skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you explain why you believe that

I never said that. But if we are already discussing this. How do you know that opening the hardware doesn’t mean significantly dropping iPhone security stance? I don’t know, I’m asking. I’m fine to be convinced it’s possible but that would require a real technical analysis how such hardware switch can be implemented, without words like “maybe” or “possibly”.
I don't agree that shopping elsewhere is the only complaining that works. When you publicly complain about a corporate policy, you can raise awareness in others and build a consensus. If enough people agree with you, the company may feel compelled to change course, or sometimes even legislation is enacted. Or a competitor will notice the swell of unmet demand and step in with a better product.

But if all you do is keep to yourself and stop buying, then your protest begins and ends with you. So, certainly not always, but at least sometimes griping and grousing works.
How is this the same or different than Fastly's compute at edge product?
Depends on the quality of the iron. Poor quality iron is often inferior, but of course actual steel is much better. Bronze can take a great edge but is a a bit softer and can get edge damage in battle/usage quicker. However bronze does have one big benefit over iron/steel, repairability. If a bronze item is damaged it can be cold worked and annealed repeatedly over a simple wood fire. With iron or steel you need a more proper forge and charcoal to repair it and it has to be worked while hot which requires more tools on hand to do properly. A "cheap" bronze sword can be smashed over dozens of heads until it is basically a bronze club, but then later with a campfire and some rocks or simple hammer can be reworked and sharpened into a sword again.
Charging for a commercial license is virtual closed-source. You have reinvented selling software, except with a “try before you buy” model that enables engineers to vet its utility first before paying, with free usage for non-profits (i.e. other non-profit devs).

I’m not making any comment about the merits of this model. I strictly make and sell closed-source software (SaaS). But it’s funny to me that this is essentially the same business model, but you use the threat of legal action rather than API keys to enforce your rights. “Open Source” is in the name only.
Likely a lone actor and all that, but this kind of childish behavior is not a great look for that particular community.
> It’s also interesting that Apple doesn’t show this being used outdoors at all, despite that apparently perfect pass-through. One Apple video clip ends with someone putting it down to go outside...

I wonder if this was to counter the possible "glasshole" narrative from popping up again like it did with Google Glass, because the device can record whatever the person is looking at(in immersive 3D VR no less!). Not to mention potential safety issues.
We already have laptops and desktops. It's not a given that this goggle thing will be a general improvement. Personally, I'd rather use a real screen, even if this was free. Which it very much is not.
Teleroboxer on the Virtualboy was peak gaming.
IMO, there isn't much importance to sideloading at personal levels. It's necessary for open and democratic society. I'm not realistically auditing the whole Debian package repository, and that makes it almost indistinguishable from App Store walled garden if viewed in a strictly personal scope, despite the reality being almost a polar opposite.
I have never used any third party apps, and I primarily used old.reddit.com on mobile to browse Reddit.

Yet this whole brouhaha got me to delete all my posts going back years, delete my accounts, and block reddit on my phone. To start, I think reddit management has just acted like total douchebags throughout this whole event, and I'm not interested in supporting that.

More importantly, though, the majority of time I spend on reddit is just a bad habit that I'm happy to now be breaking. All these social media companies are basically just "the drug dealer planet" from my favorite episode of Star Trek TNG: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiosis_(Star_Trek:_The_Ne...

Truth be told, we don't need it, and in many ways are better off without it.
My 24 year old truck can do things an iPhone still can't do
Try Googling; Reddit ranks surprisingly high on Google searches. Better yet use something more specialized such as https://redditsearch.io/
This is true. There are standard use cases like landing/marketing sites, blogs etc that can be done fully visually, and there are custom once where coding is not avoidable.

We have designed it to work for both by providing API and CLI to integrate with the custom app and git-based workflow.

This part is still work in progress though.
Why did it not happen so far?
Hmm.

