skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are two distinct things getting mixed up.

Should he have been able to? No, that's a concerning setup for the reasons you say.

How bad is what he actually did, from what we actually know? For about an hour, comments that said "fuck spez" after he banned the pizzagate sub were changed to "fuck $the_donald_mod_name".

I just don't find that a big deal. It's not like editing your comment to say you drink at work.
Yes. For example, the semver package has lived in these places:

* rust-lang/semver

* steveklabnik/sevmer

* dtolnay/semver

That everyone didn't need to do "yank everything, change all cargo.tomls" is a huge advantage of not being tied to this.
And I can guarantee that there are approximately five people using Reddit via a browser on mobile. Mobile means the app, to a precision of two or three significant digits.
The thread linked at the top of this page covers the accusations made by Steve directed at Christian and includes the call recordings Steve was apparently unaware of completely contradicting those accusations.

Additionally, someone else in the comments here linked the text of a post[0] made in /r/partnercommunities with similar accusations to what's quoted in TFA.

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/143sho8/admins_c...
That IPO will go really well with potential investors knowing the CEO will be on the legal hook for making libelous statements.
No need to imagine; it's been tried - McMurdo installed a nuclear power plant back in 1962. The reactor proved to be expensive and unreliable, so the Navy removed it a decade later. Cleaning up the mess took another seven years.
> What does this look like in practice? Reddit devs extend their ad platform into the API and then make a mandatory design guideline, which they require with whatever app has x userbase?

Pretty much. Long tail of tiny-userbase clients probably doesn't matter that much, I suspect a small number of apps that can reasonably be spot-checked if it complies is the vast majority of traffic.

> I guess the Reddit premium users just have to use Reddit apps to get it ad free?

No reason third-party apps couldn't be allowed to be ad-free for premium users too. (or if the API is explicitly pushing "show ad URL X to user in this context" the API can take care of adjusting that)
https://www.google.com/search?q=science+%22theory+of+everyth...

The Motte and Bailey (which I do not happen to believe is intentional fwiw) is that "physics" is implicit to the assertion.
It is a small subset in Portland too.
You need users to have a social network and users, at most, want to enter an email address and password to get an account. And then they want it to work normally.

I you want a site for hackers, you can just write it in your own lisp dialect (; but if you want a social network you have to make it much, much easier. Not sure the decentralizers understand just how critical that is.

Also users, aside from a few loud ones, really do want at least some minimal moderation.
The official Reddit app is getting hammered with 1 star play store reviews: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reddit.fro...

I think by now this is totally out of control for them and the damage is only getting worse.
Every state making up rules is going to keep making shit incredibly messy & much harder to operate. What a time we had when nations didn't each claim sovereignty over the global network.
No, it's getting smaller. Cameras on smartphones completely killed the point-and-shoot camera market; DSLR/interchanngeable lens cameras have seen less demand from the population at large (because smartphone cameras and computational photography has gotten that good) leaving only professional photographers, serious amateurs, hobbyist photographers going after "real" cameras. All of that said, Zeiss was never making lenses for the mass market so while it's sad to see them go it's not a surprise. If Leica (the other major German lens maker) exits photography it will be a much more significant event.
Dude have you see some of the shit that happens to people over stuff they wrote on reddit n years ago?

This isn't the old days when everything on the internet was in good fun. For a lot of people these days, internet unironically srs bsns. And a lot of those people think it's okay to harass folks over their passing thoughts on the internet.
For Russia, Ukraine joining NATO is like the USSR putting nukes in CUBA for the U.S.
If you already have a PC that isn't working for you, sell it and/or exchange parts as needed.

You may want to check PC prices and how pretty poor countries are doing. It's no longer such a luxury as it was 20 years ago.

Also, it's lame to assume that every manufacturer must make their products compatible with any OS.
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...

See the section titled “ Bizarre allegations by Reddit of Apollo "blackmailing" and "threatening" Reddit”
I'm sorry that I contributed to a judgmental discussion. I was being glib and short-sighted.
Not human, but this seems sort of similar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_hypnotism
I'm not harping on the developer. I'm using this opportunity to explain how communication with corporations can be confusing. The developer clearly knows they made mistakes and is doing the best they can. They did a great job of tracking the conversations and keeping the receipts, which is important in these situations, but isn't enough to save the app.
And frankly it's a failing of society that we would ever need to.
spez is doing an API AMA on the subject tomorrow... https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/144ho2x/join_our_ce...
DOCSIS 3.1 has been out for 10 years, and I'd be happy if Xfinity just offered me those speeds. Compared to max speeds of the standard, Xfinity offers up to 12% the download speed and 3.5% upload speed.
I don't use reddit much anymore, the problem is that most interesting communities i know have moved to discord that is a garbage alternative in my eyes.

