skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tencent was/is big on funding Reddit. Around the time they soaked $150m, privacy policy has changed, some functionalities were added that do not work on old.reddit w/o JS, www.reddit started resembling other social media sites and the site became more profit-oriented and - for me - user-hostile.
Will Wight, for anyone interested
.. just listening to the audio book. It supports the articles headline with substantial insights. I can recommend it.
Earlier discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24984800
Seeing the headline made me remember that I wondered similar about google's hiring from another country to be quality guidelines raters or something like that.

I'd like to know more about the people and the culture there - not because it's easy to miss some culture thing here- but not knowing small things, the quality raters could be pushing some type of content into X category and other things into Y - and not because it's in the tons of pages of text they are supposed to follow, but because - whatever religion / other culture things are a thing there.
It’s so sad seeing my back then dream company IBM Research becoming a zombie. Probably that’s normal cycle of some companies.
Yes, (sans.edu) URL's for Articles do not conform, hence in future I will post said as a comment
> Reddit is the ONLY place on the Internet where you can simultaneously watch garbage recycled content from TikTok and visit extremely-niche and highly knowledgeable communities in the same session.

Sounds similar to Twitter and YouTube.
I love reddit as a user. But, I would not have considered investing in them since it seems like they've struggled to make money... but according to the article, Q2 ad revenue was $100 million (3x YoY).
Not sure I'm convinced. They'd have to have their heads totally buried in the sand to not know it's a problem, and as the saying goes, it is difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends upon not understanding it. If it makes it potentially harder for a democrat to get elected, why would they want to support it? That's one of the reasons I consider voting reform so important since it shows a critically severe character flaw if they aren't willing to risk losing their power.

It's not like Newsom is some outlier, just a year ago in San Diego there was an initiative to try and put IRV on the ballot so that the people of San Diego could vote on whether they wanted it or not. The initiative to put it on the ballot failed, only 2/6 democrats in the city council voted in favor of it. 1/2 republicans were in favor and the independent was in favor.

My personal theory is that if there's a strong majority, then the party on top would not be in favor of it. Hopefully we can break the cycle but it's a hard problem when the people most incentivized to vote for it are already the most marginalized.
Over here you can keep your number when you change networks.

Very few people change their phone number ever.
Meta has made a full announcement of vaporware, but the metaverse is specifically not Meta's property, nor do they get to define what the metaverse is/will become.

In that sense, I agree with you we should ignore the marketing, and I also think we should talk about the metaverse as we talk about the web, not as some rigid concept, but more a vague idea of a thing in VR.
Seriously! Indian govt institutes are so blasé about modernizing their ways that it's embarrassing.
It's too easy to end up with the types of people who are no longer welcome on reddit. See Voat, Ruqqus, the entire win network, etc. Nobody wants to post pictures of their dog next to memes complaining about the Jews.

You could make an incredibly niche website, but then you're effectively competing for users with reddit.
> Reddit should not be a company to grow 1000x & exit with all employees being millionaires

I think the VCs that invested in Reddit did it for the very specific purpose that you just decided wasn't important anymore.
Interestingly, Mussolini getting the trains to run on time is a myth as well.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/loco-motive/

It's similar to how the Nazis claimed the Autobahn as their success, even though they were started under the Weimar Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsautobahn
There are some people that consider various aspects of the Oculus and Vive ecosystems to be the metaverse. Some people think The Sandbox and Decentrland are metaverses. There are others, and they're all here now. So, I guess it's a matter of opinion whether you believe any of these can be considered a metaverse.
Your app detects astroturfing?
The reason is simple. Maintenance work doesn't progress your career.

Why bother?
> Furthermore, I’m disturbed by the cavalier attitude here. Suicide isn’t a predestined thing that we’re helpless to prevent as a society.

That wasn’t the point that people were making. The point they were making is that removing fans doesn’t address the underlying mental health issues. If anything, arguing that everyone is ok now because fewer people are dying is the cavalier attitude because it overlooks the daily struggles that many will still be having.

Thus regardless of the points you’ve put excellently in your first paragraph, the students mental health issues do also need to be addressed too.

So I see your rebuttal as complimentary to the other points rather than fully dismissing them (ie it shouldn’t be “either/or” but rather “both things needs doing”).
Assuming teenagers and low 20 something’s are the similar the world over, they should have restricted access to terraces and rooftops for a variety of reasons unrelated to suicide. Alcohol and heights tend not to be very close friends, and my college restricted access to the latter as much as they could (the former was a lost cause).
I just want to applaud this for the effort.

