skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a quest 2 owner so I'm used to even worse passthrough. The thing is though that I don't mind, because I don't really have any _use_ for passthrough beyond moving a bit of furniture or finding the controllers. Being able to read off my phone screen while wearing the headset isn't a concern, if I'm taking a break from the headset for a minute or two I'll just take it off.

Hand tracking and eye gestures are really nice to have for sure and they make navigating menus feel like actual magic, but again the vast vast majority of what I'm doing when I'm wearing a headset is not navigating menus. This is the point I was making: I don't highly value navigation because if there IS an application in that style I'm probably just going to do it on a phone or PC, menus are not immerse and gain nothing from existing in 3d space.

If I want to move around in a virtual space that's larger than the physical space I'm in I essentially need a controller for smooth movement unless I'm going to be making constant hand gestures.
It's a Simpsons meme: https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/ralph-in-danger

In this case the danger is having to take tedious action to migrate 100 domains, or suffer from a small price increase x100 = a big price increase.
Any bets on when Google Voice will be shutdown?
What if the intent is to increase brand and impending IPO awareness? Investors don’t care about ethics, and they’re well aware that the majority of users won’t care about this decision.
I spent 6 months on a feature that I thought would require 2 lines of code and less than an hour to test and ship.

It took 1 month dissecting spaghetti to conclude the task was impossible without a hughe rewrite.

5 months later, the feature was a 2 line change, that could be tested and shipped in an hour.
"The Elo system was invented as an improved chess-rating system over the previously used Harkness system" - I can use a spoon to repair my coffee machine. It still wasn't invented for that.
8 figures of what, doll hairs?

Seriously, 10s of millions wasn't worth switching?
>things are true or they're not true, they're rigorous or they're unrigorous

Mathematics (more specifically, meta mathematics) has the ability to talk about these issues. "What is truth" quickly becomes an asinine question, if you don't at least accept some meta framework in which the question becomes actually meaningful and so far the only field which I which actually has the ability to coherently question itself is mathematics.

The problem with post modernism I have aren't the ideas specifically, but the fact that if you see the world as filled with mutually incohrent narratives talking about anything becomes very hard.
But post modernist throry gives insane people the thought that they can write anything and it becomes justified, because narrative coherence can not exist anyways. Nothing could be further from the "truth".
>Are we actually okay with these spaces that shape significant discussion/sentiment being guided by people who lack accountability?

No, but there's no way to change this situation because Reddit won't create a situation where they have oversight capabilities for mods... that creates too much liability for them. In addition to getting value for the free labor of mods, Reddit also gets a legal shield.
Remember when Facebook had a thriving app community? With that farming game and the Scrabble thing?

It's certainly a pattern.
I don’t thing that’s generally true? Else papers like the Sun or the NYPost would be out of business years ago.
The reason I "propose" it is that I personally don't have anything worth putting under this license.
I didn’t see an attack on rank and file away at all. This article was squarely aimed at Google’s later leaders ie Sundar.

He’s a peacetime general and he missed the coming war. He also has continued, like past leaders, a strategy of letting inmates run the asylum (“talent” driving their own projects without a firm connection to overall strategy and customers).

“Talent” will do what you tell it to do. My current company also believes in hiring talented people, but our CEO is also extremely clear about overall strategy and customer orientation, so I rarely find that people wander too far off in unproductive directions.
I would say OP was pretty disingenuous in implying that this was merely "fat people feel better from diabetes drug", when clearly it's not that they "felt better", it was that the medication reduced incidence of long covid when given during infection.
Their cinematics are pretty, but their plot is basically “spin the roulette wheel to find out which protagonist catches The Corruption.”
> If you don't pay for it, it's not your community. Again and again people think they get something for free, which they don't.

Reddit should have thought about it shouldn’t they? Not paying mods and content creators means it’s not their content and people don’t have to listen to a handful of glorified web developers.
This is so sad honestly. Like wtf is going on, no apology, no good will, doubling down on the complete moral suicide of Reddit. To push an app no-one ever liked, you know that, but whatever. No-one likes “new” Reddit either, you know that, but whatever. Who’s even gonna use the site after this? Social media zombie sheeple is all that's going to be left.
Congrats on your dumb little site, from the front-page of the Internet, to the rear end of the internet. You killed your babies, man. Antagonising your most loyal users, for what? Bit of cash? Are you guys starving or what??

Man idk. I hope San Francisco is doing good. This is supposed to be the city of hippies and love, but lately not so much good news coming out of there. It really makes me sad to see Reddit explode like this.
I have a separate folder called "corporate" on Plex; it has the two you mentioned + Up In The Air.
That is fair enough on what their reasons might be (just like there are reasons for all other changes which all sort of make sense in some way except if you look at all of them together and what they did or didn't change it seems like an arbitrary cutoff). Heck isn't Dative nowadays even officially allowed to replace Genetive or is it just that everyone thinks it's snobbish now? Sich des Genetivs zu befleissigen scheint altmodisch.

