skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wording is double speak and I don't think they've made their minds up yet.

No volunteer will want to work with an org that will boot them off when they need to use an app to make their lives easier to moderate because reddit wants to monetize. Quality will suffer as respectable moderators won't be sticking around.

If reddit was more strategic, they'd build a moderation tool that's just as good to replace Apollo. Then maybe this issue might have been less of a problem -- more importantly, they should have engaged with the moderators in the first place. But I think at the senior management level, they're too focused on monetizing their data which resulted in this knee jerk reaction.
Yandex is the least censored. IMHO, it works like Google did in the 2000s. Yeah Russia bad, blah blah.
I wish climate change news would make some effort to distinguish among the following levels of climate change outcomes: 1) the change would mean we have to change our way of life in some way like wear more sunscreen and not eat cows anymore and food gets more expensive and glaciers melt and polar bears now live only in zoos vs. 2) there will be major upheaval like every coastal city goes underwater and central USA for example will become like the sahara desert and many people die and it causes wars vs. 3) we reach some feedback loop where earth becomes just literally venus and every liquid and metal vaporizes and every human dies even the grandchildren of billionaires and even the ones who tried to burrow under ground.

I feel like so many stories about climate change the headline is like 'humans are doomed if we don't stay below 2 degrees Celsius increase since pre-industrial baseline' and then the body of the article is like 'our way of life will be affected by climate change if we don't do whatever'. I feel like this framing is bad. I'm not a climate change denier. I'm not even one of the guys who is like 'woke democrats are trying to hijack the climate change issue to take away my steaks and make me live in the pod and eat bugs'. I just want some information and not be lied to. Maybe it's normal journalistic sensationalism but I feel like it's extra damaging for this issue in particular.
> There’s a strong echo here of mobile 20 years ago.

I don't know. Holding a phone in your hand is very different than putting something directly onto your face.
Easier solution is to pay the organized crime leaders to not do crime
> 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).

You really do not understand what rights Open Source licenses give you. The GPL in particular really only affects you if you distribute it (a js library vs nginx). There is no 'non-profit' exception in the GPL.

> but you use the threat of legal action rather than API keys to enforce your rights. “Open Source” is in the name only.

Every software company has a license that governs it's use. I am pretty certain your company will use legal threats if it's source code got out or it's frontend code was being abused. There are likely legal clauses in your employment contract over the source code that you have signed.
one of the greatest games.
Federated doesn't have to be fragmented.
I think this is relevant. I just read a section of Alain Sokal's Fashionable Nonsense, and it was extraordinarily reactionary in it's contents. It was clear to me that Sokal had made no attempt to understand the underlying systems of thought that the so-called "postmodernists" employed in their writings, or immerse himself in the intellectual history that would give him the context to understand it. He just read the mathematical formulae or scientific claims, decided if they were "true" or not, and did not engage in serious attempts at interpretation or bring up secondary literature or any critiques of the work (because I guarantee that every single "postmodernist" listed in that book has received dozens and dozens, if not hundreds of critical articles on their work, by people who very well understand their systems of thought.) In Sokal's world, things are true or they're not true, they're rigorous or they're unrigorous. Writings that might question normative political institutions, ways of thinking about the world and ways of organizing social reality (all of "postmodern" writing), are simply cast as unintelligible and any need for serious intellectual engagement is wiped away.
This is a weird move. I wonder if the Reddit leadership aren't feeling their egos bruised a bit by this user revolt. A better solution would be to deprecate subreddit blackouts "due to a bug" wink wink
I've said before here that aliens as a hypotheses have little to no explanatory power. What I mean is that if you accept that people have witnessed this marvellous tech then either

(a) it's possible and someone has figured out how to do it, OR

(b) it's possible and someone has figured out how to do it and aliens exist

Don't get me wrong, I get it: the argument is that if someone on earth had figured it out then we'd simply have to know about it, thus it must have come from somewhere else.

It's just that I think that no matter how hard it is to believe that someone on earth could have invented this and kept it a secret, its still more plausible than aliens.

For anyone who has trouble with this, let me ask you to consider this: what if it's not that advanced? What if it just appears that way?

I claim that if someone has figured out a way to draw shapes in the sky that have no mass and move them around at will, then that is enough to explain most of it. Can I explain how they would do that? No. But is is less likely to you than aliens?
It's the only option. It's either that or give up. Look at Android. It's honestly a piece of shit but at least we were in control. Well, not anymore: now apps can use remote attestation to see if you "tampered" with your own device. So you're not in control anymore because if you exercise that control you get locked out of every service. Hell my fucking bank's app complains and refuses to run if I have developer mode turned on. Might as well choose the better kept garden if it's gonna be like this.