I've seen jvns take a similar path to me in engineering over the years, almost uncannily. The difference mostly is that I stored it all in my head, and they take the time to write it up for everyone.

Same with DNS. DNS is such a freakin black box, mostly because outside of RFCs, it's some good ol boys club of 'consultants' that don't want to share information. You should see the mailing lists, it's a giant pissing contest.

Back on point, I always wanted to distill this information down to make it for everyone, but always hit some small hurdle like... making a website about it.

That Julia takes the time to do this and share this is invaluable. It's like a better version of me exists out there, and I'm happy for it.
At a minimum they should have chosen regions not in the same time zone or general geographic area. US-West 1 and US-West 2 might well be safeguarding against a server failure but is not a disaster plan. If your customers are global, choosing multiple continents is probably prudent.
> yes web 1.0 had potential but the consolidation of platforms and their protocols made it untenable

Unlike web3, where they platforms chose to write custom metadata to the blockchain and interpret as they so chose... Oh wait.
Why does every colour have its own GitHub repo?
If I want to search reddit content on my phone, I use google search because reddit's search sucks. But then I look like a non-converted user because I'm only logged in on the app not the mobile site.
Web3 seems like it is just starting to gain initial traction though? I'm seeing DAO threads that are teaching the early masses what that's all about, and there's a TON of skepticism still.

So, remembering the Web 2.0 and 1.0 skepticism as being part of the buildup, and looking at $SPY potentially forming a bull pennant on the weekly chart through early 2022, it could turn into a hot Web3 growth tech summer...
Since the desktop icon is scaled down, it has to be parsed at some point and saved back out at icon size. The fact that it says HELLO WORLD on the icon even if you're saving it from Safari means that whatever code is shrinking it into a little icon is parsing it differently from what's being used to display it at full size.
Reddit has possibly the worst mobile experience I've ever seen. I've never seen a company try to force its (awful, slow, buggy) app down people's throats harder if you try to use the mobile web version.

The entire mod culture needs to be reworked too. They need mods because more people brings more trolls, but aggressive banning and simultaneous muting so people can't ask why just leads to more trolling. Not to mention most mods just cite every ban in the coverall "read the rules / figure it out" so they have to spend no effort, even though those rules don't cover the actual ban reason.

I just can't believe how many consistently bad decisions are made there. The biggest of all was probably removing the separated and accurate upvote / downvote counters which is a massive feature to show the strength of otherwise downvoted comments.

Aside from these feature complaints, how does a company of this size and importance have such an astonishingly badly coded interface? I always have to use the Old site. It reminds me of an intern coming in and on day 1 marking all code as "legacy" and saying "Electron is the greatest thing ever made, because it's easy and just works. There's literally no reason to use anything except Electron for any project."
Turn off the "show trending subreddits on the home feed" flag in your preferences and you will get exactly what you described.
I heard the story on the Darknet Diaries podcast.

This article on Vice[0] seems to confirm it:

> Phirippidis told the audience that the bureau managed to corner Cazes and arrest him while he was still logged in as the admin of AlphaBay by ramming a car through the front gate of his home in Thailand.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/59wwxx/fbi-airs-alexandre-ca...
I hope so, however you can always start a company there and promise to hire Thai. As a foreigner who has not had a company for the last x years (7 I think) in Thailand, you get tax breaks (which are very generous; it amounts to paying nothing) and a visa for you and your family for 7 year or until the company dies (whichever is sooner). I have a handful of mates who did this and it works well. Mostly around Chiangmai where it seems IT and nomand friendly.
Without any other way to load the app on the device, it is de facto censorship.
Another much under-utilized way to speed up test suites: delete tests
Yes, but has the number decreased because of some fancy fences at the Last Exit Caltrain or because of a whole program of measures?

https://evolvetreatment.com/blog/palo-alto-teen-mental-healt...
Because they're designed for use cases where that is never a problem.
You’re moving the goalposts - the subject discussed was the participation of scientists in weapon programs. He might have been a scum (I think it’s trivializing what happened in Germany at that time, I digress), but his participation in the war effort is not unethical in itself.
Thousands of kilometers away, other scientists toiled on a weapon that makes all the weapons the Nazis developed seem benign.
Maybe crash isn't the word. Hundreds enter the room, ten come out, three are huge. Quid games, no ess necessary
QEMU 6.2 introduces full hypervisor support for M1 Macs. I've installed ARM Ubuntu Server in a VM on my MacBook, and wrote a blog post explaining it. It uses libvirt to start the VM in headless mode.

https://www.naut.ca/blog/2021/12/09/arm64-vm-on-macos-with-l...

