skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For certain definitions of "almost everywhere", I suppose? Care to define that more rigorously?

Good question. In my experience it's people who don't live in very developed countries plus people who shop at fresh food markets and countries that have a culture of not eating a lot of processed food e.g. in good part of Europe plus people who live in the countryside.

Let's say maybe 90% of human population.
Could one import all of this into, say, a Lemmy instance to kickstart a reddit alternative?
“Leaving AI models unattended at parties is not a good idea, so to speak.”
“separate assembly lines” is a bit of an exaggeration.
The thing is, along with all the large subreddits, it's all these niche subreddits that have helped train all these LLM to be able to do the things they can do.

If reddit is thinking that their content is king, then closing subreddits that help generate that content is not ideal for them.
I agree with everything except the mobile usability. Hacker News has some of the best mobile usability of the websites I am using. It is not perfect but it is way better than Reddit. Hacker News is very comfortable to read on mobile and the only thing which could be improved is the too small voting buttons.
And you figure the best way to ensure that is to bring a bunch of VC capital in eh?
Show HN: I created a minimalist file-browser web application
As I got tired of fighting with Jellyfin and SFTP for my media server, I decided to write a small web application that allows me to browse, manage, download and stream the files on my web server. It comes as a single-page application with a Preact frontend and a Go/Gin backend.

Creating this allowed me to get back into full-stack development, which was a bit tougher than expected after having taken a multi-year break from touching any frontend code.

You'll find the source code, binary releases and installation instructions on GitHub: https://github.com/zer0tonin/Mikochi

The official Docker image: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/zer0tonin/mikochi/g...

And the helm chart: https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/zer0tonin/mikochi

I also did a write-up about the project on my blog: https://alicegg.tech/2023/06/09/mikochi.html
> If we go further back in time, mobile phones were bricks used only by business people and tech enthusiasts. They didn't have mass market appeal because the technology wasn't there yet.

Mobile phones are something of a special case, if you ask me, because the technology for voice calls and several days of standby time arrived quite a bit before affordable service did.

In 1988 a stockbroker could make calls from his speedboat for $250/month, and by 1998 a teenager could call his parents after soccer practice for $10/month.

You could describe that as "the technology getting there" because of more efficient radio signalling schemes enabling lower prices. But you could also say the user offering was unchanged[1], and the most important difference was the price.

[1] Except for SMS and the snake game
>But that question never gets asked about the fan/volunteer work. It's interesting to look at what ventures we as a society think have an almost moral right to make money, and which ventures we almost think of as being morally obligated to not make money. Sometimes it's really arbitrary.

I don't think there's anything interesting there at all. It's reddit's website, reddit's API, reddit's data. Their policy already says they can charge for API access and change prices at any time. It's not a matter of them having a "moral right to make money" but they do have a legal right to at least seek profits by setting their own prices.

I don't see anyone arguing that third party app developers shouldn't be able to seek profit by charging people money for their apps. But if they're going to do that, then they're accepting that they're in a market, and that it's not a free market if you choose to make yourself entirely reliant on a single provider. If you make a reddit app, and reddit increases their prices to a level that makes your operation unsustainable, well that's a risk you chose to make when you chose to tie your livelihood to a reddit app. Risk and reward.

I think what people are actually saying is not that they're "morally obligated to not make money" but that the "accessibility" sympathy card rings false when it comes from people pocketing tens of thousands of dollars a month.

There's really nothing arbitrary about it. It's not about "fan/volunteer" vs "platform".
What does "hard-core" mean in this context? Because from what you write down I can only see a miserable life heavily influenced by mental illness.
> It's a no-brainer decision to try to kill it if it's hindering your ability to make more money

The no-brainer decision would be to make your app a lot better than any third-party app instead of pulling the rug from under people whose work has made reddit better in the long-run.
> Apple watch might last you 5-10 years

Tiny ass battery + daily full charge discharge = toast well before 10 years

If they actually cared about sustainability the screen and battery would be user replaceable
So long as Mr Zuck has money to throw away at his vision... I'm all for it. Because the Meta Quest is amazing for games and entertainment. So go mr Zuck. The more money he can keep burning on it the better for us :)

I mean is there anything else of comparable quality in the price range? I still have the Quest 1 and it's amazing. I´m still wowed by the feeling of immersion even in the crappy Quest 1 homes (vs eg. SteamVR homes).

edit: also Apple's headset is never gonna be a competitor any time soon. As much as I dislike Meta/Facebook, the Quest is surprisingly open. They even let you hook a cable and do PC VR with it! WTF!!! I'm able to play Skyrim VR even on the Quest 1 at good framerates (the PC is rendering of course).

