skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean the other way around. Sure, bully your users by default but let them opt out via a somewhat hidden setting. If they use the setting instead of installing the app you have your result.
If the West wants to push India into Russia's open arms, sure.
It's only absurd if you misunderstand the true intention. They didn't acquire Dubsmash to profit from its technology and users. They acquired Dubsmash to shut it down.

Today's social media corporations are so fat with (venture) capital that they can, and do, spend that kind of money just to keep any potential competitors locked out. TikTok, the last social network that became truly big, was launched in 2016, seven years ago. Seven years without any new player entering the space. That's an eternity. I can promise you this wouldn't be happening without (very costly) interventions from above.
Expect that to change as Phillips bought SonicCare in 2020.

Maybe soniccare will be the high end model and Phillips will be the one with “special offers” aka making you listen to a jingle about mouthwash while brushing your teeth.
Maybe it's because I've read a bit about how they work and in general have seen a lot of them, but I can recognize these are QR codes even if they weren't labeled as such
Is there really any serious argument about Twitter revenue being down and major ad buyers leaving?
I doubt the veracity of your story. As a liberal you’re complaining about how one of the most liberal capitalist sites has too much left ideology. What is left ideology to you?
You're thinking of archive.is
As a beginner programmer back in the day I'd have agreed that unicode is weird and "length in characters" is the right metric for the database entry.

However as a senior dev, who have read and messed around enough with binary, UTF-X, compression/GZIP, etc, I'd say that "character length" for database field size is a weird concept and that "size in bytes" would make more sense since that maps better to what you have in the HDD/SSD/network.
Environmental alarmists might not always be wrong, but they have been so far. I don't know why they hate their own species and wish to see it extinct, but then I am not a psychiatrist.

Do you want the Star Trek future we've all dreamed about since we were kids? People like Borlaug will get us there if anyone can. They deserve your attention, not the likes of Vogt and Erlich and the others.

The idea that somehow the maximum population of humans should be limited to single digit billions or even hundreds of millions should be disgusting to reasonable people.
Of course, this is why decentralized alternatives like Mastodon have an advantage. There's no equivalent group of managers to make such a horrible decision.
Anyone who's worked with grad students knows that the lab leak is very plausible.

Every one i know who did a science graduate degree has hairy stories.
I assume this comes in addition to "reminding" me multiple times a day, sometimes when I click a link, sometimes seemingly on a timer loop while I am just reading, that they have an app?

Yes. I tried the app. The app is better not because it is good but because they deliberately break the web.

Also the app seems to eat battery and I am planning on charging my new iPhone 14 twice a day to use it or jump through hoops to figure out if it is anything I do wrong.

Between this and the community blackouts I am leaving for now.

I left Twitter a few months ago (including Nitter) and my stress levels have been lower since that. I guess the same will happen after I leave reddit.

Edit: It also seems to me the fediverse is picking up steam quickly now. The number of lemmy instances and lemmy users seems to have exploded recently: https://the-federation.info/platform/73
US House and some States? Sure.

US Senate and the solid blue core? Still firmly center-right.

For instance, Republicans are very unlikely to be elected in my city. So competitive candidates call themselves Democrats. And to establish their bonafidas, they might even hold a few select leftish positions to brag about. But when it comes to legislating and appropriations, the boring stuff that no one pays attention to, they're just as nimby, reactionary, regressive as any generic Republican.
What have they done like this?
> Find pants that fit/look good/are comfortable and buy 15 pairs.

Until your waist size changes and excess pairs go to waste.
Yes, it’s all MIDI. People complaining about it are ignoring the fact that it’s beyond ubiquitous and has not required a change for literally decades. It’s a smashing success, warts aside.

The dude replying to you with “Sibelius” apparently doesn’t understand that, like all other DAWs and notation programs…Sibelius uses MIDI, because of course it does.
> [...] infectious biological weapons because they are near impossible to control.

You mean contagious, not infectious. Biological weapons which are infectious but not particularly contagious, such as anthrax, are much easier to control and have been the focus of most biological weapons research. Biological weapons are banned and aren't, used not because they don't work, but because other things work better and with less political fallout.

And FWIW, very contagious pathogens could be used as weapons for strategic effect if you had reason to believe they would hurt your economy less than your enemy's. For instance, if you believe your authoritarian government will allow you to flatten the curve but liberal governments will have a disordered response that precludes this. I'm not saying they did it, but the possibility isn't patently absurd.
Thanks. Adguard worked
Having recently re-vamped my own online-projects portfolio (obligatory plug - https://www.lasselaursen.com/#projects-on-blog ), I think some images in the bubbles would not go amiss.

