skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Their marketing videos make it look like things really feel like they're coming up out of the board, and to me it just felt like the board was sort of a TV laid flat on the table. Things were 3D only in the same sense that they are on my monitor.

You don't by any chance have an undiagnosed stereoblindness do you? The promo videos make it look like extremely classic fiducial marker positioning of 3D models. The rest is up to your eyes and brain to be able to see depth from stereo.

Have you been to a 3D movie? If so did it feel like 3D to you?

The only scenarios that make sense from your description of it looking the same as a computer monitor are that either you got a broken one or you personally cannot see depth from stereo. I want to add that brains are very good at hiding this. If you've never used VR or been to a 3D film, its entirely possible that you could be stereoblind and just don't know.
Signal, Session, Berty, Jami, and Nostr are some I can think of from the top of my head.
That reputation was why I had stuck to brands which stayed closer to a more vanilla Android experience.

My experience with their latest stuff has been that they do still have a lot of bloat and duplicated functionality, but the base experience is much closer to stock Android than what I remembered from their older phones. To put it differently, it looks and feels similar to the near stock Xperia 1 ii I switched from but has all sorts of little differences.

I actually find myself using a lot of the functionality too, so it feels a bit less "bloated" to me.

I haven't really noticed ads though. They do recommend stuff, eg their camera app has a bunch of modes and the "Expert RAW" mode was shown in the app but required a download from their app store. I don't really count those since they're somewhat more relevant than say, Windows advertising candy crush on the start menu.
Sort of unrelated but I find it ironic this website is written in Python. It's a single HTML page. Make it a static site and host it for free/low-cost on S3 or something.

Why do you need to host this website on a server, use Docker, etc?

My personal blog is a static site using Next.js, I pay $0 to host it on S3.

To me this is less about simplicity and more about being anti JS ecosystem, and being different just to be different.

Any legacy site probably has some kind of Javascript framework, jQuery, or something set up where adding another library on this list adds complexity. Any new site that requires a decent amount of interactivity would probably be better with a battle tested framework like React. I've tried many of the libraries listed here, have tried the view engine + Alpine approach, etc, and time and time again I find it's simpler from a development perspective to just use Next.js.

That is to say, for any hobby project, use whatever you want. Try new things. But for production apps, just use React.
I don't think that was a preference. I read it more as a statement about how Reddit's actions seem to be going against their own interest, and their motives are unknown....
> Who is being dishonest?

Steve Huffman is a liar. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36246529

It's painful to post a comment that otherwise reads as low-quality flamebait. But I tried to defend his actions, and was dragged to the conclusion that he tried to damage Christian's reputation by making up a lie. He even acknowledged it was false during a phone conversation with Christian, then continued to tell the lie publicly.

It shattered my faith in him, and to a lesser degree in YC's "don't be evil" philosophy.
Why should I trust the CEO who was just recently caught in a lie about blackmail despite evidence to the contrary and in the past has straight up edited people’s comments without any notification that Reddit is responsible for the edits?
> If I didn't want a walled garden, I'd get an Android phone.

Fair. This is the exact reason why I have an Android phone. As a matter of fact, it's the reason why I started dabbling in Kotlin a few years ago; so that I can make my own personal apps.
Senate Judiciary advances journalism bargaining bill targeting Big Tech
"Does not contain the drive circuit"

"The drive current is unknown"

"The owner didn't know how to test"

I get your point but I'm not sure I have any confidence in that example.
Corporate citizenship can indeed have dystopian outcomes
I think there is a real difference in the ratio between consumers and producers of content on the two sites.

The vast majority (99.9%) of YouTube users contribute no content to it. The proportion of users who comment/submit on Reddit is much higher.

As an analogy, a third-party app for uploading YouTube videos efficiently, without ads, seems like a much more reasonable proposition, because that app is tailored towards content producers.
From what I understood, the problem is less the change itself but more the short notice. 30 days isn't much to redesign your app and monetization, especially if you had many users on year-long subscription plans.
This is the same concept that she kickstarted years ago and then, sadly, never delivered. She did refund people's money, IIRC, when she used the social proof to get VC funding, which was nice of her.

I thought the IP was stuck in some kind of bankruptcy court hell.

The price seems to have increased dramatically.
I left the mod team of the sub I started 16 years ago. Just not interested in providing free labor anymore.
Good thing I paid for a 10 year registration! Got some time to plan.
It comes from a general ideological belief that the owner of a physical device that happens to be able to run code should get full control over such execution, even if it goes against the wishes of the manufacturer of that device.
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reddit
Okay. The first 3G I didn’t. The 5 and the 8 I did.
No, it's a perfectly valid outcome to not buy something.
I like this newly formed genre of spontaneous tech take speculative fiction
> Most subreddits doing polls have people voting to remain open, so it really isn't in the interests of the communities to keep the subs closed.

