skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the link:

> Websites should not be able to attribute data of an ad click and a conversion to a single user as part of large scale tracking

I'm curious, do people generally care about this specifically, or is it the sharing of this information with third parties that's the problem?

I run Firefox with in-built privacy protection enabled and uBlock Origin. However, I'm not doing so because I want to stop the websites I frequent knowing which email of theirs I clicked. My concern is when they share my data with other parties whose services I'm not explicitly engaging with.
You're absolutely right that being public doesn't automatically making bad choices--but it does eventually mean making poor choices. As long as you have a strong CEO, they can weather the storm of shareholder requests, but once you get to third or fourth generation leaders it typically becomes a race to the bottom. See: Every company in every industry.
Why do you no longer sell the Pro PCB/ enclosure kit? In fact selling Pro PCB would make the project much more accessible.
There were huge evolutions in the designs for safety (because of some big accidents), which I think did make them a lot more expensive. I’ve also heard stricter requirements for things like cooling can contribute - i.e. needing cooling towers instead of just rejecting waste heat into bodies of water, which is quite bad environmentally.
Why does refresh matter? It’s all about pixel density
An entire door? Luxury!
You mean... so we could like, battle our small children in our kitchens with lightsabers?

My kids indeed do have sword toys that vibrate and make sounds, so I have done this. And I'm sorry to have to report that it is... substantially less compelling than fighting Darth Vader in VR. (Perhaps not for them, though.)
I don’t necessarily agree to the parent comment, but I believe the point is that it eliminates need to attach, remove, and keep the fuel door by use of a temporary fixture during painting.

All doors and bumpers on a car is attached to the body during the paint process, then the whole thing is painted, disassembled, and re-mated later to the same chassis, for better color matching.
> The inability to tap on someone's shoulder reduces group productivity, regardless of what those who don't want to be interrupted think.

If you know a person does not like being interrupted don't be selfish and write a message. Why does your productivity matter more than mine?
Drugs work or not due to symbolic context; which is not obvious, but can be inferred, when they actually do stop working and there is no scientific explanation for that.
That's very similar to what Clerky does. Clerky even goes one step further and helps set up bank accounts.

But what I'm looking for is more involved. Ask me a few questions. Do you plan to have employees? Yes? Ok we will set you up with a payroll provider and a health insurance provider and a worker's comp provider and a business insurance provider. That kind of thing.
The plug and charge protocol is open

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15118

While what you say is true about a gas station, I think a lot of the standard privacy arguments dont really hold for a car.

Its literally illegal to drive a car without it being built to the standard the government likes, with an identifiable ID printed on the outside of it, with a valid license with your name and date of birth on, and current registration.

Let alone the fact that the vast majority of cars are sold with gps trackers bolted on if they are financed. Requiring a credit card tied to that vehicle is the least of your privacy worries.
I use arch for my personal machines and work gives me debian. Yes, there are bugs, i usually see them (a lot of them are obvious in KDE) on arch from month 0 to month 1, then if I'm unlucky (depending on when the bug appeared) I'm stuck with them from month 6 to month 12 on my work machine. Very "stable" indeed, it just means I get to see some bugs for much longer and on a delayed time table. It's very rare that anyone goes back and fixes minor bugs like these in the delayed debian packages. Just because something is released on a slower cadence with a bigger delay to release doesn't mean it has fewer bugs.

On the other hand, I had way more instances of a broken system and broken packages (where synaptic/apt just refuses to install anything) on my work computer that has debian than I ever had with arch.
The Worm Turns (2008)
You're right, and I addressed this in another reply, but keeping a good company culture requires a very special leadership team, and it can't and won't last forever.
I love watches but don't think I'll ever wear an Apple Watch. It just doesn't feel like a Watch. It's very much a wrist computer. I would love if they made an Apple Watchband, as in a computer-powered wristband of some kind that does all the great things Apple Watch does (pedometer, heart monitoring, gps, notifs) but replaces the watch band of my Actual Watch. Now that'd be something I would wear.
I don't think that's the case. For me personally it gave me more control over my system and understanding.
Nothing elitist about that. Also the arch wiki has very high quality.

It is a good feeling to start with something minimal and build on it until you have something that is totally customized to your needs.
Sure you can start with a distro that has a lot of things preconfigured but you will need to reverse engineer first. Arch gives you the greenfield approach which is in my opinion more enjoyable.
People may be flagging it because politics is off-topic.
Hotdesk is the biggest bullshit ever. Can you imagine arriving at your office having to think, will I be able to seat next to team? Having to do conference call because no meeting room available just for the poor guy who cannot be there by 8? Best part, people consider their desks as they own it, I have seen people moving stuff just because some dared to seat there before they arrive with management approval.
WHy does it have Taurine? I honestly don't know why any of the non-caffiene non-b vitamin ingredients are in "energy drinks" like Taurine.
I created multiple reddit accounts- one for programming and math stuff, one for books only, one for general stuff, etc.

