skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Will you sell Apollo?

>Probably not. Maybe if the perfect buyer came along who thought they could turn Apollo into something cool

I get that it's something he built and loves, but if someone shows up with $1m and the alternative is to shut it down and get nothing. Then take the money even if it's not the "perfect buyer" and it won't be "cool".
So

1. I feel like you didn't read the comment you replied to. It says in a compelling way that reddit wouldn't do this if they didn't feel a threat

2. > But if they have stats saying 1% and less is 3th party App

A solid takeaway from the original post is that you can't trust Reddit

3. All the bad press surrounding this is infinitely worse for their brand. The subreddit strike, for instance, could force their hand into taking authoritarian control over the platform, as they've hinted at. "Reddit abandons democracy" is a pretty damming headline, and they just can't seem to stop digging their hole deeper
What's wrong with sucralose?
I personally find what poses a risk to my health (actually my waist line) is if I have one sugar free drink (sweetened) I just crave more.

I don't know if the sugar mitigates some effect, or it's purely driven by psychology and me unconsciously feeling unrestricted in consuming sugar free drinks. But I see a clear effect in me.

I even tried coke life when it existed to see if I managed it better but it was too short lived to know.
My dad & his ancient reused plastic waterbottles & container ware. :(
Seems remarkably similar to “those software guys aren’t just going to come in and get this done”…

Apple will only go further with this over time, positing current limits staying as-is seems … shortsighted.
https://sam.gov/
Stop CAFO. Grassfed, grass finished cows only. The US once had millions of free roaming bison. The landscape was never more fertile.
Fully understand his stance, but it's a shame that such a great client will be shut down. If nothing else I'm sure making it paid-only and charging like $10/mo (from the current <$1) will still be a sustainable business model.
Here’s an anecdote. I was subscribed to ChatGPT Plus for a while, to get access to GPT4.

I stopped subscribing after after I got GPT4 API access because I developed a little personal app which used the OpenAI API to just read and write directly from plain text files and that suits my workflow better than the ChatGPT website.

But it sucks because I’m constantly thinking about how much I’m using, and how many tokens I’m putting into my query, because each API call costs me money. It was way nicer just paying a flat fee and using it “as much as I want”, even though this actually costs me way less because I use don’t use $20USD worth of API calls in a month, even with GPT4.

It would be a nightmare to use Reddit if it cost money to scroll down or post a comment. On the other hand, that might actually be a good disincentive to help me spend less time on it.
So does Apple now.

What's your point?
Awesome, brings back memories. The model 2011 (80286 @ 10MHz, 30MB hard drive) 2400 baud modem, VGA!) was my first computer growing up as a kid. Didn't know that weird quad GUI thing was in ROM.
You say "even non-existant DNSSEC" here, but, as a reminder: virtually none of the most popular/important/commercial/whatever-ranking-you-like zones on the Internet are signed. DNSSEC signing is not the norm.
Meanwhile in China:

- exports plunge by 7.5% in May, far more than expected https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/07/chinas-exports-plunge-by-7po...

- profit tumbles 18% in April https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-industrial-profits...

- chip progress stagnating. Oppo chip design unit completely shut down https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/12/oppo-chip-disbands-phone-c.... Japan stops shipping semiconductor equipments to China https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Japan-c.... China is still stuck on 14nm chips.

- multinationals moving supply chains out of China faster than ever. Tesla asks Chinese suppliers to build plants in Mexico (June '23) https://cnevpost.com/2023/06/08/tesla-asks-chinese-suppliers.... BYD make EVs in Vietnam (May '23) https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chines.... On top of older news this year that Apple wants Foxconn to move out 50% of its production lines from China by 2025. And Dell's production completely out of China by 2027.

China is no longer the "world's factory". It will stagnate for 10+ years, similar to Japan's lost decades, but with worser birth rate than Japan today. It reported 8M babies in 2022, low that was last reached in 1940s.

We've never seen a large portion (25%+) of a large modern economy vanish in a span of a few years. (factories moving out, which decreases downstream economic activities such as real estate and retail).
The dev specifically said "opportunity cost" as they explained, so the suggestion is that reddit thinks there's that much revenue available.
I once mentioned Desmos to a college friend who was teaching high school math. This was the first and one of the only times I’ve seen someone express true glee about a software product. They literally shouted, “I love Desmos!” at the dinner table. Kudos to the team for building a product that teachers love that much. Teachers need all the help they can get.

I’m so curious about how their graphing calculator and their geometric construction tools work. I’ve spent marginal amounts of time researching their stack, and it appears to be custom software. If anyone’s familiar with writing about how these systems are built (particularly the display side of things), I’d appreciate some links or titles!
Maybe we shouldn’t consider this a success while subsidies are happening? We also gave $535 million to Solyndra to manufacture solar panels in 2009 and they imploded once our tax dollars stopped being funneled (as much) to them:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra

The real test will be once they stop taking our taxes and handing it to businessmen if they can stand on their own merits. Until then this is charity to the private sector.
Taurine? I've been jacking myself full of that since Middle School! Thanks RedBull!

