skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit is my go to place for local news. There is so little coverage of local news outside big cities. The coffee-house atmosphere of the local sub I’d very refreshing and informative.

Sadly, many of the bigger subs have less and less quality.

There’s a post I remember from about 2010 that blew my mind in the /r/philosophy subreddit. Now /r/philosophy is all crap, and I can’t event find that article.
Work at any high profile internet company and people on the internet will complain about something you’ve worked on.

There doesn’t seem to be anything particularly unethical about any work Reddit engineers have done.
Just to add to my comment above, the FAA does have a very important role in air crew and evacuation standards and testing. Not spendy, but getting the pax out 30 seconds faster can save a lot of lives, for example.

One hole that I can think of is when a jet lands, but doesn't depressurize and open the doors. There have been a couple airline disasters that killed all the crew and pax when that happened - the pax either suffocated or died of smoke inhalation, and nobody deplaned.

Another is that the more entertainment systems that get wired up to seats, the more electrical fires will occur. The Swissair crash off Newfoundland was bad, but there will be more.
ok comrade.

I understand you're a Communist, but I suggest you:

1) Look at the disaster unfolding in China with nationally regulated prices. There's brownouts and blackouts everywhere because prices don't cover coal for their 3,0000 coal-powered electrical plants. Even foreign factories are fleeing.

If there's a climate change crisis, the root cause is those 3,000 coal plants.

2) You know damn well that utilities can't float bonds for new plants or upgrades with no paying customers. Funny you didn't mention that in your silly rants, comrade.
BBQ Charcoal and Coal Briquettes Making Machine
The type and model of the charcoal ball press machine are various. Customers can choose the specific model according to their production scale and their investment costs. And they can also invest in the charcoal ball production line which is composed of the charcoal briquette machine and other supporting equipment.
Wild stuff
No you can't any visitor using chrome gives away your hidden public website. Recreating web 1.0 with todays spyware browsers requires a tor setup.
Reddit a grotesque toxic website, that makes money by creating conflict, divisiveness, fake news and the deliberate degradation of society. Like Facebook, but so so much worse. I hope that going public gives it the scrutiny it needs. In a few years time you won't be able to find anyone admitting to have ever worked for this company (in fact it's almost impossible to find people admitting it today). Some of the smaller sub-reddits are good though, but that's not what the website has been about for years.

Reddit divides US society into 2 halves and makes them scream divisive hate at each other, 24 hours a day. What can possibly go wrong?
"southernmost point of mainland Europe" is in Tarifa, Spainn!
Congratulation on getting within inches of the point yet still completely whiffing. But i guess that’s the blub paradox for you.
This is awesome, great work! What inspired you to create it?
They need to show their advertisers that they are doing something - anything - to combat all the click-fraud that is sucking dollars from their customers. It's theatre.
if facebook can maintain mbasic, then reddit can maintain old. the onboarding funnel is towards new reddit anyway, old is mature and _appears_ stable, and most folks new to the platform will use their official app.

i can see the API becoming more restrictive in the coming years, like Facebook and Twitter’s before it.
What! Man I was just on there getting tips on fixing my shower.
newer version https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
clojure macros are quite retro and minimalistic relative to racket's. this is partly an intentional decision; clojure and racket are basically opposite extremes of lisps when it comes to how big a role macro authorship is supposed to play in the ecosystem. personally i'd say that while clojure's decision to de-emphasize macros is, given the rest of the language design, a good one, it's slightly unfortunate that clojure macros don't incorporate some of safety and ergonomic features from scheme/racket, e.g. hygiene by-default and more able declarative templates aka racket/syntax-parse.
I have a 10-year-old reddit account. When it was static pages served out of lisp, it was rock-solid. Their rewrite got to the instability you're describing, and it never really recovered.
https://github.com/webpy/webpy/blob/16533d3a52065e5ed156219a...
I land on Reddit, and never quite figure out how conversations and threading work. Always feels broken to me from a usability standpoint.
I thought they were referring to the fact that the westernmost part of Alaska is in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Alaska is the western, northern, and eastern state in the U.S. The Aleutian Islands cross the International Dateline. Hawaii is the southern most state.
Password rotation still makes technical sense today. The benefit is that it limits the utility of stolen credentials.

That’s basically all an MFA token is: a rapidly rotating second password. In fact the widespread availability of MFA options is one reason memorized passwords don’t need to rotate anymore. Just implement MFA instead.

