skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They all fail to reach critical mass until someone does. That's always been the history of social networks. Once sites like Myspace and LiveJournal were everywhere. The next generation mostly went on Facebook and Facebook snapped up Instagram. Now a younger generation is on sites like TikTok. Digg and Slashdot are still going but they didn't stop Reddit becoming huge or more specialised sites with overlapping demographics (like HN for example) from building their own communities.

You're right that early movers have some advantage but it's a big world and the Next Big Thing doesn't have to win the whole market on day one - only enough of it to plant seeds that can grow over time.
It occurs to me--could he go after Reddit for the cost of all those refunds? Detrimental reliance.
I was definitely low quality so that could be true.
Beware your air filter may get dirtier faster (our AC company says, anyway) because of dead organisms.
Then he might finally be able to cover the API costs for a month.
Reframed: "iOS 17 arbitrarily modifies links you click on".
Reddit is within their rights to make whatever commercial decision they want- concerns of anyone else be damned.
AWS RDS Custom now supports bring-your-own SQL Server
With Bring-Your-Own-Media (BYOM), customers supply their own installation media and bring their SQL Server licenses to Amazon’s RDS Custom managed cloud service. RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service which provides administrative access to the OS and DB configuration.
Sure... but that's far from the ideal world where we don't need to replace our lungs. Replacing lungs is very inefficient.

According to this, there's some level of lung rejection in 90% of patients.

https://utswmed.org/medblog/lung-transplant-rejection/

That's a lot of management for a critical system... even if it's treatable.
Christian (the maker of Apollo) is from Norway, and if the recordings was done in Norway it’s legal as far as I know.

Even a specific point in the law that specify that you can record audio without informing about it, as long as you are part of the conversation yourself.

§205 :
https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-05-20-28/KAPITTEL_2-...

EDIT: See now that he was in Canada when it was recorded, and they have the same kind of laws.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Reading this with 15 years of corporate experience the developer was at best naive. In corporate speak Reddit is completely consistent in their actions and words. It's a crappy situation and I'm sure the developer is a great person and I agree Reddit did them dirty but also that's how these things work. You don't take dependencies on third parties without a lawyer and a contract.

> There's not gonna be any change on it.

Nobody can make this promise, those are just words to make you feel good.

> There's no plans to, there's no plans to touch it right now in 2023.

Plans can be made quickly. Action can be taken without a plan. What is the guarantee on lead time?

> And if we do touch it, we're going to be improving it in some way.

Define improvement. Improved for who?

> It's going to have a firm basis in reality.

I have no doubt that Reddit based the API pricing on them making money on it. We can debate if they got it right.

> We're going to try to be as transparent as we can.

Try is a weasel word, this sentence is meaningless. Zero transparency can be provided and still meet the standard of being "as transparent as possible". "Try" here even gives them the opportunity to be less transparent than possible. The Glomar defense ("We can neither confirm nor deny") is "as transparent as possible" and actually meets a higher standard than Reddit promised here because the CIA didn't just "try", they successfully provided the most possible transparency (almost none).
The probability that this will end up happening leaves me feeling glad to be mortal.
Direct Text Extraction from PDFs
That was my thinking as well, especially with a family of four and intending to make a loop of the country by train.

I understand a lot of the criticism of the transit system in this thread, but when I compare the options and flexibility there compared to Washington / Oregon (where I live, and comparable in geographic size to Germany) it becomes readily apparent how superior any European nation's transit options are to our own.
> Also, what's the deal with him not wanting to start a competitor?

Would you want to moderate Reddit? I get that Apollo is in a good position to take their users with them, but it's not like it's going to be easy to build a Reddit when what you've made so far has been a frontend for Reddit and some mobile widget spin-offs.