And this is the script to force QEMU to run on the M1 efficiency cores to save battery life:

https://github.com/yoonsikp/vm_configs/blob/master/power_sav...
I'll go against the tide here and say Reddit I still think Reddit is great! sure I don't think the big subs, greater emphasis on monitization, and some of the other big changes they've made over the past few years are great - but I still love the smaller subs I participate in, and the I think the new UI quite nicer than the old one
Within the building’s on premise hosted infrastructure, are they going to buy multiple racks and multiple servers spread far enough apart so that there aren’t many single points of failure that will bring the badge machine down if they fail?
> Reddit should not be a company to grow 1000x & exit with all employees being millionaires, it should earn enough to pay the staff hefty six fig salaries and that's enough

Investors(which includes VCs/angels,etc. AND employees) should be rewarded, whether that's the risk they take (ex. VCs) or the work they put in (employees). I'm confused where this viewpoint came from, given every business works this way -- a company gets investments (either through money or employee time) and if that business grows, so do the investments...
My personal opinion is that large, impersonal online communities which use voting systems are doomed to become toxic echo chambers run by people who dedicate the time and resources to do so(and therefore participate less in the "real world"). I may be biased because I'm old and grew up with a large part of my social experience as a kid coming from BBSes.
‘15 minutes to save the world’: a terrifying VR journey into the nuclear bunker
Funny thing, the very first job offer I received on Linkedin was for a F# job (I was still a student at the time).
> That wasn’t the point that people were making. The point they were making is that removing fans doesn’t address the underlying mental health issues.

That is a fair argument, but not how I interpreted GP. In the context it seemed like they were arguing against any measure that removes means of suicide away from people because “they’ll just do it regardless”.

> If anything, arguing that everyone is ok now because fewer people are dying

Literally nobody here is saying this. Everyone here has acknowledged that this doesn’t solve the underlying mental health issues (or material issues, per a now dead comment), but might be a good band aid (over a “bullet wound” per another commenter).

What’s more common here is the acknowledgment that this doesn’t solve the mental health issue, and the grim realization that the university won’t do anything about it either way.
I built whoaverse during my studies which went on to become voat. You do not need a lot of resources to run such a site, but you do need a way to monetize it. We ran on donations and the ads that we ran were never profitable. Donations are not profit either, so it was working purely because we could afford some time off to work on it. This does not work in the long run, if you can no longer justify working for free. I am currently building 20-things.com, but I doubt that there is any interest for redittors to jump off at this point.
I like how the function names are in English but comments are in Japanese

Don't most modern compilers allow utf-8 characters in symbol names?
The peaks though (by a significant margins) are when games are on and people are watching the games unfold.
Parents putting their kids in K-12 private school aren't optimizing for cost. They are optimizing for exclusivity and educational "quality". If their school just became more affordable to the unwashed masses, they will gladly pay the premium to keep them out.
Thanks, in Jitsi or Mediasoup or both?
I've never seen this before, and it's fantastic! A games console with a printer??

It printed stickers. The idea that you could play a game and end up with something tangible, that you could then exhibit or share with friends, is just groundbreaking. Even as a niche product, it should have been a huge success!

What went wrong? It was marketed at girls, and maybe girls weren't enough into gaming at the time...? Or maybe the games didn't take full advantage of the hardware? Or maybe the marketing wasn't good enough? What a pity...

Here's another article: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-15-in-the-loopy-t...
Among many bad features and bad coding, I somewhat recently found out the "new" reddit on desktop has a live chat option for some reason. I put in a 4/10 effort in looking to disable it but couldn't find it. It appears its only use is to receive real-time death threats, and to harass women from some of the screenshots I've seen.
I wonder how the original founders of Reddit feel about selling out so early. They sold to Conde Naste for $20m. Now, it's worth 1000x more. I'm sure there are ways to rationalize it as a good decision -- i.e. $10m is a life changing sum of money. But, I wonder if, as a general rule, it's better to only sell half your stake to avoid upside regret.
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> This cannot mean the longest trip by train in terms of time or in terms of total length of track covered – we could put in dozens of interim stops to make a trip as long as possible

I think the longest shortest path between two cities would make more sens than the geodesic distance
Yeah, it's one of those Agile things.
>I really don't think Bash and Powershell are more popular for actual development than C++ and Go respectively.

I'd be willing to bet money that Bash is way, way more popular in development than Go.
Genuinely curious...are you old enough to remember Digg and what happened to it?

I don't mean that to be patronizing...but I remember being on Digg and Reddit being a weird alternative. And after a series of huge mistakes, almost overnight Reddit was flooded with users and Digg relegated to nothing.

