skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too many sales. Too many dollars handed out today for expected value in the future.

The trouble is people showed up for what Reddit was. Let us call that the Aaron Reddit. That Reddit was sustainable and could be expressed as by users for users.

That vision picked up a ton of users who love threaded, frank, unfettered discussion. It was never going to make millions, but it would have endured for a very long time.

All that changed upon each sale. And this last one is brutal, leaving current owners holding the bag.

These changes to crank out big returns are toxic to a very high percentage of users. And they are where the content comes from too.

Someone else is going to reproduce the original Reddit vision and when they do, this one will dry up just like Digg did.
Victoria getting the boot really was a major turning point for a lot of users I think, certainly for me. The site hasn't felt the same since.

I still have some pretty negative feelings about that whole situation, and am confused every time I'm reminded of it. Why wasn't there more explanation? Why didn't they at least replace her with someone who played a similar role in a similar way? Did they not realize that people really liked her approach, or did they just not care? A lot of goodwill was burned that day.

I'm kind of vaguely intrigued by the current situation, but I'm realizing I mostly stopped actually caring much a long time ago. It feels like there's been a vast & growing chasm between the better parts of the community and the site's management for quite a while. They did not in fact "remember the human".
Honestly, if Apollo and RIF got together and pointed themselves at a different backend, they could basically be that competitor. They're already got the users, and the frontend code is good.

Their standing agreements with Reddit inc. may prevent them from doing so however.
>I can do (almost) all of these things with a traditional Linux distribution, git, and a few scripts written in my language of choice, and I can do it faster.

As someone who moved from a directory of numbered bash scripts and GNU Stow to Nix, I can't disagree more. The fundamental difference is one is imperative and the other is declarative (and reproducible), and that makes all the difference.
https://archive.is/efioO
> Meta’s Quest Pro delivers 22 PPD

Wow, the resolution + lens solution on the Quest Pro was already really close to workable for streaming your computer screen. I imagine it’s a solved problem at 60 PPD.
> 1994

> heydays of neoliberalism

please explain.
Following the algorithms for writing makes you neither a bad nor a good writer. If you learn and follow: tell them what you'll tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them; you writing will be formulaic and boring, but competent. If you do all the things, you'll be an ok writer.
It is interesting to think about where the line should be drawn though.

Raising the humidity level 5% to see if it reduces coughing?

Reducing harmful ozone in the air to see if it reduces breathing issues?

Bringing a puppy on the subway to see if riders smile more?

Presumably these are all OK without getting consent of everyone on the subway. Or are these violations of human rights as well?

I mean I suppose it all comes down to whether there are any expected harms? Or no?
Agree 100%

That was my point - the ESP32 is so versatile and cheap, it's my go-to these days for pretty much everything.

Being about to have an easy and reasonably powerful js runtime for that sounds great.

Apparently node-red also has something for esp32?

And I haven't tried it, but low.js looks cool too [1]

[1] https://github.com/neonious/lowjs
> update your current address by matching your national identity number because for some reason they need to have that info to deliver some kebab

Publuc wifi at O2/millenium dome in london us almost as bad.

We really need to make extraneous data a liability and a risk burdain to business.
That sounds incredibly toxic. Where do you get off on telling volunteers how to allocate their precious limited resources?
I got about two thirds through

Whatever you think about him, he really needed a more dominant editor.
Pixar > History:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar :

> [...] Coincidentally, one of Steve Jobs's first jobs was under Bushnell in 1973 as a technician at his other company Atari, which Bushnell sold to Warner Communications in 1976 to focus on PTT.[22] PTT would later go bankrupt in 1984 and be acquired by ShowBiz Pizza Place.[23]

PTT: Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatres

Pizza Planet! (Toy Story (1995))

Adobe Inc. > History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Inc.#History
It's not at all a selling point. You can do the same on AWS, get an EC2 and install everything there, that's it.

