skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how credible this site is [0], but I think something that goes understated in these conversations is just how explosive the growth is that Reddit has experienced even in the last year:

* A doubling of mobile app downloads in the past year

* Valuation increase of 4Bn in 6 months (from ~6Bn to ~10Bn) (Feb 2021 to Aug 2021)

* Revenue growth forecast over 250%

I guess we're all kind of used to the idea that Reddit keeps growing, because it more or less has since it was created (citation needed), but the nature of exponential growth is such that maybe we're a bit numb to just how big the numbers have gotten in the past year or so.

[0] https://backlinko.com/reddit-users
I want a game where you can discover aspects of how you can control the world through a kind of programming-magic that lets you modify and control things. You discover information in the world and it lets you build up spells/scripts that do things for you. Not so much a "hacking game" but a kind of modern magic system. Mixing fantasy and cyberpunk ideas.
I think one of the only things preventing the US from implementing Australia-style pandemic policies was the number of guns in civilian hands. As such, the pandemic taught me why America tolerates this sort of thing repeatedly.
I'm sorry, but the shockingly common belief that C's ternary operator has anything at all to do with branchless code being emitted is completely unhinged from reality. Making this mistake requires that one fundamentally misunderstand what a [modern optimizing] compiler is and does. Inline assembly and intrinsics aside, the syntax that goes in and the code that comes out are related only by their independent relationship to an abstract machine model.
"generally, in practice"

There's also openat on linux. My point is that the general, practiced approach is not capability based.
Maybe? I guess I'm speaking from personal experience here when I say writing in-depth sourced and edited comments[higher quality] is more difficult for me on a mobile device. But perhaps, my experience not the norm. Is it different for others?
Custom Templates is a feature I go back and forth on, mainly because it'd complicate the data model a lot, but also some parts of the product. I might get around to it, but I'm going to work on other things (Android version, Apple Watch companion) first.
Sounds like another instance of the Eternal September [0]. Reddit has grown and larger communities are harder to moderate. Of course, each subreddit is its own world. There are some that are well moderated (size factors in here for sure) that are quite enjoyable to participate in.

As for UI I think we all agree, it's horrible. That's what old.reddit.com is for, it's still a sane UI overall. On Mobile I use Apollo (iOS) but anything but the default app is a huge step up.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
> Today they have far more guns now than before the ban.

Technically true but per [0], the proportion of households with guns dropped from 20% to 6.2% and the number of licensed gun owners has dropped from 14.27% to 3.41%.

So yes, there are more guns but there are fewer people with guns.

[0]: https://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/australia (looks like a random site but it's actually run by the University of Sydney)
I game in which I would generate, color and transform a natural looking landscape by either thinking about it (preferably), or by moving my body or hands, singing, etc - whatever. With undo please.
Oh, by all means, advert. We all hustlin.
Reddit was great for the brief period of time after internet search engines like Google nosedived in quality thanks to blogspam, and before companies realized people were relying on Reddit for reading honest opinions. Whenever there's some economic interest involved in a Reddit thread (like product recommendations), companies are now flooding it with disguised ads, which is low quality content like all ads.
> what happens if we can no longer trust the American tech platforms with our data

I'm not sure why anyone with "national security" concerns ever trusted American (or anyone else's) tech platforms to begin with. Everyone spies on everyone, and many current alliances are not even 50 years old---a blink of the eye in historical perspective. Even if some other nations have "better" privacy laws than the US, those are only laws. They can be changed rather quickly if the political winds start blowing differently.
Zone of Enders 3
This is fair, but as a milestone in long-term self-sufficiency, creating a $500/mo app is significant achievement.

Saving $150,000 is, too.

Which is more likely to lead to true self-sufficiency? Barring other possibilities, the savings. But given human response to positive feedback loops, a successful dev often becomes a more successful dev overtime. Hence, I favor the "first app I wrote that made $500/mo" is more significant.
Oh, cool! I hadn't heard of the Key Moments/SeekToAction feature before. I'll have to dig in and explore that a bit. Thanks for the tip!
Anybody who can look at the reproduced code and not recoil in disgust will be unlikely to understand a detailed criticism. Just read it!
No.