Jokes aside, This feels like one of "Wine is Good for you" In moderation and other fine point details. Not buying it.
I mean, what else is he going to say to his own employees?
The centre tanks are so much larger than the outboard wing tanks. I would be very interested to know if the rate at which the fuel can be pumped up from the centre tank to the wing tanks exceeds the rate at which the engines consume it. If so, is fuel transferred on multiple separate occasions during the flight, or is it instead pumped continuously throughout the flight at a rate approximately matching the rate of consumption by the engines?
Mods will definitely have a much more difficult time of it if all the useful moderation tools break.
"The snippet `<!DOCTYPE html>` is an instruction to the web browser that the document is written in HTML5. This is important because it tells the browser how to interpret the code and display the content correctly."

So.. what happens when the DOCTYPE tag isn't there?

"Answer: Without the DOCTYPE tag, the browser won't know which version of HTML to use to display the page. This could cause the page to look different than it was intended."

Well.. yeah that's _sort of_ what happens, but I wouldn't call that teaching. I (and students for that matter) can infer this from context. I know that my intro course to web development specifically used the DOCTYPE tag as a segue to talk about different HTML versions, the HTML standardization process and specifically, that the browser enters quirks mode when it's not present.

Right now it feels like the AI is more on the level of a university student that's slightly ahead of you in the material.
Or think of mass-market cat food as a dietary supplement
I remember a long while back someone on HN characterized the Reddit leadership team as like a regular driver who's dropped into the seat of a formula 1 car halfway through a race, in the lead. Tons of momentum but the person at the controls can't keep from steering it into the wall.
Do you have a spare office room?
I'm serious. Who doesn't like to get drunk at work? I do (it's only happened once, but it's one of my best memories).

Dang can edit my comments. (He does have to edit comments sometimes, I'm sure, but for reasons you approve of.) I would find it annoying. Until this comment thread, though, I'm not sure I would have considered that dang would get fired for it.

I don't think I nor anyone should be held accountable at work for comments made on Hacker News. If I lost my job over dang editing my post, I would think I worked for a really shit company and nobody went to bat for me. Basically, I would continue believing the interaction on the forum was totally unimportant, and I would be dumbfounded by the idiocy of my manager for elevating it to that a fireable offense, particularly after I let them know I did not make that comment.

FWIW, nobody needs to worry about me. I do not have a boss.
Patagonia helped Samsung modify their washing machines to reduce microplastic pollution: https://www.fastcompany.com/90904159/why-patagonia-helped-sa...

Not a perfect company, I mean almost all of their iconic garments are plastic, but they're doing far more than other technical outerwear companies.
The Monster zero Ultra drinks I like (no sugar) list energy ingredients as taurine, L-Carntine, caffeine, inositol. I'm bipolar and they make me somewhat manic, which I like because I get creative, but I keep thinking I shouldn't drink them because everyone tells me they are unhealthy. Maybe not?
For anyone reading this looking for a more nuanced take: [0].

[0]: https://usrtk.org/sweeteners/sucralose-emerging-science-reve...
Ask HN: How to Advertise to HN Users?
I am the CEO of a small startup named Userify (shameless plug: https://userify.com, innovative SSH key management, self-hosted and saas) and when we launched, a few mentions on Hacker News really kicked things off. Ten years and tons of adventures later, we've hit a bit of a growth wall. It seems like we're still valuable and useful to people and people still like to run their own servers/instances, so it seems like a marketing issue (and lots more well-funded competitors, of course!)

Most HN's (and me) have always been a bit adverse to ads (especially bad/irrelevant ads), so most of us run ad-blockers. The people that we want to sell to are actually super technical. We're private and self-funded, so I want to look past the 'enterprise' customers and focus instead on the people who actually use the product.

But this is really the problem: How do you advertise to the very smart and technical users when they run ad blockers? Or should we just give in and become a more enterprise-focused company?
Trying to figure out how to train these ideas, how to get training data, sounds like a nightmare.
Any idea why they didn't take off?
I'm not talking about the call. The call proves nothing. In fact, it proves that Steve is behaving reasonably -- he realized his mistake, then apologized.

I'm talking about after the call, which is what the central claim of the post hinges on. The claim is that Steve went to internal employees and said that Christian was threatening Reddit. Where's that transcript? There's only two sentences, and those two sentences came from some third party moderator that wasn't even introduced in the story.

Everyone is being hypnotized by the audio recording. But the audio recording doesn't say anything about Steve. The only one who said anything about Steve was the unnamed moderator, which we get no info about beyond two very weird sentences.