I get the actual szett. That's not the point of dass vs das after the comma. That's exactly my point. It never was about the szett vs. double s for that rule. The thing that trips people up about that rule wasn't the szett. It's the "can you replace the dass/dasz with 'welche(s)' or not". And they did not make that part easier. But that's what the reform was about. Everything was supposed to make more sense and be easier. Except kids that had learned for 12 years suddenly were supposed to use arbitrary new rules in year 13 which would be their final school year exams (replace with 11/12 in states with 12 instead of 13 years).

Like you say "das" and "dass" really make the same sound. As did "dasz" (instead of making a "dahs" sound).

Side note: just like people not getting das vs dass irks me in German the there and they're really irks me in English. Is it really that hard? (tho on the interwebs we gotta discount half the misspellings nowadays to autocorrect I would presume).
This! Google has a history and present strategy of making reactive moves to please shareholders. I’m shocked the masses trust them with email. When can we go back to decentralized self-hosted?
It’s technically possible but implausible given what we know. The counter arguments to aliens being here are incredibly strong.
Battery life and responsiveness. Eg there's no alternative to the M2 Pro CPU. It's not just pareto optimal, but at the top of the leaderboard in both metrics
So?

Let’s say you had an old large code base in 100,000s of lines of code that just works and has been mostly untouched for years in eol/maintenance. you expect there to be budget or time to rewrite it into python 3 for literally no reason other then “2.7 is deprecated”?

It’s far cheaper, potentially millions cheaper, to just change clouds/providers and find a way to continue on 2.7.
I should have been clear. I’ve barely used Azure. I helped a team migrate to it from AWS a while ago, and that went really well for a few reasons but the platform didn’t really grab me. Maybe that’s because I’m just not interested in delving into yet another platform and I should give it more of a chance.

Comparable infrastructure on Azure somehow ended up costing that team around 60% of what their AWS setup cost which was a bit confusing. Their monthly spend went from $900 CAD to about $650. I never had a chance to dig deep on that, but I assume that before there was something clumsy happening with allowing expensive resources to live too long or something. It was a big difference for such a small company though.

I’m not sure if that’s a thing (Azure being cheaper) but it made me think I should do price comparisons there next time I have a budget conscious client who isn’t already partial to another platform.
I just get the kernel and grab the stock Debian userspace for the architecture. Vendors like to do horrible stuff to their sample distros.

I’ve also tried Yocto and Buildroot and frankly they’re not that great. Yocto’s build system is so complicated it could take months to fit all your custom layers together to get a working image. Every vendor of every layer has their own conventions and you have to manage patch sets on top of patch sets to get some things working. Buildroot works better but still has a rigid vision for what an embedded Linux system looks like and how it fits together.

The beauty of Linux is that once you get to libc the interface is identical no matter what board you’re using so there’s no reason to build everything from source. And if you want something like Yocto you’d be better off building rpm or deb packages from a basic layer and then using eg multistrap to build a root filesystem.
>some people have made a connection between the decision to effectively shut down Reddit's API and the increasing popularity of LLM/ChatGPT

Those people really don't have an idea how either of those work, nor how cause and effect work.

See also the graph showing that the decrease in the number of pirates in the world's oceans has contributed to climate change because "pirates are cool".
They did have some leverage but only so long as Reddit was still trying to keep up appearances. They probably did the equation and figured that bad optics for a little while outweighs possible long term gains. At that point all the mods power vanishes.
I believe this is more than speculation. Pretty sure that someone from Reddit basically said as much in one of the transcripts or conversations shared by Apollo’s dev. Reddit feels they are getting burned by letting their data be used to train LLMs for free.

That said, they were also letting people exceed their API rate limits by massive amounts, so hard for me to put the blame anywhere but with Reddit.
TLDR:

> By day 300 of follow-up, 93 (8.3%) of 1,126 participants said they had received a diagnosis of long COVID by a provider. The cumulative incidence of long COVID by day 300 in those who took a 14-day course of metformin was 6.3% (95% confidence interval [CI], 4.2 to 8.2) compared to 10.4% (7.8 to 12.9) in the placebo group, or 39.4% lower.

Interestingly, half of the participants in the study (which took place starting in December of 2020) were unvaccinated. The researchers noted that metformin appears to have reduced the viral load greatly. I wonder if that is equally true for vaccinated and unvaccinated patients. It would seem plausible (not a doctor) that the reduction in viral load is related to the lower incidence of long COVID.

