skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EU doesn't know what it is doing IMO, I suspect that they do indeed have citizen interest at heart, but they will end up in the same place as the PRC, which has CPC interests at heart. Even US might end up looking like this - anyone arguing that 'social networks are publishers' are basically endorsing the China line
Yes, I also find it quite astonishing. I bought a Quest 2 so that I could explore if this was a gimmick or the real deal. It’s absolutely the real deal and in my mind, the unquestionable future of computing. And if Facebook ends up owning the whole thing, it’ll be specifically because others in the tech industry had lost the plot and were too busy dismissing it to chase for a piece of the prize.

An example of this is in game development. The app library is currently so that that it has opened up a huge opportunity for solo indie developers to build simple games and end up at the top of the sales charts. And we’re talking about something that has outsold the new Xbox.

Tech people like to wax on about how concerned they are about Facebook, but these comments usually are just a chance for them to take a few swings at a favorite corporate punching bag, not because they have any particular interest in VR.

I think in many ways the HN community is going through a deep skepticism cycle where everything new is dismissed. After Zuckerberg’s huge gamble pays off and creates a bigger gold rush than mobile, this same community is going to be posting guides on how to custom program hand tracking gestures and detailed breakdowns on how the distortion correction works.
Distribution, backups, credit card handling, user management etc are all cheap. You'd be looking at <5% overheads in most cases.

What Apple are actually charging for is the first item in your list - access to the users. Apple wired the hardware to make themselves a middleman in every transaction. That's it, that's all it boils down to.
You can just spell it vwmare.
I had this exact same "account being insta-banned" problem a while back and it turned out the issue was that I was using PiHole. After disabling it temporarily (and any browser AdBlockers for good measure) I was able to sign up for an account.
Where are all these people who are so hyped about VR they want to spend every day "in" it? Maybe some of these people exist, but I don't think they exist in anywhere near the numbers they seem to exist in people's imaginations.
>Especially when you're just starting out, and have no users yet.

Add analytics, even rudimentary. Something like PostHog is good.

Add monitoring (Sentry) so you catch exceptions in your code when soon to be people and systems use your product without them having to report them. You'll fix problems faster and prioritize (most frequent, most impactful, etc).

Create a Slack workspace where your users could ask questions.

Get users.

Observe behavior and usage. Keep an eye on non-consumption. Schedule calls with them and ask about what they're trying to accomplish with your product.

If they're not using a feature you know they need or have stopped using it (from analytics), ask why they're not using it or not using it anymore (the load time is just too long, it's buggy, it doesn't support their use case, they moved on to something else or to another role).

Look at where people are coming from (referrers in analytics) but also ask them where they're coming from (community? subreddit? HN? Word of mouth? Someone mentioned it? Who? Ask them. Rinse and repeat. Investigate everything.)

Look at email addresses and their domains. Are they university accounts? Are there many from the same organization? Investigate. Ask questions on how they signed up and what they're trying to do.

You want to get users. You'll get all the feedback you need, either active or passive (them not using something, not doing something, dropping something mid-action).

Ask questions. Don't really ask for "feedback" because you're putting them on the spot. Ask "Have you tried x?". If you're aware of an issue in something, let it out, they may laugh and be relieved because they didn't want to break it to you, but you did and now they can go on about why something sucks for them because they now know you won't be butthurt if they say something.

Ask questions to know the problem they are trying to solve and you'll get reasons or usage or non-usage (work in a very sensitive organization and they can't, regulations, formats, etc).

Asking for "feedback" in the form it is most known is like asking someone what they think of you. Mostly useless and uncomfortable. You want people to be comfortable sharing with you, and they're most comfortable talking about the problems they're having.
Jesus. That is some proper scifi dystopian stuff. Any employees on here? How do you live with yourselves?
if a new soap bar is cheaper and smaller, I think it fullfils all criteria. (if it adds sawdust which increases the functionality)
Maybe a GAN could be used to bridge the gap. A little creepy but it's definitely good enough to trick my brain. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/10/05/gan-video-conferenc...
Yes,These days most people think that GOOGLE=INTERNET and look on GOOGLE for the nearest hotel or ask GOOGLE today's weather. Google has basically become so big that for most people Google is the manifestation of the internet.

This reliance on web search as a gateway to the internet also started with google as in the days of IE we had separate URL bars and search bars, toolbars and bookmark tabs were the norm and there were many different ways people used to obtain their news,talk to friends and in general consume content on the internet.

But Google basically turned the browser into a funnel that sends all internet users to https://google.com and as chrome has most market-share in both desktop and mobile(thanks to android). Most browsers adopted the SEARCH-ENGINE route in their browsers leading to the position we are in.

