of that from the hotel's perspective.
I'm not pretending. I simply haven't seen them. I'm not subscribed to "worldnews"
https://lobste.rs/ is one alternative.
Trump before Trump - Silivio Berlusconi was maybe the first of the modern populists - a political outsider who used celebrity status and media influence to enter the halls of power, and then proceeded to denigrate the establishment at every opportunity. It's a serious matter that this type of personality finds political favour amongst the people, and that our current systems of governance allow for unserious characters of this type to become paramount leader of an entire country.

More of this type to come. Tucker Carlson for President? Jake Paul? Wouldn't bet against either or worse
I should first point out that you probably meant Han characters (so called "CJK(V) ideographs", an unfortunate misnomer), and many Asian languages do not use them at all if we are talking about the number of languages.

But yeah, let's talk about strokes first. Almost all Han characters do consist of a small finite number of strokes and the stroke order itself is reasonably canonical... only for a single point of time in one area. There are lots of examples where the stroke order or even the stroke composition itself differ from time to time and among countries. And you won't be able to correctly encode an archaic character which canonical stroke order is not known---you have to guess, and you will be frequently wrong but wouldn't be able to fix that.

So the next possibility is something like character description languages [1], and people tried a lot of them, so much that we even have a standardized description sublanguage in Unicode [2]. And again, there are so many possibilities that we can't have a single canonical description. Andrew West has maintained a comprehensive IDS database for all Unicode Han characters [3], and while sometimes the first level of decomposition looks clear (字 is clearly 宀 + 子) subsequent decompositions are much more ambiguous (is 子 atomic or 了 + 一?). Ultimately this approach takes too much work to be worthy, so most standards including Unicode have treated them as atomic characters with a room for glyphic variations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_description_...

[2] But those ideographic description sequences (IDS) are meant to describe characters (like, ⿱丶王 means 丶 over 王) and not equivalent to characters themselves (⿱丶王 doesn't equal to 主).

[3] https://babelstone.co.uk/CJK/IDS.TXT
I am a documentation nazi. I hate it when people skip over documentation because something is obvious or trivial to them. Stuff isn't obvious or trivial to people who have to use your code.

get_height gets which height, outer or inner? Are there error values, e.g. 0 as "don't know any height"? Does it have side effects? Is it a stable and reliable part of the API or bound to change soon? Is it thread safe? Will it change any of its parameters? Who deallocates the return value? Do you need to hold a lock somwhere?

Of course it might be a good idea to group together get_height, get_width, get_diagonal and get_depth if the above is all the same for those. But having no documentation just because you think it is trivial that get_height gets some height from somewhere just means that you are sloppy and didn't think of all of the above. So your code shouldn't be touched with a 10-foot-pole imho.

My solution, which I personally hate but know of no alternative to, is a documentation template for each function asking the above questions (depending on runtime and language of course) that I give people to fill in. Until they learn...
>A federal judge has rejected Apple's and Amazon's motions to wholly dismiss a consumer antitrust lawsuit, one that accuses the tech giants of colluding to eliminate all but the highest-price Apple products in Amazon's online store.

If only there were stores other than Amazon :(
On the contrary, it is hotels that are too much alike. Airbnb is more authentic, I am going there for their idiosyncrasies and small quirks.
Extensively discussed 52 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35646612
Friends don’t let friends use Perl.
This guy fucks (up reddit's interface), amirite!
The show didn't really survive the firing of T.J. Miller and flanderization was coming hard.

But yes it would be great to have the show nowadays with a fresh look at the current environment.
This is why Spez is such a tool imo. He tries to be a Zuckerberg or something. Get his IPO moment.

Not one moment does he reflect if this is the course to take. I understand why, the railroad of any tech site is to sell out, make those billions. Get some money.

Reddit’s DNA seems different enough, like you say, it is far more about community building. A model like wikipedia, to see it as an utility, would be far more in line with what it is.

