skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big tech businesses always suffer from lack of creativity but most importantly they often lack a central product vision where someone can say “no”.

What happens usually is some middle tier exec (or big name customer if B2B) will say, “hey did you see Snapchat new stories feature? We should do something like that” and then without careful customer research, or a product leader connecting it to an overarching vision, the devs just start work on it and it rolls out because it’s just there.

Everyone needs something to do and everyone loves new features right?

Blindly copying some other company’s new features or UI patterns, and pigeonholing it into an app without cohesive product-wide strategy (aka connecting it to what customers already like about your service but even better) is always the sign the company has entered mediocrity. Largely a talent issue and execs who don’t really care about long term product dev. People just looking at generic growth charts and hoping they go up and then buying other companies when their own teams can’t hack it, hoping they can seed some life, without fixing the root causes.
I think it's because Mojo like Swift has Chris latter behind it and uses the same llvm backend?
They are saying that there is no need to figure out how to recreate "the "glitch" of today that will be the nostalgic style of tomorrow" as the "old"/current models are all available on GitHub and huggingface, and will be in the future.

There is no need to figure out how to recreate this style as you will be able to find it on these platforms in the future. The commenter understood you, but you did not understand the commenter.
Twitter used(?) to have this problem: emojis, not being in the BMP, would count as two "characters" because they were encoded as UTF-16 surrogate pairs.
Last time I checked our democracies are still running on the premise of informed voters. If discussion of hypothesis needs to be suppressed during a 3-year-long "emergency" then we have an issue.
If you insist on doing partial redaction then reasonably simple approach would be to generate two keys and redact non-matching parts. But tbh it still is unnecessary risk
I have a hardware hacker friend who did an LED bank that lit up based on MIDI signals with a decoder she wrote in verilog in two days. If it's more complicated than that it's just not going to take off among musicians.
> You really don't think one of them could move to a post at Stanford or wherever and spill the tea? No one has an old copy of an incriminating memo they can forward to a friend in Taipei

Not after the top PLA vaccine researcher, Zhou Yusen died, allegedly "falling off the roof of the WIV" in May 2020. That sends a loud message.
As much as old reddit is a clear winner ok desktop it is pretty awful on mobile. Personally I actually prefer the new site on mobile (although it is awful too) but I understand why sone people still prefer the old site on mobile.
Maybe because of Chris Latner‘s involvement as a key person in both?

I agree, though. I don’t see much basis for comparison.
> I would like to use a digital currency with micro transactions that is decentralized and censorship resistant...

You just described Nano.
What “$_%@" means for the love of god?
> internationally recognized government of Syria

It is in no way universally recognized as the sole legitimate government of Syria.
My understanding is that the main limitation is technical. WASM doens't do GC or the host system calling conventions and cannot interact directly with object from Javascript because of this. However, this is being worked[0] on and will be solved eventually. Even without this, the performance overhead of bridging to JS is low enough that WASM frameworks can beat out React.

0: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/main/proposals/gc/Ove...
Libmceliece is a Classic McEliece microlibrary
No, but certainly if you think something is a problem you should lobby to make future instances of it illegal. If you don't, it's basically not worth the time of an admin/CEO to care what you think, because they have so much else going on.

A common theme on social media is that a group of people care about something and want to ban it, but instead of changing the law, instead they self-enforce their pseudo-laws by yelling at people who violate them. Complaining about the mods being an example, another being fanartists who have a ton of rules about "sourcing your art reposts"/not tracing, another being that 2014 period where everyone went around GitHub projects trying to shame the owners for not having a code of conduct.

This might be because they're anarchists and don't want to call the figurative cops, but usually it's because they're a minority and there isn't actually popular support for it.
I don't believe it's wide spread but exactly that is possible with the Dutch government and without any consequences.

I lived next door to one of their targets from a drug investigation. The other neighbor was involved and for the next 10 years the other neighbor was allowed to commit all manner of criminal offenses against me and stalk me and the government protected him. They protected him all the way to the courts and then the prosecutor lied in court. I filed criminal charges with the police against him for obstruction of justice. A year later it was dismissed, I filed an appeal to the attorney general and it was dismissed again. The evidence I had against him was overwhelming they simply will not prosecuted a prosecutor in the Netherlands or obstruction of justice.

The laws for using civilians in investigations here forbid the use without having a contract upfront, the civilian is not allowed to commit any crimes. However, none of that matters cause there's no effective control and absolutely no consequences. The laws and their guidelines are just bullshit for the public to read and think that it's all under control.

