skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it sucks. The only silver lining I see is that it seems this is the alternative to war, in which case people would be indiscriminately enlisted and killed. Maybe things wouldn't go that far either way but it's all I can think of.
> Meta already sells the Quest systems basically at production cost, and just ignores the development costs

It is a bit ambiguous, but it sounds like they sell the Quest at hardware cost and take the loss in all software costs and R&D.

So it's irrelevant that other VR companies won't have the costs of building the OS, the headsets cannot be cheaper unless they optimize the production, which they are unlikely to do better than Meta (except perhaps for Chinese companies).
It's a mature product, it's stable and it works. Most problems have been solved. As a result there isn't much to talk about, therefore it gets drowned by less mature technologies which have yet to solve their problems and thus generate more press.

As for why startups don't use it, well it's a boring technology and boring technologies are bad if your objective is to justify hiring lots of engineers and build an engineering playground to justify all that VC money, so they go for something more fickle and fast-moving like JS or "serverless" instead.

Companies who use it exist (and even new ones), you don't hear about it much because they're too busy solving their business problem and making profit instead of messing around with tech and talking about it.
One man's trash is another man's treasure. And when applied to ad ridden platforms the metaphor sticks very well.
Soundcloud.com is testing a new UI
SoundCloud is testing new designs on the web client.
These changes are more than stylistic as we incrementally adopt a more performant architecture.

The first redesigned UX is: https://soundcloud.com/you/tracks

What do you think?
I don’t think that’s the cause, it’s more likely second hand smoke from Asian men who are atrocious smokers.
Though total losses for Reality Labs is not 10s of millions but $45B since the end of 2020 [1].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/meta-stock-plunges-15...
I think Honda's brand is a genuine advantage. They know how to make good cars, and people trust them as a result.

I'm in my 40s, but still only on my second car, which is an old Honda Civic. I plan to drive it until I can purchase a second- or third-gen EV Civic. (Surely Honda eventually plans to make an EV Civic?)
What I gathered from Carmack is the cost Mets sells their hardware at is BOM plus assembly. He specifically excluded development cost, which I presume includes OS and software.
I just don't understand how, if their problem is rent is too high and inflation doesn't apply to wages, they vote for Trump. He has made money his whole life by jacking up rent prices and paying people as little as he's legally allowed to (or less than that).
In this case, a HTTP API is the abstraction. Integrating with ACH and other payment rails requires a lengthy integration process. Sometime you have to send binary files using FTP!
Ask HN: What papers/talks/blogs have stayed with you over time?
Like (I assume) a lot of people here I love reading/watching blogs/papers/talks- a lot of the time, I don't know which ones mean the most to me until several months/years after.

For example, I enjoyed Richard Gabriel's Worse is Better[0] when I first read it, but its only over time that I've realized just how often it applies to something I come across in the real world.

So, what papers/talks/blogs has everyone read that stuck with then over time?

[0] https://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
What does headquarters even mean these days? A building with a logo on it and an update of address on a website?

The Oracle campus in Austin is huge and beautiful and mostly empty. What's the point of actually making a building?
Teraform and serverless doing the exact same thing at the exact same time really indicates that the market conditions that allowed for software like this was not long term sustainable.

As a builder that leverages them both, I'm saddened, but I get it.
Ahh yes courting the young vote, that group famous for going out to the polls in large numbers. The 16-25 age group is really into FCC regulation and anti-TikTok right now.
Well, as an example, Proteus (https://store.steampowered.com/app/219680/Proteus/) is a very clever game, but comes across as too simple when I'm sober. The childlike wonder instilled in me when tripping pairs great with the aesthetics of the game. I'm more interested in exploring, in taking my time, in giggling. I'm happy the control scheme is simple rather than being frustrated that the designer didn't add more complexity to enrich the game further.
Maybe? But how is Trump or the Republican Party planning to address any of these?

Remember, Trump successfully pressured the Fed to lower interest rates while the economy was strong. Think that contributed a bit to the inflation we've been dealing with?

Are they recommending corporate tax increases? New marginal tax brackets? No? Did they add tax loopholes for private jets and yachts while they were last in power? You bet!

No, what they're doing instead is trying to scapegoat things like "woke" college students and immigrants.
You can connect through a locally running node, which reduces latency to some degree.
One of the fun challenges we faced was keeping an uninterrupted playback across the old and new web app.

Here is a video summary of those changes:
https://soundcld.xyz/web/player/urn:videoasset:14668f9405
Hey,
I am Jaime and I wanted to find out if my design automation scripts were actually used by my fellow architects.
So I made a shareable framework the gathers data in a central hub.
Are "society-over-individual values" really such an obviously bad thing?
Don’t confuse talking points with the underlying reality. Trump supporters existed when inflation was basically non existent. His support is really independent of the economic situation.

