skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social networks derive their value from their size. $2.5 per year per user may not be much, but if you have just 1000 users, that is already $2500 per year. 100000 users is a quarter of a million per year. Are you going to pay for that out of pocket?

It takes money to run a social network of meaningful size in even just a halfway professional manner. Who would do that while receiving nothing in return?
I think this one officially concludes “don’t trust Google for anything”.

Maybe I’m not familiar enough with GCP, but why is this not just rolled into GCP? Is it even possible to buy a domain on GCP when this rolls off?
It seems to have become customary to frankly and quickly correct some one's pronoun useage to comply with noun's stated preference.
I'd love to see something without federation, but using a wikipedia style model to support it. I don't think federation will ever be sufficiently simple for the majority of people to adopt, and I think the world needs a world forum that is accessible for everyone, not just tech people.
I don't have stereoblindness and I agree with idopmstuff. There are several problems that I think stack up to make a relatively bland experience.

1) The cable is indeed too short. And when I got mine, they didn't have Android support at all. You were expected to have a full PC for every user. That was not clear at all at any point through the Kickstarter or the subsequent marketing they did, showing people playing games together. I could see having people plug devices into phones in that scenario, but dragging out their own gaming laptop for a game of "D&D with animations" is absurd.

2) The display resolution is actually pretty low. While the solidity of the graphics and FOV are both a bit better than, say, the HoloLens 1/2 or Magic Leap 1 with their janky waveguide displays, the degrees per pixel is relatively high, making the images kind of blurry and pixelated. This also means that there is a limit to the distance at which it can resolve stereo differences significant enough to be visible.

3) Their concept of placing the retroreflector pad on a table is just wrong. It's intended that way to allow multiple people to play around the pad on top of a table. But that biases your view of the pad, giving you a narrow frustum to look through. There's also the fact that the graphics don't "pop" above the pad like they show in all their promotional material (though I know enough to have not expected it, it's still disappointing to see them make those misrepresentations). The device is actually much better if you mount the pad on a wall. Then you have full view of it.

4) Points 2 and 3 above combine to make a graphics miserably hard to read. The display resolution is independent of the size of, orientation of, and distance to the pad, which is good. But your displayable area is limited by both the pad and the display. You can only see graphics in the Venn AND diagram of those two. Which can often be a very narrow area. If there's any text or small details on the graphics, they get very, very hard to read.

And that's just the display. I could go on at length about how awful the controllers are. They may be the worst controllers I've ever used. I'll just leave it at that.

Jeri Ellsworth was kind of a hero of mine, post-college, discovering my own hacker-ness. I still follow her on Twitter and appreciate her take on a lot of things, but it's definitely disappointing to see how much she pushes this device that is really substandard in a lot of ways.
does federate with each other mean you have one account and can log in into lemmy and kbin with that one account? or is it you can use lemmy with a kbin account and vice versa?
I don’t think any mod could possibly have thought Reddit was making such a strong promise. The moderator community has repeatedly asked Reddit to take an active stance in moderation disputes; the most recent blackout protest before this one was asking Reddit to prohibit Covid denialism.
Automakers can’t quit manual transmissions so they cram fake stuff into EVs
Wat! I'm experiencing 2-3 pain right now! Google has given me till January next year to port all my apps that have been running happily for 10 years. It's no small job either.

I'm already in a state where I can't upgrade to the latest gcloud tools because 2.7 is removed from them. I'm stuck on a version from late last year until I've finished my ports or abandon my projects.

I was a very happy user of GAE standard for many many years, but they burned me in the end and I've learnt my lesson about building on proprietary tools.

Standard frameworks and standard databases for me from now on!
>false dichotomy

Thats the best way to explain it.

On the steam deck you have the option to leave the garden but you don't have too. On the Iphone (and I have one) you don't even get that option. I'd love to install an alternative OS on some of my older phones and an old ipad. Its great hardware, it would be fun, its not supported by apple anymore, but I'm not allowed to.

I've poked around the linux thats installed on the steam deck, but frankly I just use my steam deck with steam.
Get a different phone then. Don't try to take the exact reason some of us bought an iPhone away from us.
They already are fiefdoms
100%. Private, no tracking, can index all the major search engines. You can even host your own relatively easily. This is the way.
I had to check under settings to see if this feature was even there. I had totally forgotten about it. I never see it in my daily usage.
They probably also say not to store Google data on Azure or AWS.
Appreciate the feedback! Is there anything specific you'd like to see added to whatever platforms win out?
> For example, see the recent Pixel lockscreen bypass. Apple quite simply don’t fuck up like this. It just doesn’t happen.

iOS 6.1 lock screen bypass: https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/14/3987830/ios-6-1-security-...

iOS 12.1 lock screen bypass: https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/18051186/ios-12-1-exploit...

iOS 13 lock screen bypass: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/13/20863993/ios-13-exploit-l...

iOS 15 lock screen bypass: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/09/20/lock-screen-bypas...

macOS 10.13 lock screen bypass: https://theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/29/macos-high-si...

