skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn't be a "new" way to badger users, because developers can currently badger users to install a native app. A Smart App Banner for installable web apps would be no worse than what Apple currently offers, a Smart App Banner exclusively for native apps, and I think those banners are just fine.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/promoting_a...

> Smart App Banners vastly improve users’ browsing experience compared to other promotional methods. In iOS, Smart App Banners provide a consistent look and feel that users come to recognize. They trust that tapping the banner will take them to the App Store and not a third-party advertisement. They appreciate unobtrusive banners at the top of a webpage, instead of a full screen that interrupts their experience with the web content. And with a large and prominent Close button, a banner is easy to dismiss. When the user returns to the webpage, the banner doesn’t reappear.

Note that "Add to Dock" installable web apps already do have a Smart App Banner on the new macOS 14 Sonoma, but only when you already have the web app installed. (It's exactly like the Smart App Banner for native apps, but, for web apps, it only works with the "Open" button, not with the "Install" button.)
> And you can set Chrome/Edge as defaults on both iOS and macOS. Tell me how this limits real browser choice.

Chrome on iOS is a skinned Safari. It's not real Chrome. Same for Edge.

How is forcing a shitty and limited "rendering engine" not limiting choice?

At risk of regulators forcing the issue, rumor says it may be changing but you are being disengenous if you don't think this isn't the same level of BS as IE bundling with Windows. "But we can skin IE to look like chrome" isn't choice

https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/07/new-iphone-browsers/

> "For example, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found that:

> Apple bans alternatives to its own browser engine on its mobile devices; a restriction that is unique to Apple. The CMA is concerned this severely limits the potential for rival browsers to differentiate themselves from Safari (for example, on features such as speed and functionality) and limits Apple’s incentives to invest in its browser engine.

> This restriction also seriously inhibits the capability of web apps – apps that run on a browser rather than having to be individually downloaded – depriving consumers and businesses of the full benefits of this innovative technology."

edit: and I've ignored Mac OS because the conversation is clearly about iOS. If Mac OS had the same restrictions as the iOS (IE: you can install apps outside of the app store on your laptop) then we'd have the same conversation there.
>Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet?

Yes - it's all the sites that people link to on reddit :-P

For the record, there's something happening to all the big Social Media sites over the last few years

IRC/Freenode - dead, replaced by Libera, but not nearly as vibrant as its heyday

Twitter - dying, replaced by Mastodon, Bluesky, and Instagram, none of them really capture the magic that was twitter, Bluesky feels a lot like Google+, Mastodon is regularly policed by people demanding that people not act like it's twitter.. and Instagram is for kids...

Facebook - seems to be dying, they've blown things with their advertising model, and the automagic content moderation is/was also a fail (it either judges everyone far too harshly, or not at all), the users are heading to FB's other sites (Instagram) or Tik Tok

Reddit - dying (but is this temporary?), being replaced by Lobsters, Hacker News, maybe more

Tik Tok - facing serious regulatory challenges in Europe and the US.

It's inevitable that things will die/change, I do find it really interesting that the big ones from the last decade are all suddenly finding themselves on the outer.

One of the exceptions is YouTube, which faced serious competition from the likes of Tik Tok, but still appears to be generating content/high readership, and seems largely immune to the absolute garbage that's been uploaded over the past few years (conspiracy nuts, politics, etc)
I switched from Manjaro to EndeavourOS last year after using Manjaro for two (Manjaro was my first experience with Linux as a daily driver) and agree with this fully. I much prefer using Arch's regular repositories to Manjaro's. But having used Manjaro as my first distribution (I shouldn't have been using an Arch-based distro, but that aside), I don't think EndeavourOS is a one-to-one normie replacement in all respects. While I don't need or want Manjaro's GUI tools now, Pamac and its GUI kernel/driver tools helped me make the adjustment from having only used Windows to Linux. I am sure I could have managed on EndeavourOS, but it would have been more difficult at the time.
They're about to IPO though, which is what has led to all of this drama, so it's a fair criticism.
Assume 250 working days per year. According to this, missing one day of work every 2 months (score = 216) is worse than missing work every day for 10 months straight (score = 208).
Sure, but then you have to add back all the Java libraries they then used ontop of it. I assume the developer also used a tool like this to cut it down, the issue of bundling the custom Java runtime was never the size, it's that java was never supposed to need to do it this way (not that that is the end user developers fault of course).
Your comment makes zero sense to me. But the solution to the EPA being inefficient is fixing it, not shutting it down and reversing all the work it did since the 70s
pdw didn't exist then. How is some site not on reddit rehashing a joke from 7 years ago relevant?
I've been a premium member since the beginning because I believe in paying for access, but I just cancelled it.
I can't see how many points your comment has and I don't think you can see how many mine has. All we know is that a majority of others have not downvoted our comments because they are not grey.