From the fact that we know how to write programs that halt you cannot deduce we know how to write programs with arbitrary (or even just useful) property, because there is no general procedure to do that.

In other words: you cannot use the algorithm of writing programs that halt to write programs computing nth digit of Pi :)
http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/credit-rating-agencies
I wonder how much of an impact a disruption such as the one they're experiencing would have if their products were manufactured like they were 30 years ago?
2020 and the pandemic was when I finally caved in and created my first accounts on Reddit, HN and imgur. It was entirely as an outlet for boredom and isolation. It's been a fun experiment starting engaging with all 3 around the same time. Of them, HN is the most interesting and satisfying but it is still very easy to reply with a "Google bad hur hur" comment in one of weekly "Google bad" threads and receive a ton of points.
Design System based on natural processes: https://mtrees.io
"Why" - people apparently thought that owning that sort of thing was a sign of being "grown-up", and you were supposed to do that if at all possible, to show that you're a respectable person.

But in reality, those reasons are nonsense. Relics of a past age.

Also, convincing the entire population that owning a large set of useless expensive things is essential to a successful life is a good way to sell a lot of stuff and keep your China cabinet factory in business.
I've never had space combat be more fun.
The biggest issue/question that never comes up on this topic... do you really think the police and military are amenable to taking the weapons? These are people too. Some, possibly many in my experience, would be totally against doing that to the point of it turning into a coup.
Does opening in a new tab still work?
Just to give you an idea:
It's basically 0-100

0 is really cold. bellow freezing. Negative temps are pretty rare. freezing is 32 which you just have to memorize.

70 is room temperature, and 68-75 is comfortable for most

100 is really hot, temperatures above this are also fairly uncommon for most folks.
Absolutely. The business has a huge incentive to grow even if it results in old-timers migrating off platform.
Marko[1] immediately comes to mind. It’s developed by, and powers most of, eBay. High performance, “isomorphic” (same code runs server-/client-side), small client bundle with automatic “partial hydration” (compiler uses static analysis to only send JS for interactive parts of the view).

Another good option might be Astro[2] which has a lot of similar goals to Marko, but lets you “bring your own framework” for the interactive parts, so you can achieve a similar experience to Marko with more mainstream tools/syntax.

1: https://markojs.com/

2: https://astro.build/
YES PLZ!

I loved reading the Borrowers books as a kid and would play tf out of this game haha
A first in Yellowstone, as man in Tesla proves his ‘ingenuity’
Sounds like Space Quest but with modern game play.
Wow that’s very interesting. It has a “bond market” vibe though I can’t pinpoint the exact analogy. Do you know of if there are any strategies that would somehow “beat the market”?
They sure could. If things pass they may get away with not voting for something they said they would, to no impact. If things don't pass then money will not be flowing and the leaders will be mad and probably escalate pressure.

The general thought is that lobbyists pay politicians to buy votes. That means they'll do what it takes to make sure they get their money.
I see that a lot with all kind of topics and call it "0/1 partisanship" for lack of a better word. I think it's related strongly to in-group/out-group thinking, friend or foe. You are either with us, or against us, but in a radical way: either you agree with everything, or you are the enemy. There is no middle ground, no grey area, no 23% or 42% or 69% only 0 and 1. People lack the ability to differentiate, to have a discussion about the finer detail. Maybe it's the education system not training discourse culture, but i think it is mostly because they don't actually care about the topic, only about the social aspect of being on the same side of a topic.
It's definitely tough and you're right, it's also easy to make feature-based segmentation infuriating. But (as you know and as this thread amply demonstrates) for pro-sumerish apps, it's as much (if not more) about vibes as it is about price. The 'we're simple software artisans asking an honest price for a quality product' vibe just clashes with the nickel-and-dime vibe of that pricing structure, that's all.
This article is a decent introduction to the page cache:

https://lwn.net/Articles/457667/

You typically have to go out of your way to _not_ use the page cache.
A strong recommendation, and it's on sale at the moment. Okay—purchased without reading into it too much. Thank you!
> Alternative views aren't supported, people don't want their views challenged. I think this has been the biggest culture shift and probably what you're getting at

