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> The Quest 3 will outsell Vision Pro by 10x because of this.

I doubt it. If any of them will ever sell well it's because of an application that people care about. None of them will succeed if all they can offer is just Beat Saber in higher resolution and existing apps in 3D. I am sure it would be cool to have screens floating around, but virtual desktops do the job as well and to me the difference doesn't seem worth it.

I don't think the price is the main problem. Phones with folding displays aren't exactly a bargain either, and yet those are popular enough that Samsung is about to launch their fifth iteration. The difference is that those folding phones have benefits obvious to anyone who ever used a smartphone and a tablet.
But does the tokenizer have anything to do with Glitch Tokens? Glitch Tokens seem more like a function of the neural network. I'm saying this with only a surface level understanding of glitch tokens.
Kind of refreshing to see this perspective on lookup vs matrix multiplication, specially with the bias towards the latter as more natural.

Is there some reference table somewhere mapping more code idioms like this to equivalent nn representations?
> If companies can install stuff outside of the app store to save a 30% a LARGE number of companies would absolutely do so.

Again your banking app and even apps like Facebook and Reddit and most of the other apps that are not games, don’t monetize through the App Store. Even the large subscription streaming services like Netflix and Spotify don’t allow in-app purchases of subscriptions and haven’t for years.

> 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?

Your rant has absolutely nothing to do with whether if Safari was “better” would most of the revenue from the App Store - ie games - would move to the web.

That same 30% is what Google charges and around the same as what console maker charges.

Epic tried to move out of the Google Play store. It was an abject failure. Why do you think that Android app makers try to monetize outside of the Play Store?
> I see all of this complaining about snaps and the "direction" Canonical takes as a purity constest. Yes, Snaps can be annoying (it isn't in my case). Yes, Canonical is far from perfect.

I don't care about "purity," I care about "annoying." If you acknowledge that some of Ubuntu's business decisions create annoyances, why dismiss people who just want their computers to work as being irrational?

> Every OS suck in their own specific way.

This is the law of averages. It is not a law.
10-12% of a mouse's life is 5 or 6 months. Assuming it's going to extend human lives by 7 years and not 6 months is being optimistic at best.
There was some discussion of doing this for RKVW, but I don't think it has actually been implemented yet.

The goal is simply to speed up training slightly, it wouldn't actually make a difference to the final performance of a model as big as GPT-4 (except maybe decrease the prevalence of glitch tokens)
I don't practically see how a popular subreddit can shut down. Corporate can just install different mods. The user base mainstreamed a long time ago, and I would be surprised if there was much on-principle meaningful collective action.

OTOH, taking away someone's beloved app, hitting them with big usability downgrade... that's not just principle, and they could lose those users.
Thats how I felt. But this news tears it. Just cancelled my yearly sub.
This strikes me as weird. He could literally call up any VC firm in the world right now and tell them he'll point his endpoints to a new backend if they give him some money. He doesn't even have to be involved in that part of the business. Just let them figure it out (with their own choice team) and he'll re-rig the app to it.
Exactly. We should only maintain the things that the people rely on, and build the cars to rely on those same things... at least for now. Once the cars are good enough that people are no longer in control of cars, then we can look at changing that standard to reduce the cost of infrastructure maintenance.
This is 100% correct! I'm prioritizing self-hosted OC over external linking, mainly because my priority was finding a way to reward creators.

Allowing external links would be fairly trivial, but I'd have to think through the monetization aspects of that. Not sure if I have the right model, but my hope is that since it's open source even if I go wrong someone else can find the right one.

Also thank you for the kind words about the design - it's been a fun labor of love.
Another web browser mobile here.
You are good at posting annoying replies, I'll give you that lol. Other than that not so much.
I'd add that Discord is also a modern IRC / Freenode. That seems to be one of the primary places people are flocking as they abandon most current social media sites.
Serving nearly-consistent content and ads to 1 Billion people worldwide is fucking hard!
Our realities must be very different; I have never had to side-load a .deb. I honestly didn't even consider that tab-completion on apt might be a thing; I usually search with grep for what I want, but I've never not had something be there.

