skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we work in the affiliate business and this has the potential to completely desotry the business model.

Good. The world does not owe you a “business model.” Find some positive way to contribute to society instead.
Click 'agree' on the next 3 prompts within 15 seconds to see a monkey throwing an ice cream cone at King Charles
Also, people use Apollo so they don’t have to deal with the ads and terrible ux. They’re not suddenly going to go to the terrible official website or app.
> Not everything has to be run like a business, you understand that right?

Sure, that is reasonable. But then the victim card cannot be played when the business fails to act accordingly, no?

> The rest of your BS has already been debunked

Besides your insistence on alternative facts, I do not see anything "debunking" anything I have written. Again, just because you don't agree does not make it not true.

> If you want to work for Reddit so badly, try applying for a job.

Generally, you will be better off attacking someone's argument instead of their motivations.
It's clear that they don't want any of the third-party apps to pay them a cent. They want the third-party apps gone, and the users to move to the official app where they can be directly monetised by Reddit. There was never going to be a deal; if Reddit was interested in one they would have approached this differently.
Is CCS not open, just because Rivian built a CCS charging network that is closed to other makes?
> Your rant has absolutely nothing to do with whether if Safari was “better”

it absolutely has to do with Safari as the alternative - webapps. aka installing apps on the iOS outside of the app store - is absolutely hamstrung by requiring a bloated and dated "webkit".

100% on point to Apple holding back alternatives to lock people into their store.

"why"

30% cut of millions that isn't needed for large developers. You know? that 80% that you say because games are locked into the app store and the 30% cut.
If they could have done it 10-20 years ago, they would have and Covid would never have been an issue. Was in a company in the 90's trying to do that with Russian developers, and didn't Sun hire 50 when the wall came down? Paid them in Levis and the like.

Outsourcing/offshoring is old news.
I honestly hope so. A 4chan-tier cesspool would completely ruin their IPO.
In the Ford announcement, they promised an adapter.
Since all the longitude lines converge there, that's expected behavior, right?
Do you know how traumatic spaying is, and how absolutely trivial it is to not get your dog knocked up unintentionally?

Until you snip all your own tubes and those of all your children, keep your euthanasia propaganda to yourself.

Every human causes far more environmental harm than any animal.
The vast majority of people here complaining about CCS have probably never even handled the connector much less actually used a CCS car.
This is still an pretty substantial amount of effort, and a lot of risk. I really don't blame anyone for not doing this, especially if they also have another successful business that they are running already.
For me, same as always: try to bootstrap a startup.

Right now GPT and Stable Diffusion are very popular and there are many potential new businesses.

My suggestion is to be very careful which GPT you use though. There are a lot of inferior ones out there.
When your party line is the invariant, truth has to become the variant.
Even with CCS, the EU and US have different plugs. The EU plug is much better.
Read Dershowitz before jumping to that conclusion. What I can’t figure out is if Trump is unelectable and no one is going to vote for him, why does the government keep trying to knock him out of the race?
I think you articulated a sentiment a lot of people have very well. For the non-decision makers, there is a strange dichotomy I see with coding.

Remotely, I’m vastly more productive in getting coding work done. I’m sure most people would agree. But that productivity is almost erased by onboarding new hires. There are so many aspects of software engineering where it’s so much easier to be sitting next to someone, pointing at their monitor, and discussing what and why you are doing something. Instead, you need to hop on a call and awkwardly screen share on a call or write out paragraphs of text to impart the knowledge. In my experience, having such barriers to doing these things makes new hires much less likely to reach out and put themselves into the situations where they can learn, no matter how much they are told it’s ok to bother people.

To me, this is why remote works so much better at smaller companies with less bespoke tooling and legacy code. There’s no better way to learn than in person and there is a huge productivity boost when doing so. That said, personally, I’m willing to deal with the lower productivity in my work life to get the higher productivity in my real life by being able to do laundry during the day and not sit in traffic.
source? old.reddit still works for me

edit: but yes, if gp has 15 years of his life documented on there, and he wants to keep it, I'd suggest making an offsite backup asap.
With your Meta experience I am curious - would the people you had to talk to been in the office near you anyways, even if everyone was in office? It seems like with a huge global company the people who would be hard to get context from (so not the people you might have a video standup with daily or weekly) might be in a different office or building requiring a video call anyways
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For what it's worth, as a curious computer science university student in 2013 I sent Linus Torvalds an email from my personal GMail account. He answered both my original question and a supplementary question, even though they were (in hindsight) quite stupid. Even the great and very busy Mr Torvalds has at least some time for handholding unwashed amateurs.
You're right: I didn't ask for advice, and I consider yours to be a chauvinistic and arrogant gesture based on totally not reading or understanding my previous post. Please leave me alone.
Would the lockdowns have happened without Zoom?
Do you do development on it? If so, how do you work around Silverblue's restrictions? Curious about people's experiences.
Apple keeps focusing the privacy discussion on things like 3rd party trackers, since this doesn't affect their business model in any way but gives them good PR. They do nothing against the more serious issue of government surveillance, they even let the government run their iCloud servers in China. Their interests align with consumers and they align with governments even more.
Manjaro isn't much better. They tried to force a proprietary office suite on their users and tried their hand at the adware thing too.