I don't disagree with this but I'm not sure what I'd consider a reasonable solution. One thing I will say though is that the moderators on default subs promote this behavior. If I were to try to change the situation, I think that's where I'd start.

For example, I'm fairly certain I'm shadowbanned on r/news and my positions on topics range from moderate to liberal, depending on the topic.
Oops autocomplete. Incompetency should be idempotency.
For one, being able to use your computer/phone like a computer isn't 'haxoring'. Jesus. And second, Apple _lets you_ now (mostly anyways), because people with sense still raise a stink. So, basically, you're welcome. Stop screwing it up for the rest of us.
Totally agree on the data lock-out problem. Quoting from https://museapp.com/memos/2021-06-pricing/

> In an ideal world, a software subscription will let you pay just when you’re getting value from a product, and stop paying when you aren't getting value any more. In practice, many subscriptions feel bad because they are hard to cancel; or worse yet, they require you to pay forever to keep accessing the content you’ve created in the app.

> Muse is different. We never want to hold your data hostage. You should pay for it only when you’re getting active use out of the app.

> Once you cancel your membership (after a month, a year, or ten years) all your cards will still be fully accessible. You can still navigate around, doodle on your boards and PDFs, move cards, and export a subset or all of it as a Muse bundle or PDF. You can search by label, change labels, edit text.

> The only thing you can’t do? Add new content.

> You never need to worry that your data is locked up. We want you to pay for the value you’re getting from the tool, not for the data storage.
The techinical term is "genericised trademark" IIRC. Same goes for "Civilization" upthread, and for things like "Tetris" or (edit: to the extent trademark offices are corrupt enough to register it in the first place) "Chess".
I love horror games and I love dungeon crawlers. If I ever made a videogame, which is becoming less and less likely, it would be a procedurally generated mansion that was something like Betrayal at House on the Hill meets Slay the Spire.

You'd have some main antagonist haunting the mansion that you want to defeat, accessible in one of the rooms you need to discover. All throughout the mansion are artifacts that can make you stronger at defeating the boss, but picking up these artifacts usually triggers some haunting mechanic that makes general traversal through the mansion more difficult. One might turn the inanimate statues scattered throughout the mansion into active enemies. One might trigger a slenderman-type stalker mechanic. One might cause the mansion to start collapsing on itself, so each room starts losing floor tiles in ways that make some of them no longer traversible. One might rerandomize the layout of the mansion.

It becomes a balance of collecting enough powerful items to be able to defeat the boss, but not so many that the environment becomes too hostile to reach the boss at all, causing you to succumb to the mansion.

Then add a few other mechanics like events that autotrigger when you enter a room so it becomes not in your best interest to explore the entire mansion before you start collecting items.
A really good realistic sailing game.
I'm very intrigued for the CRDT approach. I always want to try CRDT but always end up giving up local-first for simpler approaches, because I can't convince myself fully since there's a risk of accumulating CRDTs data structures too large.

Really looking forward to see your success, it might move the industry forward and bring better apps for the users.

BTW the app is fantastic!
There are ads in the old version too. They show up as sponsored posts though I don't know if they are as egregious because I also use old.

The only thing that I feel I miss out on in using old.reddit.com is the predictions. The /r/muaythai has a predictions tournament that's pretty fun but there's no way to get notifications that there are new predictions to be made with the old interface (as far as I know).
> is equivalent to banning alcohol to stop drunk driving deaths.

This is something most countries do for repeat drunk drivers. Ban them from driving, anyways. Most people do not have a problem with such a targeted law.