An approximate time axis at the bottom would also be helpful as a lot is left to be assumed by the reader.
This essay was frequently linked amidst the recent discussions on Rust leadership. The current situation seems to be rather unstructured, and it was pointed out that this is not a desirable thing.

https://without.boats/blog/if-you-can-keep-it/
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307105.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome

> In March 2023, seven U.S. intelligence agencies completed a review of the proposed cases of Havana syndrome and released an unclassified report with the consensus that "available intelligence consistently points against the involvement of US adversaries in causing the reported incidents" and that a foreign adversary's involvement was "very unlikely".

Plus, you say "Havana" but "Beginning in late 2017, suspected attacks targeting U.S. intelligence personnel were reported in an expanding set of locations around the world,[9] including Moscow, Russia; Tbilisi, Georgia; Poland; Taiwan; and Australia"

How does one location in Cuba - the NYT report doesn't even say of it's in Havana - affect operations world-wide?
Is desktop new Reddit counting as text centric? From what others have said, 3rd party apps and old reddit have relatively low usage.
I think it'll be a lot shorter than 100 years. It didn't take 100 years for the British empire to collapse. It showed its weakness during WWII, and the Suez crisis put the old dog out of its misery a mere 10 years later. Chernobyl preceded the fall of the USSR by only 5 years.

How long after COVID will America fall? China's already brokered peace in the Middle East between our best friend and our worst enemy in the region. The Universe has a sense of humor. Given the historical precedent, will we mark the end of the US empire with China negotiating peace in occupied Ukraine or in occupied Palestine?

I'm clearly the furthest thing from a patriot, but I am fairly certain the history books will place our collapse somewhere between the Soviet Union and the British Empire on the atrocity scale. If we outdo Churchill's genocide in India, it's going to involve nuclear hellfire, and then there won't be any history books to remember it by anyway.
"Chip making is automated."

Is not a true statement.
I wonder how Aaron woupd have reacted to this descision.
For those downvoting having missed the Ultima reference (https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/562660-ultima-iv-quest-of-t...)

Name: Mentor
Sex: He
Description: A wise shepherd.
Job: I escaped Magincia!
Health: I am well.
MAGI: Pride was too great in Magincia!
PRID: The city was destroyed by daemons for its pride!
Art thou proud?
Yes: That is not a virtue!
No: Pride exists without truth, love, or courage!
No, of course Reddit will recruit mods before they forcibly retake the subs and demod the current mods.
We seem to live in different worlds. Every hiring I've ever seen has been on the basis of personal contact and paper resumes. In OPs case particularly, we are talking about local businesses, not big corps.
And even though it’s improved. This is still an example of how Google has gone to shit over the years. Why can’t I just have “10 blue links” instead of pictures, videos, etc?
N.B. this was a month ago
Recording – Reddit Blackout – East Coast
Not the parent, but some limitations are that you can only really have events that describe channel/time/value. That's mostly fine for instruments like piano. But on a guitar you can pluck the string with a soft/hard object, close/far from the bridge, add vibrato to an ongoing note, etc. Sometimes it's enough to use multiple instruments with different characteristics to simulate that. Sometimes not.

MIDI is fine for some instruments and for controlling few high level parameters. If you want to make music though, you'd go with a DAW instead which can start with MIDI on some tracks, but otherwise works with waveforms instead.

There's also a difference between when you only compose, want to hear the idea put together and give musicians the sheets, and when you want to create the end result fully on your computer.
It’s speculation because nobody’s been allowed to investigate the lab thoroughly.
CuLitho de Nvidia.
Show HN: ChatGPT summarizing latest news as an a-hole
So I had this idea to use ChatGPT to summarize latest news as a sarcastic a-hole. I didn't have any good ideas for names so I just called the app DirtGPT.

I'm not very good at building web scrapers so the site is only scraping CNBC news for now. If there is enough interest in the project, I'll build scrapers for other major news sites as well.
India and russia are actually pretty tightly coupled in defence and civil industry actually…
At least with my scanner (Binary Eye on Android) these don't scan very well. Nonetheless they are very cool.

I wonder if this would work better or worse with different types of 2D barcodes like Aztec, Data Matrix, or PDF-417
At a society level, people seeking to undermine a community or nation can manufacture consent around radical astroturf movements, eg by having mass media propagandize in their favor while minimizing their crimes.

This has been noted as a failure mode of democracy — as people won’t risk their individual reputations to challenge radicals garbed in “noble” causes, until the situation is already dire.
I am a user of the official Reddit app, even though it sucks, and I just deleted it. As an “experiment”.

I’ll probably come back at some point, because I do like being in touch with some of the subreddits.

But I’ll see how Reddit-free life feels for a bit. I find it really offensive that they can have such a trash UX in their app and then shut down the other apps.