I guess my needs are meager.
Ask HN: Best IoT Capable Immutable Distros
Are there any good IoT capable distros which support a variety of embedded devices? Ideally any which also support immutable root partitions.

I've been a long time Nerves user. It's a great system however I've been curious about finding a more language generic system for devices where Elixir isn't as good of a fit.

There's options like Balena OS which are handy but cost too much for many IoT solutions or offline devices. I've been looking at SkiffOS as well, but haven't tried it yet.

An ideal IoT distro for me would be something based on BuildRoot or Yocto, but with pre-compiled binary packages which could be bundled into an immutable image.

Another aspect would be support for cross compiling packages, or even Docker images. Docker BuildX uses QEMU to emulate other arches which is a pain. It's 2023 and there doesn't appear to be a clear winner for easy cross compiling outside Buildroot. I exclude Yocto because it's not exactly easy.

Hope to hear your thoughts from others dealing with similar problem spaces!
> The "immutable" concept

Which is both good, and actually sane.

NixOS: Exists. (And runs great after I moved from Arch 1.5 years ago!)
What’s the best way to block it on mobile?
Unsubscribe [1].

I get your point. But you can't convince me that teaching binary before the fun parts of programming is the most effective way to bring more people into the subject matter.

It's like trying to onboard game developers with linear algebra before they play around with pygame.

Fun first, rigor once they're hooked on the magic.

[1] (Tongue in cheek, obviously.)
I'm sure it would work, but there are obvious downsides (slower and less history) with few upsides (simpler, no glitch tokens)
HN — Mastedon is like “fetch”: it’s not going to happen. Does no one on this site understand there are an infinite number of easier ways to be social than a engineers dream of a self serve social network?
The hard part of building a tech company isn't the tech, its users, staff, and money. These 3rd party apps have the first two, and that would be enough to convince someone to find the third for them.

The only limiting factor is ambition. And on a site with quite a few people from the startup world who see that the only thing in the way is the technical difficulty of building the service then it shouldn't be unexpected that people are saying they should take their users off to a new platform they build themselves. Because that's the kind of crazy thing that startup people think about.
Building the software is the easy part. It's everything else that's hard.
I first created a reddit account in November 2010. I've used sync for years. Pretty sad to see it go down this way. o7
It’s also, like, Reddit. Not some financial or health database. It’s an Internet forum largely populated by literal children and teens.
Frankly, I think relatively insular communities are better for the web as a whole. In particular "anybody can invite people, but you're responsible for your invite tree" is a pretty healthy way to foster a community. It ensures a basic level of decency, and a high level of trust.

IMO, the option to deal with invite trees like the other site should be an option everywhere. Some basic moderation tools, like being able to view and ban an entire invite sub-tree should be available for things like Discord servers.
Ask HN: Why Not LinkedIn Glasses?
Forget all the computer operating systems and their complexity. I was the iPod of AR — a device that simply scans faces and if we are connected on LinkedIn, would show me their name. And a couple things about them.

One function. Help my memory.
In fairness the 13” MBP is an entirely forgettable machine that IMO should not exist so I definitely don’t begrudge anyone making mistakes about it!
> All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest.

But I'd just add there is a pretty major difference between "temporarily" and "permanently". Major kudos to r/ProgrammerHumor and other subs that are doing it right - saying they will be shutting down indefinitely unless Reddit changes their stance.

Just saying you're only going to shut down for a couple days is essentially theater - Reddit can certainly wait out some popular subs being down for a few days. More generally, that's really the only way protests have a way of achieving their goals, by saying you'll engage in some behavior (or boycott) until your demands are met, or at least met with some change. Anything that's time limited is pretty much doomed to fail. For example, I'm not sure what the organizers of the recent Amazon "walkout" hoped to accomplish. That wasn't a walkout, it was lunch.
Pardon my ignorance here. Isn't rubber (used in tires) different from plastics? Honest question. I've always thought of them as being different things. Not that I want micro-rubber particles in my lungs either.
Even though the exact movement of the pigeons can't be calculated, you can extract patterns. They go towards food, they nest in cliffs and buildings, they sleep at night.