I quit the general one two years ago because of Reddit's dumb monoculture.

I kept visiting math, cs, and book subs. And helped people with high school math concepts, cs book suggestions, etc.

As a person born in a middle-of-nowhere smalltown, Reddit added a lot of value to my life. And I tried to do the same to others. I had a good running.

All good things end.

I am concerned about how it perfectly substitutes Google. Whether I need to search for quirky not-so-famous movies, or I need recommendation for Neuroscience textbooks, I searched Reddit with Google. With subs shutting down and going private, I wonder how longer will this last.
How's the Stack Overflow strike going?
They have no legal duty to do so, but why do people buy stock if not to produce a return?
Yeah totally agree.

Further I wouldn’t be trusting a hot take from ~100 points GuestXXXXXX at this point of the PR dumpster fire cycle.
Stripe only does the first part. It doesn't set me up with payroll or insurance or all the other things that I might need. That's why I said I'd like a turbotax like system that asks questions so you can get the right stuff.
Yep, they explicitly mentioned (and showed, IIRC) that you can connect game controllers to the Vision Pro. Presumably it will indeed be PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch controllers, as well as the various third party controllers specifically sold for Apple devices.

But no word that I’ve seen on VR controllers.
did you know Google became famous for its search engine, where you can answer questions like this quite easily? or maybe he was talking about plans for the future, in which screens have dedicated space only available for ads.
Google has turned into the "new IBM" for years now. I've worked with Google engineers and managers from different "generations". It's shocking how the newer engineers are just your average consultancy engineer with leet code practice. They have little abstracting capabilities and would be pissed-off if you use some tool/workflow that's not "The Google Way™" (and that includes things like Github for code reviews (instead of Gerrit or a Gerrit-clone), multirepos or monorepos without Bazel, anything else than gRPC...).

And the managers... Oh, the managers... They just act for the sake of their own promotion even if that means damaging someone's else career or the company in the long term. And will complain about things not being done the "Google Way", even if the proposed Google Way failed multiple times in that context (startups and scaleups, in my case). But what's really shocking is how they have no interpersonal skills, to the point of making you constantly question yourself: how, why, did this person ended up in a management track in a supposedly Y-career company? How not only did they got there but also promoted multiple times for this role?

Google, as a company, is as cool as Oracle nowadays.
I’ve never seen Vorbis and ubiquitous in the same sentence. Besides Mozilla, who had Vorbis native support in their browser?

In practice, MP3 has had support on every platform since the mid 90s. I could probably count the number of times I’ve come across an ogg file being distributed on one hand.
nah, they will go and use discord instead.
> It is quick to call out my mistakes

Or recognize that you're not confident in the answer and throw something else and see if it sticks.
> The bill’s definition of online services is extremely broad, seemingly barring minors from creating social media accounts on sites like Instagram, accessing popular online games like Roblox and Fortnite, or even registering for an email address.
17 ur club here. agree.
Yeah, people forget about the energy and pollution costs of forcing everyone to commute. Even if you drive an EV, there’s still pollution from tires.

Given that we’ve proven that remote work is viable even without next gen AR VR devices, a lot of corporate PR supporting the environment feels very empty when we learn their stance on remote work
What other things and how often though? Is it worth it losing the improved precision of the controller (and adding so much more complexity and battery use)

I think Facebook should consider usign only 1 controller though (i know I do). Also, to put the battery in the controller and tether it to the headset to make it even lighter. If apple is using a tether then it's ok to do it

I wonder if passthrough can be done mechanically, by rotating the lenses to a hole
yep .... and Apple has the same problem

The fundamental question is what are they really useful for after the novelty wears off. It's not clear to me that Apple has done anything to change that fundamental issue.
That joke about the $10M wasn't unprofessional at all. If Steve was honest about the $20M per year opportunity cost, he would've instantly agreed to a one time $10M. Then Reddit would gain an additional $20M per year. But it was only a joke because Steve was lying about the $20M opportunity.

Christian is acting in a surprisingly civil manner despite the repeated lies and smears made by Steve and others at Reddit. I see that as being professional.
That is the weirdest part of this whole shift for me. Remote positions now get tons of applications and can afford to select best possible candidates, while 'old guard' is left with 'not best' candidates. Granted, some positions do not need a rocket scientist, but one would think a company would want someone, who is capable enough to have options.

And yet, HRs across the US spectrum seem to be sending the same memo. I am mildly annoyed by this, because I had a mini-conversation today and the tone from an executive was: business won't let this ( WFH ) stand.