This breaks up the impulse to dogpile or blindly conformally agree. It asks users to think about their votes because it removes the motivations to be impulsive.
Depends whether the abandoned pets had already been desexed. If not then each additional fertile animal could outpace any linear effort by humans.
Ah, I see. Thank you. I will definitely try it
His own words and open support is plenty. Google can find those for you ... try 'tucker carlson pro russian'
Re: "And spreadsheets still basically behave the same today!"

Uh, not sure that's a good thing. For certain tasks, I've seen better UI models and sheet idioms. I agree it's flexible, just awkward for certain needs.
At this juncture, I can't help but mention the novel "Perfume" by Patrick Süskind about a perfumer of extraordinary but also devious and murderous talents during 18th century France.
You can see my other comment on here, but hours after the demo I asked my 8yo to explain binary to my wife. He explained how 101 in binary is 5 pretty well.
Combining tons of disparate web forums under a single toxic leadership is what caused these issues in the first place. I would far prefer either something federated (in the Fediverse sense) or a decent lightweight reddit alternative with no shared accounts, and thus less incentive for karma farming and voting manipulation.

Coincidentally, the forum we're commenting on right now uses a fork of the original Reddit codebase, and shares a small amount of DNA with old.reddit.com. I'd love to see something like HN for all of my favorite hobbies. But I'd also settle for a return to a healthy ecosystem of web forums. What is old is new again!
Everyone’s allowed to compete, what’s frowned on is incompatibility.

Yes, there’s a grey area where a new connector might be innovation, but usually a custom connector is an anti-competitive move.
It is a bit striking though that even Reddit provides more agency over user data than Hacker News does.
This organized “protest” is starting to look like a great move from Reddit to flush the userbase to replace with new users. Field burning is a commonly used (unsustainable) technique in agriculture.
The mods only power in life is on Reddit. If they give that up they lose everything. Once in a while some crazy stats like 5 mods control 20% of the top 500 subreddits pop up, I’ve never tried to validate but there is definitely a small group with a lot of power among mods

Their entire purpose in life is being a Reddit mod, they’re the ones people expect to kill Reddit?
Nope. American milk is pasteurized to a much higher temp. It lasts way longer. Irish goes off in days, US milk will last a month in the fridge.
The extra pasteurization effects the taste and flavor.
Power Delete Suite for Reddit
Yep and there is broad disagreement regarding when the peak will be. I remember at least one analyst for a large found implying it would be much sooner that what the UN model predicts. It’s apparently surprisingly hard to give good long term prediction for population growth.

I think it’s a bit late for what you are proposing however. Most of the world population is quite young.
One government sponsored number, vs multiple numbers pointing to China's economic decline, which multinationals check in order to gauge the real health of China's economy. Multinationals know the real numbers, which is why they're all leaving.

What other numbers don't lie? 20.4% youth unemployment rate https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/29/record-youth-unemployment-st.... 22% drop in daily home sales in 2023 vs 2022 https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/chinas-april-prop.... Yuan losing 7% value against dollar https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/13/investing/china-covid-yuan-us.... and on and on.
I switched from Debian to Manjaro a few years ago after about ten years of using a Debian desktop. I can tell you that actually the main draw isn't customisability or anything of that kind: it is up to date software. Manjaro is rarely far behind its upstreams, unlike Debian.

What's more is it usually comes out the box with sane defaults, much like Debian. I've not had to do anything "technical" to run my desktop, any more than I would have to on an OSX laptop for work, say.

So it isn't really right to say Manjaro appeals to nobody. It appeals to the technically minded and impatient, which I am.
Reddit also removed Aaron Swartz from their Founders list.
> Most people consume ecstasy by mouth, but I’ve heard from many that anal ecstasy is a more satisfying experience.

I don't know why now and why this, but this has convinced me that I really need to cut down on what I read online. 99% of it does not go towards my life objectives and 100% of it is probably taking up space in my brain. To be clear, I would have laughed at that fact and moved on before. It just hit me differently today; I could be thinking about my family, work, friends, whatever, but now I know some irrelevant fact about ingesting drugs via the butt.
Why do you think it is supposed to? I've been using mastodon for almost a decade and it's been a great experience from the start but I would say pretty different than twitter. Personally I hope Twitter refugees won't ruin the magic of it. It being a bit more niche is great, just like with hacker news too.
Imagine Digg taking this opportunity to lure back all the users it lost during the Digg 4 redesign. Now, wouldn't that be something
UHT can easily last longer, it's shelf-stable (like literally on the shelf, no refrigeration needed) for months.

It's kinda wild it has as small of an impact on taste as it does. There's absolutely a difference, but it's surprisingly decent.
Huh? The country where you got Oxycotin for a headache only a decade ago doesn’t prescribe pain relief because of religion?
I have an unlaunched open source reddit alternative. Before I go into that too much though, note that there are a bunch: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/

My vision:

Free to browse, subscription to interact. You choose your subscription amount. I take $1 to run the server, anything beyond that gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month.