I decided to buy a Pixel and run GrapheneOS because I literally can't live without Termux anymore but I definitely understand your point.
That's a term of service that I'm not too worried about. I'm not going to cry if they terminate those two accounts (main account is paid, so that's not in violation). And I'm not doing anything unusual or abusive with the accounts so I'm not worried they'll take action anyway.
I’d just use their service and move on. You could build it for fun but it doesn’t sound like a great idea to make a worse version of something already out there that’s not even doing that well. If you think you can do it better and grow the market then go for it
I tend to look (okay, make assumptions) at a community around a hobby, and see if it approximates me, or the person who I want to become.
>You might respond so vehemently to my comment because you've never experienced anything else than a car centric city?

No, my comment was devoid of emotion. My experiences are not in car centric cities but public transport centric cities. Not that it matters.

>What's for sure is we've both moved from constructive criticism to criticising each other

You have, I have not. You keep going on about personal things for some reason. Like I said, definitely put your emotion down next time...

Whether you like it or not, a city is not born how you think it is born. Feel free to complain about the smell of musket powder ignition, that's not for me to tell you not to. I am just pointing out that it's quite disconnected from reality even if it is a great fuzzy feeling for you.
Until you start customizing; then you're figuring out camber and toe angles; remapping your fuel curve, adjusting road height, preload on anti sway bars, different brake pad compounds.
Another look at it: Apple has a successful mobile and a full computing platform already on the market and has only limited ROI in VR wildly succeeding. At best it replaces their existing platform. In comparison, Meta or HTC have a lot more to gain.

While paying lip service to "Spacial computing" their product name is "Vision", so the core of it arguably the display part and they'll be pushing it as viewing device more than anything (I like TheVerge's "Apple made a TV" headline). And VR staying a minor platform only used as a display will be totally fine by them, they'll just keep selling computers on the side.

PS: For comparison, this was the pitch for Hololens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqFqtAJMtYE
Well for me it certainly helps that I usually have clear requirements up-front. Designers for instance take a lot of the guesswork out of what I need to do for website work. For other things, like debugging legacy code, I just tell clients that I need time to diagnose the issue before I can give an estimate.
And yet many the web or iPhone dev will wildly smear ad hoc state machines within modules and across modules in their codebase via if/case, maybe dressing it up a bit with redux, et al.

As the codebase grows, teams of those devs will labor under the constant threat of suffocation from the thrashing-swirling spaghetti of events and side-effects they themselves authored and don't know how to tame.
well, technically it's a compound word of two words, one of which is also a compound word, so 3 words, really.
Reddit moderators are entitled to nothing.
They aren't altruistically providing some service for the common benefit, they're just sort of occupying the free real estate. Reddit moderators could all walk away from Reddit and that'd be perfectly fine with me, even if it meant that Reddit stopped existing entirely.
If your manager says "I need an estimate" and you can't tell your manager "no, that's fake research/not worth my time", does it really matter what is/isn't "fake research"?
I think the most important thing is the copyright of the content. If the content belong to the users, the platform (sites) should not charge for access, or at least they need pay to the users as well.
If the content is belong to the platform, they certainly can do anything they want, because when you contribute the content for this platform, you agree with it.
I tried out Dokan a couple years ago, and it seemed decently stable, just underperforming. There was a big fix that tremendously increased performance and also fixed a race condition around that time.

On a completely different note, there's also "Windows Projected File System", which sounds a lot like a user-mode file system, but it's not. It requires that files be backed by real files on your disk.
He has a point, no? Sure, there's a middle ground where API access is priced so both Reddit and Apollo make money. But Apollo can offer a better experience because they don't have to sell ads, and if they get a large enough market share they can just start their own Reddit.. the codebase is not an effective moat.
It is pretty common. The warranty has probably saved me thousands at this point and having them maintain the car is the easiest way to make sure it stays valid.

Pre-COVID I was doing full synthetic (Mobil-1) for $25 a bottle on sale plus a $15 filter in my other car. A good sale is $45 now.

Everything feels like highway robbery now.
that analogy only works if reddit were charging you for each comment you post on their site. A more accurate analogy would be times square selling advertisement billboards because lots of folks congregate in times square.
Here is a link to an archive page for those that have had problems reaching the page:

https://archive.ph/UooY2

“Lemmy instances are already blocking each other“ is a kind of weirdly editorialized headline here. It kind of implies that there was some sort of promise that fediverse servers weren’t going to block other servers, and that promise had been broken or something.

“Beehaw de-federates from two other servers following influx of trolls” would be more accurate.
Service providers either have safe harbor, or they have to fret/worry-about/vet everything that happens that they host.

