skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. It made me wonder if they priced it such that it could be argued it's a success by a smaller metric, giving themselves leeway. As while they're positioning this as a general computing device it's unclear how many will be comfortable using it as such in this current iteration, compared to how they've traditionally been used almost entirely for entertainment (in the consumer space anyway).
They’re constrained by price: they haven’t trained the market to accept a $3500 piece of hardware from Facebook.

Apple has.

The “people with $3500 to spare” market knows that it’ll be polished and likely worth the price tag due to the “sparks joy” factor that Apple regularly delivers.
>I have zero trust in the long term outlook of my current firm. My stock vests every 3 months and I sell it immediately. If the company shows signs of going down I'll cut my losses and go somewhere else.

That's funny - every business-related thread on HN contains complaining about companies focusing on the next quarter results, yet even when people are given stock on preferential terms and have information unavailable for retail investors, they'll still behave in a way that incentives company to do that. And then complain during next layoffs probably :-).
I know what you mean. There is something comforting in knowing that a real person like you is out there in world, existing and somehow making it. It's important that they are actually real too, or as real as you can verify.

I was also thinking about how, you know, fake content that I know is fake is fine. A comedy sketch is clever writing and good timing, and synthetic.

Real content that I know is real is fine. I am seeing something real and true.

Fake content that tries to be real is bad, and pollutes my mind, in a sense. I can't even tell somebody about an image I saw because I don't know if it's real or not. Balenciaga pope etc. And a lot of social media is going to fall into that. I shouldn't even mention it, for fear of looking like a fool. I shouldn't even mentally store it, because it warps my understanding of general trends that I notice online. I think social media text is already there, and images are close, video maybe less than a year off from being kind of worthless.
Almost like they don't eat their own dog food. This is a good marker of how their internal respect of the product.
To go even further, all the app devs should get together and create a new platform or pick one Reddit alternative and point all their apps at it.

That way it would be even more likely to get critical mass quickly.

3 weeks should be enough time to come up with a coordinated plan. If anyone here has a connection to the app developers it could be a good thing to suggest.
For the third time, I’d like to reiterate my point on Metas recent trailer for their new Quest headset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36201835

It turns out, it wasnt marketing that did wrong when Meta designed their trailer to be hip and energetic and happening.

And it wasn’t Apple marketing that just “got it right” with their trailer when they focused on immersion.

In reality, it has nothing to do with marketing. Meta just has a bad product vision. I cannot understand how they think “being actice and doing things” is their selling point? It is just so unintuitive. It’s not a smart watch.

Good thing Meta thinks “it’s going to be a fun journey” because they are now at war with the most succesful product company in the history of the world.
As much as I'm pro privacy how much of this is just to push people onto apps...
If you move the goalposts or are vague enough, anything can be true. Working from home is worse for the environment than abolishing capitalism, which is the driving force behind global warming.

See? Conversation is useless if we ignore context or intent.
On that account.

If you think he doesn't have a stealth account... Well, I have a bridge in New York to sell ya.
Or they could grow a spine and declare they’re not playing that short sighted game.
Thank you for the recommendation, I've been looking for good mindmapping / idea outlining software for the classic Macintosh and hadn't heard of MORE before.
Are these actual desks, cubes, half cubes, or even smaller?

You know your engineering forefathers used to have actual offices? I remember when cubes were a compromise. Then half cubes. Then just a long table with a seat.

But yeah, they care about productivity.

Also, real estate is an investment vehicle and depreciation/tax break primarily, adult day care center secondarily.
> We've seen this story before and it hasn't ended well for the folks in Mark's position.

Meta doesn't need to dominate the market. Being the Android to Apple's iOS or the Windows to Apple's macOS is way more than fine for Meta's business. iPhone's did $250b in revenue in 2022. Meta as a whole did $117b.

They aren't looking to replace Apple, they are just trying to find a way to get their revenue growing again. It's a huge win in their eye's if Quest3 contributes reasonably well to bringing their 2023 revenue to about $130b.

If there was a genuine third company competing with Meta then that would be a problem for them. Valve and Pico are roughly 0% the size of Meta and Apple. They just won't have the resources to actually compete. Google has been rumored to be working on a headset. If that's the case and they didn't fire that entire org then that would be Meta's only real competition for second place.
Google pays by where you live, as determined by your work location. If people move back, they get a bump assuming they took a cut in the first place.
Google Pixel devices likely are not making much money for Google. The value of Android for Google is in getting their software services everywhere.

Zuckerberg is in a tough spot. Especially if Google uses its control of Android to push forward a VR version of it.
Free-types: Higher kinded types in TypeScript
IDK I'm confused about that. I think we can agree that it's at the very least a myth that holds a lot of sway among many investors and executives.