It really opened my eyes to how quickly an empire built only on its users can disappear.
Ahhh! Now it makes sense.

I didn't have in mind that an ISP could have their own map of all zones where they simply map observed specific DNS traffic to the zones themselves because they know which server is responsible as well.

Thanks for the explanation! :)
I’m exactly like this too. Can’t pay attention to more than one thing. Most music to me is about melody, sad that I can’t pay attention to lyrics. I don’t follow most movies because of this myopic attention span.
Stripe (and Shopify) too?

Check how many top YC companies use Ruby.
Problem with Reddit is being very replaceable. People don't want to lose their facebook/instagram/linkedin page because it has their content and also personal connections. Profiles on Reddit are more like Digg / Slashdot / Kuro5hin - few care about losing their post history and connections so when a competing site comes in with better features (fewer ads / different site-wide moderation approach / not looking so awful by default ) people will just move there.
You’re being unfair by enforcing a modern perspective, shaped by the victors, on an enemy from 80 years ago. Were Soviet weapons scientists unethical too?
I’ve been told by several Indian colleagues that mental health services in India are taboo, and generally reserved for the high dysfunctional who cannot be an active part in society (think very schizophrenic, for example).

Is that accurate or old information?
I think, it's more gradual. The older you are, the more effort it takes to learn new things. Most people eventually get frustrated and give up. A few that don't, show much better results compared to their peers. But I doubt they could outcompete an equally determined youngster.

One notable example would be moving to a country with a different language. School-age kids become native speakers in terms of years with little effort, while doing it in your 60s requires tremendous effort to get the most basic communication going.
The transformer in transformer (TnT) model looks promising - you can set up multiple overlapping domains of attention, at arbitrary scales over the input.
Thus creating a NEW Matrix? You've said too much!
COVID cuy the rope for many things barely tethered, such as international rail travel, so I'm not confident that we will see trains such as Paris-Moscow and Moscow-Beijing back as regular service.
I've not bought their hoovers either
Great. That should do it. /s
When you’re a ~linear developer (regardless of seniority level) working on tasks and issues without time limits, you only know your own craft and seal every hole the boat may theoretically have. But when you see the whole business picture, and how dynamic it is, or when that is pushed down to you chaotically and unfiltered, i.e. not reworded as your CTO+ would do carefully, the anxiety of vagueness and indecision may come in. E.g. there is a feature which has to be done “yesterday” and “will probably live for only few months”, so it’s obvious to just hack it into the code. But as a tech guy you know all the implications of this way in the future. But as a CTO or a guy who sees more, you also feel this “yesterday need”. These two facts usually mix together into shitty trade-offs, shitty side being pushed from other CxOs.

If this seems to be the case, the solution is to care less of that chaos and care more of your developer’s craft, which you seem to still have more affinity to. It is your role. Push the anxiety back to where it belongs by doing/planning things the right-most possible way and negotiating it to the forces which drive it ahead “like crazy”.

There is a balance between growing like crazy and turning all limbs into cancerous tumors. You may find peace of mind in finding it and messaging it back to where imbalances originate from.

I would ask myself in this positon what do I want as a pro (hard one), whose responsibilities I take on me without profiting from it (not only money-wise), make it clear what will happen to me, to the company and to the next guy if I just leave, what are both good and bad sides of how things work now, think which points of that list should be fixed, which should be added, in the circumstances, and evaluate possible outcomes. I mean not which I can “live with” today, but which should [not] be there strategically. And finally, I’d detect the source(s) of trouble and message them publicly-directly about the structured issues from that board. It’s a huge reflective/collective work, which would serve good both me and the company.
Mostly, yes. I think it would be even more valuable to do so if I was putting a longer span at risk every time I got in a car or plane.
Broadly agree but I have to say I’m quite happy with where Ruby has settled now.

It’s not going to vanish anytime soon and the Ruby team continue to push improvements.

Unlike Python the ecosystem hasn’t become so large that it’s become impossible to keep track of.

It’s likely to remain my go to language for small projects in large part because writing Ruby is just fun!
The real tragedy here is the people who continue to live in horrible suffering, wanting to die but not being able to.
What exactly you'd want to see from such tooling that it improves your experience with AWS?
> I doubt it will fund better search

While I think better search would be great for users, I'm convinced Reddit doesn't actually want better search.

Good search means I can easily find an old post with the answer to my questions. Bad search means I end up going to a subreddit and posting the same question that's been asked 15 times. Even if it's removed by the mods, it'll likely get one or two comments and votes before it does.

Bad search drives more engagement.
Or if he had played Morpheus in The Matrix.
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