skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just "wasted" an hour this morning playing around with a OSS recreation of VisiCalc [0]

This repo contained a link to the manual. Holy cow! [1]

EDIT: This program is awesome. I was surprised and impressed by the screen splitting and whatnot. I'm paying off some debt, and I'll be using this program to track this now, unironically.

From the introduction:

> But the power of the VisiCalc program lies in the fact that the computer remembers the formulas and calculations you use while working through a problem. If you change a value on the worksheet, all related values change as the VisiCalc program recalculates the entire worksheet.

> ...

> Playing "what if" with the VisiCalc program is often a matter of changing a single value. If you enter a value at one location, you can copy it to any number of other positions. You can change, insert, delete, or move entire rows or columns. The worksheet is instantly restructured so that all relationships correspond to the changes. Doing the same thing with a calculator, pencil, and paper could take hours of erasing and recalculating .

Very prescient.

[0] https://github.com/geoffmoss0/VisiCalc
[1] http://toastytech.com/manuals/VisiCalc%201.1.pdf
The nuclear industry isn't very good at making reactors, but nuclear fans are really good at making excuses. It's always someone else's fault.
On mobile (i use firefox an android) you can tap on the sections
I'd hazard to guess watch enthusiasts would be less likely to like smart watches because they don't really provide the same value/draw. I have an Apple Watch because it's basically just an excuse to touch my phone less. I don't need to take it out when I get a notification, or when I'm listening to music and want to skip a track. I don't wear it as a fashion statement or with hopes I can pass it down for generations. It's just a phone accessory.
I don't understand your comment. Are you suggesting that the OP is false?
Thread with many replies, the deepest replies end up very squashed right in portrait, it's annoying to read. As is the flag/dead style but that's another matter. Obviously nothing I can't work around.
I wear a nice mechanical watch every day, but I do own an Apple Watch to use if I have to be reachable while doing something where getting at a phone would be inconvenient. It's pretty great for that purpose.
I've use a 100 years-old watch as a daily driver for a few years (until it was stolen...). It was serviceable, but it was relatively expensive, so I lived with its known 2-5 minutes daily drift. I'd say that up to 10 minutes of daily drift is perfectly tolerable in my book, so it could probably go 200 years without any servicing whatsoever :)
> the whole nix internals are just a black box to you.

Yes, and just as well. Modern software is a barely-holding-together tower of abstractions as it is. Do you find yourself looking at the C source of Guile's runtime often? Or Glibc? The Linux kernel? Intel microcode? Aren't you glad you don't have to?

(Nixpkgs, on the other hand, is very accessible and many parts of it make for great reading)

> if you expect of me to promote the virtues of lisp to you then im sorry but thats not gonna happen.

No, I hope (in vain, looks like) that you'll start making some sense and stop using and then desperately defending stupid arguments.
Privacy Pass: Captcha Mitigation and User Privacy
If it isn’t the version that will be launched to end users, then it’s at least “alpha” if not “pre-alpha” by definition, isn’t it?
Not to be pedantic, but aren't the Studio Ghibli movies painted as well? They use(used?) poster paint for most of their movies (spirited Away, Princess mononoke, etc).

This is neat anyhoot!
This right here. I've been on reddit since 2010 or so and the dejure "most important thing in the world to talk about" is ever changing. Hong Kong, COVID-19, Ukraine, Harambe, Victory (the AMA person?), the great subreddit purge to name a few. Everyone claims they're going to delete reddit but will simply forget about it in a few weeks. haha
The Chinese concern about Airdrop may sound funny. But every government should be scared of Google and Apple (and other BigTech) trying to create a mesh network with their mobile OS that can bypass their telecom infrastructure. (5 reasons why mobile mesh is an essential military communications tool - https://thelastmile.gotennapro.com/5-reasons-why-mobile-mesh... ). I was really outraged when Apple decided that it is fine to use every iPhone in the world to track its AirTags - the arrogance in feeling this comfortable in violating our privacy and also (ab)using our Bluetooth or Wifi or mobile network for its own commercial benefits needs a strong backlash from the consumers.
That's not the equality I wanted.
IMO the question really is: will meta's $500 experience cause sweating and nausea, or does it really take $3.5k of hardware to get over that hurdle (if, in fact it even does).

Until putting on VR has the same non-reaction of putting on headphones, it will remain a novelty.
There are many of them - but like "rich people who get enough [1]" you never hear about them because they usually stop growing before they're huge on the national scale. Sometimes you find them because they become well-known for good product.

[1] Early investors in companies who get to the $10m-100m net worth often just sell everything and retire; you rarely hear about them because they don't become the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. C.f., Bogle's Enough https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/4798028
This will cause me to move on from reddit to some other form of entertainment. probably reading more books/articles/etc.