For the $1, I give 30% of the cut to any 3rd party app that user is using.

With this model, creators make money, and the site hopefully is self-sufficient without ads.

Right now I have a working website, backend, payments, and payouts. What I don't have is a mobile app. If anyone is interested and wants to partner, my email is in my profile.

Site: https://non.io (feel free to play around with login hackernews, pw: helloworld)

Github: https://github.com/jjcm/nonio

API: https://api.non.io (slightly outdated, I need to do an update pass here)
ironically this is similar to what Reddit is doing.

a group of folks are unilaterally making a decision that most people probably don't care about, but some minority would push back on, if given a chance
Back then software copyrights and patents were even murkier than they are now.
Building an alternative to reddit generally is quite hard.

Building a single subreddit (or handful, if they're interrelated) alternative seems way more doable. See eg thedonald which transitioned to an external forum until a mod shut it down because of (not really sure, I didn't follow, but it was a working site for a couple years.)
You’re begging the question. By assigning the losses from things that reinvent the wheel to intellectual curiosity, you’ve skipped over or ignored all the other causes.

Are you interested in looking at how to better harness intellectual curiosity, or are you more focused on the possible productivity losses resulting from reinventing the wheel?
Go to Europe and you don’t get pain medication unless you’re in the hospital.

Is that due to religiousness too?
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I don't think they have considered this threat thoroughly. Shutting down this sub permanently is a favour to humanity.
I understand what you are writing, but the sentiment is not helpful. Competition is not related to compatibility. There is no need to constrain one with the other. Some competition leads to incompatibility which is best for the consumer, some doesn’t. You can’t tell until the market has been given a chance to have its say. When companies coalesce around a design which was previously incompatible with other standards, that is how you know the market is having its say.
> Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet?

Back in the day, that was the World Wide Web. Federated gardens are a modern invention.
If you aren't worried about your system being unstable, just use testing. Or just do what everyone else does, and use testing on your laptop/workstation and stable on everything else.
Prove what, specifically? I'm honestly unsure which part is a controversial enough claim as to require sources.

It seems trivial to me that in both cases a perpendicular force applied at the road acts to fling you, and that said force comes from wheel misalignment with the direction of travel.

Is that not the case?
They would still have to build out a charging infrastructure tho wouldn't they? This skips that step for now, they can still build out there own standard if they'd like
Yes, Reddit bought a third party app only to run it into the ground. In fact, the current Reddit icon was originally from that third party app.
the demo would be nicer if you could skip the speech, for those who would prefer. i couldn't finish because it was slowing me down so much.

its a solid basis, i'm excited for all the topics they say they're covering
List of participating subreddits:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplet...
Yeah I definitely agree with you that a FAANG could add a substantial feature to a headset in 2 years, but I think that there are a combination of circumstances that make it pretty impossible in this case.

In my mind it's some combination of:

- New product line (this would be easier in a well established product like iPhone, Mac, etc. or from Quest 2 -> Quest 3). A lot of decisions have to be made much further in advance because you're starting from a clean slate and have to have a final product at the end of similar quality to the iPhones that have been iterated upon for 16 years.

- The Vision Pro is much more constrained in a few key areas that are hugely impacted by the addition of another display: size, energy draw, compute, weight. Much more so than something like a Mac would be. If an additional display wasn't in the budget 2 years ago then you really aren't gonna just find the space for it in all those key areas.

- Custom silicon: Any feature that requires a decent amount of compute and/or IO bandwidth will have to be accounted for when designing the chips. Meta's headsets use off the shelf Qualcomm GPUs and they could in theory bump up a level later in the design process if they need more hardware (not as easily as I described but still possible). Apple simply doesn't have that option.

- By virtue of this being Apple and not Meta/Google/Microsoft/Amazon. I'm not knocking those other companies, but they are differently positioned in the market and are ok releasing more varied and less polished products just to see what sticks. Apple enters later in the game with a product that has had more time to be refined. Google Glass, Oculus, HoloLens, etc. all paved the way for the Vision Pro and it wouldn't really work the other way around in my opinion.
opensuse tumbleweed has been excellent for me as well plus very reliable - I even run it on wsl2.
>All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest.

Is this true though? Are the subs which normal people visit are shutting down too?
Here's one source https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/7/23752804/reddit-exempt-acc... I thought I saw a post from an actual reddit employee about it, but I can't find it now. They said they need to stop treating accessibilty as an add-on and promote it to the same level as other features.
Getting the shadows actually right? Not a chance, and I've got about 20k hours in photoshop
Making and Keeping Friends
I see that Amazon sells 1 gram capsules of taurine (several vendors). So, yeah, not too difficult to consume. One brand I saw is about $0.08/gram, so it wouldn't be overly financially burdensome, either.
I support any and all efforts to get our gini coefficient back down to 0.35 or lower. Worker-directed social enterprises, co-ops, trust busting, tax enforcement, universal healthcare, universal basic income, repeated radical cashectomies of the 1%, name & shame... Whatever works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
I agree that Twitter is far from dead but you’re choosing a bad example.