Today the average person visits a website only in two ways

1.Auto-fill on their URL...sorry search bar
2.Type the name of the website on the google search engine.

I have no clue why the feds don't care about big tech monopolies the way Microsoft was attacked back then for IE which is basically child's play compared to what companies(even Microsoft with Edge) are doing today.
I get just the opposite feeling. I love lookahead in a compiler because it makes life so much easier. And if you write a recursive descent parser by hand you get that sweet sweet bonus context for error messages.
As much as I agree with thise meme on longer timeframes, stating it now is a bit unfortunate.
As someone that has recently opened a bug report on a popular open source project, with a very simple and 100% effective reproduction process, I had a back and forth with the maintainer telling me to "what happens if you do X instead?"

What is the point of me providing an example case if the ones that know the internals of their code don't try to reproduce my bug?

Yeah, I know OSS devs do not have time/are unpaid. My point is however complete your bug report is, nothing guarantees it won't go stale without anyone having taken a real look at it. In my experience 90% of bug reports, on OSS or commercial products, die this way.
free market policies. Proper Co-ops are designed not to exploit workers, local resources or destroy communities in order to create profit therefore have a hard time competing with ruthless profit-oriented companies in most markets. Co-ops create social value and are beneficial to workers and society alike, but they need to be nurtured actively.
New Chinese policy mandates reviewing comments on websites before publishing
Sure there would be something else similiar to Facebook but that doesn't make the critisism against Facebook wrong or invalid.

The critisism would then go to Bookface.

Independent of it, look what Facebook left: Nothing of importance.
We should do something with phone numbers too.
I know that this notion of my job exists, but I don't agree with it at all. Making it easier to use your platform than building things from scratch is really the only way to sustainably build a platform people don't work around all the time. Being able to bake policy into that platform is just a nice bonus.

You are right about one thing though, I've seen enough undocumented deployment crap held together by hot glue prone to cause the next incident whenever someone hits the wrong button that my relationship with developers that dabble in ops is at least somewhat adversarial.

Note that this is different from developers that have a need they don't immediately know how to solve (and is not covered by a platform team) and either ask an architect (those are different from platform for us, by the way) or invest the time. That still often leads to cognitive overload or eternal temporary fixes, but it's still better than "why do you care, it works, I only had to punch 10 holes into the firewall and commit one service account key to git" type developers.
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It's because "tracking" isn't a well defined thing to begin with, so it can't be enforced in code because. Doing so would require privacy advocates to figure out precisely what it is they are getting upset about.
Most commonly, the comments end up lying about the "what". Because so much of the "what" comments are boilerplate code that we unconsciously tune out, it's the first to go stale and out of date since we also don't remember to change them when the "what" changes (and also it's a two-place change, which always falls out of sync).

Next up is the "how", although it's not as likely as the "what" since it's not as common (as it should be - you don't need to write a "how" about every list iteration).

The least likely to be a lie is the "why", since the circumstances leading to a "why" rarely change, and when they do, you usually end up replacing the whole section.

And so, your "what" should be almost entirely in self-documenting code, your "how" should be used judiciously, and your "why" probably won't be a problem.

The more unnecessary comments you write, the greater the risk of them going stale due to maintainers glossing over them. When they're a rarity, you take more notice.
> Am I ever going to buy a right angle impact wrench or a chain saw sharpener?

I don’t know what you’re talking about. I, uh, pretty much know I’ll need a, uh, chainsaw sharpening thing, no, seriously…
This would be a great deal more impressive if most contributors to the largest and most subsection OSS projects weren’t paid.
This is a common opinion that just doesn’t stand up when you actually listen to music.

Check out Arvo Part (eg “Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britain” or “Fur Alina” or “Tabula Rasa”)

Mark Anthony Turnage eg “Coraline”.

Judith Weir “We are Shadows”

I could go on and on. There are lots of great 21st century and late 20th century works in the Classical tradition
Thanks – do'h!
No qualms about your point, but to approach closer to the asymptote of this argument no "object" has really a well-defined boundary one you look at it close enough (spatial scale and/or time-resolution scale).

Going back to J.C. Maxwell's complaints that many physicists of his time did not understand that we do not perceive matter directly, only forces. Of cause, this should be nowadays high-school level attentive student's knowledge.

Perhaps useful distinction, depending on the level of analysis, one can split into categories: a "mathematical/physics" object versus the "reality". E.g. in thermodynamics, (mathematical) cloud has a clear and precisely defined boundary.
Why is a virtual world like Ready Player One not happening?