Now that we're in 2023, and pretty much everyone is either multiply-vaccinated or has had COVID, the study might turn out differently. If anyone has looked into the paper/data, I'd be interested to know whether the benefit is equal among vaccinated/non-vaccinated.
Thanks for writing this down. I don’t know about the details of Reddit moderation for popular subs, but I’ve moderated a pretty tiny one, and have some friends who moderate small communities elsewhere.

The perception that Mods are all power hungry and looking to impose their will is all consuming in some circles, ans it frustrates me. Most of the moderation is pure drudgery that is uninteresting and un controversial. Occasionally a mod will be wrong, or cross a line, and that sucks. But there is a real lack of appreciation for the work these volunteers do day to day.

Like, when I talk about this stuff with some friends who are nerds but don’t hang out in the same circles as any mods, they have no idea that mods are actually doing work beyond occasionally banning someone.
Oh really? There is already a "vibrant App Store" (whatever that means) full of VR ready apps? Before anybody has received the hardware?

Or do you mean you can install iPhone apps? That's a completely different thing and makes your statement highly misleading

Also, are you implying that the Quest App Store is somehow not "vibrant"?

There are many reasons why I am super excited about the Vision Pro, but the App Store do not number among them
Disney’s Weirdest Sci-Fi Movie Could Never Be Made Today
AWS IAM is one of the worst AWS products I’ve used. I should take a look at AD.
> put it to a public vote

Those votes were brigaded by people pushing the blackout, they are not representative of the overall community.

The average user of Reddit completely ignored/scrolled past those polls because "whats this doing in the NBA sub"

I find it hard to have any faith in those polls considering one of the subs that I mod that has ~3500 members got just over 4800 votes on the poll.

The other sub I mod with 1300 members got 800 votes (which averages 10 posts per week from a core regular group of users)

I do not believe for a second that a sub with less than 100 'active' monthly members had more than 60% of the total lifetime population of that sub come online all of a sudden and vote in the communities best interest.

Then on the other side of it, you've got subs with millions of members that had 20k responses. The average user did not (and does not) care.
Now that those subs have been re-polled without being flooded by protesters, it's a overwhelming "No, leave us out of this"
An enlighted dictatorship, if I may.
Isn't KDE Neon desktop only? For phones, postmarketOS and Mobian would be the ones I think of.
Good news, red reader was granted an accessibility exemption so it's sticking around.
That's amazing and wonderful. The only guys who use a vote are anarchists.
I think you nailed it on the head. Whenever something brakes, we’re faced with basically 3 choices: fix it, pay someone to fix it, or abandon it. One of the most critical moments before a choice is made, is the problem solver mentally overcoming the problem and envisioning themselves fixing it. “How much will I have to learn?” “How much will I have to spend on tools I don’t have?”, etc.

Accessing the troublesome parts of a motorcycle is orders of magnitude easier than with a car. And few specialty tools (I can’t think of any right now) are generally required.

I owned a few motorcycles in my 20s, but sold them after my first child was born. A decade later, after a significantly challenging year, I decided to buy a motorcycle because, “I just want something to look forward to.” Beautiful days are more meaningful when the weather is granting you permission to go for a ride.
For small subreddits that may work, but for the larger ones Reddit doesn't care, they won't let such technicalities get in the way of their revenue.

The only way to really "win" here is to abandon the platform en masse, and delete all your content before you walk out the door.
I’m not claiming a lack of skill.

I’m calling bullshit on the scenario where a distressed family member which is low key claiming you’re mishandling the patient is suddenly calmed when confronted by a doctor that is reading a script filled with claims of empathy and care.
Listening =/= recording. Although entirely plausible, I've yet to see home assistants implicated in surreptitious recording.
Pretty sure couch co-op is just on consoles.
"Lessons." The word you're looking for is "lessons." As in "Lessons from kCTF VRP's 42 Linux kernel exploits submissions."
Websites are legally required (both e-privacy directive and GDPR) to inform users (at least those from the EU) about what user information they store/track. This pertains to cookies as well as any other methods of doing so. Since they're the ones doing that, it makes sense that they're the ones with the legal obligation. It just so happens that just about every website decided to make this incredibly obnoxious, instead of respecting their visitors.

As a legal professor said (paraphrased): it was amazing to see an entire industry come together to undermine legislation.
Ask HN: What are some good landing pages you saw which convert?
Do share the link.
If it's too small, what is the right amount, and who should pay it?

I believe the world governments should create an international organization funded by per country quotas like the IMF for example to pay for bounties, but until then, the fact a private company does this sets the market price for exploits, and saying "it's too low" seems meaningless if there's no proof anyone is willing to pay more.