I’m wondering how Search Console properties that were verified by domain purchase in Google Domains will be affected.
Artificial conversational agents to train children's curiosity during learning
That's awful. So someone pays them them, builds a website on their property and they still have you by the balls. I guess you'd only rent to add a redirect over to a new domain.

I've just tried negotiating with a squatter. I'm trying to resurrect a web game with a few thousand players which the original dev neglected. I've rebuilt it on another domain but the community have game data stored in the browser localStorage against the original site. I offered US$200 and was told no - not even a counter offer. I believe they see the domains as lotto tickets - it's in their interests to let a lot of the negotiations fall though so they can win big on a few massive deals.
I literally dont understand why they did this. Their product was fine as is so didn't need more features, maintenance burden minimal. Isn't google domains just a UI for their GCP domains product? Will that get shut down? Will all my domains suddenly have a pointless premium on them?

Cloudflare, please gain tld parity asap!
Thank you very much for the explanation, that makes sense.
There is no programming language problem related to concurrency and C-level APIs that change the amount of code Python represents that is NOT insurmountable. This is like linux "we don't break userspace" motto. There is conceivably no possibility of removing GIL without breaking the userspace. Programs will be buggy, some will stop working. Worse, until someone works around the halting problem, we can't just crawl python code and decide if it uses GIL. People will have to be paid to inspect one function at a time to determine where GIL is needed.
I love that feeling of deep, basically throwaway connection. I met a guy in a hostel once and we never exchanged names or anything, but hit up some tourist spots together, shared life stories and smokes.

In undergrad I once befriended and flirted with a classmate for a few weeks and only realized, when I was putting her number in my phone, that I had no idea what her name was. It’s like connection so intoxicating that you just enjoy it for itself.
Wanna bet? In 50 years 1 billion or more will be using something like the vision pro.

The visual exp will b better.
> I don't really like this carte blanche idea that everyone is going to do bad things

It's not about doing good or bad things, it's about following the incentives (cui bono?). Corporations are amoral entities that seek to maximize profits, just as living organisms are entities that seek to maximize reproductive success. There's nothing wrong with either incentive, but it's crucial to recognize that those are the incentives present instead of thinking that entities will instead act against their incentives for the sake of others (indeed, even cooperation and sometimes self-sacrifice, as in the case of ants, can lead to greater genetic dispersion of the individual).

Therefore, in this case, there was no reason to trust Reddit admins on what they say, since at the end of the day, they will simply say whatever they want in order to pursue profit, which they are currently doing.
Just a quick plug for the marvellous Landmark edition of Xenophon’s Anabasis:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Landmark-Xenophons-Anabasis-Shane-B...

Beautiful book with lots of maps and illustrations covering the journey mentioned above, if that’s anyone’s bag.
Irremovable bloatware was a big reason I stuck with Apple. I hate that crap so much - so much of it is poorly written trash that does nothing but advertise the carrier’s other services every freaking day for the device’s life span.
Best free cloud? dark web
hi, I'm looking for a cloud storage on the dark web, accessible only via tor browser. it doesn't matter how much space it has as long as it's free
They made promises they are not getting rid of it.

Then again, earlier this year they also promised the Apollo dev there would be no changes to the API this year, or even in the next few years...
It was a different time:
“Condor plans to spend one year in the development of Diablo. Personnel will consist of: one designer, one chief programmer, 2 junior programmer, 2 art director/artists, 1 illustrator/sculptor, 3 pixel artists, and 1 sound FX person”

So, 11 people for a year for Diablo. Meanwhile Diablo 4 took 300+ people 6+ years. So over 150x the cost, not accounting for the fact that game developers are paid much more now as well. People pretend it’s the same industry but it’s evolved dramatically.
Don't impute motives to strangers on the internet. I have no frustration.

I am requesting a statement from someone that has been very outspoken on many issues around secure, safe, private communication in the past and is in a better position than any of us to follow up on his advocacy.