Maybe not tomorrow, but by 2040?
With titles like "Cloudflare considered bad"
I feel you, but the cycle will continue. We have been using terminals (centralized computing) before, then switched to PCs and back to cloud.
If you can wait about two to three decades its gonna fix itself :)
To be fair my information was not accurate. It was fast but when I said it was a problem with our "backbone" I was wrong (it was a networking problem but not the backbone). I favour speed over accuracy here, but the status page wants to be fast and accurate.
Account creation doesn't happen on the fly, does it?
Motels were used as homeless shelters in the context of an extraordinary event that decimated travel demand.

At least in the area I’m familiar with (NYC) a lot of them have swung back to being profitable hotels now that people are traveling again.
Thanks for stating my opinion with such clarity. :)

Why come up with these weird acronyms and try to sell it like it’s some entirely new idea? Why not just start that page with “We improved the virtual memory subsystem of the Linux kernel...” and take it from there? That would be both comprehensible and impressive.

Everybody wants to come up with their own terminology from scratch nowadays, even for things that already have well established terminology. For those of us who understand a lot and want to systematize knowledge in our heads it’s such a drag.
If AWS is a product soap, Spring Boot is a library soap. This is not fundamentally different.

Are you sure that you are suffering from technological change and not from lack of interest in what problems your code solves?
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I took the time to read the comments on the issue and I can't see anyone refusing to do this.

It seems like the person that suggested it can't compile ventoy as it requires a particular version of fedora.

This needs somebody to compile ventoy and make a PR.

Tabgentially it seems like the solving the issue where it needs an old version of fedora would make it easier for others to participate.

The best way of moving this forward would be to free up a block of time and either work on a PR, or if not that a PR to make ventoy compilable on more distros.
I guess hypothetically you could go for a wikimedia-style model and set up a foundation that operates the thing, but that would require a lot of funding, which would require decent utility up front. Vicious circle there.

I'm struggling with how to run even a small scale search engine as an open source project. I haven't really found any good projects to model for how to go about an open development process for a system that actually requires decent hardware to run, so right now it's just me developing in public, which is fine I guess, but not much different from how it was before I open sourced it.
It seems surprisingly easy to make stable orbits in this simulation. I once made a solar system simulator a long time ago (in VB6 of all things) but when I placed a large mass in a similar orbit to a small mass, the small mass would often get ejected out the system. Here that doesn't seem to happen very easily. I used simple newton integration so my sim wasn't very accurate but I wonder if there's more to it than that.
Hegel would say Art itself peaked with Greek sculpture but it’s kind of for a different reason. I agree with your overall point but I think sculpture might be a bad example in the context of this article.

Is it possible that post-peak you kind of lose the audience? I.e. it becomes just for nerds. I suspect you see the same thing for e.g. classic rock. Noone sane listens to 2022 “classic rock”.
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I couldn’t modify my original comment but becoming a people person is just a skill. It’s simple but not easy. It takes repetition and courage. Start by asking yourself what the smallest step you can manage is. Just keep doing that and you will become more comfortable around others.

I know this to be true because I had no friends growing up. Now I’m a “social butterfly”.
Are blockchains decentralized?
I tried Raku a few times, but thought it to be too slow for me. Grammars seemed kinda nice, but somewhat frustrating.

One good thing about Raku is that I thought it had what I called "a programmers mindset". To put it another way, the language seemed to be structured in such a way to "think the way I think", rather than the other way around.
thats actually basically it. Sanction forever, until regime changes, ideally under a US instrument. Poorest countries simply starve, people have to migrate -Afghanistan, Syria etc - people born years after US invasion will have suffer, no end
Not trying to clever here but you’re missing a letter in the most interesting word. Is what you run an invester’s club, or an inventor’s club?
> Morton (tehnically, Morton Norwich) made other chemicals as well, including rocket fuel. The fuels were marked up so highly, that - together with a company called Thiokol - they decided they could make and fly the whole rocket engine cheaper than NASA could.

That's...not really true. Thiokol and Morton Norwich merged in 1982; Morton-Thiokol did a lot, wasn't centered on a proposal to “make and fly the whole rocket engine cheaper than NASA could”, and, in fact, the rocket engine business they had after the merger was the same one Thiokol had before the merger, just with the new entity’s name. Thiokol had been a contractor on the shuttle program since the 1970s.

> Their first attempt at rocket building was the Challenger, which blew up less than two minutes after launch

No, it wasn't. Thiokol was the contractor for the SRB motor segments from well before the merger, and Thiokol and then Morton-Thiokol made the motor segments for the SRBs for all of the launches before the 1986 Challenger disaster (and all of them after, though some under different names, after Thiokol was purchased.)

> and the Morton-Thiokol partnership.

Morton-Thiokol wasn't a partnership, but it's true that most of the chemical business was spun out as Morton in 1989, with the propulsion business staying as Thiokol. This wasn't really an unwinding of the merger; Thiokol had a substantial chemic business before the merger. It was a novel split of the combined business that happened to use the branding from the old components because it was available.
The funny thing is that this tech is far more social than phones and computers ever were. When you hang out with a friend in VR, you actually can end up feeling like you hung out and had a silly fun time, like you had really gone out for a round of mini golf.