The thing is that when you will need to leverage the other services of AWS, they will be there, while you will need to migrate if you're on one of those server providers.
The “device” the vision pro replaces is the desk.
>> After roughly three years of persistent (yet respectful) inquiry

Three years of persistent inquiry is anything but respectful.
> He makes up a story about why Europeans are dominant, not dominant now, in this time, but forever.

He never claims the dominance will last forever. He just presents theories as to why Europeans are dominant now (or were 40 years ago when the book as published at least).

It’s not racist to try to explain why Europe conquered New Guinea and not the other way around. It’s racist to say that’s a good thing or destined or will last forever, but Diamond never argues that. I think you have some headcanon there.
not even close.

USA GDP: $26.8 trillion

EU GDP: $17.1 trillion
I'm curious to see what the fallout will be for the VC industry.

Can somebody correct my wrong assumptions here...

They have a ton of funds that need to be deployed in an approx 4-5 year period.

If they don't deploy the funds, they don't get their carry, they also won't be able to raise another fund.

Will they end up throwing a large amount of money at a smaller number of start-ups?

More VCs will chase the best deals, raising the price of those start-ups. Then the 2nd tier companies will probably follow.

Or will VCs return funds to LPs? Give up on the being VCs and say "I always loved being an operator, so now I'm returning to that".

I think this is good for the tech industry long-term.

The SaaS companies that have been raising huge $$ don't need the dollars, and many weren't offering real value.

I think we're seeing more money flow into deep-tech, particularly energy, environment, and health.
It really depends on what you're struggling with.

Getting a dog really helped me for example. Daily exercise also helps keep my sleep stable.
I'd highly recommend The Tao Of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra, for anyone interested in the subject. It's an excellent read.
Heh... yes, that was a popular joke at the time and one of many cautionary tales in picking a multi-word domain name.
>Weeks later

Weeks later, after Christian announced to his community the most likely impact on the app of the upcoming API changes and a summary of his conversations with Reddit.

Reading this comment makes me wonder if Steve genuinely believes the ongoing outrage from Reddit's community is somehow to any extent Christian's fault. "Look, it was a threat after all. He's doing what we thought he would and what he said he wouldn't do."
Does OpenWRT support SDN capability similar to TP Link Omada platform:

https://www.tp-link.com/us/omada-sdn/
You are quoting his thesis in the wrong order.

He is not saying Europeans are 'dominant for ever'.
He is saying that because of geography, etc... that Europeans developed technology faster, which gave them a head start, and that head start has perpetuated, exactly because that is what a head start does. Not that it can't even out in time, like a ripple.

I think his thesis is totally compatible with saying "if New Guinea" had developed technology sooner, they would have dominated and killed everyone. It isn't like there isn't evidence of wars and slaughters in Polynesia, they just didn't get the technology.

What I took away from the book is not that "Europeans" are evil (which would mean they are genetically pre-disposed doesn't it?), it is that all humans equally dominant whenever and however they can, and technology heavily tips the scales. And Europeans just lucked into it.
> Vision Pro packs a pair of 1.41-inch micro-OLED displays that combine an OLED frontplane from Sony with a silicon backplane from chip foundry TSMC. Each pixel measures a mere 7.5 micrometers in size—similar to the diameter of a human red blood cell. “It is by far the highest resolution micro-OLED on the market,” says Young.

Crazy stuff.
> The peace is due to nuclear weapons and the threat of global extinction. When that isn’t a factor, we still see lots of wars. Period.

We don't, though. The article treats with this. In fact per capita deaths to state violence are down remarkably over the last century, all over the world. The perception, due to the reach of modern media, is that war is everywhere. But the truth on the ground is very different.

Two hundred years ago, almost everyone knew someone who died in a war, or saw a war come through their home. Now? It's a notable rarity.
the free market goes out the door when the subject turns to paying more
Open borders means the drugs can flow freely into the country. It's highly profitable. In addition, some cities have essentially made it legal to sell the drugs, they subsidize the drug users with free money and many essentials and there is no punishment.