Spez if I had to guess probably is just flipping tired of it all and wants to cash in asap.
How is reddit highly cacheable? Maybe old/infrequently accessed discussions are cacheable, but the live set is too dynamic. So there probably isnt much of a win there.

The feeds are definitely not cacheable (except for maybe on a per user basis with a low ttl). Popular and all are never the same upon reload. And every user is going to have a different combination of subreddits. Those feeds have to be generated on the fly. Most of the data is too dynamic and ever-changing to cache effectively.
Before: denial of violent events gets you blocked, disinfo accounts get marked and shadowbanned.

After: reporting on e.g. Russia invasion of Ukraine gets you shadowbanned, troll farm accounts get boosted once they pay for Blue.

Definite improvement, if you run a state sponsored propaganda troll farm.
what kind of plebian doesn't use old.reddit?
> the variety in frames makes it look like a very specific and distracting art style instead of true animation.

Well, what is "true animation"?

There are number of types of traditional animation where you draw both the characters and the backgrounds from scratch for every frame, so you get this variety naturally.

Or you have more practical techniques like strata-cut animation[1], where again you get what we might think of today as a very "ML-like" effect of the background constantly shifting.

All of these techniques are very time intensive, so you don't often see them in commercial animation.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strata-cut_animation
Sharing some personal thoughts:

Publishing a paper can be an imperfect, but useful 'expensive signal' that increases visibility. For vqsort, we initiated a collaboration with two universities who had published papers: KIT's ips4o for parallel sorting; Jena's fast AVX2 partition and 2D sorting network.

It needn't be AVX-512, but I'd consider AVX2 to be table stakes for any sorting algorithm. It's not clear that scalar techniques transfer to vector approaches (for example, multi-pivot partitioning did not help), and the speedup from AVX2 vs scalar is at least 3x.

It's not clear to me that special-casing already-sorted inputs is a net positive in practice outside of benchmarks. Sure, we can early-out as soon as a difference is found, but we're still paying for potentially an entire scan through the array, or a slowdown in partitioning (we found that even tracking the min/max had a noticeable cost). This can instead be done at the level of callers, who can then remember that this dataset is sorted and even skip the is-sorted check subsequently.

In-place seems helpful for benefiting from limited-size but faster memory such as L3 or even HBM.

Finally, why C? As you mention, AVX-512 is not ubiquitous, and we'd prefer portability over duplicating several thousand LOC for each instruction set. That's much easier (via Highway) in C++. Would a C-compatible FFI be enough?
If tiny quality was 1.0 bpp, low quality 1.5 bpp, and medium quality 2.5 bpp and high quality 4.0 bpp, JPEG XL would win in all categories.

In reality cameras produce about 3.5-4.5 bpp, and the internet uses an average of 2 bpp for photographs.
Fortunately their app is compatible with the ReVanced project (think YouTube Vanced). It's terrible you have to recompile apk's to get a useful experience (sans ads, sharing tracking, other restrictions), but for me it's currently the only viable way to use Reddit.
Finally.

Come on, if you're someone who can see the value of our (the West's) institutions, then you must recognize that whenever those people who thrive on eroding said institutions die, we're all better off.
My old offices had two espresso machines and a drip machine, all cleaned on a bi weekly cadence by professionals. Fresh coffee arrived from a local roasters every Monday morning. Seven different varieties of milk are provided for the frother. Much better than my home setup... And yet here I am, still working from home.

I hope this serves as an example of why tethering your understanding of working needs to your extremely limited experience - as it is for all of us - makes your argument a bunch of weak anecdotes that add little to the debate.

Talking of limited experience - you think that the tech industry can disappear overnight and life will just "continue unabated"? Yikes.

"We can always go back to the stone ages", sure, sure we can.
The re-design didn't kill fark.com, it was the attack on its users, which started with the "crackdown on misogyny" which meant cracking down on anything negative against women and then has expanded from there. The re-design and this were the one-two punch on that community. Since then, it has been a shell of itself.

You can argue about the merits of those changes, but it is those changes that changed the community, practically fatally so.