Heck they even let you use your own USBC cables for the link feature. Can´t wait to see Apple letting us use our own cables. /lelz

> More importantly, our vision for the metaverse and presence is fundamentally social. It’s about people interacting in new ways and feeling closer in new ways

This seems valid. Read reviews on games on the Quest store. People are talking about how they weren't into games and now theyŕe playing eg. Walkabout Golf with their relatives through the internet and having fun sessions on the weekends and things like that. Or you'll read about older people who find some of the VR experiences really beneficial just to exercise and get them moving,

I think the Meta Quest is making a difference, it's just not something really obvious or shiny enough. It has a place.

Once Meta can make a headset of sufficient quality, lighter, sharper, I could totally see myself actually watching TV or movies with the headset on. It's just not comfortable enough yet. So that's where it seems Apple has been trying to push the bar, making it more usable/comfy.. at a big price.

Also, Apple's demo is kinda odd. You have the woman doing something like Zoom in her room. Nobody is wearing the goggles. How does that work? You ´d think that once YOU wear the goggles, the other people in the meeting would also use it so everyone's kinda on the same tools. Yet none of them wear a headset - that scenario doesn't make sense. So as goofy as it looks, Meta's scenario where everyone is inside the VR space, makes more sense.

I still think this is all a stepping stone towards having AR rendered in real space without wearing any headset. But that's probably a loooong way off.
You think 56kbit/s is slow, but in early Internet times, people communicated with 9600bit/s modems. We sometimes had to be satisfied with upper half of the body only.
> Reddit were threatening to de-private the subs and replace the mods.

Is there a link to this? That's crazy!
That's why they say having "Google" on your resume sets you up forever (˃̣̣̥‿˂̣̣̥)
AFAIK, at this point resveratrol does not look promising.
> The value does not exist during compilation.

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H. Moser et Cie do a decent mechanical "Apple Watch"
Reminds me of the study I read about how placing a barrier in the form of a pole in front of an emergency exit drastically improved how many managed to get out during an emergency (simulated in the study).

By introducing a barrier people are forced to reduce congestion, which avoids people trying to exit the door at the same time clogging it up.
Technology Connections has a video on that, sort of: https://youtu.be/hGVVAQVdEOs
Nokia brick phones dominated the US market in the early 2000s. I’ve never seen a Symbian outside of magazines and internet tech writers. Symbian lost to iOS and Android within 2 years of release.

Not to mention developers were never going to create apps for the platform.
> updates often break something

Approx how many times have you observed this in practice over, say, the past 2~5 years?
People associate Nokia with 3310. No-one associates it with smartphones.
And let me make some further general observations here, while I'm unfortunately procrastinating.

People use software to solve their problems. The way you "sell" (in whatever sense) software to people is by showing them which of their problems it solves (they don't even have to be explicitly aware they have those problems in the first place, BTW) and how.

Nix(OS) is adopted first and foremost because it clearly solves some pressing problems. It allows you to have many development environments that don't stomp on each other, without managing a zoo of containers or VMs. It allows you to specify the operating system (or even just the user environment) you use, over as many machines as you need, deterministically and while ensuring that once you solve a problem it stays solved.

Those are real pain points, and since Nix solves them it would be used by people regardless of those people feel about Nix-the-language, because language appreciation is not the main reason people use it -- pain is.

Some goes for Guix, obviously.

So if your goal (whatever your motivation may be) is to explain to a Nix user how Guix is better, you need to point out something that is relevant to the person you are "selling" to and is fundamentally painful with Nix and painless with Guix. And, well, reaching first thing for "Guile is the official extension language of the GNU Project" does not do your marketing effort any favors.
Avoiding burnout and optimising for long-term performance is one side of this coin.

Even if you pretend that your team can sustain 100% effort in the long term, and are willing to disregard the effects of working that way on their lives, there is no such thing as 110% effort, so a steady state of 100% effort means you don't have the spare capacity to push hard on specific short-term goals when there is a need for it. Or, put differently, you have a much more limited ability to react quickly to sudden shifts in the market.
GitHub Actions Environments
Weekly 1:1 with your manager should provide benefits for you and for your manager.

Different people have different needs and the benefits such 1:1s provide may feel more or less useful.

For the employee, it’s a way to receive undivided attention from the manager. You can ask followup questions on an initiative that may not be right for a group call. The manager can share some context about what is happening that is more relevant to you than others. It’s a place to praise exceptional efforts or achievements. It’s a place to give constructive feedback or ask about things that are not going according to plan. They are great to make coordinate longer time off. For brainstorming an approach or validating a direction.

The manager should be listening attentively. It’s a way for them to get a qualitative feel for what is going on with each of their team members. They should see these 1:1s as a track of conversations instead of one-off chats. When done regularly, they can show a mood trajectory that is a signal for how projects and people are doing.