Many of us can make a frontpage for hacker news in a few hours, some might even be able to grow a userbase on it but that doesn't mean we can do what dang does.
Simply join Lemmy (i.e. beehaw.org) or Kbin (kbin.social).
Most developers interacting with files are going to be doing it through a higher level API, so while sure, technically they're stored like that, it's not like that's what the developer actually has to deal with.

And most developers don't interact with hardware day to day, no. That's an exceptionally small set of people.
I agree that using a colloquial definition is fine. And I don't mean to be too harsh on people who use buzzwords in their grant proposal: it's just sort of the sea you swim in.

But I only wish we could say that a few hundred lines of code was "AI": that would mean funding for a lot of desperately needed software infrastructure. Instead AI is taken as synonymous with ML, and more specifically deep neural networks, for the most part.
I don't think even cloning anything would be necessary. They will still allow free tier of 100 requests/minutes if
authenticated so why not let people use their own tokens?
https://reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_update_e...
Pitching for sure, but definitely a fine & good recap of what's happened in the last 30 years & where we are & what seems to be happening.

The main thing I think people don't get about wasm is how fast it should be to make - effectively - subprocesses. Spinning up a sandbox for a request, and having that sandbox then spin up it's own sandboxes/subprocesses should hopefully be doable. Rather than the whole app operating at a single security level, it means each piece of computing can operate with it's own rights & capabilities, and can safely quickly run semitrusted/untrusted code as it needs.
Anyone who thought reprojection was the solve for AR considered this solution since you'd have to find a way to simulate glass. The first consumer grade passthrough VR was the GearVR in 2015 or so, so I don't think the idea was originally conceived this late.
Reddit moment
Sorry, I don't see how that's a textbook case of what you've cited.
Even if we ignore the idea of just scraping the site, how much would it cost an API user to grab most posts just once? Is it actually enough to stop anyone?
Good idea — this sounds like a good topic for us to cover in a future handbook, perhaps about the post-incorporation setup process, where you're setting up the board, issuing stock, etc.
Would you pay a subscription model for access to Reddit? If you're unwilling to pay in any way whether its watching ads, API fees, or a subscription, my guess is they'd be happy you're done for good.

(If your answer is yes: well, I think they are dumb for not offering a paid, ad-free version).
Join our CEO tomorrow to discuss the API
17 year reddit member. Went from fark to digg to reddit. I guess its on to the next thing. The APi changes seem to be the straw that broke the camel's back.
We also extincted broad swaths of our ecosystem while keeping the rich westerners well air-conditioned.

So… you know. No free lunch.

Hope we, as biological creatures borne of a billion-year old evolutionary process, don’t actually need the system that birthed us (for some reason).
I bounced after i.reddit.com went away. The value proposition of the site has descended into the negatives IMHO.

The halcyon days were really about 15 years ago before subreddits came in and well before it became just a swamp of children, memes, and trolls.

Nothing wrong with children par se I just don't come to the internet to engage with them.

Then again, Twitter at night is just a bunch of drunk people rambling and I still scroll that.
This is also what I intuited. Can you give some examples of things that require “projected black” , especially those that couldn’t be solved by using a darkened room?
>If the traffic to their site is primarily from the web

Of course it's not. According to this site, around 3/4 of their traffic is from mobile.

https://www.semrush.com/website/reddit.com/overview/

HackerNews, I love you, but some of the comments in here are detached from reality. You'd be hard pressed to find any social media company that gets more traffic from desktop than mobile in the year 2023. This site is the exception, not the rule.
Build your own lazy operation evaluator in Elixir
Related HN thread on Apollo shutting down has a lot of good discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36245435
Chrome doesn't even let you install extensions on Android. And for Firefox on Android it's a buggy workaround that doesn't even work half the time. This isn't just an Apple thing.
They recently made it impossible to view NSFW-flagged content from a logged-out session, which makes me wonder if they're struggling with it too (this may also be a geo-restricted thing, I'm visiting from a UK IP address).
If you don't want to be recorded, then don't have phone calls with people who live in one party consent jurisdictions. This is common sense.
Yeah, I was wrong and per part 1 of https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynami... this ios developer actually needs to provide the source for that app if they statically link. Otherwise it is an LGPL violation
I wonder how much of costs went up due to hosting their own images and videos.