He has had a very strong effect on the ecosystem including explicitly denigrating non-centralized efforts like the Matrix ecosystem (to the detriment of these non-US controlled systems supported by the French and Germans who had reason to be cautious in the wake of the Snowden revelations).

As someone who has had a significant impact in this area he owes us. Otherwise we can all draw our own conclusions.
It's too early for Apple to gamble on that sort of micro-hardware AR stuff anyway. It makes a lot more sense for them to pack it full of CPU/GPU + high end screens (basically VR but with Retina displays + M2 chips).

I see it like an iPad, it's for hanging out at home for entertainment and occasionally a bit of serious work when you need to do something simple like answer emails. But most of the time you'll still be using for laptop for real work.

I'm sure some hardcore people will try to work fulltime with it on, people are already trying that with Quest 2s. Which I always found a bit crazy.
I have no idea what will be happening in 50 years. I'm not taking that bet.

But if your prediction is correct, then I think we'll have some better use cases than looking at fake screens. That's my bet.
Put another way, who knows who the mods are? People who have a problem to deal with.
I wrote the isometric engine for this game in about 1996:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abomination:_The_Nemesis_Proje...

It was planned to be a totally 2D game in the vein of Diablo, but as this brief lays out, the amount of 2D assets required for all the rotations of the characters gets out of hand extremely quickly. After we started development we figured this out and decided to switch the characters to 3D and keep the backgrounds 2D. So I had to write a whole 3D engine and toolchain from scratch in two weeks. Those were the days.

Still, took three years to get that pig out of the door.
I am not an Apple fanboy (I run Nix on x86 mostly, some Arm), but I actually think they've managed to get it completely right on this. There are a few key pieces that I see as signs that this will eventually hit it out of the park. With that being said, I do believe this is a v1, but remember that the first iPhone was very much a v1 as well.. (I stayed out until the iPhone 3GS myself, and prefer Android phones nowadays). The signs:

1. The battery seems replaceable. I had an original Google Glass... after 2-3 hours of use you had to take it off your head and let it charge, meaning that you would never get used to always having it on. If people have to choose between having a useless hunk of heavy metal on their head, or not being able to use it while it recharges for a few hours, you have failed.
2. Making it AR-first and having that weird external display. Real life will intrude. Can you answer the door, turn off an appliance, do anything else, without having to pull something off of your head and unstrap some controllers from your hands? With the Apple model of handling things, you can pop out to real life without having to get in or out of using it. If you have to take it off, you're just a little bit less likely to put it back on.
3. Tapping your own fingers to click. This was something I brought up to FB/Meta when I was working there, but they decided not to use it. The only way you can give a tactile/haptic response to virtual items, is if there's also some sort of physical item. Tapping your own finger is the single easiest thing that makes sense. I hope that Apple adds future support for augmented 'props'. Imagine an empty artists palette (typically white plastic), that has virtual colors in swatches, or in a color wheel. You can tap on the physical palette to choose your color, to virtually mix the paints, etc.
Did anyone else read this and think about the tox python suite? https://tox.wiki/en/latest/
I had a similar WTF when a local hospital (in the US) had a marketing "thank you for choosing our hospital" after I called to schedule a test. Get that BS out of the medical system.
It very much is: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
Lol ppl are using paper after centuries. Screens r da digital equivalent to paper workstation.

Better visual exp is worth it alone. It doesn’t need 2 b better than that.

All useful perceived vision will b 2D plane. Stone tablet, paper workstation, crt monitor, lcd, vr. All showing 2d planes
If you don't want to be tracked by Facebook, don't use Facebook or install the Facebook app. You don't need Apple to protect you.
Open source licenses are commercial licenses, full stop. It doesn't prevent for profit uses.
Even if they have solved the resolution and image quality and physical comfort, having a bright OLED inches from your eyes induces more eye fatigue than looking at a monitor.

All you can do to alleviate it is close your eyes. You can't rest them by gazing out the window, across the room. Things you do naturally without realizing, that give your eyes a break.