EDIT: Ah, https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/143sho8/admins_c... gives the rest of the context.

That was posted 20 hours ago. And yeah, if I were Christian and saw that, I'd probably go nuclear too.

I thought Steve was badmouthing Apollo behind closed doors, and then someone behind those doors went to Christian. But that's not what happened. Steve publicly accused Christian of threatening Reddit – a council meeting counts as public.

Thank you to PrimeMcFly for posting that link! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36246777

Well, that's awful. I don't know what Steve was thinking.
"No amount of money could make up for a woman’s BMI; men didn’t care about a woman’s salary or her graduate degree."

Checks out.
You make them sound like freeloaders, when in reality they provide value to the community by committing significant time contributing to Reddit through posts, comments, original content, and volunteer moderation.

Reddit is worthless without community contributions, and Reddit is very clearly telling the community (both users and developers) that they aren't valuable and should go find somewhere else to spend their time.
This seems like a much more effective protest vs. subreddits going dark.
The quality of Reddit comments has never been particularly high. Sure there are quality posts, but like other social media most posts are essentially spam and those that aren’t inaccurate/hyperbolic or just memes.
With the evidence collected and presented, I no longer support my viewpoint in the prior Reddit conversation about this here at HN, and I'm glad to see Christian taking steps to protect himself from Reddit by shutting down and walking away.
IIRC you can compose an xor and subtract to do abs, which might eliminate the need for a dedicated opcode. Although negate/cmov might work better. Either way you'd only need an abs if it showed up often enough that you wanted to save code size or could schedule the pipeline better, which seems unlikely.
See https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/ for a list of tools!
This is great news, just anecdotally I have personally seen 3 large factories come up in my state in the last 2 years. All related to EVs and battery supply chain but still quite the pace.
There might be. A research shows it is genotoxic at times.

https://healthnews.com/news/chemical-in-artificial-sweetener...
I don't understand your hostility, sorry.

He has 50,000 customers who paid $10/year for the app. Now he's put into a position to support those customers at $2.50/month. (He estimates their server cost is $0.10 per month.) That's an instant $125,000 per month out of his own pocket that he can't recoup from existing customers for at least the next 6 months.

Over the course of 2023, he'll have to pay Reddit $1 million MORE than he has made from the app this year.

Reddit doesn't want to work with third-party apps. That's fine. That's their right. But it's certainly not the app developer's fault that he's forced to quit.
12-year here, but before that, I was a lurker. I quit using Reddit two years ago. Haven't looked back.
> "pay me this specific cash amount & your troubles – both technical/competitive & in terms of any ruckus I can raise in public – go away."

Wait a second, isn't that exactly what Reddit is doing by charging for API access with thirty days notice?
Hm. Is that seaweed is edible by other organisms?

Then: more food -> more organisms -> more CO2

It's a level of middle school
I have been on reddit for a long time, and have watched the steady beat of their user hostility drum. The only thing keeping me there now is old.reddit.com.

I'll never install the app.
Recruitment is down[0]. America’s military is all volunteer. They’re advertising more to make up the shortfall.

[0] https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/04/19/...
Tildes is centralized. There's no federation.
I remember when this happened for Robinhood during the Gamestop debacle, Google decided to simply remove all the one star reviews. I expect something similar here.
Also the control plane cost is basically irrelevant at any real scale, I think it's pretty much there to discourage hobby projects from taking up a free VM.
look here bud, they confirmed it in a pitri dish. I think we can proceed to throw all the food in my house out now
Gensler Had Crypto in His Sights for Years. Now He’s Suing Binance and Coinbase
> // invisible error here because someone used tabs by mistake

would not parse, so no invisible mistake.
That's good to know my retirement plan will keep me looking young.
How do you propose that we maintain an all-volunteer military without recruitment?

Returning veterans are going to carry military culture back into civilian life. That's just the reality of the situation after so many years in Iraq and Afghanistan.

China is a real threat to American primacy and this time the battle is economic, but there are major military risks and we can't carry a big stick unless we keep the military in shape.
Perhaps I'm just bad at economics, but it always seemed to me that the countries making all the stuff would eventually hold all the power (and I say this as someone working in tech who produces nothing tangible). The fact that it costs exorbitant amounts to construct new buildings, railways, etc. in the U.S. and how our cities almost look antiquated or frozen in time compared to Asian cities shows that we missed a generation or two and probably need to catch back up now.
You're neglecting the tools and bots that use the API, which are heavily utilized by most mod teams. One of the pillars of reddit is unpaid moderators, and if the tools that make that job doable on the scale of reddit stop working, then you will see a mass exodus of those unpaid moderators. That means the death of most of the big, well moderated communities like AskHistorians, AskScience, AITA, etc.