You can't find the best posts for any given time range, you can't discuss one thing at a time, everything just disappears after everyone has paid very little effort to write something because its gone quickly. It's fragmented, low-effort, digital dementia and i hate it.

I don't understand the appeal of discord and really hope someone creates an actual alternative to Reddit.
That's still 12W to get rid of from a small enclosed space. I wouldn't want to operate this at peak power all the time. And SMPS don't usually have peak efficiency at rated output power.

Do these things re-negotiate power contract, or will they just go into thermal shutdown when overheated?
MLfix to Quickly Fix Datasets
> One thing I've been a little surprised by is the idea that, even if the API pricing was reasonable and these apps weren't shutting down, that they wouldn't be heavily and severely impacted by the fact that 3rd party apps will not be able to access NSFW content.

Oh no they absolutely would be. And that ad-supported application won't be allowed anymore either.

But given the API pricing both are second-rate issues, they don't matter because the API pricing makes third-party application non-viable anyway. You don’t worry about your cancerous moles when your femoral artery has been cut through.
It's a fantastic example of how witty sayings don't necessarily lead to agreement, even among people who would agree in the truth of the saying.
> Six weeks later, they called to discuss pricing. I quickly put together a small app where I could input the prices and it would output monthly/yearly cost, cost for free users, paid users, etc. so I'd be able to process the information immediately.

Spreadsheets.. (cough, cough)
> 50,000 yearly subscribers at $10 per year

Wow. Now I know why reddit is tightening the noose. Third party developers making bank feeding off of the firehose that is reddit API.
Reddit pushes its own app so hard--so obnoxiously hard--that I can't imagine they are terribly concerned about any of this. And, come on. They can charge what they want for their dogs-squeezed-into-guitar-cases library of content. We all can.
People loudly announcing their departure from Reddit aren't going anywhere.

yourehereforever.jpg
It's slightly different, that was not a BahnCard 100. Those are only assigned to people outside Deutsche Bahn.

Deutsche Bahn employees can buy for 1 euro a 24 hours ticket to travel any train in German (ICE included) and bring someone else with them for free. That is the ticket for personal reasons.

If the travel is business related, then you always travel on first class to the destination. Among employees is very common/confortable to travel several times per week betwen locations.
It seems like the jury is still out on this. I get the impression, like most nutrition research, the answer will be "It's complicated."

> Some researchers believe that artificial sweeteners don’t satisfy people’s biological sugar cravings in the same manner as sugar and could lead to increased food intake. Still, the evidence is mixed.

> The strong sweetness of artificial sweeteners may cause you to become dependent on sweet flavor. This could increase your desire for sweet foods in general.

> Some observational studies link artificial sweeteners to weight gain, but evidence is mixed. Controlled studies suggest that artificially sweetened drinks don’t cause weight gain and may even aid weight loss.
Memory Management in DBMS
If you are an REI member, they often have stuff in the used (Garage) site that is in excellent quality and also less expensive. Patagonia also has worn wear that does the same thing. Win-win - awesome stuff, no need to make a new one for you, and less expensive!

- The guy who now has too many nanopuff jackets, but I will die on this hill.
$23.6B.

US chips act was $280B.

I really hope somehow new companies & things can spawn from these efforts.

It's not just making fabs we need. We need a silicon foundry shift again, where students & startups do fabless chipmaking. The current chip market has had soooo much consolidation & the we're down to such a small handfuls of companies doing all the chip designing. If we want a good future, we need to it only the means but a competitive market of makers than know how to use the means.

Where all this huge money ends up is such a mystery. I wish there were more obvious routes available for seed stage & small companies. A couple dozen multi million dollar investments a year would cost such a tiny bit of even the EU's funding. And could beget such huge new capabilities for the world, create such amazing new entities.
The lifetime subscription doesn’t need a refund, it lasted the lifetime of the app, and it wasn’t just a bait and switch either.
> There is no country in the world where you can insult powerful people for free

Zuck is above every "powerful person" he met at that hearing. Those people owe their position, careers and livelihoods to votes and ultimately public opinion.

Guess who nowadays controls a large chunk of humanity's social fabric? Piss him off and you may as well be dead as far as your voter base is concerned, since nobody on Facebook properties will ever hear anything about you (on the other hand they will hear plenty about your competitors).
> You don’t have to be able to read minds to see context clues and use intuition.

Intuition yields belief, but beliefs and knowledge are not the same even though they are typically indistinguishable to the one who holds them.
Less features and less user friendly.
I was absolutely willing to pay for it, and I did (Reddit Gold subscription) for a few years!

