skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Examples are pointless. For those that must feel compelled to maintain the status quo, whether they are invested or just cretinish volunteers, they would inevitably have to argue against the examples. Even if he can put his finger on one so absurdly pathological that it can't be taken out of context, they'd do an "oops, so we got one wrong, it happens once in awhile".

He's not the only one who has this impression that it happens constantly. And there are enough such people that they can't easily be dismissed as malcontents and troublemakers.

I still ask questions once in awhile... if you're desperate, there's a chance that it slips past their asshole guards and gets noticed by someone willing to help. But it's certainly unusual at this point.

Once a culture of moderation develops, moderators have to moderate just to feel like they're useful/important. They do this even if moderation isn't needed. Instead of just keeping a watch out for the uncommon problem question, they're inspecting many/most of them and looking for reasons to close/delete. It's too high of a bar, the purpose of the site is to help those who don't necessarily know enough to ask brilliant questions. Or maybe it isn't anymore.

We've cultivated an entire society of busybodies out there measure lawns with rulers, so to speak. It would take decades to roll this back to something sane.
I think it's a good idea letting people get used to 2D apps in VR. Apple could've done more to first party apps to use their 3D space because they clearly showed us it works with the butterfly, dinosaur bit. I guess it depends on the developers now?
For sure. This is the key insight imo:

> Meta's product is the metaverse. Apple's product is this device bolstered by their ecosystem.

One way or another, that's the bet here.

1) Apple didn't mention the metaverse at all (as far as I can remember)

2) The user experience looked great, without those moments that would make someone who was neutral think "Err, ... that's a bit .... creepy"
Man, with al respect why your “hate” with the good guys working at DeepMind? Everybody loves and respect Demis Hassabis, he is truly a genius. He really wants the best for the world/humanity and that takes a ton of time, so let’s wait and see.
It depends on what sort of community you follow. The ML and tech podcasting communities have largely moved over. The politics, journalism and celebrity part of twitter hasn’t moved over. The corollary to that is that much of the vitriol and random toxicity also hasn’t moved over. I have a more vibrant and more interesting mastodon feed than I ever had on twitter. And my twitter feed now is a wasteland, stripped of the good content but still filled with all of the bad content. Twitter is dead man walking as far as I’m concerned.
I thought the danger was from the fact that it doesn't get processed by the intestine so you cop the full force of the ABV.
The billions of people in poorer countries are able to have access to the world's knowledge due to smart phones are better served by those cheap smartphone than something they can never afford.
> Wait, I thought an Oculus does the same thing too.

As excited as I am about Apple Vision, Mark is right about this. Most of Apple’s demos don’t show the user being active, and the Vision’s price is anything but demographic even though it’s fair, given that it’s a miniaturized MacBook with magic powers

On other hand, the Quest and its apps make you move. Most of the apps on Quest are low key cardio workouts, though it’s not initially apparent to most users when they’re fighting ninjas or dodging bullets.

Do I think Apple Vision is incapable of what the Quest is capable of in terms of helping their users be active? Definitely not. Anything the Quest can do I’m sure Vision can do and then some. I’m also sure that future Apple Vision spots will highlight this. However, Apple is not showing anything at the moment.

> Mark has got to be terrified. The power of Apple is the tight and efficient integration of hardware and software.

I’m sure he is to a degree, but meta needed Apple to enter the market. It would be much worse for meta if Apple didn’t validate the often criticized and ridiculed AR VR industry.

While meta has been able to make a revolutionary product at a great price point, it’s been hampered by

1. meta’s poor past reputation,

2. meta’s terrible marketing & messaging. The Super Bowl ad was nonsensical to normal people,

3. the intimidating form factor of most VR headsets including the Quest aka face buckets of isolation. Many normal adults refuse to put it on their faces without a lot of coaxing, and

4. not being able to market the Quest to children. They are the largest demographic who just intuitively understand VR AR. They also have the highest retention. (There is one old study that shows that it may be harmful to children, but many people have criticized its methodology.)

Now that Apple has fixed the messaging for the industry, Apple can dominate the high end while Meta can take everything else. People who are buying Vision likely would not buy a Quest and vice versa

Meta won’t have a real fight until Samsung & Google re-enter the space.
> taurine at 1000 mg per kg body weight

Another commenter mentioned that taurine “LD50 is [5000 mg] per kg of body weight”.

So you would want to be very careful - especially if you are old, on medicine, drink alcohol, or have any issues processing taurine (liver/kidney?).
Facebook is not in panic, they're relieved that they're not the only fools betting on VR anymore.

None of this will be relevant soon to consumers, except maybe games, and then it will be console makers who will push it and cash in. For Facebook and Apple it's just shareholder porn.
13yearold spent $64k of her parents'money on mobile games without them realizing
You know how they call alternative treatment when it works?