I can not imagine working with people without 1:1s. This goes both for my manager and for my team. Without the live in-person connection the relationship would only be based on mechanical processes, metrics, and written communications. All of these are important but without talking with people, they are too transactional and mechanical.
None of these insights make it to the professional managerial class unless they reenforce current behaviour. See also the article on why layoffs are self destructive.
Yes but this extension needs to send the content of webpages you visit to APIs. You're gonna give it explicit permission to effectively do whatever the hell it wants.
Less than 2% of subreddits but what percentage of total activity?
This is absolutely untrue. Most studies on cat impact on bird species are ridden with incomplete and bad data. In Germany, estimates are around 200 million birds killed by cats every year. But since the total population of birds is estimated at 400 million that would be every second bird! That's insane and grounds for immediate skepticism. Well, it turns out that extrapolating local results to global scenarios does not at all represent what is going on in reality.

For example, while cats might kill a lot of animals in settled areas like NYC that doesn't at all mean that species are endangered as a result of it. Birds don't exclusively live in human settlements and their continental populations might barely be affected by cats as there are sufficient areas outside of human settlements where feral cats are simply non-existent or at least not a problem.

Furthermore, the decline of birds is almost entirely human made - no one doubts this. Habitat loss and insect decline. Reducing the cat problem will simply not have a notable impact at all. Yes, millions of birds are killed by cats but what does that mean in the grand context if billions and billions of birds are killed by humans? It's a drop in the bucket and not worth the effort and I would ask ornithologists to name species that have been wiped out by wild cats in a continental context and not just from Smallstown, Minnesota.

Disclaimer: island scenarios like New Zealand are different due to the locality of the problem.

It's like trying to save ants from some dude stepping on their streets once a day while ignoring a ravaging fungus that is destroying the colony from the inside. But here you are, saying "not stepping on the ant street is also helpful!". Congrats to saving 10 ants while the colony is being decimated by a fungus.
Apparently rodents avoid places that have a scent of a cat. So, cats don't even have to hunt them to have an effect on the population.
I've also been using PowerDeleteSuite[0] to delete all submissions and comments, as deleting your account will not delete posts, just change the user to [deleted].

[0] https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/
And he was right. Still going to the market myself for the veggies.
One important issue with Oculus is that doesn't have AAA apps to consume, so at the end you only bought a device. I assume Apple knows well the apps strategy and there would be apps that leverage de device as it happened when they launched multitouch displays (remember: they were the firsts).
Go for pea protein then?
Those are very different reasons in my opinion.
Is it securities fraud if your pre-ipo profit maximization moves cause your user base to relocate, and you didn't disclose that your filings?
I read the README and I really don't see the point. So the dev locked himself to an old 5.6 (2016), and then only has a limited subset of Qt? OK, it "includes the essential features and is easy to build from source and to integrate with an application", but why not just build the whole source package? Just compile Qt and copy the libraries you need (eg QtCore, QtNetwork, QtGui) when packaging your application. I did it in an hour with this command:

./configure \
-release \
-no-opengl \
-device linux-arm-generic-g++ \
-device-option CROSS_COMPILE=/usr/local/xcompiler/usr/bin/arm-buildroot-linux-gnueabi- \
-prefix /usr/local/qt512arm \
-opensource -confirm-license \
-make libs \
-nomake tools \
-nomake tests \
-nomake examples \
-skip qtwebengine \
-skip qt3d \
-skip qtandroidextras \
-skip qtcanvas3d \
-skip qtcharts \
-skip qtconnectivity \
-skip qtdatavis3d
Well, Mark is mistakenly positioning the Vision Pro in the same braket of his Quest. The Vision is going after Microsoft's HoloLens and it's a closed case already (if anything because Microsoft dropped the towel long ago).

Nope, according to rumor Apple has another device in the pipeline and that should make Mark lose some sleep: you see, now that Apple announced it, the VP is in feature freeze and they can switch full-on on finalizing the cheaper consumer class device that will likely go for 1k.

But he knows that... it's just pandering for the shareholders.
According to some moderators the official moderation tools are not good enough to handle large subreddits so many moderators use the third party tools.
The alternative would be a burst fuel tank.

I think I prefer the “dump fuel” failure mode.
The first digital strike? Interested to see what's going to happen.
At this point is probably be useful having mastodon like reddit. If I'm not wrong, archive.org keeps a dump of all reddit discussions until 2023.
Cognitive Hierarchy Theory
>Overstating problems/blockers, overestimating stories and overselling your work should be in any capable slackers toolkit

Otherwise know as the Scotty principle.
Reddit used to constantly break under load. It would throw up 503s at busy times every single day. The user interface was much better but the underlying technology was awful.
This is really interesting!

