skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tilt Brush has been dead for over two years.

> The open source archive of the Tilt Brush code can be found at: https://github.com/googlevr/tilt-brush. Please note that it is not an actively developed product, and no pull requests will be accepted.

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/01/the-future-of-tilt...
Ask HN: What's Happening at Reddit?
Could someone kindly provide a brief summary or explanation of the recent news involving Reddit? It seems to be generating a lot of attention, but I'm struggling to piece together the key points. I'm curious to learn more about the underlying problem or controversy that has sparked these discussions.
This isn't a LUKS bug. It's a bug in a completely different piece of software that most LUKS users have never heard of, which people sometimes use to unlock LUKS volumes.
Mechanical design is just orders of magnitude harder than software or electronics. Those are 2D, and largely 1D, and in software there is no concept of tolerance, wear, or yield.
Which happened because of API pricing? The moderators are why the community works at all at this scale. They're also how reddit makes the site palatable to advertisers. That's just the current controversy anyway, Reddit inc has been making numerous user hostile choices and their choice to push third party apps away is clearly not for the benefit of the community.
More accurate than others I have seen that try to do simple name matching. I am looking for announcements by mod teams before adding entries to the list.
I perceive him very differently (despite being a 100% Apple guy for the past 30 years - the stuff he criticizes Apple for is justified in my opinion). He's done a lot of good for the world with his activism and work on Right to Repair.
Ask HN: Paywalled Articles, Options for Subscription?
A lot of articles I come across HN, seem to be paywalled. I am thinking of subscribing to some of them. However, I find it hard to decide which ones to subscribe to and how to manage the subscriptions.

1. I am primarily interested in tech, startups, and the happenings in this space. Are there any recommendations for publishers in this space?
2. Is there a decent unified subscriptions option? Like pay for a subscription package for x set of publishers?
3. Others ways of looking at this?
And yet Epic was exactly my example.

I went to the Google play store and couldn't find Fortnight.
This is how you prevent the credible-sounding misinformation like this from running around.
It's not a and never has been a traditional company. Lots of people have said it should be a trust like Wikipedia. It was was always a republic in a world full of Kingdoms.
> Why would anybody pick the commercial one?

The OpenSource license is typically GPLv3 that imposes that your whole application has to be GPLv3. This is enough for corporations to avoid it.
Are you being sarcastic or otherwise intentionally contrary, or do you genuinely believe that some people (if not you) like helping others?
A Conversation with Andrew Smales, Founder of Diaryland
I’m a big fan of Cloud Run.

Add a Dockerfile
Create a service and link to GitHub
Push to main
Done

Sure there are all the usual risks of using Google services (might go away, might get locked out) but that container makes it reasonably quick to get back up and running.
The Apollo moon landing was real, but NASA's quarantine procedure was not
You need to define what "successful" means, because I feel we don't have the same definition. To me, being able to control the medium and communicate with the people I'm interested in is already a success. The fediverse is home to millions of people and is open for anyone to join. It's not a product, because "products" suck; it's a system that involves people and is under constant evolution.

The "product" mentality is the cancer that led us to where we are. We must get rid of it.

> I think there are going to be incredibly valuable lessons-learned from these federated models, and interesting things will happen there.

I totally agree with that. The control an admin has over an instance is still problematic, and someone shared something about confederated protocols (https://nexus.blacksky.network/zine/00000001/confederal-prot...) and that is an interesting way forward.
For example, to make some numbers up, if only the top 10 posts in each subreddit are cached, in normal circumstances the Popular page can be constructed from cache. If the number of open subreddits reduces by 95% then suddenly a request for Popular might be hitting the database a lot more.

Whatever happened is going to be more complicated than that, but I can believe people leaving, and subreddits going dark, could cause a crash.
Language usually has some sort of forward error correction so that if you mishear parts of a sentence, you can still reconstruct the content from the surrounding words.
Not before the refactor. Type hints need to be there from beginning. I can't imagine anybody decides writing python without type hints in 2023.
> They have ~100 left.

Yet.
I mentioned this in another comment below, but it likely applies here as well. We tune the interpupillary distance (IPD) software setting down a bit to accommodate a wider variety of face shapes. If the IPD is set to a distance greater than the physical distance between their eyes, then the effect is very uncomfortable to look at as their brain has trouble "unifying" the two images each eye is seeing. If the IPD is set to a distance less than the physical distance between their eyes, then the effect is perfectly comfortable, but there is reduced depth perceived from the images.

We err on the side of comfortable but "flatter" for our default setting and for trade shows and conventions, but adjusting the setting to be appropriate for your face is just a slider in our control panel. We also have a calibration app in our latest public beta drivers for people to find their IPD if they don't know it.