I've already seen many of these subs having moderator led discussions about relocation options for the communities.
That's the plot of Neal Stephenson's 2021 novel "Termination Shock": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)
GPT-4 “discovered” the same sorting algorithm as AlphaDev by removing “mov S P”
They were not "blocking" ads and trackers, those features are not exposed by the API. They couldn't do it even if they wanted to, which was discussed at some point.
The OP here.

What you say may make sense for a large corporation with hundreds of developers from many teams, all sharing a single cluster, but remember this is a pre-revenue startup with a single dev team of less than a dozen people.

But then with a large cluster you will struggle with splitting the costs. In such scenarios I'd rather give each team its own AWS account and have some devops people set up everything from the landing zone.

In this particular case, every service is set up from less than 100 lines of Terraform, which includes Docker image build and push, as well as the task and service definition that deploys that docker image.

yes, they need to handle Terraform, but it's really not so different from the previous Docker-compose YAML file, not to mention the way it would look if converted to K8s YAML.
> Also, what's the deal with him not wanting to start a competitor?

Yeah, what's the deal with this iOS developer not wanting to start a competitor to checks notes one of the largest websites in the world? Surely you just up and did that last week, it's no big deal.

I guess I should start getting used to saying "Jesus christ, HN" now that I won't be saying "Jesus christ, Reddit" anymore.
That money is pennies to reddit. Apollo was around long before the official app and established a majority mobile userbase which you could argue helped build reddit into what it is today. I guarantee you it 100% made reddit more money than it made the developer of the app. Reddit is the bad guy for slandering him and gaslighting their users at every turn, yes.
The site you are pointing to does not use accumulated past emissions to judge countries so is highly dubious from a developing country perspective.

But again, I think pointing to others is a straw man in the debate. Each country need to go ahead and shoulder their share. For a country such as Germany the estimates point to 2.5% of GDP per year to be spend over the next 27 years to achieve a net zero economy. This is an effort that is so miniscule that it is embarrassing. And it is mostly domestically spend money to build wind mills and install PVs. The component cost is becoming less and less of a share.

I think China is well aware that their country is one that is very negatively affected by climate change. The continental climate will turn China into a desert if climate change isn't reduced.

The cost trajectories are so much in favor of renewables that spending money to build them is starting to make even financial sense.

(P.s.: My low effort google was an answer to a bullshit Youtube channel)
For underground salt domes and caverns? Leaks and damaged vessels are a non-issue.

Salt caverns are everywhere. In fact this is how we store natural gas today.

And the capacity is truly insane. It is on the order of PWhs: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/06/16/hydrogen-storage-in-s...

Not to mention that hydrogen pipelines move energy more cheaply than cables: https://www.brinknews.com/could-hydrogen-replace-the-need-fo...
The actual quibbles here seem pretty marginal.

If wasm really ends up being much faster 8 could care more about performance, but my heavens JS has been quite fast for a decade & has been ever improving.

The standard library is growable. We're getting great iteration helpers for example. The async ones had to get revamped, back to stage 2.
I'll be honest these all sound like very situation-specific tax questions for an accountant (or even tax attorney), and not something any founder should be wasting their time learning.
It's not a desktop PCIe slot on the back of a laptop, but the interface is already documented. The electrical, shell-fit PCB, and general form-factor specs of the 16" laptop's expansion bay are already published under a CC-BY license by Framework: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionBay

Direct link to the pinout PDF: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionBay/blob/main/...

It's a 4th-gen x8 interface, so there are limits to what "any old GPU" might be capable of performance-wise, but creating a passthrough-port accessory seems possible.
Holy moly; 180? Sufficient to power an entire house, my God.
It's a small thing, but if anyone would like to support accessibility, please try setting the official Reddit app's font size to as large as it can go.

Then leave the app a review based on how well it compares to the system's accessibility font sizes which should go up to 310%.
Yet be mindful of the Ten Thousand[1] when scorning reiteration.

I, for one, had never heard of Betteridge's law (:

[1] https://xkcd.com/1053/ (though surely everyone has seen that comic zillions of times, by now)
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I just uninstalled it, the dang app was horrible anyways. If I want to browse Reddit I'll do it on a computer using old.reddit
I have failed to get even an interview in 2 years of Job search.

I think my resume might be having many red flags, but it's difficult to find out what exactly.

I wish I could get some help on reviewing my resume
Cat food has tons of taurine in it because cooking food destroys taurine but unlike humans cats cannot produce taurine themselves.
The “free” limits are per-app, not per-user. Any API call using Apollo’s OAuth client_id and client_secret is attributed to Apollo’s limits and then API usage, whether it comes directly from a user’s device or through another server.

Reddit has never provided access to its ads to third-parties, and now third-party apps are banned from showing any advertising at all.
I seriously don't understand why don't they buy them out, put on some tracking/whatever feature on Apollo and keep business as usual. I'm pretty sure the guy would take a reasonable offer instead of walking out empty handed.