Banning 230 protection for generated content is not really any different than destroying 230 outright. A service provider goes from being in a state where it's safe & ok to provide service, to one where they are on the hook & have to inspect all content. Either these law makers are the stupidest most ignorant pieces of shit (Hawley... Ok, maybe) or this is a backdoor attempt to wreck 230 by tapping modern outrage.
Also, to get better estimates you need to sometimes do some [research] work. Without it ykur guesses are even wilder but with it you have to ack that you've spent time on it, evenif you never get to do the actual work.
> It looks like it's been around for a few years without crazy success.

You said all you need to say.
Ah Microsoft going into decentralised message queues I see!
> Denied by the homeowner, obviously. The story seems to check out, but at the same time it's never a great idea to believe one-sided accounts like this blindly.

If only the other side of the story was available in the original article. Much easier to figure out who to blame if Amazon went on the record.

For instance, if an Amazon spokesperson said, "In this case, we learned through our investigation that the customer did not act inappropriately, and we’re working directly with the customer to resolve their concerns while also looking at ways to prevent a similar situation from happening again."

That would be less one sided.
rclone uses this! it’s great!
Well, they can. You’ll notice the smoke when you take it off. Now, if you virtuously don one at the first faint hint of smoke, be my guest. But, don’t give me the stink eye, if I don’t.
Assume the people running the other service are geniuses that have tried everything feasible. Figure out why they haven't achieved crazy success. If there is something you can differentiate on with that as the starting point then pursue the idea.
> So what happens if the Vision Pro becomes the best interface to general-purpose computing

this is exactly my fear

The people who present Android vs iOS as a matter of personal choice are being slightly disingenuous. They are pretending that this choice is a natural inevitable result and will always exist. Their whole reasoning that iOS is "ok" is based on the fact that Android - another totally independent ecosystem, exists. And let's not forget, it's one which Steve Jobs vowed to sue out of existence.

The "android" of that ecosystem is the Meta Quest devices. At the moment, yes, you can sideload there and Zuckerberg is on the record saying he will maintain an open ecosystem. Yet it's still very tenuous. The sideloading experience is very poor, worse than Android (something you sideload can't appear as a first class citizen on the device - there's no way to have it show up in the main app menu, random permissions don't work sometimes etc). And the Quest OS layer is not open source - only the underlying Android OS.

The technical hurdles required for VR/AR are much bigger than general computing. It's not at all clear to me that an open alternative will emerge. So we are potentially headed into an era where effectively there's no option for general computing that isn't locked down and owned by a Mega corporation. And all these iOS users who are preaching tolerance of Apple's approach will have been the key enablers of this dystopia.
Despite their best efforts to appear as if they were a government agency, the private “US Chamber of Commerce” is not an arm of the US government.
Unraveling Rust Memory Leaks: Useful Techniques for Identifying Memory Issues
Last time this was mentioned someone claimed this drastically reduces the strength and lifetime of the concrete, effectively pre-aging it and is probably a wash in terms of carbon savings.
"""having a bright OLED inches from your eyes induces more eye fatigue than looking at a monitor"""

That's quite a claim that I've seen no evidence for in the years I've been using and following this industry.

Actually the light hitting your eyes is much dimmer that you are regularly exposed to all the time so...
Fragmenting the community is not good for anyone. Having the option to block other instances is important but shouldn't be encouraged.

Having the right to divorce your spouse is important. But nobody wants to date someone whose been married 4 times.
You okay there buddy? Your cynicism's showing. That's either been the case forever, or never. Grandma can't take a plane flight to be with the kids, and the kids are too young to fly to her. But in Mixed Reality (MR), it's just like she'e there. Same with life-saving surgery where the surgeon and the patient can't be colocated.
Obviously. But most of them have migrated to Lemmy, so they are irrelevant.
SS will be an "exclusive domain provider" for three years and stay connected in some way to Google services I guess.
IIRC, Dang's explicitly stated that the downvote button is ok to use as a disagree button.
I have no idea why people call them smart drugs. In fact, Ritalin and Concerta did not make me any smart at all, but it rather make me slow down in thinking, thus making me dumber than I look!

Spoiler alert: I have legal prescription of those drugs, and my subconscious hated it so much!
The Young Ones. Forgot all about that one. Simulcast on MTV back in '82. VHS rips were practically currency ;)
Its more than simply making the thing.

There's advancement in several fields of study and industry that need to happen before you can make the thing, especially circa 3000. Geography, Mining, Manpower, Logistics, Science... to name a few!