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

The leading statement of the law's view on corporate social responsibility goes back to Dodge v. Ford Motor Co, a 1919 decision that held that "a business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders." That case — in which Henry Ford was challenged by shareholders when he tried to reduce car prices at their expense — also established that "it is not within the lawful powers of a board of directors to shape and conduct the affairs of a corporation for the merely incidental benefit of shareholders and for the primary purpose of benefiting others."

Despite contrary claims by some academics and Occupy Wall Street-type partisans, this remains the law today. A 2010 decision, for example, eBay Domestic Holdings Inc. v. Newmark, held that corporate directors are bound by "fiduciary duties and standards" which include "acting to promote the value of the corporation for the benefit of its stockholders."
I _really_ want the Vision Pro. It has an app store. People will make apps for it. Just because Apple's promo had people using the headset for work doesn't mean it is at all limited to that.
Now that my company has started enforcing RTO, I noticed patterns in some of my colleagues, such as arriving late and leaving early, leaving the laptop in their desk disappearing for a long while, not answering messages for hours with nowhere to be seen, and very vague status updates when asked.

It turns out slackers will slack, be it at home or at the office.
A "concentration floor plan"?
The entire concept of capitalist "work" is in opposition to human thriving
I suspect the real reason for this is to make job hopping harder, and improve the employer bargaining position.
I'm not sure what your original post said, but more a response to the other commentor on "chugging down quickly".

Note that energy drinks have caffeine, and if you consume a lot of caffeine in a short time it can be fatal.

For anyone wanting to consume taurine, you can simply buy taurine. No need to drink energy drinks which I'm sure aren't super healthy (even without sugar).
Google+ is still the best social network that the world has seen.

But, yes, from what I understand they could hardly have botched it more if they tried.

I'm thinking of details like using the opportunity to latch onto Facebooks "Real Name policy", and using the same name as their deeply unpopular single sign-on solution + killing their existing social network at the same time.
I'm on the internet a lot but I don't know, I feel like it would be almost embarrassing to be an unpaid moderator of a site like that. Then to 'strike' like they are flexing their unpaid power on some company that doesn't care about them ... I don't know it seems like a lack of self respect. Why don't they quit moderating and do something else, it would seem more dignified.
For Apple, I don’t think it’s about sales. It’s about introducing something new to the mass market. So they want to sell this to developers (price doesn’t really matter). And early adopters/fanboys (for them it matters a bit more).

Apple is using these two groups for development of new software and for marketing. The fanboys will carry this thing around for a year or two and familiarize the general public.
But why would you want a car? they make no sense... they're slower than a bike or public transport in a city, slower than a train between cities and you have to pay huge amounts to keep them. Maybe they make sense if you live in a village but when you live in a big city in Germany it's a bad proposition.
Just a bit, but the $1500 price point didn't stick around for long. So really it's a $999 headset now vs $3500 "next year".
Sure. Tell that to the valley real estate prices.
Involved as in "feature rich" or involved as in "complicated to deal with"?
Well there is that harem city for Sergei Brin.
I don’t know if that matters. I think the optics are bad for the public account of CEO to be used so seldomly.

They could have easily assigned the task to a marketing/media person…
Source will be appreciated as the claims seem to be false according to quick search.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-19/french-wi...

[2]: https://tradingeconomics.com/france/electricity-price
How is such a miracle achieved? Dogs never escape or are abandoned in the countryside?
I say this is a good thing.

Nvidia has been providing excellent software but they overprice their hardware because of AMD's lazy strategy.

$300 used to get you top of the line cards, now you can't even get entry level in that price. Meanwhile, consoles are providing excellent value for cheap, even if they sell at a loss.

It's clear, the high price, high demand strategy did not last for too long and people are realizing that this consumerism hype gives you nothing when they just come up with the 'Latest and the greatest' right after you buy their current offerings.
I remember I stumbled on a StackOverflow question about my API. I wrote a comment to tell the user a part of the API they were using was being depreciated, and they should change one line to avoid their code failing in the following weeks. I received a couple of ugly replies saying that my post wasn't relevant to the original question and it should be removed. I mean, I agree it wasn't the original question, but I wrote the API and I was trying to help that user and any future users coming to the page. Not the kind of place where I want to spend my time.
It's not a rule in the sense that "no double-counting" is a rule (you won't find it anywhere in the rulebook), it's more of a soft suggestion. In practice, I've seen people follow it or disregard it to their heart's content. I personally follow it, because my philosophy is to upvote all constructive comments I reply to, and the other counter is literally helping me construct the chain.