Stop relying on "user friendly" distros, you haven't needed them for almost a decade, most common distributions run out of the box with no problems most of the time.
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It’s not like the person on the other end of the line had no idea exactly what he was proposing. Even if the dev isn’t experienced at negotiating something like this you can bet the person on the other end of the line was.
Yes, the car part can break, but CCS1 requires a vehicle side latch too.

It has to capture the CCS latch and is often a little flipper near the top of the car's inlet.
I dislike Mastodon too, but what changes do you think Mastodon and Lemmy need to be a viable option?
That would make sense except a large chunk are their most valuable users for attracting people to and keeping them on the platform: moderators and power users who submit links. You can't have the 90% of users who never vote, submit, or comment on anything without the 10% who do.
My best experiences working remotely—both during the pandemic and with folks in other locations before that—has been with research-oriented work. The reason? We had the time and space to work and communicate the way that made sense to us. We had plenty of shared pair/group sessions to work out design ideas and experiments, iterate on the system, debug trickier issues... etc. Everything else we could do well asynchronously. Since this was longer-term, more speculative work, we didn't have to worry about tickets or product/management breathing down our necks every day.

On the other hand, the projects that suffered the most were the ones where folks had less scope and autonomy. If you can't unilaterally make decisions for anything that spans more than a day, and you're forced into some ticket-oriented process where everyone has "their" task to do, communication naturally suffers. If you're all in the office, there's a bit more slack to talk quickly and informally outside your immediate silo; remotely, this takes more intentionality, so the friction imposed by your culture and process has an outsize effect.

So my conclusion has been, pretty much, the opposite: remote works better when people have real scope, independence and autonomy. If engineers and small teams can make decisions over longer time-frames, they'll have the space to adapt and work effectively. They might need somebody to set the example or foster the right habits, but it's fundamentally healthy and effective. The frictions with remote work come up when it's thrust against a less flexible culture that makes it harder for folks to adapt.
> But then the victim card cannot be played when the business fails to act accordingly, no?

What business?

It’s not a fucking business. Stop insisting it is. We literally just went over this.

> Besides your insistence on alternative facts, I do not see anything "debunking" anything I have written. Again, just because you don't agree does not make it not true.

The fact that half of your comments have been flagged and downvoted to death, and that multiple people have pointed out your straight up lies should tell you plenty about who is dealing in “alternative facts”.

> Generally, you will be better off attacking someone's argument instead of their motivations.

Yeah that hasn’t seemed to work with you for the past half day, so I don’t understand why you would expect people to keep trying when you clearly don’t bother with things like “taking things to heart”, “having a discussion in good faith”… or really “reading”.

Next time, stick to actual facts and don’t pretend everything is a business that needs to be maximally efficient.
That's exactly their point. Arch is my personal distro of choice for a number of reasons, but to go to someone, even if they're interested in it, and say "it's a great distribution! Here's an entire manual just on getting it installed, it only takes six hours!" will turn away all but the most curious of individuals. I personally do think it's a worthwhile endeavor, and not as hard as people say, but the first time you do it, it can seem like a Herculean task.
League of Legends esports players who walked out reach agreement with Riot Games
I've been trying out Linux distros since the late 90s. I recognize Mint's reputation as a Windows alternative for Linux noobs. But it's honestly the best OS I've used on any platform since... Snow Leopard? With Cinnamon anyway (the default), it's polished, fast, and has a perfect set of default apps for what I need to do.
Asking ChatGPT to develop a learning path/syllabus to learn a topic seems really effective, I've never thought to try that before.
IMO this effectively ends any CCS1 DC fast charging network.

There is an adapter for any tesla (except the OG roadster) to use CCS1 DC Fast charging plug; it's $450 for the elderly original model S cars to be updated to support the CCS1 protocol and you also get the big chonky plug adapter as well.

Apparently the new supercharger kiosks support 'ccs1' protocols with an adapter, so if you've got a CCS1 plug car you can avail yourself of the super new superchargers with that plug.

There's also an adapter to let you use L2 (AC "normal") chargers -- I think you get the adapter when you buy the car; it's just a passive adapter.