I refuse to use their AWFUL first-party app.
Ultimately, we can only speculate on what's going to happen. Neither of us can say conclusively, we can't see the future.

All I can say is that subreddits are built on the idea of autonomy - it's not just that they have their own mods. It's that this is a semi autonomous community. If you look at a lot of the subreddits that decided to go dark, their moderation held polls/voting about it and asked for community input.

Reddit admins are there as a safeguard - in the case of a subreddit doing something illegal or so unsavory it poses a larger threat to the site.

In the past over the last 10 years, this model has mostly worked. Even the subreddit r/the_donald, during the lead up to it being banned the moderators there described having discussions with the administration about what they would have to do to avoid being banned. Just because Reddit has always had the ability to be more forceful doesn't mean they've exercised it.

The action people keep suggesting here - a hand wave and all of a sudden these subreddits are "nationalized" (for lack of a better term) like a South American dictator taking over an oil company would completely shatter the trust that has been built, and it would have a lot of effects on the site. Just like when the South American country starts nationalizing companies. Capital flees.

They might not even be visible right away, and it probably wouldn't result in Reddit itself closing down but I am confident it would ultimately harm Reddit substantially (as opposed to many of the comments in this thread claiming it would have no adverse effect.)

Using Twitter as an example when the acquisition isn't even a year old isn't valid, in my opinion. Talk to me in 2 years.
The required minimum level of athleticism among drivers has only increased over time, but "borderline superhumans" is a weird exaggeration.

> Make cockpits tilt inwards. Sideways-g becomes down-g.

The drivers who experience the greatest effect of g forces, really pushing the limits of what's practical for the human body throughout the duration of a race, are the ones racing on ovals (not F1 drivers). Those tracks are already vectoring the g force downward rather than to the side.

For F1, most of their physical challenges come with the forces they experience during braking, and the effect of those forces on the neck. Doing something weird with the cant of the seat could theoretically change that pulling-the-head forward or to the side force into a pulling-the-head downward force, but if you think about what's really needed to do that (you're going to rotate the seat backwards ninety degrees? so the driver is looking at the sky when he's braking?) you can see the problem.
Largely, no. Community building is a slow and cumbersome process and Reddit already has critical mass of users and topics covered. You could clone it, offer more features/better support, but if the clone reached a similar scale it would simply encounter the same problems Reddit has.

Turns out community-building is really not a lucrative business, and beyond in-app/service purchases by some dedicated users, you are ultimately reliant on advertising as the largest and sole contributor to your customer lifetime value calculations.

It is very easy for an independent group to create adjacent apps on your service (i.e. Apollo) as they are separate from the economic realities of your business. i.e. Reddit needs to increase ad revenue, and may not priority the same features that Apollo does. Apollo delivered its service at someone's own personal expense (both time and money.) How can a company compete with something being done for free when they have to pay staff and other capital?

But this is the cycle of communities and, like Digg before it, and forums before that, there might be something new and engaging to sway a majority of users to leave. We're already seeing Reddit be aged-out with Discord... So if anything, people might just move there.

Really, its not a technology problem -- its a business problem.
Gotta love making up excuses for refusing to honor one’s wishes and use their name and pronouns.

I thought it was because you wanted to “let people learn” or whatever BS you had originally come with. You spent three whole paragraphs talking about how much it would confuse people.

Turns out, you just don’t respect them enough to do such a simple thing. It was plainly clear from your fat shaming, but at least you’ve spelled it out in words.

You weren’t even the one being called a transphobe, you just decided to jump in and make it clear why you explicitly didn’t choose to update their pronouns or dead name after you found out.

> I can only assume you’re overweight as you’ve taken this whole thing very personally. Maybe you need some exercise?

I can only assume you’re a bigot as you’ve taken this whole thing very personally. Maybe you need to not be a shitstain on humanity?

Do better. It’s not hard.
Adobe Brings Firefly to the Enterprise
It's an article from 1962:

"After the detection of the gravitational wave GW170817, Jason T. Wright (Physics Today, 72, 5, 12, 2019) reminded
the community that many of its features had been predicted by Dyson more than half a century earlier. Dyson’s article was
published only once, in Cameron’s long out of print collection, though a scan may be found at the web site of the Gravity
Research Foundation (https://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org). Dyson thought it had been reprinted (in his Selected
Papers, AMS Press, 1996, forward by Elliot H. Lieb) but it was not. Hoping to make the article easier to find, I wrote Dyson
for his permission to post it at the arXiv"

It's about using two big bodies, A and B, to accelerate objects: "The energy source of the machine is the gravitational potential between the stars A and B. As the machine continues to operate, the stars A and B will gradually be drawn closer together, their negative potential energy will increase and their orbital velocity V will also increase."
>Tesla using the LGPL version of Qt in their cars at no cost

lol really?! I didn't know! I just plugged in his name since he has become Tony-Stark-archetype for "tech enthusiast" crowd.
Keep in mind that this isn’t rooted in any specific best practices. It just felt right.
At least gay frogs don't breed huge families, but adopt instead.
are TOS terms law though?
Telepresence devices have been a thing for years. No VR or AR needed.