(macOS bypass mentioned by kart23)
1. The only people who are voting are the ones crossing the picket line. What did you expect?

2. Obviously it's hurting reddit, otherwise they wouldn't even feel the need to threaten taking back subreddits.
The first iPhone didn't have copy & paste. That wasn't a mistake. iOS has by design been a dumbphone OS favouring vendor lock-in, with some progressive enhancements over the past 15 years.

It only took them a decade to release have a local file manager app! And unlike say, Reddit, they didn't allow any 3rd parties to build one for them, because apparently only Apple could get this groundbreaking technology right! /s
100% this.

The problems of social media are largely already solved in the real world, where there are real consequences to bad behavior. Reputation is a thing in the real world.

We're still in the medieval ages of the internet. People are regularly waylaid and conned by digital highwaymen.

We need the digital equivalent of a reputation in the digital world. Will end up being similar to a SSN -- an identity that follows you around and can't be shaken. It's going to very unpopular with the libertarian minded, privacy focused, and religious mark-of-the beast types. But I see no other way forward.
>To get a blue bubble you must give up control over your mobile life to Apple.

As someone who has never used Apple products (well, except for the OS on an Apple II I built from a kit as a high school project in 1983), I don't understand why a "blue bubble" is important.

Would you mind explaining that to me? Not being snarky here, I just really don't understand what value there is in a "blue bubble."
Isn't most of the income (or all?) for reddit from ads and awards? So the people actively adding value/content gets punished, while the amount of people seeing ads remain the same? Seems even more crazy if true then.
study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192...
We put a few of our accessory domains on Google Domains because it was super accessible. Really annoying.
Faster and smarter, but apparently terrible pilots.
>multiprocessing needs to run copies of your program that are sufficiently initialised that they can execute the function, yet no initialisation code must be run that should not be run multiple times.

Huh? As far as I remember multiprocessing just sends pickled versions of the function to run and any of its dependencies (other functions, closures, etc). As long as the function doesn't use global state that's not available when pickled, it's fine. But it doesn't re-initialize your whole program for each process in the pool.

>That means you either use fork - which is a major can of worms for a reusable library to use.

How did we get into a reusable library authoring?

Yes, multiprocessing is not just turnkey to use inside a reusable library you make.

But the context were programs here, or not?

>Or you write something like this in your entry point module:

Hmmm? This is to have it support freezing the script (that is, using a tool to make it a distributable, like PyInstaller). That's not necessarily a use case most have.
There is no excuse for the state of python dependency management. Every similar language has figured this out.
Unfortunately we need the JS still because the standards are so lacking, and when they’re not it takes a while to get everybody on it.

As a general example, despite three decades of the web existing across the world in many jurisdictions with more than one language, the solution to translation for a site is just some translation framework or tediously maintaining a whole copy of your site per language.
As our Digg forebearers once taught us. A lesson the current Reddit executives must have forgotten.
> no one but Apple can technically restrict Facebook.

There's nothing stopping Google from restricting Facebook other than... pissing off their advertisers.

> I don’t see why they can’t just sell phones and let people decide on software if they want.

I suspect a big part of it is that the intersection of (people who want to run their own OS) and (people who are willing to spend a lot of money on a device) is probably pretty small and would have a pretty high cost to support. Additionally, the secure boot chain end-to-end is part of the selling point here. On the Android side, I definitely know non-technical users that have jumped through a ton of hoops to enable developer mode so that they can install hacked APKs, only to discover later that those were actually full of malware. They followed random guides they found on a search engine to get themselves into that spot. With an iOS device, as is right now, it's pretty much impossible to get yourself into that situation.
> So first we didn't need everyone working in the fields, after that we didn't need everyone working in the factories,

Do you own any fields? Do you own any factories? If you owned those, then you might be able to work in them and produce what you need to live, or at least something to trade for the things you need.

You seem to think there's a "we" here. There isn't. No one else is much in the mood to support you.
At least Google allowed me to pay in BRL, porkbun and others use just USD, with taxes and converting I'll pay a lot more for domains now... Well, stick with Brazilian domains now, that's a shame.
> If such a switch exists, EVERYTHING will use it. Absolutely everything.

How do you explain that this hasn't happened on Android?
It's #10 on the U.S. App Store, placing it ahead of Skype, Viber, and WeChat. Not as popular as some, but certainly doing fine.
I sure haven't seen that. The subs that I participate in regularly which have remained closed, have had polls and/or discussions about it, and the members overwhelmingly agreed with the moderators. Maybe it depends on how strong the particular community is.
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down.
Thus the apothegm: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
When you transfer a domain to Porkbun, do any pre-paid years of registration travel across with the domain transfer, or are you starting "from scratch" in that regard?
The big issue is you can hide a lot in statements like that.