It’s going to be interesting to see what happens in this time. He barely beat one of the least popular candidates in decades and then got crushed the next election cycle. Opposition candidates tend to do well when the economy is doing poorly, but he’s got a lot of baggage and the poles are dead even right now.
And the past three years have seen the return of friendliness and comity unseen for a decade /s
Show HN: Job Board for Referral Bonuses (Peer to Peer only, no hiring managers)
Hello, my friend was offered a referral bonus at his company. Essentially, they had an open position, and if he referred someone and that person got hired, my friend would receive a $500 bonus. But he did not know anyone to refer.

Many of us know it is hard to get hired right now, and asking for a referral from a current employee can help.

Thus, I built this little job board. The front end is Vue inside Astro, then just supabase in the backend. Vue Islands wrapped in Astro is a really fast way to build for several reasons, but I'll save that for another post.

The site does not even have a search bar yet because I figured it is unneccessary until we have enough posts that scrolling the page is difficult, so why build it before that? I might limit it to only Software Engineers alone so that we never really need to add a search bar, just a filter for preferred/best language and tech stack.

It is fundamentally a network and thus only valuable in proportion to the number of users.

Do you think this is useful to you? Who might it be useful to? Let me know what you think.
Google is in the fortunate position of having their own in house AI compute modules (TPU's) that are more or less on par with Nvidia chips.

They might have to compete for foundry time, but it's better than having to compete for AI chips.
That’s a bit of an extreme comment “seeking medical help” but to be fair I’m only aware of the “to 1953” legislation and not the additional “to 1853” legislation.
HTC no, but Valve absolutely could compete. They have an existing popular App Store where they receive a cut of the profits. Even breaking even on hardware costs they could still reap fairly substantial profits if they were to succeed in the VR market.

Also regarding the Vision Pro, as long as Apple doesn't give up on it, it absolutely should come down in price over time. The original Macintosh retailed for $2,495, which is approximately the equivalent of $7,250 in today's dollars adjusted for inflation.
Right, Stripe is a middleman and part of the value they're giving you is that you don't have to work directly with the underlying payment companies. If you had to support the same range of payment options without a middleman, you'd need to have business relationships with a bunch of payment companies, which would be a lot more difficult and time-consuming.

Hope that's clearer!
There are still bill riders on many congressional votes. I don't think this is true (regarding elimination of earmarks)
They published the plan and its pretty much what the parent comment said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

The GOP wants fascism everywhere
I always felt Google did what Google does best by shooting off its own foot by controlling who has access to the google store with an iron fist.

Since Meta can't win over google, i guess the next best thing to do is make sure meta store can be on other hardware since G isn't allowing that.
As in:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/.i

? Didn't work for me.
What makes you think you'll be alone on Debian? Plenty of people run testing. I don't mean to be argumentative, I simply cannot follow your logic.
If you look at the number of executive orders per president, republicans tend to have slightly more over the past couple decades. (Bush more than Obama, Trump more than Biden.)

I don’t think executive orders are that concerning when the legislative body has problems getting shit done. It’s a normal political tool that both parties use (relatively) evenly. What is concerning is gravely anti-constitutional movements to overturn the results of democratic elections.
Not wanting to compromise comes largely from the two-party system. If a politician had to worry about losing votes to a more moderate party, they'd end up with less extreme voting records.

Multi-party governments function largely because some subset of the parties agrees to compromises to gain a combined majority on a specific topic; none of them can do anything in isolation.
Yes, exactly, the important thing to us is that our users don't need to build an additional mental model between us and the networks we sit atop. If you know the network, we want you to be able to intuit how our API works. There's a very real difference (arguably the fundamental value-add of our company) in the transport layer, though. The actual mechanics of integrating with, say, FedACH, are a bit long to get into here (we get into it a bit here if it's of interest: https://increase.com/documentation/fedach) but suffice to say it doesn't have a REST API.
It's so empty anywhere I go that it's an easy comparison. I can drive 15 minutes and see 0 bikes, 200 cars. I used to bike too. If there were anywhere near as many bikes as cars, I'd have sat next to them at traffic lights. Cars might bunch up more, but in any place with mid to heavy traffic, they're everywhere anyway.
Up 15% after hours on news that they will begin a large cash dividend and share repurchase program.
Gut of steel right there
I always wondered where this 1500 came from and now I see it was not really a coincidence, I find that in fact really interesting.
It reminds me of origins of PAL/NTSC 25/30 Hz (actually a bit less than 30, for good reasons). Also, sometimes film material of 24fps has been played back at 25 fps on tv, for convenience.
Use Syncthing as a Backup Tool?
It's a poor restriction. The table name I want is 収入. Now what?
Typical FBI. Make up dozens and dozens of bogus charges and commit to constant harassment until enough of the people targeted kill themselves. Then when a real judge finally gets involved slink away. Just like with Aaron Swartz and Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio.