I've seen this oft repeated, but never backed up. The only poll I've seen results from[0] was overwhelmingly to stay shutdown indefinitely.

On top of that, you're probably going to be getting into sampling bias with larger subs, since most users that care are purposefully avoiding the site trying to "starve" them and wouldn't even know about the polls.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/149o61f/should_rho...
I think the point here is that their first platform shift onto x86/x86-64 was driven by how far Power had fallen behind. Even their fans were having difficulty justifying the slowness of their comparatively expensive computers.

It was more forced upon them than anything else.

The move to M1 was an actual innovation that came after their success.

The real story of the company though is the iPhone, which is absolutely their own technical innovation.
It would probably be a great time to try and hop in, become a mod, and cause some ridiculous drama if you were so inclined.
Yeah, I guess I would in retrospect refine my opinion to “software architecture is iterable and not completely separable from implementation” or that “architecture (as imagined by distinct architects who are shielded from implementation concerns) is not important”.

Principal engineers and such who are still involved in operations, implementation, and more tactical approaches are who I also think are “supposed” to be doing architecture, but even then, more as guides and first among equals than as people who hand down decisions from on-high.

The fundamental issue I have with a separate architect position is that it disempowers teams and makes them beholden to decisions that they may not agree with (and which very well may not understand the problem to the extent they do). It sounds like you’re doing the better thing of running up and down the layers of abstraction so your contributions empower people rather than disempower them
I want to like this setup, but the NexDock's input devices (especially the touchpad) are so bad. Like, near unusably bad. Which, for a device that's mostly I/O, is a shame.

I own two NexDocks despite this, for the record. My favorite lapdock though is the one meant for the HP Elite X3 phone. Only downside of that one is that the hinge isn't quite strong enough to hold up a phone with a magnetic mount.
No.

You need blinker laws (i cycle every day pullig my son on a bafang rearwheel i built myself on a ti frame).

I am next to the passenger door of a right on red turnig vehicle and there is plenty of communication and observance going on... yet leaving from the other side of the street can become an issue if i dont know the driver is turning Right in from of me. So a blinker is needed and Often not used because they may be in a turn only lane and not think its needed.

Im not saying to be like minnesotans and use a blinker while on a exit ramp but yeah.

Another issue is dark tint. It really ought be where,,, if you have it you have a special permit so you are trained to Look: safety on the road stems from eye contact and obsevance.

Turning cars dont look both ways on a one way yet bicycles and pedestrians travel two ways on a one way.

Fast Company is selling you all short. Listen to me.
You can see their bios on signalfoundation.org , but it doesn't look very promising at a glance. Think tanks, federal agencies, NGO blob, etc.
Which is not available for iPhone, iPadOS (minimum 16, which supports iPads from 2015 and forward) and macOS only.
> Why couldn’t we do the same thing on an open platform through similar technical means? Whose to say that we couldn’t do it better?

Who is "we" in this sentence?

Apple doesn't have a ton of secret sauce that allows them to screw advertisers over and protect privacy. What they do have is money. Google sells advertisements. Advertisers are their customers and they give their customers what they want. Apple sells hardware that happens to come with pretty decent software.

The reason we don't have a truly open platform that solves this problem through similar technical means is... money. It costs a crap ton of money to design a great phone. It costs a crap ton more money to build the software for it. And there's really only two players in the game right now.
I have no idea what your tastes are but I found both Journey to the West and the Odyssey to be very fun and exciting, with elements of what would appeal to someone about more kid-oriented stories (adventures, fantastical creatures, fighting), but written with a more mature audience in mind. Moby Dick is another I would put in this "tale of adventure" bucket but it can be polarizing with the info-dumps about whaling.

If you want to try going in a totally different direction, I am a big fan of Abe Kobo's avant-garde work, such as The Box Man or the Ark Sakura. I guarantee it's unlike anything else you've read if you've avoided straying from the kiddie pool, playing with the whole structure of the novel itself and challenging your expectations constantly.

If you want to try some nonfiction, I have rarely read a Paul Theroux travel book I was bored by and I think Ryszard Kapuscinski is also great.
Right. And we can see that by looking at the iPad, a device halfway between a full size computer and a smartphone. 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. The world's progressed since Windows 98 for good and bad. There are a multitude of cloud services that let you program from your iphone or ipad. Yes, that's not gcc running locally and yeah something's been lost along with progress. I miss it too. But we live in the present, not the past.