It is very sad.
They didn't send a few hundred. They sent 60 thousand.

Putin has been very consistent about his views of Ukraine. It makes perfect sense that he got it completely wrong.

As I said, read the reports, you may find it interesting.
Aaaaactually (damn I'm such a cliche), I specialised in Buddhism for my degree (Religious Studies).

> anatta, which is often translated as “no self”

It might seem like a subtle point, but "not-self" and "non-self" are more accurate and widely-accepted translations in academic circles. The point being that Buddhism very much does accept that there is a conventional self, just with the one, mundane proviso that: you can't point to any _one part_ of our being or experience and say that that's the irreducible self.

Like Trigger's broom from the British comedy show, Only Fools And Horses:

"I've maintained this broom for 20 years, it's had 17 new heads and 14 new handles"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqZEr1Y-lZU
but your bank still uses ut to confirm your udentity over the phone
> This is the point that Robert Kennedy Jr has been making, very eloquently. Regardless of how heinous Putin may be, how nasty the Russian invasion has been, it was not unprovoked.

I keep forgetting in Russias absolute drug hazed existence a country looking to defend itself is justification for invasion.

But we know all the NATO stuff is false as Russia was given assurances by NATO members that Ukraine would be vetoed.

That didn’t do anything to stop Russias brutal war.

> But somehow bringing NATO to Russia's doorstep should not be seen as provocation?

So when’s the invasion of Finland happening? If keeping NATO from Russias door step was the goal of this war if failed already.

> It's very tempting to paint your military enemies as cartoon villains. In fact, painting Putin as a cleptocratic thug is easy. It gets you reelected at home. But openly humiliating him is bad foreign policy.

I’m not sure what you’re saying, are you saying that Putins army is so pathetic that he needs other countries to handicap the country defending itself so he can look good?.

> RFK Jr's message is that Ukraine did not benefit from this war. Their young men are being sacrificed to an American plan to wear down the Russian army.

RJK Jrs message is pure Russian propaganda.

But even if this was a devious American plan to wear down the Russian army. The russians could easily avoid this by just leaving.

The Ukrainians are defending themselves from a brutal invasion if they stop fighting there is no more Ukraine who knows how many more war crimes the Russians will commit.

If the Russians stop fighting there is no more war.

> Why provoke the war when realpolitik says it's better to compromise?

The world has tried compromising with Russia time and time again and it just leads to more invasions and more war crimes by them.

The Russians don’t understand compromise only strength, the only way to get Russia to stop is by displaying strength not compromise.

> Cui bono? Who benefits from this conflict? American military contractors, and American exporters of natural gas.

The Russians benefit greatly from this conflict if they win, that is why a lot of the world is trying to help stop the brutal imperialistic invasion.
What’s the “proper background” to comment on a pop anthropology book?
Google’s Generative AI Platform Is Now Available to Everyone
They picked up the M4s in Iraq. Those full length M16a2s go HAM for the engagement distances in Afghanistan. And don't worry, the army is already circling back towards light skinned vehicles.
"The Ego Trick" by Julian Baggini might be a bit more directly related to the subject at hand.
if they can decisively finish it fast and keep the spoils. post-WW2 this was only true for the superpowers. and only some of the times. (eg. see the failures in Afghanistan, see how it's impossible to finish a war quickly if there are sufficiently powerful allies of the target willing to sponsor the insurgency/proxy war, etc.)
Yup. What a mess!

Sure wish there was a better way to advance things.
Look at a map

It has a huge east west extent

https://images.newscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1...
Supercharging my Telegram group with the help of ChatGPT
That's looking to be the case. Same thing happened with Usenet and the migration to web forums because Usenet became a complete mess.

Some are going to Tildes. Some are going to Lemmy, though the two most popular servers are dying right now. Enough went to kbin.social that they disabled registration. Then there's mentions of Raddle and Mainchan depending on your preference.