It's conceivable that a law banning repeat drunk drivers from consuming alcohol might have positive effects as well.
I agree, that’s why half our sales come from elsewhere (social media, mailing list, subscriptions etc.) But we can’t ignore the power of organic search. For most people it’s where they start when shopping

With the level of power google has over us, can they really hide behind the defense of being a private company? What are the changes being made to the algorithm? Why isn’t this public knowledge?

Perhaps we should augment any decline in traffic from Google via paid search ads on Google. If google really is operating as a private company, maximising shareholder value, deliberately pushing businesses onto this path is a perfectly logical strategy for them to pursue.

The unfortunate implications on society is a consolidation of wealth and power and a widening gap between those who have and those who do not.
That's how it feels in my country at least. We had 21 cases today, compared to a few thousand this time last year. Masks and restrictions were one of the strictest in Europe, and it's all gone now.
I doubt this would work. Credit reports are for lenders, and credit bureaus side with their true customer.
There's no guarantee $150k invested will have 4% returns either.
In the ice caps melt situation, I very much doubt that California will be alone in the needing of fresh water
Today I was running some errands in my car. The AC was too cold. Without taking my eyes off the road, I felt around for the temperature knob. My car has large, grippy knobs. It's an off-roading focused model and the knobs were made to be usable while driving on bumpy roads. I found the temperature knob, I figured where it was set with the easy-to-feel tactile indicator, and I adjusted it down, all without having to use my eyes. I love tech but never want to lose my big, rubbery AC knobs in the car. There's enough distracted drivers on the road to watch out for, I don't want to be another one.
From somewhere else [1]:

"If you think that lockdowns, travel bans, and mask mandates were the right approach, then you probably see Sweden as failure. Unlike almost every other wealthy nation, it held off doing those things. And the result was a much higher death rate than its neighbors Norway and Denmark. Approximately 13,000 Swedes have died since the beginning of the pandemic — half of them in nursing homes. In comparison, only about 700 Norwegians have died of COVID-19."

In that same article, it says Sweden "strategy surrounded physical distancing, limiting large gatherings, and staying home while you’re sick."

IOW, pick your facts, pick your facts! You can have any opinion if you pick your facts.

[1] https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-br...
But why would you use short-term fed paper to make money with your stake, when you could just plain buy short-term fed paper, without the risk of people "redeeming" it from you?

Backing a currency isn't about taking deposits from people. You can't back with deposits because your liabilities = assets then. You have to put your own stuff up, but then all you are doing is running the risk that people will redeem it away from you. Backing a currency is basically just giving your stuff away with extra steps.
I recently made a P2P audio broadcast app, also HD quality, and low latency, and it runs in all major browsers, including mobile, no app download. It also supports listener call-ins, and music/file streaming in the mix. What should I do with this technology?
I’m American and I’ve never seen the two knob style except in media. Wonder if it’s a regional thing or old house thing. I’ve only lived in homes built since the 80s, in the Midwest and southeast.
Just let me turn on and leave on verbatim mode permanently please?! Google Search is broken/terrible without it. Even with it 50% of the results are just AI generated spam, and I even have an ad-blocker filter to remove a ton of them.
That's incorrect. Each borrower has multiple credit histories not a single credit history.
VR. Facebook/Meta have tamed it a little bit but it mostly still feels like wide open country.

Weird, hacky, interesting.

I love it.
I had this idea a while ago, and it just never materialized:

- Every player can use their tablets or phones, and as many as they'd like

- Each device can be assigned with different controls

- Wasn't sure if this would be decided before the game starts or if some player could control it, or if anyone can just add in controls as needed

- The game plays only on the ship bridge, there would be no first-person anything

- One device acts as the viewer screen

Scenarios would be things like escorting a ship through hostile space, delivering cargo, peace treaties, or search and destroy. One thing I wanted is the game to favour fun over realism. Like a player could go rogue and navigate the ship anywhere they wanted, or start firing on a friendly ship. Controls should be easy, like navigation could be as easy as scanning for nearby locations and then picking it, letting the computer plot a course.