This post covers it quite well.

https://acoup.blog/2020/09/18/collections-iron-how-did-they-...
It actually sounds more like loot boxes to me!
A curious choice of examples. What about someone who is open minded and as a result builds or invents something new that substantially improves peoples lives?
The US Chamber of Commerce isn't a governmental agency.
ah, so the mods plan in a nutshell, is to cut off the nose to spite the face?
"Master of Library and Information Science", for anyone else who didn't know.
You forgot the rest!

the capacity to bear the tensions of doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both sides

(This and the parent are copying bits of a quote I have at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang, in case anyone's wondering.)
Haha thanks for bringing this quote.

That reminds me of a german friend listening to an announcement in a train station. He raised his hand signing he couldn't be disturbed and seemed to hold his breath during that fairly long speech. And at the end he told me "this language is so messed up, I had to listen it all up to the end to figure out whether we should wait some more minutes or leave and take a bus".
Oh that's really cool! I'm absolutely going to use this technique. Thanks both of you!
If you enjoy the topic, try to take the time to read "Stay Awhile and Listen" by David L. Craddock (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZQQRWS9?notRedirectToSD...).

I was shocked to learn how little the dev team was financially rewarded (besides the owners).
Great story. Do send me an email, the owner will need to share their catalog and price, but I don't think the shipping would pose an issue as three of us are flying in a couple of months and could bring it over then.
> Agile techniques are widely used these days, and datasets from the 1990s are not applicable. What datasets do researchers use to build Agile effort estimation models?

In an undergraduate software engineering course I took we learned an effort estimation methodology that assumed a particular way of working (similar to Agile), but also a particular software architecture. The problem was that students then had to adopt such an architecture, even though it wasn't the best fit to the problem at hand, just so that they could complete the effort estimate. Are there methods that are independent of the software architecture?
Are you doing everything by yourself?

I do a lot of stuff alone and get it to a base level of functionality. Then I have some friends who I trust won't dis me for sport and have them ask critical questions like:

* What benefit will the user get from this thing?

* Are you the only target market for this thing?

* Are you trying to make money off this thing?

And I've been trying to train my friends to ask me things like...

* How would the world have to change for this thing to be a viable product?

* Do you really want to put in the effort for THAT when you could have the fun of building something totally new.

Which reminds me... if you're any way like me, part of your motivation is to just do something cool or new.

But... even smart, supportive friends aren't going to easily see your vision. (I tell every young engineer I meet "dude. ya gotta get good at explainin' stuff.") But hopefully they'll ask questions that make you think whether a particular idea is worth taking to the next step.

Oh hey... here's an idea... UnfinishedCon: the conference for half finished ideas and products. Where you come and pitch an idea you're working on and the culture is you can't say "oh. that's a dumb idea," and before you could say "I don't think I would buy that (or invest time researching it if it's an open source project)" you have to come up with a suggestion to make it more palatable to you.

I wound up being a jr. partner in one company that was sold. A principal in another company that was sold and I sold a QR thing to a marketing company (just sold the product and software, not the whole company.) I didn't get super-wealthy with any of these transactions, but got enough to go back to working on random weird things that seem to make me happy.
Minecraft for Android has two storage locations in-game: Application (default, not accessible to users) and External (accessible to users by connecting their phone to a computer).

I cannot backup my worlds without either using a third-party tool, or paying Microsoft $4 for the privilege of uploading my world to their server (Realm), changing my storage location to External and then downloading it back. Ridiculous.
> If I didn't want a walled garden, I'd get an Android phone.

Out of curiosity, if Android didn't exist, or was just as locked down as iOS would you feel differently about this?
Falcon LLM: The Most Powerful Open Source LLM Released to Date
And there's a massive trickle-down in terms of what very small teams are able to accomplish now by leveraging modern tools, engines, and art pipelines. It astonishes me to this day that Hollow Knight was basically developed by three people, including all the writing, art, design, and programming— there's definitely more content in that game than what passed for triple-A in the PSX era, maybe even PS2.
Yeah, that was a surprise to me when I toyed with Windows Projected File System. Turned off the program, and all my "pretend" files were still there.
> Words mean what people use them as. I don't care what OSI says, OSS and SAS are the same thing.

I completely agree. I’ve avoided using the term “open source” where possible for my SAS, instead opting for word-play like “open, source-available”, but it was frustrating that I felt I even needed to do that to avoid backlash from the zealots. And I’ve loosened my reigns there a bit as well as time has gone by. I think it’s silly. I want to use “open source” because that’s what it is.

As an example, there’s no reason Elastic should have had to cave to OSI and start using “free & open” everywhere in place of “open source.” The reality is SAS licenses like ELv2 may not be “Open Source (tm)” but they sure as hell are “open source” to most people in our industry.

FOSS !== OSS.
You get through the story in a few days maybe a week or so, then you have the rest of the end game.

Compare it to Path of Exile and the difference is night and day