> The main Twitter video view metric is triggered when a user watches a video for at least 2 seconds and sees at least 50% of the video player in-view.

So anyone that had the (auto playing) video in view for two seconds as they scrolled through their feed. Multiplied by the number of times it’s in their feed. It’s a pretty meaningless number.
"They would never be in the browser"

If companies can install stuff outside of the app store to save a 30% a LARGE number of companies would absolutely do so. To say hamstringing the browser on iOS isn't a calculated choice to say "but you can install webapps* (* with shitty safari)" and then completely cock block web browser choice isn't a 100% calculated choice to limit consumer choice is a disingenuous lie.

"80%"

You think that Apple isn't going to hold onto the 20% come hook or crook? in any means necessary - including locking you to the App Store and the 30% cut - despite the fact that alternative payment methods are completely reasonable? and how much of that 80% is through games on the app store that REQUIRES a cut through their ham fisted and unreasonable restrictions? That's even more reason to give consumers and companies options outside of the app store and the mafia requirement for a cut.
Its usage is also dropping like a rock for a great number of reasons

https://boilingsteam.com/manjaro-is-losing-ground-very-fast-...
Illegal wiretapping is a crime, not a civil tort.

You can sue anyone for anything anywhere, but I cannot imagine the Canadian police being interested in a citizen doing something lawful in Canada if the California (or wherever) cops call to complain be broke a Californian law.

And I can even less imagine a civil action demanding damages or court actions in Canada for doing something legal there. It would be like a Saudi company suing a US driving school that teaches women.

I don't think there's a there there as far as liability or worry. IANAL, of course.
Building the backend component for a social media site like Reddit is much much much harder than slapping a frontend onto an existing API. And it's en entirely different engineering skillset (distributed systems) that many app developers don't have. You really think they are "oblivious to this"? The reality is it's hard to do.
A lot of third-party apps don't show Reddit's ads.
I’ve been trying to get one forever, can you help?
Gentrification is not the opposite of crime. If anything, it incentivizes it, because there’s a concentration of wealth surrounded by depressed, displaced and discontent people. Peak Gentrification is when only gated communities with a lot of armed guards don’t have crime, and everyone else is a hellhole. That’s how it is already in many developing countries’ rich neighborhoods.
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Thanks for the clarification, I appreciate it.

I knew about the 13" M2 MBP (although it seems very easy to forget somehow), but maybe due to marketing materials I encountered, I'd incorrectly thought that product line started with the M2 not the M1.
Apple won't. But as soon as these headsets hit the market manufacturers will be tearing them apart and reverse engineering them.

$4k/unit is nothing when it comes to military hardware. There's also no need for the outward facing display, etc.

If anything, I wouldn't be surprised if Hololens goes in this direction. And the DoD already has contracts around the hololens.
The Verge's Nilay Patel (editor in chief) did the exact same thing BTW.

He also sent lawyers after youtubers when they dared mock him during the whole PC building fiasco.
It was routine up until IIRC 1996-1999 (which lines up with when they switched over from Navy to National Guard operation).
Yes, many default subs like /r/videos for example are participating in the blackout.
Replace with new users? How do you go about doing that and why would they want that?
Because open access to academic publications is something only far right nazi science deniers would want.
What do you call a law student who graduates at the bottom of his class?
>Ebaumsworld

Mandatory: https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/ebaumsworld

I can't believe the actual animation of this isn't on youtube.
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What apps are those?
How is this worthy of a HN post?
My reddit usage dropped to zero a few years ago and I can't say I miss it. I occasionally slap a "reddit" at the end of a very specific google search term but even for that it's lately been subpar. Hacker News on the other hand I read every day.
Tesla's supercharger network was funded by Tesla.

Those are:

a) recommendations, not rules

b) for government-funded chargers

Even if those were rules, not mere recommendations, they would not apply to this deal.
> it costs money

I can't imagine that euthanasia is more expensive than TNR.
Sleep naturally degrades as we age. So potentially the "development" is less a result of doing or not doing something versus just the degradation of sleep as a natural part of the aging process.
Lawyer Who Used ChatGPT in Brief Explains Fake Cases to Judge
I use bottled water (plastic) a lot since I travel a lot. I am not sure the level of nano plastic in the water I drink. Is there any plausible research on any of the bottled water products on this?
My Partner is from Sonoma, and we have driven past this exact spot several times, and I honestly had no clue.