Linux is going through its own debacle with Wayland and snap, there's no clear path forwards and it looks like that's just how things are now. Like how it's 2023 and Sonos is the only game in the multi-room-audio town due to patents unless you want to hack something up.
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
So now I tried this and it works

Here you can see a post from a different instance, shown on my instance:

https://zapad.nstr.no/post/42
hm? Of course it is?
At the time, going from quake to glquake felt like a huge leap in technology. How could graphics even get any better? I guess every generation goes through something like that.
The round-trip efficiency isn't actually that bad once you realize that we're dealing with large installations here. For instance, heat can be used to make hydrogen, which is why you sometimes hear about nuclear power making hydrogen. Large installations can recapture heat, either as co-generation or use it to drive a gas turbine.
I'm pretty sure this doesn't actually happen on Android phones, and it doesn't even happen anymore in Windows, which runs with admin privileges by default. The toolbars and viruses were mostly a thing pre Windows XP SP2, and they were mostly gone with Windows Vista.
Yes here:

https://github.com/thomasp85/scico
> The protest is to make it possible to keep things working. It's bizarre to see the amount of complaining about mods making or breaking a sub and then at the same time the amount of people calling their actions impactless or leading to derelict communities. Which is it? Do users and Reddit need them or do they not?

First off, different people have different opinions. Pointing out the apparent hypocrisy of loose groups of people with different opinions, different reasons for associating with each other, is just silly.

Secondly, reddit and their users might need moderation, but that doesn't mean they need these particular mods. Reddit can take the subreddits from these mods, give them all the finger, and keep whatever users choose to say (which is probably most of them.) There will be no shortage of new mod volunteers. Many of them will be bad a the job, they can be weeded out over time just like usual. They don't have to pay mods, mods have no leverage to make such demands because there's a huge crowd of scabs willing to take the job and no labor organization laws cover unpaid mods.
I think what's missing from the title is "actor framework" - omitting it is kinda burying the lede, since the main idea seems to be fitting AI and human workflow orchestration into an actor framework, which is a well known paradigm with a name that immediately evokes the intent of the library.
Except, the lockout is self imposed. Reddit's "crime" is closing down their API... users just need to use the actual reddit app and they can keep their connection/communities going.

It does sucks for the people who've built their livelihood offering 3rd party reddit clients though. Sure it was always a risk. Big tech destroys entire businesses on a regular basis. Doesn't make it a bad choice on their part--the (american foot)ball simply bounced the wrong direction.
I find it funny that in another story the worst CEO of any tech company was talking about instituting "democratic tools" where users of the subreddit could vote out a mod

How about he puts the API changes to a "democratic vote", some how I doubt it loves that kind of democracy.. He like many others only likes democracy when he can control it.
Sure

But 1) Russian had nothing to do with Hunter's laptop and his Jared-Kushner-Roger-Stone level sleaze. A level of sleaze we consider normal because "But them! They do it! They're worse and they hate us." Repubs and Dems both say it about the other and excuse their own. All of it is utterly revolting outside of partisan divides and has led to ever increasing levels of contempt for government and the media covering it. That's a big problem. Bigger?

2) There was no alfa bank server. That one is astonishing that it wasn't a joke from the first 5 seconds of being tried on and tried on it really was. The source of it is interesting, have a look.

3) There were no russian bounties in Afghanistan. Undermining an elected president pursuing a policy with popular support with a lie. And it worked until Biden picked up that policy and took it forward to completion. Wow. Jaw meet floor.

4) The Steele dossier and every story (and everything, including warrants based on it), is a total joke.

So there's 4 occasions where our (entirely valid?) fears were used against us such that our /right/ to forming our own opinion was taken away. And we need to be honest that our revulsion of Trump was also an influence. That same thing tried on Biden would not have passed the sniff test as these should not have. Do we trust democracy or just end it now? I'm going with the former - even when I don't like who gets elected.

Russia couldn't have done that more effectively. Russia has been used as an excuse and a motivation and method to do that. Our fears have been used as a tool. Doesn't make Putin a good guy and neither was Saddam. WMD being a lie didn't make Saddam a better guy either. Same playbook, no?

Do you think Sanders was supported by Russia as was claimed? He had a huge popular support. Maybe he was? Evidence?

I was surprised to learn the FBI never examined the DNC email servers claimed to be hacked by Russia and the contents published by wikileaks. The source has the credibility affected the Alfa bank made-up-story. Maybe it was Russia? Evidence is not what I thought it was. You?

Which is worse for democracy. Russian interference? Or Interference using the fear of it? The second should not be a thing.
> and massive increase in funding for institutions

I’m very doubtful this is the way forward. SF spends and squanders an absolutely eye-watering amount of money on its problems. The money appears to support committees and other layers of bureaucracy that will only grow more baroque if you give them more money.
> all you really need to do is [SMOP]. But it's a very solvable problem.