I hadn't heard people complaining about this at trade shows before, but it makes a lot of sense. We should probably incorporate a quick calibration at the start of our demos. Thanks for the feedback!
> I think it is pretty fair to say that Diablo 1 did effectively create the genre as far as the history of gaming is concerned.

Definitely not, there were many successful Japanese ARPGs long before that, like Dragon Slayer, Hydlide, The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy Adventure, Secret of Mana etc. Diablo may have created its own subgenre.
It's from the same article:

> Huffman said 97% of Reddit users do not use any third-party apps to browse the site.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182457366/reddit-ceo-steve-h...
It's true, that dying man giving the butcher quest will simply sometimes not be outside the entrance to the cathedral. I was surprised too.
> learn about a company, it's culture, philosophy, and values before joining.

I may sound dumb, but how does one do this? What question would you ask in an interview in order to determine whether the management are apathetic to their users or employees?

The three interviews I did at my current company gave me a glimpse into the culture, but only a surface-level "first impression" kind of knowledge. With that said, I think I successfully ascertained the company's vision with the product I'm working on, but that's way easier to learn than culture IMO.
Here is a good summary,

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
However, the worst that can happen to you is that you stop interacting. This is as opposed to Reddit, where you can get removed from the platform as a whole, so it's still an improvement.

Lemmy and general Fediverse centers the workflow of spinning up your own community even against the will of the entire rest of the ecosystem. This is in complete opposition to Twitter, Reddit etc.
Good. Nobody should be able to destroy a community of millions just because they got became moderators years ago, without community consultation.
Brain size in modern humans is also only weakly correlated with intelligence [1]. So they might not even have been stupid due to their smaller brain size.

Sperm whales don't have much of a chance to manipulate their environment, but they have the largest brains on earth [2].

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-brain-size-m....

[2] https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/extreme-mammals/extreme-bod....
This is an Act, it won't be nationally implemented but is applicable directly in EU states.
Talkface vs Duolingo: Does AI Win?
A new perspective of learning language.
What's the story with regards to high dynamic range and tone mapping in raytracers in general? I only know of Filmic Blender to advertise this as a feature
> The extreme leftist bias of virtually every social science and humanities faculty at Berkeley is more than enough reason to discount this heavily. You won’t be surprised that he found what he wanted to find

Granted, motivated reasoning may be alive and well in the academy; but this statement asserts personal motives where the author almost certainly cannot make this claim with any certainty.
It's a Tang vulnerability, not a LUKS vulnerability. Clickbait.
Index Providers: Whales Behind the Scenes of ETFs [pdf]
Fact: Project Builder X for Mac Os was released 2001ish a full 17 years after the original Mac was introduced in 1984. (2001-1984 = 17)

Also Fact: The original 1984 Mac did come not pre-installed with Perl, Python, nor Ruby.
Well, yes, that's pretty much obvious: the majority of python programmers do not care, those that cared have moved on as it is easier than changing the language.

And I'll be first to admit that improving single threaded performance has an higher priority than removing the GIL.
How does that extend to community management for big social networks?
> Behavioral modernity in humans including the way we use language is thought to have emerged 70000-55000 years ago.

Citation for that? There's clear evolutionary selection for language capabilities a long time before that isn't here?
Oh, like electron? /s
I remember vividly my intro to "serverless". I had been (ab)using Javascript and Node.js for a while, breaking the internals of Express.js and messing around with many things. Someone told me that serverless was "like Node.js but without server, you just write code for an endpoint" and it sounded cool. Just I didn't need it at the moment since I was happy with my servers (I'm the creator of npm's `server`).

I kept hearing about it in multiple places, and after many months/years I decided to dig deeper. I found out that "serverless" was just an instance of Express all along! My disappointment was immeasurable, I thought that you really wrote a JS function, executed by "3rd party servers" (ofc there's a server _somewhere_), or in worst case you just wrote a function with the signature of Express' middleware and export it, then to be run by their instance. But no, you actually had to set up the whole server and listen to a port and all, it was just more ephemeral than Heroku's already ephemeral servers.

It wasn't until next generation that "true serverless" came, with Cloudflare Workers and the such, where you truly write a plain JS function that takes a Request and returns a Response as I expected almost a decade earlier.
That is 1000+ years after the writers I refer to. Heresy catalogs start with Irenaeus "against heresies" from ~180.
There is the only incentive that matters - google, just like apple, takes 30% cut off every transaction in your app. Everything else is secondary. And yet even though pushing custom APKs would get you your 30% back, companies aren't doing this(with the exception of Epic). So no, it's not about permissions or tracking users. Even Amazon had to stop offering sales for their digital content in the app because Google is actually and in fact strict about this.