Treatment.
I think the used 3090s on Ebay, going for about $700, are a decent deal, especially since they've 24GB of VRAM.
But this is the more nuanced argument: https://twitter.com/BitcoinPierre/status/1666865701330595840
It's worth noting that unlike other countries, you won't find stray dogs in the UK.

I have lived in 5 different countries, and I have not noticed significant numbers of stray dogs in any of them (I am sure the number is technically non-zero, but I never saw them). I have visited many more countries, and I have only ever really seen stray dogs in Costa Rica. YMMV.
They are abandoned, judging by the “a dog is not just for Christmas” ads. I think it’s the well funded charities like Battersea Cats and Dogs Home, who can collect them, and a reasonably strong culture for looking for a dog at these shelters before a breeder.
California costs are unhinged. I'm extremely excited to get my ducks in a row and move out.
It's more like saying that Ferrari is going to compete head to head with Toyota next year. Apple are experts in making all sorts of hardware at scale, directly and through partners. Now it's on display that they've always been ahead of Facebook which acquired a much smaller hardware maker and has had its own hardware products which flopped.
The way you replace Reddit is by making its business model obsolete with a better model.

The problem with Reddit is that the interests of the users, mods, shareholders, and advertisers are not aligned. Their interests are being pitted against one another in order to generate profit through enshittification.

The way you make a better Reddit is by creating a cooperative model where the users, advertisers, and mods interests are aligned, and there isn't a profit motive for a shareholder group that takes precedence over the quality and governance of the site.

The web site and free app are ad-sponsored. Paid subscriptions first give you an ad-free experience, and secondly, give you and API key you can use in any 3rd party app. 3rd party apps make revenue from the subscriptions, giving them an incentive to create an ever-better user experience.

Mods earn a fee based on traffic and interactions with their subreddit. Not enough to call it a job, but enough for the community to show appreciation.

As a cooperative model, there are no investment shareholders, the site sells bonds to fund it that pay a deferred, fixed yield to get it started. Bondholders, have a vested interest in the success of the site, but have no say in its operation. Without shareholders demanding profits and growth, the interests of the users, the mods, the advertisers, the bondholders and the non-profit that administers the site are aligned.

The best things in this world aren't for profit, the hug of a child, a national park, a sunset and the stars at night. If you want a Reddit-like experience to stay pure, it needs to upset the apple cart and be a tech entity of a completely different model in order to avoid enshittification.
Well chatgpt is trained on SO. If people stop using SO, chatgpt will not be able to respond about newer languages/frameworks.
There is something quite remarkable and puzzling about the VR/AR and now SC (spatial computing) space.

All major (ad)tech companies are convinced that this is a major market that will materialize and be profitable if the right combination of hardware and software is developed.

Their VR "visions" differ but only at the margin. No matter how you execute it, we are talking about people (homo sapiens) putting a major something on their heads that dramatically takes over their visual field for the pursuit of... what exactly? That is the puzzle.

There is a missing aha moment around this type of interface that would justify the major behavioral adjustment that is required for it to be adopted as a general purpose interface rather than a gimmick.

The number of devices sold so far does not impress me. A small number of people, especially youngsters with disposable income can be sold on anything (including fake currencies).

What is missing is an indication that this is actually an empowering piece of tech that is a a major new mode in our interface with computing.

What would be such indicators? Anything really. E.g. Some leaked stories that the teams developing these devices wear them all the time because it makes them so much more productive / social / fun / transcedental / [insert something people might actually want to have].

So far at least, this is a tech that is being pushed onto people rather than being pulled. I don't think this was the case with any of the major steps in the development of digital computing but would be quite interested if people can think of historical precedent.
but there’s no incentive for Reddit to pay any money, they either start charging for the API and recoup the costs or the app shuts down and it starts costing Reddit absolutely nothing
This is a myth on the order of “vocal fry permanently damages young female vocal cords”.
… as a result of two votes to close from members of the community, which is not an example of “shut down by a mod” (GP) or how “Stack Overflow has been absolutely destroyed by the moderators” (GGP). Closing questions isn’t really a primary purpose of elected moderators to begin with, because it doesn’t need more privileges than the rep-based privilege system already grants.

Meanwhile, the spam/abuse deletion, removal of illegitimate votes, conflict resolution, and so on that having mods is actually valuable for happen behind the scenes.
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> Google, as a company, is as cool as Oracle nowadays.

Feeling rather uncomfortable as Devil's advocate in this case but I was testing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a cost-saving replacement for Google Cloud Platform recently and they are worlds apart.

GCP is a cloud service where you can issue a command or click on a web panel to get your resources up. Oracle, on the other hand, will set up multiple meetings with various "specialists" to teach you how a cloud should be used. Unproductive meeting after meeting after meeting and no work gets done.