The Dutch government were envious of what organized crime could do and now the government is organized crime. And yes, completely innocent, non crime involved citizens can become victims of this.
Can confirm, recently written scripts require modification pretty much every minor version. Take the limit on the default size of BigInts now. Why? Just... why? I had to look into every script add the override line at the top (or check the entire script it ever assumes unlimited BigInt anywhere). No wonder there are still Python 2 scripts in use.
Yes, the duration is problematic. A few days blackout means no matter what we will be back, so carry on.
I'm pretty sure for the last decade or so the main reason people read and contribute to HN is that it's not reddit.

Part of that HN is not known for the perpetual "drama" generation the reddit community is known for.

I say that as someone who left HN for reddit. And someone who mostly tries not to comment here, lest that makes HN more like reddit. HN should stay different.
Mining secures the ledger and miners are rewarded for this. Let’s take the example of the Virunga National Park in Congo.

They run a small hydro power plant and needed a bench to manage the excess energy load. They instead went for bitcoin miner containers. It’s a net positive for them as:

- They can manage the load of the hydro power plant

- They can sell back the bitcoin and finance other activities in the park

- They use heat generated by miners to dry fruits and experiment with creating a small economy with excess fruit resources in the park.
To his credit it has to be said that he saved the Italian tax payer a lot of money on funeral costs by undergoing embalmment at his own expense while still alive.
That is exactly what many (including the people working at Reddit [1]) just don't seem to understand.

Reddit is, first and foremost, content driven. The content itself comes entirely from the communities. To be more precise: from a very small group of people inside those communities.

Most reddit users just read, include users that only occasionaly comment in threads and you get a bucket that represents like what, 4/5 of the whole userbase?

This means that you do not have to make many people angry to render the site useless for the overwhelming majority of people that go to the site. Reddit rests upon the labor of a small number of people: Users that post and/or create useful content and moderators.

Now a site like youtube is very similar but has one [2] very significant difference: The people producing the content have a monetary incentive, making it very unlikely that a majority of them will stop or move away. Reddit, as a company, however brings almost nothing to the table, it's just that it used to be frictionless and now everyone happens to be there. And they are working hard to kill the "frictionless" part.

[1]: The recent AMA with spez was a nice demonstration of how out of touch they are with reddit users

[2]: Actually it's two, hosting video content on a large scale is actually hard
that's not what happened.

most of them ended because the limitation period expired, thanks to his lawyers being elected in Parliament to fix his trials.
How's the latency when doing live performances or just practicing piano? Because recently I've stopped doing much production and moved from using DAWs to lighter programs like Gig Performer since I'm more of a pianist than a producer, I use like 5 plugins max (a modeled piano with a few effects like reverb and comp) and I'd be interested in a Linux alternative if the delay isn't going to annoy me during practice.
The Persona 3 Reload has been announced and along with it comes a trailer
That is r/bayarea, but the bay area subreddit has more crime "coverage" more reminiscent of my local nextdoor.
If you don't stay on Reddit where will you go? I'm eager to join communities that are moving to something less user hostile than Reddit. Bonus for anything OSS or federated.
There's something to be said about modern political and legal systems that these rotten to the core people can gain and maintain power for so many years, in spite of the obvious wrongdoings on every level.

What is the problem here? The law being complicit? Extremely effective charisma and propaganda?

Politics is full of these characters, and it seems that the more awful they are, the higher up the ranks they go. It's like humans are conditioned to celebrate the worst in people, and the pessimistic concern that this will never change is quite powerful.
> jeopardizing 100s of billions of dollars of trade

Jeopardizing what? There are no real alternatives to Airbus and Boeing and won't be for years.

Also at the end it's a signal aircraft which will be fixed and back in service even if might take a few weeks or even months than it would ussually. No need to blow this out of proportion.
Because these applications are in middle of nowhere. You cannot store/transport the energy, the best you can do is burn it.
What Is WASI
I'm coming to the conclusion that capitalism kills all interesting social media for me. The founders build something. It's pretty good. I engage. They decide they need to make more money. They make a change that I find annoying or unacceptable. I leave the platform.

Facebook, Twitter, .... now reddit? Might be.

And it's never advertisement. Advertise away. It's usually one of two things: encroaching on privacy or pushing "engagement." I'd have left reddit years ago except that I could opt out of the re-design.

IMO, we need some well funded and user focused non-profits to provide social media. Capitalism and the drive for growth is destroying these platforms from within.
Reminder that consent applies not just to cookies but to all kinds of tracking, inluding fingerprinting and server-side techniques.
Revanced is the only way to stay sane while using Youtube and Twitch on mobile. The adverts and other spam are more obnoxious than cable TV.