But this effectively kills all DC fast charging networks in the same way chademo is dead; there will be some population of cars to use it but it'll plateau and shrink and evaporate.

Good riddance to CCS1 -- the charging experience is astonishingly hostile compared to "drive up, plug-in, get coffee, come back, drive away". I can only imagine that there's a memo somewhere to the effect of "make DC fast charging so bad it drives people away from EVs"
> Amusing that you're saying this when Tesla requires an app to set up your car for charging in the first place.

Sounds terrible. I shouldn't need an app to drive my car.
Locked with no comments. The discussion will be about mod tools and bots, not about whether this is a good idea. They don't want community feedback.

I bet it's a shitshow of <removed> through and through by the time it's over.
It's ok to delete your content, it's your content. If you cared, you would have archived it. Same with others who might care about that content. Archiving it can mean using systems like IPFS to keep it alive as long as someone wants it. It's not some grand erasure of history, you are just throwing away old CVS receipts, err in this case Reddit receipts. It's also ok to keep those receipts if you want, filling up a cabinet in the closet maybe to look back at the time you bought a toothbrush I suppose.

Deleting accounts and histories offers a major benefit for people, which is that if they are somewhat addicted it's easier to stay away from when you no longer have an old account to feel connected to that encourages you to keep returning. This is likely the primary reason for most people, and not that they particularly care about content written.
Technically these already exist with the Magic Dock on some superchargers, and for these it's available to all CCS1 cars. Here's a video of it: https://youtu.be/pUYqDNCIFD8?t=299
Venous drain doesn't go to the liver, first. Absorption is very regular. Works on unconscious patients.

Better that pills in every way, except convenience.

Injection is still better.
It is a legitimate concern, tbh. But there's nothing stopping third parties from adding this plug to their stations. Most support two cables, so doing both isn't a big lift.
There isn't any way to in the first place: the API contains no way to show them even if the apps wanted to.
This is also my story, though I added a two year sprint of using swaywm inbetween manjaro i3 and (in the next week) being 100% all-in on nixos at home.
As he mentions in the post, the main issue is the 30-day timeframe to completely rethink the business model of the app and move enough users over to paying subscriptions to not go bankrupt when the first API access bill comes in. The suggested API fees also seem quite unrealistic and it's unclear whether enough users would be willing to pay the necessary monthly fees to cover them.

Reddit's actions here make it pretty clear that they just want the app (all third-party apps) to shut down — if they actually wanted a solution they could easily lower the pricing to something more realistic and/or give a slightly longer transition period.
I'm sure the price is negotiable. Off the top of my head, the reasons you'd pay any nonzero amount of money for it are:

1. You avoid all of this drama. Christian makes a post that says, "Reddit offered me a lot of money and I said yes because I want to have a lot of money. It's been a pleasure working with them and it's been a pleasure developing Apollo for you. Peace out." Reddit ran this playbook with Alien Blue and it worked out.

2. Reddit could rather enshittify Apollo gradually, and/or fold Apollo's subscription model into Reddit's own model to maintain a premium power-user experience. It is an absurdly well-polished app, even if you added advertisements to it. It is a better user experience if the app gets worse slowly than if it disappears all at once and forces everyone to migrate to a new app. Reddit ran this playbook with Alien Blue and it worked out.
Anyone in CS will use LaTeX with no problem. But the average biologist who is publishing a paper doesn't want to also learn some esoteric pseudo programming language just to format their papers. They'd rather write in Word.
That would require the API to also include ad information. I think putting a sensible price on API access would make this a bit simpler, though (and allow for a paid ad-free experience as well). The core issue isn't so much paid API access as the price being so crazy high it can't possibly reflect how much reddit would normally be making from the users of these apps, so instead looks like it is aimed at just shutting down 3rd party apps entirely.
Sandboxing is the big one (think Qubes, although it is not exactly a Linux distro), as well as good security practices for the distro maintainers, good defaults for kernel configuration, timely updates, some kinda MAC.

Manjaro has little of this as a default out of the box. They are mostly able to claim that they are privacy oriented because any OS that isn't borderline spyware like Windows is privacy oriented in comparison.
The answer is clearly text-transform: uppercase, given the poster knows HTML (which more or less implies CSS)
Industrial controls engineering was a ton of fun, and indeed more rewarding.

But the pay was nowhere near that of a software dev job in SV.
I'm reminded of the Gay Talese essay that opens with an account of vast numbers of feral cats waking up all over New York. I'm surprised the story didn't mention that the city used to be full of them.
>If there were, you wouldn't have to have policies requiring one over the other, as you would let it win on the merits.