And also - as a simple matter of fact, alternative app stores do exist and they haven't caused the collapse of the ecosystem. You can still stay in your walled garden if you wish.
You're downvoted because people clearly don't want to actually discuss this. It's all about the pitchforks.
Active State is providing support and patches for 2.7 for exactly this reason.
In reality its not because Redhat have to support this version for another 5-7 years as part of RHEL 8
I would say that reddit’s value is simply being a mostly text-based forum with a big user base, good model for discussions and good moderation (as in, it efficiently removes spam. Surely several mods are very problematic in their power grabs).

I hate facebook with a burning passion, but on “ultra niche groups” front it can actually be surprisingly good. What most big social media networks lack though is the very simple upvote-downvote mechanics, and proper comment trees. That enables reddit (and Hn also) to have truly great discussions from time to time. Facebook instead optimizes for rage by showing the shittiest possible take at front and no amount of explanation could de”platform” a low effort take under a news article for example.

While reddit is not immune to that, you will often find a great comment chain within the top 3 ones that calls out the stupid takes and actually has proper factual knowledge.
And now we get to the real reason for their bizarre behaviour. They want to push ordinary mods off the platform to be replaced by their own drones. You can tell which subs are modded by shills by who broke the strike. Like r/worldnews that was modded by Ghislaine Maxwell right up until the day she was incarcerated.
https://www.reddit.com/user/maxwellhill/
They could accept that "reddit the product" (in its current form) is a 2-5bn market cap business with solid 0.5bn revenue; run the business on that basis (all values in today $$'s).

Not every product / market is a trillion dollar business. Trees dont grow to the sky.

This isnt to say dont innovate. If they invented a new product; the VR Meta TikTok Shorts iPhone Satellite Headset Watch (TM), then one can reevaluate what "reddit the product" means, but charging for your API or introducing a paid verified badge isnt changing that definition.
if classical history is required to be able to foresee such a thing, then maybe people've lost their common sense.
The author's definition of Serverless is pretty different from what I understand.

It's called Serverless mostly because it's not billed based on the # of servers, instead it is mostly billed by # of requests and/or the CPU time * dedicated RAM. With this changed billing model comes with the expectations like relatively fast scaling up/down and "scale down to zero/minimum".

Disclaimer I work on App Engine which is arguably the OG Serverless service.
while it's a cool feature, i don't think it is a fair ask. walled garden or not, each company decide the tradeoffs of features they assign to their consumer technology.

clearly apple has made theirs with restricting what apps can do in ios. even with them being forced to enable sideloading, it would probably take a lot before a termux alternative can be possible in that ecosystem.

regardless, if one was a future model of the other and the feature was removed, then i could understand the argument.

- a person peering at the garden from the outside
I've seen this notion a few times, but I think it bares some scrutiny.

What places used to exist that no longer do where you can exist without the expectation of buying something?

Thinking about it, libraries are unusual in that they have no cost at all to enter. Top of my head only religious buildings seem to be similar in that regards.

There's quite a lot of options as far as no expectations to buy anything, but you need to pay some kind of fee - sport's centres, clubs that sort of thing. (One might argue they often contain a shop/cafe, but I'd argue you don't go there to use those, and they are very optional)
Yes, fortnite is the only exception of a major product. Amazon was forced by Google to halt the sales of any and all digital products through Android apps because they didn't want to give Google their 30% cut and I'm yet to see any push from them to install Kindle or Prime apps through a direct APK.
Sexual control and restriction is a pretty widespread feature of premodern cultures. I think you should stick to the soap. The porno is probably trouble.
"impregnate" is not wrong per-se, but it is weird in placing the emphasis on only one of the two people required. Usually you'd say something like "trying for a child", I believe.
Thanks for the clarification. Java was obviously a trailblazer on formally introducing advanced memory models on practical languages, but it did take a few tries to get it correct.
It's notable that Hugging Face's BLOOM (https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom) might already be compliant (ignoring the 'member states' requirement which I'm sure they could comply with easily enough, it's about disclosing EU member where the model is on the market, so them simply listing all EU countries in a doc somewhere may suffice).

Some may be tempted to point at the lower scores of OpenAI, Google and Facebook models and say this means the regulations aren't fit for purpose, though of course you can take the view this means OpenAI, Google and Facebook aren't doing a good enough job of how they train and publish data about their models.
i loved the idea of reddit gold. if they did a dontation drive like wikipedia i would have donated.
That doesn’t describe mithril which is on the list though
Discords monetization is lightyears ahead of Reddit. There are alternate clients and a rich ecosystem of plugins.

There's zero value in Reddit Gold. It's such a meme. Access to a private subreddit.

Give posts badges? Who cares. They're ephemeral. Up today gone tomorrow.

They need to rethink this bullshit instead of just selling more ads.
My point being, that some companies will try to convince you to enable side loading and Epic is an example. They do it on Android now.