The Reddit UI has always felt really hostile, which is fine… I just chalk it up to incompetence. But shutting out people who are more competent just feels way off.
Anyone who knows mythical man month knows team size isn't everything. But the team for this task should probably not be 0-1 people.
I really wish that was always the case
Yemọja
It doesn't actually. It just means construction becomes extremely slow and backwards because engineering subcontracting firms now send unlimited amounts of construction delay notices to cover their asses when things are wrong and then ultimately still building the wrong and outdated things and leaving it up to the auditors later to fail the audit review to allow people into the building.

So if your goal is to not have people die, you accomplished your mission, but if your goal was to make the project owner be responsible not to fuck up you still failed.
Yeah, I’ve been using BaconReader for years. It’s going to stop working soon and I’m simply going to stop using Reddit. I used to use it for more but the last few years I only use it for porn and I recently discovered that the redgifs site is great for that. Obviously not everyone uses Reddit only for this purpose but I suspect that when the third party apps go dark redgifs will get a nice bump in new users.
Reddit's mobile website is an awful experience, so why would I respond with using their app? Never gonna happen.
Hyperdimensional Computing for Efficient and Abstract Reasoning
The crypto hype bubble was the new mobile hype bubble.

The mobile hype bubble was the new portal hype bubble.

The portal hype bubble was the new dot com hype bubble.

I swear there's a pattern here... Maybe I'm not seeing it...
This is about mobile browsing only.
I would smash my head in a door before being reliant on google and their (lack of) support for any business critical services. It's fine as a secondary, but my god would it make me really nervous if that was the primary cloud platform.
Extreme diets: Life on 800 calories a day (2009)
I have had to learn to make do without cut and paste it's so flakey in Reddit. I gave up on editing posts before hitting send.
Interesting idea and I'll give it a try, though the thought of transferring over my existing bookmarks (very large) and giving many of them titles is daunting to say the least.
> I still regularly come across folk who think unicode means 2 bytes per character.

To be fair, a lot of programming interfaces with "unicode" in the name were invented when UCS-2 was the only option.
OSC is basically a serialisation format with a few niceties bolted on for batching and scheduling messages. The massive unsolved problem is discovery – discovery both of endpoints (servers, devices) and messages that can be sent to said endpoints. There have been efforts to solve this over the years, but are largely vendor-specific.

MIDI has OS-level support for discovering endpoints/devices, and there's enough standardisation of supported controllers that things largely "just work".
Bazaar-style development?
I would think blocking also came from Twitter and many Twitter users really really appreciate the difference between blocking and muting.
I just bulk-edited them so I could leave a message about why the comment is gone.
Raddle – An open source Reddit alternative
Can you post the Discord link? I didn't know that was a thing... Is it an official Reddit Discord or something just for the current situation?
An apple event; they bring Kojima in to talk about gaming on Mac; they introduce gaming mode; they are excited by gaming on Mac; they still don't offer dedicated gpus? Not even in their workstations to try to appeal to game developers?

I don't know what to say. Is it because gpus are upgradeable, and they are allergic to this, retreating from it like vampires from holy water? Is it to keep the price of GPUs from muddying the water in their careful pricing ladder where the cpu and gpu are bundled?

It's insulting
My phone camera couldn't recognize any of the generated ones. Looks cool though
Sites should have rss but it's not social. There's no way for me to comment on your protocol. It's a syndication protocol: that's only part of a social system.
Java sucks as a language and no amount of lipstick on a pig will make it look good
God’s truth. I do find debugging/getting to compile with green tests mostly written code combines well with meetings. I can go to next error or failure and keep an ear out for interesting stuff but don’t have some big mental plan that can be wiped out by an important chat.
https://discord.gg/ukXPkeU9 I'm assuming they are talking about this.
It’s worth investigating the lab to gather evidence. I think that is the point of the anecdote; things happen.
But Halliburton got to plunder Iraq's oil, and that was all that mattered to Dick Cheney.
> "sometimes it's not political" is not really a defense to the claim of "this time it probably was".

Was it probably? I took a quick look at the deletions, the deletion reviews, and some of the older versions of the article. The article seemed to be very thin on actual citations, with way more text for a living-persons biography than I'd think reasonable for that level of sourcing. The deletion discussions were a hot mess, but my main takeway is what somebody else wrote there: "There's still not a single keep !voter here who has discussed which sources actually show notability."

Looking at the current article, my take is similar. I only skimmed, but I'm not seeing a lot of WP:RS compliant sources listed that would persuade me of notability even now; it's an awful lot of citation to his own works.
I have heard that the LSD experiments were stopped when they realized that it did not work well for mind control. Contrary to the propaganda that LSD makes you hallucinate, it actually breaks down the hallucinations and see some things clearly. I suspect Ted saw the reality before he then opened page 20 of this magazine and knew what he needed to do. https://www.environmentandsociety.org/sites/default/files/ke...
I mean, steam engines didn't fully automate mining either, but I still get his point.
> To play devils advocate does Twitter not seem fine now?