I just hope it flies under the radar enough that Google don't start banning accounts for using it. I don't log in to the Youtube app for this reason, but I'm sure there is a line in a EULA somewhere that means they could if they wanted to.

Which reminds me, i need to backup all my email...
haha, look how users scoff the mod of r/AskReddit because they don't participate this
You're basically saying black people are over-represented in money-garnering trends, a bold statement to back up just by anecdata.
80M ops / SEC: feedback by Reddit user got perf through the roof
There's something that I don't get about forcing mobile browser users into mobile apps - how does it make sense for the company? They're forcing themselves into a walled garden, where the gardener takes a hefty "app store tax" on your revenues and has countless levers to force you to style the app how it suits their interests, not yours. For some apps, this might still be the best way to gain traction. But if have already attracted users who are obviously happy with the web experience, why on earth not keep them there? I would be expecting developers, if anything, to be nudging people in the other direction. But that's not what's happening, not just with reddit, so what am I missing here?

I get that there are some marketing benefits from having your logo on of the user's home screens (likely not the main one), and that very few users even know you can do the same thing with websites, and that in the early days there was a big feature gap between native and mobile apps. But for apps like Reddit, it seems to me like you should be able to achieve everything you could want with modern web standards, and users who use their browser a lot will probably see your logo on the "New Tabs" page anyway. So what am I missing?
I think a large part of my grief of Reddit is the vast amount of knowledge and usefulness that's there. I use it as a hub of information far more than I use it as social media, and yes a lot of that may still be accessible (especially with archive) but the creation of that content dies today.
Hacker News is what I refer to as The last bastion of the "Old Internet".

Like back when the internet was a thing that people actually had to put effort into participating in so the average quality of content and engagement was consistently high more often than it was low.

Back when you actually had forums dedicated to single areas of interest, run by people who were interested in that thing "just coz".

I feel like Hacker News is literally the last little glint of light in a sea of seething darkness... it makes me nostalgic for the internet we had and lost.
> Personally, I find it very readable.

A lot of Perl can be readable. But sometimes you get a backend where someone with , let's say, a "unique" view of software development writes a huge monolithic monstrosity by creating their own ORM and object model with almost zero documentation in or out of the code and hoo boy, that is not going to be a fun time 10 years later when basically nothing has changed because no-one has the time or energy to parse out what they've "crafted".
Extractor of receipts and invoices from emails with GPT-4
Connect Receiptor.ai to your email inbox, and it'll recognize receipts, extract data, convert it to a PDF, and export it to your accounting software.
> Just replace mods

yeah. "Just".
At this point I'm seeing an accelerationist angle where having only walled gardens, disfunctional search engines (both in-app and Google) and broken apps and APIs everywhere might force people to think about those things a little.
I feel like I'm missing something. Why would you ever respond to that listing? No meaningful description of the company, no outstanding benefits, just the promise of being overworked?
Your positions, if these are all yours, are quite maximalist in one direction, and in some cases I have read pretty credible studies that contradict you. So, you may not get your Iraq moment.
No it doesn’t.

And god have mercy on you when you find a transient dependency with an unfixed bug reported a decade ago whose author went AWOL.
I think politicians have a duty to act on things that individuals actually cannot change, over things that they quite easily can, that seems like a waste of energy to me.

That's what I mean by political.

It's not a problem to me that someone else prefers food over health, it doesn't affect me at all. Drug addicts in the street affect me, that's something that I'd call a "population wide problem" since there's nothing I can personally do about it.
Because you can get more data to sell through an app.
Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island Expansion Announced
> Meloni has so far been a pleasant surprise.

This government like any other has failed to address the big themes and is concentrating on stupid, more media-friendly stuff. Zero addressing themes of tax evasion, public health, public school, work reform... the list goes on.
Nobody cares about Mr. Taleb. Let him continue yelling at the cloud, after cashing in. Maybe he didn't cash out enough and is mad? I'm just asking!
Absolutely correct. The media part is the sad part, they simply won't print stories about government abuse of power and violation of human rights. If they did, then there would be some possible final accountability, but within the media publishing the Netherlands are absolutely screwed.

And for all of you people who are jealous of what the Netherlands has, don't worry. The limburg chapter of the RIEC have managed to convince Germany and Belgium to also start with their own version of democracy beating measures. It's called EURIEC, look it up you lucky people.
Amounts for Sturgeon are indeed so low.

For 100s of millions, I'd rather look at us politicians ("Democrats") that trade stock and receive large paychecks from corporations... In exchange of what exactly?
People usually bring power banks/batteries/generators with them.