I don't mind having a hackable system, I think it should just be a little more complex than a hidden setting that Epic will try and get you to switch.

Perhaps a ROM which you have to download and wipe/reload your phone with, maybe it also removes the App Store so that it's obvious that you are moving to an unsupported model. I'm not sure, but just having a side loading toggle will lead to Epic abusing the matter.
Actually I find their support to be pretty good. Granted I am at a large tech company who likely pays for premium support, but I can always get through to a human who knows what they're talking about. They've even helped with issues inside my app that were my fault.
> Not a rhetorical question: have any companies done this successfully?

Telegram does this, and I think they're successful with it.
All devices you listed, including iPhones, would have no downsides from being open. Quality of software has nothing to do with user restrictions. Even the opposite: the more open a platform is, the easier users can improve it and find/fix bugs. It's security through obscurity versus openness all over again. I would gladly hack my microwave to get rid of a stupid, long, loud sound at the end of its work.
> If you allow any other OS for example, you can't manage the security of that device anymore.

Sure, the original manufacturer can't manage the security anymore, but that's kinda the point. As an Android user, when my manufacturer stops shipping security updates I can switch to a custom rom that is still updated.
Update: I didn't find the source. The closest I found was an article featuring a prominent climate change scientist lamenting about other scientists overstating the issue, on the basis that when people find out it was overblown they would lose trust in whole idea. The scientist herself did not however, overstate the issue - she advocated a conservative approach to communicating with the public.
> We imagine a feature in which a user can log into their dashboard and say, “This function is misbehaving. I would like to enable function tracing right now.” The serverless function runtime can then immediately begin tracing without any sort of recompile on the user’s side.

So like dtrace or Frida or Intel Pin? Or perhaps like perf? Or good old GDB? It’s hard to say without a more specific description of ‘function tracing’. Perhaps it’s an entirely new user interface design that provides benefits never seen before. I could easily believe that, considering how often debugging tools have terrible UIs, don’t work in modern languages, or just don’t fit modern server workloads very well. Yet whatever it is, I would be surprised if it could not have been implemented for native code using the same underlying techniques as those tools.

That doesn’t mean it should have been implemented for native. I think WebAsssembly is fine to base a platform around, really. Has its benefits, like hardware and OS independence, and being designed to run isolated components, and having its ecosystem designed from scratch without some of the mistakes of the past.

But why are its proponents constantly ascribing to it supposedly unique capabilities that really aren’t?

Even the cold start and memory benefits could largely be replicated for native code if you write a custom kernel. Sure, it’s very useful to be able to just run under an existing OS. But still, people act as if lightweight isolation is fundamentally impossible without a JITted platform like WebAssembly, or without putting everything in the same address space, when it is not. At most, the use of software bounds checks can reduce context switch times somewhat more than you could get with a custom kernel, but at the cost of potential Spectre skeletons in the closet (something I want to try attacking myself some day). And native context switch times are already a few microseconds at most.
That was one thing. I think the biggest thing was that in Reddit you got to chose the type of content you wanted to see. You more or less curated your own feed. The moment Reddit started shoving "You might like this" into the website, I knew it was soon to be over. Reddit no longer wants you to choose what to see, it wants to decide for you, like all other social media websites. And the reasoning is unassailable, all those other websites have made their owners obscenely rich, so why not /u/spez too?
I'm (Dutch) self-employed, which means I have my own one-man company, and as such, I can get my VAT back for stuff I buy for my business. Of course I also have to charge VAT for my services again, so that's expected to include the VAT for the stuff I bought.

But it does create a massive tax loophole: because I'm a software developer, I can deduct the costs of any computer I buy, but nobody is checking whether I actually use it for work or for gaming. I can deduct work lunches, but employees can't. I know someone who deducted his motorbike because he also used it for work. I can deduct phone and internet costs because I also use them for work.

I find the way I can avoid some taxes that others can't, rather questionable. Frankly, everybody should have their own company to avoid this inequality. And the stuff I can deduct is small potatoes compared to the stuff I'm sure some other people are deducting. I'm no tax expert, but I'm sure this is a big part of why billionaires pay so little tax.

Also, companies on the edge of the health care system have a problem, because health care is VAT free, so health care companies cannot get the VAT back they have to pay to their suppliers, which makes suppliers of services to the healthcare industry effectively more expensive than they should be. I think this whole system is in dire need of an overhaul.
I was nodding along until key-value storage, which seems to contradict its own points about vendor lock-in and APIs?
"Acts" don't exist in EU law. You either have Regulations (which become law after being approved) and Directives (which member states are bound to implement in their own legislation).
"EU Acts" are just the new BS PR way to add yet another level of abstraction to European politics.
“Tell me about a time when Engineering changed the product direction…”

Open-ended questions like that.