Dear people flagging this, please stop perceiving my statements through your domestic political lenses. I am not talking politics here. Just because your team is currently pro-FBI or against-FBI doesn't mean I am talking about how the FBI interacts with your team. I am not.
I lost interest in video games after 3D first-person shooters took over back in the '90s. I never learned to play them effectively, and could not afford to keep up with the hardware-upgrade treadmill they demanded. Video gaming seemed to have become an expensive hobby for aggressive, competitive, trend-following people; I did not want to interact with such people, much less become one, and just... stopped paying attention.

The value proposition has definitely changed since those days: divide the purchase cost of "Baldur's Gate 3" by the number of hours of enjoyment my wife has gotten out of it, and the result is negligible. It's hard to imagine a less expensive form of entertainment short of going for a walk!

Sometimes I still like to play roguelikes (by which I mean games that are like Rogue, and not the mostly-unrelated recent genre also called "roguelike"), of which Brogue is my favorite; it can be a fun little puzzle to bang through when I have ten or twenty minutes to kill.
I feel like this opinion is a bit stale, many companies use tools like NextJS, and it's as productive as Rails and not what I'd call "fat". The biggest issue some folks have are there's no standard ORM yet (maybe Prisma), but ORMs are not so critical with node or js based apps imho.
During a major beer event once every ten years? Sure. Maybe for a concert as well.
Funny how they seem to rack up most of these high-profile accomplishments in election years....
> death rattle

Stock up 16% after hours.
This is the equivalent of a CEO/C-suite delegating decision making to various teams and leaders below them. They still add laws and appoint the leaders of those organizations, but can't be involved in every decision.

Can't expect every single item in the government to get direct democracy, the world would grind to a halt due to the sheer number of decisions needed to be made.
Remember when there was no net neutrality and everything...worked great?
Atlassian co-CEO stepping down after 23 years
What is ‘in the bay area’ code for
Can you provide a link to the weekly paper please
Back up your precious files on ordinary paper
The Supreme Court decides which cases it wants to hear and there are many cases brought into the legal system each year. That practically gives it the power to make (well, re/interpret) or strike down whatever legislation it wants, as long as there's a relevant-enough case.
Sadly not :(
Amazon's afterthought of a collaboration tool? The tool that is so bad that Amazon is switching to some amalgamation of o365 + slack
Yes, GP's point is 'good luck to you doing that yourself, without a middleman [such as Stripe]'.
I stopped for a long period of time, but I go back and forth. I don’t play any new games, though. I play the same two on and off.
They won't lose access by the election though. The courts are going to put a pause on this until it's settled in court.
Carmack is 100% correct in his assessment that software is holding VR back way more than hardware. The software is cumbersome, difficult to use, non-intuitive, confusing for newcomers, and glitchy. This is all even though you have a device as powerful as a laptop strapped to your face.

Other than a few games (Alyx, Beatsaber, maybe a few others), VR gaming is awful. "Productivity" software is even worse. I regret spending $1500 on my Quest Pro given that I've only used it for like a dozen hours.

VR Operating Systems and UI/UX concepts need to be re-thought from the ground up.
Give Zero Acre fermented ("cultured") oil a try.
> Don't pretend like the Democrats wouldn't be just as obstructionist if it suited their political objectives.

And this is exactly what they did when Trump was in office! Their motto was “#resist” for crying out loud. Sheesh, right now TikTok is on the verge of being banned, something that they were completely against when Trump wanted to do it. Bad idea when Trump wants it, good idea when Biden does.

Just be honest folks, it’s truly a “both sides” thing. And honestly, political gridlock is a good thing. Most of the people here on HN quickly forget how valuable it is when it’s the side YOU don’t like ramming legislation through.
No, they're smoking behind their parents backs when they're young, and they're not telling their doctors, because Asian Americans, like many minorities, tend to patronize doctors of their own ethnicity and those doctors know their parents.

Start doing autopsies on them - oh wait that's forbidden in their culture.
I used to game regularly. Since my baby was born, I’m just too tired at the end of the day. He’s over two now, and I’m still too exhausted.
Thanks! Definitely aiming to try them out
Show me another company that convinced thousands of young teens to call their representatives, about anything. [0] If your rebuttal of that is that it’s a good thing kids called their representatives, my response would be, TikTok has proven to have enough influence to get kids to call congress. Think about that for a second. A singular entity controlled by China influences thousands of children to pass along the concerns of TIKTOK THE COMPANY.

Wonder what their next concern will be?

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/14/tikt...
It's still considered a dwarf planet fwiw
What is dead is the utopian dream that making companies whose main product is raw software, is possible to do in a sustainable way, while keeping everything open source.