Thanks won’t claim that VR is better than being outside, but to me it seems a hell of a lot better than sitting on the couch with a phone.
Excerpted in the 2001 score at the scene where the hominids confront the Monolith.

I don't play or sing any music, so sometimes I'm in awe of a piece but I can't figure out how it works.

At first I thought I was hearing something that required instruments with access to arbitrary pitches within their range, such as voice, violin, or trombone, but then I saw the flutes and that guess had to be rejected.

This 'Requiem' is amazing.

Edit to add: a technical problem on my end had me finally hearing the audio at about 5:00, not realizing how the piece had played out prior to that. In case anyone is puzzled.
> 0 fee transactions

You'd have to check how sustainable this is, Uber was (is?) also very cheap in some areas, just because it's massively subsidized. A solution that works today but not tomorrow and burns cash in between is not necessarily something you want.
It helps to know you feel similarly even while you're on that same tech that I fear. Thank you!
Sooner or later they will start to give a d..n about resiliency :)
I feel more comfortable with statically typed languages, but in the end they're all just different tools for the job. I switched from years of C# and Go (back to) to JavaScript recently. I use TypeScript wherever I can, but it's not always feasible and that's alright. In the end I definitely favor static typing as a personal preference, but don't have any aversion to writing vanilla JS either. It's just different approaches for different things.
The ffi in mJS is something that would need to be a built-in in most engines but Microvium’s unique snapshotting approach makes it possible to implement the ffi as a library just like any of the other functions

There is a description of this interplay between snapshotting and FFI?
Thankfully I never encountered that as an issue with e.g. Amazon Workspaces.
Having skipped through all of those, I do indeed not like most ;) La commedia was acceptable, but still too calm for me (my main genres are folk rock and metal, sometimes grindcore and noise).

Sinfonia by Berio, though, is what I will now spend half an hour listening to, because the glimpses I got were amazing.

Thanks!
> Their status page is a joke, likely crippled to reduce legal liability, but at this point it's just an outright misrepresentation.

It's fairly standard practice these days for status pages to be manually updated. The difficulty with having them be automatically updated is that for it to be useful that system needs to have a greater reliability than the thing it's monitoring. The signal to noise ratio is otherwise a bit ridiculous.
There are micro-outages somewhat frequently; I don’t mean that as a criticism but merely as an observation.
What are these search engines that focus on sites without advertising and trackers?
Caesar cypher.
Imagine already paying for a service and then having someone snark at you for wanting things for free.

I tried to exercise some restraint this time, but screw it. Here's another rant:

Beware of Cloudflare's tactic of luring people in to their CDN product with "free" bandwidth, and then locking useful features arbitrarily behind what I can only imagine is a thousands of dollars per month enterprise plan. Just look at their cache-purging page for a super obvious example of this (there are plenty more, way too many to list), everything other than basic purge by URL is enterprise only: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/how-to/purge-cache/

These days Cloudflare is literally my last choice for a CDN for my new projects. My new go-to is bunny.net, who charges a reasonable usage-based fee for bandwidth and gives you unfettered access to all the features they've built (and doesn't route your users to farther/closer nodes based on how much you pay: https://cloudflare-test.judge.sh/). Though I'd even reach for Cloudfront with their expensive bandwidth costs these days, because at least their pricing is transparent and scales smoothly with usage, and they don't arbitrarily cut you off from useful features that you might not know you need yet.

Even their bandwidth might not really be "free", since I've heard if you actually use any significant amount, the sales people will come knocking on your door to coerce you to get on the same enterprise plan or have your site taken down.
"incoherent word salad" is a tautology... "word salad" is already incoherent.
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Obligatory Lamport quote: "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."
This book was really important for me early in my career, and I still recommend it to others quite regularly https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9039673-undercover-user-... it will give you plenty of tactics you can use to conduct user research and gather feedback when you have no users or low budget etc.
ahah glad to know someone else found its secret superpower :)
Setting up a generic typescript project is 100x more involved than the original minimal developer experience of Node.js (optional npm init, otherwise node program.js and off you go). If you are trying to bring node development back to its nimble origins, I'm with you.

The thing I like most is the CLI tool name: it really matches the mood of the project. I.e. "just dev, just build, just run"
> Why (comments)

That's what we do in my current company, but I vastly preferred what we used to do in my previous company, which was:

> Why (commit description)

which prevents comments obsolescence and code dirt
In the UK, I really like Which. You have to subscribe but the incentives are right, rather than a load of affiliate-driven stuff.

https://which.co.uk/
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