I liked the idea of players all hanging out in a living room, connect the "viewer" player to a TV, and just have fun. Some scenarios and situations would involve teamwork, like having an engineer reroute power from navigation (ie nav has to slow down to make power available) to weapons for more powerful shots.

I thought it would be fun to build, but I just didn't have the time to develop it myself.
> It will be soon! We’ve been focusing mostly on features that users have been asking for, as well as performance, stability, and security. We’re not completely happy yet with the documentation and development experience of contributing to Arctype, but this will be a core focus for us in the coming weeks. We just want to make sure it will be very easy for the community to contribute once we publish on GitHub.

Sweet! Excited to have you join the community of open-source data tools. :)
The answer is that your friends, family, and colleagues are a narrow strata of society and Reddit is not a strata it’s a core cross section, or perhaps a core sample.
reminds me of battlestar gallactica and landing without clamps
Love me some crispy tomatoes especially in a shawarma.
data warehouses are now processing engines that scale compute independently of storage. you can simply dump your raw data into warehouse and do your transform there. Hence ELT.
Linking Your Thinking was overly complicated system that introduced levels of abstractions in order to have a catchy framework the author can explain for a 6-week $1200 course: A.C.C.E.S.S. Despite the this post's claims, it's basically Zettelkasten with additional folders for your projects, and Maps of Contents (notes about large topic areas). That said, the free LYT Kit 6, has a really beautiful theme and default plugins for Obsidian and I use it as a starter-kit after deleting all the folders.

Seconding the other comment that this 16 minute video will get you 95% of the way there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6ySG7xYgjY

One app I can really recommend is Readwise for anyone building a linked knowledge system. It's a great way to ingest all the content you come across (Tweets, books, articles, podcasts) into a single place, and become your source of truth. Then using the Readwise plugin, this can populate your raw reference notes in your Obsidian vault.
Will check it out thank you!
Quamina, a streaming Library in Go
I love that there is so much opportunity in the indie space, and hope it doesn't go away.

There are a ton of great apps to be made, with better UIs and functionality than existing entrants that aren't made by big companies because they don't offer enterprise-sized war chests and moats. Can't make enough to pay for a bunch of MBAs, managers, and SEO, Creative, and Engineering teams, so they don't get made. But it's certainly enough for a few driven people.
I'm not so sure about that. If it's such a minority as you claim, then there should be no problem with passing laws that restrict gun ownership. I think the truth is it's not a minority.
Why not use iCloud and structure schema to let old versions survive? Solves both issues.

I don’t know what Figma or Notion is. But I dropped beloved Tower git client when they went subscription-only. I still sometimes use their last purchasable version though.

Regarding iOS, It’s possible to refuse updates. I also used iPhone 6 for a looong time and went several years without upgrading OS. I also still use old iPad 4 that receives no updates for years. What can I say… it was a good stable ride!

I don’t care about novelty for the sake of novelty. Once I find a tool I like, I’ll use it as long as possible.

And I’m happy to pay through the nose for quality tools. Be it kitchen utensils or gardening tools or electronics.
lobbyists for gun makers?
The fact that I'm not running a service does make it a lot better. But being somewhat of a perfectionist, I do stress out a lot when a user email me with a bug.

Being a user of the app myself reassure me that it's working and that even if there might be bugs, it's probably working well for the vast majority of folks.
> The first bug that eats plastic was discovered in a Japanese waste dump in 2016.

In 2009, a Taiwanese high-school student (Tseng I-ching) discovered a bacterium that decomposes polystyrene [0]. I think she deserves credit for starting this field of research.

[0] https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=10,23,45,10&post=15307
Are you going to get upset at node for calling home to Microsoft (npm owned by github owned by microsoft) when using the supplied package management too?