A text website is easy to run.
There is a trick. Travel with a metal/rugged luggage like Remowa and then you can sit on the luggage when that situation happens.
The military is using e-girls to recruit Gen Z into service
gopher and nntp via serial terminals
...and when you stop what you're doing and reply they don't follow up for 10 minutes, just a moment after you go back to your work.
I really like old.reddit but is there any stylesheet trickery that makes it more bearable on a small portable screen? I used to use i.reddit.com which was a very stripped down mobile friendly version of the site but it has been shutdown in the last year or so...
The standard isn’t who has it easier or ease of quantifying - that’s totally irrelevant. The only standard can be in generating predictive models.
What do you think nation states are? They’re systems to prevent “most muscular and monstrous man wins everything.”

We build such systems all the time and they do appear to be stable. The modern world couldn’t exist without their success.
> It's gaining enough momentum that eventually it should force kernels to be like Linux and adopt a stable ABI.

This both misunderstands the impediments, and wildly overestimates Rust's position. First, on some platforms like OpenBSD, it's not just a matter of stability per-se; OpenBSD implements some of their security measures in libc, and therefore intentionally forces its use. Second... how exactly is rust going to "force", say, Windows, to change how they present the userspace/OS interface?

> In practice, most kernels have a "fairly stable" ABI just because coordinating kernel changes with userspace libc changes is tricky.

I don't know if you're using a loose enough definition of "fairly stable" that it's meaningless, or mistaken outright, but no, at least NT can and does change its syscall interface often enough that it actually prevents people from using it in any meaningful way (read: sure, you can do it as long as you never update, but then the next time you run Windows Update it will break).
It’s a basic problem for platform rot that the client is usually specific to a network today.

Consider the following: AOL instant messenger, ICQ, Paltalk, Tivejo, MSN Messenger, Microsoft Messenger, MSN Messenger, Skype, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, 11 different messaging apps from Google, Zoom, Go2Meeting, WebEx, Microsoft Lynq, Skype for Business, Slack, iMessage, CuSeeMe, Discord, …

A user looking superficially at those applications might notice very little difference or progress between them, the one thing they have in common is they are not compatible with each other, many of them are tied into a proprietary ecosystem (AOL, Facebook, …) and a major difference is they are tied into different proprietary ecosystem.

Such an app always follows a scenario like “You should install Skype and contact me, unlike Paltalk it really works these days”. You try it and you’re like “Wow! This really works!” but after a few years it becomes less reliable and buggier than it was when it started. Some new application comes along and is in a honeymoon period where it knows it has to actually work in order to add new users while the old broken app can coast because they figure nobody can disrupt their two-sided market. History shows that the old app really will deteriorate to the point where the incumbent advantage is lost and a new app will be better…. For a while.

What amazes me is that everybody from users to the app makers are stuck in this cycle and seem to have very little insight into it.

It’s a reason why you need a service that is separate from the client and have to have competition for both. Unfortunately users seem to violently opposed to this and open messaging platforms like XMPP have only caught on with military and law enforcement users.

The “fediverse” is a light of hope in this respect, what you learn when you get involved is it is not just Mastodon but there are many different systems that are inter operating. I wish the EU would take the problem seriously and just legislate interoperation between messaging apps, I mean, you can call an Android user from an iPhone, a Verizon customer can send a text to an AT&T customer, it is long past the time when you should be able to send a Slack user a message from Facebook messenger.
True for me, too. I have never been able to access an about:config for firefox in android. We are supposed to use extensions to configure firefox, too bad that the extensions for android firefox are few.