My immediate thought is: "If we don't cannibalise their current portfolio, somebody else will" and use that as the argument to carry on on good ideas.

Why do you think that has not been the natural inclination?
Checking via Wikipedia, the entire population of the continent (not just ASSPS) is 4,000, in the summer. It drops to about 1,000 in winter.

As you note, there've been several births (Wikipedia states 11), with those listed being Argentine.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Antarctica>
>Prioritize work correctly and make sure everybody focuses on only the top priorities. It doesn't matter if you are using scrum, kanban, or waterfall.

IME it does matter. Kanban is really about focusing on priority and throughput with no frills. Kanban is effective, can be explained in ten minutes, and just works.

Most of Kanban really ties in well with Demings ideas, which I think is why it works.

Scrum leads to a lot of meetings, ceremony and more "managers" - scrum masters as well as POs, and any other middle management your company had before picking scrum.

And when Scrum inevitably fails, the cultists yell that it was implemented wrong, that we never did real Scrum, that if Scrum was done correctly we would succeed. Kind of like "communism was never tried".

But it was tried, many times, by many teams, and sometimes despite the system some project somewhere might have thrived.

It's a system that only works in an idealized world, with idealized people, that I surmise at this point never existed.
Google's primary interest is in building a relationship with you so it understands the kinds of information you want, and can sell people on preferential order of getting information to you.

They are primarily an information marketplace, and offer people free services so that they'll participate in that market.

Their secondary interest is in things like Adsense and in products like Doubleclick, which are where you worry about tracking and them building a behavioral persona of what you do across the entire internet.

However, Google doesn't need to even see this persona themselves - they just want to get the best ads in front of you to make marketing departments happy. Ideas like "privacy sandbox" are partially driven by this desire - give Google the value of gathering and correlating existing data and more, without the brand impact or risks of holding that data themselves.

The thing they give up is the ability to do cluster analysis across people/demographics to understand where and why an ad is performing. Targeting of advertisements remains a manual process and not a machine learning driven one.
They're still fairly rare.
Where did I claim it's the first mixed reality device? I said next step in personal computing. Which means actually penetrating society in a meaningful way.
Personally I think this is what has held Pads (and iPhones) back from becoming better at gaming: sometimes a PlayStation style controller is just way better than touch controls on an iPad. Touch controls often don't register with the same reliability as physical controls and it does not have any physical feedback.

Apple should have made a standard gaming control that all games could use.
Look, the issue is this for a small business: you have 5 engineers, do you spend $150 a month to pay AWS to look after hosting your stuff? or do you pay an engineer >>$150 a month to create, manage and maintain a bespoke infrastructure?

Sure, you might be lucky with the engineers you have, they might be savvy enough to wrangle a couple of hosts for you. But are they backed up? what's the disaster recovery procedure like? How do you rotate keys/passcodes, how do you audit who has access?

Unless you are doing something wrong, your biggest costs are engineering time.

> disadvantage of strongly coupling your infrastructure and often your code to AWS.

you can say the same thing about any infrastructure. yes, you can migrate k8s from one physical host to another. But, for that to be effective, you need to not be using any manage services. So that means you're on the hook for all the painful things like DB state and recovery, messaging systems, etc,etc,etc.

Then you think as a business, what are you actually spending money to do? maintain the code that makes you money, or maintain the system underneath it, just in case you might need to move to save opex thats almost certainly going to be less than one engineer.

98% of companies have no issue with scale. They have issues with availability, features, backups, speed. exchanged 10% of an engineer's salary to never really have to deal with any of those issues is a good deal for most[1] companies

[1] most, but not all. However unless you are getting close to spending 1 engineer in AWS fees, moving to self hosting is nothing but premature optimisation.
Well then the solution was right there and you say people would go on the streets just as well. A complex but working system of three pillars of pensions vs depending completely on the state with one single pillar, that's the difference between pragmatism and magical thinking.
Peter Singer on utilitarianism, influence, and controversial ideas
I think it depends a lot on the subreddits you subscribe to. I mostly use it for engaging in hobbies that I find rewarding and as long as I moderate the time spent it is not wasted. Same as Youtube. If I had to rank, I would say HN is worse in that regard, as you can't even ignore certain topics
Ask HN: Are there any safe alternatives to coffee for all-day sipping?
The realization that my current coffee consumption style may have adverse effects on my health has prompted me to seek safer alternatives. Throughout the day, I take veeery slow sips of black coffee without any milk (guess I like its bitterness), as I genuinely enjoy its raw taste, however I've found alternatives such as tea to taste too watery.

I'm on the lookout for alternatives that offer a similar taste profile, with little to no negative health effects for sipping all day.

If you have any recommendations I would greatly appreciate it!