Maybe it is not about best possible candidate. Maybe they are ok with less capable people for whatever reason.
They just did mass layoffs in Zürich too from what I hear. Many will be out of a job at the end of this month at that office.
The good ol’ “there are many contributing factors, so how dare you try to solve one of them” argument.
Allow me to introduce you to the concept of a "lateral move".

Plenty of tech-adjacent people like QAs (and tech writers) are self-teaching or going to school for CS. After a year or two they move into junior development jobs at the same company, provided management doesn't pigeonhole them. The rest of this person's 16 year tenure is plenty to climb the ranks from junior to PE.
No, the Arch packages and the Manjaro package repos are different, but the AUR packages are obviously the same.
Also reccommend https://www.usworker.coop/clinic/startups/
>You literally cannot make good decisions when you have to base everything around what will make the most profit for the shareholders this quarter

Ironically, Google doesn't care about their shareholders and quarters like other tech companies. They don't provide a guidance, their earnings calls have little substance, and their disclosure is atrocious.
I came to hate the experience so much, I didn't even need willpower.

The dislike started small, and it grew into a hatred, and it kept increasing until it hit a tipping point. I quit Reddit in one day.

I still have a books focused, and a cs/math/programming focused accounts that I use sometimes.
Your Fact Is Not Fun
You might want to hold on for a few more Qs because short term solutions like this do increase stocks.
The people rallying against wokeness are becoming more annoying than woke itself, which seems to have a goalpost moving definition every fortnight these days.
If that's a fear worth courting WWIII over, shouldn't we have been considering the strategic importance of manufacturing stuff domestically for... IDK, the last forty years?

TBH, I wonder if it would be worth tossing off a few political flashpoints in the name of greater global stability. Hand over Taiwan on a silver platter in exchange for long-term friendship and economic concessions. Could we get to a place where the relationships between major powers is more of "a loose partnership of equals with broad leeway for dissent" rather than "the US surrounded by imminent threats to US hegemony"?

We're going to need China on our side for the next 50-100-200 years. In fact, the China that's currently being villianized is a more valuable partner than some fantasy "one day they wake up and switch to Western democracy" China, because they expand the tools available to respond to the next grand crisis.
Software is a lot closer to service work than hardware. It’s way less interchangeable and mostly sits “at the top” of the stack. DuckDuckGo Vs Google Vs ChatGPT shows why a lot of software isn’t a commodity, it’s a service.

And software that could be a commodity is often given away for free (Open Source).

The lower in the stack you are, the closer you get to commodity. Eg SQL databases - often somewhat interchangeable for different target features, but also language and expectations don’t match exactly, so there’s high cost to switching. That’s why Oracle now has to fight cloud providers, MSFT, and a ton of open source projects for business. Comparably, several languages (C, Java/Script, Python) have multiple compilers/interpreters with much better compatibility and little commercial options.
Actually I think Schmidt was quite good. Sadly he's the only CEO the company has ever had.
Billionaires have trusts and foundations and lawyer knows what else. It doesn't touch them at all.

Also a 700 acre farm, which is an at most medium size family farm, could easily have a nominal value north of 10 mil even though there's no way it's returning 1 million a year net. Same for a modestly profitable small business.
I half agree with Zucc here, the Quest isn't my vision for the future of computing, but Apple's dystopian ecosystem is even further from my vision of the future.
G+ wasn't a bad product, but it's hard for me to conceive of a worse rollout plan.
i tried an app called fabriq, it is unpolished but definitely works well.
assuming that handtracking doesnt confuse you eating popcorn with pinching gesture. But anyway i hope your headset doesnt smell of popcorn and coffee afterwards
Because 10 minutes of your time might save hours of someone else’s. Why is your productivity more important than your entire teams?

I feel like people don’t treat achieving business goals as part of their job in dev. I’ve never had people treat this as a problem across other job roles.
Eric Schmidt seemed very competent, given how much of the famed old Google culture was built during his tenure. I was at Google during the Larry Page era and contrasting him with Schmidt was not favorable.
How much money has apple spent developing this thing?

Meta has lost over $30 billion so far on developing VR.

Apple's headset looks much more complex from an engineering perspective, really complicated sensors, and custom silicon for signal processing, wouldn't surprise me if they have spent a fair bit more than meta.
The best gaming headset on the market would have to be able to connect to a Windows PC. The M2 chip in the headset doesn't have the power to run an intensive game at 4K resolution for each eye. Even if the headset could be tethered to a Mac for additional power, the GPUs in Macs don't come close to the capabilities of the 4090, which itself struggles to support 2K per eye for demanding games. One potential solution could be foveated rendering, which has shown some performance improvements on the Quest Pro and PSVR2, albeit not significantly. However, it's possible that Apple's implementation of this might yield better results.
The hard part is only the low end if you don’t start with the high end.