And then I was banned for no apparent reason. A 9-year Reddit account, Reddit Gold for several years, moderator of a moderately sized community. I had never posted anything controversial, never gotten conduct warnings or subreddit bans. Never got an explanation despite multiple appeals.

A few months ago they unbanned me. Still no explanation. My theory is that maybe somebody at Reddit saw me complaining on HN a few months back.

I've moderated communities, and mistakes happen. I recognize how difficult Reddit's job is. And I realize it's just impractical for them to provide personalized customer service.

However, I will never give them my money again unless I get some transparency about why I was banned.

Otherwise I'm not willing to become invested (emotionally or financially) in Reddit again because I am thinking to myself: "I could probably be randomly banned again at any moment."
If the "Map of Reddit" project is any indicator the total NSFW subs are about one-third to one-fourth the size of the total non-NSFW subs. That's a non-trivial amount of use to gamble with, but the legal and regulatory headaches may make it necessary.

https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/?x=18239&y=12514&z=46...
The gRPC ecosystem has great tooling. Driven from specs, everything gets generated.

Don't think web sockets have that.
I thought he was pretty clear that he was done bargaining:

> ... I've finally come to the conclusion that I don't think this situation is recoverable. If Reddit is willing to stoop to such deep lows as to slander individuals with blatant lies to try to get community favor back, I no longer have any faith they want this to work, or ever did.

If a bargaining chip is only useful in making a deal you've decided cannot be made, why bother holding onto it? Better to tell your fans outright that you're worn out and not interested.
Isn't he a citizen and current resident of Canada?
From what I can tell, a lot of these tools seem OK for capturing relatively simple database designs, but at least "look" fairly inadequate for more robust needs. This makes sense if you're trying to use a GUI for creating a database: there's going to be limits to how much you can accomplish easily with that approach so being robust for smaller databases works out.

Most of the time I want an ERD tool it's to capture a database that I've already built for documentation purposes, or to document a database that someone else has built and that I need to come to terms with.

For this I use SchemaSpy (https://schemaspy.org/). I let it reverse engineer the database, build the diagrams, etc. I like the way it organizes what it captures and that it will do things like capture in-database object comments and put them in sensible places; for example, this lets me use the PostgreSQL COMMENT ON * commands to add contextually relevant documentation in the DDL and this tool will do the right thing when I generate database documentation.
They probably thought it'll be a "he said/she said" situation and people will err on the side of the big co vs. the little guy. It's extremely funny that the conversation was recorded, so satisfying to catch them in a lie so open-faced...
Will he edit questions in the database to only ask questions he wants to answer?
This must also be the main marketing channel for a lot of OnlyFans.
I'm glad I looked at the URL, I assumed this was a link to https://plzoo.andrej.com/

This is a great post though.
The vision processing was done with a separate SoC. Your applications were not contending for compute time with the vision processing. That's just how anemic the CPU was.
> There's an additional problem, which is why isn't even harder to replace district voting, that those in charge of counting votes are local to each district, which is letting the car guard the cream.

American elections are administered locally to prevent top-down rigging, especially from the federal to the state level. Presumably local politicians will be more accountable to local people than an election authority across the country. And if the local people don't want to hold them accountable because they like them, then the politician is at least representing their contstituency in some way. And from the perspective of other districts, a corrupt district cannot affect their own elections, only send, at worst, a representative they don't like as if the two districts sinply disagreed. If a national election authority were corrupted, there wouldn't be anything local political organizations could do, especially if this applied to local executive or judicial positions.

And of course the original states were not going to cede the counting of their votes the federal government. The electoral college is widely operated as a winner-takes-all system because it means that no state has to trust any other.
Well, feel free to make up a new word then and see if it catches on. I will keep calling it hallucination because that effortlessly describes what is happening through analogy, a powerful tool by which we can make difficult concepts more accessible. I hope you realize that my use of quotes is another common literary tool which indicated I know a LLM can't actually see.
> Also, what's the deal with him not wanting to start a competitor?

I suspect that both reddit and apollo know that most of the content generation happens on Reddit controlled properties.

Apollo users probably do not generate enough content to sustain a reddit-like website.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/secbbd20b00b/...
I'm fully expecting the top comment to be asking why Spez lied about being threatened when the Apollo dev posted the recording of the phone call, and it'll either get removed or left unanswered
You want any introductory textbook on economics.

Just avoid anything advanced enough to have a small focus.
I only dabble in reverse engineering web apis these days, but wouldn't it be exceedingly possible to write an unofficial API and run an app off of that?