Look up most reviews on various "solar generators" and a vast majority of them are about keeping CPAP machines powered during outages, camping or off the grid situations.
There are Perl scripts I wrote in 2000 that are still in commercial use today. This is what annoys me about languages that don't care about backwards compatibility (cough cough)
I think most Democrats today recognize that was a mistake. The passage of the Respect for Marriage Act last year indicates that they have probably learned from that mistake.
Hesitant though I am to recommend an approach to structuring documentation which needs its own documentation, the structure followed by the Django docs is straightforward to apply: https://mattsegal.dev/how-to-read-django-docs.html
Having been quite interested in GNU/Hurd a long time ago (the years have become decades, I fear) and having lost track of the project, I wonder whether somebody can comment on where GNU/Hurd is being used nowadays.
It's 100% about being able to stop adblockers
Life Is So Terrible and Beautiful at the Same Time
Wikipedia seems to think so:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the programming language.
-- snip --
Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages.
You don't do research and development on things that are already perfect. You do it on things you hope one day might be refined into something more useful. Similarly you don't halt all research on all other possible avenues because one single avenue _might_ be better.
The closest I can think of: https://github.com/netxs-group/vtm
I second Raindrop. I've been looking for a good bookmark manager for a long time until I discovered it earlier this year. Haven't looked back.
Another huge similarity with Trump was Berlusconi's theatrics. He would often make boisterous, ridiculous statements in order to attract outrage. Very effective at distracting people from his actions.
UTF-8 is 30 years old, and 20 years ago it was already in common use on the web. I know because I was the doofus who pushed PHP projects to adopt it because monolinguals kept fucking up character encodings.

Being an older programmer is a very poor excuse at this point to not understand Unicode.
How did he cash out in the cloud ?
Anecdotally - Reddit is not really useable for me today. More than half of the communities I frequent are offline so the home feed is just the odd ones that are.
China records fewest marriages in three decades as population crisis looms
of course I am posting this while the user's comment on Reddit is unavailable due to the black out. I hope the blog post still makes clear what his suggestion was, re arrays of ints.

Not a computer scientist by training, I would really appreciate any ref I could learn from, developing on this way to handle data (arrays of ints rather than Collections). Thx!
That's russophobic fiction.

Ah, I see where this exchange is going.

He held off

While the Russians didn't. That's the key distinction between the two sides.
It means just 1... er 2 more decades, for real this time. :P
Tragedy of the socials
If the joke fits in one line, there is nothing to justify, no paragraphs.
The decision maker likely wants the app installed because it increases the friction to users to “replace” the app with a competing one. Amazon used to offer $5 credits to install their app years ago, and I initially struggled to understand the reasoning; however these days its so convenient to buy via the amazon app compared to signing up for an account on different websites (i am more likely to use Amazon which is already installed than to go directly to some manufacturer and buy directly)
It's not subject to regulation regardless. It might become illegal as a side effect, you're getting the directionality mixed up.
A pleasant surprise? A government that says "we do whatever USA tells us to do, against our own interest" is good? If you're from USA I guess…
In this case we have objects disappearing and reappearing, and the design of clothing and objects (headphones/tiara) being significantly different from frame to frame, pieces of sleeves blinking in and out of existence, headphones becoming tiaras becoming helmets... I'm sure you can find examples of such things in traditional animation but there's clearly something peculiar going on here due to the frames being processed mostly standalone, and it's clearly specific to this exact way of processing. Even if you "draw both the characters and the backgrounds from scratch for every frame", normally the animator would at least have the previous frames and/or overall design at his disposal as a reference. What's happening here is more like those crowdsourcing experiments where you let many people draw a single frame without knowing what the others are up to.
And access to push notifications
wow.. I dont even know really were to begin to unpack this.

So you position is that totalitarianism to the extreme is the only way? That everything, every action, every social convention, every interaction between two people should be under the purview of some law or regulation.

I am not a big fan of codes of conduct, as such I damn sure do not want the government creating a law around code of conduct. If some open source project wants to enact a stupid CoC I want the freedom to fork that project and replace with either a CoC free project or a competing one with a different CoC.

government is not empowered, nor should it be empowered to government what social media ban's, or the conduct of developers interacting with each other on a open source project
You’re assuming there is some cohesive strategy here. It’s better to look at what often happens in practice at a more practical level.

Some exec will be constantly getting pressure to make his mobile app growth chart keeping going up. So instead of doing customer research finding out what people want, having a product vision, market research (“why do people like Apollo?”), making the app so good that Redditors tell other Redditors how much better it is, etc they just say “why not just force existing web users to use it?”

It’s just lazy belligerent tactics so [x] chart goes up. The mobile app team probably has a ton of political pull so they get to stomp on others to get their metrics.
And looks like scramble suits without it