Still waiting for a Visicalc for AR.
As a few people have said that kind of thing aimed against me, I'm rather more inclined to push back against such vitriol.
Being a moderator is a lot of work. You'd have to find a sucker to provide free labor for you. You can maybe find a few, but can you find enough to replace all moderators once you pissed them off enough ?
I appreciate your reply and I hear what you're saying.

So much of life has become political, and so much of the political has become pseudo-religious. People no longer have positions on policies, they have articles of faith on politics. It's not a great basis for a dialogue, unfortunately.
> Using your analogy, it would be like initially giving your future employees the choice between Emacs and Vim, but later giving Vim users extra points in performance reviews.

That analogy doesn't quite apply to this Google situation.

Google has a distinction between "full remote" and "hybrid" employees. Attendance will NOT be considered in the performance reviews of full remote employees.
> It's actually humorous that most tech "social media" like HN, Reddit, Digg, and so on were much busier back when most of us were in offices, because we all would bide our days doing anything but work.

Do you have a source on this? I’m both curious and skeptical.

(And ironically, for many in Europe and Eastern NA/SA it’s the work day right now.)
Scroll down to the end of the page to 2 days ago! It's insane!
You might find https://howisfelix.today/? interesting, as both inspiration/prior-art/cautionary tale.
DeepMind AI creates algorithms that sort data faster than those built by people
Check out the list of subs that are going dark on June 12th: https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplet...

This is basically all of Reddit!

I am so happy to be here for this.
Exactly how much more valuable can land be with a dilapidated house than the property tax on a dilapidated house? Daryl is missing a huge part of this problem and its crumby jobs and wages. So rather than encourage better compensation this redfin guru is recommending wealthy people build high density housing to rent out cheaply to the poor. Thanks, no.
> instead of calling it done and schlepping some guys tractor drag race motor around town delivering pizzas

This sounds way too specific to be a hypothetical
1. Terraform is absolutely useful for both startups and enterprises. IaC makes everyone's (Platform, App, Ops, Security) lives easier from an accounting, governance, and reproducibility standpoint.

2. Terraform isn't a Google product. It's by Hashicorp
Nice! I only ever came upon reference to 2x2, but it seemed rather obvious that there wasn't a hard limit - I just thought you couldn't fit more into card cage.
I can't really see how this is different from a native-code based device, especially one which is actually following good practice by not trusting what's in flash. Every stage of the boot chain still has to validate the next - there's just one more layer on top where the application is the runtime VM and it has to validate sub-applications / managed code.
Not at all. It's physical power.
You wrote code that works and powers an app for millions every month and any bugs or 'bad' ways of doing it are clearly sufficient to maintain a large, healthy user base, so you should feel nothing but pride!

Also, thank you for making this code available, but would it be possible for you and Christian to choose a license for it so people can use it? I don't think which license matters all that much, personally, but I can also understand wanting to keep it proprietary, either way, thank you again for all your (and the rest of the Apollo teams') work.
AI Means More Developers
it's fun. Maybe add some quick button such as: sell 25%, sell 50%, sell all.
The 3060 is kind of hated for it's unexciting performance in more gaming oriented crowd, at least until the uniformly terrible 3050ti showed up to absorb all the hate. But the 12GB is the second highest available on that series and enough to play with AI and other tasks. Having enough vram to get in the door is just more important there.

Nvidia seems to have realized their screw-up through and introduced a 8GB 'updated' version of the 3060 which is an uninteresting product. The bus width of the original 3060 left them with the choice of either 6gb or 12gb so this product only existed original through a quirk of design, not because nvidia actually wanted their second best AI card to be the one at the bottom of the stack.
> “You can’t just use conventional methods of manufacturing,” [Musk] said on an earnings call in May. “We had to invent a whole new set of manufacturing techniques in order to build an exoskeleton car rather than an endoskeleton car, so it is clearly not trivial.”