In my experience this is as much an issue as headset physical comfort. In fact it's the one aspect that prevents me wearing a headset beyond a couple of hours.

(Plus it is a real pain to drink coffee, have a snack, open the mail; all the little side tasks we tend to do at desks)
Every post / discussion about Reddit and these new changes play right into the hands of Reddit's upcoming IPO.

No matter the outcome spez (the ceo) can simply point to how 'important' reddit is for the internet. How much people 'rely upon it' for their day/day information.

All of this mess simply raises the amount Reddit can raise in its IPO.
Show HN: Auto ChatGPT functions hook for Python to call them back seemlessly
The schedule looks very waterfall to me. I wonder if games are developed more iteratively/agile these days.
Seems to look fine in both Firefox and Chromium.
There's a fascinating trade-off there.

Diablo (and much more so its sequels) was focused pretty hard on replayability. After beating the game once, the player is encouraged to play the again with the same character, continuing to level it up. Keeping some content back for those later playthroughs is a way to make the second or third trip through more interesting. The very nature of the randomly generated levels is a big part of this.

Games like Witcher 3 or Skyrim, on the other hand, are focused on one single, giant play session, chock full of content. You should be able to do nearly everything (except perhaps choosing a build) the first time. The exceptions are choices in particular quests, which need to have different results so that the players have a feeling of agency.
There's a bunch of solutions to that already — e.g. share audio on iOS, and "watch party" type features on Netflix/etc. Yes they require everyone to have their own screen, but if that screen is a headset that gives you a better experience, then it's a no brainer. I'm pretty sure Apple will allow you to use your digital twin inside the virtual movie theater — whether you are in the same room or not.
There's a recurring theme that appears on HN: company is founded, grows for a while, then a new CEO comes up and screws things up. That even happened to Reddit already!

But what fascinates me is that I believe it's one of the founders killing the goose this time! At least it's a change from what we usually see.
It can also just barely squeeze into the time you give it, by the skin of your teeth.
I'm curious if they really could just copy something from the motorcycle world? In particular, I would imagine that the constraints on weight and power that can be applied by the user are very very different.
Service - bugs and trying to figure out features kill productivity and the quicker they can get back with help, the faster I can move forward on my project.
If you don't like rootkit-monitored games on your PC, it's really simple: don't install them. No one is forcing you to buy and use those games.
> Why not do it ? And if picking an instance is too hard, why not pick a random one ? We want to have the best thing for us individually, but we want to be told what it is

This isn’t how actual democracies form. Solon and Cleisthenes didn’t gingerly nudge their ways towards democracy; that would have been a gift to Athens’ elite to stymie them. They put forward swooping reforms that changed who held power and brought everyone* into the tent at once. They told people why their ideas were better, because they were. (There is actually a great analogy here in the tribes. Tribes were assigned. You could later change them, but there wasn’t a giant before we start being useful we have to put on these hats process.)

Providing a simple path isn’t the same as taking away the difficult one. You can deal with a newbie pool from which one must “graduate” in some amount of time, for instance, thereby giving nobody a default bias advantage in users.

Systems compete. Ideas compete. I think the collective ideas the internet were founded on were strong. And not every one of them need be a cultural force—it’s fine for e-mail to be practical even if it’s in practice controlled by a few companies. But this actually has that opportunity to create a new culture, and it’s throwing it away by telling the curious it’s too good for them.
Honestly, in my experience as a native German speaker spoken and written German are more similar to each other than spoken and written English. Just speak German as you would write it might sound a little bit more formal than is usual, but it won't cause you any trouble to err a little bit on the "too formal" side.

> I've felt that the written language requires massive intellect to pull apart as a non-native speaker, in comparison to the spoken language (once you adjust for pronunciation, etc.).

I rather think that the people who you spoke with used a simpler structure of sentences than is common in educated circles because you would otherwise have difficulties understanding them.