Another reason is that forced rotation of memorized passwords gives users an incentive to create passwords that are simpler, and therefore easier to steal in the first place. So the technical advantage was nullified by a human factors disadvantage.
If they don’t do a direct listing maybe they’ll let some old timers get in on the IPO like Airbnb did for hosts. Lurking for 16 years has to count for something right? :)
Modeling the emergence of affective polarization in the social media society
Why Software as a Service Sucks
It is very easy to use reddit that way. I use it multiple times a day and only ever visit the subreddits I have subscribed to, and that's all that appears on my main page.
wait. if you moving to rails 5, why not just jump to 7?
Analysis of Leading Twitter Communities Disseminating ArXiv Information
iOS and macOS may be a small player in worldwide computer use, but they're not small enough that you can identify anyone with just this flag. Unless you're in North Korea, saying you're using Apple software isn't really that much of an identifying feature.

It can definitely be used for fingerprinting, though, especially if Apple ever fixes their PNG decoder.
> an illustration that there are plenty of democrats that don't want to fix it or don't care enough to do so

I think you could make an even stronger statement: the majority of Democrats probably aren't even aware of the issue.

It's not a popular issue, and not the kind of thing that Democratic politicians can use to inspire people to vote.
i could've sworn i saw kobayashi using a kana keyboard in one episode and thought that would be difficult to program with. does anyone here know if kana keyboards just have hiragana overlaid over the qwerty layout?
Thank you. Will try it later
>Whilst I'm all for ragging on Facebook's missteps ...

I prefer ragging on their very existence, but to each their own. :)

Certainly not disputing they know how to make money. I'm sure they'll make a killing on AR/Metaverse bullshit.
I think people already don't want to admit to working there, but not for moral reasons, but for how awful the stability and product actually is. I can't say I'd blame them.
What device/browser are you using? Sorry about that, thanks for letting me know.
If you tried to build a society that invested $0 into the military, you would be pummeled into the ground by an external aggressor.

Those tanks are serving the abstraction of survival.
The idea that world can't find a way to financially support Clp and Cbc is deeply disappointing. These are such intensely useful projects.
The new largest share holders will likely coerce the removal of all three along with any other vestigial remnant that is enjoyable and is still maintained in the name of eventually maximizing their profits. For me the biggest loss will probably be when the board of directors demand that the RSS feeds stop working.
>> Nintendo NES came out soon after

Not really true. The Famicom(identical tech specs to the NES) was released in 1983 while the VCS came out in 1977. There's also a big difference betwen 2KB of ram plus 2KB dedicated video vs. the 128 bytes of an Atari 2600.
Puppet, chef, sys-admin-y type things. Jekyll, Sinatra. Mruby (embeddable Ruby).

Homebrew and YAST (Suse Linux) are written in Ruby. Stripe uses Ruby but not Rails.

Basically anything you'd use Perl for, + a bunch more uses, and of course Rails and web stuff.
> What's odd is they haven't stopped growing. It's just been linear user growth

Most growth is driven by Google Search. It accounts for almost half of their traffic. At this point, SEO is their moat. The problem they have had is that they cant get most of the traffic to convert ie. create accounts and engage in those subreddits. That is still done by a small fraction of the traffic.

As an experiment, if you create an account on Reddit, you see that you are automatically added to r/announcements. (It does not even offer you a choice). That sub has grown very slow compared to their DAUs and MAUs. It still has about 127M subscribers (lifetime)
I cyncially feel like your third point is to save them on egress data. Better to send two comments for a post that quite a few people will never read the comments of.
I see this is about game development, but in the web/server world idk how anyone ever thinks its acceptable to make development impossible on your local laptop/computer. Everyone time I do a code review I need to ensure they didn't break local development. It blows my mind that I need to do it, like they think its ok to build and deploy for every little test. When I first joined I spent so much time just getting it to work on my laptop. I really just don't understand the mindset. This is has been the case in multiple places. Who was this first person to break local development and decide it was ok. Please fire that person, black list them from getting jobs ever again.

We have so many tools to make this easy now like docker and yet it still gets messed up.
It's an oddity of UK tax law that farms are exempt from inheritance tax and so a sensible investment for old rich people who want to pass stuff on. Clarkson's farm was bought for the similar reasons some years before they decided to do a TV show. You don't need odd legal structures - just buy a farm.
I remember when Imgur was launched as a free image hoster for Reddit users. It was jarring to me, years later, to see it had attempted to become some weird Reddit/9gag mash-up. Not because it was a bad move, business-wise, but because it became clear how unmonetizable the plan was to start with.

That said, I agree with you: it feels like Imgur makes the Reddit move about twelve months before it, every time. From gif hosting to discovery to live feeds to requiring logins for NSFW content, Imgur basically leads Reddit. It honestly makes me wonder why I bother with Reddit at all...
> Generally I'll avoid the subreddits for anything I'm interested in, as they're frequented by "experts" who feel the need to ruin everyone's fun.