I think this also marked the death of the early 2000s internet culture, which had been formed on places like fark.
I remember that too, in the end they re-styled a bit more and still produced the opposite effect.
Some are doing that, which I agree is a better approach. First thing I saw when loading Reddit was a bunch of those protest notices.
I built a testing library on top of pytest based upon the idea of doing this mapping at an application level instead of a method/function/class level.

If you write tests in a strongly typed, non-turing complete markup (in this case, StrictYAML), you can then use it with a template and test artefacts (e.g. app screenshots) to generate readable how-to/tutorial docs which are guaranteed to stay up to date.

https://github.com/hitchdev/hitchstory

This isn't a new idea, but I find that people are often skeptical because there's a history of people getting their fingers burned by Gherkin's language design or YAML's weak typing (both of which are completely valid).
Why would I write it in Python? It's the worst language to do that...
Can't really see how my comments suggest I'm "rail[ing] against" something
It was never really meant to work on mobile. Honestly, this is more of a personal playground to try out different graphics algorithms, above anything. But the mobile version is requested a lot, so I will try finding time to work on it.
For those who did not grow up like me in Berlusconi's Italy, he was an interesting character and in many ways a precursor of today's politics. When Trump came to rise, I felt many aspects were similar: both very rich entrepreneurs, arrogant personalities, a tendency to go against well established rules, personal attacks on opponents, an admiration for strongmen (Berlusconi had a clear crush on Putin), tax creativity, laws purposefully written for himself and his friends, and of course exploiting partisan news outlets. Berlusconi's career took a turn when he developed Mediaset to be a large TV company that could compete with national public TV, and still does, while offering a load of trash to the public. He was many times under investigation, sometimes convicted without ever going to jail, and many times exploiting the statute of limitations to avoid conviction by dragging the trial along for years.

His party was essentially founded upon him and his personality, and is currently one of the parties in the government coalition, with a relatively minor share, I expect voted by older people nostalgic of his era. We will not miss him -- but in hindsight we have seen even worse characters in the last 10 years.
He's been the most polarizing figure of italian politics of the last 30 years. It will take decades to reach a balanced assessment about the guy. IMO future historians will not be kind to him.
They’ve been adding progressively more user hostile bits over the past year or so.

They don’t have users they have victims.
Simulating Kubernetes-Workload AZ Failures with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Fileswap.org – P2P file transfer with E2EE
FileSwap is a sharing web app that allows users to directly (P2P) transfer files between multiple devices, friends or family members.

What does “directly” mean? FileSwap uses peer-to-peer protocols which means there is direct transfer between the sender and receiver without any intermediate server.
This is why the push towards application sandboxing and distribution by the developers themselvs is IMO misguided.

I'd much rather have my applications run unrestricted but vetted and if neccessary patched by a trusted third party (the distro) than lock whatever dark patters and anti-features developers come up with into a box ... where it still has access to all interactions with that box.

In particular, I wouldn't trust a Firefox distributed by Mozilla without oversight but I still use the Firefox packaged by my distro.
I'm glad we agree that USD is better in every respect. This was always obvious for many of us by the way.
I feel that there are ways of "living life to the maximum" which should be applauded and then there is a way that impacts negatively on other people and society in general.

To quote an opinion article[0], "he faced prosecution more than 30 times on charges including embezzlement, false accounting and bribing a judge. Many cases failed to go to trial, sometimes because Berlusconi changed the law under which he had been charged."

0 - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/12/berlusconi-dea...
I don't think I would have clicked on a video titled "Testing Bulding Techniques by Simulating an Earthquake Using a Shake Table", but I did click the original "Shake tables are way more complex than I thought" from Tom Scott.