I'm sure if it were $1m per bounty some other HN user would say it should be more as well. That's why you define this by how much someone _actually_ pays out, because talk is cheap.
Significant numbers of my network have SOME kind of reported issues long after infection. Most common is respiratory issues – reduced lung capacity, difficulty breathing, running out of breath more quickly during exercise, etc. That's not to say any of these are official diagnoses, but we still know relatively little about the long term effects of COVID.
I do not think it is much of a reach, Leibniz by that point had already conxeptualized the computer and believed that all questions could be answered by it.
Does YC still own any stake in Reddit? Didn't Conde Nast acquire 100% back in the day?
Interesting idea to try out and compare. Indeed the visual feedback provides the biggest value, though to me verbs "fork" from the objects, so it's more "natural" to have some selection then decide what exactly you want to do with it, delete, or replace, or ...
they're unpaid volunteers. too bad.

I don't think this is controversial at all. In the best interest of the community it makes sense for reddit to step in and appoint new mods that will not try to shutdown the community.

I don't like or agree with the API call costs, but this is how it works. If its not on your server you dont control it. someone else does. in this case is F#cking /u/Spez
What Are Zero-Knowledge Rollups
It would have taken a solid year of work and all of my DevOps resources, for what? The customers won’t know or care. If I wanted to burn $5 million in salary and a year of feature development I’d rather figure out an on-prem solution, because at least someone might want that. The “pay to switch cloud” model doesn’t make sense.
its the death of reddit, just like digg before it. And google circles or whatever it was called its been so long. and myspace and friendster and orkut and aol and msn and Usenet and Dubsmash and vine and literally more sites than Wikipedia fits on one page

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Defunct_social_netw...
A falacy here is there are commercial just-crud apps. There are not. If it is just crud then just rails scaffold it, and estimate day 1 day.

We could be better and more like the subset of real infrastructure projects that are on time and budget. There is probably a subset of software that is too. You need to a great waterfall. Probably allow prototypes that can be thrown away and have a decent budget for the design phase that will shore up the design and therefore the estimate. And have developers on one project.

Hire project managers that are on their 15th ERP build and making a similar one for you. And use last decades tech so there are less uncertainties (probably not a bad idea for many things - gimme that winforms app without all the slower SPA spinners!)

Even with all this what software lacks is classic Engineering (long degree, good concepts taught, respectable education over leetcode practice and so on). Problem is California will piss all over your business with move fast attitude unless you are boring enough to be off their radar.

Be boring!
This doesn’t track. A sizeable amount of the population do believe aliens are here and most of them seem to be shrugging and carrying on with their lives. Like, what are you even going to do about it?
Yes, you will see it if you are paying attention. If you are on auto-pilot mode and assume that the top result with the blue icon on the play store will be google messages, you will get duped. The name of the vendor for these ads is also designed to confuse and obfuscate. The top ad's vendor is "Text Messaging". A few days ago when I did this, the name of the vendor was "Top Rated App". Play store doesn't say "Vendor: Top Rated App", the text "Top Rated App" or "Text Messaging" will just appear along with a bunch of other useless information.
Here's an interesting theory about that. I can't claim any credit for it, it's from Jim Rutt, I heard him on the Clearer Thinking podcast (https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/160/jim-rutt-lar...).

He basically argues that LLMs are going to mean that vast quantities of the content on the internet are going to become automatically-generated drivel which no-one wants to actually read. I think this is pretty plausible. So in order to consume information from the internet, it will basically be a requirement to use an AI tool which, for a given query that you might have, will go out and retrieve all the information on it from many different sources, and return them, appropriately listed and summarised. Such a tool would probably want API access to the likes of Reddit, but would also make the main value prop of the way social media works currently (getting ads in front of eyeballs) useless. So end users will probably end up having to pay for their API use so that their tools can access these sites, and as a pleasant side effect they'll see no ads. So perhaps we'll end up at the promised utopia where users pay a little bit for the content that they like, and don't see ads along the way, as a result of AI. I have no idea how likely this is, but it sounds pretty good to me if it does work out like that.
Spaz apparently said the opposite of this to the public media - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/reddit-says-it-won...
The thing is, it's all about that radio. No one cares what the core is. ESP32 is ample evidence of that: neither their Xtensa nor their RISC-V cores are as good as an ARM Cortex-M, in terms of design quality, implementation quality, documentation, ecosystem, or general familiarity. And it just doesn't matter. No one even cares about the Xtensa versus RISC-V products. The toolchain, documentation, major features, and raw horsepower available are all that's important.

Which is a long way to say that ARM has no moat here.
If your domain registrar supports forwarding emails, I think you can continue to receive emails through a custom domain.

Sending email with your custom domain in the from/reply-to address is a different business, I recall it requires getting gmail to verify that you can receive via that custom address, and also set the mail server to smtp.gmail.com port 587.
If you see 'disk not ejected properly' on your Mac Pro (2023)
That talent you are insulting literally created the breakthrough LLM technology which then was ignored by Sundar for years.

What this author has completely wrong was that the talent actually came up with tons of great products that with focus could grow and add revenue. But that was nothing compared to vaporware on stage at IO for execs.