But I mostly don't really worry about it either way, since comment karma doesn't count for much.
Such a clean app. It’s the only way I’ve been using Reddit the past two years. Time to move on… I stopped using it for more than entertainment anyway.
There was Samsung Dex. It even could run Linux. Didn’t take off so it was cancelled like 10 years ago.
Have recently been working with it as well and come to the same conclusion. Would be nice to use it since my company is already a GCP shop, but the json parsing is super frustrating. I have noticed using Python's ast.literal_eval helps, since it catches single quotes.
You don't have to think for long to see where they will take this, and how strong it will be in corporate environments. Especially a corporate world currently jostling between in-office and work-from-home.
No need. ChatGPT to the rescue. The answer quality is about the same but for different reasons. It's a hit or miss for both. But! With ChatGPT there is no social pressure exerted by humans. It's only you and the machine. It's liberating.
I'd strongly advice on using Nix in some other context (local dev environment for some or all your projects, for example) before jumping into NixOS as your daily driver, especially for a workstation where you work with dev.

Helps to get some intuition on what fits where.
For all of the iOS people that rave about Apollo, Sync is on another level for Android.
That's funny, I would have said that a lack of moderation in favor of being more "welcoming" was a big part of what ails the site. Seems like it's been overrun with "write my regex for me" kind of questions.
At least 15 of the current posts in this thread (>1/10) repeat the misconception dispelled in the article that cats reduce rat populations.
Both Lemmy and Kbin are part of the fediverse and are seeing explosive growth for the last few days. Once the initial barrier of confusion about how federation works is gone, they are actually pretty promising and I can see a lot of people migrating for good there.
Google seems to have taken their eye off the ball when it comes to providing accurate search results.

Someone at the top of Google seems to have cranked the results prioritising slider all the way towards recency of information instead of accuracy, growing a million spammy fly by night sites instead of defaulting to trusted sources of information. As a programmer its so hard to get information from a technical query in Google these days.

Does Google search have a QA dept? Are they able to compare how accurate search is today compared to a year / decade ago? Does anyone at Google listen to them?
Indeed.

Had a really nice GPU.

Quake 3 Arena was released to Mac OS first before Windows.
This actually may not be good advice, because methionine restriction has been found to mimic caloric restriction in extending lifespan, and also inhibits cancer cell growth.

See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5008916/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32138282/ for example.
Show HN: Seofor.ai – Track what all AI models say about your brand on one page
Hi HN!
I'm Silver and i built SEO for AI (https://seofor.ai). It helps you track on one page what all the different LLM's out there say about your brand, company or product.

I realized with all the LLM's out there that we won't be googling much anymore. Most of the answers to even our product questions will likely come from LLM's. It's super annoying to go search your company on like 5-6 sites (chatgpt, bing ai, bard etc.) and even more annoying to do it regularly, so I made it super easy by putting it all on one site and automating the detection of changes in answers.

I initially focused on the personal data angle and people "googling themselves" and built HIBE (https://haveibeenencoded.com) and posted that on Hacker News as well: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35557548) but obviously the usecase for businesses for tracking brands seems more important given how people will likely learn about your product from AI chatbots in the future.

I think the honest answer is that no one knows right now how this LLM wave will change the search landscape and the only obvious part is that it certainly WILL change search and it's time to start tracking and keeping an eye on what the AI's are saying about your brand and that's why I built this baby.

It's FREE to use for one company, but if you're serious about tracking multiple keywords and companies, then I obviously want your help with my openai api bills. :)

Hope you like it and let me know what would be cool to add in this early version?
Don't forget Just Dance. Just Dance 2 was the best selling 3rd party title for the Wii. Just Dance 3 was the 2nd best selling title of 2011, behind Call of Duty. As of 2013, Just Dance is Ubisoft's 2nd biggest franchise, behind Assassin's Creed. Teenage girls nowadays are still playing Just Dance all night at sleep overs.
Probably, for two reasons.

First being Reddit wouldn't have suddenly needed to stop supporting 3rd party apps for free - apps that only cost Reddit money and generate no income. If the API made Reddit money, instead of costing them money, there would be no need for a sudden change. The "suddenness" of this change is due, in no small part, to the cost of supporting basically free-loading 3rd party apps that consume resources but offer nothing in exchange.

Secondly, Apollo would have formed a business model that supported paying for API access, be it monthly subscriptions, freemium, etc. The current model of pay-once-use-forever is simply unsustainable (on an obvious level) - and the $12.99 annual subscription equally so. The Apollo model, as it was, required free API access.

Even if Apollo had been paying for API access all along, and Reddit decided to suddenly hike the prices - Apollo would have been in a better position to raise their own prices accordingly, and would have had a userbase more accepting of paying.

Paying for API access also compels the business to be more efficient in their calls. As it was, there was little-to-no incentive to operate large content caching on your own servers/services, etc. I have seen, but do not know their credibility, that Apollo was not very efficient in it's API calls and essentially hammered the API far more than was necessary. If you're not paying for it, why would you bother designing a more efficient system?