These policies both have costs (financial, talent-wise, administratively depending on what state/country you are in, etc.), and while it sounds ideal, it's not always a good idea to let an employee "do whatever they want". That's a less talked about way on how you cause office clashes. Sometimes the best way to settle those disputes before they start is to lay a foot down say "we are doing X", and inevitably let those who feel strongly walk.

Ideally while clearly explaining your rationale. Because you're communicating with fellow adults, not wrangling kids into a playpen.

That's the part companies forget, and reading fake platitudes or empty statemes like this memo don't make me feel confident either way, regardless on how I feel about remote vs. office.

No, if your rationale is "we are still paying for this building and must use it", just say it. If it's "we don't need an office anymore and it's saved costs", say that.
It is almost as big as the gap between MiniUSB (not Micro, Mini) and Lightning.

The plug is smaller and self-locates, but is also significantly more robust.
I agree, though I think the problem is that they should've never zoned the city such that you have all the residential areas in one spot and all the commercial areas in another. I mean there are residential units in the business areas, but not that many. That's how downtown gets freaky at night.
Because whether or not you are electable does not determine whether what you did was a crime or not.
I guess they'd only do it for maybe three model years or so, because theoretically over time even existing superchargers can be retrofitted with the magic dock (as V3s have).
20 million/year is how much the Apollo users would bring in when served ads (the opportunity costs).

Reddit pays Apollo 10M, starts serving their ads in the app, and now rakes in 20M/year without any extra effort.

Conversely, now they need to convince all the angry users of Apollo to come back to use their shitty website/app, something that will never happen. A lot of people that aren’t even using Apollo are going to be angry at the mistreatment and leave the site altogether. On the whole it’s quite likely that Reddit’s losses will amount to more than the 10M they’d have to pay once to get a ton of money in the future.
Check out System 76. They may have something you like.
Funny, just yesterday was watching a video of wild foxes animal shelter and they were feeding raw eggs to them. Talking about importance of Taurine - https://youtu.be/z8W0LSarQ8s
Now do weed.
He 1000% was threatening them. He asked for 10 million dollars to go away quietly, meaning not use his leverage on reddit (who all just took at face value that he's a poor victim). They didn't accept so now he's selectively releasing his secret phone recording and being very aggressive.
When our app has been featured in WWDC moments, it's at the discretion of Apple. I don't believe that it's paid, but more Apple choosing what they think are quality examples of apps to motivate developers.
I suspect it is about the connectors, the charging protocol, and the billing protocol.

The experience should be:

1. drive up to charger

2. plug in car

3. car identifies itself

4. charger identifies how the charging process will be funded

5. if there are funds, the charger charges the car and deducts the funds

6. operator unplugs car and drives away.

There's a big moat around the supercharger network because it is so big -- but anyone else is welcome to invest billions of dollars and create the same thing.
IMO Fedora is the real flagship of Linux. It’s as modern as it can be without sacrificing stability, has strong corporate support, and rpms are usually the only packages other than debs and snaps that get official support from proprietary software vendors
It is worth knowing that arch actually has an installer on the default ISO these days, although I admit it is not fantastic and not super noob friendly. That said, it isn't much harder than the Debian non-graphical installer.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall
In my opinion, science is an exercise in creative thinking, and thinking is an exercise in creative writing. Apply the >>= operator of the creative monad. QED.

In all seriousness, I think that writing ideas down, condensing them, reading the result aloud and re-editing vigorously is where the real thinking takes place. That iterative process is thinking, for anything complex. It cannot be done by a computer. If you are completely confident in your ideas before you have written them down in concrete form, they are probably not novel enough to be worth publishing.
I have a devuan desktop, but it somehow self-nuked its grub.

I really, really dislike systemd, but the other desktop is a manjaro setup. It was stable for a while, but now something with logind (which is somehow related to systemd) broke.

The one reason I switched to manjaro is that the machine is shared between kids and two parents, and I wanted to be able to switch accounts from the screensaver prompt. That routinely fails now.

I really wish there was a debuggable (so, not systemd) Linux distribution where things like account switching, zoom and steam worked. Manjaro is the closest thing I've found. I wish one of the *BSD's worked for that. (I genuinely like my OpenBSD router, but I only log into it every year or so, because, well, it just works.)
We’re not meant to understand any of that. It doesn’t mean a few people devoting their lifes to it can be familiar with a fraction of the actual depth of such complex subjects.

https://youtu.be/o1vX03h7w9c
It's the other garbage in the drink that'll do you in!
> But there's nothing stopping third parties from adding this plug to their stations.

Sure seems like there are seeing as how finding a dispenser with both CCS and Tesla is like finding a unicorn. You'd think someone would have been rolling them out years ago alongside Tesla.