You can make very strong predictions about that stuff.

Like fluid mechanics. It may actually be impossible to analytically predict the motion of individual particles in a fluid. Numerically it is certainly difficult. Yet we've extracted patterns to the point that we can design jet engines, wings, we can quantify the change in fuel economy from changing the shape of a car headlight...

In an ideal world, psychology limits itself to attempting to look at these broad patterns and does so in a rigorous, reproducible way.
Swapping an Expansion Bay Module like an discrete GPU will take ~2-3 minutes:

1. Shut down

2. Slide out the input modules covering the Expansion Bay connector, and open the cover door.

3. Unscrew three or four captive fasteners to remove the Fan Cable or GPU Cable.

4. Unscrew two captive fasteners to release the Expansion Bay Module.

5. Slide out the Expansion Bay Module.

6. Reverse the steps with the new module.

It's not something we specifically designed to happen on the fly like swapping Expansion Cards or Input Modules, but it is quick enough that you don't have to plan ahead for it.
I agree that the difference is very noticeable, but it's still small enough that if OP was, say, a smoker they might not be able to notice it.
I frequently see people surprised about the kinds of "simple" mistakes LLMs make when given tasks that involve letters, syllables, word lengths, rhyming, etc. They don't do well at character oriented tasks which seem trivial to us, like "write me a sentence with only 5 letter words".

All of these problems stem from the fact that LLMs don't "see" the actual letters/characters in the text they are consuming and producing. They are only dealing in tokens, each of which usually blends together multiple letters.

The fact that they can sometimes or partially succeed at character-oriented tasks is the actual surprise. They are presumably using meta-knowledge about specific words. For example, they may have learned by rote that "cat" has 3 letters. Or they just know as a fact that "moon" and "tune" rhyme, without having any sense of what it means to pronounce them.
Reddit will just ban the mods and force the subs to go back online. They've already alluded to that.
If anyone else is looking for the list parent is mentioning I assume it is: https://openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net/encodings/r50k_ba...
After a long time of the windows Dropbox client failing, silently, I decided to move to Syncthing. 100% solid for me, and no central SPOF server.

Bit more fidgety, which I understand some people don't want or can't deal with, but for me it's been great.
> Because there is certainly plenty of speculation outside of those entities.

Sure. And there's plenty of non-speculative activity outside of those entities as well. The paper explicitly looks at on-chain activity only.

> Because those metrics are terrible proxies for "global financial activity" or "speculation"

Maybe so. I put forward my sources, but there could be a better way of calculating it. My broader point was that speculation is the majority of activity, and I doubt that's any different whether you're talking about fiat, gold, oil, crypto, or any other widely used asset/asset class.

If you had to calculate that same statistic, what methodology would you use?

> You should also understand that all forex activity is not speculation. I would think that global trade would fall under the bucket of "economically meaningful activity", no?

In one sense it is meaningful, in another sense it's just a middleman market maker taking their cut, due to the inefficiency of humans having multiple currencies. Either way I don't see how the meaningfulness of trade changes once you introduce crypto.

Say I'm subscribed to a Australian musician's patreon. I send her USD, then a middleman sells that USD and gives her AUD. I also support a French musician. I send him BTC. He (or a middleman) sells that BTC for EUR. How can you say either of those situations is more or less economically meaningful?
Ask HN: What are some interesting and different shells environments?
Fish is a great shell and really changed how I see the history and how suggestions can be made. Oil is trying to build a brand new shell environment and scripting space. The sql shell is also great because you work with tables. It would be interesting to see this idea in something like bash.
This move is totally on brand for r/ProgrammerHumor, I don't see the community having much qualms about how the decision was taken.