Mind giving an example? I'm just curious because to me the high point of reddit is learning way more about interests I already love. For example I don't think I would've gotten nearly as into mechanical keyboards without /r/mechanicalkeyboards around.
I’ve been reading Reddit for fifteen years. (A sentence that should never be written.) Their engineering has always been terrible. Even when they were much smaller than they are now, their site constantly crashed. It’s remarkable how little improvement they’ve made in over a decade. There are quirks, like how you can only see a maximum of 1,000 results, whether on subreddits, searches, or user profiles. This limit is apparently unalterable because of legacy decisions.
In short, android is a laggy mess. I was so used to it I stopped noticing. Lag while scrolling, lag while switching apps, lag while typing. The UI is also unpolished, and again I was so used to it I didn’t see it. On switching to iPhone, the SE, not a flagship 12 or 13, I realized that nearly every touch had an instant response. The UI also has very fine tuned visual and haptic feedback and overall polish and consistency. I still have my last flagship Moto and the moment I used it again I realized I had a 20% failure rate on UI actions like app switching because they were just badly designed. And lastly, the hardware is just top notch for a midrange phone, excellent camera and the very fast soc loads complex websites near instantly in a way I’ve never seen another phone or even windows laptop do. Android and iOS may do the same things, but iOS runs circles around Android while doing it. This is the premiere product of a trillion dollar company and it absolutely shows.

I had some weird Google loyalty from the good old days. I can’t believe i suffered on their second rate platform for so long. I’m currently still suffering on Voice and Gmail and should probably completely move on. I should probably go ahead and buy one of these M1 MacBooks people have been talking about too.
> They are beautiful visually but fail on every level of storytelling.

Sure the movie that is closely based on one the most critically acclaimed and most sold stories in the world totally fails as story telling

> The movie lurched from set piece to set piece and lacked the connective tissue of storytelling.

Clearly you weren't paying attention.

> just elves walking

I really seems you were not paying attention.

> The world failed to establish any rules or explain itself adequately.

Its Epic Fantasy. Not like some modern fantasy where everything has to be based on quasi scientific rules. Not getting all the rules explained and discovering the world is part of the point.

> In the modern vernacular, the whole movie is payoffs with no setups.

I assume you were not watching the Extended Editions. There is plenty of setup there, but there is enough even in the cinematic edition (even when I haven't seen them in a decade).
Genuinely confused by this statement. You don't visit things you know about, because fake experts ruin it. Then you visit things you don't know about, because you believe the information to be genuine.

Not trying to be a dick here, but this line of reasoning just isn't clicking so asking.
AWS CloudFormation had one of the worst user stories related to iteration time a few years ago.

The lack of feedback between the writing of the yaml file and validation of the structure/type/format was frustratingly slow. I would pay good money for better tooling in the Infrastructure as Code(IaC) space.

Waiting for the resources to update, fail with cryptic error messages, then slowly rollback only to then fail the rollback. Now in an invalid state, manual resource creation was required before the rollback would succeed.

The AWS cdk has improved this significantly. As a result the sun shines just a little bit brighter.
You know what makes for a good user experience? Not using a website that hosts white supremacists, but staying in your little corner that doesn't deal with them (you hope).
I feel this way about Haskell, and I understand why someone would feel this way about F#. No matter what language I use, I now constantly think about how to avoid side effects, how to minimize mutability, how to ensure my code flow is readable and not cluttered by irrelevancies (notice how the author keeps bringing up "noise"?). It's similar to the way that learning TDD led me to think about testability in every design regardless of language.

That's not to say that pure functional languages is the only way to these lessons, of course.
I’m not sure if Reddit is so much worse. With Reddit you see toxic groups out in the open, with Facebook those groups are hidden and only Facebook knows the true size and content of all toxic groups.
How I wish a single line code change only took a 15 second build.

The java app I work on regularly takes 3 minutes for a single line change. Then you just need to pray that jrebel will work today and actually hot reload your change. Otherwise you have another 8 or so minutes of redploying weblogic.

Of course the ideas suggested in this can help, but when you need to run an integration test which also takes minutes to run you realize that 3 lines of code isn't bad for a days work.

One day soon I will never touch Java again.
Easily explained through hormones
This statement after Methuselah had lived for 969 years, before (it is implied) drowning in a flood.
Why would we even count private education in this discussion? There are no policy controls on private school spend - of course, it's skyrocketing as the rich get richer.
This is a moral conundrum. Yes, some of the smaller sub-reddits are good, but by participating, you legitimize the conflict/fakenews/horrorshow that is the main website. It's like saying you enjoy the trains running on time in Nazi Germany whilst ignoring the rest of what the regime is.
What if it is not artificial and only human level ai in a sense that it's run by mechanical Turks which answer the prompts ?
Then we should shut down HN as well.
yes web 1.0 had potential but the consolidation of platforms and their protocols made it untenable

ISPs can deplatform

ICANN and ENOM can deplatform

Nations can force them to deplatform and effectively censor

your web 1.0 server can be unreachable or unable to serve data

a TOR onion service is subject to the same distributed denial of service

Reading from a blockchain is not, and the costs for writing to it are one-off and low
Well hello there fellow fan of that series.