Fine in what sense? There's less features, less capacity and more outages. They couldn't even hold someone's presidential announcement fine without it breaking. Is that fine?

As a business they've gained debt and lost a lot of income. Is that fine? With less income, less ads and less of everything it's a different scale. Something that's fine with 1 million users is not the same as 10 million.

I would say it's different - different ownership, different direction etc. Time will tell what the outcome is. Projects have been axed and new 1s will appear.

The changing of staff has definitely hurt Twitter. Whether they can recover is a different question.
I wouldn't recommend using Lemmy. It's even worse on security than Reddit, not to mention the developer is an extreme authoritarian who is aggressive to non-authoritarian users, going so far as to ban users who speak against Stalin and friends. They've been banned from other social media, including Reddit, for hate speech and other things. This person has a history of aggressive authoritarian behavior and should not be supported.

Considering their ideology, the security flaws in Lemmy make me even more suspicious.
I get buying it for that purpose, but why then kill it? Especially when it is a personal video platform, when Reddit is mostly an anonymous text platform?
I tried to get started with Clojure but their set up page is so confusing? The Windows version is still in beta? And intellij does not have a template for it like for Scala and Jetbrains even supports F#. I thought it was a mature language
Have you never in your life used a dedicated gpu? If not, maybe that's why you imagine that using one leads to "performance costs," but the rest of us would like to get a proper frame rate in a graphics program like we can get on PC
Chumby was 10 years too early. The Amazon Echo Show and equivalent devices for other platforms fulfill that use case today, but with a lot less charm.
I have only one eye, one that does not even work very well. However, in a lecture theatre I can recognise students in the back row and even know when they are making eye contact with me. Considering the poverty of information that my brain is working with that's pretty amazing.
> You might as well be asking F1 drivers for tips to help you commute to work.

Boston drivers: "hold my beer."
I believe you, how was it flying by ISS? Did you wave hands at the astronauts?
Cheating with ChatGPT
Depending on how one does it, that's true. But that's also not relevant here. Twitter as a private entity does not have to just say, "Welp, it's legal" to anything that happens on their site.
Jesus Christ, Kanerva is about to make a huge comeback
If you use a “dumber” imperative style framework, the way to find out what code is executed is to go-to-definition of the library code when you call it.

With an annotation-based framework, how do you do the same? You could find usages of the annotations, and then manually read the thousands of places “@GET” is referenced?
> Just to add, you can't increase it that fast either.

Lots of places reported people having nothing to do, don't know what to do and lacked direction. The hiring standards also went down.
Eh, Twitter is not "rapidly decaying." It's faster and more fun than ever, especially if you're using it from outside the USA where they are adding capacity. Way better than back in the pre-Musk era when they were trying to cancel wrongthink and most of the hiring was focused on managing DEI instead of engineering.
>With records, pattern matching, destructuring, and virtual threads all arrived or arriving,

Yet literally none of those things actually matter for any sort of real world application.

What matters is how quickly you can get code to do what you want, and Java/Kotlin lost that plot almost a decade ago.
There's a free safari extension for iOS that blocks the "use our app" popup on reddit mobile site. It's sad that such a thing even needs to exist.
H is silent in spanish, so when spoken culitho = culito
How do you identify the executed code? I don't even know how to start. You cannot single-step into it from the annotation, nor can you select the annotation, "go to definition" and see the code. You can "find usages" for the annotation which gives you a lot of places that may or may not be the code that gets executed.

Imagine I'm looking at a class that is annotated. What is the next step to find the code that gets executed for the annotations?
Worse on security in what sense?

And yeah they’re a tankie… but just don’t federate with their servers and problem solved. As far as I know their license doesn’t require adopting their political ideology to use their software.
What an amazingly naive choice, from people who should know better. The complete lack of comprehension of the nature of spam and abuse on the internet is stunning - as though we haven't had decades of trolls, scrapers and bots to learn from.
I have 15 pairs of size 38 (thanks 'rona years) 8 pairs of size 36. It is stupid to get rid of the ones that don't fit, your weight will fluctuate throughout your life. Also you will eventually need new pants.
yes, and the key difference in distributed/decentralized systems is if you post your blocks they are broadcast to the public. On Twitter you can figure out you're blocked/shadowbanned by logging out, but in this case a peer can generate a list of all of the people who block you and advertise it.

Assuming BS is p2p, which is another topic.
I hate such judgments passed on foreign nations. there are no such things as corruptions when speaking about foreign countries. Instead, they should be more accurately rephrased as securities not enforced.

to counter your argument, I would say that Harvard is not able to contain the number of cheaters at its university. Or the business schools are not able to contain the amount of cheating that happened in their education. we do not broad stroke such problems with single word terms.

like others have said, this system of internet blackouts is quite common in other countries as well. Some countries will even coordinate television programming to be different because children have to take exams during that week.