I use vivaldi as a "javascript disabled" browser, since I can't disable javascript in firefox.
I don't think porn is the primary use of Reddit for many users. There are other source out there and it's relatively easy to replace it. At least for the more generic genres.

What Reddit good for is communities. Especially niche communities (including NSFW ones). That will be much harder to replace for users. But also Reddit is miserable in its new web UI and mobile app. It's so much worse than many third-party apps that, I believe, most users will likely quit Reddit altogether.
Isn't apparent that a Nuclear Winter would actually occur. Now if we could nuke the moon and cause a dust ring to form ...
OK. Do you have a specific aspect of the test that you don't believe has been satisfied here, or just don't believe in the general concept?

Generally speaking the law doesn't care whether or not you personally think it applies, merely that you've broken it.
> He posted a transcript of what Steve told moderators.

The part I pasted, right?

> Steve: "Apollo threatened us, said they’ll “make it easy” if Reddit gave them $10 million." Steve: "This guy behind the scenes is coercing us. He's threatening us."

That's not a transcript. That's a sentence devoid of context. We're now two steps removed -- not only do we need to believe Christian, but Christian needs to believe whatever mod sent that to him. Who's the mod? Why is the mod telling Christian anything? Why was Steve talking to mods about Apollo's threat? None of this makes any sense. I don't think anyone has malicious intent here –– bet you $50 that it turns out to be some weird miscommunication. After all, there's zero benefit for Steve to be doing any of those things, and a whole lot of downside. Ins't a miscomm the more plausible theory?

Ironically, if Christian's claims are unsubstantiated, then he's slandering Steve. But Steve slandering Christian to internal employees is precisely what Christian's so angry about. But why would internal employees break ranks and go tell Christian?

There's something more going on here. I'm not sure what.

> He posted a transcript - and recording - of the exact conversation with Steve in which this part of the conversation takes place.

That's the point -- all that he's posted is a transcript where Steve says mea culpa. Then he posted some other person's two-sentence "transcript" of Steve badmouthing him. But it's not a transcript; it's weird.
I almost can't believe you're serious here, but I'll reply sincerely.

Suppose dang edited your post to say "I like to get drunk at work", and there it is for the world to see. You never said that, but anyone looking at Hacker News would see:

"qup 10 minutes ago: I like to get drunk at work."

No, that's absolutely not OK! Now, consider that spez could just as easily edit some old Reddit comments someone wrote years ago to say something horrendous. Do you often go back to verify that all your old comments are unchanged? I certainly don't.

I have no way of knowing exactly which comments spez edited, or how significantly he changed them. And honestly, the not knowing is simply inexcusable. All we know is that he has tampered with the production database, not how often or how much.
Sibling comment already addresses it. But to add, I’d happily pay and I want to pay $5 or more to Reddit. But not everyone is like that. Reddit cornered third party apps into a single subscription model with very little time to adapt. I think Apollo could have accommodated these changes over 6 months. Reddit could have also added an ad based tier. Instead they forced a huge price hike with less than a month to react to it.
Don't you just visit https://old.reddit.com/prefs/apps/ and press "create application"? I did this a few years ago and it was instant.
Missing (but critical) detail: Was the (canine) fatality something that a reasonable human driver probably would have avoided?

Over the decades, I've had a few dogs sprint to get in front of my bumper. Reasons have sometimes been obvious - the dog was excitedly barking at something on the far side of the road, and the person walking the dog failed their "Hold Onto Leash" skill check. Other times utterly mysterious. Unless you're willing to ignore traffic safety (and possibly a posted minimum speed) by driving at a crawl any time that you see a dog, there are limits to what you can do.
Would those topics that "outside academia understands AI to include" be covered in http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu ?

When you say "bots in video games as AI" that's covered in the book titled Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 4th US ed. :

II Problem-solving
3 Solving Problems by Searching ... 63
4 Search in Complex Environments ... 110
5 Adversarial Search and Games ... 146
6 Constraint Satisfaction Problems ... 180

Those topics would be in chapter 5.