Information requested: Thoughts on the big oft-theorized thing in the last book and how it’ll affect the story going forward.
Amazon the web store used to be good. It had good search and it was nigh impossible to get something counterfeit from it. Nowadays it's all people talk about.

I think Amazon is very much a victim of its own success and rapid growth.
This is a good clarification! By “relied heavily” I meant that’s how its core functionality is implemented, not that there’s a large corpus of macro code.
This is the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
It is longer in the movies but there are also lots of things in the books that are not in the movie. It makes sense to increase the battle scenes for a movie.

And the romantic plots were in the book as well.

Are you sure you are not mixing up Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit?
No, it's only one "side." Democratic Party isn't going in for false conspiracy theories. Republican Party is.

Just look at how the DOJ treated these two different "conspiracy theories":

1. DOJ denied any factual basis existed for Trump's election claims.

2. DOJ investigated and convicted numerous people on the basis of the Russia collusion investigation.
Are they using split dwarf? This avoids linking the debug info.
Maybe he’s running a side morgue. Or a swine vault. Or his kids just need lots of white noise to sleep and mama needs her nap. So many possibilities!
I think if I was amortal I'd make sure to live a lifestyle apart from buses, cars, and airplanes. At least until I was getting brain backups, augmented body parts to reduce my risk to trauma, etc.
See comment of dodobirdlord above
In general, this is what bothers me with a lot of modern online services. Some people might use the same platforms harmlessly to watch cooking videos or share family photos while remaining relatively free from neurosis, or they might be trapped in a rut of entirely different algorithmic content. The only unifying factor is that they both happen to be hosted on the same platform, and it is becoming harder to detach the content on the platform from the mechanisms driving viewership that come with the platform. The platforms encompass both the best and worst of us, attracting both the susceptible users and relatively ordinary persons, and that's why they have staying power.

Because these services are so all-encompassing, they are bound to have some amount of well-curated content, or at the very least content that holds one's interest. By virtue of that minuscule amount of content being hosted on the massive aggregate site, that predisposes some people to affirm or at least ignore the idea of the overarching site as a whole, along with the SEO mechanisms, influencers, etc. that always get so much flak in certain circles.

In other words, because the site is so massive there will always be a population of consumers in their own niches that never encounter any outrage or issues. There will also be a population exposed to the "rage generating" content. The subset of people aware of the toxicity and how it relates to the workings of the platform itself may or may not overlap with these groups. But in the end, because the site has become so massive that content creators have caused it to encompass literally everything that can be thought of as a topic of interest to general humanity, all of these groups, whether harmful or harmless, contribute to the site's continued growth and prosperity, and more and more people participate as a result.
If we get human head transplants working, we can use regenerative cloning to create new bodies. It'll be the cure to aging, cancer, everything.

If not clones of the patient, we could use monoclonal bodies with O- blood and HLA neutrality to negate the need for immunosuppressants.

New thymuses and pulmonary systems regenerate immune and endothelial health of the brain.

We're close, we just need a conceptual jump. It sounds icky, but not in practicality.

Tangentially, we could use artificial chimeric pig uteruses to artificially give birth. It'd relieve the burden of bearing children.
It is my understanding that blocking bitcoin is not all that hard if you have control over ISPs like a corrupted government would have.
Good! I‘ll go long on them.

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. Heck, I get my HN updates from Reddit now.

Facebook/Instagram/TikTok are nothing like this in that the info you get is wholly dependent on your social graph. Twitter has very high quality content, but it’s a firehose that is very difficult to curate and keep up with. Reddit is democratizing in a sense, like riding the NYC subway.

An even wilder bet: Reddit can fit nicely into the metaverse (as a news outlet of sorts, on steroids) and even potentially minimize the need for Google Search.

Anecdotally, a VERY LARGE percentage of my Google searches end in “site:reddit.com” these days. Reddit posts, especially from smaller subs, tend to be higher quality and don’t have ulterior motives (ad revenue). If Reddit’s Lucene cluster were better, between that and SO, I’d use Google a handful of times a week. Maybe this IPO can help fund that.

If the ad revenue from the whale subs allow me to continue learning about interior design, supply chain logistics, the inner workings of car sales, finance and tax strategies if I become high net worth, and more, I’m here for it.
I only last as long there as old.reddit.com does.
I think this would depend on your jurisdiction. Just because it's in the terms doesn't make it enforceable.