To answer your question, the move is of course discussed in the sub, and yes the reaction seems heavily positive.
I stopped using reddit about a year ago (shadow banned... no idea why). I deleted everything reddit from my browser history so it wouldn't pop up as a suggestion or auto-complete and that was sufficient.
It’s easy enough to encode item IDs (e.g. the ID of a video) with various tracking data in a way that only the website itself can separate them. Decoding can be done at the CDN level, e.g. Cloudfront Functions.
What's the practical difference between AT&T "god credentials" and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A ?
Not according to the marketers from Cloudflare I talked to awhile back.
That’s the thing though. It’s not purely a technical problem. Building a Reddit clone may be easy (I don’t know, I’ve never tried), but building a social network is more than just building a web app!
archinstall is fine. Especially if you don't have to do much complicated with the partitioning. It will get you a system pretty quickly.

The Arch community has a lot of toxicity. Maybe there's some sunk cost from people getting Arch installed the hard way, but it's full of the attitude that Arch should be hard.
I'm trying to forget it. Honestly Discourse is truly awful. Navigation is terrible, finding stuff is terrible, the UX in general is just so bad compared to what it tries to replace (BB forums).
The CEO is doing an AMA about it tomorrow.

Edit: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/144ho2x/join_our_ce...
why no dark modeeee ahh
Definitely depends on where you look.

I find that HN is similar to one of the slower subreddits. There's a handful of subreddits that I read regularly, most of which are quite slow. Most of the "Local" subreddits (e.g. /r/seattleWA, /r/Albuquerque, /r/houston) have their own flavor. On the other hand, places like /r/mechanicalkeyboards are fairly authoritative sources on their topics.

Once you leave the "Defaults", you find a much less frantic and much higher signal to noise ratio.
Reddit is the bottle, user content is the water. I’m not sure where you draw tbe line per se, but seems like Reddit is doing their best to find out.
It's pretty junior. Buyer beware
Also, a move isn't really a move unless the content comes along for the ride. I hope ArchiveTeam is on the lookout.

The smaller the subreddit, the easier the move, but there's still the discovery issue, especially since centralized "platforms" are starting to turn into centralized points of failure.
Hah, yeah, I've made this same comment on Reddit flippantly on a bunch of subs. I'm not shocked it's a joke subreddit closing down permanently and not something like r/aww or something that would make a difference.
That would actually be hilarious. I hope the Digg team is scrambling to make themselves a bit more Reddit-like by the 30th, I sure would be.
if you’re both provisioning and managing several linux machines roughly equally, NixOS is a no-brainer.
Indeed, I am running NixOS on five different devices. It's quite a time and effort investment, but I feel like once NixOS "clicks" for you, it ruins most other operating systems, which just feel like they're missing something now. I still generally recommend Arch to people (although hearing what people are saying, I'll probably start recommending EndeavorOS instead) because I think most people are barely able to make the Linux commitment in ideal conditions, much less the NixOS commitment.
How is it bad? It's a message board by topic, sorted by last activity, and supports all kinds of media / preformatted text / replies / notifications / etc. If you don't like the community or subject matter, that makes sense. But what else are you looking for?
My only problems with Mint is that I don't care about Cinnamon, and when things go wrong the only forum that will help you with that particular frankendebian is the Mint forum, which is woefully inadequate. If you want to quickly fix what's broken, Arch, Debian, and Fedora are aces, everything else is trouble imo.
Poppycock! Reddit can walk it back at any time. This is a conscious choice they are making.
It'll almost certainly be revived with other mods.
Right? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

"Apollo dev should create his own backend and show them!"

OK..? He'll take his 600k users, most of whom never contributed content, and do what exactly? Create his own little dead forum that runs only on iOS?

It's not a technical problem, let's stop pretending there's a technical solution. Plenty of reddit clones exist already (many even open-source).
Reddit is almost as bad as Facebook in terms of being a bad web actor. It's a platform that grew on and through the open web and just keeps ever increasingly violating its origins.