Sure, it may be a few hundred lines of code, but it's still something that a Berkley written AI textbook covers.

Spelled out more for that section:

Chapter 5 Adversarial Search and Games ... 146

5.1 Game Theory ... 146
5.1.1 Two-player zero-sum games ... 147
5.2 Optimal Decisions in Games ... 148
5.2.1 The minimax search algorithm ... 149
5.2.2 Optimal decisions in multiplayer games ... 151
5.2.3 Alpha--Beta Pruning ... 152
5.2.4 Move ordering ... 153
5.3 Heuristic Alpha--Beta Tree Search ... 156
5.3.1 Evaluation functions ... 156
5.3.2 Cutting off search ... 158
5.3.3 Forward pruning ... 159
5.3.4 Search versus lookup ... 160
5.4 Monte Carlo Tree Search ... 161
5.5 Stochastic Games ... 164
5.5.1 Evaluation functions for games of chance ... 166
5.6 Partially Observable Games ... 168
5.6.1 Kriegspiel: Partially observable chess ... 168
5.6.2 Card games ... 171
5.7 Limitations of Game Search Algorithms ... 173
> Or maybe I can't fool myself with "well, work stuff is up on the other monitor..." Not sure.

Major downside of being creative and quick thinking... our brains are really good at tricking ourselves. ;)

I've been using a LG C2 42" OLED as a monitor combined with a lazy boy in my home office. It's been pretty nice! Though I totally feel the bit about taking a small screen to a cafe when I really need to focus.
> (If your answer is yes: well, I think they are dumb for not offering a paid, ad-free version).

... they do offer exactly that.
I'm just going to leave this first sentence from my comment here; it very much applies to you as well.

> I'm not really sure what benefit you get out of harping on a developer you will likely never meet or interact with in a third party forum, but power to you.

Y'all need to find a better hobby. As per his own words, he also clearly realizes that in hindsight he should have been more pessimistic. But that's all moot now. The past is in the past. Pointing it out is not going to do anything.
Guess I have to write an article called "Does the title of this article prove Betterigde's Law?"
> It's not practical to seek out a phone booth or alcove for every one of those calls.

Why not? It's not practical to make 8 of your coworkers suffer through your call either.

Maybe, if you need to be on the phone for hours a day, you need an office not to be in an open floorplan.
That's a good point. I use twitter primarily for adult content and still get ads.

I've never consumed NSFW content on a NSFW sub on reddit. I do however run into NSFW content all over the site on random posts across reddit. Some much more NSFW than others. I wonder how they will define that content.
I think you outlined it right there. Orange juice and oil are actual things. People drink orange juice and burn oil in their cars. "It's a speculative derivative of a virtual commodity/system." Yep
Guix comes with a service for using Nix packages[1], if that's what you want. It's very simple to setup, and would allow you to use Nix's Firefox package without any issue.

[1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Miscellaneous-Servi...
Really surprised you can't tell the difference between regular milk and UHT. I always assumed UHT was the inspiration for the Dog's Milk scene from Red Dwarf!
> Reddit needs to majorly up their game too. You strong arm your major customers right out of the gate. What a loss for both sides. You want the guy to pay $20 million and you just give him a call on the phone. Total amateur hour.

If they wanted him to pay $20 million, they'd certainly have given him much better than a brief phone call.

But that's the point. They're revealing with their actions that they don't actually want him to pay the money. What they want is to shut it down. Charging a sum of money that they know he won't pay is just an easy way to do that.
Probably because third-party apps aren't optimized to shove as many ads down the user's throat as possible.
Theoretically, copper cables can offer speeds of up to 10 Gbps. So they would be pushing the limit.
The real danger of this kind of work is that you'll have a shoddy product that misclassifies student/academic writings and people will get tagged as cheaters when they aren't.
Tweetie - iPhone Twitter app in like 2008