I felt like an unpaid QA engineer when going over all the unpleasantries of their Terraform provider with them. Documentation is garbage and no variables are are explained[1]? No problem, we've got 5 specialists who will train you how you should use the cloud.

Here's a generous free tier so you can test everything. Oh, want to set up resources using it? Raise a support ticket. Want GPU VMs? No problem, request the hardware for a specific region days in advance and we hope it'll work. Oh, not working? Please share your screen and open a support ticket. Want a second VM instance or a node pool for your cluster? Request limit increase. Want more RAM? Request limit increase. Don't worry, we have a team granting these very quickly.

Absolute shitshow. Oracle Cloud is as frustrating as Digital Ocean when you try to treat it as a cloud and not a VPS vendor. GCP more or less "just works".

[1] https://registry.terraform.io/providers/oracle/oci/latest/do...
Slightly off topic possibly -- but I personally felt overwhelmed in recent months due to the daily onslaught of new GPT/LLM/GenAI related news.

I work in a related tech area and I have been meaning to do two things (1) prusue recertifications on a couple of professional certs that are up for renewal later this year and (2) get hands-on experience with some of the LLM and GenAI tech that is coming out so I can either broaden my professional skills to include them or at least benefit from knowing those tools thrugh inproved productivity/creativity.

What actually happened is that I achieved much less -- virtually zero -- tangible progress on both these goals.

I think some of my general interests and pursuits have similarly suffered due to this indecisiveness and overload. I may just be blaming some external factors for my laziness or ADHD but I cant escape the feeling that I am in a more confusing world now.

Why am I saying this here --

Some of the trends in user behaviour that these massive tech-oriented community sites are seeing over this period could have external factors like those I described above. Maybe people are being drawn elsewhere. Maybe people are overwhelmend, confused, or doing something else, maybe participating more in SD / MidJourney Discords.

Assuming that their website and traffic is a closed box and only the variables they change will affect the outcomes would be naiive.
I still believe that for the masses (think console gamers and pc gamers without the gaming rig) cloud gaming will be the future.

I've been playing fps/rts/rpg games through GeForce Now on a MacBook M1 and so far there's few obvious drawbacks - good internet required, slight input lag which can be annoying for some FPS games sure, and not all games are available yet - but for those who only play a few games regularly, it's also much better than running the game on an i3/i5 Windows laptop.
Of course these devices existed but every time Apple raised the bar. MP3 players existed before Ipod but with limited storage. The first Ipod was really usable with its HDD. Smartphone were a thing but touch interface is what made the Iphone something unique. Let see if Apple is really bringing something new here, the jury is still out.
See my other "sibling" comment. As an owner/shareholder you have duties owed to you by Google.

If a too good offer comes by, for instance, for one to buy Google:

the offer has to be disclosed;
and regardless if the founders like it or not -- or what the voting majority says, there is a price where the remaining shareholders can force Google to be sold.
For what it's worth, I read the question without reading the flagging reason and could predict the flagging reason with high confidence.

The question looks like an "I'm out of my wits please debug my application" question which isn't atomic or precise enough to fit the SO format. I would have liked the person asking the question to provide a complete minimal failing example to even begin working on an answer.
This, right fucking here. Bingo. Add activist investors pressuring them for no particularly good reason other than social domineering to push people back into the office.
Not having much in the way of specifics about how this wireless vulnerability was found and exploited, this is really scary. It's one thing using Flipper Zero to pop the charging port on Tesla's [1], but this is just plain dangerous!

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWEUKeF5IPs
that s still no reason to remove the jack
Unfortunately the discussion with you lost any sense long ago when you have ignored provided link and tried to deviate toward typical russian propagandist narrative. Since russian propaganda does not make any sense at all it was hard to expect that you would be genuinely interested in such thing as ‘sense’.

Anyway, sorry to disappoint.

Just as before you should probably discuss it with your russian friends. Not with me.

I am sure they will be more than happy to share obsession with improving plans and reasoning behind blowing something up.

Their lies will most likely make ‘sense’ to you and there you might find some excitement and surprises you are possibly looking for.
iOS has "unblocked" browser notifications now, hasn't it?
I'll check. The point is that software for web development is not installed with debs but with their own package managers (rvm, npm, pip) or meta managers (asdf) or docker so I'm cutting edge no matter what I get from the distro. Same thing for browsers. I downloaded Firefox from Mozilla and it auto updates more gracefully than the deb I had in Ubuntu: it suggests a restart and doesn't force it when I open a new tab. Chrome has its own apt, I think.