There are bills to pay, donations only give so much, very few buy books from community members, consulting doesn't apply to all software, trainings even less, not everything can be a SaaS,...
Hairspray that are toxic and poison.
> the sheer difficulty with which to get a bill written, passed, and signed into law is by design

No, the 118th Congress was not how anything was designed to operate. This is hand waving mixed with Founding Father fairytales.
Netflix Case Study – FreeBSD Foundation
It’s less so about the answer, and more about the question
Interesting point regarding auto-discovery, thank you.

Somebody else has also told me a helm chart would be useful.
Ever? Yes. Copyrights do eventually expire.

But, at least in the US, they last for a ridiculously long amount of time. For people, they last for the life of the copyright holder plus 50 years. For companies and anonymous works, they last for 75 years after creation or 100 years after publication, whichever is shorter or determinable.

I wouldn't bank on a DMCA exception ever happening, so in the absence of having permission from the copyright holder, such a thing is not likely to be legal within our lifetimes.
I hope you read this Ree

I just read "am-i-actually-lazy-or-simply-delusional" posts. So much resonated with me. I've read a few other posts and I'm 99% you're ADHD. I was 50+, two years into therapy and a decade of self help before I stumbled upon "https://medcircle.com/articles/do-i-have-adhd-or-am-i-just-l...". It turned my life around. No you're not lazy - you're a hunter not farmer just like Seth Godin and me.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40158183
I think it is part of the public discourse, you just may not have encountered it. I recently had cause to recommend some examples of science fiction books that had good world-building that would be useful models for another writer. The two that sprang to mind that I gave the writer, it turned out, were both by female writers (although another non-fiction book I suggested was by a male writer). Part of my onboarding training at my current job was about avoiding unconscious biases by being aware of them.

It does feel a little counter-intuitive that women get discriminated against in publishing given that I think the majority of workers in publishing are women (although the gender balance is reversed as you move up the ladder). I’m querying a novel right now and 85% of the agents on my query list are women. Of course, ultimately what matters is the views of the people writing the checks.
They didn't invest much into Upstart at all, and quickly announced a switch after Debian adopted systemd.

They still maintain Mir, as a Wayland display server.

Unity was one of the most popular desktop environments and brought Ubuntu users a lot of value over the years. It even influenced the design of GNOME 3.
I say Meta is a heavy lifter that can fully subside them. They want us to strap an ad ridden device to our heads? Won't really work with the price higher than $0.
There's a very good chance the courts will find the ban unconstitutional.
Huh? I don't understand the question. Certainly!
I have moved to Kagi as my search engine, although 99.99..% of people will probably never pay for search. Anecdotally, whenever I'm not finding what I need on Kagi and fallback to Google (less than once per week), it's shocking what a disaster the UX of Google's products have become (Maps is an even bigger offender than Search, where seemingly arbitrarily labeled places get more visibility than the search results).
Related:

The man who killed Google Search

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976
I'm looking for full text of the actual action / implementation. Like the document containing the text that they actually voted on, specifically.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40160960
Also:

Is it less democratic because unlike laws, there's an open comment period for the public to make their voice heard? (unlike laws or executive orders)

Is it less democratic because it's policy being implemented by people who spend a lot of time thinking about the policy and its effects, rather than by some blowhard trying to score culture war points on twitter than making a policy?
Why AI is failing at giving good advice
I find GPT4 requires long queries to get much out. And I can't be bothered typing out a long query if Google can give me the same in 3 words and scanning down the result page.
I think this is the same thing I feel when I read Meta's earnings. I continue to see growth in usage of their core properties but I don't think my entire circle touches Facebook or even Instagram nearly as much.

Whatsapp certainly isn't driving those ad dollars so it truly is remarkable how disconnected my demographic (loosely using my here) is from the overall world usage.
Which hard way? None of those forks are relevant enough to matter.
It is possible that someone wanted to share their work with others without any payment expectations (but not realize the value of their work) and chooses to license it permissively.The product becomes successful, but the only ones earning money through the product are big companies. ( One may argue that project became successful because of its license or because it was used by the said company, but they are difficult arguments to prove and accept).

I won't fault them for expecting to get paid if they later realize the value of their work and know that it is generating significant commercial money. It is natural to feel like being taken advantage of by the commercial entity when they don't get compensated (even if that was their initial choice).

When someone says "you should have chosen to make it proprietary or use a more restrictive license from beginning", it might come across as a polite way of saying "Too bad, no backsies! You were foolish enough to chose a permissive license. So, accept the consequences".

If a developer wants to get paid for their work with something other than "feel good OSS points", I don't see many options out there. They need to solicit donations(which doesn't have good track record) or re-license.

I think as more products go through this cycle of permissive license, monetization by third-party and re-licensing, we'll be seeing a significant number of projects erring on the side of caution and use restrictive licenses from the start.