I can't find super trustworthy numbers (and I can't verify this due to that), but if there are about 3.4m subs and only 140k of them are active, every single active sub could have a mod that uses a 3rd party app and you could still claim "the vast majority" don't use them.

I also find it fairly interesting he would quote a percentage for users, but not for mods.

[0]: https://www.businessdit.com/how-many-subreddits-are-there/
Yes, if they let me pay to get rid of ads and continue to use Apollo then I'd not be upset. People are not being unreasonable, however, because reddit did not do this. And thus, no I will not install their app, and with this stripping of the moderators, will no longer even use their website.
> Throw in a keyboard, and you can definitely use Google Sheets (Excel is so 90's), and I'd dare say you can do a lot more with a ipad today including the Internet than you ever could on Windows 98 without.

If you're going to be using Google or web apps, why even bother paying the Apple tax?
VTI is trading at 20.6x earnings, which is a little high but nowhere near “the sky is about to fall and everyone will be crushed” territory.
And you'll find equivalent panics in e.g. Linux.
Like many things in life, people are not outraged by the change, but in how the change was handled.
>large subs

>I exclusively use desktop so I'm not affected

[Doubt]
The Unabomber’s Ideas Aren’t So Marginal Now
Or to flip that around, they could keep the walled garden but allow the user to spin up a virtualized environment completely walled off from the main OS, and run compilers and other software without risk to the phone side. Then the author could install a Jornada emulator or a full Linux distro.
/r/anime_titties can pivot to pictures of anime titties
What flow do you use with requirements.txt that gives you reproducible builds across a team and environments? Using ==, ~=, and >= will not give you reproducible builds.
Sorry, what kind of queue is this...RabbitMQ or Azure's own Queue Storage thing (I don't use Azure so I'm not very familiar)?
Wildfires have partially reversed crucial progress on clean air
https://archive.ph/3SG78
> We moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC-related startup is the story

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34937269
Expressive Power of SQL (2003)
>> the way it's been presented before is that, for whatever reasons, criminals and those with severe mental issues are now not kept in jail or institutions but rather left to roam the streets. The mental illness policy has been around for a long time but the idea not to jail criminals is a bit newer.

Here's the graph of the first step, the deinstitutionalization of people from mental hospitals and the reinstutionalization of people in prisons: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwVXgslXoAAny9T?format=png&name=...

That was pretty much complete by 2000. Now we're in the step of the deinstitutionalization of people from prisons.

During none of these steps were any actual problems solved.

The late 70's and the 80's were a great time for people who liked being on the streets though. I'm pretty sure the people who are living on the streets now will look back on this time with fondness in a decade or two.
Relevant, though Canada had its run of Conservative prime ministers (which is to say, Conservative-majority governments) from 1984--1993: Mulroney and Campbell.
There was a.lot of looks cool UI back then too, but mocking it was common, and none of it was successful despite itself.
Let's hope the guy that wanted it ran off and grabbed it. :(
This is still incorrect. Seattle did not get rid of Advanced Placement math classes (like calculus), which any student has the option to take and end with a nationally-recognized test.

They did get rid of various gifted/talented programs in middle school, with the goal of getting the majority of students to the same level of math, because the placement tests for the gifted/talented/honors math courses in middle schools correlated much closer to family income than actual math aptitude. (I took one of these tests in elementary school and failed, despite placing in math Olympiad the same year. They were mostly about folding pieces of paper.)
My advice is ask ChatGPT if you aren’t sure. Can’t tell you how many things it’s helped me to flesh out.
I feel very lonely in the office even though I'm surrounded by people.

Because loneliness cannot be solved by fake pleasantries.
I don't think it is. Here's the trend for Facebook: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

Meanwhile, at least some sources claim their numbers are still slowly climbing: https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
funny how now the opposite of "synthetic" is no longer "analytic" but "organic"
With the right youtube videos and enough practice, I'll bet most mechanically inclined people could work it out.
Don't buy their pig then.

I mean, how simple is it? You know the deal, everyone knows the deal, and yet you still buy the damned pig and then complain about it afterwards!?

I mean, sure .. advocating for better behavior from major corporations is a fine thing to do, but it's hard not to view that as hypocritical if you still buy their products. If you care, shop elsewhere. That's the only complaining that really works.
I don't think you understand capitalism. Reddit offers a service for a price, and if I don't like the terms or price I won't use it. That does not make me selfish. Thinking that I'm somehow obligated to pay them is the bizarre take.
They removed SMS support because Google doesn't provide an RCS API, causing received RCS messages to fall on the floor. All carriers in the U.S. will default to RCS when messaging between Android phones these days.
Hardware quality, longevity, quality generally. Happy to trade that for a walled garden.