With a high end you can continuously fund a drive toward lower manufacturing and operational costs. Without it you just focus on cutting corners.
Having used manjaro for a few years. It worked mostly fine. I think it is a good entry for an arch based os.
However, at one point you might want to setup yoir own arch systfm and it will feel much better if you take your time and configure it properly.
First thing to come to mind for me are "thought-terminating cliché"s.
The AI “gold rush” has already left the station, yyeeeaarrsss ago. The people who are going to monetize it are the people for whom the threshold of entry to the data sets is an insignificant threshold even at tens of thousands of dollars a year - and they’re the same entities already owning rights to datasets. And don’t need Reddit’s.

They could Elsevier a bunch of researchers who get institutional grants, but that’s not going to be a predictable, dependable, forecastable revenue stream.

For anyone with experience in pricing data services for partners, and anyone with experience with auditable, publicly owned businesses (like Reddit is trying to become, through IPO)

the API TOS & the “premium” firehose pricing is about having all the costs and cost centres of their business operations either justified by a revenue stream, or having a potential revenue stream assigned to those cost centres, or having a business case justifying the existence of that cost and cost centre, OR having a pricing model on that aspect of business which justifies it only being operated as a distinctly separate business model from the main business.

If that happens, then they’d likely spin it off as a subsidiary business, or a licensor, and operate it in a way that locks down their liability from privacy violation cases or GDPR violation cases etc.

In short: Reddit isn’t doing this for an “AI Gold Rush”. Reddit is doing this because they have to structure their business operations in a way that limits liabilities, minimizes or justifies cost centres, and maximizes profit streams.

To get people to buy the stock. To show that the company is profitable and is leveraging all their assets.
AFAIK, ocean oil well platform developer is good at building something at sea, so they migrate their business to building ocean wind turbines.
You don't have to base everything around what will make the most profit this quarter. Bezos certainly didn't feel compelled to in the early days of being public.
* Eventually ownership will disperse from the core group of initial owners to investors in general

* As a larger ownership moves towards investors, decisions are made that sacrifice the special sauce in order to increase returns.

* Appeasing general investors leads towards enshittification.

Sometimes a strong leader (Jobs, Cook) can keep the investor class as bay for a period. Sometimes leadership can be consolidated for long periods of time to delay the process (Walton, Zuck), but it feels inevitable after IPO.
Can you explain what things shareholders generally request?

As far as I know the only duty a company has towards shareholders is "protect them" (aka: don't mess up and make money). As long as the company eventually does that there is no issue. Even if it takes 8 quarters to become profitable (or 10+ years, see Amazon).

There are probably ways in which shareholders can get together and request something (in court?), but that almost never happens? Maybe I'm wrong. If so, would love to see examples.
This is still around

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API
Probably not technically behind. Were aiming lower for price, is more likely.
(virtually)
One is priced at $300 and the other is more than 10x that. I don't understand why people keep comparing the two as if they were designed with the same objectives.
It's somewhat under the radar because it hasn't killed the company, but Meta's VR/metaverse failure is among the greatest business failures of all time.

To spend $30B and have absolutely nothing is so astonishingly incompetent that you'd imagine an average 8th grader could get a better result.
Really? I thought it was just hammering in the argument that “you don’t get along in real life, virtual life is where it’s at.”
Same. But I would use it more if
it would allow triggering all gestures (particularly home) without awkward assistive touch workarounds so it could be used for general navigation like the S-pen on my Galaxy Tab and phone.

Which I imagine is intentional by Apple for aesthetic reasons since iPad should only be navigated by touch.
I think that's what was implied by "it's now or never".

Your company forces anti-remote policies?
If you're worth anything, just leave.
I think Zuck is mostly right as far as the fundamentals of the core tech. Meta has a lot of strong competency in this space as far as building the core components of a hand tracked XR computing experience.

What I do think Zuck misses are two things:

1) The Quest's overall software platform and ecosystem now need to get much much better about quality and performance/efficiency. Meta is already starting from a disadvantage when it comes to the hardware performance but it's clear a lot of the software can be a bit janky. Also the reliance on the Quest app for phone integration is bad enough, except that the quest app is atrociously buggy. A lot of this is exactly the sort of thing Carmack complained and pushed back about the most.

2) The Quest developer platform has a lot of work ahead of it as far as the kinds of 2D productivity apps and 2D media consumption apps that were primarily showcased. When apple can give devs Xcode and tell them a checkbox can turn their UIKit/SwiftUI App into a XR app thats not a small thing. Also all of Apples stack is either unity or swift based. Having a high level native system of deploying high quality Abi stable native frameworks is also no small thing. Meta has a lot of work ahead of it I feel if it wants to compete on the developer front to get app developers to write some truly great productivity software needed to sell Quests as general computer PC replacements instead of gaming products only.
bro is jealous