I distinctly remember the whole "Web 2.0" moment, and how much of a "community booster" in itself it was for both Digg and Reddit back in the day (also HN of course).

Shame on you reddit - and goodbye - I for one, won't go back.
A single subreddit is functionally equivalent to HN. But HN has no provision for communities to form around niche topics. It’s just everyone in the same room talking about the same feed of stories.
The Founders at Work book interview with Bricklin was pretty cool too. Lots of interesting stories and details on their development problems and design choices.

> I had it make a sound every time it recalculated a cell, but it turned out that the making of the sound on the Apple used up three-quarters of the CPU time, because it did it with a timing loop.

> If you showed it to a computer person who didn’t have those needs, they’d say, "That’s kind of cool, but what’s so special about that? I could just do it in Basic."

> Well, this was, "What’s the variable name going to be?"... Today it seems so natural: you use A1. Well, first of all, it was A1, not 1 comma 1. It is too many keystrokes, it’s not normal for people, and there’s a whole lot of problems with it. By going to the map coordinate type of thing— A1, G7, or something like that—that was something I knew regular people would understand.
Make sure to report back
> It's quite a time and effort investment, but I feel like once NixOS "clicks" for you, it ruins most other operating systems, which just feel like they're missing something now.

I found this to be 100% correct. You feel like you won’t ever need to distro-hop again, right? Like this is the penultimate Linux distro? Right?
adding a config to your webserver to evade a soft block is directly enabling continued harassment. Its not passive, not "I'm just getting out of the way here", not "I can't stop this, not my fault", you are literally editing your webservers config file for a site-specific change to allow your forum visitors to evade an explicit block, a block enacted because of harassment.
Reddit is not too big to fail.
The trick is what does that even mean? If an app has great accessibility but is used by a lot of non-disabled people too, is it disqualified?

A quote from /r/Blind [0]:

> Apollo has without question been the most accessible social networking app I have ever used, or are even aware of. It allowed me to enjoy using Reddit, as well as become a moderator of multiple Disability focused subreddits like r/disability, r/epilepsy, r/EverybodyGames, and r/DisabilityPartyTime, among other communities.

> Apollo is and has always been a pleasure to use, and allowed me to leverage all manner of accessibility tools from UI Scaling, Magnification, VoiceOver, VoiceControl, Describe, and even just the app’s amazing searching, filters, and more that often don’t even exist in Desktop regardless of platform, and at any price. It is one of very few social networking apps that support iOS Braille Terminals.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/1447ibp/what_apps_me...
I wonder if the short time frame on the API changes is influenced by not wanting to give any competitor a runway to spin up an API-compatible endpoint. I.e we want to kill third parties now, not let them run for 5 months and swap api.reddit.com to api.slashdot.com on the 6th month.

Probably pretty tinfoil (on both sides) though.
This is simple logic. It seems that you don't understand the meaning of the word "contradiction"

"a combination of statements, ideas, or features which are opposed to one another."

You wrote that there is no problem with sucralose. I showed studies indicating a problem with sucralose. That is a contradiction.

Then you gaslight us saying there is no contradiction. Sophistry and gaslighting.

This is basic english and logic.
Ask HN: Job Board Focused on Engineering Managers?
Is there a job board focused on EMs? I've looked but haven't found anything good yet.
The problem isn't that they're expecting third party clients to pay for API usage.

The problem is that their prices are completely outlandish and multiple orders of magnitude more than they would've made of the same users had they used the official app.

On top of that, the transition period for third party apps to somehow implement a way to make these ridiculous sums of money is 30 days. That's just impossible.
The end user benefits. Tracking needs to be destroyed.
you can make a warning as big and scary as you can, and people will just blindly hit accept/agree/ok. the look/design of the banner is not what will stop people from hitting ok, as at this point, i don't think anything will