Awesome! I look forward to seeing your PR shortly. ;-)
Note that the Relay dev says that there's no way for him to offer a free version of Relay and make it financially viable. That means that user acquisition is going to tank, hard, because no one is going to be able to try the app before paying for it.

> Apollo has 1.5 MILLION monthly active users. With a 10% conversion rate and charging $2.00 a month

In other words, if he's willing to tell 1.35 million people to get fucked, he could turn his app that's widely beloved by many into an app that barely anyone knows about and new users are barely willing to consider trying.

These apps live and die by the same model: the paid users subsidize the free users. Who knows, maybe Christian could just tell those 1.35m people to get lost and it would be instantly profitable, but maybe that's not the app he wants to make. That seems entirely fair.

> To me it sounds like Christian just doesn't want to do the work.

Or, alternately, Christian feels betrayed by Reddit, because even though he's worked very closely with them for years, Reddit suddenly decided that yanking the carpet out from under third-party devs with thirty days' notice is the best way forward for them, and then the CEO turned around and slandered him all over the place, criticized Christian for having receipts, and then just continued to trash talk him everywhere.

Reddit has shown repeatedly through this ordeal that they don't actually want to work with people. Tons of other devs have reported that their e-mails are going unanswered. Christian asked about extensions or some other way to make things work and got no response. Reddit's goal here isn't to be profitable by charging 3p clients for API calls, it's to kill 3p clients and force them into their own terrible app.

Why would Christian want to jump through hoops to work with a company that's gone out of their way repeatedly to treat him like shit?
How many people in the world do something like that? Even in the bubble that is HN, how many people do that? The average person benefits a lot more from a walled garden.
Obligatory Mark Twain on this, in case you or others haven't read his essay on learning German:

"observe how far that verb is from the reader's base of operations; well, in a German newspaper they put their verb away over on the next page; and I have heard that sometimes after stringing along the exciting preliminaries and parentheses for a column or two, they get in a hurry and have to go to press without getting to the verb at all. Of course, then, the reader is left in a very exhausted and ignorant state."

https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html
Thanks!

PostgreSQL replication is hard for me. I know how to set up "classic" replication, but automatic failover and recovery that can solve split-brain issues is, sadly, not something I've figured out. And if it's not the machine, but the network that goes down (which happens few times a year on consumer-grade connections), it's a problem that happens in practice. I have learned how to repair nodes by hand, but I don't want to do this.

So far, I've managed to avoid thinking much of it by using distributed databases (CockroachDB and Consul, in particular) that already have all the magic built-in, so I just have to be careful with the settings.

Maybe I just need to learn how to deal with PostgreSQL...
Fail at what exactly ? What are your criterias for success ? If it's something like eternal growth ana scalability, I would consider that a failure. My criteria is if everyone has access to the people they care about, in conditions they control. Commercial success is not for me.

> Most people only care about the end product, the end experience.

Because that's what we keep telling them: don't think, let me take care of this, CEO knows better. That is how we arrive at this crooked situation where sharholders come first, business partners second, and users last.
The bots will break...for a few days until selenium based alternative APIs pop up to interact with the site with.

Personally, I'll be purging my 10+ years of content from the site and moving on. I just about only interact with Reddit through Sync for Reddit, and will not continue through the official app or website...so that's that.
I've seen the series, and I'm not talking about the politics of maintaining power. I'm talking about the leadership's motivation: Why do you become Supreme Leader instead of merely being one of those oligarchs? Life's a lot easier for those power brokers, people who rise to the very top of power have a reason, at least for themselves.
I don't get much more spam, but there is one obvious spam message that gets inboxed often, even though I've flagged it as Spam and Phishing damn near every time.

It is one of those fake UPS messages that there was a package left there unsigned and you have to pick it up. Only instead of UPS, their logo is IPS (for International Parcel Service), which as far as I know, doesn't actually exist.

I've been receiving that specific one with different fake tracking numbers every few days for well over a year now. You can bet the spammer/phisher is a paying Google advertiser... that is the only reason I can think of for its overall longevity.
Is this a management strategy where the end game is: win or no longer exist.

The win scenario has so much upside (almost entirely related to upcoming IPO) that it's worth risking the no longer existing scenario no matter what.

What are the downsides of the No Longer Exist scenario for management? Retire with millions rather than billions?
That 3% probably consists of a majority of the 1% who post content, and the .1% who moderate content.

Without either of those, the site becomes stale and overrun by trash content.
Mods are users, and if not, are they employees and spez owes them a paycheck?