It's not pleasant work, but especially with LLM advances, I feel like keeping up with the shifting DOM would for sure be doable, and in fact one of the main reasons Reddit started out with an API: better to provide a path for programmatic access than make the only option outside of your control...
Very odd for reddit to discount that it survives based on the free labour of power users, many of whom use Apollo and similar apps. This is one of those areas where a pure cost benefit analysis doesn't work.

I mod a top 1% sub and one of our moderators exclusively uses Apollo for moderation work. Official Reddit app doesn't work well, and their workflow for modding doesn't involve a computer.

....what's that worth to Reddit?
From facts and processes we know, we can derive novel information and conclusions. If you really understand why the sky is blue, you might be able to come to conclusions about why other things appear a certain color, like human eye color.

GPT can't make those kinds of reasoning or extensions. It can only regurgitate what is already known and has been stated before, somewhere before in its training set.

It's very impressive, I just think people over-hype it into something it is not.
Back in 2017
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/13yc62g/comment...
Here is the quote so you can read it again.
>"I've done my degree in an obscure subfield of quantum mechanics"

Guess I'm wondering why his 'degree in un-related field and have read some psychology', is not as valid as your 'some degree in un-related field, and have read some psychology'.

Or do you think your CS PhD came with more psychology course work than his quantum mechanics degree?

You might need some Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. There are a lot of studies that show it works.
Absolutely, see: https://xkcd.com/856/

This "glitch" is a short-circuit pathway from the input token to a result that makes statistical sense to the model's representation of the world, but very little sense to someone operating outside of that statistical model (you).

An internet meme fits that definition too: it's a short-circuit to some specific in-group context.
Bring Your Tailnet to VS Code
because they're going public, saying "we're broke, please invest" isn't going to work for them — at this point everything they do is to more or less prop up the value until everyone can cash out
Not at all. But it seems like the Apollo dev’s argument was “if it actually costs reddit $20m they why not buy Apollo for only $10m”, which doesn’t make sense.

This doesn’t make what reddit is doing any more reasonable though, imo.
Reading the transcript, you could tell Steve was trying to bait Christian after hearing "I could make it really easy on you". You can feel the power imbalance. Steve didn't get much but he obviously still felt like it was enough to make the accusations he did. Steve was probably recording too.

Christian should have had a lawyer sit next to him on that call.
I’m one of those five people then. Very casual use, but that’s probably the large majority of Reddit users.
There's always a next thing, there's too much VC money to siphon by promising the next big thing.
No, the senate represents the interests of the states. The house represents people (which is why they are for voted by citizens - even when the senate was appointed by state legislatures, and why different states have different numbers of representatives).

I'm not sure really what the question is. In practice, they are voted for by district, so they represent the people of the district...
They probably spent more money on staffing rewriting into a shitty React SPA and then trying to address its dire performance.
Another nice DOCSIS 4.0 overview: https://www.tomsguide.com/features/what-is-docsis-40-everyth...
Uhh, I'm pretty sure that you and me and anyone on this site are extremely far from a representative sample of Reddit's userbase these days. It is a fact that their traffic is primarily from their official (and shitty) mobile app.
So back to digg then?
Well, not the conversation maybe, but if this sort of thing was banned we would have much less opportunity to study the phenomenon.
A wasp made its way into my car on the highway -- I opened the window to let it out, but the napkins in my cup holder made a break for it, as well.
Their fight with ad blocking is the same Cold War every other social media site has. If they’re serving ads off of distinctly named infrastructure, or even distinctly subnetted or IP-addressed infrastructure, an adblocking router config will kill them no matter, & there’d be people writing those and distributing them. Their only hope would be to serve ads inline with content, to defeat those. Which … they already do, I think? I dunno. It would be how they’d serve adverts to Apollo users and RiF users. I think the biggest adblocking issue they have is people on desktop chrome & Firefox. Who already aren’t using the API.

They didn’t lock old.reddit out of new features; it’s a really unwieldy codebase, and making changes to old,reddit is like shaking a wooden water tower. It holds up the water tank as long as it’s a static load, not dynamic. I’ve had to read / maintain / debug source code in my career - and I’ve read the old open sourced Reddit code, and it is … well, it’s not designed for building up and out. It’s not even designed for maintaining over time. It was designed to get a message board running with occasional weekly downtimes, and a lot of “you broke reddit” and a bunch of RSS feeds and API endpoints, and no view to end user experience. It was built with the same mindset as building windows 3.1. Coding some of the features would be like backporting their support code to windows 3.1 - but not as libraries, as device drivers.
> Also, what's the deal with him not wanting to start a competitor?

In addition to what everyone else has said, he really has 1 month if he has any chance of siphoning off reddit users.
No, it's "don't be shitty humans"