The API fees were inevitable. More are coming - be sure of that, as corporations tighten their figurative belts and look for ways to stop bleeding money.
I have not used SO once since chatgpt 4 came out, not once.

I'm sure there are cases there SO has better responses than GPT, but frankly, they are rare, and the ability to query and shape chatGPTs responses basically obsoletes the SO model overnight. So the SO CEO is absolutely correct to pivot to AI before that ship sinks.
I'm not a heavy user like you, I've only asked about 15 SO questions in the past 3 years (ranging from C++, gcc, Linux, software architecture), none of them have been deleted, and there's always people answering.

You don't have to, but can you give some examples of good answers being deleted or good questions being closed? I'm just surprised I always see some people on HN furious at SO, and wonder why their experience is so different from mine.

Btw, regarding old questions, I always make sure I search SO before I post my question, and if any similar questions exist, I link them in my new question and say "I found this [url1] but it doesn't apply to my situation because of circumstances XYZ". This is simply good practice to show you respect the community's time.
Decentralization doesn't seem like a bad idea now?

Only if there was a way to host websites where no central authority ever owned the data and the people who ran relays got paid in some form of cryptographically secure crypto currency. Frontend clients that made requests would need to pay in the same token to avoid abuse.
You could say iPod, xServe, AirPort or Pippin in the same vein. Companies lose/get out of entire markets and move to others, that's a natural (and probably healthy) thing.

Otherwise, I forgot about TabletPC, hut given they have the Surface line now, is it a failure ?
I honestly can not tell if this is real or if everyone in this thread is laying too thick...
> Meta simply won't have that experience because they just did the cheap thing targeted a small market.

Don't you see how Toyota succeeded? There are some ways to succeeding.
>It detects user-identifiable tracking parameters in link URLs, and automatically removes them.

Wow, another heuristics software by Apple that automatically does something I didn't ask for? Is there a chance it removes a parameter from the link which renders the functionality broken? On the other hand, could advertisers just use random hashes without labeling them as the tracking param to avoid this? Apple is famous for producing bad software, I hope their programming would automatically interfere with as less things as possible.
black-on-white is easier - lots of brightness makes the iris contract, giving me sharper vision during the day and when looking at a bright screen. At night, I try to keep my lights on and not sit in a dark room with a screen or else my eyes get fatigue very quickly.
Investors in Google (or Meta) don't have voting rights. You simply can't do any of that stuff. All you can do is not invest, which means the price doesn't go up, but that hasn't been happening.
Easy work around is encrypt the data into the path decode the data server side and do a server to server beacon call. no ad blocker technique is going to be able to block it. apple is just making the industry step through more hoops. all the beacon calls are going to server to server before this.
> I've been remote for 14 years, I love it, but I've worked with plenty of people who didn't and went back to an office.

I've seen this level of reasonability probably less than 10 times when the remote vs. office debate breaks out. It's a real shame that sites like HN behave identically to twitter and reddit wrt actual conversation and debate about working environments.
Use a Mac (if you can afford it) or use the latest Ubuntu LTS. Using anything else doesn't make sense for most users, you will misconfigure or not update packages correctly which lead you to be more insecure.
I always hear this but have never experienced it. What kind of bonkers reasoning?
Here's "leaked" BOM list. There are some expensive parts but we find OLED (x2) is quite expensive. If its production scaled well, will it price down? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36022338
Attributing data to a single user is what allows 3rd parties to amass a detailed profile of you (by looking at all your data from many websites that all share with the same 3rd party).

I doubt people are educated enough to care about this specifically, but the tech industry should care.
I've had enough reputation to see the moderation queue for years now. Imo, the site is anything but welcoming, as it shuts down newbie questions all the time with zero guidance.
As covered publicly, Cloud is hot desking but only requiring a couple days a week in the office to make it work. Other parts of Google are not hot desking. Most are hybrid, 3 days a week in the office. Honestly hot desking 2 days does not seem like a big deal to me.
> 26 year old CEO

In 95%+ cases that’s a pretty terrible idea
https://archive.is/cVOJk
Good, I said people you trust, not me. You shouldn't trust me, but I trust me and my friends.
Jeremy Clarkson on Financial Crisis
Jeremy Clarkson summing up the financial crisis pretty well.. Lol
IMO it’s just a demonstration why you don’t write complicated or security sensitive code in shell script: it’s basically impossible to get right, there’s pitfalls around every corner and it’s extremely difficult to check for mistakes.
Except that nonsense is 90% of startups these days. Most of the people who get funded are well connected fools or charlatans. I’m shocked at how poorly money is invested.
We need a competitor that accepts any question, uses GPT to create answers, offers the public the ability to vote and discuss these answers, and uses GPT to rate and prune the discussions. Eliminate the community moderators.