About the rest of the software, it's not very important which version I have. Actually, staying for years on an older Gnome shell won't force me to spend time to adapt to or disable new weirdnesses. Libre Office from n years ago would be OK. Evince, the same. Nautilus, give me the one from 2008.
if you are an unskilled worker, your negotiating power is limited

solution : be a skilled worker
unless there was any legal contract with specific terms and agreement between employers and employee beforehand, this will always be a free market thing, but what kind of market are you proposing? is it a market where everyone work the same job and shit on the same pants?
Hacker News will have to do because my Reddit experience was 99.99999% Apollo. Can’t stand the website. Never would have used it without Apollo on iOS. I know there are much serious things in the world than an app shutting down but this is truly the end of an era.
Seems like a massive non-event.

Why should it matter if an otherwise good answer came from an LLM? Presumably no one is bothered if a human author is aided by a search engine, tech blogs, their own intuition and experimentation, or some guesswork - so long as they submit a quality answer; so why should it be any different for answers aided by LLMs - are they supposed to be automatically worse?

The sole determinate of whether an answer should be allowed is its quality (i.e. usefulness to people accessing the site who are trying to solve their programming problems). An answer's origins are irrelevant (except for the purpose of attribution).

StackOverflow's voting system already does an excellent job of getting the best answers to the top and down-voted ones to the bottom. Further, high-rep users have the ability to close/delete very bad answers.

Protesting LLMs seems like not much more of an extension on the idea of protesting autocorrect.
We don't ban accounts for that sort of reason, so I'd like to know which account(s) you're talking about.
alternate team groups I guess?
I transferred within my company to the much bigger company that bought us out and this is basically what my boss told me. Actually his exact words were "you need to create your own job." I hated it. Give me a freaking task, don't make me network and sell myself (remotely of course, no one I worked with was anywhere near me) just for something to do.

I created my own job, just with a startup. For a year I had two ostensibly full time jobs. By the end the startup wasn't doing much either and I considered going for three full time jobs.
I've had a few questions closed for reasons I disagree with but I just looked back at my history and I'm thinking it must depend on what you're asking about - most of my questions are about AWS and have received answers and upvotes (as well as wording tweaks...) but when asking non-AWS questions, that's where I've run into trouble.
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If they alternate eyes rapidly, like active 3D glasses do, couldn't that double or nearly double the perceived resolution (if each eye is offset by 1/2 pixel from the other)?
Circling back just to say this was really fun & interesting stuff. Appreciate you responding with these cases!
Agree. Before generative AI came along, I once had to scroll down all to way to the bottom for the only valid answer, which got deleted the next day...
The technology is incredibly compelling - which is the main thing, that people are exciting about it - but there are definitely things about it that area creeping people out... I've noticed these pop up in discussions

- The isolation aspects of consuming TV/movies (Mark has a point here IMO)

- The whole taking 3d images/videos of your children with a headset on

- The uncanny valley Facetime avatars

- The external screen that gives a window to your eyes in AR mode
that is all that apple showed though.
You think Gerrit is any better? The way I've seen Gerrit used essentially erases the commit history with an amend, and its configured so only one person can work on a branch at a time, locking out vertical, parallel work. Maybe that's just been my experience however.
That’s pretty par for the course for the last few years, and I don’t even bother looking there for answers much anymore for the same reason.
Isn't ChatGPT also using SO? If SO would stop and there would be no replacement, then the answers might get worse. My take is that these two currently complement. In my opinion the issue with SO and with most social media is the obsession with metrics. It would be nice if they took more of an HN approach to metrics (votes particularly).
The Tag Heuer Connected first generation offered a "connected to eternity" program where after the guarantee (2 years?) you where able to convert the watch to an analog movement but it was another $1500... I am not sure if they still do it, they seem to offer a trade in program to get the newest version instead now.

[1] https://forum.watchlounge.com/index.php?thread/240000-was-wu...
Yeah, given ChatGPT is most likely trained on SO a simple test would be to use the automatic tools on all of the pre-ChatGPT SO. My bet is, much of pre-ChatGPT SO would be removed.
I've seen the O(n) notation used quite a few times already to mean "order of magnitude of", instead of the usual Landau-big O.
Show HN: Yes, another vector embeddings API
I started on this a few months back very much inspired by the Metal (YC) codebase. It's a Pinecone/OpenAI wrapper to help AI devs store text as vector embeddings and supports semantic search using the API endpoint or CLI.

Would anyone be interested in working on this with me?

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/adaro/AI-Refiner

Cheers,
Alex
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It seems that they nailed the hardware. Sure, the battery life can be improved, the price can be reduced through mass production. It is now mostly a question of people will accept/like carrying a head set.

I am mildly optimistic, even the initial Vision Pro won't be much more expensive than a well-spec'ed MacBook Air plus 5k display. So at least I think Vision is attractive to pro Mac users as a very portable workstation with a lot off screen estate.