You should actually rather feel spoiled: in older German texts, it can actually easily happen that a whole paragraph consists of one single sentence (this rarely occurs in contemporary texts). Just to give one single arbitrary example:

"Wenn es die Verwirklichung von Urträumen ist, fliegen zu können und mit den Fischen zu reisen, sich unter den Leibern von Bergriesen durchzubohren, mit göttlichen Geschwindigkeiten Botschaften zu senden, das Unsichtbare und Ferne zu sehen und sprechen zu hören, Tote sprechen zu hören, sich in wundertätigen Genesungsschlaf versenken zu lassen, mit lebenden Augen erblicken zu können, wie man zwanzig Jahre nach seinem Tode aussehen wird, in flimmernden Nächten tausend Dinge über und unter dieser Welt zu wissen, die früher niemand gewußt hat, wenn Licht, Wärme, Kraft, Genuß, Bequemlichkeit Urträume der Menschheit sind, – dann ist die heutige Forschung nicht nur Wissenschaft, sondern ein Zauber, eine Zeremonie von höchster Herzens- und Hirnkraft, vor der Gott eine Falte seines Mantels nach der anderen öffnet, eine Religion, deren Dogmatik von der harten, mutigen, beweglichen, messerkühlen und -scharfen Denklehre der Mathematik durchdrungen und getragen wird."

(https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/musil/mannohne/chap011.htm...)

And no, I have no difficulties understanding this sentence.
I'm sorry but if everyone who wants them closed is avoiding reddit the polls will skew in favour of those that want them open.
>(Think of all the short, poignant messages you've sent or received when someone is upset.)

If it is short and not fluffy enough, it risks sounding dismissive. Those short messages generally pave way for a deeper conversation about the subject.

>Honestly with "for the sake of empathy" it sounds like you really don't place a high value on empathy (which is not unusual, or necessarily wrong).

Not really, I think empathy is important in the right setting, it is not the most important thing. Certainly not in the ER if the doctor is overworked and have lives at stake. If they have the bandwidth, sure. If not, can't blame them.

>But if that is the case you're quite obviously not the right person to assess whether ChatGPT and the like can "help with that" in that context! :-)

Disagree. I know how to sound empathetic for those that need it. Some people need words of affirmations and validation to be lifted. I am not one of them but I understand. It is not that hard. Modern LLMs are more than capable of creating the prose for that and more. There is a time and place for everything though. My empathy generally drives me to action and solving problems.
This made me curious, and I'd never heard of this tool, so thanks for making me aware!

To further my point, I just looked myself up (same as my HN handle), and I only found 7 comments removed by mods. Most of which were honestly fair to remove, in my opinion.
And yet the motivation for Harel's paper was his being approached by his nation's avionics industry to develop some concrete tech to help the EE and software engineers work with confidence in their development of reactive systems, ones with lives on the line.

Summary: https://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/papers/Statecharts....

Detailed account: https://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/papers/Statecharts....

One of the most interesting aspects of this story is the fact that the work was not done in an academic tower, inventing something and trying to push it down the throats of real-world engineers. It was done by going into the lion's den, working with the people in industry. This is something I would not hesitate to recommend to young researchers; in order to affect the real world, one must go there and roll up one’s sleeves. One secret is to try to get a handle on the thought processes of the engineers doing the real work and who will ultimately use these ideas and tools. In my case, they were the avionics engineers, and when I do biological modeling, they are biologists. If what you come up with does not jibe with how they think, they will not use it. It’s that simple.
> But it's still nothing compared to the biggest attempt at a fully open platform for games (OUYA; and long before them, Atari). That went well... and so, even the App Store, you can find bad apps and scams, but every time we have a store that has no enforcement it's amazing how quickly things get overrun.

I think its silly to suggest OUYA or Atari being the biggest "open" platforms - Steam dwarfs them and is a runaway success story across multiple OSes for decades.
Wage-price spirals are far scarier in theory than in practice