Discord servers with forums seem to be the big one from what my oldest was showing me. Seems that plus some additional web forums will end up filling in the gap.

Reddit will probably still last for a while as it bleeds out users. We'll have to see what replaces Reddit. Nothing proposed so far is going to be the new consolidated home.
> At worst regulator will warn you and then you will invest your resources in fixing the issue.

But there's no guarantee of this right? According to the law, if they wanted to destroy your company over some tiny accidental rule breakage, they could. It just depends on if you're on someone's list or they're having a bad day. Unpredictable application of the law is not great.
Yeah. If we evaluated every author’s work based on their worst book or theory, we’d have to throw out everything Newton did because he wrote a lot of bunk about alchemy and the occult.

Good thing we don’t do that, because calculus, gravity, and optics are extremely valuable.
It's a free fall that leaves the system at a different speed than it arrives!
though pg also set [HN] up in terms of direction and focus.
[...] Both execution and constitution matter, IMO.

100%.

that there are other money faucets which don't create the same effects: natural resource extraction economies, [...] Tourist attractions [...]

Yeah, there are other distinct factors with college towns relative to other money faucets.

- The (putative, anyway) core mission of colleges is one of education and research. There's a hell of a lot of other stuff going on at colleges, to the point where that core mission often feels like an afterthought, but it is a unique factor relative to the other examples we can name.

- While colleges sure love to suck up money, it is not their core focus in the way that it is for a corporation.

- Colleges have a markedly younger demographic than just about any other money faucet we could name

There are more of course.

And at the other end of the scale, you can have
college towns which are too successful. [...]
These are so wealthy that the cultural
amplification of the educational institution is
dampened by the lack of affordability of the region

100%.

On Reddit, a comment reply generates a notification only
to the author of the comment replied to. There's no
sense of a thread-notification (or even some smaller
region, say, the three or five preceding comments'
authors). This means that conversation tends to die
rapidly on Reddit.

This is very true for me, especially on large threads with more than ~100 replies.

Ultimately I don't find this to be a dealbreaker but it is for sure a shortcoming.

One feature Reddit has that's underutilised (and
underpowered, in terms of features, notably search)

Yeah. On the subreddit I moderate(d) we saw the same questions over and over and we wanted the wiki to be the solution to that. But realistically nobody looks on those wikis unless a mod or somebody explicitly links them to the wiki.

I don't know what the solution is there. A wiki is such a different paradigm w.r.t. a threaded discussion forum. And their functionality overlaps. I don't know how you weld them together.

To really make it work in a synergistic way there'd need to be some thoughtful integration. First we'd need to define the purpose of each.

This is an admittedly arbitrary distinction but IMO it would be useful to have the wiki be a place for higher-quality information that has been accepted as canonical or at least reliable by the mods and the community.

This would need to be coupled with a way to "bless" or "promote" information from discussion threads to the wiki. And a helpful and magical way to automatically surface relevant wiki information in threads, for example if you are asking a question whose answer already lives in the wiki.

The wiki search should, as you say, be better. But the underlying problem there is split-brain syndrome: the bit of information you want could lie in the threads and/or the wiki. At a bare minimum there needs to be a unified search.
Man, the tone in some of these replies is so hostile. Why did anyone at Reddit think this AMA was a good idea?
> Yea I don't get this, what are chances of a tsunami hitting the German nuclear power plants?

- Funny. Quite obviously the issue was not the possibilities of tsunamis in Germany. It was the fact, that this particular power plant was not constructed in an area prone to massive tsunamis without sufficient tsunami protection. In Germany you would replace tsunami with different natural disasters. For example earth quakes. Yes, parts of Germany experience earth quakes. Usually they are very light, but every few centuries there's one able to level cities. The same style of organizational failure which left Fukushima unprotected against major tsunamis could have left German nuclear power plants without insufficient earth quake protection.

- The public witnessed that a nuclear power plant cut off from external power supply and without emergency power generation can run out of control just from the decay heat. Very few people knew before that incident that nuclear power plants don't have an off-switch and don't necessarily fail safely in exceptional situations.