If clickbaiting didn't work, people wouldn't do it.
In general the lack of separate communities, and the technical posts that take up a good portion of the front page seem to guard against that kind of Eternal September on HN. The top of the front page right now:

1. Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hostile redesign killed it (fark.com)
2. Why Perl?
3. Video to Video with Stable Diffusion (Step-by-Step) – Stable Diffusion Art
4. The Surprising Power of Documentation
5. Intel is all-in on backside power delivery (ieee.org)
6. Temperature-dependent RNA editing in octopus recodes the neural proteome
7. MIDI 2.0 driver support coming with Linux 6.5

I suppose you'll know it's over when there are no more technical posts. So keep upvoting them ;).
By realities, do you mean middle management neuroses driven anecdotes, or actually statistics and study? Because the latter shows that it's more productive to wfh
He made Trump look like a Mormon missionary
How do you fix the problem for the average user of why the (eg) recipe group on their Lemmy instance is empty, and when/if they do learn that other instances recipe groups are different groups, how they properly follow them all, and why it is their favourite one suddenly disappeared because their instance defed'd from that instance because the other instance also carried trumpsfavouriterecipes?

I get and like the principles of the Fediverse but for the average user it's too fragmented, needs too much effort around discoverability, is confusing and promotes echo chambers in some ways worse than Reddit (in that your instance can simply cut off another instance it doesn't agree with - at least in Reddit you can find another sub all on the same instance that meets your echo chambers. Yes you can change instances but supposing that other instance doesn't carry a group you use heavily?)

IMO Lemmy's growth will halt once the more intrepid average user decides it's too complex, tells all their friends about it and goes back to Reddit.
You can bring knives through airports too, just not hand luggage
It's not funny when the victim isn't in on the joke and is distressed by it.

(Sure, the victim was (probably) a highly unsympathetic and stupid person. What justification is that? It's schoolyard-bully sociology to attack unsympathetic weirdos. Most bullies grow out of it and live with regrets. But 'spez is a fucking adult! What's he doing lurking in the worst subreddits of (his own) website, searching for prey to gaslight? What's the character of a grown-ass man who does that?)
I deleted reddit account week ago. It's just time sink without any value:

- It's true that some hobby specific subreddits have wealth of information. But it's just occasional view of such subreddit and "sort by top". New posts are 99% attention seeking posts without value, even on good subreddits

- Besides the above, 99% of reddit is political virtue signalling, memes, karma farming
Not really. Not even close.
Dropbox went from good user experience and design style to bizarre current-thing design style back then. It backfired so bad people fleed from the platform. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15393684
Doesn't Rust support having a function as a field of a struct?

If it does, then the order of evaluation of a.foo(b) would depend on whether foo is a field or a "free-standing" function of a, which seems horrible.

Also, there is a simple elegance in having the order of evaluation match the order the symbols are written that should require a very hight bar to reverse, in my opinion at least.
Perl can be seen as a middle ground between AWK (and bash and sed) and a more general-purpose language like Python. It prioritises brevity of expression over readability. Using regular expressions in Perl feels more like a "first-class experience", where most other languages treat it as just another library.
> Massive behemoths buying competitors to shut them down goes against the spirit of capitalism.

That depends on which theory about capitalism and its purpose you subscribe to - in your (and my) case social-democrat style capitalism (which was the dominant theory prior to the collapse of the USSR/GDR/Yugoslavia block) generally assumes a responsibility of the corporations towards society at large: paying fair and livable wages to employees (so that they can buy the products), paying proper taxes so that society can fund what's needed to give the corporation a chance at being successful (i.e. education of new workers, road and rail transportation, a fair court system), not laying off people for pure number games and invest a part of the profit to improve the corporation (invest into new machinery, R&D, or training the staff). Stock markets primarily serve as a way for corporations to raise money for investments.

Modern-day "neoliberal" capitalism however is a different beast. Basically, making money is a goal all on its own, with no rules and limitations on how to make it. As a result, we got "investment banks" "creating" insane amounts of money from thin air (and growing so large they threaten the financial stability of entire countries), everyone is constantly looking on how to squeeze those below him out of money on all levels, and if you got money you're free to do with it whatever way you please, including burning it or using it to snuff out a competitor.
Surviving is not the goal.