My days of futzing with Android rims and etc are over, it was fun, but not sure I got much more out of it than that.
as long as you walk into it with your eyes wide open
Growing up near the sea, my sister was given a copy of Settlers of Catan as a present. Within a couple of years, the damp air had warped the hexagonal cardboard pieces so much that you could no longer fit them together, let alone place the wooden 'roads' between them. You might not believe me unless you've lived on the coast yourself, but this device probably has a longer life expectancy than the cardboard version :)
> But one of the problems with this stuff is that those proprietary kinds of databases have a habit of eating your data and being difficult to troubleshoot

Fully agreed there. It would be nice to have some real widely used standards in this space. I'd love to just have a single API available to query any of my datasets wherever they may be. When I open a picture picker I should see files from my NAS, from Google Photos, from my local device, from any remote device I can access at the moment, from a NextCloud instance, etc.
Wait, why are ghey two different things? Can't pip be used for deployment?
It's cute to frame that as an attack on privacy. Invidious is the brave white knight defending your privacy against big evil YouTube. Surely nobody uses Invidious to block ads, right?!?! Surely YouTube wouldn't be annoyed about the ad blocking? It must be the tracker blocking, right?!
That it's core functionality is not going to change.
That's so exciting! I'll be slowly switching my .ca domains there.
People who say that don't understand design patterns and have never worked on a very large project with code dating back a few decades.

Design patterns are what let you deal with the mess that results from that.
True, but by that analogy Applelandia would be a dictatorship.
Flip this around.

What if your messages are landing in others’ queue, and you don’t even know it..
In my case, it added a year to my existing renewal date for each domain.
It's more than a profit motive. Profits can be fine. The bigger issue is the need to show unlimited growth on the books. That whole system drives the gradual enshittification of everything.
There's like half a dozen queue-like products offered by Azure.

This is an information-free one-line throw away comment by someone who's probably misconfigured something.
I’m so glad all over my elderly family members have locked down iPhones and iPads. Remember all that tech support you had to do back in Windows 98 days?

Modern devices are too complex for most people to really grok. The only sane solution is to lock them down.
I'm not sure you get to decide what is controversial and what's mainstream without hard numbers behind your statements. As a single datapoint, I can say that systemd is awesome but Wayland is still crap, whenever I try to stick with it I hit a stupid issue within few weeks, debug and analyze for a week, then when I remember that I have enabled Wayland I go back to X and everything just work. I have zero ideological or personal affiliation here, I just want my stuff to work.
> Moderators exist to moderate a community, not to shut it down wholesale. [...] If the majority of your userbase likes sub X and some mods want to shut it down, then of course Reddit would open it back up.

I wonder how that will work for subs that posted a poll asking whether they should join the blackout, and got 80%+ of users voting "yes"?

It's not just the mods, but users can also enjoy sub X and simultaneously disagree with the decisions that reddit is making. Remember, mods were users first. Also, if you think that users like sub X, then it's worth considering how much the mods like sub X if they're willing to put their own time in to help make the sub run smoothly. It's not like they're getting paid.
>I think the current Internet user base overall has mostly never known an online environment in which their associations weren't owned and controlled.

I think this isn't said enough (even with how often it is said). Switching to Matrix and setting up a fediverse node were big in realizing how used to controlled "sterile" environments me and my friend circle had gotten.

Especially early on we found ourselves often saying that being on those platforms brought back the old "early internet" feeling (for us this would be the early/mid 2000s).
Joe Biden and Narendra Modi are drawing their countries closer
> They have exactly that: you can set up a periodic encrypted backup under settings > chats. It'll occasionally ask you for your backup password so you don't forget it too

Last I checked, that was Android only. And the password they periodically ask for is your PIN, which is unrelated to your backup password.
I have experience with porkbun and namecheap. I recommend porkbun. Mostly because they have the best prices and they work. Namecheap works, but the renewal prices get jacked up and I don't appreciate it.

In addition to that, I remember reading here on HN about namecheap screwing with someone's DNS records and blocking/banning someone because a twitter user complained about the registrant being "problematic" or something.
They fucked FB so they can F us instead. They track and log everything. Either way, the consumer gets f-ed. o well.
The homepage shows activity from basically the whole site, so kind of. With an account you get to choose which topics (i.e. subreddit equivalents) get included on /home.
It can -- the second flow also uses `pip`.

The terminology here is confusing: the first is the flow that produces a "distribution" (i.e., an sdist or bdist), while the second is the flow that produces an "environment" (i.e., a specific set of packages installed in some prefix).