- Also everybody got to see (once more) what failure of containment meant and that Japan got a big break because much of the radioactive plume was blown out to sea. Something like that happening in the middle of densely populated Europe would be very ugly and very expensive.

- Nuclear was already quite unpopular in Germany since Chernobyl and its nuclear fallout over Germany and Fukushima was just another big nail in its coffin.
The duo in 1969 developed the line-drawing system displays LDS-1 and LDS-2, the first graphics devices with a processing unit. They then built the E&S Picture System—the next generation of LDS displays.

I'm working with my limited and stereotyped knowledge of Utah, but is "line-drawing system" a easter egg reference to latter day saints?
Yeah, that would definitely be close to the best model for reddit.
Why is this not happening to this extent in other similar countries?
And yet I'm left wondering why the investors had such a bad reaction to its launch? Early signs point to this being a technological marvel, and despite the price tag I think it'll have useful applications in businesses with deeper IT budgets. You won't give one to everyone on the floor, but there's likely a case to having a small set of these.

It reminds me of the "Neural SubNet" from Deus Ex.
> Matrix, Discourse, and Mastodon ... inaccessible, insecure, Electron-ridden clients.

Aren't those more of the same? They contribute nothing that IRC and Usenet didn't have decades earlier. And I thought Discourse was an archetypal Electron app. I avoided it when I can, but I've had to use it a few times and hate it. Plenty of old fashioned forum software is much more usable.

Added: and oh, the opt out site is hosted on github! It says so right on the privacy page. Avoid proprietary whatever, by hosting with Microsoft.... smooth move, lol.
I can't speak to ad revenue, but I helped with managing some large ~100k member forums and the cost wasn't by any means prohibitive. Costs today would be cheaper by a couple orders of magnitude. Spam wasn't a big problem either. Basic filters, and mandatory intro posts and post count restricted forums solved most issues. Moderation was much more focused on keeping things in topic and redirecting duplicate topics.
Thanks! I will check that out. You are right, Capra's book touches more on quantum physics than on neuroscientific basis.

Anyone else with book recommendations, let's hear 'em.
I work for a photography site. While money is tight thanks to less money being in the industry, most of the money we make is still with direct contacts, be it the major companies advertising their products, or smaller merchants advertising their stock. All context targeted, not user profiled.
HTML5 Wayland compositor: https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield

From a comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36263861
https://freenet.org/

https://join-lemmy.org/

https://sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide/

https://getaether.net/

I think Freenet/Locutus contracts that work like forums on Aether (with auditable moderation and elections) would be neat.
I mean super-digital people really do. If your train only comes every 20 min, you absolutely have your eye on the app and change the speed you eat breakfast in the morning, or decide you can reply to 4 more emails before leaving work.

There are tons of apps with live train countdowns. They're probably the biggest improvement to NYers quality of life in the past 30 years honestly, with ridesharing in second place.
That has been my experience as well. I've not come across a laptop that accepts a charge from a low power USB-C PD charger. I'm aware the standards allow for falling back to lower voltages but it seems laptop manufacturers specifically go out of their way to stop this. I presume to avoid issues with their battery charging system.
TSMC Opens Advanced Back End Packaging Fab for AI and HPC Products
Not so different from the US, really. I'm sure Middle Easterners speak of the "Pax" Americana in sarcastic tones.
Interesting, at what viewing distance is a 4k monitor 70 PPD?

From what I've seen the common advice for monitors is that 5k is the ideal resolution for a 27" screen and 4k is a little bit less sharp if you're looking closely.
Can vision pro do "normal" VR too? or is it only augmented reality. like can i actually play games on it that arent weird games coming from the app store? (ie steam games)
Do we know they're paying peanuts as salary at this point? There are a lot of companies in Europe who will pay engineers 200k+ EUR and beyond, however admittedly nearly all are US companies or very closely connected to the US capital markets