Interesting that he still referred to it as an exoskeleton; I thought they'd moved away from that.
Visibly is currently closed source, so I can't provide a link, but curious to hear more about how it may help if some aspects of it were available
But that "some percent better" has a tipping point. MP3 players and Camera's in a mobile phone only matter to most when the capacity, quality, and battery life were good enough. Once they were, they were everywhere, and that was revolutionary. (The iPhone as such was just a better version)

The Apple Vision Pro is an impressive improvement. But I'm skeptical its at that tipping point. Making the tech work in a pair of regularly sized glasses, that don't need plugged in or a heavy battery, yet has similar functionality, would push it much closer to reality. No regular person is strapping one of these on to interact with the world as is. IMHO its current stage is: a very impressive toy. Which is totally fine -- with what's at stake and Apple's market position and cash, it makes total sense to try and be the leader here, until it materializes into the next thing or fizzles out. Either position is likely acceptable to Apple.
I hate these types of arguments, as they boil down to "I'm afraid of what you'll do with $nice_thing.

I don't want to live in a world of max pessimum.
I think this might be an extreme case of misunderstanding how internet communities work.

Without comments, HN would be just a boring link aggregator and we'd get very little information if the article was BS or not. But because we have comments we get gems at times where 'the creator of X' discusses the merits of the article. That can be nearly priceless. Things like this draw people that don't upvote and don't comment, but they still get immense value from it.

Posts are what makes Reddit, so much so that Reddit created hundreds of fraudulent profiles in their early days to fake popularity.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...

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Of course this interests me what the future looks like for social media. At one time in the past you needed users to generate and post content. Could we end up with social media sites with 'good enough' bots faking humans that draw in the masses, but few biological commenters and posters would exist?
A non-negligible fraction of the costs were hidden because the army paid for it in order to obtain, build and maintain atomic weapons. The French Court of audit (Cour des comptes) could not establish it, and had to guesstimate.
The need for such weapons diminishes and transparency is getting better and better, therefore this trick is becoming obsolete.
If Rivian is doing the right thing, why would you want the company doing the wrong thing to buy them? Seems anti-capitalistic to me and about consolidating power to fewer and fewer entities rather than letting competing products duke it out in the marketplace.

If Tesla can dig itself out of this engineering hole, let them. If they can't, let consequences be.
I agree and nothing I wrote conflicts with that assertion. The point is that it depends on the individual's perspective and the complexity of the issue at hand. Restricting choice is often an advantage because it saves us time in exchange for the risk of being (company, individual or humanity) wiped out by an exception to the rule.
A nuclear powered ship is overall more expensive to build+operate than a fossil fuel powered ship. And this is even when burning fairly expensive liquid fossil fuels. This is why most of the ships in the US Navy are not nuclear powered.
Reddit community is far to suspicious of Reddit corporate to fall for that.
Trade unions and revolutionary parties have kept weaponry, trained members and organised resistance to state repression (for example against strikes). This tends to build into worker's councils (in some languages called soviets) under revolutionary conditions.

Of course, it's unlikely the capitalist ruling class would willingly allow legalising such practices.
Terms of Service applies to users of the service. You can run this without being a user of the service. And worse case scenario, they can ban you for breaking the Terms of Service, it's not law, but dictates how you can use the service.

If you're not actually breaking any laws, you don't have to worry about lawsuits.
Then I guess you'd better avoid any sort of embedded libc implementation too.

Or fadecandy, or any external library.

I've been through hell in embedded systems land debugging chipmaker-supplied C compiler problems.

Should I just write it all in asm then? I've certainly made that choice for some projects.

The point is, at some point you just want to get things done and you have to trust your tool chain.
You may be interested to hear that community developers [1] have updated Myth II to be run on modern systems (even native Apple Silicon!) with a variety of enhancements to the game client itself and other goodies like hi-res map textures.

There's also a community metaserver to replace bungie.net. [2]

Join us on Myth Discord and register for Myth World Cup 2023! [3]

There are dozens of us left. Dozens!

[1] http://projectmagma.net/what/

[2] http://gateofstorms.net/

[3] https://discord.gg/S2qHX8MnP
You can't get an IMAX screen for cheap, nor can you easily extend rooms to fit bigger TVs. Often the view from a couch isn't particularly optimal because so many living rooms have been built to accommodate dinky 20" sets of 30 years ago. It's also not easy to take a big screen TV from your living room and mount it to your bedroom ceiling, or watch something out on the balcony.

Laptops screens are small not because people want small screens, but that the form factor requires it. What if you could take the 30" display or multimonitor setup you have set up at your home office anywhere in your home? Anywhere in the world? Why bother with an iPad to watch movies on a flight when you can have a full cinema experience?

Because the HMD is heavy, the battery sucks and you look like an idiot when using it. All true, but the one stupid bet to make on computing technology is that it won't get smaller, faster and more efficient over time.
It's not about learning hard things before fun; it's about learning it at all. Many folks, like OP, say that they should never want/need to understand such things at all in their career. That they are superfluous.

Sure, you can do that, but you can't convince me that that's not troubling.